What is your honest assessment of the game?
Due to the game being so absolutely horrendous in so many areas I figure I'd break down the sliders into their own areas and see how you would rate each area. I will start: Skating: 7/10. Still som...
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I agree with most of what you have.. I will add one thing about AI
I personally play EASHL. Sometimes clubs sometimes drops. I've found SO many teams will use cpu players to play defense for them while waiting and cherry picking. I also see people play almost no offense and just make giant guys who can hit and set CPU to ALL aggressive and they score for them. I personally love that CPUs suck in EASHL. I hate when people use them as a crutch, even worse when they win because of it. EASHL should be humans vs humans and if you have a cpu they should be about as good as the worst possible human. People will make a club and do 2 humans in 6's. Why?? That is the WORST and most unfun way to play this game. If you Wanna play vs cpus play hut with your friend. That's not what EASHL is supposed to be imo.
All that being said, AI should NOT have to be the same across every mode. I know people who play hut who are upset with how bad every cpu player plays while they are in control of a player. I sorta give EA a pass on some of it as they try to prevent skill zoning but it is too hard to defend sometimes if you have a team of cpu haha.
I just wish cpu was better in modes not named WoC. If I play WoC I want to face humans and feel a sense of accomplishment. I also think they just need to give us tools to find humans to play with. Drop in is a jungle (in the worst ways possible) people choose goalie and lay down, people play defense but then play as a forward the whole game or chase the puck all over the ice.. I have so many ideas for how to implement ways to better match people up but it will fall on def ears. 2024 will add some new deke maybe.. maybe finally a way to play cross console. 25 will add another deke and maybe a new BAP intro video. 26 will add a new goal and make defense a little worse. 27 will add better reflections on the ice, a new deke, and limit the defense ability to skate. I just can't believe HOW far behind this game is compared to a game like NBA 2K. It's probably more that 20 years ahead of where NHL is.
