WOC Player Development

@rsandersr47While the 2K system would be great for WoC I don't think people would enjoy it if they are going against 90+ overall sweats and they are casuals slowly working their way from the 70s. I'm honestly still shocked EA hasn't found a way to make money off WoC by doing the 2K method. You could instantly buy yourself to 85 overall I believe for like $20.

But I feel the whole system we have now is because people were tired of grinding year in and year out for the same ability they should never have lost.

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I still want to bring back a catalog system for buying gear/cosmetics from currency we earn from playing the actual game. They could even have monthly special items only available for the month to give people that mofo.

As for player builds they ruined things big time in terms of balance. Puck-Moving D is by far the superior setup compared to the other. They need their defensive abilities greatly toned down to fit the RPG element. They made the game all about using Elite Edges and Close Quarters. Might as well throw in the Playmaker also as a build that is dominant to run because of the X-Factors and how easy it is to build a dominate offense while still have too good of a defense.

If I were to rework the 2 builds this is what their stats would be. (i'll do the rest later) Also they need to disable the ability to play defense at forwards and vice versa.  This is done from taking the default height n weights too.  Left off Face-offs because I believe they need to just work something out where if you  are the center for the game you have an instant 90 in the stat but wingers have 85 if forced to take draws.

Playmaker

Wrist Shot Accuracy – 82
Slap Shot Accuracy – 82 lower it to 79
Speed- 85
Balance 80
Agility 85

Wrist Shot Power – 78 up it to 80
Slap Shot Power – 79 up it to 81
Acceleration – 85
Puck Control – 88 up it to 90
Endurance – 85

Passing – 90 up it to 95
Offensive Awareness - 90 up it to 95
Body Checking – 81 lower that to 70
Defensive Awareness 78 lower that to 74

Hand-Eye – 84 up it to 87
Strength - 81 lower that to 78
Durability 81
Shot Blocking - 78 lower it to 74

Deking – 83 up it to 85
Discipline 82 raise to 86
Fighting Skill – 80 lower it to 70.


Puck-Moving Def

Wrist Shot Accuracy – 81 lower to 78
Slap Shot Accuracy – 82 lower to 79
Speed- 85
Balance 80
Agility 85

Wrist Shot Power – 79 up it to 80
Slap Shot Power – 80 up it to 82
Acceleration – 85
Puck Control – 88 up it to 92
Endurance – 85

Passing – 87 up it to 95
Offensive Awareness - 87 up it to 93
Body Checking – 81 lower that to 75
Defensive Awareness 85 lower that to 80

Hand-Eye – 82 up it to 85

@rsandersr47IMO the golds need to be removed. Also the requirements to use the silvers needed raised greatly.

Also I'm not sure about caps. People hate feeling gatekept in the gaming world. Also I don't think lower players would go over well since well they would claim why should they be punished for others.

I had made a setup last year about how there should be 3 X-Factor slots. But there is a Bronze, Silver, Gold version of them depending on how much points you invest into them. Like for example my Close Quarters

Bronze - Wrist Shot Accuracy 80 Puck Control 82
Silver - WSA 82 PC 84
Gold - WSA 85 PC 87

But since we don't really know the hidden things behind X-Factors it makes things hard. Like is it a % modifier or just extra stats in a stat that is hidden or what?

As for the nerfing some X-Factors we know they should be in both Gold and Silver versions.  Close Quarters,  One Tee,  Truculence, Unstoppable Force,  Elite Edges, and Backhand Beauty (it's amazing if you know)

@rsandersr47 Here is just a small tidbit of it. But as you can see there are categories that do things like improve certain stats and the ones towards the bottom allow for special things like say 5 star moves aka dekes for NHL. So you pick the build you want and it comes with stats that are pretty great on how the position should be. Height and weight play a good part in player stats for like speed, accel, endurance, etc.  So in a way all the builds can access the same stuff but it won't mean getting them as say a defender would be a smart choice.

1. Makes sense but I don't think anyone is gonna go for that - You can't exactly hone your craft using a build that isn't fully your own.

2. On paper this makes sense but I begrudgingly have to admit its not fair to penalize a "good" player either. Obviously ragging on purpose is awful but there are legit plays that focus around net play and baiting moves -- So many times the game would give me bad grades for making way better plays than the cpu deems fit.

Introduce 2 line passing in 3v3 and reintroduce the fatigue penalties for holding on to the puck for too long. The AI needs to do a better job - if they were upgraded I would be more inclined to let them have the puck.

3. Clubs can reset but individual players keep their rank so ot matchmakes fine. I do like higher bonuses/modifiers the better you are though.

4. I've been able to unlock all gear and begin receiving the completion tokens - there is wayyyy too much useless gear out there. I don't mind you adding new stuff to spice things up, but you need to start awarding sets or putting more into the bags. Bag rarity should actually matter too - no more golds giving common stuff!

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I feel removing penalties for quitting will only encourage more toxic behavior ans cause more games to crash - no XP removes a ton of the mode's appeal too, in my opinion.

I think the team would be better off just readding the team practice mode but allow temporary/probation status, possibly timed, to potential new teammates.

The game is very quick to think you're being selfish in offline modes so they'd need to tweak how the system works. I completely agree there needs to be more done about deliberate ragging though.

I believe it was 20 when I went hard on ONES and collected all the bags  -- Got to the point all I could get was tokens but there was still 30+ unlockable items and emotes left because they were locked behind challenges.

I still haven't unlocked my team's song yet, last year it was February before we finally unlocked our mascot head -- we are never able to unlock the arenas we want because we just cant play 30 games per day anymore.

I'd love for some sort of marketplace or way of starring/preferring certain types of gear over others.