Matchmaking is terrible...
Matchmaking in NHL 24 continues to be a huge problem. Waiting several minutes with your full squad of friends to either ⚽ find a game or 🏈be kicked to the main club lobby becomes the main time commitment to this year's iteration. Further, the matchmaking after the long waiting period, if you're not kicked to the lobby in 6v6, can create a non-human goalie (AI) vs. a team with a human goalie. This is simply NOT fair and should not be matched unless the teams select that matchmaking option. It does not appear that NHL 24 CHEL has the ability for one to choose to allow or deny this. Too many games lost because a player goalie is not able to compete with an AI goalie in the same game. It is further unclear between period of play when in a game why, if everyone is readied up, there is still a 30 second counter before the period begins. After trying to expedite play by making sure all were ready in between periods, it appears this 30 second wait time between periods is not something that can be changed even if all would like to skip it. I hope a future patch will be implemented to address these issues once and for all as many matchmaking issues continued to be a problem; even at the end of a full year of NHL 23.
