Community ManagerNew year, same lip service. “We will fix ___.” Then…nothing. Or EA patches something completely unrelated that no one is asking for. This patch could’ve and should’ve been two things rather than this laundry list of things most players never or hardly noticed.
Let me make it simple for the folks at EA: we want the out of control hip checks nerfed and competent AI skaters. The same AI skaters we’ve been asking EA to improve for literally 5 years. Man, idk what “community” EA developers are listening to and are trying to cater to, but it’s for sure not me or anyone like me.
Ratings have been declining since 2019…clearly whatever EA thinks is working is not. If there was an alternative hockey game to EA NHL, I would happily go and never come back.
Nobody asked for hipcheck
nobody asked for lacrosse
nobody asked for a bunch of cpu ai penalties
nobody likes X factors
nobody asked for unrealistic glass breaking
nobody asked to make the menus worse
nobody asked to mess up the creation zone
Nobody asked for goalie tether
nobody asked for the one button dekes and messed up controls
…. I can go on and on but don’t add things without testing them. I mean put them in the playtest earlier and if it’s bad just take it out. I like a lot of things ea did this year but it’s always 2 steps forward and 3 steps back..
but yeah for nhl 25 it would be cool to have monthly playtests starting in June where the devs try things out and if it’s bad we can let them know early so they can decide to not put it in.. or if it’s good to keep it in/tweak..
it sucks to be suprised with stuff they add and you’re like “uhm why did they add this” and then it’s too late to fix it or you have to wait months to nerf something… why can’t we be proactive instead of reactive. Just my opinion because I’m passionate about the game
@TasteofChicago91 wrote:Nobody asked for hipcheck
I'd argue we asked for a simpler hipcheck, but nowhere near this comically easy and OP'd
nobody asked for lacrosse
We did, but again, not this comically easy and OP'd
nobody asked for a bunch of cpu ai penalties
I've noticed its more extremely weak user penalties than AI
nobody likes X factors
Some of them are dumb, agreed
nobody asked for unrealistic glass breaking
Agreed, so bloody annoying
nobody asked to make the menus worse
If it's not clunky, it's not EA
nobody asked to mess up the creation zone
Now why TF would we want this to be easy? /s
Nobody asked for goalie tether
AI goalies are horrible for this, can't imagine what human goalies feel
nobody asked for the one button dekes and messed up controls
Personally, I'm not against this because you do still need to aim the shot, and do a proper flick with the stick
…. I can go on and on but don’t add things without testing them. I mean put them in the playtest earlier and if it’s bad just take it out. I like a lot of things ea did this year but it’s always 2 steps forward and 3 steps back..
but yeah for nhl 25 it would be cool to have monthly playtests starting in June where the devs try things out and if it’s bad we can let them know early so they can decide to not put it in.. or if it’s good to keep it in/tweak..
it sucks to be suprised with stuff they add and you’re like “uhm why did they add this” and then it’s too late to fix it or you have to wait months to nerf something… why can’t we be proactive instead of reactive. Just my opinion because I’m passionate about the game
Biggest one you're forgetting about is the pressure/exhaust system that doesn't function correctly half the time. Nobody, and I mean nobody asked for that
I agree a couple things were just poor execution.. such as changing the controls. I wouldn’t mind having the option to use last years skill stick and customize your controls. I know when I play mlb the show you can use a handful of different control schemes for fielding, hitting, base running, and pitching. If they’re going to do glass breaking then at least make it realistic.. like a big hit and the plane of glass pops out and then there’s a cut scene of them fixing it.. but yeah hopefully the multi year project to fix/rebuild the game will pay dividends. Im
glad they’re doing surveys for feedback and trying to be more transparent
This 2 GB patch that the put out was completely useless. It fixed nothing and made the game worse
The newest update was a telemetry change for reporting - I don't believe anything was done to the gameplay itself
I was talking about the patch released on 11/9/23
It did absolutely nothing for eashl but make it worse .
Game feels even worse now not to mention I had customized Jerseys for my club made up and the patch wiped all data clean of that. So i started over and now am stuck with the NHL 24 basic jerseys for all three options. The glove color is the only thing that works. I spent a out an hour making these jersey for them to be deleted/ No useable.
This game will go down as one of if not the worst NHLs of all time.
