Community ManagerStill nothing about making the new celebrations optional for offline modes.
At this point I would be happy if they came out and said authentic celebrations will not come back so I can stop hoping for this game to be fun and just move on.
Community ManagerI know there are plans to address the celebrations. I don't know when that's going to happen though. Out of curiosity, are celebrations normally the main thing that makes the game fun for you?
i actually like the celebrations. I don’t have to press anything and I think it looks cool focusing on my player but am I the only one?
Ea should have different presentation options for offline. For example in mlb the show there are various options like full presentation, hybrid, or quick play.. maybe have an option for the goal presentation too.
@EA_AljoScoring a goal is the culmination of the gameplay and your effort. I want that moment to be a moment of fun and celebration. Now it feel like a youtube ad starts to play just at the wrong moment.
There are of course a lot of other elements that makes the game fun. NHL24 does a lot of good things and I like it very much otherwise. I like for example the pressure system and the improved sound with licenced music for faceoffs. Really gets you pumped up.
But it all falls apart when you finally score and all you feel is annoyed by the silly cutscene that takes you right out of the moment and kill all immersion. That is why I keep asking for it to be optional.
I have been playing NHL games since 1992 and it is one of the games I look forward to the most every year. So your comment is encouraging and I will keep playing👍
Community ManagerGotcha. I just wanted some context to your statement because it kind of sounded like celebrations are what makes the game fun for you. Thanks for the feedback and for being such a longtime vet of the game 🙂
Whatever they think they did regarding the interference penalty glitch, got news for you, it didn't work. I just played a game in my franchise, had 10 interference calls, all away from the puck. I had 3 men in the penalty box at one time, twice. My slider for cpu teammate penalties is set at zero. My interference slider for human is set at zero. All I can say is this needs to be fixed. It makes playing the game so frustrating, especially when the cpu is actually committing interference penalties that are so obvious, had defender push my player from blue line to blue line and no penalty called. . So I'm asking, no I'm begging, PLEASE, fix this penalty glitch.
I don’t think the tone of this response is warranted. The celebrations are a new feature which I understand the community did not want. Engaging with users and actioning takeaways should be top priority for development teams. The game itself is fun, but the celebration changes this year were in my opinion a waste of effort by the dev team - there is no value there. Allow us to disable or revert back to last year’s celebration format, which was perfectly fine.
Disable goal replays in CHEL, too. What a waste of time those are. And now we get the pleasure of watching them multiple times again. Yay.
Just removing them would be another waste of time and resources (not to mention if a single person has em turned on, the rest of us will have to endure even more seizure inducing sync screens!)
I actually really appreciate you asking the poster this question. As you've seen there's been a number of others who have chimed in on this as well. For a lot of us who have been playing the game for decades, there's definitely a sim/immersion angle at play. I play offline exclusively, and mostly Franchise mode. For me, things like the pressure meter on the ice and the odd "tunnel of doom" cutscene feel out of place in gameplay modes (exhibition, franchise, season, BaP) that do just about everything else to mirror real professional hockey (real arenas, player faces, drafting, realistic contacts, etc..). It just feels like these visual elements are incongruent with the authentic/simulation aspect of the game.
From a design perspective, the change to celebrations kind of reminds me of when Madden 08 made the bizarre choice to have a sound effect happen on deep passes-- it sounded like a fuse hissing while the ball traveled through the air, and then a "boom" sound effect if the wide receiver caught the ball. In all, I feel like the NHL devs have always done a pretty good job giving options to satisfy the smaller "sim" segment of the user base, and so immersion-breaking celebrations in sim gameplay modes, and a game mechanic indicator graphic permanently displayed on the ice is an odd choice imo.
Either I'm getting better at it or the updates have made an improvement. Seemed to have mastered defending and hitting and now scoring a variety of different goals.
One thing I really do like is the recovery time from full pressure only being 3 seconds, makes a massive difference.
The game works better if you play it how it's meant to be played, lots of passing and waiting until you get an opening to shoot. Defending is actually pretty decent when you get the hang of it. I don't use total control, just skill stick.
No difference with penalties, still way too many from the AI.
Commentary Team Name still reverts back to default after changing it
HUT Rush is still broken. It's playable since the amount needed for each level has been reduced but slightly annoying when trying to do objectives and it doesn't register.
Manual line changes take way too long sometimes or happen just as the opposition is on a breakaway.
I was over the moon when I heard that LT skating was being removed yet this years Rivals is 100x worse with spammers than last year. Being able to stop cross crease goals by being able to intercept passes across the slot or having the goalies move quicker would be a good start.
I think you should have total control over the game for the price we pay for it, I dislike the auto celebration I would love to have the option to disable it and just have it like the other games where you can choose to do it if you'd like, I would love to have the options to turn off the auto celebration, the pressure system, the glowing boards, and could you please fix the fighting? Since this new update there's never any fights even when I have it set at max, it's so unrealistic feeling now, where when I first got the game I loved it! Now it's like a completely different game, this is why you have the sliders so you can adjust all of this, I enjoyed fights starting from hard hits along the boards, if people don't enjoy that will they can adjust that in the sliders, there was no need to completely change the way the game plays.
Thank you.
