NHL 24 is on PC now?!?!?
Did NHL 24 casually become available on PC?!?! It does require Gamepass Ultimate but you can now play NHL 24 via cloud gaming. Not quite install to PC and play but better than nothing for those that...
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EA_Aljo
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Community ManagerI'm looking into messaging on our end. No idea what will happen with that, but I wouldn't be surprised if it got announced somewhere. Even without that, I imagine word will spread. And, if there is a good response just from the crowd you mentioned, it points to an overall larger interest. While it's not exactly the best barometer, it's still some very useful data that can be taken into account when considering a full PC release.
I think this is a very difficult metric to go off of. I played a couple of games on it and here are my thoughts.
- Playing 5 games of EASHL 3v3 Quickplay, I noticed an average ping per game of around 60 with a low of 36 and a high of 90+. Mild latency in controller inputs but manageable.
- As the game is only able to be played as a cloud game, you are not playing the game from your computers processor power but instead receiving the audio/video of the game played from a remote server using a virtual machine. Because of this, the video quality while okay, could be much better and suffered some refresh problems with the screen flickering to reset the image at times.
- Any attempt to play the game in full screen is short of impossible as switching windows while in full screen causes the connection to be lost.
- The game can only be played via the Xbox app on PC and not through any other GamePass options like Mobile phone/tablet.
That all being said though..
- The game was perfect for its offline modes like Rush and Ones. I was only able to notice very little to no latency issues when playing offline games.
- Once full screen was turned off, I was able to switch windows on the same monitor without losing connection as long as the switch was short. Disconnects still occurred though so it would be beneficial to have multiple monitors to avoid this.
So take this with a grain of salt. I am happy the PC community has a way of playing NHL 24 but in their defense, the numbers for the interest of PC players are not going to be even close to accurate here from the game being fully installable on PC. It requires having an Xbox Gamepass Ultimate subscription for EA Play access and PC users have very little to gain from purchasing this sadly. If they do have this, then its only for a way to play it remotely where you cannot even download the game at least like you could with Grounded or Starfield for example so it will have its crashes and freezes not because of their systems, but the EA servers they are playing this off of.
- @hiperay Yeah there will always be a slight delay in controller response with cloud gaming. Obviously if the game were officially on PC it wouldn't have that slight delay.
Yeah I agree, I just wanted people to understand what they are to expect if they decide to play using this feature. I have played plenty of games via cloud and like many, its great for offline stuff, but struggles with online. Not everyone might know that so I wanted to get that detail out in the open. Still it could be great for those that have been wanting to play franchise mode or Be a pro and if its all we have, its better than nothing and I urge those to open the game and play a little to show the teams that there is enough people to warrant the game being ported to pc.
An announcement to let players know will definitely help. I had no idea until I randomly saw the game show up on Gamepass today. Trying it out now!
