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Really EA . The long awaited patch coming out after more than a month addresses really nothing with gameplay. How about fixing the guided missile hitting or at the very least make them a charging penalty every time because ding ding ding that is what they are. 4 strides to make a hit is a charging penalty.. How about adding icon defense so you can actually pick the defender you want and not the one EA wants you to pick that causes players to be out of position. It would not be hard to add ... exact same concept as offensive icon passing. How about fixing the AI so they are not running into each other and just stopping for 10 seconds while the play carries on without them. There are many issues in the game that your customers are begging to be fixed to make their gaming experience happier What does EA give us - We fixed the x factors that some players have and fixed some jerseys and modified the pressure system that is beyond broken. Here is how to fix it .Once the defending team gets the puck out of their end... poof the debuffs are gone ,,, it is that easy. Not gradual ...instant. This is not rocket science Come on EA do better. Please at least pretend to care about your player base.. ie customers EA always says they read these posts . EA players like and comment one this post There are the changes we need to improve that gameplay to make this a hockey game not NHL 2024 H ITZ Edit: Moved post to the 1.5.0 feedback thread. -CM

@KidShowtime1867 What an interesting take from your first post about muti button and single button presses on offense vs defense. Sorry, im not sure how to properly tag/quote. Im still figuring this site out. I'm not sure I understand the logic where it's appreciated that a defender must go through a multistep process to deliver a body check, which every nhl player can perform on any given shift, in any game they play in, and if they miss they put themselves way out of position, yet an offensive player only has to press a single button to perform an obnoxious deke that less than 1% of the nhl can perform successfully and not even on a regular basis all while that said player doesn't lose momentum with the puck. Imo that kind of logic is the exact reason the game is in the state it is in. There is no balance between offense and defense. The game rewards selfish players and rewards poor decisions with the puck.You can be in perfect position to make a simple defense play and the game will still find a way to punish you. Too often bad hockey/selfish plays get rewarded. It's astonishing someone thought that making a defender lose skating momentum while poke checking would be a good idea. It's unrealistic and handicaps the player controlling the skater. The average weight of a hockey stick is 14-21 ounces while a puck weight between 5.5-6 ounces. I'm curious as to why a player extending their stick would be cause for slowing down or stopping but a player making exaggerated movements while trying to control additional weight doesn't warrant any sort of physical limitations. It defies basic physics. It also makes no sense that an offensive player, who is in possession of added weight to his stick (puck) regains possession of the addition weight (puck) when if by chance the puck is dislodged from his stick by a defending player skating/facing either directly towards the puck carrier or at an angle from which the puck carrier would realistically just skate past the puck or be off balance trying to regain possession. Is that because puck physics are atrocious or the sliders/tuners are being poorly managed? The hitting mechanics should be reverted back but if you are constantly being body checked, it's the puck carriers fault for not making a timely hockey play. If stick checking and puck intercepts worked as they should, there would be less body checking so it goes back on the programming once again. As consumers, we need to stop accepting excuses and start demanding accountability. I'm sure there's enough profit margin to hire a consultant that has had actual high level pro hockey playing experience or someone in pro management that understands the basic fundamentals of the sport instead of relying on these influencers for direction who have no inclination of real high level hockey. There also needs to be some transparency as to what works and what doesnt. What attributes actually do, how they interact with each other and the true effect they have on the game. The attribute system has been in place for over 15 years and there is always a debate on the subject.

@RSall14 Yeah thats really funny that they bring back problems to the game . They had a game that was funcional but they had to get rid of that and give us a game thats full of problems and new controls

@internetg611 Like I've said total control is a joke ,players using total control hardly get charging penalties

NHL 24 Patch 1.5.0 Feedback | EA Forums

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internetg611
Seasoned Adventurer
2 years ago
Really EA . The long awaited patch coming out after more than a month addresses really nothing with gameplay. How about fixing the guided missile hitting or at the very least make them a charging penalty every time because ding ding ding that is what they are. 4 strides to make a hit is a charging penalty.. How about adding icon defense so you can actually pick the defender you want and not the one EA wants you to pick that causes players to be out of position. It would not be hard to add ... exact same concept as offensive icon passing.

How about fixing the AI so they are not running into each other and just stopping for 10 seconds while the play carries on without them. There are many issues in the game that your customers are begging to be fixed to make their gaming experience happier

What does EA give us - We fixed the x factors that some players have and fixed some jerseys and modified the pressure system that is beyond broken. Here is how to fix it .Once the defending team gets the puck out of their end... poof the debuffs are gone ,,, it is that easy. Not gradual ...instant. This is not rocket science

Come on EA do better.

Please at least pretend to care about your player base.. ie customers

EA always says they read these posts . EA players like and comment one this post There are the changes we need to improve that gameplay to make this a hockey game not NHL 2024

H ITZ

Edit: Moved post to the 1.5.0 feedback thread. -CM
RigorousBarley
2 years ago
I primarily play CHEL Club so I like the buffs to the X-Factors, especially Back At Ya.
However, hip-checks are still wildly broken so none of it matters.
MarvnZindler
New Ace
2 years ago
Interesting patch. Glad to see defense getting some attention.
Question for you, @EA_Aljo. Does stick tie-ups using the A button count as a net battle? I ask because it's one of the main tools I use when playing defense and was trying to figure out a build that would make net battles easier to win. Would this update mean that performing stick tie-ups would be more effective with the Bouncer x-factor? Also, are shoves in front of the net affected by Bouncer?
Treatmentworke66
Seasoned Ace
2 years ago
@internetg611 Like I've said total control is a joke ,players using total control hardly get charging penalties
PlayoffError
Hero
2 years ago
@EA_AljoCould we get an example of which animation this is addressing? "Fixed an issue which resulted in the Goalie triggering an exhausted Five Hole Save Animation when the goalie wasn't exhausted"
it will be interesting to see if these changes actually result in a more widespread adoption of the reverse hitting mechanic. Although until the reverse hit can actual counter hip-checks it probably won't matter much.
hiperay
New Ace
2 years ago
@internetg611 wrote:
Really EA . The long awaited patch coming out after more than a month addresses really nothing with gameplay. How about fixing the guided missile hitting or at the very least make them a charging penalty every time because ding ding ding that is what they are. 4 strides to make a hit is a charging penalty.. How about adding icon defense so you can actually pick the defender you want and not the one EA wants you to pick that causes players to be out of position. It would not be hard to add ... exact same concept as offensive icon passing.
How about fixing the AI so they are not running into each other and just stopping for 10 seconds while the play carries on without them. There are many issues in the game that your customers are begging to be fixed to make their gaming experience happier
What does EA give us - We fixed the x factors that some players have and fixed some jerseys and modified the pressure system that is beyond broken. Here is how to fix it .Once the defending team gets the puck out of their end... poof the debuffs are gone ,,, it is that easy. Not gradual ...instant. This is not rocket science
Come on EA do better.
Please at least pretend to care about your player base.. ie customers
EA always says they read these posts . EA players like and comment one this post There are the changes we need to improve that gameplay to make this a hockey game not NHL 2024
H ITZ
Edit: Moved post to the 1.5.0 feedback thread. -CM
Guided Missile hitting - This was attempted to be fixed by EA, and much of the community disagreed and rioted for it to be reverted so EAs hand was forced more or less.
Defense Icon Change - This is not simply a copy paste some code fix. This will probably get added to the next game I imagine but I wouldn't expect that type of gameplay change to be added with a patch. (IMO)
I would ask for us to get better information regarding these changes. Similar to how it was done when Close Quarters were changed. Something like "Reduced the meter drain from 10s to 8s at full". I personally would like to see more of this in the future regarding all perks. The people that play this game regularly need better explanations as to what these buff, nerfs, xfactors change.
Side Note: Love the name of the thread EA Patch Crap. 😉
phomi99
Seasoned Veteran
2 years ago
@internetg611 wrote:
Really EA . The long awaited patch coming out after more than a month addresses really nothing with gameplay. How about fixing the guided missile hitting or at the very least make them a charging penalty every time because ding ding ding that is what they are. 4 strides to make a hit is a charging penalty.. How about adding icon defense so you can actually pick the defender you want and not the one EA wants you to pick that causes players to be out of position. It would not be hard to add ... exact same concept as offensive icon passing.
How about fixing the AI so they are not running into each other and just stopping for 10 seconds while the play carries on without them. There are many issues in the game that your customers are begging to be fixed to make their gaming experience happier
What does EA give us - We fixed the x factors that some players have and fixed some jerseys and modified the pressure system that is beyond broken. Here is how to fix it .Once the defending team gets the puck out of their end... poof the debuffs are gone ,,, it is that easy. Not gradual ...instant. This is not rocket science
Come on EA do better.
Please at least pretend to care about your player base.. ie customers
EA always says they read these posts . EA players like and comment one this post There are the changes we need to improve that gameplay to make this a hockey game not NHL 2024
H ITZ
Edit: Moved post to the 1.5.0 feedback thread. -CM

It's the current hitting mechanics unfortunately. I think we're stuck with this. It's either zero hitting or speed boost hitting. Why they changed it in the first place is beyond me but we're stuck this year.
RicochetII
2 years ago
@RigorousBarley I'll reserve judgement on the changes implemented for now, but hip checks are indeed among the worst offenders in the gameplay and it's disappointing to see it being ignored again.

Regular hitting was better (in CHEL) until they reverted it. They may have gone too far and could have met somewhere in the middle instead.
If you're going to leave those checks as is, at least fix the hip checking.
Regular checks are exaggerated, but hip checks are straight up cartoonish.
jatt96306
2 years ago
I hope the dev team allows an option to disable the on-ice graphic for the sustained pressure. Keep the mechanic in, but please clean up the graphics on the ice itself.
darkryd3r
Seasoned Veteran
2 years ago
happy to see the Stadium Series jerseys ingame. Thanks👍
I wish to see also Winnipegs RCAF jersey ingame one day....please EA.