NHL 24 Reveal Trailer

@hiperayCouldn't disagree more. I still played NHL15 online up until they shutdown the servers a couple year ago. Just so much funner, especially playing goalie.

Exhaust Engine has always been there. It’s certainly in NHL23. The cpu can become dominant in the offensive zone and ramp

up their speed of passes. It’s almost like it was a bug that they decided to make into a feature! I don't know why people so hyped every year before than be disapointed. Maybe many forgot about last years removing of presentation.

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@KlariskraysNHL wrote:
@JagavekovSee that is how you view it. I view the exhaust engine as their way to try and combat ragging the puck. They are encouraging people to be in the offensive zone and working the puck around. Being on the Penalty Kill will feel probably even worse now showing true nature to how it would be in real hockey with them tiring and the offense getting better chances. You can't just hold onto the puck in the offensive zone to get the meter up you gotta cycle and get shots. Also note while the defense gets weaker the offense also gets a boost in stats. So you can't go around skill zoning on defense you actually have to attack and force plays. And your method doesn't work for WoC so this system takes care of all the modes.

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My only problem with this is, while an attempt at killing one problem (raggers), it bring a new one by making a bigger skill gap. It particularly goes for drop-in. Now if you get a group of players essentially diamonds and elites vs a group of average players (golds - silvers), you can be sure the game will sit on one side of the ice for the entire game (more than it is already) and the waekest team will never get back on track once their exhaustion bar is in the red. The superior team will dominate more than ever and the average players stuggle more than ever. 
And by the same time, make more poeples quits games than ever before. I hardly see how this can be particularly good for CHEL.

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@Froommey wrote:
@nhluserNew goalie animations are one thing, but this offensive power engine seems for me more or lesser a marketing gag cause from my sight it is in at NHL23. I clearly can watch it in true broadcast mode. They should give me a new roster update for NHL 23 ( with some new headshot pics, some new player likenesses ) and it will be good enough for me to continue with 23.

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@Froommey 

Hope all is well… Don’t know if you are aware of this, but maybe your prayers have been answered ?

Check my Setup/Roster/Gameplay for 23. Spent close to 600 hours on all of this, to bring 23 to the next level IMO 😀

pernellkarl076-nhl23-ultra-realistic-gameplay-setup 

Thanks !

The problem is nhl 14 worked better because it was more balanced and things seemed to actually work based on user input. In nhl 23 everything just seems way too random and every game plays differently. You could poke check the puck 5 times off a guys stick and nothing happens and then the next game every poke world. I never had that issue on nhl 14.. there were less animations which was better and the game played more simple which allowed us to play and not let the games X factors or randomness decide things. I also remember much more balance between d and o and passing was better along with it being harder to score which was better too. Not sure why defense always gets the crappy builds

@KlariskraysNHL 

The skill gap between the good and the average/bad team/players is already a thing and I'm all for it and online gaming isn't ever fair, that's true. Doesnt make the new fatigue system any more good nonetheless, it's only going to make the elitist even more elitist and push away anyone struggling with the game or with low hockey IQ. 

I guess it can work fine for clubs and organised groups, I'll give you that but drop-ins is already a pain in the a$$ sometimes and it aint getting any better with this. 

Anyway, guess it's here to stay in 24 so we'll see how it goes. Hope it's tweaked properly.