NHL 24 User Experience Survey - Commentary.
I completed this survey as I am a lifelong player of the NHL franchise and I wanted to share my thoughts on the current state of the game. Hopefully the dev team will take an honest/serious look at ...
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I would like to highlight my experience with one positive and one negative:
positive:
the goalies are extremely improved making it harder to score with the cheap glitchy ai exploits. This has dramatically improved gameplay by essentially forcing players to adapt to a play strategy that is more on ice focused on making plays and mimicking real life hockey. Further to this is the 30 second zone pressure feature. Personally I think these two improvements drastically improve the gameplay and allow skill separation of the player base.
Negative:
Its the chicken or the egg effect.. what ruined what. Now that the game has evolved as above it is being compromised by poor tuning adjustments decisions/sliders which negate the overall control of the above. I am still coming across too many tuning adjustment games which override my players skills. This is especially noticeable playing CPU games. It is also still a problem online where a player can cheat by using a lower overall team and getting ai slider advantages. This defeats the purpose of the pressure system in its entirety rendering the game as still primitive.
