NHL25 Controls
Hi, I have played NHL since 2006. The skill stick was the best part of the game, and last year in NHL24 they completely ruined it by making puck protect holding left/right on the right stick. And on ...
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I have to agree with Flow here. I don't know who you guys got feedback from. But my friends and I are all elite 1s every season and our biggest complaint is the stick handling / puck protection. There was no reason to remove puck protect from the A button. Really disappointed to here that you will not be reverting back to the old controls. As someone who has been playing this game for 20 years now I can honestly say, to completely re map certain controls was one of the worst decisions EA has made. In my opinion this was the new Devs coming in last year and trying to make their impact felt my changing the controls. That is fine if it has a positive impact on the game, very few people that play at a competive level agree with that change. But just like every other video game has done in recent years, everything gets catered to the average player to reduce the skill gap.
If you and your friends are Elite 1s, then you all should be able to handle this skill change with ease. The highest level rank in our game should stand out among the rest. If you can’t have the mechanical skill to remove the thumb from the hustle button whenever you want to begin deking and instead want the game to do it automatically for us, than that Elite 1 rank has not been earned IMO. It is a skill that forces players to be more active on the thumbsticks which raises the skill gap in the game further. If it can’t be done, than some time needs to be spent getting the muscle memory down in practice mode, not requesting the devs to make the controls easier.
The puck protect overtakes the stick handling even when you're not on the hustle at times. It's a game at the same time. People want to be able to stick handle freely. It's more annoying foe the top skilled players. They are still going to heat 99% of teams if you know how to pass and play def. Just rather have it the old way. More fun.
- EA_Aljo
Community Manager
Puck protect only engages when hustling. If you're seeing it happen when not hustling, that would be a bug. I haven't been able to reproduce it. Can you get me a video showing this so I can get it reported to the team?
You can stick handle freely when not protecting the puck. This makes sense since you're busy not only protecting the puck, but hustling.
i have been playing thousands of games every year in the nhl franchise ever since 94.
last year i stopped playing in november, because every time i tried to deke, my player would protect puck instead.
i have several friends that stopped playing for the same reason.
i have been anxiously awaiting the new game, hoping that this would be fixed. unfortunately, if its not fixed, i cant see myself playing much. i find it too frustrating. everyone i speak to feels the same way.
