Threes mode
Threes isn't my main mode but one I often enjoy when I don't want to take the game too seriously and just want to have a good time and see some crazy plays... what EA 24 has turned this mode into.. is just not fun..
Firstly I am getting far more goals and far more easy goals in EASHL than I am eliminator threes. My breakaway percentage is higher, my shooting percentage, my 1T's have a higher chance.. this is supposed to be an arcade mode and I've had several games end 1-0. Now I love a good defensive game and the ability to shut a team down but this is just insanity. I've had games where we've put 28 shots on and got 2 goals. Even if they were bad shots this is an arcade mode.. I'd say half of them were 1T's and the goalie just made some INCREDIBLE diving saves. I should have recorded a couple of them. Again.. this is an arcade mode that should be high scoring no?
The worst part of this defensive mode is that we have money pucks.. imagine getting 30 shots on goal and getting 2 goals.. then the opposing team has 2 shots on goal and the last one was just a wrister almost from the wall of the blue line and your goalie blocks it but it drops and slowly slides in for a plus 2 so now you're headed to over time.. I don't remember the exact amounts but I think this is exactly what happened to us, we won in OT but this just makes the mode incredibly irritating. I should also add they were silver players so if we lose we lose about 1k ranking points and if we win we get nothing.. if that was a plus 3 we would have lost.. I get that's the mode but wow.. not fun.
Smoke coming down when the next possession starts after a goal? Was this game actually tested??? You can't see anything when this happens. Stupid.
Got rid of player uniforms but keep the club rink?
Player stats page broken
Play to 5 means 2 goals and it could be over.. stupid. We won a finals game this way.
When this mode was first introduced I loved it, then they added clubs to it and I loved it more.. in 24 they just made it stressful.. these goalies are either absolutely incredible in some games or have no idea where they are the next and it seems there's no in-between. The only thing I can think is that they've purposefully made this mode harder to score on and got rid of club uniforms so that players switch to EASHL. It's the only thing I can come up with..