Community Manager
Hello everyone, I hope all is good.
I'm upset to know many of you are not able to enjoy the game do to the control lay out not being available to you, I completely understand your frustration. As someone who has been playing NHL since 91 this has always been my go to game . If I may ask a question to everyone. So since NHL 07 I have been playing with the skill stick and this year total control was introduced, I tried it out for a bit and did not enjoy using the buttons for the hitting as well as the dekes, so I went back to skill stick. I have never used NHL 94 or hybrid controls since the introduction of skill stick in 07, I am not familiar with the differences between them besides maybe the buttons being the pass and shoot mechanisms. Is hybrid extremely different from 94 controls? Does it use the right stick and the triggers on the top of the controls? I'm just very curious since I'm hoping hybrid controls that will be returning helps anyone and everyone with any kind of a disability or just enjoys those controls to enjoy NHL 24. If anyone with this knowledge can let me know.
Be safe everyone and thank you.
Now folks, we should not blame @EA_Aljo for anything. As a "Manager" his job is to moderate these forums and provide whatever updates he can. I don't think any forum is directly linked to the developers of games, but rather to keep the community continuously talking and allowing him (or others) to generate a feedback to EA that hopefully will garner some quality of life changes moving forward.
I am upset that hybrid isn't in this game yet. It's the control scheme I will always use due to Arthritis in my hands. Yes I feel ripped off having spent money to sit and wait for an update, but ultimately I am happy they acknowledged us with having to put it back into the game.
I am an advocate for change. All we can do is continue to talk about why this game is failing you as a customer, and how they can change it moving forward. I like the new Dev team. They are very vocal with how they are moving forward with the series......hell, they even talked about GM Connected and their plans to bring it back in a new and refreshing way (not like in NHL 14 though). As long as they follow through on their plans & ideas, and return controller mappings back to the way they were, I am a happy camper!
Now that my common sense talk is done with...................................Where are my hybrid controls EA?!?!?!?!
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Community ManagerThank you for the post! I absolutely feel for you all regarding the Hybrid controls. I understand many of you are upset these were removed to begin with, but as stated previously, it's the feedback we received from the community that is getting them returned and they can't come soon enough. We should have the Hybrid controls back by the end of October.
Often game developers (especially new to the series) don't know the total impact of how a control system works among it's player base. There decisions are usually prompted with moving forward and trying new things.
This community has shown that they can convince EA to provide what is best for all types of players. I imagine they completely removed the coding from NHL24 and have to put it back in and make sure it works. NHL 94 controls are no different. Maybe we will get lucky and both control schemes will be added to the patch that is coming.
We can only hope all of our efforts sway EA to the understanding of it's full player base.
What about the NHL 94 controller set-up?
