We will never play this game if the hitting isnt back soon

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@recipe87 wrote:

I think its really really sad to see what EA has done to this game that used to be fun.

If you were good at doing body hits and had a big player you could really do hard hits and now thats gone .

EA advertised that hitting is back HAHA the hitting and the physical game is Goone .

And the gamespeed also.

I dont understand that anyone likes this game 

Me and my team HEAVY HITTERS will never play this game if they dont fix the Hitting and all the bugs 

Please go back to basic

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Hitting is fine. There appears to be some players abusing the hip check - and although it's annoying to have to see every game it IS avoidable - but other than that, the new hitting is so satisfying and works really well. I think people just need to learn to adapt to the new mechanic. It's not like it used to be, and trying to execute it like you used to will only leave you frustrated.

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The hip check abuse is on a skyrocketing rise as I didn't see it happening at all since release and have run into it several times in recent games. The problem is the game isn't taking physics, momentum or positioning into account when somebody barely makes contact with your player while holding the hip check button. Can be avoided but if you are smart in how you abuse it, it becomes very hard to get around players you should easily be able to get around. My bigger issue is the reality that connecting a body check needs to have a lot more reward than it does. I can lay a bone crushing hit that would send a person to the hospital in real life but in game they are up on their feet in less than a second or two 90% of the time. The risk of missing is way over the top than the reward you get from landing the hit. We were preached about the risk reward aspect of the new hitting system but I am only seeing the risk part of it. 

We have played this game for many years in eashl clubs division 1 with different player types and now we cant stand this game anymore . We have tried to play a few games but wa have had enough so we dont play anomore bacause this isnt a good hockey game .

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@recipe87 wrote:

I think its really really sad to see what EA has done to this game that used to be fun.

If you were good at doing body hits and had a big player you could really do hard hits and now thats gone .

EA advertised that hitting is back HAHA the hitting and the physical game is Goone .

And the gamespeed also.

I dont understand that anyone likes this game 

Me and my team HEAVY HITTERS will never play this game if they dont fix the Hitting and all the bugs 

Please go back to basic

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Hate to agree with the white knight but the hitting in this game is just fine once they adjust the hip checking. If you can't hit in this year's version it's because the game bailed you out all 23 and earlier because hitting was easy and helped you do it. In 24, you actually have to do the hit properly. So many people hate that and not every game is just people running sound smashing everyone all over the ice. Though, you see hip checks everywhere all over the ice now which is comical. 

Haha okey so i average over 5000 hits in 500 games in nhl 23 eashl 6v6 division 1 as a defensman and my buddy playing forward also hit pretty much when needed so i think we know how to hit .

And we have been able to hit hard in Every other nhl game before So sadly this game is really Broken 

NHL hockey games should be fast and physical

If this is how the game is going to be then this will be the last nhl game we buy .

People have such a false sense of security out there with the new controls I'd argue shoulder checks are even more powerful than they ever have been - caveat being you just need to learn to flick down then up - easy peasy.

Hip checks are fun - yeah they are a single button now but 1. they used to be a simple click on R3 back in the day and 2. you shouldn't complain about them if you abused a simple flick on a stick with Truculence/bruiser builds.

NHL 10-14 I probably spend more time in the box than on the ice with all the fighting and hitting I did so I can safely say these new controls are a skill-gap QoL tweak that should have happened ages ago.

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@recipe87 wrote:

Haha okey so i average over 5000 hits in 500 games in nhl 23 eashl 6v6 division 1 as a defensman and my buddy playing forward also hit pretty much when needed so i think we know how to hit .

And we have been able to hit hard in Every other nhl game before So sadly this game is really Broken 

NHL hockey games should be fast and physical

If this is how the game is going to be then this will be the last nhl game we buy .

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This kind of proves my point.

You claim that just because you were dominant in body checking with NHL 23 that you "know how to hit". You completely disregard that the entire mechanic for hitting has changed, you're obviously refusing to adapt to the new mechanic and just claim it's "broken".

It's not broken - you just haven't mastered it yet and that's okay. If you would just admit that things have changed a lot and then adapt to the new way of hitting, you'd likely be back up to 5,000 hits a year. 

So maybe this is a stupid question but you are aware of the control changes for hitting this year, right?

Right stick up is just a shove.

Right stick down or B/O to load up a big (shoulder) hit.

Yes of Course i am aware of that stupid idea of changing the controls too . If EA dont fix this game they should be fired all of them