AI in 2025 NHL
Can someone explain to me why the AI in NHL 2025 (maybe/probably 2026 too) is so terrible? When they're against us, they win almost every face-off, score a goal every three shots, make great passes...
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Here is a perfect example of the be a pro AI. For context, this is all star difficulty (superstar is impossible with your brain dead AI teammates). I’ve set the opposing AI aggressiveness to 0 (because my brain dead AI just skates into the every time).
so in this clip, my teammate gets the puck wide open, skates into the opposing defense and loses the puck (like always). Then on my end, my teammates get the puck back, and then pass the puck to the wide open forward on the other team for a goal? Absolutely NO WAY the opposing AI would ever do that.
https://www.xbox.com/play/media/QpLThDv6jk
EA_Aljo
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Community ManagerThanks for the video. Appreciate it. Yeah, in that situation, it's just the AI making a bad decision. Unfortunate for sure.
EA_Aljo the AI on your team ONLY makes bad decisions. I’m serious. Play a single game on all Star. Or higher and your team is incapable of playing hockey at all. Not to mention then the game gives me “bad defense”. What the crap. I didn’t do anything wrong. Then my form score gets hurt and then I get demoted a line down. The mode is pathetic
I got this game from NHL 21 cause I fell for the marketing hype that the mode is revamped. Total lie. They made like 3 changes and that’s it.
I will never buy another EA NHL game again. I don’t play HUT so clearly I’m not the target audience since I don’t buy microtransactions
- EA_Aljo
Our target audience is everyone. It's not all about microtransactions. There are a ton of people playing HUT and WoC without spending anything extra. I personally only play WoC these days. Regardless, we're always looking to improve the AI players. I know they get attention every year. Hopefully, they'll improve more in the future.
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