Eashl needs revamped

SpikeTJD wrote:

Remove all the cheesy cosmetics stuff from CLUBS. Should be uniforms only. Should be serious again. 

Videogames are meant to be fun. You're allowed to keep your team as serious as you want. Allowing others to have fun with their team branding and arenas has no bearing on your ability to enjoy the game. If it does, then maybe club games aren't for you.

SpikeTJD wrote:

Playoffs should be in home rinks. Don’t understand why it’s in some random rink with flames. 

I think the idea is to add some consistency to the playoff mode and instill some kind of environmental visual cues to note the difference. Not all teams have a filled-out arena, so playing in an empty barn kills the playoff vibes quick. 

The said, I'd like to see teams who have a certain level of arena unlocked to host playoff games, including the ability to customize the crowd for playoff games such as having a 'whiteout' a la Winnipeg, Pittsburg or a C-of-Red like Calgary, etc.

SpikeTJD wrote:

AI and Goalies need major improvements. Playing with an AI D is pretty much pointless. They just shadow players to the net, never use their stick never skate hard. Always turn into players etc. Goalies let in the worst goals every game.

AI D are reacting mostly to what the humans are doing. If you're noticing your AI D is playing awful, take a moment to assess what you're doing as the human. 

The AI D will shadow players because incidental contact is enough to disrupt a pass. They will skate hard if they're not focused on recovering an abandoned position by the human.

SpikeTJD wrote:

Remove penalty kill debuff. No player in any hockey league in the world loses the ability to skate just because they’re on the penalty kill.

I agree that the fatigue being cranked up during the PK is annoying. Needs to be turned down a bit.

SpikeTJD wrote:

Improve pressure system. So many times a team will take literally one shot and get full pressure.

This happens because the team has already built up momentum. Personally, I think sometimes the pressure-meter shown on the ice glitches out and doesn't show progress sometimes, so then it appears a single shot activates full pressure mode. I could be wrong, but this may just be a glitch in the UI. 

As a goalie it also helps when it’s a shot glitch and it doesn’t count a save as a shot.  That’s when I’ve noticed my stamina stays the same. 

KidShowtime1867 wrote:

Videogames are meant to be fun. You're allowed to keep your team as serious as you want. Allowing others to have fun with their team branding and arenas has no bearing on your ability to enjoy the game. If it does, then maybe club games aren't for you.

Sorry Kid, I'm kinda with Spike. I too would like to see all those cosmetic players alien,moose,beaver ETC to moved towards Drop In Play and maybe have a few times throughout the year where you can use it in Club games maybe like over a Long weekend or something like that... I also believe that when playing Clubs that the goal horn should be to whatever the Club leader put it as in the Arena Creation and not to what the player selected for his player, if a player wants to use his own goal horn than again should be brought into Drop Ins and special weekend events 

It’s not fun though? Majority of players use them because they know how stupid it looks. Combined with the amount of black players with big grey afros etc. People do it because of how stupid it looks.  
Whole point of clubs was being a real hockey team with your friends etc . That ain’t that. 

I refuse to believe the AI D have anything to do with the way the humans play as I can’t even count the amount of times a player can just skate right past my AI dman without him even pivoting, trying to hit or anything, he just escorts the man to the net every time.

deadman9999 wrote:

Sorry Kid, I'm kinda with Spike. I too would like to see all those cosmetic players alien,moose,beaver ETC to moved towards Drop In Play and maybe have a few times throughout the year where you can use it in Club games maybe like over a Long weekend or something like that...

I get it; seeing a moose or a beaver playing hockey can break the immersion of club play. 

But what I think should be kept in mind that is this is the EASHL, not the NHL. There needs to be some replayability and for a lot of dopamine-fueled players in the target demographic, being able to customize your player to get the most attention is what makes a game 'replayable' to them. When they see themselves playing as a moose, knowing that people notice them - that's what brings these kinds of gamers back to the game. 

And I think EA tries to find a balance. The Moose/Beaver players, while retaining their animal skins, are forced to wear the club jerseys in club games. Yes, it's a little odd at first seeing this kind of customization - but once you see it a few times, the novelty wears off and honestly, I see anyone who uses those models as just another attention seeker. 

SpikeTJD wrote:

It’s not fun though? Majority of players use them because they know how stupid it looks. Combined with the amount of black players with big grey afros etc. People do it because of how stupid it looks.  

Exactly. People love the attention they think they're getting. So if people are enjoying how stupid it looks because of the attention they get.. then it stands to reason the customizations are in fact 'fun' for those people.

SpikeTJD wrote:

Whole point of clubs was being a real hockey team with your friends etc . That ain’t that.

The whole point of clubs is to play videogame hockey as a team with your friends. EASHL is exactly that.

SpikeTJD wrote:

I refuse to believe the AI D have anything to do with the way the humans play as I can’t even count the amount of times a player can just skate right past my AI dman without him even pivoting, trying to hit or anything, he just escorts the man to the net every time.

Refuse to believe it all you want - the people who make this game are telling you that's how it works. So if you want to get the most out of your AI, it's best to pay attention. 

A player skating right by your DMan means that player was able to generate enough speed through the neutral zone to cause the  Dman to be out of step, forcing them to pivot and lose speed, allowing the player to cruise right by them. 100% realistic. You need to shut speed down in the neutral zone - not AFTER the player has already crossed your blue line. Honestly - some of you who repeat the complaint "everyone just burns by our D" are basically saying, "We don't forecheck, we puck chase through the neutral zone and allow our opponents to generate dominant speed"

So the game, which probably has close to, if not the LOWEST player base of many sports games, you want to slash and isolate some of the playerbase from playing by taking away things that they find fun? You also want to take something away that is giving value to EA as a company because its revenue that they are getting in the form of the skins and the battlepass? These both would mean reduction in sales on both fronts. By doing this, you are essentially getting rid of one of the few reasons they would want to make the game a more enjoyable experience both in gameplay and aesthetics.  

This is not video gaming of old times, people like silly in games, people like the sillier the better. People like things like Seth Rogan performing accidental finishers. These kinds of things bring interest to people who may not necessarily be a complete fan of hockey towards the game. It broadens the spectrum a little past the hardcore hockey fan. People like having those weird combination of skins and features to a make a silly looking player character.  Just look at games that get really popular by streamers when they can make the guys legs three times the size of their body.

Wanting to take these cosmetics away from the game just because they don't look/feel normal or real is not a good idea. Its a traditionalist way of looking at things and with this playerbase being already small, you can't afford to isolate more people from the game.

I refuse to believe the AI D have anything to do with the way the humans play as I can’t even count the amount of times a player can just skate right past my AI dman without him even pivoting, trying to hit or anything, he just escorts the man to the net every time.

You could always allow drop-in players and potentially get a human that is better than the AI D.

Well once they started selling them for real money and saying stuff will carry over pretty much ensures those won't be going away.

It also doesnt refresh at times. There are games when a team will get the pressure system up half way. Then our team goes down to their end for a minute plus come back to our zone where the meter is still half way.  Good Idea terrible execution 

KidShowtime1867​ Dude you really must work for EA lol I've never seen anyone defend the company as much as you do.

I agree with the people who want The Aliens Moose or any of the other garbage out of EASHL. EASHL used to be a competitive/Fun League. Now its a clown show. 

EASHL/Ones Should not Allow Prebuilds Any of the Cartoon Creatures or Total controls.

Prebuilds are A Joke we've already been over this on another forum.

The Cartoon Creatures should be kept to Arcade/Chel Modes Other than EASHL. Make EASHL Great again.

Total Controls Another Add that has really taken skill out of the game. The amount of players that go for the Michigan is lame. All because its one Button now. The Animation for the Mich looks god awful.  

Return Hitting to what it was on Earlier Gen. 

The Ai is trash you can say that its based on Human play sure maybe it has a little to do with that. But just because the people who work for ai say this is how it works doesn't mean it actually works the way they want it. I have video of the Ai literally skating side by side with a player he refuses to hit or even attempt a poke check. Then the Ai will literally wait until the opposing player is by him to turn around.  The Ai will also force the bank pass off the boards when a direct pass is wide open. I also love when the Ai will go back grab the puck from behind the net and then stop skating and pin the puck to the boards. The Ai has a ton of flaws not associated with how the human plays. 

Again before you repeat yourself. Just because EA says this is how it is doesnt mean it works how they say.