NHL 25 Feedback

1. Amount of one timer goals is insane, or the 2 on 1 pass over where either you score 95% of the time or the other opponent online rams you out of the way with no interference penalty.
2. Super speed. Couldn’t get back on D with a fresh Cale Makar, blown out of the water by Jason Zucker in speed, just crazy. It’s like guys randomly just get turbo boosts on here out of nowhere.
3. Goaltending is atrocious, basically like a fish out of water is the only way I can describe it.
4. Passing does not function correctly. Players are wide open and pass will go in a completely different direction.
5. Just completely outplaying an opponent to be burned by garbage over and over again.

I could continue on with this list but this game is primarily the same as last year and should have never even been offered for $70 bucks. I don’t even think this game was worth it for the $35. It’s honestly really sad seeing what EA sports has become. The NHL game is the new NBA Live. The difference though is that there is no competition. When Live became the same repetitive thing year after year with minor tweaks, EA lost their remaining gameplay fans to NBA 2K. Until another competitor comes along we are stuck with the same old crap year after year.

Truth

There is absolutely ZERO skill involved when taking one timers,get rid of that stupid bullseye 

BigCastle00 wrote:

Amount of one timer goals is insane

Skill issue. 

BigCastle00 wrote:

Super speed. Couldn’t get back on D with a fresh Cale Makar, blown out of the water by Jason Zucker in speed, just crazy

Skill issue. Allowing your opponent to generate speed through the neutral zone is a rookie mistake.

BigCastle00 wrote:

Goaltending is atrocious, basically like a fish out of water is the only way I can describe it.

Goaltending can only react to the opportunities you allow your opponent to have. There's no doubt there is the odd goalie glitch, but in 25 games you'd have likely only encountered 2-3 times where the goalie was actually making an unintended motion, save, etc. So again, sill issue.

BigCastle00 wrote:

Passing does not function correctly

Yes it does. This is 100% a skill issue. 

BigCastle00 wrote:

Just completely outplaying an opponent to be burned by garbage over and over again.

Can't capitalize on your chances and can't stop an opponent from beating you? Skil issue.

Then why not take one-timers all day to climb up the leaderboards to establish dominance? Those of you who claim things are 'so easy' for your opponent to do yet you can't seem to do it with the same efficacy... what does that tell you?

Kid, please with the skill issue… There are clear bugs in the game.. Passing is online very buggy, so it’s not 100% skill issue. They broke something this year. You can charge pass and point up and it goes to 9 o’clock. Heck even the icon passes won’t go where pointed them. Then theres issue if you have two players lined up, the first player is wide open to receive the pass but the decided that i must have wanted to pass the guy far behind whose guarded by two opponents.

These issues are less clear offline, but they are there.

Greyinsi wrote:

Passing is online very buggy

It's not. You're going to be inaccurate sometimes. Icon based passing is there as a skill you can master to get even more accurate passing. Failing to properly adjust your online pass assist meter, failing to effectively utilize icon-based passing and failing to adjust your right-stick movement for more accurate passing is a skill issue.

Greyinsi wrote:

You can charge pass and point up and it goes to 9 o’clock

Skill issue. 

Greyinsi wrote:

Heck even the icon passes won’t go where pointed them.

Skill issue. Icon-based passing is literally 100% success rate, so long as you're not throwing blatantly into traffic. 

Greyinsi wrote:

Then theres issue if you have two players lined up, the first player is wide open to receive the pass but the decided that i must have wanted to pass the guy far behind whose guarded by two opponents.

You need to adjust the online pass assist for your style of play. For some people, 100% causes major issues. For others, 0% makes passing perfect. The rest of us fall in-between, but it takes time and patience to discover the perfect setting for you. 

Come on, please stop belittling everyone with skill issue, you start to sound like a ea rep… That is not constructive in any way. I’ve been playing this series since 94, so I think I know what I’m talking about.. I used to play this series with pass assist set to 0-25 successfully. This year i have settled 75. Tried anything between 0-100, yet still the game seems to take over the intended pass direction or choose another player instead, same with pass assist. This happened last year, but this year it has been visibly worse.
I’m not alone with the issue. Theres been talk about it in finnish esports forums too, and those are the top players. Go tell those guys its skill issue.

Greyinsi wrote:

please stop belittling everyone with skill issue

I'm not belittling anyone. Providing simple and concise answers.

Greyinsi wrote:

I’ve been playing this series since 94, so I think I know what I’m talking about

I've been playing this series since '92. 

Greyinsi wrote:

. I used to play this series with pass assist set to 0-25 successfully. This year i have settled 75. Tried anything between 0-100, yet still the game seems to take over the intended pass direction or choose another player instead, same with pass assist.

What evidence can you provide that shows it's the game performing a miscalculation and not an errant movement on your right stick?

Greyinsi wrote:

Theres been talk about it in finnish esports forums too, and those are the top players. Go tell those guys its skill issue.

"Top Players" complaining about passing is of zero interest to me. They think because they can no longer sauce backhand from behind their back tape-to-tape that passing is "broken". 

You need to be purposeful with your passing this year. No longer can you just pass & pray and get lucky. Passing takes timing, skill and precision. When we ask for more control, this also means a bigger window for error. Again, a skill issue. 

Ironic him calling it a skill issue when he plays the least competitive game modes of NHL 25. Guy wouldn't even last in div 4.