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Decided to pick this game up for $35 dollars on a Black Friday Deal, knowing the game is going to be complete garbage but hoping I would be wrong. After playing about 20-25 games I’ve quickly realize...
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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.
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.
You can charge pass and point up and it goes to 9 o’clock
Skill issue.
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.
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.please stop belittling everyone with skill issue
I'm not belittling anyone. Providing simple and concise answers.
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.
. 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?
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.
Lecturing and making straight assumptions about someone being inherently bad at game without context is simply belittling, which your last sentence continues to do.
What evidence can you provide that the game is working perfectly? Absolutely none. I can’t either provide you that evidence as this game was stripped from control input history in replays years ago.
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.
I play World of Chel and OVP. Top 300 player every single year since 09. HUT is full of people who require a full roster of 99 OVRs to make up for their lack of skill. These same players will try OVP, attempt the same maneuvers with Josh Brown that they do with Connor McDavid and then blame EA when Brown doesn't wheel-snipe-celly just like Connor.
div 4.
As an offline only player; I find that the passing is more realistic compared to prior games. Is it less accurate, I can see the argument in that, but also, in NHL 23 and 24, passes were too accurate and made it offer less realism cause there should be no pass that is 100% guarantee. When looking at teams passing percentages after games in my franchise mode the average for myself and the AI team is usually around 80% - 85%, compared to NHL 24 where the AI passing would be in the 90% range or higher, which was unrealistic.
I have had missed passes but usually falls on me for not timing the pass correctly. I have also learned that stretch passes don't work as well (which again makes sense - they are risk reward type of passes), where as doing short passes have a higher completion rate.
The overall gameplay feels better overall and feels more like a SIM experience instead of the Arcade experience of NHL 23 and 24.
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