EA_Aljo
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Community ManagerNHL 25 Gameplay Deep Dive Trailer and Blog
Hey, NHL Fans! The NHL 25 Deep Dive Trailer premiers today at 11 AM EST. Catch the video below and the blog here.
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EA_AljoCommunity Manager
Community ManagerWhat do you want more information on? It really won't be apparent just how different the gameplay is until you get to play for yourself. It's not the easiest to show off in a trailer. There are a lot of changes the community requested. Better skating, better AI, manual one Ts, improved strategies, etc. I think the changes to vision control alone are going to be very well received. You'll just have to wait a few weeks to find out when you get your hands on it.
I'd like to know if the defensive AI was improved, and if so, to see some clips of it. The video shows off some improvements to offensive AI, but there is a lot of horrendous defensive AI play on display. Defense is where the game's AI needs improvement more urgently, please show us what has been done in that aspect.
Of course defense AI is improved but it's always gonna be subjective to how you play and position. With the AI offense getting changed up it only makes sense for the AI defense to get some changes too. If it's a huge thing to you then I'd wait til more information can be talked about if you haven't decided on getting NHL 25 or not.
Is there an additional gameplay video or blog coming? The schedule only shows mode-specific videos remaining. And that would be consistent with what they've done in the past... one brief gameplay overview (that they call a "deep-dive") and the rest mode-specific stuff.
I want to see the AI reading plays better, more sticks and bodies in shooting and passing lanes, better situation awareness (for example in NHL 24 and earlier, in 3v3 OT the AI defenders still often seem to think they have 4 teammates helping them, that needs to be fixed), and more generally better positioning. The defense in this video looked atrocious, but granted they were mainly showing off offense so it's expected. I'd love to see more clips showing off any defensive improvements, or at least some bullet points listing specific things that were addressed for defense.
Sadly I think you will have to wait until the Hughe's brothers face off to see more real gameplay and get an idea of what the AI looks like. And yes the videos are usually always about making goalies and AI defense look silly to showcase offense.
