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izzaymang
Seasoned Newcomer
7 months ago

NHL25 AI TOTAL GARBAGE

I have not played an NHL game since NHL14, I decided to try out NHL25 and went out on a whim and purchased at full price. This game is annoying as heck to get back into playing and relearning game mechanics. Rookie is too easy, Semi-Pro is too, Pro is a step-up from those two but the game completely bends you over and pulls your hair at All-Star and Superstar modes. There have been instances where the CPU attack is non-stop, not missing any sort of deke on me or my CPU and getting 100% passing for an offensive attack and even skating faster than all my players. It seems like the AI just upscales the hell out if itself on my attacking zone, I can defend well in the neutral zone and can even defend well in beginning portion of the attacking zone but once the AI gets going in the heart of the O-Zone, neither me nor any of my CPU players able to get a stick lift, poke OR body check. It may be a bug but there have been times (only on All-Star and Superstar) where I am change my lines manually and the skaters refuse to leave the ice, even after stoppage in play, even with zero stamina and multiple attempts to change to different lines. I am not new to NHL games but I have been out of the game for a while and I am close to breaking a controller with how frustrating it is trying to learn to get better at the game and getting this sort of gameplay when playing solo. I can already tell what kind of responses I may get and people may point out that the sliders are there to help with the difficulty. WHAT IS THE POINT OF THE DIFFICULTY SETTING IN THE FIRST PLACE????

Has this been addressed by EA? Will it be addressed? What sliders do you all use to help me out with the AI being obnoxious?

7 Replies

  • Your labelling of this game 25, said it all. Its a terrible game.

  • EA_Aljo's avatar
    EA_Aljo
    Icon for Community Manager rankCommunity Manager
    7 months ago

    Hi there. Thank you for the feedback. AI is always an issue and most likely, it always will be. Creating AI players that are perfectly balanced is far from any kind of easy task. We're always working to improve their behavior. You're more than welcome to provide video showing the issues you're facing. I'll relay them to the team. Especially, when you say you can't stick lift, poke, or check. Personally, I haven't seen these stop working on Superstar so if that's happening for you, we need to see it.

    It would also be good to see the line change issue you're mentioning. If you get any videos of these, please publish them through your console or put them up on a site like YouTube where they can be streamed.

  • Aljo. Regarding this players comments. I have to say. That the poke checking, and sweep checking element of the game is also an issue. The AI can poke check continually, while in control of my one controllable player. I find it near impossible to poke check. I have always found it weird, that when the AI opponent does poke check, the puck is not knocked away, but rather it ends up on its stick. Like a magnet drawing metal to it.

  • EA_Aljo's avatar
    EA_Aljo
    Icon for Community Manager rankCommunity Manager
    7 months ago

    We don't get many reports that poke checks aren't working. Personally, I'm having no issues with them.

    The puck will be picked up normally by the player in the best position. When a defender pokes, often they are backskating. If they don't get a solid enough poke on it, it won't move much. The defender is skating away while the offensive player is skating towards it. Player ratings are also a factor with who picks it up.

    This is why I need to see video. We really can only make assumptions without it.

  • This is 100% spot on AI completely out skates you every time and you always know when they are about to score because they start passing between their legs and making crazy passes in your zone, and you can never get the puck even when you make a great play. 

  • Prebuilds are ruining this game  6'7" idiots flying around with 92 speed and 99 checking is outrageous and needs to be removed from clubs or ranked play

  • romanempire69's avatar
    romanempire69
    Seasoned Newcomer
    18 days ago

    No no it's 2025 AI is making movies and all kinds of stuff I don't want any excuses. The AI in NHL 2020 was better then this garbage. 

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