This is hockey not Fortnite

Thank you for the constructive feedback. I'd personally appreciate these changes. It would be good to have options for the intro so it feels more authentic for those of us that want that experience.

The game plays quite a bit differently between online and offline. Especially with EASHL since you have multiple humans playing. The AI react to the humans, who are very often playing out of position. The AI need to adjust to cover the open ice. When you have 2 or 3 humans out of position, the AI are going to have a harder time being in the right position to make a good play. 

Not saying they can't use some improving. Even if everyone perfectly plays their position, they'll still make mistakes. Then again, so do humans.

uv6htfo6m9zg wrote:

CoD just announced they’ll give players the ability to turn off skins so while other people might be using ridiculous characters, any users with them turned off would see just regular looking soldiers to give the game an actual realistic feel. At the very least NHL 26 should have this option.

100% agree. 

uv6htfo6m9zg wrote:

Also while I’m on a rant, playing with EASHL CPUs is brutal. That’s basically the only game mode I play, but I messed around with the Four Nations on superstar and was shocked to discover that CPU defensemen CAN actually stop a rush and on offense they CAN actually make a decent play.

I think this demonstrates just how impacted CPU decision-making is by human players.

when playing Four Nations offline, you are the only human executing inputs, so the Ai has less to react to in terms of what the human is doing.

In EASHL, with the potential of more humans, the AI can get lost out there if the humans are playing out of position, puck chasing etc. Considering your complaints about skins, I imagine you're playing a lot of drop-ins and considering it's a cesspool, it stands to reason the terrible decision making by your average drop-in player is resulting in subpar Ai actions. 

uv6htfo6m9zg wrote:

teams should be able to customize their CPUs. We shouldn’t need to see Lee, Jackson, Wagner, Lehmann, etc. every game. Let me customize it the other guys on the team. To include name, number, gear, celebrations. Why not?

This is a solid idea. 

uv6htfo6m9zg wrote:

hen I create an EASHL team, please let me choose a logo right off the bat. I like the team progression with unlocks, but it’s so frustrating to have to wait forever with hockey bags to finally get our team logo. We’ve had the same team and same logo for years, why am I waiting around for months of gameplay in order to finally put the logo on our jerseys just because we didn’t luck out and open it in a bag early on… 

Preach!

EA_Aljo wrote:

The game plays quite a bit differently between online and offline. Especially with EASHL since you have multiple humans playing. The AI react to the humans, who are very often playing out of position. The AI need to adjust to cover the open ice. When you have 2 or 3 humans out of position, the AI are going to have a harder time being in the right position to make a good play. 

I swear I wrote my above post before even reading this 😅

I swear I wrote my above post before even reading this 😅

All good! I've been guilty of it myself!