What exactly is NHL 25s selling point?
My nhl friends ask me, what is the selling point? Does anyone have any idea? Ice Q? Better AI positioning, the ability to open up your hips while using vision control? With the news of no GM Connecte...
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The negativity about the game that no one has played yet is staggering.
How about giving it a chance first before throwing the toys out the pram.
- EA_Aljo
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I can see why those focused on presentation and wanting the game to look like an NHL broadcast would feel this way. Hopefully, we'll see some positivity for the gameplay when early release starts in a couple weeks.
I think that you cant make everyone happy with the game, because for example online HUT/EASHL players wants and needs different things than the offline play now/Franchise/season players wants.
But it would help to have options of things instead of forcing the online improvement on offline players or the offline improvement on online players.
For exampel removing the Full Broadcast was good for HUT players that wants to get into games fast, but for the offline players that wants every game to mater it was a really bad decision.
EA did the same for FC24 when they removed lineup intro before games, good for online, bad for offline.
Let us have options to choose from.
For example:
Full Broadcast - 4 min intro with pretalk. grudge stats, goalie stats etc...
Normal Broadcast - 1,5 min with grudge stats, goalie stats etc.
No Broadcast - No intro - just jump into the faceoff of the game.
"Full Broadcast - 4 min intro with pretalk. grudge stats, goalie stats etc..."
Yes, please!!!!!!!
EA did this to themself. I suspect the reason there is no beta this year is because you know it would generate poor PR and would hurt on the preorder side of things.
The thing about the technical tests is that they aren't meant as a showcase of the game. They were meant for the hardcore members of the community to test things out, test server stability, etc.
What happened was people who had no business taking part in the tech test were given codes, they played for 2 minutes and lost a game... then proceeded to berate EA on social media about how the 'game sucks' etc etc.
If I was EA, I wouldn't give the cynical haters any fuel for their addiction to social media attention.
EA needs closed betas and invite only those who understand what Alpha means in terms of builds, and not open it up to people who think it's a full representation of the final code.
To be fair - the community has been asking for TV Style presentation, Online Franchise/GM Connected and some kind of revamp to Be A Pro for over a decade now.
In the context of OP's original question - "what exactly is NHL25's selling point" - it's hard to conjure up an answer that would justify people dropping yet another $80-$120, the same price for games that release brand new game engines.
Don't get me wrong, AI improvements are great and the change to vision control combined with reaction animations will likely result in seeing some refreshing player interactions at different vantage points with the 'infinite camera system'.But we've yet to see if there have been any quality-of-life improvements to WoC. There was brief mention in a video of rebuilt offensive zone strategies 'from the ground up' - but has the issue been fixed in OVP where we still can't save lines and strategies?
You've got a player-base that's been loyal for 30+ years and has been begging for some kind of online season mode to play with friends after it was removed during the transition to console exclusivity . It was re-branded as GM Connected for 2 years but suffered terribly from cumbersome league administration tools and a mobile app that was ahead of its time, only to suffer from limited usability due to poor performance.
EA incorrectly assessed data on their end and concluded GM Connected was a mode that was 'never played' and under utilized, thus resulting in it getting the chop from future versions.
In my opinion, there was a push for HUT and it took priority because there was no way to shoehorn in microtransactions to a franchise mode that made sense.
Agreed. I know you're an OVP player like me and I'm feeling a little dubious about the AI improvements they showcased. That one clip where they intended to show the offensive player in the slot "shaking his defender" to get open was ESPECIALLY worrying because instead of the offensive player getting open due to something they did, the AI defender very clearly just leaves his man and skates into the crease.
This is an artificial way to create offensive opportunities and I get that it's somewhat necessary in a mode with AI players BUT there has to be a more cause-and-effect way to do it. Perhaps having it so that the stronger player gets body position on the other or the player with better agility outskates the other, etc etc.
PS KidShowtime1867 you might not know this but there IS a way to save your lines/strategies for OVP (at least until a roster update comes).What you need to do is:
- Go to the OVP team selection screen
- Select your team and jersey
- Before readying up and getting sent to the "search for game" screen, press square (for "settings")
- Any line-changes/strat-changes you make before getting to the "search for game" screen will be saved for future games if you do it this way
Hope that helps!
It’s staggering but well earned by EA after at least 3-4 years of incomplete, buggy, and frustrating NHL releases.
Brother, I have to be honest: I haven't seen anyone complaining about anything unreasonable on these forums. There might be the odd angry post with no replies/attention but most of the posts have been reasonable gripes about things that are either seemingly missing from NHL25 or bugs/errors that haven't been addressed.
