I've been chatting on these forums about this game since NHL12 came out. I've gone through periods of being SUPER into it and not playing it at all some years. There has rarely been a dramatic change to QoL, bug fixes, or modes outside a couple of iterations of the game.
The fact that Be a Pro is STILL using the SAME campaign cutscenes, and STILL has the SAME XP bugs (my guy in 24 couldn't progress important stats like acceleration, agility, and others once they got to 90... completely killed the mode for me).
It is extremely disheartening that they axed GM Connected and never thought to bring back even a SIMPLIFIED version of it.
Sadly, they haven't given AI goaltending the tender love and care that is so severely needed. Soft, unscreened wrist shots going in right after the player enters the zone and shoots it far-side? Let alone if the shot is taken within the last 10 seconds of a period.
Maybe even more egregious is the freakin PLAYER CUSTOMIZATION for EASHL/WoC being so incredibly bare-bones - using the same faces we've had in the game since NHL14 at least! Such a small number of hairstyles, eyebrow styles, etc. Why not give us actual sliders for our players' faces and features?
Going on a decade and every goalie's helmet in Chel is still blank white and they can't seem to be able for the life of them to program something for that.
Thank God we got werewolves and robots or whatever though. That's REAL hockey.
