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Rainedeath
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30 days ago

After many many hours of this game how do you rate it?.

As an old school woc player it's 2 out of 10 for me .

  • Poor ai goalies and goalie animations are clunky. They promised they fixed it!
  • A skill that stuns goalies with no skill to counter it.
  • Absolute abuse of mechanics that according to Ea can not be fixed.
  • A broken pressure system that rewards offense but nothing for def and x factors to back it.
  • Zero realistic penalties in the game late hits, interference, g interference.
  • Non existent AI the spend more time blocking you then playing.
  • I don't even know how many bs skins and premade builds there are now. 
  • Defensive stick sucks used to be good now it's useless as been since 2 weeks of its release.
  • Can't even dump the puck because of **bleep** poor game mechanic unlike the old days.
  • Constantly have to reset lobby's , use private match glitch and reset just to find a game. If it's works.

Add to list boys because it's long.... I can only hope they go back to basic, balanced hockey simulation. Sim being  the key word! You can leave the arcadey crap in just give it is own game mode.

For the love of God do something for the leagues on here who have kept you game alive over the past 8 years. If it wasn't for all the og guys this game would have died when you messed up the console transition.....

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  • Hi everyone,

    ​I’d like to suggest a slight buff for the AI goalies. Currently, they feel like they are missing just a bit of consistency, especially in specific situations (like cross-crease movements or low-percentage shots).

    ​I don’t think they need a massive overhaul, but a small boost to their reaction times and positioning would make the gameplay feel much more balanced and rewarding.

    ​I've heard this feedback has already been shared with the dev team, but I wanted to add my support for this change to help improve the overall experience.

     

  • 1/10

    Gameplay looks and plays like a clunky mess. 

    Terrible A.I.

    Awful goalies.

    Feels like a chore to play.

    Doesn't feel ike you're playing an NHL game. Just arcade, lazy slop.

    Can't dump the puck anymore even though it happens about 20 times a game in the NHL.

    Lazy lack of patches. 

    Just feels awful in every aspect.

    Game should be no more than $40 on release. And even that is expensive.

  • thegarden94's avatar
    thegarden94
    Seasoned Ace
    29 days ago

    You can dump the puck but you have to charge it which is a joke ,the reason why they nerfed it was to make sure their pressure system work which is another joke 

    And I agree the game feels and looks arcadey especially with elite truculence and now we have flip up hut because of elite quick release 

    And let's not forget..international ice which people use it to puck rag especially if they know how to LT ...i guess these devs love toxic game play 

    And lets not also forget the stick lift which was nerfed as well as the poke check 

    And I agree the goalies are god awful  ..well my opponents goalies play lights out while my goalie does this 

    https://youtu.be/heGktC4In-Y?feature=shared 

    Update....I forgot to mention the penalties that have been taken out of the game to make total control  look like the greatest thing ever which it's not ,open ice  charging,elbowing and roughing and will thrown in reverse hitting which also should have penalties called against it when using it and please don't ask  clips I've already posted them ....all of this is for online play 

    And having  a salary cap for HUT is stupid and line combinations are also stupid I want to build my team my way not how some dev thinks how he would build it 

  • I agree with the new way of dumping the puck. They need to go back to how it used to be, there's much less momentum to the puck when you dump it out. Where as before you're able to lift the puck a lot easier.

  • Gameplay is with the right sliders best ever. The things around need to be better. Especialy faces, options to create generic players, player pic upload option, equipment things ......

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