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wallyzfan1
Seasoned Rookie
3 months ago

Be a Pro Issues

Okay, so clearly this mode wasn’t play tested by the development team. Maybe they weren’t given time, idk. 
form score in the last patch was updated for scratch, 4th line and 3rd line players. Glad to see it. What about 2nd and first line players? To get on 1st line I need to have 85 form score???? What? That literally is not possible if you play on a higher difficulty. 
it is not realistic to score a goal a game. I don’t want to do that. I want a challenge. 
EA_Aljo​ can the team fix form score? At a bare minimum can we be told explicitly how it is calculated? I’m leading my team in goals, points plus minus and I’m not on the top line because I can’t get 85 form score. This is impossible.

Second issue that clearly was not QA’d or play tested: my player has pretty much lost the X factor ability wheels. Why? Because I didn’t realize my acceleration stat (which I have maxed out in the TP tree) is at 90 when my health is at max (giving a bonus of 5%). I upgraded my wheels X factor to blue which requires 89 acceleration. So now if I play a game, my health goes down and I lose the X factor ability and can’t equip it because I lose the 5% acceleration stat. And there is NO WAY to equip yellow wheels again. Seriously, I’m trying to have respect for the development team, I’m a developer myself, but I swear these people don’t think.

How can I increase my acceleration stat in the game through gameplay? Since I’ve maxed out the acceleration TP tree, I’m kinda screwed??

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  • wallyzfan1's avatar
    wallyzfan1
    Seasoned Rookie
    3 months ago

    I also want to add, it is impossible to get certain red X factors. Like Wheels (because there is no way you can increase acceleration to get higher than 90, and speed without salary perks), Big Rig (because you can’t get balance high enough - I get like 20 exp a game for this lmao), Elite edges (unless I do 3,000 spin-oramas cause this is the only way to get agility exp in game).

    Seriously, is this stuff intentionally made not possible to get or did the developers also not test this? 

  • jacobbscott's avatar
    jacobbscott
    Seasoned Traveler
    3 months ago

    Be a pro is so frustrating because I love the game mode and just haven’t been able to play it this year, it’s the only thing I want to play and now they’ve ruined it to the point of me deleting my player directly after every new update where they say they’ve fixed it… they ban me and ignore me for complaining😂 the form score IS THE WORST SYSTEM IN ANY RECENT SPORTS GAME and it’s 2025 let me say that again. It’s 2025 and you guys at EA put out a completely broken game…. Well I know it’s not lack of money so maybe it’s just laziness and a disregard for your community. I won’t be buying the next nhl for the first time in my life

  • yea i deleted the game the constant crashing and other probs i just got fed up with the game i love nhl games but this years game has been atricious i never got a game that has this many bugs and glitches i just decided to save the space on my PS5 so i deleted the game

  • wallyzfan1's avatar
    wallyzfan1
    Seasoned Rookie
    3 months ago

    Alright update, now I just got 10 goals in the preseason (obviously leading my team in goals by far) and then I had 76/80 form score on the second line. And then get demoted the AHL? What the absolute F? Are these developers incompetent 

  • wallyzfan1's avatar
    wallyzfan1
    Seasoned Rookie
    2 months ago

    EA_Aljo​ It has been two months since I made this post? Is there any update to this?

    Form score for 2+ lines is still impossible.

    X factors are still impossible to upgrade

    Certain stats are impossible to level up.

    yall stop making the game updates and on to NHL 27?

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

    An update released today. You can find the details here.

  • wallyzfan1's avatar
    wallyzfan1
    Seasoned Rookie
    1 month ago

    EA_Aljo​ I’m yet to see anything this patch has addressed in my last message???? So I’ll go over them again:

    I literally just created a brand new save and to maintain 2nd line status I need 80 form score. Once again that is literally a goal a game. Jesus.

    As I just posted in a previous message, it is completely impossible to upgrade certain X factors to red and impossible to upgrade to blue unless you have perfect health These would be things such as 

    • wheels
    • elite edges
    • big rig

    Certain stats are also complete not possible to upgrade outside of the trait tree (stopping you from getting 99):

    • speed
    • acceleration
    • balance

    these are just the ones I know about. I know people on Reddit have mentioned other ones.

    please address these specific points. The patch notes do not

  • The challenges in the be a pro mode are pretty ridiculous as well. I can meet these challenges but it's not very realistic and I'm pretty sure most players can't achieve a point or score a goal in all 8 games on the higher difficulties. I literally have to score a goal in every single game on All Star difficulty to stay on the 1st powerplay and 1st line, come on EA this is not very realistic. MY first year I had 96 goals and 165 points and a +60 in my rookie year, second year I have 60 goals 40 assists for 100 points in 50 games. The form score is a cool idea, but it is just for goal scorers, assume that's why it's called "form score" IDK?

  • N1xSa's avatar
    N1xSa
    Rising Traveler
    1 month ago

    After the patch calendar is still missing, form score is still unrealistic especially for playmaker, enforcers and defenseman. Well sniper doesn't score every game either in real world.

    Also it bothers that when your guy is at the bench, coaches don't even follow the game, they just stare straight ahead, no celebration when team scores, nothing..

    When you win World Juniors or Stanley Cup, there's not all players and staff at the championship picture, why? 

  • EA_Aljo's avatar
    EA_Aljo
    Icon for Community Manager rankCommunity Manager
    1 month ago

    I will pass on the feedback to the team. Thank you.

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