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Ghost0j0
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10 days ago

FACEOFF FRANCHISE NO CENTER TAKING DRAW

In my second year in franchise and it was pure panic when in the playoffs my center on my 3rd PK line decided to stand next to a defensive player and not take the draw. 

I didn't even know this was a bug I thought my center had lost his **bleep** mind . The game was tied and my 1st and 2nd PK lines were tired still. The faceoff didn't lead to a goal thankfully but it did lead to a quick one timer that rang off the cross bar. 

Every since then the problem happens on 90 percent of PK draws. Did not see this in first year of franchise or during the regular season or 1st round of playoffs in second year. I play every playoff game and about 10 to 15 regular season games.

There was one change I made from round 1 to round 2 .

I changed my PK strategy formation from a 1-1-2 defensive to Large Box aggressive on all my PK lines. When I went to go change back to original ( in franchise you as far as I can tell can only change this in-game as by default it will use your coach's Strategy) however the game has a problem with letting change it back. Id push over to change it but it wouldn't change. Sometimes it wouldn't even let me go down to faceoff formation all together. Seems from game to game whatever changes I made would carry over to next regardless of coach scheme. I'm going to try and reset everything to original Coach strategy. (Todd Mclellan,Det) See what happens idk. 

This is definitely a horrible bug. Only solution I can think of is to turn penalties off and that's really a bad trade off considering how central penalties are to the game of hockey. 

Quick rundown of some notable things

Every center is a natural center. Playing on superstar difficulty with A.I ,CPU strat and CPU difficulty all at 6. Faceoff setting 53/100. Penalties in game setting 3 of 4. Attribute effects 5/10. 5 minute periods. Various other sliders adjusted to many to list. Game speed 3/6. Also every other player on PK is in there natural position 

2 Replies

  • Tziisus's avatar
    Tziisus
    Seasoned Novice
    2 days ago

    Just noticed that my 1st line penalty kill center is outside the circle in franchise NHL games too...

  • Tziisus's avatar
    Tziisus
    Seasoned Novice
    2 days ago

    I got the very same issue here. Franchise mode, second season, AHL-team and third penalty kill line. Center stands on RW:s place at faceoff. There was this same bug with NHL25 or NHL24 but I guess they fixed it. Now the bug is back. I changed my center but that won't help. 

    Another bug is when there's an injury, sometimes the coach is yelling at the referee when an opponents players is down. This is both NHL and AHL.

    This bug has been for years now: It's always the first game in presentation at the team for some players in AHL, no matter how many games they've played....or for the new coach in commentary....

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