Gameplay feels good but spin o rama seems gone in nhl 26

I am always skating at an angle when I use this. Not straight into someone since I'm trying to get around them. When going at an angle, the right spin direction is always chosen. I'm not spinning opposite my momentum.

The fact that you had to preface it by saying "at an angle" tells you all you need to know. Another change that's taking control out of the players hands. Bring back the manual spin and get rid of this useless new toe drag.

This is how I have always done spins. I'm not skating head on. I'm skating to the side of them because it's harder to defend. You spin around them rather than straight into a defender. 

Thanks for the feedback on this and toe drags.

Spins work well for me now. The whole gameplayexperience is different to 25 which now is generally less free moving stickhandling but I like the skating more than 25.

How is gameplay now,  guy on operation sports said it’s now a north south sprint fest,  anybody else seeing this too?

EA_Aljo wrote:

Which direction you spin is determined by the direction you're skating

Yes and no, the direction you spin in is determined by the direction your LEFT joystick is aimed at. If this is not true, then you cannot, for example, spin in both directions if you're skating down the left wing and cutting inwards, which is not desirable.

Simply put, instead of let us control spin-o-rama direction with the right joystick, you've moved it the the skating direction joystick. In other words, this doesn't feel good. Why was that decision made, what player feedback was that decision based on?

EA_Aljo wrote:

I see people use this frequently. I use it myself occasionally and it always spins in the direction I want it to.

"Trust me bro" type response don't do anything to demonstrate that this isn't a **bleep** idea. I CAN flip a pancake flipping the whole pan around it (directional Spin-o-rama), but It'd be simpler If I was able to use a tool specifically made for that (THE Right joystick that's literally made for stick.handling.?????)

It's a good thing I get these games for free.

The answer is nobody asked for the backskate toe drag and its another garbage addition on top of the pressure system, reverse hitting etc. We're about to be 5 months in and I have yet to see a single person use it, it's a joke we lost the manual spin for it.