Community Manageryou know EA_Aljo when they are doing deep dives and such this is something that is probably very important. example people complaining about not being able to intercept pucks but were putting most in Def Awareness as that was the main stat last year but now Puck Control: influences how well a player can receive or intercept passes, maintain possession, and recover the puck after a turnover.
in WCHEL in NHL26 tooltip reads: Puck Control: helps with receiving the puck and getting into a settled state faster for more accuracy in shots and passes"
so this is where some of the frustration comes. You all used to show a model of deviation for accuracy for example, showing how a player with wrist shot 80 acc vs 85, 90 and so on you all should probably bring those back in shorts videos by the dev team maybe in the game akin to how 2K does their weekly video for NBA. educate your player base better. Yes, leave some more detailed (high skill) things for discovery, but the general stuff engages with the community in showing them via shorts in game.
Community ManagerAppreciate all the feedback here. I agree it would be good to have these noted better in game and highlighting the differences between various levels. Thank you!
I definitely agree about leaving a little mystery, it starts to drag when you can see the numbers behind the gameplay like you're in the Matrix.
I mostly just want to know that everything works. I remember as far back as NHL '13, I think it was, when they were selling +3/5/7 boosts for attributes and it came out that Acceleration was tuned so low that it essentially did nothing. Maybe it was '14, the year of 99 Strength on every build. Right now, for instance, I can play a whole (effective) game with all available points drained out of durability, shot blocking, deking, fighting skill, one shot or the other, etc etc. 80-85 power and accuracy are more than enough, so there's no incentive for me to ever be slow or sacrifice agility. The overarching point is the same as it was back then: experienced players find out what works and what doesn't, and new players have a tremendous disadvantage that they likely won't ever overcome. They'll just stop playing.
And hey, while I'm on my attributes soapbox: everyone should just have 90 faceoffs, it's never made sense to me that I have to sacrifice attribute points to play center, even though that category (save deking) is pretty negligible.
