Is this NHL 26 or NHL Hitz?!
There is lots of good with this game, for sure. I will get into that in a later post. But something needs to be done about the hitting. It is out of control. Not sure how it is in other game modes, but for CHEL, it is absolute absurd. It does not feel like hockey. It feels like an arcade game. Literally just had a sequence where probably every player on the ice had their buttcheeks hit he ice in less than 10 seconds. It was the most absurd and arcadey thing ever. Plenty of boardings. Plenty of chargings. Plenty of interference.
Zero calls.
What I want to know is, who is asking for this type of gameplay? I would guess the majority of the EA NHL community wants a realistic game of hockey -- or at least more realistic than this. Everyone appreciates a good hit, but hits are supposed to be a skill. They are supposed to be calculated. This amount of hitting is absurd. It's like every player is Brooks Orpik on red bull.
Fix it EA. Please.