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Rising Traveler

6 months ago

NHL 26 needs some changes...

The NHL series has always been one of my favourite games because I love hockey, but i feel like every year it gets farther and farther from "realistic" hockey. This year so far some changes feel good...

Community Manager

6 months ago

The only one that bothered me in 25 was Truculence. Even then, the teams using this and only focusing on hitting was annoying, but those teams were typically not too difficult to beat. Still, I'd love to see this XF toned down a lot. I, like most of you, want a more authentic experience and playing teams full of goons just isn't it. I know the team is looking into various reports with XFs so hopefully, we'll see these get some balancing.

BeatMyPuck

Rising Traveler

6 months ago

I honestly feel like hitting (truculence) is only effective against teams that don't move the puck properly or just aren't that good at the game. But when you play low ping players, that are good, there almost impossible to hit unless there in the corner or skating straight down the ice. I don't see hitting as an issue tbh, with the crack head speed that this game is at with thee tiny builds, poke checking slows you down way to much and even when it does work they still seem to end up with the puck again.

Im not really sure how we get a happy medium, hitting has to be part of the game, but not overpowered, because if it gets nerfed again it will be like the last couple years of figure skaters raging the puck on 2 ping the whole game.