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Juvenlast
Rising Adventurer
2 months ago

Penalties still not fixed

It is kinda unacceptable that a hockey sim, which has a base code that is anything but new, has been out nearly 2 months and the dev team can still not figure out something that its predecessors have had figured out for years. 

Why, 2 months in to a hockey sim's release, do we still not have any idea why penalties and stick infractions will not be called? Why are the gameplay sliders constantly resetting? Why is there a conflict between the main menu settings and the settings you experience in individual modes like BAP? Why does a person with literally 1 step of skate distance absolutely obliterate someone with a body check? 

Why did you sell us NHL Hitz. We bought NHL 26. 

What is the timetable for this to be resolved? 

When do you start issuing refunds? You didn't give us what you promised. Why is this ok? 

36 Replies

  • EA_Aljo's avatar
    EA_Aljo
    Icon for Community Manager rankCommunity Manager
    2 months ago

    I don't have an update on this. We'll need to wait for a patch that addresses it.

  • This is very comical trying to play "ice hockey" when the game doesn't call penalties for tackles after the situation.

    By the way, the AI ​​always tackles mostly after the shot or pass has been taken, so every time you touch the puck, your character has to fall without the opponent getting penalized for it. The game also completely lacks evading tackles or even the possibility of doing so, we have this stupid "magnet" that holds you so that you can't move. At least my character has concrete blocks in his skates every time I shoot or pass, it freezes and the opponent has to kill him at that spot.
    Often this situation ends with the opponent scoring a goal with an individual performance (slap shot between p-points) and then I get blamed for not defending... I guess not when I'm stuck on the ice collecting my legos...

    In which ice hockey league is this played? Has anyone actually seen something like this in any other EA game? Even my brother who works at NHLpa wonders what the hell this is... So, this really need fix. Now! not on NHL27!!

  • dogheels's avatar
    dogheels
    Seasoned Ace
    2 months ago

    The game this year has been built around offence  at the cost of defensive play. It is now harder for defensive players to make contact with their offensive counter part. You receive more penalties usually because they are AI generated, and your pursuit to slow down or check the Ai team, results in you getting called. The interference call as an example, will always be called against your team. But is rarely called on an AI team. Even though it is blatantly obvious that the Ai team always causes interference in some way. The penalty part of this game has been a problem for years. Personally. I cant see it being fixed anytime in the future.

  • This has been reported so many times and nothing. They don’t seem to care. 20 games into my season and no PP’s. Just crazy! I have the cpu sliders at 100 and mine at 0. I still take 3 a game. I don’t mind that but would like to go on the PP every once in a while. 

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