Player likeness & Player Creation

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This is completely unacceptable…such a lazy and poorly executed job by the developers. Seriously, what kind of joke is this?

Face scans and player likeness:
I would really appreciate that when we get so few face scans as we do, and with the quality they’re at (obviously AI-generated and not scanned in the rig, strange that you can’t make more? 🤔), at the very least the helmet should fit. This is ridiculous. There are easily 20–30 players where the helmet is way too big, completely insane. Why add two new helmets, like the new CCM FTW for example, when it’s oversized and doesn’t fit anyone? It looks absurd. A really poor job. But as long as people keep buying packs in HUT, I guess it doesn’t matter what offline players think. This needs to be redone and done properly. In 2025–26, it should not be difficult at all to fix these visual details. If it is, then you need to hire new developers/animators.

Player creation:
How can NHL be this far behind when it comes to creating players? In 2025–26, this has to be one of the worst player creation systems in any game, which, believe it or not, is important to many people and a big reason why they buy the game. It’s completely useless and has been the same for years. The generic faces are absolutely terrible, barely any new ones get added, and the customization options are also unacceptable….eyebrows, hairstyles, and eyes? COME ON.
How hard is it to add some new options? Take inspiration from your other games. Give us more choices! This is completely unacceptable. I hope you have major plans for this, because I’m definitely not the only one who’s going to lose it if I see the same things in NHL 27. Ever heard of listening to the community? These are small adjustments that a game in your price range should get right. Do better. EA_Aljo

Picture of Stankoven, where his hair is coming through the helmet etc, great job guys!👏🏻 i remeber when Tippett had the same problem, took 4 years to fix, so i dont have high hopes for this😅. & A few of many with 4 sizes to big of an helmet, looks just fine, keep the good job up!👏🏻💪🏻😐.

limppppuuun · Answer

EA_Aljo​&nbsp;I am very aware that this issue (with the equipment) is not something that will be changed in this game, but please pass the feedback along while there is still time. This has been a problem for the past three games, but this year it has really gone off the rails. It looks completely ridiculous, and honestly it comes across as poorly executed work, very careless animation/development, simply put, lazy.As a dedicated franchise mode player, these details matter a lot to all of us—everyone in these facescan threads. Take a look at Bowen Byram: the world’s smallest head and the world’s largest helmet. I believe this is more of an issue with the overall animation system/work with the equipment, than with individual player builds, but I’d be more than happy to list which players are affected if that helps, because there are many.Thanks in advance! :)

juhani_91_91 · Answer

EA_Aljo​&nbsp;When we now create players in NHL , we need choose to players faces from generic faces. A lot of those faces have been there since NHL 17. We have awesome face creation tool in EAFC, we can edit even the smallest details of the face. For example we can add moles, scarring or freckles to the face. I think this face creation tool would be exactly what we need for creating players. With this tool we could create realistic looking players to the game. For example we could create Miikka Kiprusoff, Mikko Koivu or Valtteri Filppula to the NHL 27, whose face would look as realistic as possible.The faces hasn't only thing what need update in the player creation. Other thing is equipments. We have good collection skater- and goalie gears in the game, but we need more older equipments back to the game.

bobemil_sw13 · Answer

This is so true. First I was impressed but once you play this game more than one month you start to see a lot of weird issues like these. It's like EA knows this very well, we get fooled.

ea_aljo · Answer

Thanks for the feedback. I'll pass it on.

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