Updated: LIST OF ALL NHL26 NEW FACE SCANS ADDED AND MISSING

I'd save the animosity towards Aljo. He is not a decision-maker, he is a community engagement worker and is one of the bridges between us and EA. All he does is share information that he gets and try to answer forum questions. No sense trying to hold him accountable for something he has no control over.

ildaryutkin82​ 

My list doesn't say "real face scans" other than a small few. I have two sections if you looked thoroughly at my list you'ed see all those players I have listed are under  "Ai generated" scans and I made this list myself I didn't get any of this information from Operation Sports. Some of the AI generated scans are good, some bad, some really bad. It's not great but it's way better than the standard generic faces that flooded most rosters giving us only a handful of scanned players per team. 

ildaryutkin82​ I saw that too, and i agree, they are not 100%, they are ai-generated, but 1000x better than a generic!

EA_Aljo​ How do you explain this? You still stand firm on that good job you guys are doing? 1-2 players per team and they are Ai-generated and you guys cant put in 20-40 more? 

This list of players with supposedly real faces is just copied from the Operation Sports forum, and it has major errors. About 20 people on this list are 100% not real scanned faces. It would be a good idea to verify other people's information before misleading other people. Voronkov, Chinakhov, Bourque, Mikkola, Laferriere, Evans, Kovacevic, W. Smith, Kartye, Broberg, Neighbours, Holloway, Suter, Geekie, Maccelli, Dorofeyev, R. Smith, McMichael, Van Riemsdyk 100% is not real face scan.

79habsfan​ 

last season Celebrini, Michkov, and Hutson went the entire season with silhouettes and no face scans so unless they decide to fix with a roster update we won't have Demidov until next season which is really upsetting considering how important he is to have in the game followed by Leonard, Buium and Snuggerud 

EA_Aljo  I don't understand why players like Demidov and others only have a silhouette as a photo, it seems to me that it shouldn't take more than 1 minute to add the photo!

6aasdfgh​

I’m totally with you on that one. I don’t play any other modes besides Franchise, and every year I spend hours creating prospects and rookies. It’s incredibly time-consuming. What I really wish if you're not going to put players in that have already been scanned until EA decides, let us edit the generic faces and hairstyles of players already in the game, instead of forcing us to create them from scratch.

For example, William Nylander has had long hair for a while, yet his in-game model still has short hair. Artemi Panarin is still bald in-game. Meanwhile, players like Jack Hughes, Quinn Hughes, and Clayton Keller were given generic hairstyles when they changed their look, rather than being fully rescanned. If EA can assign generic hair to players with real scans, why not give us the option to do the same? That flexibility alone would make Franchise mode much more immersive.

The problem is EA’s business model. If they gave us total customization—like the ability to edit every player’s look, add rookies with scans right away, and update hairstyles—we’d be less dependent on buying the new release every year. I’ll personally keep buying, but EA wants to control customization, player likenesses, and scanned content to nudge us toward annual purchases.

Take EA MVP Baseball 2005 as an example: I played that game for a decade because of how deep its customization was. You could create players right inside Franchise mode, which gave it lasting replay value. That’s what EA is afraid of—they know that ultimate customization would keep many players satisfied for years on a single release.

I’ve even written before that a yearly subscription model could fix this. EA would still get their guaranteed money, and in return we’d finally get the features we’ve wanted for years: full customization, deeper player editing, and all the rookies who’ve already been scanned. Everybody wins.

Calen addison (Utah Comets) And Simon Holmstrom (NYI) also got faces, super random to find Addison ngl😅.

BigTimeTimJim​ Yeah iknow…. its acutally pathetic when u look at it, people getting scanned but not getting in, like connor mcmichael got scanned in his rookie showcase, got in this year. As an franchaisemode-guy myself, i really appreciate likeness in lower rating players and rookies…just so frustrating

Why would they give Tsyplakov a face scan but not add his player headshot in the game.. he met all the requirements they need to have the likeness added.