Whats Everyone think About 26

For me, its the worse game they made since 2015. 

Everything they talked about in their video is like reverse what they said.  LT abuse is still there.  Reverse hits are still disgusting.   Defense is garbage.  Goalies are garbage.  AI is the worse its been.   

Then to top it off, everyone has 97speec / accel + wheels and turn on a dime.   Defense tools do pretty much nothing. Quick release is op.  

Passes seem to randomly miss completely for no valid reason. 

the whole thing is a huge mess.  Im baffled how bad it is. 

Honestly they started ruining the game when they added TPS (true performance skating).  2010-2012 were the best years before that.  In the name of making things more realistic looking, they made things the least realistic feeling ever since.  Nothing plays like hockey anymore and its more about abusing the tps than actual hockey chess like play that was in 2010-12.   But what they did this year is horrible.   Im so annoyed. 

LT doesn’t work anymore and for X factors they’ll make tuning for the day one release 

You havent played good people yet if you think LT doesnt work. 

The game plays great however full presentation is still missing and a tons of other little details. Also, the iPad masks seemed to have disappeared….

Lol that good?

You are spot on sir it's a joke.. 

I've been enjoying the Cup Chase and Wildcard but am still extremely irritated that EA thinks Superstar mode means that the CPU should score a goal on 50% or more of their shots. Have to hold them to a couple shots per game and even then I have seen it where I outshoot them at a 10 to 1 ratio (with high quality shots, not just ripping it from the blue line) and lose because the CPU goalie plays out of his mind while my goalie lets in muffins and horrifically angled slapshots from a mile away with no screens. Really takes away a bunch of immersion when you completely dominate but lose because the CPU is given aim hacks.  

I'm so disappointed, there's really nothing new just a rework of the BAP mode, if only they would have justified this lite version of addition to be able to add the PC version, I would have accepted since it would have explored the fact of having used the programmer resources for that. but that's not the case so for the first time since nhl93 I will not buy the new game.

Personally the speed looks on par with the real NHL (I've not tested or timed anything, just looks more similar) the skating looks good to me. Passing and interceptions also look great. The poke checks are hit and miss. They still don't have much power I don't like that so many xfactors also come with a speed boost. 

Xfactors are WAY too impactful. Reverse hits are still too good. Hitting looks like the most cartoon/ arcade looking thing since they changed hitting. I dunno how anyone on the team thinks this looks good. They did mostly fix the hip checks though. 

On one hand goalies being bad in EASHL is awesome because it will likely push more humans to try the position.. but they are extremely brutal.

getting hit without the puck happens too often and w/o penalty. Get hit near the net and nothing. Get hit about 4 seconds after passing and nothing.. I have just given up understanding what is a penalty. 

At this point (at least with this development team) I think we just gotta accept it's going to be an arcade experience and try to accept it for what it is. They don't seem to have a ton of interest in catering to the sim crowd. I don't mind catering to both but these xfactors make the game hard to play anything close to sim. Maybe having eliminator threes and sixes allows for the crazy xfactors then 3's and 6's could have dialed back versions? The dev team's experience is in arcade games so until they get a new team is, this will be the direction they head. Understand that defenseman are going to be at the mercy of forwards and just do your best to disrupt what they want to do. Maybe the next team will aim for more sim style and get rid of a lot of the silly physics and turn down the impact of the Xfactors.

No clue WHY hockey bags are still in this game.. just give us the coins.. CRAZY

the announcers I never listen to. I'm usually always in a party chat and I turn down announcers and music, just keep the gameplay sounds high. However, as far as presentation goes.. I was pleasantly surprised by the penalty box/ goalie pull screen. I also saw a handful of new replay videos and they were actually a GREAT angle. The new replay system was perhaps the best part of this new game haha!

I'd give the game a 4/10 as well. If I didn't love hockey I wouldn't play. 

I think just dialing back the xfactors would go a long way. They always make a few great improvements but then ruin other things. 

The ultimate irony is everything bad about the game has been implemented attempting to make the game "look" more realistic.  TPS ruined the game since it started.  NHL 10 may have "looked" less realistic but it actually ended up feeling AND looking more realistic because people were able to play the same way NHL players play and without constant abuse of LT mechanics that came with all the TPS crap. 

So here we are, with a super arcady, but unfun, unrealistic looking experience with ruined by all the realism they attempted to implement.