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RobHockey
Seasoned Vanguard
1 month ago

Wishlist for NHL 27 Be a Pro mode.

  1. Let us start our career in the minors.
  2. Let us play in the All Star game.
  3.  Let us play a current NHL player.
  4.  Show who is injured on our team and our be a pro and what injury and how long the injury will  be when we click on that player or our player in the view lines or have an injury section of lineup.
  5.  Show who got traded on our team and who he got traded for in a trade section.
  6. Make it a big deal when we get close to breaking records or tying records or breaking records like 50 Goals in 50 games, breaking Wayne Gretzky's record for most Goals in a year, most hits in a year, most hits in a game, most blocked shots, or any kind of record, that would bring more immersion to the game.
  7.  Put in National Anthem before each game and zoom in on players as the Anthem is playing.
  8.  Put music in between puck drops.
  9.  Let us play after the Whistle and maybe give us a chance to have bench clearing brawls in rival games.
  10. Show black eyes and bloody noses after fights and make the injuries last a few games, show blood on uniforms after fights.
  11. Show some form of team meetings, show coach or Captain motivating the team before a big game.
  12.  Give us an option if we play forward to be able to be moved to the point on a powerplay.
  13.  Add an actual practice or training mode for like faceoffs, shooting, deking, blocking shots, speed, hitting etc. and give us experience while in those modes.

That's all I can think of at the moment, this will add more immersion to the Be a Pro mode.

Here are a couple more ideas.

14. Shows lines that are on the ice in top left by scoreboard.

15. Have the rest of your teammates gain Overall ratings and experience as they advance through the season, weird how your pro is the only one gaining in overall and experience? and have your teammates fight to move up the lineup.

16. This is similar to #15. This might be hard to implement but have your teammates have the same form score challenges you are faced with, it's very strange that the 1st line forwards go many games without scoring and getting a few -'s and they never get bumped down a line?

17. Give us an option to turn off the form score and keep the challenges and maybe give us an option to lower the form score to what we want.

18. Give us an option at the start of our career depending on your position to stay on one line your whole career.  You want to be a Superstar and break scoring records you get the 1st line, if you want to casually play and just score every once in a while you get 2nd and 3rd line, if you want to be a grinder and just want to stop the best players you get the 4th line. Same with defenseman.

13 Replies

  • RobHockey. EA resetting the game and starting from scratch. Might be a more responsive outcome, than EA implementing some or any of your requests. In the past several years. How many ideas that have been submitted by the commmunity(the ones buying and playing the game), has EA actually adopted. The only true thing, besides the revised game structure, that EA has changed. Is the new player on the CD cover. Im with you on seeing changes in the game, that would bring a feeling of actual  realism to it. Rather than the garbage they throw out each year. 

  • N1xSa's avatar
    N1xSa
    Seasoned Traveler
    20 days ago
    • Let us start and play full season/seasons from European leagues or minors in North America before getting drafted
    • Let us play full World juniors tournament before draft
    • Improve draft interviews
    • Add Calendar back
    • Add contract negotiations through your career and start it where you sign your first 3 year rookie contract
    • Chemistry with your linemates/teammates should matter to your players progress
    • Better and more realistic challenges through your career
    • You should know what happens around your team. So, add team newsfeed
    • Add injury report! You should know what injury you are having and how long you are out
    • Update newsfeed. More wholesome newsfeed of injuries, trades, transactions and happenings around the league
    • Now your player can play in the NHL at the age 16. Rule states that all players should be atleast 18.
    • Add timeouts, there are no timeouts in Be A Pro at the moment.
    • Enable suspensions and match penalties
    • Enable LTIR
    • Add tunnel walkouts to special moments EVERY season
    • Add 3 stars of the game cut scenes if your player is one of them
    • More realistic press conferences and better questions
    • Locker room interviews when it really matters (first goal, hitting a milestone, named to 3 stars of the game etc.)
    • Add exit interviews with coach/GM when season ends
    • Add rookie lap cut scene when you make NHL debut
    • Championship photos are missing players and staff
    • Coaches do not even follow the game when you are sitting at the bench or react to anything
    • Salary perks are so meaningless, update needed
    • Better teammate AI
    • Update form score, it's been disaster from the beginning!
  • RobHockey's avatar
    RobHockey
    Seasoned Vanguard
    18 days ago

    Great list.

    • Add timeouts, there are no timeouts in Be A Pro at the moment.

    Timeouts would be cool for your team it seems they only happen to the other team.

    • Improve draft interviews

    Draft interview questions are just silly, probably better to just remove them in my opinion.

    • Update form score, it's been disaster from the beginning!

    I think they should give us an option to just get rid of the form score and keep the challenges.

    • Locker room interviews when it really matters (first goal, hitting a milestone, named to 3 stars of the game etc.)  

    It seems hitting milestones in the be a pro mean nothing. They do have 3 stars after the game, but they should have the players introduced with a skate on the ice after the game and an interview with the 1st star of the game.

    • Update newsfeed. More wholesome newsfeed of injuries, trades, transactions and happenings around the league

    My idea was just add a trade, injury, transaction section, nobody pays attention to the newsfeeds plus they are so small you just glance over it.

    • Add injury report! You should know what injury you are having and how long you are out

    Never understood why if we get injured or a teammate gets injured, they don't tell us what the injury is or how long we will be out?

    • Better and more realistic challenges through your career

    I agree it shouldn't be always based of scoring, should maybe be something like each rival and playoff game related like if you are center win 4 or 5 faceoffs, land a big hit on their star player, block some shots etc.

    • Chemistry with your linemates/teammates should matter to your players progress

    Cool idea like in real Hockey, maybe add a stat on view lines section saying such and such have great chemistry on the ice, maybe have your player and the other player called into the coach's office saying something like you guys have great Chemistry on the ice keep it up or the opposite you guys have terrible chemistry and we are going to have to make changes to the lineup.

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