The CPU in NHL26 Is Literally Cheating…

I’ve owned this game for about two weeks now along with my new PS5 Pro; and when I first started using it, the gameplay was just WAY too fast. I turned down a few settings related to game speed and skating speed. Everything was working fine and normally. 

I went into season mode and noticed some settings went back to default so I changed them to where I had them again. If I remember correctly, it was after that when the cpu just completely broke…

the apposing team always seems to be super buffed. The Defense and offense is just absurd.  And for my team they’re always scoring into my net (I always play goalie), always turning the puck over. They rarely ever set up plays to score goals, they seem rather lazy and clumsy, the ref is only calling penalties against my team and often it’s for checking and when replayed the missed the other player… no penalty on the other team when they do stuff. 

when my team isn’t messing around and tries to go on the attack, the apposing Defence just kinda surrounds the person with the puck making it impossible to shoot or pass. 

I can go on further but idk what the issue is. Idk if it’s a bug in settings or the cpu bugging out or both. I went back to the ‘play now’ and tried it out of seasons mode to see if that would fix it. It didn’t. And it even seems as if the settings no longer have any affect. I’ve resorted to switching sides and doing so mirrors the affect over to my team giving them the advantage.

I turned cpu difficulty up and down. Same with AI learning and they don’t seem to do anything. In fact most of the gameplay sliders now have no affect. I uninstalled the game and deleted all saves, reinstalled it and everything is back to default and still no fix. It’s getting kind of annoying now. LOL.