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96c523f96a656941
Seasoned Newcomer
6 hours ago

Nhl27 so bad

I was going to write this post with a lot more profanity and pure rage, but honestly, I’d rather make my point clearly.

What the hell happened to NHL 27?

Why did you release a game in this state and then have the nerve to charge this much for it?

Yes, you finally made stick checking somewhat useful. Great. But somehow the puck STILL goes straight through players who are literally sitting or lying on the ice. How does that even make it into a finished game?

Where did physical play go? Where are the body checks? Why does the game constantly ignore what should logically happen on the ice?

It feels like NHL 27 isn’t actually being decided by who is the better player anymore. It’s decided by whether the game engine says “yes” or “no” to you.

Random goals.
Random passes.
Random bounces.
Random interceptions.
Random everything.

You can do everything right and still get punished because the game simply decided that your opponent gets the puck.

And please explain to me how an 86 OVR player can’t skate away from a **bleep** 74 OVR player. Seriously. An 86. Against a 74. And somehow the 74 is keeping up with him like nothing happened.

WHAT DID YOU DO TO THIS GAME?

You had years to improve NHL, and somehow you keep finding new ways to make it feel worse.

And the player models? I’m not even going to start. They look absolutely ridiculous in a game that is supposed to be a modern AAA sports title.

At this point, it honestly feels like the people making this game don’t understand hockey.

Hire people who actually watch and understand the sport. Let them play the game for more than five minutes and tell you what’s wrong with it. Because NHL 27 doesn’t feel like hockey. It feels like a broken arcade game with hockey players thrown on top of it.

And the worst part?

You’re selling this for a premium price.

Players are paying real money for this, and this is what we get?

I’m writing this on behalf of a large part of the Russian-speaking NHL community. This isn’t just my personal frustration — pretty much everyone I play with is saying the same thing.

So please, actually respond to this.

Tell me where I’m wrong.

Explain why an 86 can’t outrun a 74.
Explain why the puck goes through players.
Explain why passing feels completely random.
Explain why physical play has become such a mess.
Explain why so many outcomes feel predetermined by the game instead of the players.

Don’t give me a generic “we appreciate your feedback” response.

Actually explain what the hell is going on with NHL 27.

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4 Replies

  • federo5's avatar
    federo5
    Rising Adventurer
    4 hours ago

    and this team custom playbook and strategy crap is downright  fraudulent marketing. Just played 3/3 rounds overtime and McKinnon, controlled by the stoopid AI just stands still at the opponents blue line. My goalie gets caught skating behind the net into the net for 15 seconds. The ai is as broken as ever. When a player on offense in the O-zone funnelling with the puck into the middle for a shot the ai on your team sprints to me to get in my way numerous times a game.

    Take a few years off EA. Stop releasing this crap. It’s embarrassing. $100+ for this is criminal 

     

    Oh, and still the painfully slow and glitchy menus

       

  • federo5's avatar
    federo5
    Rising Adventurer
    5 hours ago

    Game physics is embarrassing. The puck endlessly goes through defenders sticks and body, the slowest forwards blow past the fastest defenders as when defending your player suddenly gets stuck in mud, even the coaching suggestions when your playing forcing you to press on the controller for two seconds stopping you from being able to change lines os annoying af. And the same left right left glitch goals. Nobody passionate about the game is making this game. Its simply a transactional premised game put on a broken game engine

     

     

    EA Sports, if you want to actually make a proper game atmosphere make the IN GAME music match the home are as like you did in NHL 92 or 93 when you had in game arena music like the Buffalo Sabres playing during face offs. That felt like actually being in Buffalo at a game, over 20 years ago. This pre game  crap with mascots doing flips and unrealistic fans in the stands is bs. Games where the home team is down 6 and the fans are going crazy   is just dumb. 

    Congrats EA, for the last time you suckered me into spending 100$ on crap 

  • federo5's avatar
    federo5
    Rising Adventurer
    5 hours ago

    they don’t care man. Straight up. They make 99% of their money of 1% of the player base that purchase micro transactions 

     

    The game cannot improve on the current game engine - frostbite. This is a first person fps game engine. This is why changes dont happen and the game will never improve, and things never get fixed. On this engine of you fix one thing 4 problems can arise, its better just waiting until the next game comes out. EA is too greedy to use another game engine specialized for sports. Until they change their frostbite engine and create a new engine for sports, this game will continue to be trash.  Thats just facts 

     

    There is a you tube video with NHL 27 devs talking about not being able to make improvements on the game because of it creating other problems and  ot enough man power or time to improve things mid year, just waiting until the next years game. This franchise is literally dead until a new game engine focused specifically on sports comes out and not this lazy way out - frostbite engine. 

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