It's all of it, though it does not seem to affect career progression at all. Every stat line for each season is listed in my bio page, complete and consistent as the years progress. Through 4 complete seasons, however, the in-game dialogue from Cybulski, Ferraro and the social media woman whose name unfortunately escapes me at the moment (Hannah?) always talk about me being a rookie. My stats for the current season I'm playing are always listed under Rookie Goalies. Ray constantly talks about my chances for the Calder even though I had 62 starts last year and 53 the year before, and have 40+ career wins. I play for Buffalo, and every time I play Toronto for the first time in a season I get the cut scene of me alone by the rink and the announcers talking about my first time facing Toronto and how to gear up for a big game, even though I've faced them a few times over the last 4 years, including in the playoffs last year where we actually beat them in 6 games, before getting bounced by Boston. Reporters ask about my first win every year after my first win of the season. After big losses, they talk about how 'The Kid' might not be ready for this level, etc. (Incidently, it'd be nice if we could play a few seasons in the CHL, like we used to, so that we don't go the the NHL as an 18-year-old, 74-rated goalie and constantly have to hear how we have no chance at the Calder, but I know that's another issue...)
But, weirdly, and this is of course only because I just posted about how it thinks I'm a rookie after 4 seasons, I've just begun my fifth season, and James, Ray and Hannah(?) seem to finally acknowledge that I'm no longer a rookie, and my season stats are only under Goalies, not Rookie Goalies anymore. So maybe the number of games for a rookie goalie is programmed at like 120 instead of 20 or something. Don't know, not a programmer, but I know tons of errors are simple things like putting a decimal in the wrong place.
So basically, rookie for 4 seasons and 150+ games, but starting 5th season, not a rookie anymore. At least, in my case. Hope this helps.
Community Manager@tiekhere
Thank you for the clarification and specifics.
Can you let me know what all the settings you have set for your BAP game mode so the team can reproduce this?
BAP Settings (Note: These are just within my BAP mode. The settings under the start menu option "Settings", that would affect every mode I might play, are unchanged from default.)
Be A Pro Presets: Custom
Game Style: Custom
Period Length: 8 Minutes
Difficulty: Pro
Rules: Custom
Fighting: 2/2
Icing: Hybrid
Injuries: On
Offsides: Delayed
Penalties: 4/4
Trapezoid Rule: On
Penalty Time Scaling: 6/6
Coincidental Penalty Time Scaling: 6/6
Be A Pro Settings: Authentic
Be A Pro Simming Penalty: Off
Offline Be A Pro Camera: Dynamic Low
Weekly XP Gained Reminder: On
Auto Save: On
I also always use the latest Tuner, if that's necessary to know.
Do you need all the other stuff too? Accessibility, Audio/Visual, On-Ice Trainer, Calibration? Game Play Sliders I don't think matter for this issue, as I tinker with these every few games, and, until this 5th season, was always a rookie; but I can send them too if you think it will help.
Community Manager@tiekhere
That's perfect enough, thank you! If we need more info from the team we'll reach back out.
@bigDaddayKane
Want to ping you another time to see if we can get your info too.
Thank you for the help.
I see EA was so concerned about this bug from 3 years ago that is still exists in NHL25. I hadn’t bought an NHL game since 22 because not much changed from year to year. Did this year only to see just how little changes. Come on EA. How can a bug like this still be here?
Community Manager
@tiekhere wrote:
BAP Settings (Note: These are just within my BAP mode. The settings under the start menu option "Settings", that would affect every mode I might play, are unchanged from default.)
Be A Pro Presets: Custom
Game Style: Custom
Period Length: 8 Minutes
Difficulty: Pro
Rules: Custom
Fighting: 2/2
Icing: Hybrid
Injuries: On
Offsides: Delayed
Penalties: 4/4
Trapezoid Rule: On
Penalty Time Scaling: 6/6
Coincidental Penalty Time Scaling: 6/6
Be A Pro Settings: Authentic
Be A Pro Simming Penalty: Off
Offline Be A Pro Camera: Dynamic Low
Weekly XP Gained Reminder: On
Auto Save: On
I also always use the latest Tuner, if that's necessary to know.
Do you need all the other stuff too? Accessibility, Audio/Visual, On-Ice Trainer, Calibration? Game Play Sliders I don't think matter for this issue, as I tinker with these every few games, and, until this 5th season, was always a rookie; but I can send them too if you think it will help.
@Deedster6
Can you share with me what settings you're using?
From the sounds of this, it's likely some configuration of settings that is resulting in it, otherwise this would show up for all players and be a well known bug. If we're able to get details on what settings you're using it can help us reproduce this bug.
Thank you!
