Product: NHL 21Platform:Sony Playstation 4How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Play 3 seasons or sim 3 seasons of Be a Pro.What happens when the bug occurs? At the end of season 3, you currently only receive 1 additional team that is interested in obtaining/drafting you. This is not realistic at all. I simmed twice and got an overall 85 and 87 there should be a half dozen or more teams in interested in signing me. On top of it all, it seems like the default is Arizona since I simmed the game a couple of times and got the same exact results.What do you expect to see? More than 1 team making me an offer after you've played or simmed 3 seasons. Was the issue in online or offline mode? OfflineInsert Game Mode or Feature here Be A Pro What time did you see the bug? (HH:MM AM/PM)What is your time zone?What is your gamertag/PSN ID?PS4 Crash Reporting: Please copy the text you put in the crash report here.EASHL issues? Please insert your Club Region.What is your game language? EnglishAt the end of season 3, you currently only receive 1 additional team that is interested in obtaining/drafting you. This is not realistic at all. I simmed twice and got an overall 85 and 87 there should be a half dozen or more teams in interested in signing me. On top of it all, it seems like the default is Arizona since I simmed the game a couple of times and got the same exact results.

No, dude, the trading in Franchise mode *is* that bad. That's why I turn off trades; I'd rather have an unrealistic amount of trades - 0 - than an unrealistic amount of trades that are terrible.As I've said before, we need the ability to veto CPU-CPU trades. Minimum, let us make a protected list for every CPU team, with 2 tiers - untouchable players that they'll do everything they can to keep (including re-signing them, not just trades), and a 2nd tier of guys who they ought to keep to complement their core players (like for the Caps - my team - I'd have Ovie and Backstrom as untouchable... and honestly, I'd probably have Oshie on the 2nd tier - although with that contract, maybe not - and probably Vrana, and Wilson, and Orlov... because I could absolutely see them trading Kuznetsov or Carlson given how expensive they are and what the return could be. But those other guys are really important complementary pieces who are affordable around the core superstars.)Like... the way *we* want to play the game isn't going to be how the programmers want to play the game; the way I want to play the game isn't the way other players want to play the game.It's baffling that they don't allow us more control to play the game in a way we find, you know... fun.I've said it before: I get why programming certain things are so hard. Defense in gameplay is pretty weak, but I get the difficulties of making the character poke how I want him to (for the puck, or to take away a passing lane, or to put it in the shooting lane not to try to poke the puck but to prevent a strong shot when I'm trailing on a semi-break... how could the game know which one I want?) But, like... giving us the ability to make CPU-CPU trades, or change positions (or roles, or names, or even ratings or potential) of drafted players in Be A GM mode, or, you know... a Franchise level young talent coming into the league being able to sign with any team in the league, because he's good enough to help a contender and young enough to help a rebuilding team.I saw Landeskog leave the Avs in the offseason, and I was surprised because I know that's an expensive team, but I didn't realize they were *that* cash-strapped... they weren't. They just didn't re-sign their elite captain. Which... if they were thinking ahead, knowing they had to let one guy walk, even a 1st liner, in order to keep 4-5 guys, like 2 2nd liners and 2 3rd liners and a top-4 defender, then okay. I may disagree with this specific choice, letting *that* player walk, but okay. But nah. The game still doesn't ever plan for that. You still see teams sign 10 NHL level defenders for between $1.5M-$3M a season for multiple seasons, then have to let a player worth $8M walk because that money is tied up in their 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, and 13th defenders.

@yarg232 Yup it’s still like that. Not sure why they haven’t updated the contract offerings at all in years and years. Was hoping for a change

@yarg232 Nearly a week and still no answer, or even an acknowledgment

There's no thought/development process behind the AI it's just trade anyone for any amount at any time. However, good luck trying to trade an 81 ranked player for someone's #1 future draft pick. You can't do that but the computer/AI can. The same goes with in coming trade offers. It's just a random algorithm that offers you anything hence why you get multiple trade offers for the same player even though you declined the first time. It's total garbage and makes the game so unrealistic. The same with BAP, after season one the entire NHL was thrown into a bag, shuffled and handed out. Pastrnak with the Devils, McDavid with San Jose, Zibanejad with Calgary, Barkov with Columbus, Ovechkin with Dallas on and on and on. I could possibly handle this stupid reshuffle if it stayed as is after year one, but every single year you see huge superstars move onto other teams. It's like everyone in the NHL has the same 2 year deal you have. Any team can go from dead last one year, to winning the cup the following year. The only reasoning behind wanting to be traded or go to a specific team is for the jersey only. Because the team has been put through a meat grinder several times and all the core players have been dealt elsewhere. The saddest part is that these issues we have are for offline play options so you know EA doesn't care whatsoever.

@Beauts90 wrote:Theres an interview somewhere with the creative director of the mode where he says the only focus for Be a Pro was the rookie season. That explains why the junior league was ignored and pretty much everything after the rookie year seems the same as years before. Now that they have the foundation I can only hope they add to it in future years.For the record I think I got less than an hour into the mode before I realized it wasn't for me and just stopped playing it.That is absolutely sad. What a waste of money. I bought it because i thought this was going to be an actual revamp, not just a literal nearly blank canvas for them to work off of. this game mode is so ludicrously awful, I have been convincing my friends not to buy it. So far saved 12 buddies from wasting their money. they took out so many key features and coded a couple empty broken features that the game isn’t playable. I was really hopeful for this year, the first time I was excited for an EA NHL game in literally years. And just like every other year, it was an absolute let down. Bigger let down than the other years though since they promised a new game mode but didn’t deliver one.

Be A Pro end of season 3 only 1 additional team is interested in obtaining you?

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yarg232
5 years ago
@SkylerJames13dead on my friend. 100% dead on. I was so excited when I heard BAP was redone then played it and it's one huge mess. There are still media skill requests broken, razors edge opponent always displays the same exact amount of goals as your player, the total insanity AI of re-shuffling the entire NHL rosters via trades after season 1. There are plenty more you're aware about. Not to mention we could go on forever about the positive and negative xp you get during a game. A badly aimed shot gets me negative points!? A shot is a shot some are good, some are bad but how do I get penalized because I didn't make that perfect aim because I was too busy getting poke checked up the a**. If it's bad shot but still hits the goalie, there should be zero points added or taken away.
SkylerJames13
5 years ago
@yarg232 Just tried playing it again today. For some reason, I don’t know why, it was a colossal waste of time.
But so many bugs are still prevalent. Tried FM, it was a pile of hot steaming feces. I don’t understand why it continues to be in this state after nearly two months of being released
yarg232
5 years ago
@SkylerJames13 Out of this entire super dumpster fire on steroids, your post did make me crack up. I play daily (I guess I enjoy the torture) because there's a part of me aiming for that stupid private island for a $100 million. I have no idea why, it's just bragging rights to only myself I guess.
SkylerJames13
5 years ago
@yarg232 Lol I used to play NHL nearly every day, or every other day, especially on my days off. When it was released, I think I played for 2-3 days until I realized how worthless the game is. Then I started being active on the forums. Just played again today, for a couple hours and realized it’s still as worthless as the day it came out.
Haven’t even played nhl 20 either, this piece of garbage game has left such a sour taste in my mouth for EA. I’ve even been actively avoiding buying any games by them since lol
yarg232
5 years ago
@SkylerJames13 at least NHL 20 was much more bug free than this 21 mess. I agree, we can't be buying this every single year knowing there's been zero improvement handing them $60 for garbage. I'm done purchasing this game until I see threads loaded with praise and compliments which will never happen. Or if some odd reason 2K gets the rights which I highly doubt. I got swept up in the BAP overhaul hype and purchased 21 for only that reason only to learn it's a totally broken mess.
SkylerJames13
5 years ago
@yarg232 Oh man, you and me both. I stupidly bought it because I thought they actually did something to BAP this year. But they just butchered it. I don’t think I’ll be buying nhl anymore, for a couple years anyway. I’ve wasted my money each year now. I’ll keep doing my best to prevent friends from buying it too, I’ve had enough of this

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