Create Helmetless players
I hope that we get a patch soon for 22 that allows us to make helmetless players for offline mode. I make classic rosters and it SUCKS having to put a helmet on players that NEVER wore one like Bobb...
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Importing rosters is huge. That way people will keeping buying the new game regardless.
Totally agree Barrasso should be in the game and also should be in the Hockdy Hall of Fame too.
For his play by play name I just use Barbario?
It sounds close enough in games lol
Have you joined our discord group with all the Alumni players?
Best way to show EA what we want is by adding pictures to the posts.
I'll be requesting some different player models in the next couple days here and I'll show pics of how OUR player models look better than EA sometimes.
Like I want a young prime Mario Lemieux and Jagr. Not the old player models we hot in NHL 22. I created both of those players from their primes and it looks and feels way better on the ice.
I think Burrows also works as a play by play name for Barrasso.
- @olavi4 That works but Barberio matches the syllables in Barrasso name
For goalies whose name is not in play by play I just use 'Goalie'.
- @SvenArne123 Thanks! Yes, I decided to use Goalie for Barrasso as well. Funny that his name was not in there. However, to EA's credit, there are a lot of names in there that were missing in NHL 21. Ciccarelli for one! 🙂
- @T2HD They added just about every name that was missing
- @Atishksingh They did add a bunch but still no Barrasso, Zalapski , Worsley, Maniago, Kamensky or Siltanen just to name a few. Not to say than I'm unhappy with the huge number of additional names this year. But some of these missing names are kind of glaring omissions.
Here's hoping we get this.option in the newest patch
Thanks
This option wasn't included in the latest patch. I'm still holding out hope. But if not I hope its in NHL 23.
Roster Sharing doesn't work for creating Alumni Teams if we have to put helmets on everyone.
While I'm very happy with the roster sharing and other issues that were corrected in this patch, I have to say that I'm very disappointed that the option to create a player without a helmet or a goalie with at least one vintage goalie mask still isn't an option. The NHL series on the 360 had several vintage goalie masks available and they're in the game on so many Alumni teams (that also have players/goalies with NO helmets). Here's a pic of my created Cesare Maniago for the Minnesota North Stars. While he looks great, he would look soooo much better if he was wearing a vintage goalie mask like he wore when he played. I just don't understand why we at least can't have that option. We've been asking for it for years now and we're never provided any explanation re: why it's gone from Create a Player (given it used to be in the game). It's also very odd that Jacques Plante was the first goalie to invent and wear a vintage goalie mask yet he wears no mask on the Alumni Habs team. The devs put a TON of work adding so many graphical items and jerseys into the game that I'd wager nobody asked for. This is why I find it so puzzling re: the absence of the vintage goalie masks. Please let us know why this is continually skipped over. Thank you very much! Cheers!
- @T2HD I'm still.holding out hope the add a patch or even for 23. If it doesn't come out for at least 23 them I'm done lol
@T2HD wrote:
@AtishksinghThey did add a bunch but still no Barrasso, Zalapski , Worsley, Maniago, Kamensky or Siltanen just to name a few. Not to say than I'm unhappy with the huge number of additional names this year. But some of these missing names are kind of glaring omissions.The name “Kaminsky” is available.
That’s the one I used for Kamensky. It’s close enough
Real bummer this option wasn't added in the latest patch. With it being the most wanted request at the moment I thought there was a chance they'd actually add it. Ah well, hopefully in the next patch. Would love to create 70's rosters and share through roster sharing, but this option needs to be in for that to be satisfying.
I truly hope this is not the case, but I’ve been asking for the ability to make helmet-less players for years. I vaguely remember getting a response along the lines of the NHL doesn’t want any players represented without the proper equipment or some other legal mumbo jumbo. This leads me to believe that we may never get what we want.
However, and I don’t play EASHL or any other game modes so I’m not sure if this is the case or not, but I’m pretty sure I’ve read that you have the option of not wearing a helmet in some of those modes.
So, if that’s the case, and we’re making players for offline use only, then I don’t see why we can’t have the option.
- @Efbomb I totally agree. I posted my last three year's worth of literally begging for helmetless players only to be disappointed every year. The Alumni teams are filled with helmetless players so there's no reason we can't create more helmetless players that aren't included with the game (Bobby Orr and Hull to name two). I'm not sure how anyone is getting hurt because they're not wearing a helmet within the virtual game. Sad to say it and I know it's a broken record, but no competition breeds this sort of thing. They don't have to add diddly doo because they're not competing against anyone else. Nothing lasts forever though in the business world without improvement and continued happy customers. Companies need to keep that in mind. Even if competition returns, they'll have lost what could have been loyal and repeat customers because of these and many other items that shouldn't be so tough to add. But, alas, I won't give up my eternal hope. Hello EA? Is anyone there? LOL
If only EA had not fixed the “no helmet” bug from 4 years ago.
If you didn’t know about it, basically all you had to do was add a shield to the old school JOFA helmet, save, then back out. When you started a game the player wasn’t wearing a helmet.
It was glorious! Then EA found out about it and took it away from us.
- @T2HD I gotta feeling we'll get it soon or even for NHL 23
@EfbombJust to know the feeling, once every couple months ill just go onto CHEL and play around with the create a player option because you can choose no helmet. Its such a joy inside and put tears in my eyes sometimes using that option.
I'm holding out hope that at the latest the helmetless players create option is included on NHL 23. I would buy a new game system, upgrade the PS4 for that game.
- @Atishksingh I feel thy pain and joy. Given all the huge mods they just deployed we shouldn't have to wait another year though. It's not like they haven't been asked to do this for years now (along with the vintage goalie masks). They already have those items in the game (just not for us). Please please EA add them with the next patch that you still have to do to fix the people in the crowds that are still wearing the Ducks logo on their shirts. Hope hope hope and fingers crossed. Cheers!
- @Atishksingh I do the same but with NHL 19 sometimes. I remember the joy when I discovered the no helmet glitch on that game and I could take the helmet off my created Guy Lafleur. What a feeling it was. Also have helmetless Esposito, Orr and Hull on that game among many others. Sometimes I go back and play a game or two on 19 just to get that true retro feeling once again.
Such a shame that glitch was "fixed". - @SvenArne123 Here's hoping we get that feeling back for NHL 22 or even NHL 23.
Tis the most wonderful time of the year. Hope for Xmas we get a patch for creating helmetless players.
Please. Its Christmas 🎄 ☺
If there's one thing I want for Christmas it's this. Think of the amazing 70's rosters we could create for roster sharing..
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