Franchise Mode Stuck Simulating
Product: NHL 21 Platform:Sony Playstation 4 How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%) Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Simulate? Changing settings? I don't know why it happens Edit:...
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Man, makes me glad I haven't bought since '15, if it's been going on that long, but at least I haven't encountered this (yet) on '21. Someone said in the Progress Reports bug thread(s) that turning off Morale Meetings fixed that one, too, but I've had that off the whole time, and no luck there... no Progress, no Franchise. Of things worth adding to enhance FM, "morale" ain't it, to me. I shut off pricing hot dogs, too.
@davehoehn970 Morale was one of the worst additions. I would be very happy if they just removed it since they will never be able to get it to work realistically.
I find owner mode to be really meh. I would prefer more focus on the GM aspects like making the GM AI better, trade values actually fixed, have the chemistry issues addressed, everything that I’ve been talking about since launch
I find owner mode to be really meh. I would prefer more focus on the GM aspects like making the GM AI better, trade values actually fixed, have the chemistry issues addressed, everything that I’ve been talking about since launch
Yeah... those are all way more important to fix. At least we can shut "Owner Mode" off... we turn off "Morale Meetings", but we still get all these other flawed behaviors apparently related to morale. Sucks bad.
I suppose that's why I've joined your chorus on these forums... would have been better if I sought these out before buying. Didn't even occur to me. My thought process was "I like NHL, I haven't bought for a while, I don't know if the league is playing for real this year, it's on sale, buy". My fault for wanting something that doesn't exist, I guess.
- @davehoehn970 I mistakenly read the FM Deep Dive posted by EA. They, obviously, highly touted the “new features” and the “trade value revamp” and I was excited. I was hopeful.
Same with the BAP “rework”. I thought that they actually did something for us offline players. But they absolutely murdered the BAP mode. Took out the juniors, made it a handholding extremely linear ‘story’ mode that forces you to play to a single path, instead of becoming your own unique player.
I partly blame myself for wasting money on this sad broken game, because I listened to EA and believed them when they hyped the ‘new’ BAP and FM, when really all we got was a broken, buggy mess that barely resembles anything we’ve been asking for.
From now on, I’ll be looking on the forums, and FM Facebook group I’m in, before I buy another NHL from EA. And honestly that goes for all EA games. They’re all pretty meh, because lots are focused on multiplayer and the loot boxes. The pay to win games.
Maybe nhl 22 will be different. Maybe they will show us up, and we’ll have to put our feet in our mouths. I would gladly shut my trap if they delivered.
But I almost guarantee they won’t, and the bugs will remain. - @davehoehn970 Even though I know all the EA mods don’t like me, and I’ve been super critical and whiny about this game, I do it for a reason. I don’t want to be the only one. I’m trying to rally others so that we actually have a voice. They can’t listen to us if they don’t hear us.
Even then, they likely still won’t anyways. But we can at least tryAlthough I have always bought this game on or close to release day, the deep dive notes for FM do always get me a little hyped for the new game. It always sounds like they have addressed most of the issues from the previous year that I had problems with, until you start playing the game and realize that a lot of the new features in the game have created more problems. If you look back on previous years notes, one of the biggest things they always try to improve is AI GM logic and yet somehow this year they managed to throw any and all of that out the window.
I don’t know if it’s because they are preparing for NHL 22 on next gen, working from home due to COVID or a combination of the two, but it certainly feels like they just slapped some gum on the mode to hold it together for the year in order to get it released. Obviously the gum didn’t hold and what we are left with is a broken product that actually negates any progress that was made in previous years while not addressing any problems from those years.
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