NHL 21 roster update

Franchise mode is flat out not playable at this point. Just because the mode loads and can sim does not deem it playable. So far here's everything broken I have found.

- Auto scouting doesn't work

- Manual scouting can't scout goalies

- Defensemen don't show line chemistry for defensive lines (Shows how they fit as forwards)

- Trades are offered in deadline mode that can't go through because of cap issues/incorrect values

- Line chemistry displays differently in preview of how the player fits to what it shows when the player is fully assigned to the line

- If you fire the head coach and hire a new coach any players line fits show for the old coach. (Example with the leaf's I fired the coach pretend his name was "Joe Blow" I then hired a coach can say his name was "Bob Doug" I then sim a week or so and then go to free agency to look at players and it still showed how the players fit for Joe Blow and not my new coach. I go to the trade screen and same thing it says how they fit for my the fired coach.

So to sum that up. You can't accurately scout making drafting far more challenging. You can't tell how well your current players fit on each line. You can't scout a free agent or a trade target accurately to know how they will fit because its for the wrong coach!

SO you can't accurately draft, sign, or trade players!!!!!!

I am now back playing NHL 20 with manually edited rosters because NHL 21 is so insanely glitched out. Argue I'm over reacting all you want but doesn't change the fact this game was not at all ready to be released. BAP has its own pile of glitches I won't both getting into either.

FIX. YOUR. GAME.

What I'm saying is the Franchise roster not even updated on EA's official October 15th roster update it still on October 6th roster update because Max Domi still with the Habs and he's been traded that same day so even if I merge the Oct. 15th EA roster to my Oct. 20th created roster it ain't do **** in BAP or Franchise it won't upload the newest roster update but the oldest wich is from Oct. 6th. I lost so many hours trying to figure out how I could get that done but the more I try the more frustrating it gets! They even update the game like 1h ago with the 1.10 patch but NOTHING related to rosters updates, not cool EA 👎

Try to create a player and put him on any NHL team, then start a new franchise and tell me if your player is in there. 👍 When I merge MY roster to EA roster my players are not in the file, neither when I merge EAs roster to MY created one it's very disappointing I have to say.

@BigGuwop514 

Roster updates typically don't get applied to an in-progress Franchise Mode career. You would need to start a new one to use the updated roster.

Do I need to copy/paste my last comment or what I said I started a new franchise and my roster is still from October 6th it dont even update to the October 15th EA OFFICIAL ROSTER UPDATE I can't be more clear than that. I'm on Oct. 15th EA Roster, I create a player named Cole Caufield, put him a 3y 0,925m contract and move him on Laval Rockets AHL then I merge my created roster with EA Oct. 15 update and START a NEW franchise career. I take the team I created before and do the expansion draft to build my team, and the entry draft as well. When all that done, I'm in the Montreal Canadiens roster and find out that Max Domi is STILL there (like I said he's been traded Oct. 6th) and Cole Caufield is nowhere in the Laval Rockets roster or even in the league because you can search a player anywhere by his name and he don't show up.

@BigGuwop514Again, must be a problem on your end. I do the same thing and everything is fine for me. Make sure you assign Cole Caufield to the Canadians. Make sure you download the oct 15 rosters.

@BigGuwop514 make sure when you choose expansion draft that you are selecting the "Custom Rosters" option

When you do an expansion it starts right at the end of last season if you select the "default rosters" option. Therefore, no real life trades have been made regardless of what roster update is active. You will also notice this years UFA's are not signed by the proper teams (example: Hall in Buffalo) as free agency is redone as well.

Can you get a refund on this game? IT IS BRUTAL. I'm not confident EA will fix it's problems in the game.

Another Update that is Needed the Calgary Flames released that in 2020-21 Season  Are using there alternate As regular jersey

@LordDecland 

We certainly appreciate the feedback, but it would help a lot more if you included some actual details on what your issues are. 

There is definitely something wrong with scouting manually, but you can scout goalies.  It is true that going into Assign Scout and then going through players there are no goalies.  The filter for goalies actually shows defensemen.  However, if you go in to View Draft Board you will see goalies.  You can then go into the goalie's profile and select to scout him.....you can select which scout to scout him if you have multiple scouts in that region.

Again, it should work from the Assign Scout screen, but this is a work around to still scout goalies.

I completely understand, just making sure you knew there was a workaround.  I personally like to do all scouting manually, so it is not too big of a deal to me.  I often go into the draft board to find players I can add to the scouting anyway.  If you filter to goalies and select the profile of the first goalie.......you can then RT/LT to scroll to the next goalie's profile instead of closing and then opening the next person's profile.  To me, it doesn't really take anymore time.  But that's me.  I can certainly see how others might not like that approach and I agree the overall issue of not being able to scout goalies from the Assign Scout screen needs to be fixed.  As does auto-scouting for those that don't want to do manual scouting.

There are so many problems, I'm not going to find and label all of them; you may want to just check out the game playing franchise mode, you'd pretty quickly see why people get frustrated. 

Here are some obvious ones:

- Trade Value is WACK (I took pictures of a few examples but all over the place it's just really bad)

- defense line preferences show up as forward lines in edit lines feature

- changed my coach but players will still show their line preferences for the old coach. 

- Elite low potential players trade value is too low and has been for years, top 6/top 4 low arguably isn't, and franchise low definitely isn't, just elite low.

- Can't edit players position, player type, gear in franchise mode (not sure if this was on purpose)

- Can't edit players height and weight in edit player (not sure why this was taken out years ago if many of the players heights and weights are outdated, particularly prospects)

- Forward positions have zero effect on line chemistry

- Defense position (RD or LD) has zero effect on line chemistry, and every single NHL defenseman is either RD/LD or LD/RD

- Please check page 20 of forum I posted more there: 

https://answers.ea.com/t5/Game-Information/NHL-21-roster-update/m-p/9608858#M1197 

https://answers.ea.com/t5/Game-Information/NHL-21-roster-update/m-p/9608966#M1202 

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@LordDecland 

Thanks for all the feedback. It's very much appreciated.

@6363722 

We don't have any details on future updates. When issues are reported, they need to be reproduced, then fixed, then tested, then released. It's not an overnight process.