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IceLion68
3 years ago

Quality of Life Improvements

Dear EA

Our lives would be so much better if we had the following

- An Open all bags option

- An online store and some in game currency we can earn (or buy) to be able to actually the gear we want

- Ability to press a button to switch player handedness from lobby screen

- 3-5 Build slots PER POSITION

- Goalie gear loadouts

- A mechanism for the game to detect and punish toxic players/teams OR a mechanism for players to report/avoid toxic players/teams

- Cross platform crossplay

- The ability to choose to be offense or defense in team practice mode 

- Better RP calculation

- Full disclosure on what each attribute affects. Tired of tweaking build stats and guessing at what I am impacting. 

5 Replies

  • mikeq67's avatar
    mikeq67
    New Hotshot
    3 years ago

    The ability to switch player types mid games, something akin to a line change would be sweet. 

  • scttyg98's avatar
    scttyg98
    Rising Traveler
    3 years ago

    @IceLion68How 'bout they just do away with all the unlocking to start with. You could just dress your player up however you like. Then they could just keep the stuff you get for winning and leveling up. Personally i'd like them to focus on making the game playable instead of making more add-on's.

    Also boycott HUT. It is what really killed this franchise.

  • IceLion68's avatar
    IceLion68
    3 years ago
    @scttyg98 wrote:

    @IceLion68How 'bout they just do away with all the unlocking to start with. You could just dress your player up however you like. Then they could just keep the stuff you get for winning and leveling up. Personally i'd like them to focus on making the game playable instead of making more add-on's.

    Also boycott HUT. It is what really killed this franchise.

    I'm afraid HUT is going nowhere - it makes EA too much money.

  • 5gyu6qisdi1t's avatar
    5gyu6qisdi1t
    3 years ago

    Great suggestions!  I don't mind tweaking my builds to figure out which attribute works best for my style or current tuner without having more disclosure on affects.  I think your 3-5 build slots per position would be a good solution to not having to disclose more information.  

    Instead of boycotting HUT, why not expand HUT into World of Chel?  As much as we all love the CPU all stars like Gill, Brunner, Thomas, and ole Jimmy Capp, make the club CPU players customizable with the player cards.  EA doesn't need to necessarily give the attributes of a player like Crosby when the card is applied, but name and player likeness would be a good start.   

    It would also be nice if we could set the in game forechecking/defensive strategies at a global level within the club as opposed to having to modify them at the start of each game.  

    Lately, I dread playing into overtime these days because of the high % of games that DO NOT COUNT.  You grind out that triple OT win, about an hour worth of skating, only to transition to the End Game Visual without any of the rank point or victory graphics.

    It really is fantastic that EA is providing so many different game modes, but without opening the game up to cross play, the matchmaking quality suffers.  We play the same clubs several times a week.  During playoff stretches is the worst, with some searches taking upwards of 3 searches eclipsing 5 minutes to just find a game. 

  • CharlesConway333's avatar
    CharlesConway333
    New Traveler
    29 days ago

    if you're still around, and you're playing NHL 26, do you think they've improved in any of these areas? some i see they have, others i'd be interested to hear how you feel today?

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