Looks like the game is struggling to process background information.
Do you have a base model system with a regular drive? If NHL is bring played off an external HDD I suggest moving it to system storage - Normally I would say next year's game should be better but unless you're lucky enough to snag a PS5 I can only assume the same problems will persist
No, no external HDD. Completely base PS4.
I'm just wondering when we get to the point where bugs are fixed during the current game instead of saying "I hope it's better next year". The offline players shouldn't get shafted for an entire year, then be expected to just buy the next one in *hopes* of it being better. I also hope that this was an issue presented by the recent update and will be fixed with the next one as I did not have any issues beforehand, although others have had it dating back to NHL 16 at least. Probably since the series moved to the PS4-XboxOne generation.
I'm guessing you're right about struggling to process a mechanic/information, in this case seemingly morale meetings, but the guy above said he's had the issue with morale meetings turned off, so who knows. I'm no expert
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.
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.
Although 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.
@SkylerJames13 Little late for a reply, but I completely agree. Bought every game since I was eight (NHL 08) so clearly a long time customer, but it feels like year after year since the jump to the Xbox One/PS4 generation the offline community has been largely shafted.
Be A Pro and some GM mode/franchise changes were definitely steps in the right direction, but they update one offline thing a year, create new bugs, then solve them next year. Meanwhile online gets constant updates and bug fixes, as they should, but we don't see the same care to offline modes, which is kind of sad.
Several offline bugs have been present since this generation started, namely the one I started this thread for.
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