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Product: NHL 21 Platform:Microsoft XBOX One How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%) Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Play the game What happens when the bug occurs? My trade bloc...
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@Beauts90 They've been a broken record. I believe they're not really looking into it, end of January will roll around, time for a patch, they'll have a set amount of time to work on it with a lot of major issues so some bugs will get fixed and a lot of other stuff won't. Priority will always be the money makers HUT & EASHL over offline modes.
@LordDecland I don’t believe any changes will be made to coaching or chemistry this year. No changes were made from NHL 20 and I don’t think it’s something that can be just patched and will need quite a bit of work. I just hope they don’t leave it like this for 22 as it’s become more frustrating this year. I don’t even think giving us the ability to edit our own players will completely solve the problem as it seems to really affect cpu teams as well. This adds to the problem of poor AI GM logic and how they are performing too. Again, without having any input from EA this is just based on my own observations and assumptions. You reference the amount of customization that 2K offers, and while it sounds unreal, I don’t expect it out of this franchise. I’m ok with that as long as they offer enough customization and variation to allow everybody to enjoy the game how they want to or at the very least don’t have the additions/changes negatively affect the mode. I’m one of the few it seems that is actually enjoying the game and try to keep things constructive in hopes of improvement while continuing to give my (probably unwanted) suggestions on how to make the mode better.
- @Beauts90 Honestly I don’t think coaching or chemistry will be touched on, for the next few years. It’s been so broken since they released it, that it’s too much of a hassle to deal with. It’s easier for them to just add more half-effort features that are broken, than to actually fix any.
The rest of the time and resources are allotted to HUT so we only get the scraps If you google “EA Ultimate Team Revenue” that should answer pretty much all of your questions.
It sucks for offline modes, but it is what it is.
Scouting is still in need of major work and has been since they introduced in. At least with scouting though they have quite a few options in order to make it a lot more workable. You have a number of things related to fog of war that can be turned off (separately) and having the ability to select the draft class quality is probably the best thing they have added in years.
I bring this up because coaching got no positive changes this year despite being what I can only describe as an unfinished product when introduced last year. This year for coaching they gave us secondary positions (and took away player edit) which is nice, but it honestly doesn’t really have as much of an effect on chemistry as I would have thought. I find coaching is more frustrating than challenging and when you do get your line chemistry perfect they never change which makes building a team get stale very quickly.
In my opinion just making TWF/TWD more useful as well as having line chemistry change (either yearly, based on performance or by our request) and allowing us more control of what type of coach we get would go a long way in making the mode better. Maybe a solution would be to give the players a secondary player type to give us more options to build our team. I can hope for some type of (small) improvement on this and other aspects of the mode (for next year of course)
- @Beauts90 Coaching is a god awfully implemented feature. It’s so black and white, and gives no leeway for you to bring in a player that doesn’t fit your scheme, and tweak things to make a star player fit.
That, as well as what you brought up, the unwavering mindset your coach has, it makes the coaching system stupid and pointless since you end up having to fire your coach and hire a new one that fits the roster of better players. Sometimes you go through a HC every two years. Or every year, who knows.
Regardless, it was so poorly implemented, and hasn’t even been touched, it’s sad.
Honestly the whole game mode is sad.
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