Wishlist for 2023
Here are some of my thoughts on what needs to happen/improve/change for NHL 2023: Bring the game to PC Add connected franchise with a decent amount of customization options but at the very minimum...
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This game is beautiful and fun to play, especially for people that play hockey. The HUT is wrecked. It is no fun any more. I saw a comment earlier that majority of us that play aren't sitting there 24/7 playing it, and upgrading or purchasing ever 93+ players that comes out. I don't remember which version it was but there were 2 options in HUT. 1 was to play HUT champions and the other was to just build your teams and play earn coins etc. I even spend a little to build a good team, but I as many others dont have time to play all day and night and learn all of these glitchy moves etc, that would never ever work in an actual game.
I get it..it is a video game. However with the fantastic job EA has done making it as realistic as you have, you have to make the actual game play realistic. Or as close as possible. Have the designers actually watch hockey. These players are elite on BOTH side of the puck. Players aren't catching Nathan McKinnon on a breakaway. When a 6'5 Norris Trophy winning defenseman pins a player to the boards they aren't wiggling loose with the puck. and THEY DONT MISS PASSES in the NHL. Sure there are bad passes, but most of the passes aren't perfect, they move their feet and position them selves to catch it. The real game is open, fast and fluid. I believe you have done a fantastic job with offline modes.
HUT Suggestions..They may be on other threads so apologies if I am repeating.
1) Go back to 2 options. HUT Champions should be a separate thing for those more serious. If that is not an options please stop pairing my team with 3 players that are 90(2 were the free ones) against teams that have played or paid enough to have every player at 95. Or allow us 2 teams if we want to do both? Or if we have a high power team for HUT Champions and want to play regular HUT, we have to adjust or match make based on the rating of your team.
2) You have to fix the goalie moving Post to Post. I think I give up and score 5 -6 from stepping out behind the net and pulling the puck across the crease. That type of goal may happen 2 times a season and would typically be poked away by the goalie due to the play being so close. It is definitely a glitch or design miss on the goalies.
3) The poke checking is absurd. Which has been blasted on here several times.
4) The AI seems to struggle with positioning, and hockey IQ. Team mates run into each other quite a lot, and run into opponents which is technically inference. Not sure of a solid suggestion here but I haven't noticed it in other versions. No player ever jumps off for a change when a pass is coming to them..the receive it and make a pass, dump it then get off, I think I have had 100 icing penalties because I pass to an open forward and they hop on the bench as the puck gets there. Again NHL players dont miss passes. They will move or move and position their body and stick to receive passes, they dont just keep looking forward, and it hit them in the feet or go flying past them. Maybe that could be on us as players to control in the next version?
5) AI on Offside is awful. Players are skating over the blue line 30 feet ahead of the play.
6) Charging penalty is too sensitive. Too many charges on big hits..lol
7) I really like the option like X-factor to build up your players. I also like the idea of the EVO players. Could we have a combo? As they play and perform we can improve them? Like Start at 75-80, and based on position they can improve based on G/A/P, add in blocked shots for D men, Goalies have their own..once they get to say 84, we have to "upgrade with a power up" or use coins at that point to be able to go to 85. If I want to max out some of my X factor players it will cost me 250k in coins if not more.. maybe kind of like be a pro for HUT but we use current players and we can pick guys we like, well based on what EA makes available. At least have a couple of popular guys a team.
8) The ability to hold down A and keep control of the puck while gliding with every player on the opposing team hitting, poking and stick lifting is lame, and again move that stuff to the gamers hockey league, as well as all of these X factor that add another level of control knowledge to pull off is probably better spent in gamer hockey.
9) Could we see some of the outdoor stadiums(not necessarily the real versions) but outdoor options as our home arenas?
10) Also once the team reveals the jersey can it be updated to the game vs waiting for them to wear it? Unless that is licensing issue.
I want these to expand for NHL 23
Attribute Effects: 0-100
Game Speed: 0-100
AI Learning: 0-100
CPU Difficulty Adjustment: 0-100
CPU Strategy Adjustment: 0-30
User Strategy Adjustment: 0-30
Be A Pro Strategy Adjustment: 0-30
can we also get
slot shots
shot attempts
shot chances
time of the attack: 0-50 minutes made during the game
O-zone time: 0-50 minutes
D-Zone time: 0-50 minutes
Cycling shot accuracy Slider 0-100
Cycling Slap Shot Accuracy : 0-100
Cycling One Timer Accuracy : 0-100
can we also get expanded Coaches strategies and expanded defensive penalty kill strategy and offensive lines and defensive line strategies
more power-play options and expanded breakouts and stuff.
Puck Curl and Puck Dripple Impacts too : 0-100
please bring back cross-checking penalties for offline.
my wishes for NHL 2023
- @SuperGoalies These are great ideas… they would surely benefit us offline gamers… the shame, is that because it has to do with the offline community it will likely get overlooked.. we will be lucky to get the goal sync freeze bug fixed for NHL 23 at this point lol…
- RP System for the playoffs- Seriously, this is one that drives me nuts. The RP system is incredibly broken, and it doesn't work as intended. Right now if you beat a garbage team, you get garbage RP, and lose tons if you lose to said garbage team..as it should be. HOWEVER, what's also happening is if you beat a team of 29k-31k elites, you get a measly couple hundred RP, but if you lose to that team, you're getting hammered with an RP loss. If you're plats and lose to elites...you shouldnt be losing any more than a 150-200 tops. Switch to a static system...weight wins and losses equally...+300 for a win, -300 for a loss. And using RP is a completely moronic way to calculate the playoffs. Go by straight points or points percentage, with a 50 game minimum. If you peak at the "top 50" of the PS4 playoffs, 22 have less than 30 games played. There was 1 club who played 18 games. went 16-2-0. And dont forget the first five placement games don't even count towards team RP(but count towards your overall playoff record)...so 13 games counted towards their total RP...that just shouldn't happen.
- Unless it's utterly broken, stop tuning the game into oblivion- Seriously, this game was the perfect example of "If it ain't broke, don't fix it". This was the first iteration in roughly ten years that it was almost perfect out of the box. AI goalies were balanced, the ballerina style offence was gone...no longer could you just hold the stick out and become immune to every form of defensive contact, bad position poke spammers were punished with penalties, contextual contact actually worked, if you disrupted their shot in the slightest, it caused the appropriate reaction(flubbing the shot, stalling it etc), the protection bubble was gone around players, smaller players, given enough momentum could disrupt larger players. Then alot of the streamers noticed they couldn't just glide in for cheese...and the whining started. Within a week the tuners absolutely nerfed defence and we were left with an overpriced version of NHL 20.
- Customization- Yeah I know it exists...but what I'm referring to is allow us to decide what piping goes where, if we want the gradient vertical on one side et al. We also need custom logo uploads...this is almost a generation overdue. You already have a moderation system in place that's incredibly sensitive towards names, and obviously people review reports...there's no reason this can't work. Same for goalie masks...custom colouring and whatnot is overdue
- Remove Truculence or fix it- Right now truculence basically allows you to become impervious to any penalties, specifically egregious charging, and interference. I'm all for a perk that increases hitting, but it tracks you into the hit, basically you're unable to move out of the way, it's like you're suddenly bound by two walls that prevent you from dodging the hit.
- Allow us to join two clubs 1 for Threes and 1 for 6s- I'm not sure why this isn't a thing yet, but it would be a neat thing to do. I have my primary competitive team, and I also have my other not so serious one I play with on a threes team.
- Get Hybrid Icing right- This annoys so many to no end, the close ones I get...but when it's painfully obvious that you're out in front...by a good four to five steps...that's not icing.
- Contextual Contact- It would be cool if this was actually consistent. I get that nothing will ever be perfect, but some of the blatant stuff shouldn't even make it out of intial internal testing. This game took a huge step forward with this initially and hopefully next year on next gen consoles they can take the next step
- EASHL Tournaments- MLB the Show is the perfect example of how you can put events on and have it be successful. There's always going to be cheaters et al...but seriously this could work. You sign your team up a week ahead, it asks you what time you prefer your games...your games are scheduled with other teams who select that time slot. You play three RR games one night, then the playdowns the next night, using the same time slot formula. You start playing your games grouped with other teams who've finished their RR games as well. Teams are automatically sorted into the bracket. I realize how large an undertaking this would be but I think it's something that would be really really cool to do.
From the Franchise management end I could type for 15 minutes
Why can't I see the players card from the injured list, I have to go to Contracts. And why doesn't it tell me the date the players was injured? If I'm simming 10 games at a time, I don't know when he got hurt.
The colors of the mascot for the Sabres ( and other teams) have the old darker blue, not the new lighter blue unis. How hard can that be. I believe this is also true for the fans colors.
Why do you have max limits on spending categories, have the owner demand we fix all this stuff and upgrade and even if we have a couple extra million around I can't use it.
When I manually scout a player before the draft, it usually gives me no more info than at first. If a player is unknown, it says you have no scouts in the area, and you have no opportunity to send a scout there.
When the computer offers trades to you, why can't you click on the name and see the cards instead of going to edit trade and manually look.
When I'm trying to initiate a trade, why can't I scour the entire NHL on one screen ( my gosh this was available in video games from 30 years ago). I have to go team by team. Just add a drop down that says entire NHL.
Why are there no goalie coaches? You have to beg someone to be a coach.
Why do I have a 6 mil coach and he puts my 12mil FA I just signed on the 3rd line.
When the computer is allowed to make line changes which is a must to simulate blocks of games why can't I pin my certain player like my 12mil FA to the first line and say you cant move him.
When playing CPU vs CPU, if you edit strategies that don't match the coach does it change anything or does the coach over ride. I seem to think it does, others say no? And if it does, why is there not a button to say match coaches strategies instead of going back and forth to manually do so? A new coach should have his strategy automatically update in edit strategy. Otherwise what is the purpose of the coach?
Under coach preferences, the option for PP Carry/Dump is TRAP? What does that mean it's not even a choice?
How can you possibly know what players might have good chemistry with each other before signing FA's?
Why after winning the Cup does a player not want to sign because he doesn't like the direction the team is going? And why might a new coach decline saying there's not enough talent? We just won the Cup.
How can I have any idea when hiring coaches who's compatible with other coaches?
I turn the morale thing off its just annoying and pointless. I want to play more. Move him up for one game and he's happy then the CPU coach moves him back. Also, how do you illicit morale and chemistry?
Whoever chooses your sound tracks picks the worst music possible I turn the sound off between games.
You set up your scout for BOTH, yet they never seem to be controlled by anyone.
Why when you win the Cup does the player not skate around the entire arena and skate right through the carpet? LOL
Why do your players always miss a wide open empty net at the end of the game and the other team has a very high % of scoring. And why when there's 30 secs left and you're ahead they're not smart enough to dump it out or ice it, they have to skate it out or pass it and usually ends up getting turned over for a golden scoring opportunity?
Why can't I click on the schedule for a previous game and see any stats?
Does the maintenance of the arena (Lower bowl, upper etc) effect the gameplay or anything in the game other than maybe fan happiness?
If I set my concessions to as low as I can I can never achieve the 5% increase the owner wants. And his 40,000 $ is useless because you have max limits.
When you start a franchise there's not one coach above a C available.
I've routinely had goalies who are 78 stand on their head and my goalie who is a 90+ is getting wrecked in playoff round. And why are the first 2 playoff games played back to back?
There I just did a lot of R&D for you. Hire me. I could fix this game in 2 weeks.
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