How often are facial scans updated?
Answer: NOT OFTEN ENOUGH
A star player like Artemi Panarin should not have his facial scan untouched over the course of FOUR YEARS. These images are from NHL 17 and NHL 21. Look at Panarin's current picture in 21 (not the scan) and tell me why there was a decision to leave his face the same as his rookie facial scan. (And yes, I know most facial scans in this game are bad.)
Also - a small, unimportant note, but hair has NO physics. You knock a players helmet off and their hair just stays there. No motion whatsoever. It's not important but it's a little weird.
A star player like Artemi Panarin should not have his facial scan untouched over the course of FOUR YEARS. These images are from NHL 17 and NHL 21. Look at Panarin's current picture in 21 (not the scan) and tell me why there was a decision to leave his face the same as his rookie facial scan. (And yes, I know most facial scans in this game are bad.)
Also - a small, unimportant note, but hair has NO physics. You knock a players helmet off and their hair just stays there. No motion whatsoever. It's not important but it's a little weird.
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I'm hopeful for that. Will NHL 22 be next gen?
Oh yes!
And im already pumped up for that, even tough I really like 21 . 😊
Another thing the virus has stripped us of. RIP.
Can only hope for the best for the future, because that hair for Mika Zibanejad is NOT it.
Haha true, look like a pop star!
I still don’t quite get how you can almost perfectly replicate the face of Howie Morenz, who has been dead since 1937, but can’t have players that are alive, and either retired or still active. Really disappointing that Dave Keon looks nothing like him.
This thing makes me wonder also. Clearly EA can do the face models using only photos. I understand the challenges thatCOVID brings, but it’s really disappointing to have like ten new scans while the same amount of players disappear due to retirement etc.
Also interested of these showcase scans. Would be more than happy to get them with the next roster updates and that would keep me playing the game.
My thoughts exactly. I told someone from EA in another topic that if we could have 10 players per year with 100% correct face scan or all the current line ups with 90% correct faces based on photos I guarantee that the players would choose the latter.
It’s really disappointing and steals away the realistic feeling when playing the franchise mode when you have like five players with likenessess and 15 players are Joe NHL:s. The alternative would be a good Create a player feature where we could edit all the facial proportions and create all the missing players ourselves. The current in like "choose the closest from these 10 options who actually somehow look like humans". Create a player has been the same for years now with the same face/eyebrow/hair/ facial hair options.
Anaheim: Jakob Silvferberg, Max Jones, Troy Terry, Josh Manson, Hampus Lindholm
Arizona: Christian Dvorak, Nick Schmaltz, Derek Stepan, Alex Goligoski, Jason Demers
Boston: Jake DeBrusk, Brandon Carlo, Ondrej Kase, Matt Grzelcyk, Craig Smith
Buffalo: Victor Olofsson, Tage Thompson, Brandon Montour, Jake MCCabe, Henri Jokiharju
Calgary: Mikael Backlund,, Rasmus Andersson, Andrew Mangiapane, Dominik Simon, Derek Ryan
Carolina: Martin Necas, Dougie Hamilton, Brock McGinn, Jaccob Slavin, Brett Pesce
Chicago: Dominik Kubalik, Alex Nylander, Connor Murphy, Nikita Zadorov, Andrew Shaw
Colorado: JT Compher, Martin Kaut, Cale Makar, Sam Girard, Ryan Graves
Columbus: Pierre-Luc Dubois (I mean c’mon their number 1 center), Emil Bemström, Zach Werenski Alexandre Texier, Oliver Björkstrand
Dallas: Roope Hintz, Denis Gurianov, Jason Dickinson, Esa Lindell, Andrej Sekera
Detroit: Tyler Bertuzzi, Anthony Mantha, Christoffer Ehn, Dennis Cholowski, Filip Hronek
Edmonton: oscar Klefbom, Kailer Yamamoto, Andreas Athanasiou, Ethan Bear, Adam Larsson
Florida:, Frank Vatrano, MacKenzie Weegar , Anton Strålman, Vinnie Hinostroza, Noel Acciari
Los Angeles: Alex Iafallo, Adrian Kempe, Martin Frk, Mikey Anderson, Quinton Byfield
Minnesota: Kevin Fiala, Joel Eriksson Ek, Ryan Hartman, Jared Spurgeon, Jonas Brodin
Montreal: Joel Armia, Nick Suzuki, Artturi Lehkonen, Phillip Danault, Jeff Petry
Nashville: Filip Forsberg, Viktor Arvidsson, Mattias Ekholm, Calle Järnkrok, Brad Richardson
New Jersey: Miles Wood, Joey Anderson, Jesper Bratt, Pavel Zacha, Damon Severson
Isles: Brock Nelson, J-G Pageau, Anthony Beauvillier, Nick Leddy, Ryan Pulock
Rangers: Brendan Lemieux, Brett Howden, Anthony DeAngelo, Ryan Lindgren, Filip Chytil
Ottawa: Connor Brown, Thomas Chabot, Nikita Zaitsev, Artem Anisimov, Evgenii Dadonov
Philly: Travis Konecny, Joel Farabee, Morgan Frost, Ivan Provorov, Kevin Hayes
Pittsburgh: Jason Zucker, Bryan Rust, John Marino, Marcus Pettersson, Brian Dumoulin
San Jose: Dylan Gambrell, Radim Simek, Tim Heed, Stefan Noesen, Noah Gregor
St Louis: Sammy Blais, David Perron, Robert Thomas, Justin Faulk, Vince Dunn
Tampa Bay: Anthony Cirelli, Ondrej Palat, Blake Coleman, Yanni Gourde , Erik Cernak
Toronto: Zach H yman, Ilya Mikheyev, Jake Muzzin, Alex Kerfoot, Nic Robertson
Vancouver: J.T. Miller, , Tyler Myers, Micheal Ferland, Nate Schmidt, Antoine Roussel
Vegas: William Karlsson, Reilly Smith, Ryan Reaves, Shea Theodore, Alex Tuch
Washington: Tom Wilson, Jakub Vrana, Carl Hagelin, John Carlson, Dmitri Orlov
Winnipeg: Andrew Copp, Adam Lowry, Kyle Connor, Josh Morrissey, Neal Pionk
Wow..this is a huge disappointment, considering how many players here are pretty good. Hampus Lindholm is the Ducks #1 D-man. Silfverberg has been a good scorer for the Ducks for a while. Derek Stepan is a VETERAN who had notable moments with the Rangers. PLD, as you said, is CBJ's 1st line center. I could go on, but this is not good.
I'm hopeful that when NHL 22 goes next gen, they'll bring frostbite with it. They have a reason to bring it in now - they're upgrading, so why not?
I really hope they scrap most of the game after this year and start over. They keep making edits with a set that just is *OK*. Not good, not bad. Just ok.
It's like editing the wrong parts of a slider set expecting to get better results.
But I like you guys that care over this, you are hardcore.
And there's really no question, to have this kinda stuff in order, would defenetly be a good thing for the overall impression.