Be A Pro is unplayable with multiple large issues
The developer team was on the right track with the changes made this year to the game mode but ultimately fell short in the execution. In this thread I will go over the issues I have noticed with many hours of play time as a multiple year experienced player. 1. The health feature. After each game your player gets fatigued or exhausted and you to spend 2-4 energy points to recover. That would not be an issue if we received more energy points. On average you play 3-4 games per week and you only get 6 energy points. Quite often you will find yourself running out of energy points before your last game of the week, forcing you to play super fatigued. This is very frustrating as you always fall behind the 8ball and it drops your speed, acceleration, endurance, agility and durability by 10-20 attribute ratings. During the season you never have any energy to spend on trait points, X-factor points, or the likability options. A good comparison of a health system that works is in EA's College Football games. In those games you don't have to spend all your points on health as you only play 1 game per week. They pretty much copied the same feature in NHL26, except it's the same amount of energy points but with way more games per week. It just does not add up... 2. Form score. The form score seems to only go by point productions from your player. It possibly may be ever so slightly tied to the coach feedback score, too hard to tell. Your player can play extremely well and get an " A " grade for the coach feedback, but since you did not score a goal or an assist, your form score will be only 20/100. If you are on a line with grinders (like an NHL 4th line), or just don't "finish" the play, you get penalized. The game requires you to have a high form score to make the NHL team, or move up the lineups. This also is a big problem for Defenseman or a 2-Way forward who doesn't prioritize a purely offensive game. 3. Gameplay sliders. The sliders that are set in settings get reset every time you play a game. Even if you set the sliders in settings before you start your Be A Pro, it will not work. Each game they have to be edited. 4. Draft stock media interview. The media interview right before draft day is absurd. It is not realistic at all to be able to drop 20 spots in the draft from answering questions that seem like a good response. A simple fix would be making the worst answer -1 draft stock, the best answer +1, and the 2nd best/worst being 0 change. Also, make it more apparent what your goal is (to answer questions closest to your higher likeability- being management, teammates, and brand). 5. Chapter challenges/lineup challenges. Unless your player goes on an offense masterclass in the pre-season, you will not make the NHL team. This goes back to #2, where I spoke about form score. It is not realistic to require such a high production to make the team. Second which, once sent down to the AHL, you have 8 games to maintain a 65 or higher line score. If you make the NHL team, you are stuck on the 4th line where you play only a few shifts per game (even on 20 minute periods). You do not have enough ice time to produce at the rate required to make the 3rd line. It's at the point where you need a higher points per 60 minute stat than the top players in the league to progress. As a defense player, this makes it absolutely impossible to move forward. The coach grade feedback also needs to be adjusted per ice time. You can have all your 4 shifts where you play well and go from the C- starting point, to a C+, which is never high enough to grow. If the developers can make the correct tweaks, this game mode has such good potential. I recommend either adding more energy points per week, or reduce the fatigue you gain per game you play. At the least, have a setting to turn off the health feature like in other EA sports games like CFB25/26. There also needs to be adjustment on the form score. It needs to be more related to your coach feedback and your player role/position. They needs to be tweaks for both of those metrics for the ice time you are allocated. Those simple fixes will make a massive difference in this game mode. I have not seen any player, YouTube, or Streamer happy with how this game mode plays and I have not heard any response from the EA team on this topic. Please give us hope for this game!
Nordhaven culture
Hey :) I'm a Scandinavian-American and I've always really enjoyed engaging in my cultural heritage, doing our traditional paintings, dressing up in folk dress for our holidays and generally just enjoying my maypole dancing, lefse eating, flower crown wearing hygge-rific time. so when i heard that there was a sims world based on Scandinavian culture, you can imagine how excited i was. i had seen what cool things they had done with Japanese culture, in snowy escape. and south-east Asian culture in for rent .and i was SUPER hyped to have my own culture represented and while i was blown away at what a good job they did depicting modern Scandinavia. i was honestly quite let down and saddened that none of our folk culture was included. i don't really know why? rosemaling painting is beautiful and who doesn't love Scandinavian food or Dala horses. i know that they added in some cool things for Chinese new year and for Diwali and i was wondering if anyone knows what the likely-hood is they might do something like that for a Scandinavian holiday like saint lucy's day or Midsommer or something? just so we can have the cute Scandi vibesLost Iniesta
Hey, i need Iniesta to complete the latest captain mission. But i accidentally exchanged Iniesta into shards. Can i get my Iniesta back? You can take back the shards. I exchanged Iniesta OVR 107. or do you have another solution so i can complete this captain mission? THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT, 50 shards are extremely valuable for a player like me.Adoption Game Play
I think it would be wonderful if there was more game play options surrounding adopted sims. For example the choice for open or closed adoption and for a sim to find their biological parents when they reach young adulthood. Could be really special for simmers with adoption in their own family story. :) thanks!
Skate
I feel like they should be adding stuff every once in a while so we don’t get bored of the same thing over and over again. Like a night map, less bugs (obviously), be able to change the game style like a more gritty and grungier version like skate 3, and offline option, some new and old game modes too like hall of meat. But overall it’s a really fun game.
