I want to understand
Why in gods name would you put so that Quick release interferes whit the goalie, goalies have been sh.. for the last years and now you made them even worse, it does not Mather who is in the net if red one breaks his reaction by 100%, who had the crazy idea behind that?? Snipe was good precision on shot, but this is just so **bleep** broken, most of the games its just 4 shots 6 goals, apparently you can just skate into the goalie and the puck will go in, what the hell. And the L2/LT i mean it is just stupid how every year the game goes to worse, it is frustrating, it is not skill any more it is who has the patience to rag the puck till your quick release player comes up and who cares where you shoot it from it will go in. Newer ever have i conceded so many close post goals in my life, and here is the kicker, even if you block or go for the poke, who cares it will still go in. Def, pokes are a joke, rag the pack in offense zone is a joke, you guys should actually start to think whit your brain when making next NHL, i mean WHAT THE LIVING HELL. this game used to be fun. And another think, i miss the old system whit the rewards, basically if you get stuck in a division that's it no packs, no rewards, just play play play and still nothing, its so regardless, give hell at this point the game is just who can do the most glitches ever, f the skill play, just glitch.EASHL -> Drop in -> Outdoor Rink (Winter Classic?)
We've seen this rink now for years. I love the concept & execution. It's great work and a fun wrinkle to playing pickup/drop in games. I get that it's a big endeavor to create these outdoor environments and once you've go some built, there are generally more important things to focus on in development. Would it be possible for the Devs to either increase the type of outdoor rinks available or give the Lobby a choice on where the game will be held (indoor/outdoor)? Or, would it ever be possible for us to get Winter Classic stadium/games for the 'outdoor drop-in' games? What about club games in a Winter Classic stadium? One aspect of the outdoor rink, is that it reinforces to players that "this is not a serious game". People might Do Their Best, but they also Don't Care. which, sure, we do need a low-stakes game mode that allows us a chance to try things or take chances we might normally not make, but i worry that a lot of users care even less about team-play and positioning. would love to see some variety. thanks for your time EA_Mio!
Trolls
Is there a way how not to play with some players. Because banning and reporting isn't a big game dealer. If the player aren't vocally doing nothing bad, but on the ice is doing penalties,intentional icing calls, entering zone early(on purpose), blocking(trying to stop, block) your own team mate. Will there will be tools for that ? i don't need to ban them for 1-2days or suspend them or they're accounts for time. Just give me an option if i encounter one of these players ability to block them and don't have to play with them in my team ever again. Simple us that
Blow out loss…. Suspicious
I take my losses, and I have a lot of them don’t get me wrong, but today was a new echelon of a loss Get into the game I’m down 2-0 within the first minute on three shots…. My players do not respond to me, and time they get ready to move. The other team’s players are already gone past me and skating at top speed without any loss in their power. I watched Ehlers on the other team skater in my attack zone at full speed while his green energy level stayed in the middle of the entire time…. The sluggish responses of my team were to our next level. I just played probably six games in a row, didn’t have much of a problem had really close games two to one games…… down to the wire. This guy proceeds to eviscerate 12– 2 …… yes 12 goals and 24 shots…. And the problem I have with the entire thing is that his players never slowed down, not one second in this game. I don’t understand how you can skate at top speed for the entire game and not watch your power drain. Dealers like I said skating the entire zone for over a minute and never lost a bit of power off of his middle of his strength. It stayed there halfway the entire time.!!!! Then comes the nunchuck spam poach with the Superman mode like I’ve already said numerous times on my post. If you can keep this up, there should be a penalty for this. absolutely insane speed, body checks off the charts…. No slow down, this makes me suspicious. Then at the end of the game to be insulting to me, about two minutes ago, maybe a little more, the other team takes the puck stands up in the back of the net in the corner and stays there waits for my man to get next to him and he’ll start passing the puck back-and-forth beyond the net to his other defensive partner…..and he just does this back-and-forth, ragging the puck!!!! just another pathetic game of hockey and people that have no skill, but souped their teams up and abuse every possible exploit!!!
Wildcard
So EA. You have now ignored the offline community, in making the game only accessable to online players. You do realize that whether online or offline, we all bought this game. Whether ones preference is to either on or off line. That is their chose. It shouldnt be a reason on your part to now make this format online only. It has always been open as a joint format, that both could play. Not impressed EA. Not sure if you have other non favourable moves in store. But im sure you will have.Some minor complaints
Just a few things I've noticed so far Forehand backhand seems particularly OP this year. Goalies seem to be overreacting to the backhand. Sometimes they'll fall down into spread eagle, other times they seem to lock up and freeze such as in the example below: 2. Some body checks are making contact after the player has skated by. In this example, Lowry should've been able to shrug off this hit, as primary contact was made with his dangling left arm after he'd already skated by: 3. There are instances where I should be able to execute a pass mid-pickup. It makes things feel very cumbersome when, in the following sequence, I'm hitting pass after I've obtained possession of the puck (to chip up the left side boards) but the pass animation will not trigger because I'm stuck waiting for the stop animation to play out. Real-life players can absolutely still fire off a pass (albeit, somewhat inaccurate) while executing a stop like this after obtaining possession: 4. Goalies still seem completely bewildered by a puck sitting right in front of them 5. Blatant interference penalties being ignored 6. Players often not reacting to passes 7. Watch as my AI D-Man skates like a bat out of hell to bench, completely ignoring the play coming towards him:Wheels and Truculence
Both of these are way too overpowered. I can't skate in the vicinity of someone with truculence without getting knocked down for 30+ seconds. That is real fun. With wheels, I don't know how many more times I can have players just casually skate by the computer Defense and score the same goal over and over and over and over and over. You can't play a normal game because you are constantly covering for non-existent Defense and players take way too advantage of this. The only fix is to take out wheels at this point. These 2 perks have completely ruined the game for people who just want a hockey game to play and not a fortnite remake.
NHL 26 FRANCHISE MODE RIGGED GAMES
THE FORGOTTEN GAME MODE FRANCHISE MODE Playing against the computer now days is so incredibly boring, I've restarted the same game 3 times. GAME 1: I could barely get into their zone because they hit me and took the puck off me with their "sticky sticks", I lost 5-1 with 23-32 in shots… also had more time in their zone. Got mad and tuned off the game and start over again cuz i wanted to win. GAME 2: 3-0 to me in fisrt period then the computer start doing **bleep** goals that no goalie schould let in EVER!!!! third goal with 15 seconds left of the period and i lost in overtime. GAME 3: Hardly any hits, I could drive past them easily, easy to score, of course they had to score two bad goals. anyway 7-2 to me. YES KIDS i know ”lack of skills” ”blah blah blah” i know i am not very good and i play between 2-6 games per season on PRO, but isn’t this very clear and obvious that the computer decides who will win? I also noticed it with sim, my team played pretty well but after deadline my team lost 14 games in a row, same here I got mad and just turned off the console, the next time I played my team won 11 of those games. I didn't make any trades or changes during the deadline because they played really well. Goalies can often have really good save % like 92/93 until the deadline, after that they often drop to 90/91 When you start a 33 expansion and build a garbage team just to manage to get high draft picks, they often go to the finals, then you build a good team with good line chemistry.... WELL then you have the worst season in hockey history 🤦♂️ and if your team plays well the first season and you think you're going to continue next season with the EXACTLY same line up.... nope forget it, even if the players' total is better, season two won't work. Maybe I'm completely stupid and don't understand franchise mode at all even though I've been playing it for 10 years, or has EA completely ruined the game?