Urgent Need to Address Menu Lag in NHL 25 and beyond.
Dear EA Sports Team, As a long-time fan of the NHL franchise, I want to begin by commending your efforts to deliver a fresh experience with NHL 25. However, like many players in the community, I’ve been frustrated by the persistent lag and sluggishness in the menu system The Problem Navigating the menus has become a tedious experience due to: 1.Slow Response Times: Whether I’m accessing the auction house, building my lineup, or navigating through event rewards, menus frequently lag or take several seconds to respond to inputs. 2.Unnecessary Delays: Animations, loading screens, and data fetching often make even simple tasks feel unnecessarily drawn out. 3.Performance Issues Across Platforms: While this problem is particularly noticeable on last-gen consoles (PS4/Xbox One), even current-gen platforms struggle, making it clear that the issue is systemic. Why This Matters Hockey Ultimate Team is a flagship mode for NHL 25. Its success depends on smooth, enjoyable user interaction. When basic navigation feels frustrating, it detracts from the overall experience and diminishes the fun of building and managing a team. For a mode that thrives on engagement, menu lag can lead to player burnout and a decrease in overall satisfaction. Potential Causes: While we, as players, don’t have access to the underlying systems, it seems like: Server-side dependency issues might be causing excessive load times when fetching data (e.g., auction house updates). Poor optimization of menu assets, animations, or database calls could be adding unnecessary strain on the system. Outdated frameworks or “spaghetti code” may be contributing to the sluggish performance. Constructive Suggestions for Improvement Here are a few ideas the development team might consider to help resolve these issues: 1.Optimize Client-Side Performance: Streamline UI assets and animations and implement lazy-loading for non-essential elements to reduce strain on hardware. 2.Enhance Server Efficiency: Use caching and batching to reduce the frequency of server calls for repetitive data (e.g., frequently accessed items in the auction house). 3.Increase Transparency: Keep the community updated with detailed notes on performance improvements in patches. Acknowledging and addressing the issue directly will build trust with the player base. 4.Focus on Testing and QA: Stress-test the system under heavy load to ensure it performs well during peak times. A Call to Action The NHL community deeply values this franchise, and we want to see it succeed. Addressing these menu issues isn’t just about improving functionality—it’s about respecting the time and investment of the players who support this series year after year. We hope to see this issue elevated to a top priority and addressed in upcoming patches. Thank you for taking the time to listen to our feedback, and we look forward to seeing improvements that will make NHL 25 even better. Sincerely, Fan since NHL94
San Jose Sharks AWAY Teal Helmets
Would really like to see some attention to detail on uniforms, especially with the Sharks given that in the game for their AWAY uniforms their helmets are still white when they haven't worn white helmets since around Fall of 2023. I would assume this is an easy issue to fix given the fact that Vegas has an entire alternate uniform selection of just their grey uniforms with the golden chrome helmet already in the game. Just add an extra away uniform selection for the Sharks... If the EA team has absolutely no idea what I'm talking about, I have included photos from both last season, and this season of the Sharks quite clearly wearing TEAL helmets with their AWAY uniforms. I would really like to be more emersed into this game as a Sharks fan and someone who loves uniforms, so hope this is on the agenda to get added soon.Rant
This is genuinely the worst HUT I’ve ever played the content is extremely out of touch they’re upgrading alumni players over current players all champs cards have been previously released team builders besides Patrick M where’s the creativity? The content team is morons and speaking of champs when I do play why am I FACING TOP 100 PLAYERS IN NY FIRST 3 GAMES the match making is horrific like EA doesn’t play their own game it should be illegal they charge full price for this game and needs to be looked into if pay 30$ at most for this **bleep** only way to score is green one tees! When silver players with 60 accuracy can shoot the puck like prime ovechkin good thinking on that EA great job not fixing it addressing any of these issues but decide to fix ones that have 0 affect on game play nice to see where your priorities are joke game joke franchise
Can we PLEASE more easily get arenas from other game modes into hut?
The silver arena is literally just the bronze arena with no one on the glass as a conversion rink from olympic size. It's a big slap in the face to those who unlock those cards for nothing. I don't want a team in a typical NHL arena, it's my team and it feels cliche. You have the assets, let us use them. Please don't wait until the end of the year to make them more obtainable too, since the gameplay of this game is usually questionably buggy, I want to at least feel like my team is in a unique arena!I want the measurement in foot and pounds , system is on french.
My game is in french and and I would like to have the measurements of the height and the weight in pounds and feet, currently it is in cm and kg. we should have a tab that we could choose which ones we wanted to have. because I am 0 familiar with kg and cm. and by default with the game in French the measurements are in cm and kg... and I am 0 familiar with these measurements...
X-Factor cards, bad value
So you spent 2M coins for 1 x-factor captain and after 2 months they are still 84-85 overall. I made all 4 of them (+McDavid) and I really regret it. I thought they would at least match the current MSP players but after 2 months they are still in my 3rd line, excluding McDavid. EA_Aljo
Point shot one timers are still too powerful
I've played Champs during two weeks now, once to get Nieuwendyk and once to get Modano. I've succeeded both times, but the D2D's (one timers from the blue line) are extremely overpowered. Its true in Rivals and Champs that some people simply do not do anything else offensively. Now I understand that if I don't block a shot or if I don't take away a lane, it can go in. But when you watch the goalie stand there and move their glove out of the way without dropping to butterfly... It simply cannot and should not go in like that. If the goalie is screened, he is in the butterfly or drops to the butterfly in an attempt to make a save, fine, you can't save them all and you can't block them all. But when the goalie literally freezes and doesn't even attempt to save a shot he can clearly see all the way, its not right. In Champs, its even more highlighted and quite frankly, Champs for me is where I have to switch to tight point defense because otherwise I can't win any games as so much of people's offense runs through the blue line, which is a clear sign that it is far too effective. The goalie needs to react to shots they can see, its not realistic nor is it conducive to a competitive environment to have a goalie not even attempt a save when he can clearly see the puck.
Goalie Pulled at Start of Game Then Crashes!
I jump in to squad battles today and I have 6 guys on the ice at the start of the game for the faceoff and the goalie is PULLED! Never saw this one before! As soon as the puck drops the game freezes and crashes to the Home Screen. No matter what mode I play (squad battles, moments, wild card, etc.) the game freezes crashes at the face off. I have tried all the fixes on the internet for Xbox: Power Cycle Restart Cleared Alternate MAC address Cleared Local Storage Cleared NHL 25 Cache Files Cleared Persistent Storage Removed and Re-added Account Nothing worked. Is anyone else having this issue? EA how do I fix this?
