Franchise Wish List/Changes Needed
Pains me yet again that some of these things haven't been included in franchise this year. I get it... gameplay and HUT make you more money,.. but really? It's just bad.... Anyway... here's how to make the game 10x better. Contracts - Ability to negotiate with said player - Players having destination preferences: low tax states/contenders/small markets... or player wants a NMC/NTC..... rather than whoever pays more - Players signing THE FIRST TWO DAYS OF FREE AGENCY (maybe give players the option to play a free agency minigame, just like the trade deadline one) - rather than simming a full week then losing a 92 ovr because another team payed 50k more. - Trade clauses (still don't know why these aren't in... it's NHL 24...) NTC/NMC/ M-Clauses - IR and LTIR (LTIR frees cap) - RFA's who aren't signed can request a trade (even with morale mode on or off) - Don't know if it's a bug or intended, but your med elite snipers coming off ELC's tend to ask for way too much money. I'll have Michkov score 25 per season then ask for 10m+. It's mostly only with snipers. AI - AI reworks - AI shouldn't be signing 83 overall free agents to 7-8m deals when they have two RFA's they can't sign - AI Coaching ACTUALLY utilizing positions (this change still hasn't been fixed) - AI trading and "find trade" button need a big overhaul. AI deciding to offer me two middle 6 forwards and a 3rd for my Med Elite prospect is an actual joke (try it for yourself, they never offer anything valuable) - "Find Trade" contd...: Franchise players with any trade value higher than a Med Elite show "no trades found". EA, I'm sure if Toronto put Matthews on the trade block, all 32 teams would put in an offer. This feature needs reworking. - AI need to sign their expiring UFA rookies. An example being a team having a med top 6 young UFA but lets them walk for some unknown reason. Trading - 3 way trading (still waiting) - players with low overalls and high salaries should be cap dumps. (taking said players contract for a 3rd, or a 3rd team retains for a pick) - ability to actually negotiate with the AI with given prompts (we'll take this player, you can have this pick, etc etc). - option to actually select the direction of your team prior to the deadline, example: setting your status as contenders vs sellers - contd... notifications when teams change their status, example: "Dallas Stars are now listed as sellers, and have put Jason Robertson on the block!"... this way, teams jump at the opportunity to grab him and it makes for a more interesting deadline Coaching - Option to turn coaching on/off (just like you can with morale, salary cap, owner mode.. etc) - Ability to change coaches instruction style over time - Give players some say in the coaches strategies (why am I the general manager and I can't communicate with my coach?) Misc/Customization - Ability to full edit players in franchise mode and outside (positions, age, weight, etc), no idea why you guys lock it? - Ability to have a hand in players development (I want my grinder to grow his defensive game, etc) - This is a BIG NEED..When the Franchise comes to It's final year, give a summary page of the last 25 seasons. This could show your overall record, cups won, most/biggest trades, biggest contracts, best season, worst season, achievements... etc. When you finish a franchise... it just ends. Nothing else.
Changes To Franchise Mode For NHL 25
I have spent a ton of hours playing franchise mode in NHL 24 and there are certain times in which the game becomes almost unplayable. I have compiled a list of issues and changes I would like to see for NHL 25. 1. Contract Scaling is non-existent. Once you are 10 years in, Franchise mode is almost unplayable. You have 81 Overall 7th D Defensemen asking for 7 million dollars. Meanwhile the cap has only gone up 15-20 million. With the cap going up 50%, so should players asking price. Everything should stay relative. 2. Coaching having too big of an impact. I understand how a coach is very important when it comes to real life. However, if I build a team of the greatest players of all-time, we shouldn't finish with only 50 wins and get swept in the first round. If my team has Gretzky, Orr, McDavid, and Roy, the coach shouldn't hold us back that much. 3. Completely change the way line chemistry works. Right now, X Factors have WAY too much impact on line chemistry. I can put 3 players who have 0 fit whatsoever on a line together, but if their X Factors match its a +5 boost. Meanwhile 3 players who have no X Factors but all three players have perfect line fits will only get a +2 or +3. This should not happen. 4. 6th and 7th round picks have way too much value. Under no circumstance should I be able to package these picks up and get a 3rd round pick in return. 5. Picks having inconsistent value between the draft and free agency. At the draft I have been consistently able to trade my current 2nd, 3rd, 4th etc. picks for a future 1st. Once the draft and resign-phase are complete, the 1st round pick I acquired skyrockets in value. The value of this pick should not change this much. 6. Top 5 Picks at the draft having way too much value. If I want to trade for the 1st overall pick, I have to trade an ungodly amount of assets in order to get it. However, if I trade for the player instead, I only have to trade half the amount of assets. The pick should only be as valuable as the player. 7. Let me manage multiple teams at once in franchise mode. This would be a cool feature to put in franchise mode as it is already in season mode. Image controlling a team in the western conference and eastern conference and trying to have to meet in the cup final. 8. Let me change teams through franchise mode whenever I want. If I build a super team and I want to move onto the worst team in the league, let me do so. 9. Add Trade Override. Give me full control. 10. Import Custom Draft Classes. Allow the community to create our own draft classes and allow for us to import them before every season. Not only would this make the community shared rosters 1000x better, but it would give us more control. 11. Allow us to adjust the ages of players. If I want Sidney Crosby to restart his career, I will just turn his age down to 18 and then we are good to go. This can also go alongside custom draft classes as we can make NHL legends rookies again and allow them to go through the draft. 12. Add the ability to see a players pass/shoot bias within franchise mode. 13. Let me edit the attributes of players within franchise mode. Of course, most users will not want to use this, but it gives us more control. These are just a few of the things I would like to see in NHL 25. Franchise Mode as a ton of potential but recently it has been neglected and the consumer is paying the price.
Franchise Mode Feature Requests
- 3 way trade - Salary retained on trade - Overall rating or Value of a card in the trading screen - LTIR : place a player on LTIR to gain salary cap space - NCAA players - Training Camp - Practice drills to improved your team - NHL combine result for draft - Spectate a prospect game Edit: Modified the subject to better reflect the thread content. -CM
Edit strategies unlocked?
I know it’s been a complaint for over a year but can we please be able to edit our teams strategies already? I know you want to gray it out because of the coach but then give us the option to turn it off. Can this PLEASE be included in the next patch? I’m tired of constantly having to go in and change everything in game every time. It’s a waste of time and makes me not want to play anymore
I shouldn’t be surprised
So to begin, it’s not even frustrating anymore, but laughable that you’re development team has had years to work on an actual presentation for the game and you still can not include a full presentation for a game in franchise mode. Every other sports game has put in actual effort to create immersion. It flat out sucks. Full stop. It must really be stressful to whoever loses the coin flip when they have to record the “presentation deep dive” and act like it’s revolutionary every year. But more importantly, changing lines and strategies pre-game only to have them incorrectly represented immediately on the ice is mediocre. I adjust my power play, which has a terrible user interface to begin with, only to see the player I’ve assigned to take face offs ends up god knows where, and if I pause the game and switch their position, that player gets frozen in place until the next whistle. For whatever reason you’ve made it impossible to edit lines and strategies anywhere else in the mode AGAIN. Also, why on earth does it make any contextual sense that after a whistle, when the CPU has full pressure, should one of my lines with 100% stamina immediately skate like they weigh 400 pounds? Why should a well rested line not be able to skate at full speed instantaneously after the faceoff just because the opposing team has full pressure? How would you justify their stamina rapidly depleting? I must finish this with taking accountability for being the schmuck who bought the game thinking there were actual improvements that made it worth pulling the trigger and now I wish I had that money to spend on literally anything else.Edit regens : when is it due ?
Madden and NBA 2K have been doing this for years. NHL EA doesn't even make the effort to develop credible regens that fit the hockey world. Being able to offer and let choose, faces that personalize the regens, modify names and nationalities if the player doesn't like the profile (ex : Nikita Ovechkin from North Korea ou Jack Williams from Estonia). Why things as simple as other sports licenses have been doing for a very long time, still don't exist on this license ? We are in 2024 and nothing has changed in more than 10 years since the observation was made. The quality of the franchise mode depends above all on the quality of the regens. Sooner or later, the license will have do it. Personnally, i've been waiting for 11 years. Listen to the fans, please
Franchise Strategies Help
Removing the ability to save my strategies for lines , pressure , and all the other strategies is completely annoying. I have to change every single strategy, pressure setting, and slide bars for pinching/ cycle tendencies, along with power play pressure every single game. What coach in the world has a power play set to passive anyways?? third line defense that pinch every time ? Fourth line offense that uses overload ? Just completely dumb settings , if this was NFL24 they would have changed it instantly.
Franchise Mode Updates
I guess this is why they never released an actually deep dive schedule this year, at least they have us some info before the game releases. Not a lot of changes, but some that were much needed. https://www.ea.com/games/nhl/nhl-24/news/franchise-mode-updates?utm_campaign=nhl24_hd_ww_ic_soco_twc_nhl24franchiseblog&utm_source=twitch&utm_medium=social&cid=78241&ts=1696083116790&isLocalized=true