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I want to ask when everything will be fixed and when will the entire game be updated and all the flaws fixed because I don't enjoy playing a game where nothing works and it's going in a very bad direction so ea sport will lose a lot of money if they ruin the game because people won't pay for what doesn't work and what doesn't work as it should thank youWhy is the community not making a bigger deal about horrible matchmaking?
Matchmaking has become unbearable. As soon as we started a club this year in D10, immediately playing Elite players/teams while we’re silver/gold. It’s not fun when games are lopsided. Win or lose I want to be in competitive games. Not blowout losses. I’ve seen the reasoning for current state of matchmaking. It seems EA believes player pool is too small for NHL to base matchmaking on skill level. That we would rather have shorter wait periods (play the first team available regardless of skill level) instead of waiting a bit longer. My club disagrees. We’d rather wait longer to play an evenly skilled team. It’s gotten so bad we’ve been using a 3rd party website to look up the opposing clubs record before the match starts. And we decide if we want to back out or play. Some of the teams it matches us against have 500+ wins and 90%+ win rate. It’s ridiculous. We constantly back out of matches, and wait to find a team that has a similar skill. This disproves EA’s logic. Doing our own matchmaking takes longer. It would be faster if EA would do it properly for us. Also, I know this has been brought up before as well, why can’t we search for a game with the same amount of human players anymore? Specifically for 3v3. 3 humans vs 2 humans and an AI is a major disadvantage. This is another instance where I see clubs backing out of matches until they find a team with an even amount of human players. So can we get a real reason to why matchmaking hasn’t been improved? Because the excuse of a low player pool doesn’t seem accurate. Not if you have clubs pretty much having to do their own matchmaking. Backing out of multiple matches until you find an even one. I imagine we’re not the only club doing this. Does EA realize if they improve matchmaking, then possibly more people will buy the game. Making the player pool larger. What does the community have to do to get matchmaking improved?
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Has anyone else noticed that there are pre-made loadouts only available for purchase? There was the shark-enf and now there is a new pre made loadout only available for purcahse. This is only going to get worse if people dont speak up about it. Only a matter of time before they add a sniper build with 99 speed or something insane. Cosmetics can be for purchase but you cant do that with loadouts. This is not right…..Would love to play online
I’ve played NHL my entire life. NHL26 is by far the most horrendous video game I have ever came across. Not because of the gameplay, because I am never able to find any gameplay. I find an opponent right away on games from 3 years ago, NHL 26 I have had friends over trying to find a casual matchup and have never been able to find one… or even see the different jersey options while choosing a team for that matter. Just wanted to plead for an update please please please I want to play my favourite game. Please.Reporting players/Store/eashl..
There should be an option to report players that are trolling. Yah know like those people that make drop-ins a living nightmare [REMOVED] for example and the people that get upset because you didnt pass to them 3 seconds into the game.. 90% of the community is already toxic as it is. We shouldn't have to back out or suffer until these people get kicked from the game to carry on. No one should have to put up with trolls making this game worse than what it is ontop of the current issues that people are having. But unfortunately these people can still exist in the community and rain terror on those who have to play drop-ins 24/7. Has there ever been a thought of making something so we can get these trolls out of the game? I would also like to add on to this, within the store on eashl, you have your new builds. Please for the love of god can you make it so we can view the stats of these new builds without being forced to buy them. Genuine feedback would be highly appreciated. Edit: Removed player ID. This breaks our rule on "naming and shaming". -CMUpdates on Voice Chat Overlay Toggle?
Hey Devs, Just wanted to see if there is any progress made on a toggle for the voice chat overlay. I play cross platform with friends and have to use in game chat. When playing 6s it is very tough to play RW or RD with the overlay covering my player. An option to turn this off/reduce the size would be an optimal patch item for quality of life.
Words can’t express how angry I am with matchmaking!
I love hockey, it’s my favorite sport in the world. World of Chel /EASHL is probably the best game mode ever but EA has failed tremendously the last few years with the matchmaking and this year for NHL 26 it’s become absolutely unbearable and I might just have to never buy another Chel again. Waiting for over 30 minutes and then you finally get players and everyone backs out. I miss the good ol days where the population was high (green color) and you never had issues getting games. There’s no way there isn’t enough people playing Chel for me to not find a game….I’m absolutely disgusted. Time is money and you don’t get it back. Eff you, EA, for all the time myself and countless other players have wasted simply trying to do something we enjoy, all just to not enjoy it. It’s really frustrating and if nothing is done, you’ve lost a fan. I’ve literally had a full team almost 6 times and we still never made it into a game! It’s bull crap! Sincerely, MusicManFlexDizz, the guy who has been trying to find a match since 7 am and hasn’t played one game and it’s now 8:51 ESTNHL26 matchmaking region restricted?
Hi guys, normally never playing CHEL. My last time was like 2022 or something. Now living in India, so my region is Asia-Pacific. While I connect to some games in HUT, I was not able to find any matchmaking today for CHEL mode at all (doesnt matter if 3v3, ones, threes, whatever). Is NHL26 matchmaking region restricted? Or is it just because there is barely anyone playing NHL26 at the moment and it could be better in a week when the normal version is published? Cheers!