Major Concern for 26
So, I remember the game AI being marketed as pretty heavily improved. I don’t think it’s changed. I’ve now tried every difficulty with every strategy, and re-downloaded NHL 24 to compare the situational choices the AI were making. What do you know - the same kinks. Failure to recognize 2 on 0 as puck carrier, failure to recognize back door opportunities as finisher and playmaker, extreme inability to execute give and go plays when receiving the puck flat footed from a player with speed, and this weird bank pass they often do instead which looks like they’re straight up just passing the puck to the other team. All compensated for with increased physicality at low momentum and a ridiculous ability to pick up loose pucks. The skating animation to cut past someone does cause less clutter from the computer AI, but that’s a gameplay change (an absolutely beautiful one do not try to be quirky and remove that) and it’s not at all related to the AI IQ & decision making. NHL 26 has to have higher AI IQ or WOC matchmaking options. Both preferably.I have an awesome idea for goalies next game
You know how ea likes to make the game super easy by making the goalie and defence suck and when you play goalie your ai goalie lets in stuff you could have saved in real life why not add a vr mode for goalie since they don’t have to move much it would be awesome imagine playing vr in chel and showing off your real skillz
FRANCHISE MODE GAME PLAY IS RUINED
So bad….. SOOOOO BAD!!!!! It's barely possible to hit the opponents, but Cole Caufield can bodyslam Mattia Ekholm like he is a child. passes always hit a skate ALWAYS You can’t pass or shot if they hit you but they can do perfect pass everytime you hit the….. the puck just bounche to them what ever you do. Late hits and blindside hit without any penalty only injured player every game 🤮 GOALIE ARE THE BIGGEST TRASH IN ALL GAME MODE YOU HAVE….. oh sorry not in the opposing team. ice-Q ehat is that??? well it dosen’t work at all Year after year we are asking for things that are easy to give us for exempel let us change the age/lenght/weight of players… or let us have more options for creating players like their play style: leader/rat/fighter/etc etc… I mean WOC have a lot of new goalie masks, why can’t we have them in franchise mode? why can’t you just remove hamburger logos and give us realistic cool logos…. 🤷♂️ just so tierd of how much you don’t care about what players want. RIP be a proNHL 26 Wishlist
Customization Features: - ability to create jerseys with words on it, and select the font/style (like the rangers jerseys) as of now, we only have the ability to do logos - custom logos, similar to MLB the show, where people can submit there own ideas - custom goalie helmets (use the same tools for the custom logos) - more presentation items for stadiums, especially the on-ice graphics Be a Pro: - online be a pro, where you start on your junior team with your buddies, and all of you are on the same line, to where you leave each other in the draft, and reunite throughout the seasons/playoffs - ALL STAR GAMES AND WINTER CLASSICS does anything else need to be said - ability to start in youth hockey (or high school), this doesn't need to be realistic teams, just do something as simple as a AI generated 16 team youth league that has a 12 game season or something, to where you get scouted to other junior leagues - with that, other junior leagues, add the USHL, NAHL, BCHL, NCAA and more for more junior realism - more interactiveness (I'll touch on more later) Franchise Mode: - custom trophy/trophy name - I don't play franchise mode as much, so people down below can give there thoughts World Of CHEL: - Make it open world, similar to NBA 2k MyCourt - have the ability to create leagues within WOC (similar to what EA does for F1 24 online seasons) Presentation: - Make it feel like we're on TV... simple as that. sign a deal with ESPN or something to make it feel like the real thing - redo the whole presentation basically, from the commentating to the scorebug, it needs a redo. ESPN+ scorebug would be perfect for the NHL franchise - fix the goal celebration animations, the awkward camera angle we have now is not it. make it where like if someone goes and slams against the boards, theres a camera on the other side. just make it have emotion Gameplay: - FIX THE GOALIES, goalies now are bugged through the roof, and have awkward animations we don't see in real life. And goalies in NHL 25 are dependent on the specific height and stance. Goalies like Dustin Wolf who are great in real like, when playing with them in CHEL it feels impossible to make a save - Hitting needs a revamp as always LEAVE YOUR THOUGHTS BELOW, WOULD LOVE TO HEAR MORE
Bring back Match my club size
We often play 2 and 3’s in 6v6 and spend hours backing out when matched up against 5’s. We would rather just let the search happen bs constantly backing out. We won’t play with drop ins due to issues and they just quit out anyways. Please bring back the Match my club size.What went wrong with EASHL and the NHL franchise as a whole
EASHL: The cpu teammates, defense specifically, have been so nerfed, it allows anyone to skate around them, go forehand backhand and score. This does nothing but encourage 95% of players to make their character 5' 3", 120 lbs and exploit this to death. This is not a skill issue, literally anyone can do it, meaning it is actually a lack of skill issue with the game. Why can't defense shove in front of the net? How are they expected to play defense if you can't clear the net? The goalies have been so nerfed that goal/shot totals of 4/8 or 3/5 are most common and then teams quit. Dumping the puck has been nerfed to create more offense. It continues to make the game feel less realistic X factors. The game is decided based on x factors. This only encourages the individualism of this game. Take note of College Football 25, it has "x factors" and it does not in any way take over a game. Less fortnite more hockey A piece of advice, make the cpu players good. Make the defense good. Make the goalies good. Make people actually play as a team. Instead of a game losing it's audience more and more every year encourage people to get the game because it is the closest representation of hockey we can get. To sum it all up the game has gone from a team sport where all players have to work together to win the game, to now being a game where as much individualism as possible is encouraged and the only way to win. You've taken the hockey out of hockey.Everything Wrong with NHL
This Game is Complete Garbage. PreBuilds have ruined the game. PreBuilds ruin the creativity of Eashl and other Modes. PreBuilds Not only get Better Attributes in The Main Categories but get Xfactors that Custom builds cant even use. Wheels Quick edges .... Hip Check is still Ridiculous players are bent over turning trying to follow the player theyre trying to hit. 95% of the time its A trip and not a hipcheck but never called. Reverse Hitting. Have you noticed the player using the reverse hit always wins? Regardless of Hitting power The reverse Hit always works. The Ai. Almost 20 years and still cant Figure out the Ai. Ai Dman is useless. Ai goalie will make the most unreal save and let in the softest goals Attributes either Dont work properly or dont have much affect . Strength Should Help on Faceoffs hitting shots. Shooting power doesnt seem to have much difference at all. Balance i dont think works could have 85+ Balance and still get worked by a 5'7160 sniper. Menus For a Next Gen game Menus are incredibly slow Match Club Size/Goalie. Why the Heck would you ever remove this from the game. Customization Logos Arenas have been the same for years cant get anything new? Cant get any retro logos ? Gameplay awful. No Team Store. Instead of us waiting to unlock new Logos for custom team Via Hockey Bags. Make a Store where we can buy logos jerseys all that. Make everything available at once not by day. How Bout instead of Just adding Dumb stuff you work on fixing the Problems with the game. The community literally gives you a bucket list of stuff to fix or to add you guys dont listen and just add things Literally no one asks for. You're more worried about adding PWHL and things like that to the game than actually fixing the horrible gameplay. I have no issue with Pwhl but The Game is NHL the gameplay is awful fix the Issues with the game then add. PWHL on NHL? EA since you want to do right why dont you Just Make a separate game for the womens game? They Should Have their own game not just an after thought on NHL! Im Sure PWHL 26 profits would be Through the Roof! Everyone would buy it just to find out The Game play is just copied and paste NHL.Goalies are TERRIBLE!!!
All I ask is that for NHL 26, playing goalie can be an enjoyable experience. This goes for both be a pro and chel. I'm sick of letting in 4-5 goals per game that either bounce off of me and in or go right through me. Being in position for the save doesn't mean anything in NHL 25, it just feels like RNG whether or not your goalie will actually feel like making a save.