Talking in Chel PC
Is anybody is actually able to speak with is mic in a game in chel, especially in drop-in? I've look on google and try everything but still can't talk. If someone know a way to speak during a game in Chel drop-in (don't know if it matter but 6v6) let me know because I'm getting crazy about it! I want to be able to tell my teammate to stop trying to be heroes and pass the puck so we can score goal and win instead of them just losing the puck over and over because the are just greddy and try to be the hero...How is this even possible?
I’ll try to describe the situation as best as I can. I’m not a new player, but this year’s version is just complete garbage — AI, textures, bugs, graphics, and all these weird, unexplainable things. After the last update, I’m a Silver 1 player (~19K), and I just can’t move up. Not because I’m bad, but because of things I’ll explain below. Can someone honestly explain how this is possible in online play (club or drop-ins)? Based on stats I tracked over my last 30 games, my club (around 19K) gets matched against teams rated 21K+ in about 85–90% of games. How does that make sense? Against these higher-rated teams, the game feels completely unfair. My player and teammates are slow, passing is terrible and sluggish, energy drains super fast, shots are weak. Multiple times my player suddenly slowed down for 5–7 seconds like he had no stamina — even though it was at 100%!!! Meanwhile, the opponents are super fast, their passing is perfect, and almost every shot is a goal — even from total nonsense positions. Our goalie is full of holes, comes out of the net randomly… while the opponent’s goalie saves everything, even the impossible, always perfectly positioned and tracking the puck. And the weirdest part — when I play against teams at a similar level, suddenly everything feels fine. Passing works, speed is normal, shots make sense… and the game actually depends on skill again. With this kind of system, neither I nor my club can improve or move forward. It’s impossible to progress. After 25 years, this is the first time NHL has stopped being fun for me. And I’m a huge hockey fan — on PS5 I play NHL 90% of the time. How much worse can this game even get? Where is the bottom?Please
This game is absolutely bad enough to justify a refund on the playstation store, considering sony's standards. Luckily for them, people just put up with this level of quality, and theres too small of a market for enough complaints (or any competition, for that matter). I pray the developers can get reassigned and this franchise dies a very deserved death. I dont even care about the gameplay honestly. Its outdated, glitchy and overall bad, of course, but the menus are offensively laggy. Its such a slap in the face to open the game and get an ad, for a gamemode i dont play, on top of having to FIGHT through these awful menu screens, where you dont know if the game has registered a button press for about 2 seconds, so you wait, see if it reacts to your input, and then you can react accordingly. Open world of chel - another ad. Back out of that one and finally get into the dressing room. Oops someone got an error which kicked them back to the main menu. Another 5 minutes waiting on them. Finally find a game and the other team leaves pre match, or someone on our team gets an error. Do it all over again, for a game that has already been out for 7 years, with some new - horribly optimized - additions (stick physics, reverse hitting, interference is allowed, goalies are worse than ever, but hey, new animations). Please stop purchasing these games, companies like ea would be forced to make better (or even just functioning) ones.Can you turn up ai goalie logic in a quick tuner/update in WOC?
For the love of all things, how did the ai goalies get absolutely worse in WOC, esp in 3v3? I am so sick and tired of playing against the same moves that go in 5/6 times a game. Yes they are defendable, but b/c of the wheel/speed meta, gaps happen no matter how hard you try to lock it down. Meanwhile you get punished for playing a teamplay style setting up high iq hockey plays. The goalies react to one timers like they are Brodeur, Roy and Hasek...but when a dman is in good position just keeping them outside, they come down backhand forehand backhand, shoot from the side of the net and the goalies then look like Toskala, Salo, and Talbot. They either freeze in place, or bite so hard that they are 5 ft out of the crease. Im sick and tired of playing games that are 9-7, 6-5, ect. How about making the goalies harder to score on and we get games that come out 1-0, 2-1, 3-2? You should be rewarded for playing hockey not punished for it. The fact that the goalies are more "cheese-able" than ever after your big goalie updates the last few years is pretty sad tbh.
Height and Weight Impact
Does anyone know the impact that height and weight have IN game? I know they obviously affect certain attributes like speed, strength, etc. out of game, but do they also play apart in the actual game? For instance, would a 6'5" 220lb player with 99 speed be as fast as a 5'9" 160lb player with 99 speed? Would that 5'9" player with 90 balance resist hits the same as the 6'5" player with 90 balance? The answer should be that only attributes matter in game, but the actual gameplay feels otherwise. I just wanted to confirm if anyone has any facts on this and to see how much it really impacts gameplay. thank you!
