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Here are my honest opinions on the game. So I got the 3 day early access. I play only World of CHEL club games with my friends and Franchise mode. Once in a while we’ll play drop in if we wanna goon it up and have fun. My club has been division 1 in the past so we know what we’re doing. I hate that they added the skill button cuz everyone’s trying the stupid behind the net goals. I absolutely don’t like the pressure builder/goalie fatigue. I like the idea but it’s too powerful, it needs to be toned down. The animations that the goalies make by sliding on their side are so unrealistic. Goalies don’t do that.

I love the hitting but I hate how often they call penalties. Charging, elbowing, cross checking, boarding. I’ve gotten so many face to face boarding penalties and the guy I hit doesn’t even hit the boards lol. The tripping is still an issue. The deflections are a little different and that’s my bread and butter so I’m adjusting to it.

I don’t like the goal celebration screen although I like some of the celly’s. I like the idea of a battle pass and you can redeem points for stuff but I hate how the store changes every day. I’m glad they got rid of the stupid bags but I just wish they had one big store and you can buy whatever you want instead of having to wait for it and if you’re not online that day you might miss it. Gimme a big store so I can buy the equipment I want, goal horns, etc.

The last thing EA needs to fix is drop in lobbies. So many times I’d be with my friends and one or some wouldn’t load into the final loading screen and we would have to back out and send another invite. It’s happening a lot. It’s gotten so bad the other night my buddy and I said hey let’s each search for a game from our own lobby and sure enough we would get matched up on the same team, that’s pathetic, fix your shit EA.
 
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I have warmed up to the gameplay a little bit more. I think the new team is onto something, but the execution is just not there right now. If these damn games were not yearly releases, they could really make improvements and have more time to fine-tune the product as well as add new features. Comparing EA’s NHL compared to their other sports game games, NHL isn’t as bad but the bar is pretty low. Sports games in general have just become copy paste for the most part.

It is kind of sad that games from 20 years ago have better presentation than the current games. I threw in NHL 2K5 just for fun this weekend and it’s almost comical how much more there is to do in that game and how much better the presentation is. It’s honestly sad because it’s not even close.

For off-line, I tweaked some sliders and I found a pretty good sweet spot for simulation that I have been happy with. Again, I think if this team had more time to dedicate to fine-tuning the game, it would be a lot better. I have found myself being able to score in a variety of ways compared to previous years.

Hip checking is completely broken. In EASHL, there is no way a 5’9 dangler build should be obliterating my 6’4 defenseman. 6V6 is just not fun to play right now because of the checking. It just becomes a spam checking fest with little to no offense being created because of it. I just wish there was a way to get NHL 13 and 14 EASHL play style back. Drop in games were an absolute blast back then and club play was better too.
 
I seriously cannot stand playing this game with all the changes. Why mess with the controls? I get wanting to change things up, but the changes even when using skill stick are so frustrating. I like having a few one tap dekes, but to turn all the buttons upside down is extremely frustrating to anyone who has been playing the game for the last decade. I feel like I cant get slap shots off, unless the game deems I'm in a good spot for one. Xfactor is very similar to madden in the sense that it makes other players skills worse so that way the xfactor skillset is able to work. Just like madden they kill the game for me. Taje the ability to have a more accurate stick check and stick lift. It literally makes everyone else TERRIBLE at these unless you use these perks. So tell me EA, whats the point in having a skill rating if they are useless anyway? I should never get a penalty for trying to stick check someone and instead my players just hooks a guy in his arms.


AI is still completely and utterly useless. They are stuck to whatever system they are coded to and have 0 on ice hockey sense. When players who are 5 ft from the puck and are the closest to the puck skate away from it because that's what the system they are stuck to tells me that the players have absolutely zero ability to "think" for themselves. I gave this game a chance as I wanted to play it but after buying this game I wont be buying again for a long time.

I still doubt whether anyone in the dev team has ever played any actual organized hockey outside of beer league? Or if they watch hockey at all. All you would have to do is to watch a night of hockey and count the average of how many times certain things happen throughout a game and work towards that to be the most realistic. But that's too much to ask for.
 
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On the 10 hour trial.
Jumped into Franchise right away once the roster update was out. Hitting is extremely hard now and has taken a few games to get used to the style of play. Had to nerf the CPU as it seemed like at 50 they could Scott Stevens me easily. Don't mind the difficulty in hitting for me, tad more realistic.
Goalies really do go down faster this generation, but haven't had any bad goals for or against when the goalie sprawls out on the ice.
CPU teammates at times just seem lost and I've seen a few times a few go for the puck uncontested, stop and then go back, leaving the puck alone in the defensive zone.
Graphics on Xbox got a nice boost. Can't say I care for the celebration cut scene that can't be skipped.
Still need to tweak the goalie sliders. Too many softies. Small sample size but getting some crazy simulated scores. 9-5, 7-3, etc... A lot of CPU players 15 games into the season are near 2PPG. Curious to see if it levels out or we got 1980's stats coming up.

Haven't used total control that much, switched to the skill stick option.
 
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NYR94 said:
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Wait a second... I might actually stick to the current controls if tethering itself can be removed. I think I could do pretty decently with the anticipation instinct setting. If not though, I'll just go back to hybrid. Glad it's finally being updated; bought the game 2 weeks ago and have been waiting for this update to finally give it a real go
 
Still gonna wait till Black Friday but at least they fixed the controls.

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Also they're apparently fixing the lacrosse move, hip checking etc so I'm happy to be waiting, would rather get a game that's functional (and 50% of haha)
 
ucanthanzalthetruth said:
Still gonna wait till Black Friday but at least they fixed the controls.

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Also they're apparently fixing the lacrosse move, hip checking etc so I'm happy to be waiting, would rather get a game that's functional (and 50% of haha)
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I'm now up over 100 games played in CHEL and still I've only seen one lacrosse goal. I think this is an imaginary problem.
 
overall i like this game better.
Although im annoyed by how many penalties my AI takes. Like ill have one per 3-4 games, but my AI gets one or more per game and I almost never get powerplays
 
Bgav said:
They still haven't added the ducks anniversary sweaters
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lol ThaT was The first thing I checked for after the update. the only NHL jersey change they made was adding the Wild's new alternate which to me looks exactly like the retro alternate they wore last year, which was already in the game.
 
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NYR94 said:
lol ThaT was The first thing I checked for after the update. the only NHL jersey change they made was adding the Wild's new alternate which to me looks exactly like the retro alternate they wore last year, which was already in the game.
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same lol
 
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CasusBelli said:
Just noticed that players can now gain and lose X Factor abilities in franchise mode. Game changer for me, since it’s all I play now, with BAP so stale.
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They should just copy NBA 2k medals with the bronze-silver-gold-HOF style tiers for X-factors to make all players feel different would help out the gameplay and team building in general for franchise mode.
 
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Panthaz89 said:
They should just copy NBA 2k medals with the bronze-silver-gold-HOF style tiers for X-factors to make all players feel different would help out the gameplay and team building in general for franchise mode.
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Was going to say I love the Playing Styles of EA FC24, which can make even a 75-rated player remarkably valuable, given the right Playing Style. I would also welcome getting rid of attributes altogether, switching to more nuanced scouting descriptions, like we get for draft Scout Reports -- only more detailed. EA could learn from FHM in that regard (when Fog of War is enabled).
 
Played a few games yesterday without the tether and it actually feels pretty good, my teammates on offense seem to create somewhat better scoring opportunities. But good lord was the defensive AI bad. They left me out to dry for 4 goals by purposely skating away from a guy 10 feet in front of me in the slot or double-teaming a player on the hashmarks and leaving a guy wide open in front of me. My guess is that CPU difficulty doesn't make the opposing CPU smarter, it just makes your teammates dumber. I set all CPU strategy to 0/6 and kept things on all star and it played better. Considering how brutal it is for goalies I have my own set of sliders that makes it at least possible to put up good numbers. I have goalie reflexes set to 100 and nerfed shooting and pass speed by around 7 points. They'll still score goals if they're in the right position but given how many high scoring chances they get per game, I think you have to buff goalies to give them a fighting chance. Idc if others think of it as cheating bc if it's that easy to score 80 goals in a season and win a hart as a forward, it should at least be possible to do the same as a goalie.
 
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The Downdate they had a few days ago has glitched the jerseys in Club CHEL 3’s to this generic blacked out EA shit. We can’t even used our custom Jerseys. What’s really fun is playing 3V3 against an opponent with the same exact jersey.

What a steaming pile of shit this game is. EA is literally, the worst.
 
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