NHL 25 Discussion

frightenedinmatenum2

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NMC is overpowered.

If you want to cheese it up, and you are a contender, you can give a NMC to every non-star and they will sign for almost nothing. Similar to what Dorion did in real life with Hamonic, except I think Hamonic would have signed for nothing anyways. :laugh:

They should have some sort of internal cap structure. If I overpay players or give it terms to players, it should effect other players on my team ask for. As in, if I give Brady 11M on his extension and Stutzle is above him, unless his personality is extremely loyal, he should be difficult to sign for less than that, even if he would get less on the open market. Or if I give a NMC to my Travis Hamonic, then everybody else parallel or above him should want one or should ask for more money or term than they otherwise would to compensate for not getting one. AKA, you should get punished for consistently signing bad contracts.

One thing I would like would be if they gave you some flexibility with your budget. My team has been yearly contenders, #1 in the league multiple times, and virtual Melnyk still makes it impossible for us to keep a coaching staff. Maybe this already exists in the hotdog stand mode, which I usually turn off, but it would be nice to be able to slash 5M from the player budget and transfer that to coaching.
 

Jay26

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There are no words for how shitty this game is. What a miserable experience. This game used to be fun, even if it was unrealistic. It rewarded you whenever you made nifty plays. Now it's impossible just to make a cross crease pass or have your teammates keep up with you on a rush without getting tangled up with the other CPU players.
 

Raekwon

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did they take out skill based matchmaking in eashl?
My squad is elite 1 and all we play are low badge teams
Not very fun for anyone when the games are that lopsided
 

ReddestRum

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did they take out skill based matchmaking in eashl?
My squad is elite 1 and all we play are low badge teams
Not very fun for anyone when the games are that lopsided

Same. Low population means that you will get matched up with anyone with a pulse.
 

Five Alarm Fire

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Finished my free trial. Game is at least much different than last year, I like the new mechanics (strides, one-timers) but I’m disappointed in the AI teammates. HUT is terrible this year, I always enjoy playing it casually for a few hours a week but there’s no rewards and swapping Wildcard for Rush is a downgrade.

I’ll buy it when it goes on sale but I don’t have an urge to return to it. Didn’t get a chance to try Franchise mode, maybe that’s what I’ll play.
 

frightenedinmatenum2

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There are no words for how shitty this game is. What a miserable experience. This game used to be fun, even if it was unrealistic. It rewarded you whenever you made nifty plays. Now it's impossible just to make a cross crease pass or have your teammates keep up with you on a rush without getting tangled up with the other CPU players.

Disagree.

I took a long break from the series other than occasionally renting it from my library for a week. I picked up NHL 25 blind without knowing about any updates and I was shocked at the gameplay. It's not perfect, but it is a definite step in the right direction. It rewards playing your position, gap control, etc.

It doesn't play like past EA NHL games. You can't play an extreme north/south game unless you have your top line on the ice. You have to handle the lower skilled players differently and develop a rhythm. Dump it in. Chip the puck. Find the safe plays. Etc.

It finally feels like a "next gen" game that has taken a step forward. My fear is that because they have cultivated a market that mainly wants "sick" arcadey hockey, and those are the people who spend money on micro-transactions, that they will go the other direction, which they already have to an extent with some of the updates.

They actually added the real coaches to franchise mode… shocked they keep adding stuff to a once ignored gamemode

Coaches are one of the better features in the game so I am hyped for this.

The only thing that annoys me is that the coaching budget makes it impossible to actually build and maintain a coaching staff. I am not sure if you can increase it on owner mode, but it makes no sense that if I'm running a team that has been a contender for a decade, even in a small market, that I can't afford to re-up my coach ever 4 years.
 

Blitzkrug

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Same. Low population means that you will get matched up with anyone with a pulse.
It's really bad. I used the last bit of the trial to play EASHL with my buddies and the game just kept throwing us squads that probably had a ceiling of low gold at best. AKA; an absolute bloodbath given we've all been playing this series essentially our entire lives and they probably haven't. They're platinum 1 and i think i finished at plat 3? Only 3s but i can't imagine 6s is any better given you need more people and the population is already low.

Last he told me their club is like 59-7-2 in division 1.
 

The Crypto Guy

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Damn they really nailed Craig Berube. Bravo EA on another job well done.
 

izzy

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I hope that they also added real life associate and assistant coaches and AHL coaches.

Maybe next year, im pretty happy they actually showed some interest in adding things instead of tossing this out as a new “feature” next game as youd expect

there is actually some real hope with this series rn but not much
 

Tom Brady

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They actually added the real coaches to franchise mode… shocked they keep adding stuff to a once ignored gamemode
Too bad it's not in be a pro at the moment.

And you have to download the new roster update instead of a patch which is so stupid considering so many people has spent hours editing the roster
 

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