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I cant beleive nobody else has made another sim type hockey game for the consoles or pc.
I mean its 2024 and all we have is this ping pong EA game with gameplay that you can string 10 minutes of continuous play with no stoppages. Id be fine with that if the game was fun, but its not. Its all repetitive. At least NHL Hitz was fun. Something different happened in that game all the time.
 
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x Tame Impala said:
I played a fair amount of HUT this year and couldn’t agree more. Constant moments where I needed more freedom of movement or my AI teammates have their back to me in the ozone, are in a bad position in general, and even directly in my shooting lanes.
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LOL yeah.. 2 on 0 , AI goes on same side of the goalie as me, or skates to go play defense or something...OR WORSE, gets an off side for no reason, or hits me/gets in my way.

That Habs Fan said:
I can't wait for NHL26, I hear they're working on IQuick.

Like IceQ, but quicker.

They're saving I.Q. (but the .s will be hockey pucks in the promo materials) for NHL 27.
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As long as the next engine after that isnt ICQ, im happy.
 
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Gaud said:
LOL yeah.. 2 on 0 , AI goes on same side of the goalie as me, or skates to go play defense or something...OR WORSE, gets an off side for no reason, or hits me/gets in my way.



As long as the next engine after that isnt ICQ, im happy.
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It's actually going to be mIRC
 
FerrisRox said:
I hope they never go back to PC releases. So many games that have a blend of PC and console players are absolutely marred by PC players hacking and cheating.

No thanks.
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They'll never go back because modding would limit the number of sales they'd get.
Can't release the same game 4yrs in a row on PC and get suckers to buy it.
 
If anybody thought the half spin back and forth was annoying when playing online, just wait until the annoying abuse of edgework. It looks good but I can also see it becoming a feature that takes the fun out of playing.
 
TGWL said:
If anybody thought the half spin back and forth was annoying when playing online, just wait until the annoying abuse of edgework. It looks good but I can also see it becoming a feature that takes the fun out of playing.
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The lack of edgework & Mohawks were always the #1 thing detracting from realism for me so I'm very happy. I agree that is a concern though I'd imagine it would be pretty easy to alleviate it, just like IRL if someone were to be doing ridiculous edgework they would get very fatigued, they could make it so that doing too much will use up all of the players energy
 
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TGWL said:
If anybody thought the half spin back and forth was annoying when playing online, just wait until the annoying abuse of edgework. It looks good but I can also see it becoming a feature that takes the fun out of playing.
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Excessive edge work should lead to rapid fatigue and that would certainly make it easier to counter.
 
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The edgework thing does look nice tbh. The AI's on ice awareness and bad positioning was a huge issue I had with the game so it's nice to see a potential solution for that.
 
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Skating, edgework and reactive actions look good. Skeptical until I get to actually play this of course but these sound like things that could make the game more authentic. We'll see how Ice Q turns out, this could also be a great improvement or just a marketing gimmick. Hopefully they release a demo.
 
Probably a dumb question but I'm curious so I'll try anyway:

I remember in past games, NCAA players weren't in the game due to I think rights/them being amateur players. Has anything changed in recent years with the whole NIL stuff? Also, if a player (like say Celebrini) signs an NHL contract prior to the release of the game, should we expect them to be in the game with pictures and all or do they have to actually play in an NHL game first? I know you can download rosters that fill this stuff in after the fact, but it's kind of lame to have generic faces for your star players.

TLDR; Is the #1OA pick going to have a generic face in the game this year??
 
When are they doing the franchise mode deep dive? The gameplay stuff is nice to see, but the make or break for me buying before it’s like 19.99 is the franchise mode. It’s literally been the same since at the very least NHL 11. There hasn’t been an attempt made on that feature in like 14 years. I play maybe like 100 games a year, the rest is all franchise mode/GM simming
 
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Leafs87 said:
When are they doing the franchise mode deep dive? The gameplay stuff is nice to see, but the make or break for me buying before it’s like 19.99 is the franchise mode. It’s literally been the same since at the very least NHL 11. There hasn’t been an attempt made on that feature in like 14 years. I play maybe like 100 games a year, the rest is all franchise mode/GM simming
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They said mid September
 
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