NHL 25 Discussion

[FiveHoleTickler]

Do you have to wait until next season to receive all the battlepass rewards? I completed it, but it's only giving me the cosmetics and I need the pucks so I can get the Ginder pre-build loadout instead of having to pay for it out of pocket.

Can anyone help with this?

 

[The Burdened]

picked this up for $20 after hating 24 and giving up on it after 12 hours.
- able to remove the pressure meter from the ice
- no cringy celebration cutscene after every goal offline
- passing feels more fluid and snappy
- menus are faster
- franchise menu layout is a huge improvment
- all of the franchise additions are good
- mighty ducks logo for create a team is a silly but big for me because I have always wanted to run a eggplant and jade mighty ducks franchise mode

there is still obviously stuff I would like to see in franchise mode (edit names of cpu prospects, cpu players with no picture should have auto generated faces, a time machine like NBA Eras, i want override options for everything basically I would like sandbox god mode like NBA 2K lets you)

feels like they could be back on the right track hopefully.

 

[Matty Sundin]

They need to focus on offline play and against the cpu more. It’s just not enjoyable. I seriously have rarely played the CPU much since this series started with online play on console 20 years ago. Online with the right player or playing with a buddy can still be fun.

I played HUT this year after taking a break from it for a few years due the community being extremely toxic. I usually stop playing around this time as the cards start getting ridiculous, though it’s still fun to build cards and your team. This is also probably one of the first times I’ve been able to build a decent team without buying packs.

 

[East Coast Icestyle]

They need to focus on offline play and against the cpu more. It’s just not enjoyable. I seriously have rarely played the CPU much since this series started with online play on console 20 years ago. Online with the right player or playing with a buddy can still be fun.

I played HUT this year after taking a break from it for a few years due the community being extremely toxic. I usually stop playing around this time as the cards start getting ridiculous, though it’s still fun to build cards and your team. This is also probably one of the first times I’ve been able to build a decent team without buying packs.

I only play franchise (i play every game of them) and this year the cpu feels really good to me... until you get to goalies. Can't stop a beach ball this year, let in every other shot. Find the cpu plays decent defense and positional this year compared to last but yeah, the goalies are ruining this for me.

Well, that and I have an issue where the game freezes my whole xbox solid randomly when I'm playing a game

 

[Saskatoon]

I only play franchise (i play every game of them) and this year the cpu feels really good to me... until you get to goalies. Can't stop a beach ball this year, let in every other shot. Find the cpu plays decent defense and positional this year compared to last but yeah, the goalies are ruining this for me.

Well, that and I have an issue where the game freezes my whole xbox solid randomly when I'm playing a game

I assume you have adjusted the sliders?

 

[East Coast Icestyle]

I assume you have adjusted the sliders?

I've maxed every goalie slider in the direction needed to basically make them invincible and I still have goalies flop like fish wide away from the net or just fail to react at all to shots