Finaly after 4 years playing NHL on ps5 I finaly understand and how to execute net battles super thanks Pi x Pi

The servers are an absolute joke. Assumed they would have fixed it considering it was a problem in 2023. I am skipping 2025.

Amen brother!

You right bro.... Can't play hockey. Gotta play character build numbers instead

This video sucked

Huge hockey fan + Chen fan in general. This game in particular and the franchise in general has gone down the crapper. Very lazy cash grab. The nhl hould be ashamed to be affiliated with this crap, we need to get vocal as a community and let the lack of sales talk

We need to stop buying this game asap. Get vocal like Battlefield community and inflict change

Got my buddies on via game pass… game is absolutey same as 2020 and is still trash. Everything about it is half gas. Roblox has better tries at hockey games FFS

Could you do qn auston matthews build

Thing that kind of low key bugs me a bit is in competitive CHEL -- the PMD is pretty much the best build. Feels weird playing with basically 1 goalie, 4 PMDs and 1 playmaker almost exclusively at a higher level. If you get it you get it. I would recommend in future changing builds so maybe... Defensive can't have say close quarters, or just nerf stats on some builds and up others. I mention this because this alone is a simple fix and too me a step in right direction. Working in development and on games in past -- figuring out weird physic stuff that is mentioned in this video will be quite the challenge due to so many variables at play within the games code, network (server), etc etc.

Ea nhl is a scam. They want it to be a bad game so people spend more money in HUT. You start with a shit team and you play against people that spend money. So you finally give up and put 500$ bucks to discover that games are rigged and that is why you where able to loose by only 1 point agains a team 10 overall over you

Yo llama jusr an idea you could maybe slide to EA devs, its for tendies- but to have a dedicated build set to be your bench warmer for extra mans.

You have to aim well ahead for your one touch to go where you want it. Tough to adapt. Otherwise the pass will go elsewhere

“I read every comment” Ok prove it. Like this one

Big fan lama love the vids keep it up

At the end of the day, EA wants kids who suck at the game’s money just as much as they want the money of skilled players who sweat trying to do the perfect play, so they’ll probably never make the game as realistic as most of us want. If they did, a lot of ppl would never be able to score, have no fun, and not buy their game next year

This year has the most random goals tho. Nice vid

As much as I like the Devs response. The biggest limitation will be their yearly releases. I don’t believe it’s enough time to make the proper fixes to this game unless they take more time to make the game.

llama is our saviour

Its not even just the 💩 game the community on Xbox is bunch of kids who drink dog water 😂 😂 😂

Puck protection on right stick ruins everything.I feel i can't do anything because i accidently protect puck.And when holding L2 in offensive zone player should not tackle anything

Thank you very much for making this one video and now getting an answer from the developer so that you can finally see what's going wrong in the gameplay of this game 👌

I’m with you bud. I bet I know the people who think nothing is wrong with the game- those 16-0 playoff teams 😂

Also the blatant favouritism for the online servers. HUT by a mile has the best servers in this game (which is no praise by any means). But seriously? Why in the world can I play just fine on HUT but on every single other online game mode I lag like crazy.

My friend and i have played since 2001(couxh sesseions and single year modes...now we are fully done with buying this game. Chel is beyond broke..glitch goals gavent been fixed for 6 years. Its trash. They now made realistic goals(one timers) almost impossible to connect on. We are fed up and are no longer going to support this product.

Appreciate the shout out man! Love the content man and it’s great to hear that the devs and the boss are hearing us.

First thing I'd like to say is thank you so much for mentioning my video in yours. I'm honestly grateful that you did this considering your voice is alot louder then mine. So thank you so much for bringing attention to the video and things covered in this video. I am so glad mike gave the time to watch both of our videos and hopefully we see real changes soon. And also hopefully we can collab one day on the NHL 25 trailer or something and give commentary on what we think. Again thank you so much i really appreciate it.

It feels like without the stick up x factor poke checking is just usless, one of my biggest issues with nhl24

Buddy this content is so good. I love the points you’ve brought up, and hearing from Mike especially. The goalie clips are so classic. Really happy for you man. 🥲

The biggest thing that I want is consistency. This game plays differently everyday you jump on eashl. Sometimes it’s hard to know what to work on to be better when one night everything goes right and you can’t lose and the very next night you play the same and you lose a bunch of 1 goals games you dominate.

I do like the transparency, and the possible direction of the future. I feel the game has gotten worse since NHL 20 every year bottoming out at NHL 23. NHL 24 had some fresh ideas, but it does seem like they wasted time on total control and pressure. They almost backed it out completely through patches. Still have a lot of the same old glitches and poor menus. Eventually I think NHL could be 3 games. The traditional NHL annual release. A subscription based HUT game. And a subscription based EASHL game.

Aside from that, total control needs to go. Things like the Michigan shouldn't be one button moves. That, and the spamming of hip checks are ridiculous. Those used to be skilled moves. Now anyone can do it. It takes the feeling of accomplishment away.

I think there are many flaws with the game, and I used to get super upset and throw my controller and shit. But I realized I'm a grown ass man with a career and ambitions, what am I getting upset at a video game for? Game is way more fun when you just accept the bullshit and just have fun with your friends

I hope this leads to improvements on the series as a whole, it’s great to hear from the dev team!

Hopefully one day we could make a collab video.

One of the things I don’t get is there’s no challenge call option like madden has why can’t nhl have it

Until puppets stop buying this heap. The garbage will keep piling.

My favorite is playing hut vs bots and you can tell they're about to score a goal because hits and pokes do nothing. you either bounce off the player or you somehow miss the puck. it makes it feel like the game is tilting the ice and punishing you for playing well sometimes.

I'll be honest, watching this clip, you could have told me it was the same game I last played in NHL17 after playing for about 15 minutes and just shelving the game forever after that, and I would believe you. I still see the same awful passes and animations I saw back then that had me going "I swear, this is the last time I buy this game". Honestly, best choice I made was to finally just stop buying the game. EA has made it clear they only care about one thing...and that's HUT players they can milk for money while letting every other facet of the game keep getting worse. Sadly, thanks to HUT players, losing the career mode and offline players doesn't really matter, because what's $70 for a single game purchase matter when you have someone who will pay that $70 and then keep paying? But even if I'm not changing the game by not playing (which looking at these clips, I'm clearly not. Still seeing the 360 spin from a guy who could just easily catch the pass and skate backwards like at the 1:00 mark, the same consistently bad goalies and absurd inability for the AI to even stay facing the puck and puck carrier while moving around instead of constantly spinning and running everywhere). The game looks stuck, and while it's not being made better by my not purchasing it, my life isn't being made worse by purchasing a game that just stopped being fun to me to even play. I spent so much time trying to find the right set of sliders and being annoyed at the AI and goofy animations that I finally realized I would just be happier not playing it at all. So far...so good. Maybe someday someone else can get a shot at the NHL series and focus more on gameplay than on all of the goofy stuff...but until then, I'll save myself the frustration.

do you notice input lag when trying to deke in 24?

I stopped playing this year as much game is flimsy at best ,most toxic community I've ever seen !

I just want the GM mode to be better

I play nhl23 and the fact that I can skate through them, poke check, hit and they still have possession is beyond me

EA has to stick to the copy, paste formula... I agree with 100% of what you're saying and the last NHL game I bought was 21 but you're asking them to do so much work

Even in skillstick, with skilled up it is not a problem 😅 but I can’t imagine why EA would punish one control setting over the other lmao

Idk why they punish people playing on skill stick

I'm mainly a hockey player and fan but I recently went through the career modes of all sports games (NBA 2K, FIFA, Madden, MLB The Show) and even though I play the NHL career mode because I LOVE hockey, it is far and away the most removed from the real sports it's trying to simulate. If you look at any AI player for 3 seconds you will see egregious forward/backward skating, everyone running towards the puck, everyone getting in the way of their own teammate, never any structured plays either out of defense or in the ozone, just every AI dude has a spot they want to stand on and get to.... it's comedy. To your point about having to represent attributes I initially fully agreed, but what I noticed in other games is that they represent attributes by VISUAL misplays, an overthrown throw to a receiver or a ball fumbled on pick up in the show, that's low attributes. A puck glitching through a stick to 'represent attributes' is just the shittiest, unpredictable, gameplay. In terms of "poise", I think it was the same as 'intangibles' in 2K, a nothing stat to boost certain Overalls of players who would be two low overall based on their actual given attributes. Man this video is awesome, I find myself agreeing with all your points. The worst attribute is 'hand-eye' which just means you'll lose pucks that you passed perfectly because your player will receive them worse than an 8 year old with a wrong sided stick for no reason. One thing I would add is that I miss the opportunity to call set plays to trigger teammate behaviour. Like a default breakout stretchpass or all forwards coming low to break out together and so on, so many opportunities where hard coding could clean up this mess so easily.

Awareness ratings should be about how the players position themselves and react without the puck when they are AI controlled. A good defensively aware player should get in the passing/shooting lanes more, while a good offensively aware player should be able to create them (only AI controlled). They definitely should not be in modes that are strictly human vs human.

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Agree 100%. 24 is better than 23 for sure, but it has such a long ways to go.