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  2. saagssy
    thats what i am afraid of, skaters will always be favorites for ea sport, so this all glitch goals will be a lot easier to score on goalies, because no balancing with abilities.
  3. Janikka
    It really isn't, though. You need a game like Rocket League to get something like that or at least much closer to it. This is a tempting sentiment, right? Especially because people have teams or players they don't like so much, so obviously those teams or players will be bottom of the barrel once they can no longer rely on their beloved abilities. But we have both been around a long, long time. We have seen plenty of changes and their impact to the game, and I think we'll find history repeating itself. The players who were good using the traits will still be good going forward, and vice versa. Maybe there will be an adjustment period to get rid of certain bad habits from using the abilities. But eventually, I think we will simply have a different flavor of the game. Possibly a preferable one.
  4. saagssy
    I agree, but how i can tell my goalie to react in time, if abilities was giving me this reaction, and game core mechanic is delaying or other way around? its just what i am considered about not about making unreal saves, some saves is stupidly easy i would say, but there is so many saves what i should save everyday, and goalie acts stupid and put in self or just cant cover pad to the ice or trigger animation to move glove out or do it with delay, with all abilities on, so what will happen without abilities? maybe we will be better because skater abilities will not give errors, maybe we will be slow and stupid because we dont have this abilities to balance out, i dont know, but it will realy be 2 different worlds goalies and skaters, because skater do animation and we react, and you can control how fast where to shoot how strong how tricky, but we cant hold button longer like to get faster reaction time and aim our glove, even with instinct we cant be sure even when we do it all right, and predict shot we cant get greens and save shots.
  5. Snus97_
    Best news i heard in years The gameplay will be so much more fun And yes i have been playing without perks for some weeks now, it’s so much better
  6. Strumpan87
    But now it is purely skill versus skill, with no other handicaps involved. I do not understand what people are complaining about. Except for the fact that some players have started building their careers with the help of abilities that cover up their weaknesses, for example being able to execute a perfectly timed poke. Or other players who revived their careers because X factors compensated for their flaws. If you combine that with something like hybrid controls, where the game basically gives you perfect timing, then I understand why some players think this is terrible. Because now all the training wheels are gone. You schould not get help to be a better player with abilities in my opinion.
  7. Janikka
    I understand what you mean, but I think this is the wrong game if you want to play for yourself anyway. Even without the abilities, a lot of games provide a substantially purer competitive experience. So I think the whole abilities vs no abilities debate is about different flavors of essentially the same thing. One way to optimize the experience is banning specific traits only, like we were doing until now. Banning more of the current abilities was another option on the table. I don't have a strong opinion either way, but I didn't like when the abilities were first introduced as they felt game-breaking to me at the time (specific ability bans have been a way to mitigate this). I think some of the opposition comes from players trying to do all the same things the abilities taught them they could do, such as getting off a good shot from an impossible position or punching a new hole in a goalie with a backhand shot.
  8. pappeen-
    Thanks for proving my point, sounds like a ''you'' problem 👍
  9. stimperi
    Excellent decision! Make sportsgamer great again!
  10. saagssy
    yeah, just all core mechanics is bended to the skater side a lot, and core mechanics for goalies sucks, i dont know how it will end for goalies without abilities, need to test, but if we take in considiration hockey ultimate team and 1v1 versus matches, it will suck bad. Goalies is animation based, and EA made goalies designed to be played with abilities, to counter all the bs what skaters have, and with sponge, showstopper we actualy can save something, what we should save anyday. you talking about goalies skill issues, where you saw that goalie let in frontal shot without screen? like maybe on 10 shots 1 not like 50/50. i dont care about abilities, i just a bit worried about how goalies will act without abilities because ea sport dont wanted to make them core default good..
  11. pappeen-
    Well it goes both ways, players will need to adapt and rebuild their skaters to be more deadly in scoring scenarios. The same goes around for goalies, now you have to be better positioned to actually make a flashy save etc. So no matter what you have to say about ''goalies will have a tougher time now'', it is the EXACT same thing for skaters, and this will bring out the most skilled players and goalies out there. If you feel like you need your Elite abilities in net, sorry but then it sounds like a ''you'' problem.
  12. iSvamp
    Nice!
  13. saagssy
    sorry i wanted to say without abilities, not with abilities. And goalies best in years , ahaha you actualy kidding right?
  14. Jimmy
    Best decision ever, now will see nothing but actual skilled players/goalie and not ppl that need perks to play 💪
  15. pappeen-
    Ever heard of Elite sponge? What about Elite post to post? Goalies with abilities is the best i've seen in years, so get your facts straight before saying stupid things
  16. Strumpan87
    Please people force and crash the with perks also 🤣🤣🤣
  17. saagssy
    you are doing it every game, nothing new even more with stupid abilities, what makes goalie let in everything from 1m around
  18. Saviinainen
    Force hockey/crash the net, here we come 👎🏻
  19. Strumpan87
    Now you have to play by yourself and not behind traits 😊.
  20. saagssy
    Finaly, hopefully it will be always like that, good decision. i just a bit afraid of goalies, because seems like goalies without abilities is realy unbalanced and will let in more stupid shots, because core game of goalies is broken and abilities is helping them keep out of water and drowning.
  21. Edgard_gcn
    Good news
  22. JanEerikBanan
    Best experience by far has been without perks in different leagues. This is of course only my opinion 🍌
  23. Janikka
    Not sure about the decision (I don't really have enough data on zero-ability games yet), but thanks for getting it out early as we all hoped.
  24. JanEerikBanan
    Fantastic decision admins! 😍 Looking forward to get back into the ECL next season! 🍌
  25. imosi
    So much for democracy
  26. MartindalexC
    More information about "IMPORTANT UPDATE: ECL ’26: Spring - All Abilities Banned"
    Hi Gamers, As communicated previously, the League Administration has come to the decision that once the current ECL season has finished (end of day Thursday), any subsequent tournaments will be played with all X-factors banned. We have come to this decision based on community feedback, as well as examining the current trend of EA Sports themselves, with the battle pass becoming more and more pay-to-win - an idea that we at SportsGamer vehemently disagree with. Furthermore, a key aspect that we weighed up was the potential pros and cons of instituting a variable ban list depending on community feedback, and which traits they viewed as overpowered and which ones they viewed as underpowered. While in a perfect world we would of course like to allow players to play with minimal restrictions and be more in line with what EA envisioned for the game, we felt that considering the murkiness of some traits, and the general lack of information provided by EA as to how each trait fundamentally works (as well as interaction with others), that any discussions down the line would become prone to misinformation and negativity towards other players. As we head into the upcoming tournaments, we’d like to share a quick reminder of the current passwords to use when applying for daily competitive training games: ECLPro – for Elite / Pro and Pro / Elite Qualifying teams ECLLite – for Lite / Core teams ECLNeo – for Neo teams While we understand the desire to challenge yourself and want to play tougher teams, please respect the divisions as mentioned above for use with each password. The whole point of the password system is diminished if, for example, Core teams use the Pro password, and so on. Please also remember to avoid using abilities and special builds when playing these training games. This helps ensure fair and consistent gameplay across all divisions. Information about the upcoming ECL '26: Spring season will be available soon, so now is a good time to start thinking about your updated line-ups, if you haven't already. Thank you for your cooperation — and have fun out there! Thanks, League Administration
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