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Agree. It feels great to be back in the net. I enjoyed so much this Beta 😍 Did not play that much versus, but club was so much better and funnier!

I think he didn't even play 18 if that's he's opinion.. 😶

But when did you start? NHL 15? 😂

To start with, I gotta say that this beta have been very good so far and I have enjoyed every second of it. There are som changes though that I would like to see. 1. I want there to be an permanent dressing room like in last game. When you quit a game or back out you shouldn't get back to the starting menu of chel. In my opinion you should still be in the dressing room. 2. After you have played a game it says "next game in 00:56" for example. I think you should remove the limited time you have after a game. After games I like to watch stats and also highlights. And highlights aren't even available to watch after the games anymore?? You need to bring that back. I think it would be cool if you could watch highlights and stats of the game even after you quit or close the application. 3. Add a practice arena where you and your club members can go into anytime and practice together or alone as a goalie or skater. If alone as a goalie there should be a bot that can help you out. 4. Fix the pokecheks a little bit but not much. A good poke shouldn't be avoided just because it might give you a penalty. Bad pokes though that goes through the skates should always be a penalty. Pokechecks through the net should be fixed. 5. The stick lift can be nerfed a little bit but not too much. 6. Sometimes when you skate towards another player and decides to go for the hit nothing happens and the skater can just keep on skating without even losing the control over the puck. In real life the player would lose control of the puck. The rest I want changed have already been mentioned up here. This game is going to be amazing!

Customization: Player Classes + Traits/Specializations: + that you can change the size of your player AGAIN, like in old days. - that you can't go full mangaz with it, and play with a 170 enforcer or a 206 sniper, like you could "back in the days". Now you're forced to play with a sniper if you wants to be a midget, and DFD/enforcer if you wants to be a Hagrid. And that's.... rude! SIZE MATTERS, ramjah.

NHL Ones: Nice arcade hockey. Great addition! NHL THREES Drop-In (Arcade Threes): Great way to bring this game mode more alive. It was quite forgotten game mode for me last year. Even though it was nice variety for so serious 6v6s, playing alone against one opponent and two AIs wasn't very tempting in the long-run. Now I might even play this around the year. EASHL Club 6s: It's pretty much just the way it should be. Deflections could be tuned down a bit, but other than that it seems to be the best 6v6 so far. Customization: Player Classes + Traits/Specializations: This is really balanced and a nice addition. I was pretty sceptic about the feature when I heard about it, as I was worried it would result into unbalanced and overpowered builds just like last-gen NHL games had, but this works really well. Customization: Gear (Casual + Pro gear + Gear Bags): Not something I would extremely pay attention to, but it's fun to have more equipment and more personalized characters in the game. Some of the equipment is pretty goofy, but that's fine. If there's something I'd hope EA would add, it would be editable goalie masks: possibility to edit the color of the helmet and the grill, edit the surface type/material (matte - glossy), and maybe add some logos etc. on the helmet (why not text as well, assuming it goes through profanity filter). I'm still waiting for a chance to wear matte black helmet Human Goalies in EASHL: Feels great! Finally the goalie feel responsive and doesn't get stuck into animations as much as it used to.

Loving the beta and the 6v6 gameplay. The things that are bad are not really gameplay related. For example, when going in to a 6v6 game you shouldnt have to ready up two times? I know it’s always been like that but it’s just unnessecary and makes everything take more time. After the captain has pressed search for game, there shouldnt be any more buttonpressening. Just show the opponent and start the game :). Or make the timer max 30s and not 3 minutes. Look at fifa - you can play sooo many more games during 2hrs than you can play in NHL. Same with like shootout mode (rarely play that but still), you should be able to play a rematch against your opponent so you dont have to go back to main menu and search again. Summary: make everything more fluent menu wise and we will have a great game! Dont change the pokes etc.

Keep the gameplay as it is in beta. No tweaks that makes it closer to previous version. Not again. It's closer to perfection now that it has ever been.

Stick lift is way too effective. Pokechecks are useless. They need to balance it better. I like that you cant spam the poke. I dislike that even a good poke is a risk not worth taking. All pokes done from behind should result in a tripping while doing it in front (with a certain gap) should result in success or a failed poke but not an automatic tripping. The image I attached got me a tripping penalty. Its not the best exemple cause throwing a poke in that situation should probably get you a penalty but the problem is that my stick is nowhere near the fwds skates. other than that, all is great and skating etc feels awesome and I’m really looking forward to the release.

Overall I love the game, haven't been this excited over any game in while. Poke check is great and as a guy who mainly plays d in eashl and HUT while playing with my friends this is such a welcomed addition. To casual players in may be harder to learn to actually aim your pokes and choose the right timing but not only does it improve the overal experience in the game it also makes it more competable, where you'll have to learn to defend instead of spamming the poke check. Physical play is great. Also I like that you don't get really good shots when your player is in a akward position and it has an effects on the quality of the shot. I like that d-men need to give good opening passes or first passes and it's a little harder to do than in previous nhl games. Itercepting passes works pretty good and using that poke to correctly aim at the passing lanes, it makes a big difference. In Chel the traits a nice addition, I like that you can have a little customization to the build of your player, the weight and height and have a small boost in certain areas as well. It's all good. I actually went berserk and bought the most expensive edition of nhl which I haven't done ever and really looking forward playing the HUT mode and also be able to see how well does the skill zone playing work for those who use it. Hopefully the new system will force those players to actually play for themselves instead of always relying on their cpu to do the job. Just to sum this up, last NHL was too arcade style for me to enjoy the game, I love when there are multiple ways of scoring and playing instead of trying to always exceed in a certain way or doing the same goal over and over and over again. I love watching hockey and this is the most realistic hockey game thus far. I hope you guys do not listen too much for the crying about the poke check, I haven't noticed getting undeserved penalties and I've played the BETA a lot! Lack of self criticism is all I can say to the ones who are "getting too much penalties" or saying that "I extend my stick and the opponents dangles himself to the stick to cause penalties", if you've ever watched hockey it doesn't take much for a guy to get tripped. You have to take care of your stick, it's a basic rule in hockey.

That would be awesome.

Tech issue: This screen stuck with me after I paused the game to switch controllers. It was completely unplayable and I ended up losing the game. Since the X-button has a function in this screen, I couldnt use it for the gameplay. Rest of the buttons worked.

Skating is great and pokecheck is like it should be. Deflections should be nerfed, and intercepting passes should be changed a bit, as sometimes when you are facing the puck a pass might just go through your player, whereas when you are not facing the puck your player might still be able to intercept the pass, which should not be the case. This game has potential to be an amazing game with a couple of fixes imo.

Worst NHL I've played

Känner att det jag tänkte skriva redan finns utskrivet. De jag tänkte på kanske är kamera vinkeln. När man kör klassik med autozoom sen trycker du en gång på mitten knappen så den fokusar dig och sen håller du in mitt knappen 1-2 sekunder och då ser man hur det zoomar ut lite granna och den kamera vinkeln vill jag ha som standard utan att hålla på . Att det finns en option om man vill ha så eller inte. Låter lite långsökt men kamera vinkel är viktigt för mig Och små detaljer!