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We need the search opponents according to team size and region back. Has been hard to to play full 6v6 with low ping. That is what this whole scene is about.

2 hours ago, Soijapoika said:

We need the search opponents according to team size and region back. Has been hard to to play full 6v6 with low ping. That is what this whole scene is about.

100% agree. We were finding smaller teams and North American teams like 10x in a row last night. I have given EA this feedback as has many of the other Game Changers. That being said, the power is in the numbers, so if you agree with a feedback that has already been sent, feel free to like or post a comment to show your support to a certain opinion!

I have played so far only HUT about 30 games including Rivals, Squad Battles and mostly Wildcard-mode. I was very interested on trying that new mode whether it meets my expectations - and it did. Very interesting mode but I must say I expected initially full three period games. But on the other hand one of it´s ideas I guess is that you can play many short games and gain rewards in short period time. That is in a way good. Better mode than HUT Rush was which has been removed.

In Rivals I think the format should be similar than that in EA Sports FC. Placement games should be removed and the format should be based on winning streaks. With that good players will progress fast to upper divisions although all will begin from lower divisions at first. But it is good that Rivals is added to that new XP progression system which I think is great.

Gameplay is smooth and what impressed me the quality of AI games. I think there is major improvement in AI and now it is fun also to play against it. In previous versions I think that was not the case. 

I have not encountered any bugs except when I scored in Rivals the replay showed the previous goal by the opponent.

But in general I liked the game and did not use all the 10 hour trial so I bought the Deluxe Edition and continued playing without time limit. I must say it has been in some previous years that game has felt good at first but not so good in few months. Hopefully this feeling on game remains whole year. Message to EA: keep this level at least - don´t adjust too much on gameplay. The game feels fun to play now.

Edited September 29 by JakePlay77

I also like the leaderboards in HUT. In each mode (Rivals, Wildcard and Squad Battles) there are separate leaderboards as you all know. That is great for me because it saves time updating Excel stats which I did previously. Now the records are there in a game - not just the overall record which has always been there but this new which records separately each mode. Big 👍 to EA for that.

Edited September 29 by JakePlay77

On 28.9.2024 at 12.48, Kenu kirjoitti:

100% agree. We were finding smaller teams and North American teams like 10x in a row last night. I have given EA this feedback as has many of the other Game Changers. That being said, the power is in the numbers, so if you agree with a feedback that has already been sent, feel free to like or post a comment to show your support to a certain opinion!

My question is how and why has this even happened? I mean it's a BASIC feature of a functional videogame and has been in the game for years. 

Seriously, do they not test out the matchmaking in any way prior to launch? This is actually terrible.

Same with versus. Yeah you find opponents instantly, but it is always NA. No exception.

Baffles my mind. 

100% agree with the matchmaking settings mentioned earlier. Maybe they have done some updates to servers and network code but still EU and NA shouldn't match up unless it's 4am here in Finland and after 15mins of searching no-one else within 80ms ping shows up. What I also don't like at all is the hip check auto-locking to opponent, it is far too OP.

Otherwise LT feels really good and controls feels smooth and responsive. Quite similar to 24 but very good QoL changes.

Several hours in, I feel like the game offers a new perspective and focuses more on team play than previous iterations. Anyhow, these are my observations and comments from playing clubs

Bugs and other:

• Replays sometimes show the opposing teams goals even though your own team has scored
• Menus in this game are still painfully slow and UI/UX is non-intuitive (e.g. no straight path to dressing room, multiple characters to customize, shop navigation is a mess)
• Battle pass and the shop - is this really needed?
• Graphics are constantly glitching in the menus (and sometimes in-game)
• Synchronization sometimes makes so that it re-starts the games after the following faceoff, e.g. when a goal has been scored
• Players have weird animations when idle - skewed spine when using the "meta" skating style

Improvements and fine tuning:

• One-timers will probably need to be more balanced in my opinion - seems like goaltenders are freezing at the moment and they don't have many options to save the puck when the perfect one-timer has been triggered. I don't mind at all if this is supposed to be like this, then it becomes a game of taking away the chances but I feel like they could be a litte more fine tuned to give goalies some tools to actually save them
• Highly personal opinion but I feel the tempo has been tuned down quite a bit which I am not that fond of - probably not something that is easily tuned but maybe for NHL 26?

 

Edited September 30 by minokin

Goalies fly up of ice. If they are in butterfly, their legs don’t contact with ice.

They don't see the texture, they levitate above the ice.
And the puck goes straight along the ice and flies relative to the ice. And the goalie is above the ice in the textures, hence the crooked animation and in the upper rebounds.

i can send photo if you need, but just look replay when goalie in butterfly

 

who can write to ea?

 

 

Because goalies levitate the texture of ice, animation of all saves very bad. So much goals

• Screen syncing and goes straight to the faceoff without any time to react
• Matchmaking in EASHL as mentioned before
• Wrong replays to the according sequence (game shows replay of a goal even though a penalty occured etc.)
• Grudge matches appear without playing against the team/opponent before
• If injured you can still stand up quickly by pressing L1
• Can't change the language before the start of the game
• If inviting another player who is not a member of your club to the EASHL lobby the invite is often invalid

16 hours ago, iStrong_rus said:

Goalies fly up of ice. If they are in butterfly, their legs don’t contact with ice.

They don't see the texture, they levitate above the ice.
And the puck goes straight along the ice and flies relative to the ice. And the goalie is above the ice in the textures, hence the crooked animation and in the upper rebounds.

i can send photo if you need, but just look replay when goalie in butterfly

 

who can write to ea?

 

 

Because goalies levitate the texture of ice, animation of all saves very bad. So much goals

A video that can be shared would help the most.

I am liking nhl 25 so far but I have some issues I hope get addressed. 
 

1. Panthers goal light is not correct. The Panthers now have a different goal light starting from 2023 that is not in the game.

2. The oilers seem to be missing their blue lights when they score and there is no smoke coming from the corner boards like we saw this year during their playoff run

3. The  lightning are also missing their iconic smoke that is located on the top of the boards behind the goal as well when they score.

4. The rangers light show is missing when they score a goal and I know they have been using one for a long time and that goes for all teams… each team needs to have their accurate light show when a goal is scored 

5. Most horns were updated and fixed but I feel like the ducks,kings, penguins, capitals (still)… but I feel like a few horns need to sound crisper still like the avs and stars and Tampa bay and the kraken need to be a little bit louder… ALSO PLEASE ADD UTAH CORRECT HORN 

6. Can we see about goal songs be added for future games? It feels weird not hearing the bruins goal song but get as many as you can there are only three in the game that teams actually use…

7. Can we get more goal masks updated! Only 16 teams got new ones 

8. full presentation for next game or patched in? 
 

9. CAN WE FIX THE HANDSHAKE LINE!!! From rounds 1-3 each team should still have their equipment on from the celebration cutscene to the handshake line equipment should stay on… now when we get to the finals only the loser team should still have their equipment on NOT BOTH!!! Also I have ran into a glitch as well with this where a player from each team apparently switched teams during the handshake line… CAN WE PLEASE ADDRESS THIS 😂🙏🏻🤦‍♂️

Edited October 3 by PowerPlay

Hello

i wanna say thank u EA😎

-no more quake arena on ICE , game speed is now so more realistic 

-no more stupid penalties all The time, now ITS pretty good balance

-so called skill one timer req zero skill, so imo ITS basic one, only now u dont need trait for it so ITS kinda good

- best will still be best n complaining doesn’t change it, but at least it’s so much more fun to play And thats most important thing about gaming

-tack och hej your’s JohtajaTheGreat 

https://postimg.cc/gallery/d06ccYz
 

hello, at this link I saved the photo where goalies levitate above the ice in butterfly. 

Feedback: Game's broken

I also cover the goalie gameplay in NHL 25.

1. I don't think positional play is as important this year. The puck goes into the goal rather than my goalie holding it. 

2. the save animations are too slow. But you can't stop the faster shots with them. Because the players can now have more points on the wristshot and slapshot.

3. we can't react well on the break and have to make quick decisions. The shooter is much more manoeuvrable than the goalkeeper.

4. goalkeeper obstruction is just so random that every situation is actually a 50-50 chance that the goal will count or not. 

5. the screen effect is too high. Even with 96 vision you get stupid goals.

6. if you want to react to a cross-crease pass and slide over to the other corner, you can get stuck in an animation and not react to the shot.

7. the exaggerated reaction to bad passes is a disaster.

8. the rebound control is also random. No matter if you have 80 or 92 you always get the same rubbish.

9. the same is with fivehole, it can't be that 78 feels exactly the same as 90 completely confusing.

10. i have the feeling that the right stick has a delay. But that's subjective, it may not be true. 

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Things I've seen, in general, about the defensive play.

1. the defenseman stands very well, sees the puck and still can't intercept it, so the forward behind him can slide it in. 

2. the defender lies down on his stomach to prevent the pass, but it still goes under him.

3. it feels like the shooter can always shoot, regardless of whether the defender is there or not. 

I'm curious what else you can say about this.

Best regards
RPH_31

EASHL gameplay feels great if not fantastic, most enjoyable its been in years IMHO. Seems goalies are having a rough go at it, but I'm sure they'll figure it out. As a skater, pretty much no complaints.

At the same time, everything "around" the game is as bad as it ever has been. The online matchmaking, the slow menus, the myriad of bugs and glitches... all of it makes playing the game frustrating, for no other reason than it being difficult to actually get in a game. 

Side note: I would've loved to have been a fly on the wall in the meeting where they decided to remove the server matching/selection option for standard EASHL games.

vor 1 Minute schrieb l-Furyan-l:

EASHL gameplay feels great if not fantastic, most enjoyable its been in years IMHO. Seems goalies are having a rough go at it, but I'm sure they'll figure it out. As a skater, pretty much no complaints.

At the same time, everything "around" the game is as bad as it ever has been. The online matchmaking, the slow menus, the myriad of bugs and glitches... all of it makes playing the game frustrating, for no other reason than it being difficult to actually get in a game. 

Side note: I would've loved to have been a fly on the wall in the meeting where they decided to remove the server matching/selection option for standard EASHL games.

100% agree

vor 6 Stunden schrieb l-Furyan-l:

EASHL gameplay feels great if not fantastic, most enjoyable its been in years IMHO. Seems goalies are having a rough go at it, but I'm sure they'll figure it out. As a skater, pretty much no complaints.

At the same time, everything "around" the game is as bad as it ever has been. The online matchmaking, the slow menus, the myriad of bugs and glitches... all of it makes playing the game frustrating, for no other reason than it being difficult to actually get in a game. 

Side note: I would've loved to have been a fly on the wall in the meeting where they decided to remove the server matching/selection option for standard EASHL games.

are we playing the same game? 😅

https://postimg.cc/gallery/d06ccYz
 

hello, at this link I saved the photo where goalies levitate above the ice in butterfly. 
 

 

at this photo will be a goal under leg, because goalie fly above the ice

Edited October 6 by iStrong_rus

They need to fix goalies butterflying asap. when you hit butterfly button, he just flys out of position or go to post to post, also its realy bad, that he auto post hugs on butterfly, making you lot of time just you want to butterfly on shortside, but he move and cover farside post like auto posting. other than that its all pretty good with goalies, but this thing what happens when butterflying is annoying, even if you want to slide to post in breakaway, he just flys out of net if you press butterfly button.

hellou gamers😎
 

Game search engine is broken we all know that, but if most of The decent Clubs put crossplay off, then teams like us get 90% of The games only jankon betonia n thats not fun for anyone, i know we are säkki n play only in beer league but still i hope u guys put crossplay bäk ON or teams really get active on Discord And arrange more decent games for everyone, i am just old impotent but this is my dearest hope for community

tack och hej

yours JohtajaTheGreat 

Am 1.10.2024 um 14:22 schrieb Keuschemisch:

• Screen syncing and goes straight to the faceoff without any time to react
• Matchmaking in EASHL as mentioned before
• Wrong replays to the according sequence (game shows replay of a goal even though a penalty occured etc.)
• Grudge matches appear without playing against the team/opponent before
• If injured you can still stand up quickly by pressing L1
• Can't change the language before the start of the game
• If inviting another player who is not a member of your club to the EASHL lobby the invite is often invalid

Add:

• Hooking penalties are - despite the animation that a player is being hooked - not given
• At the same time Hooking/Slashing penalties are - despite no animation at all - given
• While doing the Michigan you can get tripped and slashed without any penalty given
• Win/Loss Record in HUT (before the Grudge Match animation and in the menu) is not correct

The gameplay is actually best in years, it's not all about hustle anymore. Ofc there are always some tweaking, but the biggest problems right now are on the matchmaking side and extremely slow menus. They should fix these as priority.

- Removing the room size: exact is the dumbest decision they've made since they completely removed eashl from nhl 15 back in the days.

- Servers are messed up? Finnish vs Finnish team plays on the Swedish server? Happens all the time.

- Grudge is a bit meh and it is very broken, it is always the center at least for us :D. 

- Timed onetees are very overpowered.

- Stick lift need some adjustment, you can spam it quite a bit.

- Inconsistent penalties as mentioned before.

- Weird animations at the wrong time. We get a penalty and the replay shows the last goal.

All in all it's impossible to give more feedback as searching for an opponent is a nightmare at the moment. We spend much more time in the menus than in-game.

Edited October 14 by imosi

Some other issues:

- Regular vibration setting doesn't work (results in no vibration at all, except for 2-3 times since launch I've had the enhanced vibration effects happen during a stoppage in play) (<-- with vibration turned off****)

- Even with the new scoreclock, how much of a penalty is left is still not always displayed (usually from the beginning of a period until it appears after the first stoppage (like last year), but occasionally in other situations too I think)

Edited October 16 by Mikka

4 timmar sedan, Mikka säger:

Some other issues:

- Regular vibration setting doesn't work (results in no vibration at all, except for 2-3 times since launch I've had the enhanced vibration effects happen during a stoppage in play)

- Even with the new scoreclock, how much of a penalty is left is still not always displayed (usually from the beginning of a period until it appears after the first stoppage (like last year), but occasionally in other situations too I think)

OHHHH, I was wondering what that vibration shit was, haha. I too use the "regular" vibration setting and have found it very inconsistent. Sometimes you get enhanced vibration, like the controller is trying to shock you before a whistle, and sometimes you get nothing at all. And sometimes it works somewhat as intended (I think?). Or maybe I have not been paying enough attention.

After patch 1.1.1. We have a club of players from PS5 and Xbox. When we find an opponent, after the readiness timer ends and before the game's splash screen appears, part of the team flies out. but more often players from PS5. The game writes that you left the party and then a window - "game configuration failed
The game suffered a configuration fail. Please try again"

1 minute ago, Mario_Magnifico said:

After patch 1.1.1. We have a club of players from PS5 and Xbox. When we find an opponent, after the readiness timer ends and before the game's splash screen appears, part of the team flies out. but more often players from PS5. The game writes that you left the party and then a window - "game configuration failed
The game suffered a configuration fail. Please try again"

Are you able to record one or more videos of this happening? You can also send me a private message with the team info and the list of players involved and what platforms they play on and I will forward the information.

18 hours ago, l-Furyan-l said:

OHHHH, I was wondering what that vibration shit was, haha. I too use the "regular" vibration setting and have found it very inconsistent. Sometimes you get enhanced vibration, like the controller is trying to shock you before a whistle, and sometimes you get nothing at all. And sometimes it works somewhat as intended (I think?). Or maybe I have not been paying enough attention.

I don't think the regular vibration gives anything at all, tho admittedly I haven't really noticed it anymore (which probably means that I've gotten used to getting no vibration).

Except for sometimes during a stoppage, there's been that extremely strong vibration which has basically just matched the song being played at the arena. So I assume it's the enhanced vibration "leaking through", it kind of extends the arena audio/atmosphere

 

Edit: Well, this is kinda embarassing... I went to double check & my vibration setting was "Off". I'm not admitting it, but I must've missclicked on day1 . Turned it back on & now the regular vibration seems to do something at least (feels a bit off still, but that may be inside my own head).

But, that still means I've been getting those occasional glimpses of enhanced vibration with the setting fully turned off. I also tried playing with the enhanced vibration turned on now, and that odd vibration I described is indeed the one you (sometimes) get with that.

 

As a general feedback, I'll add that having every single stride on the ice vibrate makes the enhanced setting unusable, even if there could be some other cool effects. Right now it's constant vibration when the game is on, but when for example a goal is scored it just ends. Just my opinion, but the enhanced effects should pretty much only happen when big things happen (=match the arena atmosphere), meanwhile right now it seems to be the inverse. Obviously not a thing that is or should be anywhere near their top priorities, but I'm just yapping.

Edited October 16 by Mikka