What do you want from future NHL-titles?

[iSvamp]

100% attribute edit like we had at old gen.

More beards
13¨skates

[Strumpan87]

Skip the ”For Honor” mode on 20 please.

[l-Furyan-l]

6v6

- Practice mode
- Spectator mode (!!!)
- Goalie controls 6th skater with goalie pulled (actually makes it effective!) and on delayed penalties
- More customization for the club
- No more dressing room errors
- Quicker, smarter menus
- Quicker cuts between whistles to next faceoff - dont need the option to shoot the puck after the whistle and cause a fight

[KAWAIIII]

- Instant use of logos, templates, arenas etc. It's just a hazzle to get it tbh.

- IF EA still want teams to progress from smaller to bigger rinks, give them the option to start ouf on an outdoor rink, ala free-for-all och NHL 09 Arcade

- Make it more esports-friendly. Like in FIFAs esport-mode, if people disconnects from games and have to restart them, give them the option to start the game where the game ended, so we dont have to stand still for 10 minutes, watching some random douche run around searching for a meaning with life, like Patovic.

[Thunderace1977]

Ability to develope own eashl player like old gen NHL

[Jesus]

Spectator mode

A faster and more easy game to master. Don't strive for realism. Let's face it, arcadelike games are more fun. Especially when we talk about competetive gameplay. This game is boring to watch and annoying to play.

NHL Battle Royale mode

[Rimpe]

There have been few weeks maybe a month of a period where i enjoyed the gameplay, then came the beta tuners and other unnesessary gameplay updates that really ruined it for me. Maybe point out the fact that devs should not just listen blindly the most loudest part of the community and stick to their guns and do what they think it's the right call.

 

And please just re-do the entire menu system and make it more simpler with less (zero) error codes and other nonesense.

[Lauri]

7 minutes ago, Rimpe said:

Maybe point out the fact that devs should not just listen blindly the most loudest part of the community and stick to their guns and do what they think it's the right call.

There are examples already what happens if you dont listen to the players and that definately is extremely rarely the right decision 

[PSchibra]

Small change, but still would be nice if they got rid of the smoke in the background of the World of Chel menu that makes my ps4 become louder than an airplane

[cHIIMEERa]

World of Chel

If i would like to play a tall sniper i should be able to do that.

EA needs to leave the height/weight span of each playerclass entirely up to the user.

Edited April 27, 2019 by cHIIMEERa

[Jaks_10]

World of Chel:

• More customization for gear/appearance etc. just to make each player even more unique. What I would like to see, would be ability to create completely unique tapejobs and have different blades to choose from.
• Add to previous goalie mask customization: Bring a template of your own and have it on your mask.
• Ability to bring your own logos for the club to the game.
• Height/weight completely up to each player to decide
• PRACTICE MODE to EASHL Clubs. 1-12 player mode. EA has a decent core in the offline practice mode, build on that.
•  Spectator mode
• More customization for teams. For example for jerseys so we do not have to add desired colors on ready templates. Let us build all from the ground up. 

[SepiDN]

So many things but to list a few.

World of Chel

GENERAL
- Practice mode that is playable in the dressing room also while searching for a match.
- Working stats to 6v6 that only counts games that are played with 6 players. Individual and team stats.
- Any player leaving the match will result in a loss not just goalie.
- Ability to rejoin match for 3min if you drop
- Spectator mode
- Simplify the menus. There's no reason that each menu has background effects, transition effects. There should be a list of modes and once you press that it shows a dropdown menu or something where you can choose more specific game mode type.
- Goalie as the 6th skater on delayed calls.
- bring the CR rating for teams as well and matchmake by CR.
- Ability to join multiple clubs and see all the dressing rooms on your main hub. 

CUSTOMIZATION
- Ditch the hockeybags and just give us credits instead when you get levels. Just useless waste of time opening the bags.
- Bring time limited and items that require you to meet certain conditions such as golden helmet if you are in the top 1% of EASHL monthly or averaging over 10 hits per game nets you a "juggernaut" to your jersey.
- Goalie masks should be able to have the team logo.
- Color palette wheel for goalie mask

GOALIE GAMEPLAY
- Get rid off the old type "post hugging" when you are holding the post in stand up and go to butterfly when holding the post. It's akward to get out off and usually it's a shit anyways. If you drop down to your knees just make the goalie go to the  butterfly post hug which you get when you are in butterfly and hug the post.
- New puck cover animations
- Puck still goes trough the pads sometimes. Fix it please. Especially pucks going "under" the pads. which is like under and 50% clipping trough the pad.
- The whole moving in butterfly is still a totally wonky compared to standing up. It should be made more responsive and quicker. at least more responsive.
- Poke check with the right stick when holding the post should get a lot quicker animation. The initial animation is "OK" but the animation when the goalie pulls the stick back takes forever and it can't be interrupted with movement. Also the regular poke check when should get a small boost of somekind.
- When being screened could we press R1 that is not assigned at the moment to make the goalie to try and see the puck?
- This one is kinda skater/goalie.
Make the shots more accurate so that slapshots can go in more easily if you are not positioned correctly (too deep in the net) but then again lower the small angle shot accuracy of the players. Now half of the goals are scored from really really small angles. 
- There's still at least one blocker animation that randomly happens which pretty much avoids the puck.

 

[Tehh]

To win seppo

[J-Foppa]

På 2019-04-25 på 16:19, Lainzndr säger:

- Make it more esports-friendly.

This.

Tbh I really appreciate all the effort put in by nhlgamer to host competitive tournaments with prize pools etc. Then you start a game and first goal you let in is a own goal caused by a puck pickup animation. There is nothing esport-like with the game.

I think EA should make D’s shots a threat again. This will prevent teams from just putting 5 guys in front of the net and actually benefit positioning and defence. This would make the biggest change in gameplay.

i would also like to see fwds get more offensive options as well

[Lauri]

-ability to pause the game in challenge games without time restriction

-long animations without the ability to control the player at all should be removed (goalies even more so) 

-spectator mode

-more possibilities to build your player

-6s to have cr that only is counted in 6s

[ahonaattorii]

Hide and show game clock and scoreboard with some button compination. 

[Juizki]

My feedback considers 6v6 only:

-Spectator mode.

-No automatic animations where players get stuck into animation.

-Reward goalies more for good positioning, punish them more for bad positioning.

-Fix the goalie movement in the butterfly stance. After that goalies should be required to stand up while the puck is far away from the net and stay in the butterfly stance when the puck is nearby.

-Consider forcing goalies to react to shots by going into butterfly, if it's possible with the latency of online gaming. Especially in early stages of the NHL 19 goalies shut the five hole way faster with automatic save animations than by hitting R2, which made using R2 completely pointless as you got beat more while trying to react to the shot rather than just letting the game handle the save by itself.

-Keep the deflections somewhat as they are: force goalie to challenge the shot to make saves on high percentage, punish them hard for sitting inside the net when the shot is coming from far out.

-Deflections should be possible only for players who are either standing still of very slowly gliding by. Right now it's ridiculous how skaters can move 100 mp/h and still make deflections. The slower the player moves the higher the chance of deflecting the puck should be. Maybe even making deflections manual would be a good choice.

-Remove the auto covers and sweeps from the goalie once and for all, only the certain covers and sweeps should be automatic (just like the ones that are automatic nowadays). Autocovers were ridiculous for half a year when goalies intercepted passes with covers etc. Goalies are also playing the game, not flying on an autopilot.

-Stick lift and stick checking should be more balanced and require the defensive player to actually be able to reach the stick or puck. Stick lifts should be effective but lifting the stick through the body of an opponent shouldn't be possible.

-Pucks should move towards the direction players aims to, not the direction games decides it to go. Right now there are tons of shots that are, for example, aimed to top left corner but go through the five hole of the goalie. Also shooting the puck wide should happen more when the player isn't facing the net in a proper way, and happen less when the player is.

 

Just to show something related to the movement of the goalies. Check out the video below and imagine if Jonathan Quick had to move the same way goalies on the NHL 19 do: moving around in the butterfly stance, having to move at least 1/3 of the width of the net at a time, as it's not possible to move less. Also the real goalies' movement from the stand-up to butterfly and back up is extremely fluent and fast.

Few timestamps you might want to check out: 2.43, 3.45, 6.07

 

Edit: I also have to note the game shouldn't try to be too realistic or too close to real hockey, as it may not be the best possible thing for a competitive e-sports game. I'm just trying to note that the movement of the goalies could be way smoother and transitions more fluent than what they are now - but then the requirements for the goalies to make saves should also be higher (positioning wise etc).

Edited April 29, 2019 by Juizki

[LowJacK604]

EASHL Club games are laggy (60ms) yet drop-in is fine (13ms).

Gameplay improvements aside, you can't play with lag.  Don't know why this is happening now when it wasn't a thing before.

 

Edited May 8, 2019 by LowJacK604

[ramseyy2]

Ok one thing more guess its too late but maybe someone in nhl productors can find this🤷 Hut: please bring a phone app for hut like fifa 19 companion. Thanks

[Lionite]

I heard that new COD Modern Warfare is bringing in crossplay across all 3 platforms (PC, PS4 & xBox), to help keep their PC playerbase alive longer. That could be something worth thinking about also in NHL, since NHL playerbase is quite small in comparison to let's say FIFA's. Bringing together PS4 and XBOX players on already small playerbase game like NHL could do the ip wonders, and especially for a tournament organizer such as NHLGamer.

Also PC version would be great to see again, if crossplay was possible against players from other platforms as well. There is PC version to FIFA, so why not NHL?

Edited June 7, 2019 by Lionite

[Seksileijona69]

And easier whistles on goalie interference! 

[Sammy_Lx]

Sticklift spam is so bad

Remove all the auto animations and auto pokes. Nerf backskating 

[Hullued]

Change manual goalie button! L1+X not working, always taking tripping penalty because L1...

I want GMC online back too.

Edited June 19, 2019 by Hullued

[Virtual_Saku]

On 4/24/2019 at 2:18 PM, Savinaainen said:

And maybe you can nerf backskating little bit, its better than earlier but still sometimes cant tackle the player who backskate and cover the puck... Thats so ridiculous. And yes this is console game not real hockey but it would be nice if game would looks and feels like real hockey, it looks so silly when people backskating all the time/too much but thats only my opinion, everyone have their own playing style

Can't agree more.... This backskating glitch is so ridiculous
 

[Yoloberg]

Maybe rewards after max tier too. Many people achieved it on EASHL really early and no hockey bags or anything after that. Not a big deal but has to be fixed for NHL20.