GameChangers Event #1 Upon Us Soon

Puck chop by the boards. More often than not it causes your player to be stuck in an animation that you can't get out of until play stops.

 

Lounges NEED to come back.

 

How about some of the old dangles

 

Hopefully you'll have 50+ meetings

 

I think they need to work on turning with the puck, In 16 I used to fly into the offensive zone hit the breaks and cut toward the middle and if i didn't have a shot I'd turn up the rink toward the neutral zone to open more of the ice up. Whenever I try to turn at low speed in 17 i literally get caught with my player's feet not moving and it feels like I'm trying to turn an oil tanker in the Bering Strait. It sounds a little dumb but turning is imperative to keeping the play alive in the offensive zone and it definitely isn't working correctly in 17.

 

I think player classes need to go and replaced with a system that allows you to choose your height and weight and based on your selections you are allotted a number of skill points to put in any stats you want. for example if you pick 6 foot 200 pounds you may get 200 point if you pick 5 foot 6 you may only get 175 because of how you character is. This would get rid of any complaining about how their player is playing. everyone would have their ideal build.

 

Could EA just for once understand how to do stats!?!?! Best example for a defenseman:

Blocked Shots in game could show as 4 Blocked Shots because of your positioning. However, unless I press a button to initiate an actual Block, my "BS" category will show as "0". Perfect acronym for it, too....BS.

It's the biggest waste of space for a stat in column. Why can't the game translate the 4 Blocked Shots the stat graphic credits you for into the actual statistic? Would make for a deeper element of considering Defensemen if we had that stat category to more accurately reflect their defensive capabilities.

@LG McDonald @Tris10 @Nuge @B-Bunny and anyone else who needs to provide thought on this.

 

When the beta to the game is actually good, don't take all of the good things from it and remove them to promote higher scoring upon full release.

 

I would also like to see the defense stats and ratings reflect more of the actual job of defense. example would be plus minus and turnovers created vs give aways carry more weight. Offensive output from the dman is not the truest measure of effective dmen

 

I'd like to see people be able to re-join a game they lagged out of.

 

I agree with @LeBlondl77l

Something should be done about the blocked shot stats. A little disappointing when you have so many blocked shots and it will say you had 1 or none at all.

 

i would love to see them bring back captains in eashl and add custom goalie mask like being able to change color on team masks to match your eashl club

 

Something minor but annoying in vs is the CPU's board play abilities being OP. You can be skating at a decent speed, CPU reaches out grabs you and has their way with you on the boards.
One handed dekes would be cool again.
The stride dekes are a little annoying and ineffective for me personally an option to turn them off would be nice.

 

everything... just everything

 

As a goalie my biggest complaint all year is the following: five hole and low goals are ridiculous. If you watch NHL goalies 9/10 of the low goals scored in this game are deflected by the goalie stick and easily sent to the corner. Goalie sticks seem ethereal and do very little in this game.

Keep your stick on the ice

 

If they add a practice mode where players can build chemistry in eashl I'll be happy.

 

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• More depth in Be A Pro and Franchise Mode

Franchise mode:
-Get rid of this scouting nonsense. A GM in the NHL doesn't have to hold his scouts hand, there are Dir. of Hockey Ops, Dir. of Amateur Scouting, and Head Scouts for that. That popup kills Be A GM mode for people that like to simulate games.
-Get rid of the default black cutout of created players. Minimum there should be a picture of the characters face like 2K sports does or like they do for your Be a Pro player
-Let us edit players... What does it matter if I want to edit a players attributes mid-season? There's no reason why I shouldn't be allowed to control the players attributes.
-Make draft classes better. Too many 58 overall 1st round picks that never develop into anything
-Make draft classes more realistic. So many 19-20 year olds, this is an old problem.
-Can we have coaches? I don't care if they aren't real people, this random fat white dude on my bench isn't funny anymore.


There's probably more but Be a GM mode needs some attention, it's getting more pathetic every year. The team movements is a nice touch but realistically, how often are you going to move teams? It's a minor part of the game.

 

As for servers, lagouts aren't the only issue. 35+ ping shouldn't create as much lag as it does. This is a problem for West coast people playing on East servers and vice versa. It feels like you're skating in quicksand and there are moderate delays for button inputs (as well as huge lag spikes). I'm used to dealing with lag in the NHL series as a West coast player (since most people in the 6v6 community are on the East coast), but this year feels especially bad, like it's on a whole new level.

40+ ping in almost any other online game is normal, there is no noticeable lag, but for whatever reason 40 ping in this game feels like 200 ping on most other online games I've played. If this isn't fixed before NHL 18 comes out then I'll be forced to hold out on buying that game until I know it's not as much of a problem as it is now. This game is frustrating as it is with the direction they decided to take with EASHL gameplay, but adding a large amount of lag on top of that just makes the game unenjoyable.


As for EASHL gameplay, it's slow and super defensive, and most goals feels cheap and require little to no skill. Acceleration needs a boost, speed and agility might need a slight boost, poke checks need to be nerfed a bit (I'm saying this as a defenseman), one touch passing doesn't work most of the time, wrap-arounds need to be nerfed, turd shots need to be a lot less effective in creating goals or scoring chances.

As you said some animations are too much. One that particularly bugs me is defensemen receiving the puck from a faceoff. If you don't win the faceoff the right way then the opposing team's winger can poke the puck away from you before you have control of your guy from the auto-animation (the bad servers don't help with this either). Maybe they also need to add a way for wingers to tie each other up momentarily on faceoffs to give d-men a bit more time to do something with the puck after a faceoff.

 

That would make sense, kind of like NBA 2k. IF they used this, it should be that we start with the same amount of attribute points and you get more by leveling up. So to make your player better, you need to play more so that means players on LG are more active and get more familiar with the game.