NHL 17 Wishlist Thread

[movethechains11]

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Be A GM

- Staff Members - Ability to hire/fire
- In Season Contract Extensions (Deadline for deal before trade deadline, pressure to sign or trade..)
-NMC/NTC's (in depth ones.. exact amount years etc..
- Trade Deadline/Draft/Free Agency... fun/exciting like it should be.
- Salary Arbitration
- Ability to veto cpu/cpu trades like in 2k
- Ability to load already saved sliders
- Daily cap figures
- Emergency call ups (very aggravating when too close to the cap)
- Goalie Injuries
- Realistic Challenges to Fights (Tanner Glass/Tim Gleason not Crosby/Kane)
- Suspensions
- Ability to Edit Players
- Award Presentations
- ECHL Affiliates (Better Tracking of Stats for players in AHL and other leagues)

CREATE PLAYER
For the love of God please stop making me re-create my player every time I download an updated roster. I prefer to have Pavel Buchnevich (just as I'm sure many other players like to create their best prospects who aren't on the game) and I don't want to re-create him every single time to play my GM.

[Steiger4044]

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Well the NHL next gen is getting there but somethings I'd like to see are...

-More in depth pregame - similar to what 2k did with NBA2k16, after all that include maybe the last 10 or 5 seconds of the national anthem with the camera zooming in on players like it would on TV (I remember the old NHL titles for pc did this and it was great minus the camera zooming in)

-Authentic style management from all teams and the NHL - Involve authentic coaches, gm's, even the commissioner for the Stanley Cup ceremony.

-Customize camera angles - In NHL 2k10 series (xbox 360) you could shift the camera to what real broadcast angles would be.

-More details to outdoor classics, heritage classics, stadium classics

-A battle at the face-off circle (NHL 2k series) did this and it definitely makes it every challenge more interesting.

-Out of town scores - The first three NHL games for PC did in between periods and did sometimes highlights, I thought it looked great, imagine next gen console.

-Better celebrations - Two people celebrating from a goal or win is one thing, as well as a salute to their fans, but c'mon get more detail and more players in, especially after big OT wins and in the playoffs.

-Authentic arenas a lil more - The building and centre ice looks awesome, but it shouldn't be an issue to do boards.

-Let the ladies play - I was impressed with how FIFA 16 did this, and already female hockey is becoming quite popular especially in Canada, mix it up add more female models to create a player or add the international team element to it.

- Crowds getting more rowdy - They are getting loud, and have excellent reactions, but still too quiet, get them more rowdier and louder.

- More details to what players do - Chew their mouth guards, chatting with their team mates, scuffle with other players after hits, puck frozen, on the bench with their water bottle.

-More types of penalties, including ejections for hits and fights.

Just some things coming across my mind.....

[MetsFanInPA]

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- More authentic gameplay in the neutral zone, along the boards, and in the corners.
- Custom goalie masks
- More authentic player faces
- Custom music
- Real coaches
- Implement EA Gameface for created players
- More dependency on chip and chase, for those who want to play at that level
- Ability to re-sign players during the season
- Custom board ads
- Outdoor games
- A warm up option before games, similar to the loading screen for FIFA
- Last but certainly not least, an organic Stanley Cup celebration. Not a canned cut scene that never changes. Let us skate around with the Cup and hand it to teammates for as long as we wish.

[Blackhawksfan4ever]

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- Possibility to share custom rosters

- Because custom soundtrack isn't possible isn't possible I hope more arena music. BIP, PK etc.

- More menu music. That one menu song is nice, but if you need to do more things in menu, its annoying.

- Possibility to build you own Hockey Arena. That for we can build own home town arenas. Better if you can share it with you friends or other players.

-More sharing with other people. PS3 and Xbox 360 era was perfect because you can share rosters and other things.

- Please EA Sports, can you focus little more for Finnish Liiga. There is lots of mistakes in gears, players details (usually weight and height) and missing players. Also there is player which don't play teams anymore. I know, that Finland is little country, but NHL games are very popular in here.

- More different animations. NHL 16 looking same cut scene that NHL 15.

[hockeyrules1971]

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I would really really like to have winter classic games and stadium series games available to play

[hockeyrules1971]

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using some different announcers durin certain games once in awhile or a guest announcer option or something would be great love the announcers now but a chance maybee to mix it up a little

i do gotta say the changes from nhl 15 to 16 were amazing i gotta say you guys really listend to us and it my favorite game as a matter a fact its all i play period

[actionhank]

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Something I thought of last night would be making league transactions more important.

What I mean is: Nothing ever happens in this game. I've simulated the first season three times now, and every time, no one big gets traded, and no one big gets to free agency. The entire process is so boring. I played through the Stanley Cup finals, and I was looking forward to hitting the off season and possibly shaking the Blues roster up. If some big free agents popped up, I might try and get them...but naturally, no one did.

No Stamkos, no Kopitar. Hell, getting my own guys to re-sign was so boring. It would be nice if there was a way to have your pro scouts get you word as to who might be leaving. It would be great it players had personalities, and realized when it was time to potentially cash in. It would be fun to have players demand trades, to have guys like Stamkos say "I want this much for this long, or I'm testing free agency" and more importantly, for that to make news in the game. Even the drafting process is boring. From what I saw, there's no listing of top prospects, literally everyone my scouts looked at was rated at best as an "Bottom 6 AHL" forward, despite being expected to go in the 1st round.

The whole process just feels like it's happening in a vacuum that I just can't be bothered to care about. I have guys hit agency, and they don't mind. I just don't sign them if I want to see what's out there, and then if I don't see anything good, I offer them the contract they wanted and they say "It was an easy choice to re-sign!" and that's that. There's no negotiations, there's no competing against other teams. Just a click, advance a day, see who accepted. It would be great to have a player say he's fielding offers from 4 teams, and you have your pro scouts trying to find out who is trying to nab them. It would be great to see players tell you they want to talk about their contract, say that they want to extend, or even have RFA's to be say they won't talk about it until the summer. Do you keep that 2nd line center for your playoff push, or do you trade them at the deadline to make sure you don't lose them and get nothing?

The whole process is just incredibly stale, and lacks the mystery and fun that makes something like the NHL Trade Deadline something that people around the world stay glued to their phones, TVs and monitors for.

[sportomatic75]

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Also why don't they have the penalty time keepers who open the doors for the players entering the penalty box? That would add to the realism. Maybe seeing players trash talking after a penalty or a little scrap. Maybe even seeing a player in the penalty box smack-talking a fan

[Blackhawksfan4ever]

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I don't know is that really true, but I hope that you change physic engine to handle physical quanities with metric system. There is few reasons.

For me biggest reason is for making custom player. Why I need to choose 180, cm if I want to made 181 cm or 182 cm player? Or why I need to choose 94,24 kg weight, if I want just 94 kg. When I fixing rosters this is very annoying thing. Little, but important.

Also metric system made physic engine more accurate.

Also made possible to made smaller that 170 cm players. In Finnish Liiga there is even 166 cm players.

Also menus need little fix. These are better than PS3 era, but sometimes menus doesn't react to my X-button pushing. Sometimes menus feel so heavy.

[Blackhawksfan4ever]

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Also daily updated rosters would be cool. I mean, that player stats changes by matches. Also injuries, goals, assist, saves effect to stats. If player injured roster update move player to injured box and player doesn't play in next match.

[DChero]

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I really enjoy the game, so I have fewer and fewer wishes.

Return of Vision Control (LT for Xbox). The player turning feels a little too robotic at times. By bringing this back, a defensive or offensive player without the puck can simply face the puck, preferable with a skating speed penalty.

Return of GM Connected. I feel that mode would have went over well if the loading/connection issues didn't exist.

[actionhank]

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Return of Vision Control (LT for Xbox). The player turning feels a little too robotic at times. By bringing this back, a defensive or offensive player without the puck can simply face the puck, preferable with a skating speed penalty.

I think this change was one of the most frustrating ones in the game. While the backwards skating can be helpful in the offensive zone, playing defense in your own zone gets difficult, because it's hard to actually face the puck carrier, without constantly having to backup, change directions, and backup again.

It would be nice if there was either a way to double-tap the trigger to face the puck carrier, or something similar that would make it easier to stay facing the play without having to actually move your player.

[HyperactivityQc]

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I thought about that a few days ago. I think that's a good Idea.
Ok.
So, in BAP you always start your career as a Medium/High Franchise potential. Right?
But I think you should be able to build you potential.You could finish in the NHL as a bottom 6 forward for example.
You start by playing a few games in like PEE-WEE. Example, you go trough the PEE-WEE tournament of Quebec. Depending of you performances, you can build a better potential. After that, you can go to an higher league. You could play like a game in College. And so on until you reach the LHJMQ, the OHL or the WHL. When you're there, you've pretty much builded your potential.

Another idea is that your salary actually MEAN something. In NHL 16, the salary doesn't mean much. But, if it could mean something. Like you could buy a house, a car...
And, you could do some live training like in NBA.

That'll be also cool if you could refuse an entry draft contract, ask for the salary you want and the numbers of years you want. If you could demand a trade.

I hope that some of the things that I mentioned before will be took in consideration by EA.
I hope that it will be all of them, mostly the potential building. Anyway... good bye!

[Blackhawksfan4ever]

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I hope, that EA focus now making roster players more realistic. I just checked few players and saw mistakes from their equipment. I think there is more mistakes. Little things, but need fix those.

Also I hope more real faces of players.

[Södy]

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- faster menus
- new goalies from ground up
- gameplay improvements, harder ai
- online seasons for online-vs play
- some new lines from Doc and Eddie
- Line management was improved but give us an option to set the PP1 and PP2 lines to be the same players as our 1st and 2nd lines. I want to edit them afterwards ofcourse but to set them initially
- more than two players celebrating

and very minor:

- EA Trax. I can't hear the same menu music for a 3rd year in a row