NHL 17 Players Faces List

[mcavner]

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In EA's defense, they have more than just a camera that takes the player's picture. It's a big rig of cameras, and I believe they may get a 3D scan, though I'm not 100% on that part...and some of the faces lead me to question it.

My biggest gripe is that not only is EA years behind nearly every other sports game in terms of accuracy of their player faces, and the number of accurate faces in game...but they don't give us any good tools to fix it. The Show has some incredible player editing tools, that some might even still call basic due to not being able to import an image...yet EA's been recycling what look to be the same facial models since NHL 07 with some new ones thrown in. It's really annoying trying to create other pros, and most annoying, yourself, choosing from a handful of head models, with hardly any customization to them.

EA needs to get with the times and either do it better themselves, or preferably do that, and give us the tools to create out own and share them, because right now, their work isn't that good.

And they put a bank of 100 or so faces that people can use online etc.... but they don't let you use those faces in other modes... so you get stuck with half your team looking the same after five years in career modes. It's mind-boggling the way they compound the problem with decisions like that.

[Roscosuper]

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And they put a bank of 100 or so faces that people can use online etc.... but they don't let you use those faces in other modes... so you get stuck with half your team looking the same after five years in career modes. It's mind-boggling the way they compound the problem with decisions like that.

It's over 200 faces and with the edits you can make to hair and facial hair you can achieve decent results. At least better than EA effort.


I started a thread about creating a data base for EA but no one was interested, so I guess there isn't much of a demand for it, so that may be why it's not a priority for EA.


I was getting some decent results:
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[Metsfan31]

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It's over 200 faces and with the edits you can make to hair and facial hair you can achieve decent results. At least better than EA effort.


I started a thread about creating a data base for EA but no one was interested, so I guess there isn't much of a demand for it, so that may be why it's not a priority for EA.


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Cal and Nick looks beyond decent. They actually look like them.

[mcavner]

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That's good stuff. But EA won't let us edit players in career mode... and they won't provide scans of halfway decent faces.

And the generated players are so similar. Who here has traded a player away solely b/c he looks exactly the same as someone else you already have on your team. Heck, I've had whole lines look exactly the same - it's like I was icing the Hanson brothers from Slapshot.

At least let us fix stuff!

I think my line is now - if the game doesn't let me edit in career modes, I'm not buying it.

[Moose24x]

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That's good stuff. But EA won't let us edit players in career mode... and they won't provide scans of halfway decent faces.

And the generated players are so similar. Who here has traded a player away solely b/c he looks exactly the same as someone else you already have on your team. Heck, I've had whole lines look exactly the same - it's like I was icing the Hanson brothers from Slapshot.

At least let us fix stuff!

I think my line is now - if the game doesn't let me edit in career modes, I'm not buying it.

Forget in career mode. The only thing they let us edit, period, is the facial hair and equipment. They don't let us edit hair or eyebrows or any of the stuff you can customize in create a player even when you're in the game's main hub.

Ironically, they do let us change a player's handedness - you know, something that rarely, if ever changes - but don't allow us to edit hair or even height and weight, things that do change especially in young players entering the league who aren't done growing.

[stevendah]

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What I've put together is a list of 30 established NHLers that are top 6 forwards or top 4 defensemen on their current NHL team. Some have already ended an NHL season amongst the top 30 in points. Some have signed major contracts in the past two off-seasons and others are currently negotiating as RFAs. Some are even expected to be moved in block buster trades. Some are captains of their teams. None however have their heads scanned in NHL 17.

1. H. Lindholm
2. T. Krug
3. R. Ristolainen
4. J. Faulk
5. T. Barrie
6. J. Abdelkader
7. T. Tatar
8. A. Barkov
9. V. Trocheck
10. J. Muzzin
11. T. Toffoli
12. F. Forsberg
13. K. Palmieri
14. B. Nelson
15. T. Hamonic
16. C. Kreider
17. M. Zuccarello
18. M. Hoffman
19. M. Stone
20. B. Schenn
21. S. Ghostisbehre
22. J. Schwartz
23. T. Johnson
24. N. Kucherov
25. M. Reilly
26. J. Carlson
27. E. Kuznetsov
28. M. Scheifele
29. J. Trouba
30. B. Wheeler

Would you like 30 more?

[mcavner]

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How about getting a scan for Mike Fisher. Been in the league since 1999. Captain of the Preds. 36 yrs old... time is running out EA.

15 years and no face scan. Incredible.

Maybe next year?

[SocialAssassin]

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They had Zacha's face in last year. Out this year lol

[snickers95]

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Braden Holtby wins the Vezina last year, and still has a generic face.

[stevendah]

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Braden Holtby wins the Vezina last year, and still has a generic face.

It's total crap. I doubt I'll recreate this thread next year if it's just to add the names of Canucks and prospects. It's not as though the game improves drastically from year to year. The improvements are often minimal as of the past years, and they constantly avoid making the presentation and player likeness a priority.

[PowerPanther83]

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Connor Murphy from Arizona have a real face in game

[fasteddy]

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No its not his real face.

[stevendah]

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Quick fact: the two players who join McDavid as scoring leaders as I post this message are Nikita Kucherov and Mark Scheifele. I am not calling myself a visionary here, but these are two players I've mentioned by name, all over this forum, as players who should definitely have been scanned by this year's game. No faces have been added via roster update just yet but let's sit tight...

[pattyren]

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Official Facebook just posted this response to question regarding player faces and being able to edit faces:
"hockey players are largely covered up so putting a ton of work in to customization when there are other areas that are more important just doesn't make sense. It's not that often that you're staring at their face. You do get to see them more in the brief cutscenes and when helmets come off, but we also have had more requests for arena customization than player faces. It's possible this could change in the future, but when we pick and choose what gets work and what doesn't, it's mainly based on requests from the community."

It's nice to know that they do not consider this a priority lol. What a joke.

[stevendah]

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What a load of crap. It's not important to go 4 lines deep here. But team captains, starting goaltenders and most top 6 skaters should have their heads in by now. 1st line centres especially! They're major buildings blocks to any franchise.