NHL 16 Features Revealed, EASHL Returns, Full List of Game Modes & More

[Armor and Sword]

Now that the modes from PS3 are back......day one purchase. I am still playing NHL 13.

Time to get an NHL game for my PS4.

[AdamJones113]

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I was hoping EA will have something about player and team differentiation and not just different atmosphere!

I am more skeptic with this announcement of EA.

I ask for more video, just like the guy who posted about Crosby and the other player, where there's not much of a difference, skating, handling puck etc.

I will not be duped again EA.

Agreed.

At this point, I would literally assess every single goalie attribute in the game if I knew EA was looking at my ratings. I just want to know that there is a difference between players (in my case, goalies), and a difference between teams in the next step. Hell, I would analyze every single goalie animation if I knew there was a purpose to it.

But it ain't so.

[canucksss]

Re: NHL 16 Features Revealed, EASHL Returns, Full List of Game Modes & More

Playoff beard, its not that I dont like it but I just hope its "organic". What I mean is that in the last few games of the season, the beard should should be there already instead of just "appearing" in the playoffs, that from 1 inch growing up to 3 inches in a matter of few days, thats kinda unrealistic....but hey its EA. They could make that "miracle", growing the beard instantaneously

[himynameisao]

Not sure why player editing is such a huge deal with everyone IF ea can keep up with updates. It's absolutely annoying and time consuming to sit and update players. This should be done automatically. The big thing would be Be A GM: Online. I want to play friends in multiple seasons, fantasy draft. It works in ALL other games. Game Modes are way more important, to me at least, then sitting and editing players for hours. Just tell us you'll update weekly, and I'm good

[redsox4evur]

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Not sure why player editing is such a huge deal with everyone IF ea can keep up with updates. It's absolutely annoying and time consuming to sit and update players. This should be done automatically. The big thing would be Be A GM: Online. I want to play friends in multiple seasons, fantasy draft. It works in ALL other games. Game Modes are way more important, to me at least, then sitting and editing players for hours. Just tell us you'll update weekly, and I'm good

Because with EA's ratings I can put up Gretzky types numbers using John Scott. But I go and use the Revamped Roster project, I can't put up Gretzky's best season during his whole career.

[Syce]

i find that funny they say that HUT is the most played Mode, WELL NO SH*T its pretty much the Only mode. lol

[headzapp]

Re: NHL 16 Features Revealed, EASHL Returns, Full List of Game Modes & More

So we get to hear errr err err let's go Blues x2 then a errrr errrrrr errrrrr Letttt's goooo BLuuuuues? I hope we get some board play like in real life. A lot of the game is fighting for the puck along the boards. It seems they put a lot of effort into this game. So maybe everyone complaining about eashl was really a good thing haha. Happy that it seems Doc will say He SCARRRRRRS! Loudly instead of the quiet ones he did in 15.

[Arrowhead21]

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Not sure why player editing is such a huge deal with everyone.

pretty simple: EAs ratings suck.

It's absolutely annoying to sit and edit players

its even more annoying when game developers cant do their job

i will gladly spend the few minutes it takes to adjust ratings for each team; I did all the time on xbox360 when we actually had the ability.

[bad_philanthropy]

Re: NHL 16 Features Revealed, EASHL Returns, Full List of Game Modes & More

Re: editing players. It's also nice to be able to edit goalie equipment—especially in GM mode where the sending up and down from the minors, and trading of goalies often sees them wearing old team equipment and mask on their new team or horrible looking equipment with odd color schemes that detracts from immersion. It's nice to just be able to fix small details like this quickly.

More than that, for a lot of guys who have been playing this series for a long time, editing is a feature we've used to adjust ratings or tailor the smaller details of the game to our liking. Since the PS1 era we're used to having the power to customize our single player experience to certain personal standards. No reason why it should be gone.

[Beelzebot44]

Re: NHL 16 Features Revealed, EASHL Returns, Full List of Game Modes & More

I see BE a GM. I guess they went ahead and left regular ol Season Mode right out. I was hoping it would come over cause I'm not one for scouting or going on multiple seasons. Guess not this year.

Can't you just not do the scouting and stop after the first year?

[13whitebread]

All be it gimmicky is there a winter classic or all star game in a season mode? The winter classic as well as the all star game is a part of the NHL for at least more than half a decade. And yes I would rather have gameplay better over a winter classic.

[peter21]

Some intriguing things in this announcement, but EA has to do more to win back my loyalty. I'll wait and see how the game plays before I get back on this horse.

The one thing that continues to annoy me with their PR and marketing is the hying of HUT and disparaging of GM online. Glad that HUT is popular and makes them money, but the spin involved in GM online makes me angry.

They'll say they ditched the mode because no one played it, but the reason no one played it, was it was slow, buggy and not a fun player experience. That is ENTIRELY EA's fault! They never put the resources in to improve it, giving them an easy excuse to discontinue it.

I'm more of a EASHL/OTP player at this point, but that always irked me.

[s_mkheidze]

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Not sure why player editing is such a huge deal with everyone IF ea can keep up with updates. It's absolutely annoying and time consuming to sit and update players. This should be done automatically. The big thing would be Be A GM: Online. I want to play friends in multiple seasons, fantasy draft. It works in ALL other games. Game Modes are way more important, to me at least, then sitting and editing players for hours. Just tell us you'll update weekly, and I'm good

.......people like this are why we can't have nice things.

[Devilsfan3026]

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Not sure why player editing is such a huge deal with everyone IF ea can keep up with updates. It's absolutely annoying and time consuming to sit and update players. This should be done automatically. The big thing would be Be A GM: Online. I want to play friends in multiple seasons, fantasy draft. It works in ALL other games. Game Modes are way more important, to me at least, then sitting and editing players for hours. Just tell us you'll update weekly, and I'm good

I know your tricks, Sean!

It's essential, because players that have high potential are consistently given low potential. It's easier to update those players myself than have to wait for EA to MAYBE do something.

[rjviking11]

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Absolute joke if edit player isn't in. Why have they still not included roster share??? every other sports game out there has it. Are they afraid to realize how many people can do their job 1000x better?