EA's NHL Developers Answer More Community Questions

[Gleebo]

Here is a crazy idea remove all the mascot related cut scenes and you should free up enough memory/code (whatever) to add more needed/requested items.

As well please give walking papers to the person(s) who thought adding the mascots was giving the players what they wanted...

[jhawk826]

I feel a lot of omissions are do to lack of team size. So many things that are easy additions yet are left out. Madden and Fifa would never have this problem. Only one pause per game is fantastic.. Yet now I have no ability to call timeout if I have already used pause. Or ability to save Ranked online VS line ups. Madden allows you to do it and they have roster updates every week apposed to NHLs 4 a years (or so it seems). I can understand 5 man celebrations to a larger extent as its sooo much easier just adding individual celebrations but those small things that are missing probably sting even more to me.

You have to write individual pieces of code for each celebration. I don't know how many new ones there are, but there are dozens. Could have easily cut down on them by half and used the other slots for code dedicated toward the line celebration. This code can be ported over year after year like they do for other animations.

[T5063]

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The cumulative goal total that was "broken" for the past two years was on the stats bar that pops down under the score ticker after a goal was scored, not on the NBC presentation part. The NBC part did not show how many goals the players scored during the game or season.


This bar was there for years before the NBC presentation package was even implemented so I don't know what the devs are talking about. But yeah, like a previous poster said, the problem was a simple coding error that could have been fixed in a patch. There was no need to overhaul the whole presentation package lol.


Either way, I'm glad they finally fixed it.

[sinbin74]

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I feel a lot of omissions are do to lack of team size. So many things that are easy additions yet are left out. Madden and Fifa would never have this problem. Only one pause per game is fantastic.. Yet now I have no ability to call timeout if I have already used pause. Or ability to save Ranked online VS line ups. Madden allows you to do it and they have roster updates every week apposed to NHLs 4 a years (or so it seems). I can understand 5 man celebrations to a larger extent as its sooo much easier just adding individual celebrations but those small things that are missing probably sting even more to me.

A new blog went up today that specifically mentions you can still use your timeout - https://www.easports.com/nhl/news/20...y-series-eashl

[sinbin74]

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Here is a crazy idea remove all the mascot related cut scenes and you should free up enough memory/code (whatever) to add more needed/requested items.

As well please give walking papers to the person(s) who thought adding the mascots was giving the players what they wanted...

It's not about freeing up code or memory. Adding static presentation elements like mascots isn't near as complex as something dynamic like real time, multi-player celebrations.

It looks like they're adding a lot of things people asked for. Not everything of course. That's going to take time, but so far things are looking good.

[ericromain]

I like the detailed defensive skill stick answer. The team is acting more transparent in their explanations. Thanks EA NHL.

[jake19ny]

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As much as I'm disappointed by the lack of 5 man celebration I can kind of see what he's talking about. To create 5 man celebrations to include every single player in the game could be time consuming I suppose. The more real faces they add to the harder it gets. If we can't get the five man celebrations this year I wish at least they could do something about the other two players skating away from the celebration like nothing just happened. That makes the whole thing look even worse. At least skate towards the celebration or raise their sticks or something. Even much older versions had all players raise their arms and sticks when a goal was scored

[KidShowtime]

This "Q&A" was not officially done with the developers, and it should be noted in the article:

http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/preList/10413999/35695775.page#35695775

[gopens71]

Super close up view of the players faces look terrible, looks like swollen, square frankenstein faces

[13whitebread]

They seem like the laziest group of developers of any of the major spots titles. Correct me if I'm wrong but even Madden has group TD celebrations now. As does MLB to a lesser extent with walk off wins.

I thought next gen would eliminate the codeing problem for the extra. I guess we will have to wait for next next gen.

[djhallberg38]

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As much as I'm disappointed by the lack of 5 man celebration I can kind of see what he's talking about. To create 5 man celebrations to include every single player in the game could be time consuming I suppose. The more real faces they add to the harder it gets. If we can't get the five man celebrations this year I wish at least they could do something about the other two players skating away from the celebration like nothing just happened. That makes the whole thing look even worse. At least skate towards the celebration or raise their sticks or something. Even much older versions had all players raise their arms and sticks when a goal was scored

I don't care what they say. How was this not an issue in NHL '11?? How is this not an issue in any iteration of FIFA for as long as I can remember?? There should be no excuse acceptable for not including something so fundamentally a part of hockey. So ridiculous!! It just makes goals seem that much more generic when you see the aftermath. Just drives me crazy! I would be fine with them delaying the launch for a month or 2, just to get it right...or better yet, why can't it be patched in, if they are that hard pressed for development time?

[BearishRiggs]

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lol, delay the release a month or two just to fit in the all-important 5 man celebrations. I love it.

[jake19ny]

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lol, delay the release a month or two just to fit in the all-important 5 man celebrations. I love it.

It's not that funny....while I'm quite sure they would never delay the release it is insane, the more I think about, that they cannot get this into the game. Look at a walk off home run in MLB the show....the entire team crowds the hitter at the plate. The celebrations after a goal are a big part of the game and I'm not talking about the idiotic stick riding or dabbing. I think EA has done a pretty good job with some things in this series and maybe they don't want to come out and say, "hey we're doing this with a skeleton crew" but it is stupid that scoring a goal in game one of the season looks and feels the same as scoring a game seven overtime goal. It's just something they don't understand or don't get

[Splitter77]

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It's not that funny....while I'm quite sure they would never delay the release it is insane, the more I think about, that they cannot get this into the game. Look at a walk off home run in MLB the show....the entire team crowds the hitter at the plate. The celebrations after a goal are a big part of the game and I'm not talking about the idiotic stick riding or dabbing. I think EA has done a pretty good job with some things in this series and maybe they don't want to come out and say, "hey we're doing this with a skeleton crew" but it is stupid that scoring a goal in game one of the season looks and feels the same as scoring a game seven overtime goal. It's just something they don't understand or don't get

the show is also choppy as hell.
the nhl game plays silky smooth 60fps .
the show not so much. especially on cutscenes like the walkoff

[Caniac94]

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I've had a much more immersive experience with games like The Show and FIFA as opposed to NHL. I just can't get immersed in NHL.