Ask NHL: More NHL 16 Questions Answered, In-Game Sims Are Back, EASHL Questions

[ricky24]

Quote: Originally Posted by bigwill33

Confirmed: no custom players in OTP. So lame!

It's very lame but from the sounds of it there are not really custom players in eashl to begin with. Sucks they brought the mode back only to nuke it.

[bigwill33]

Quote: Originally Posted by Leafs fan 2112

I, for one, loved OTP. I met a lot of good people and played a lot of games with my created character when my friends in club were away. It's a damn shame. Has EA given an explanation for why this isn't in the game?

I agree. And they have not.

I can promise that I will never play OTP in 16 without being able to use a created character. OTP in 15 is awful. Not being able to play with your friends without hoping for the luck of the draw is brutal.

Playing only club, all of the time, with a created character that cannot rank up in any fashion will surely lose its appeal quickly.

And sometimes you just need a break from club with your teammates. Hopping in an OTP game and being able to work on different plays, positions, or try out new players that want to join your club was key in years past. Forcing us to use NHL players in that mode is awful to me. Getting randoms that only wish to sabotage your game with no repercussions (like striving for a higher gamer card) is a nightmare and seems to happen about half of the time anymore.

OTP menus are clunky, the team selection system and position selection system is deeply flawed, the lack of options to set lines, call timeouts, look at who is in your game or see personal stats, 3 pauses per team (why?! For what purpose???), everyone can change lines and adjust settings at any moment making it a mess, too many fights, and players flopping all over the ice from idiotic collisions; all make OTP pretty much useless to me.

The mode just consists of constant trolling from people changing to the same team as yours, wearing the same color jerseys, changing to a super team in the last 3 seconds, people leaving the game with under 5 seconds and you getting stuck in a game that you know won't be played, constant pausing, fights at every faceoff, teammate offside trolling, no punishment for playing out of position except for losing (which doesn't seem to bother most people), and just a mess of everything game play wise.

Makes no sense to me that OTP wouldn't feature the ability to play as either real players and teams AND/OR the ability to use our created players and play with our friends from a lobby system and not drop-ins.

[Ruffy]

Quote: Originally Posted by Millennium

I am not going to say this again: You are going to be constructive, or you are going to be banned. I have instructed my mod staff to keep an eye on this forum from now until release and treat it like we have the Madden forum and the NBA 2K forums on release. I've given you guys enough warnings and enough leniency, and it's become painfully obvious that you just can't do things constructively and resort to name calling and bashing devs. Consider this the final warning. The next one anyone gets will be their permanent ban.

Cheers to this. I am getting tired of decent conversations and threads going south with this type of stuff.

[ThaLiveKing]

"I hope they get asked about player differential and separation soon.
I'd like to know if they addressed the issues in NHL15 that were pointed out in that recent Youtube clip"

I asked them this on the first day, my question got ignored

[Kolbe31]

Quote: Originally Posted by ThaLiveKing

"I hope they get asked about player differential and separation soon. I'd like to know if they addressed the issues in NHL15 that were pointed out in that recent Youtube clip" I asked them this on the first day, my question got ignored

Maybe you should mix this question in with a question about Doc's excitement levels? They've answered that question like three times.

[ricky24]

Quote: Originally Posted by juice2142

Lets be honest, you all are going to buy it because on EASHL. I know I am. Nothing like it in any other sports games. I've never had the need to edit players in any of my sports franchise games, so I am ok with that. Thankfully there is no Zamboni racing- that'd be a waste

Honestly I'm not buying it because of the eashl changes. I'll buy nhl again when they put the mode back in the right way because it is one of my favorite things in sports gaming. Well it was in 2014 anyways. Another year of waiting For Nhl to hit the access vault for me.