NHL 16 Patch 1.04 Available Now For Xbox One & PS4, Full Details Included

[brandon27]

I really have no idea what EA is up to with this game. It started out... bad. I'm strictly talking gameplay here. It got better with a few patches and tuner updates. (The last of which... I believe was maybe two tuners ago) and I really started to like this game again. It wasn't great, but it was fun to play. I stuck it in tonight... got prompted in game for a tuner update....

What a damn mistake. It's like starting all over again. Personally, I'm sick of it. They release a tuner. It is what it is, i find a way with sliders and play style to make it fun. Then... another tuner. It's a disaster. It's like starting all over every few damn weeks with this game. The latest tuner, is awful to me. My old sliders, or default, it's just brutal. I check the CPU while with the puck, he falls, and quickly rebounds to his feet before I can even collect the puck. My guys get hit, and are down as if they'd been concussed and have no idea where they are and it's an easy turnover. I go to check a cpu player in the corner, he morphs into some crazy impossible pass animation and i just... check the air around him as he pulls it off. Don't even get me started on the comeback AI. I was on a 5 on 3 PP and got destroyed for a goal. Like, the passes, the inability of my defenders to hit, or defend, it was terrible, then... there it was, that quick, impossibly pass from the corner, to the slot for the one time goal by a nobody.. BOOOORRRRINNNGGG. Just put down the controller and watch it happen.

Personally, I had some fun with this game for a while. Right now though, it's become a trade in, get something for it while I still can and wait for it to hit EA access so I can play it for "free" again. I can't take this title serious when every few weeks there's a new tuner that completely changes the gameplay. Especially when it seems its always getting worse for the offline player.

Unless I relax a bit, and give it another shot tomorrow to adjust things, like I said, I'm trading it in, and I'm out until it hits EA Access and then, I won't be back likely until the AI and gameplay are completely overhauled. It's... terrible to say the least.

This series has a long way to go IMO. It's taken some great strides since hitting XB1/PS4. Especially after the NHL 15 mess, but damn... its so blatantly obvious that the gameplay, is years and years behind where it should be.

[MDgolf]

Downloaded the tuner and had a great game not many penalties but was a strong defensive game with great goaltending


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[madrouin]

I'm on Xbox One and I didn't receive a notificationfor the patch....How can I download the patch ? My wi-fi is fine and i'm connected.

[shogunofharlem3]

It automatically downloads. Most patches you never know you get.

[madrouin]

I know but i also know I'm not have it because I have not acces to the new 3rd jersey for Avalaches, Islanders and DUcks

[Gangrel]

Download the latest roster and make it active.

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[MizzouRah]

Can anyone confirm this bug post patch?

When your team gets a major penalty and a game misconduct (in my cases, it has been boarding), the player goes off to the dressing room and then for the rest of the game, the CPU team plays on the power play. So you're playing 5v4 for the whole game instead of 5 minutes.

This has happened the last two games that I had major penalties, the first time it was late in the 3rd so I didn't really care. The last game, it happened in the 2nd period and finally.. about halfway into the 3rd period, I had to quit because I was giving up goals left and right because my PP unit was exhausted.

I reported this in the bug thread.. but wondered if anyone has seen this yet?

[MDgolf]

Haven't seen that yet


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