NHL 15 News Post

NHL 15 Might Be Missing More Than We Anticipated (XB1/PS4)

03:15 PM - September 4, 2014 by RaychelSnr

Now that the EA Access trial period has started, Xbox One players have noticed that the list of missing modes and features in next-gen NHL 15 is much larger than previously expected. In a prior interview with Sean Ramjagsingh, some of these were hinted at but not fully disclosed, but the depth of some of the gutted features seems to be larger than initially anticipated. The following items are features which users have noticed are missing while playing the early access to NHL 15 -- keep in mind this information is preliminary and some of these could actually be in the game but well hidden. With just six hours of time to test, it doesn't leave much room to explore:

Modes/Features

No GM Connected
No Online Team Play (when this is patched into the game later this year, it will use real NHL players and teams)
No EA Sports Hockey League
No EA Sports Arena
No Online Shootouts
No Live the Life
No Be A Legend
No Winter Classic
No tournaments or Battle for the Cup
No season mode (you can only play seasons in Be A GM, which is limited to NHL teams)
No NHL 94 Anniversary mode
No custom music support
No create-a-play designer
Cannot customize each team's AI
No create-a-team
No way to edit individual players
Practice mode is now limited to one skater vs. an AI goalie

Gameplay

No custom camera option
No Action Tracker replay highlights
No Top 3 Stars at the end of games.

Be A GM

Yearly draft is fully automated by the CPU
Cannot play the AHL games for your chosen franchise
Players sent down to the minors do not accumulate any season stats
No fantasy draft option
No preseason games

Be A Pro

No option to sim ahead to the next shift
You only play in the NHL; you cannot play for minor league teams
The Memorial Cup tryout period is gone. You now begin by picking an NHL team, or by letting a random CPU team draft you.
No All-Star game

Ultimate Team

Cannot play against your friends
No tournaments
No mobile app

All of the above features were available last year in NHL 14 for the Xbox 360/PlayStation 3 but appear to be missing this year on the new-generation of consoles. If you have NHL 15 early access and have noticed any of these are actually in the game or if anything additional is missing let us know in the comments below.

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# 261 cherman24 @ 09/06/14 10:51 AM

Holy cow, I'm scared here. I've been slammed at work last week and will be this week. I haven't been really reading gaming pages (maybe because I wrongfully assumed things were included). I am itching for NHL so bad because I didn't get it two years ago and I skipped last year knowing I was going next gen...but you're telling me, as a guy who doesn't do HUT, doesn't play online, and just enjoys a season vs. teams with the most current players, I cannot get this? WTF. I'm seriously thinking about jetting up to GS and cancelling before it's too late. To me, NHL was the perfect season game. The season games were realistic and you didn't have to invest an hour per game. NFL is too short, and the NBA is too long (if you bump up the time to get realistic results). I just cannot fathom trying to play a game where I can't change uniforms, will see Ovechkin traded to the Jets for a draft pick, and have to worry about raising the prices of soda so I can upgrade the toilets to have happy fans.

Last I read about this game was from Game Informer saying how great it is, etc. I think companies like EA are so big now, they just pay to have one of their PR guys write an article and put it in places. I rely on things like that to determine my purchases, but I feel a little bait and switch...or empty promises.

# 262 ManiacMatt1782 @ 09/06/14 11:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cherman24


	Holy cow, I'm scared here. I've been slammed at work last week and will be this week. I haven't been really reading gaming pages (maybe because I wrongfully assumed things were included). I am itching for NHL so bad because I didn't get it two years ago and I skipped last year knowing I was going next gen...but you're telling me, as a guy who doesn't do HUT, doesn't play online, and just enjoys a season vs. teams with the most current players, I cannot get this? WTF. I'm seriously thinking about jetting up to GS and cancelling before it's too late. To me, NHL was the perfect season game. The season games were realistic and you didn't have to invest an hour per game. NFL is too short, and the NBA is too long (if you bump up the time to get realistic results). I just cannot fathom trying to play a game where I can't change uniforms, will see Ovechkin traded to the Jets for a draft pick, and have to worry about raising the prices of soda so I can upgrade the toilets to have happy fans. Last I read about this game was from Game Informer saying how great it is, etc. I think companies like EA are so big now, they just pay to have one of their PR guys write an article and put it in places. I rely on things like that to determine my purchases, but I feel a little bait and switch...or empty promises.

While I will slam them for things that are true, this is false. Be a GM (season/franchise mode) is in. Albeit a very stripped down version, but it is indeed in. The online GM connected was removed.

# 263 cherman24 @ 09/06/14 11:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ManiacMatt1782


	While I will slam them for things that are true, this is false. Be a GM (season/franchise mode) is in. Albeit a very stripped down version, but it is indeed in. The online GM connected was removed.

OK, I just saw so many threads on so many websites and I kinda got really worried really quickly. So, as a season guy who likes to keep rosters the same (unless they change in real life), do you think I would be happy? Would I be able to make a trade on two teams I don't control? Thanks for your reply.

# 264 ManiacMatt1782 @ 09/06/14 11:41 AM

I didn't really get into that in the access. Sorry I don't have a better answer.

# 265 bigwill33 @ 09/06/14 12:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cherman24


	OK, I just saw so many threads on so many websites and I kinda got really worried really quickly. So, as a season guy who likes to keep rosters the same (unless they change in real life), do you think I would be happy? Would I be able to make a trade on two teams I don't control? Thanks for your reply.

No. You can't control more than your team. You can't play a single season mode. You can only play a stripped down GM mode. You can opt to turn CPU trades off, but that will be your only control over the rest of the league. You cannot edit players at all either.

# 266 ElroyJetson @ 09/06/14 12:24 PM

I was totally going to buy this, would be the first hockey game Ive owned since the early 2000's but with the lackluster of modes no way would I pay 60$...Just gonna wait for Fifa

# 267 Skyhook71 @ 09/06/14 12:47 PM

I'm totally new to Hockey this year (Real or Virtual) and I was going to get this game on Tuesday like everyone else. However, I've been reading the backlash that EA has been getting for what NHL 15 is turning out to be, and I will have to wait it out and see what and if they will patch in later.

Honestly, even from a armature hockey fan I also felt like the demo seemed very bare-boned with the menus very plain and kind of generic. Maybe because I'm used to the other sports leagues who have games with tons of stuff thrown in to keep gamers busy all year long. BTW, I was appalled by the last gen NHL 14 -15 comparison video.

Then I came here and seen what people were all complaining about, and right away remembered how bare the menu screens were and how hollow the demo felt. Yes, I know it's a demo. But even then there still seems to be a bit of weight to it like the UFC did. I totally side with the fans here who got their game short changed this year for whatever reasons that may be. As much as I love the Madden this year, there are a lot of bugs and glitches that are still peeving me 2 weeks later. (This has to be the buggiest madden to date IMO) I see NHL 15 has some bugs of it's own. I've already seen a madden like glitch in a YT video already, and I'm thinking this might get very interesting to say the least.

Link: ---> http://youtu.be/EFIm8CHqjqE?t=21m48s

Now someone might jump up and say. "Well, it's not fair to get mad because we don't know what the story behind it is..... blazzy blah." That's the problem, we don't know why and how come it's taken up to 3 days before launch of this highly anticipated game of what the deal is. Also as to why fans have to scout out EA's Early Access to inform other paying customers/fans and possible NHL's future hockey fans (me) of your product because we are to be left in the dark.

I'm not bashing EA, I'm calling the cards that I see laid out before me and other fans, and if they or someone doesn't like it. Then hey, they are entitled to their opinion just like I'm entitled to mine.

Now with my first impressions rant out of the way. I do have one question.
I've read that there will be no other leagues in the game this year, yet in the team select mode (demo and full game) there is a button for "Random League" (Y). Are they available but just in exhibition mode?

# 268 Hoos @ 09/06/14 01:04 PM

This just made my decision whether to buy FIFA 15 or NHL 15 soooooooo much easier......if all of this is truly missing from the final game, what a joke!!!!

# 269 ManiacMatt1782 @ 09/06/14 01:14 PM

It saddens me as a huge hockey fan to have to skip this. NHL is usually one of my must buys. Heck look at my avatar. Not happy that Hockey is gonna be a void this year. I have to refrain from speaking further because I do not want to be banned for developer bashing. But that statement alone I think expresses my displeasure enough.

# 270 THESHAMISASHAME @ 09/06/14 01:27 PM

Well I really cant add much more to what has already been said as I only really play BFTC and Playoff mode but welcome back to 2007 in 2014 mode wise and if History repeats itself most modes may trickle back by 2017-18 as all brand new to the ps4 .

Ea really did more damage by not just being honest , explaining or even just lying to our faces on why or how the games been gutted of all their basic modes and when the might return as I love the game play and might have been more forgiving but their silence speaks volumes .

# 271 tjung0831 @ 09/06/14 02:56 PM

So are you saying I can't play a season with an OHL or WHL team? Can somebody confirm this?

# 272 StoneColdSwede @ 09/06/14 03:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tjung0831


	So are you saying I can't play a season with an OHL or WHL team? Can somebody confirm this?

Sounds about right since all you can do, season wise, is play Be a GM and that's for NHL teams only.

# 273 FBeaule04 @ 09/06/14 05:21 PM

They forgot so many things in that game that I guess they won't mind some of us forgetting to buy the game.

I guess there will so many brand new modes in NHL 16 on the next-gen that it will take two boxes to show them all.

# 274 bigwill33 @ 09/06/14 05:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tjung0831


	So are you saying I can't play a season with an OHL or WHL team? Can somebody confirm this?

I'll confirm that for you. No, you cannot do that.

# 275 stooge 1010 @ 09/06/14 05:49 PM

could they possibly patch in season mode? or at least let us edit jersey numbers?

# 276 Freakywwe @ 09/06/14 06:49 PM

What happened to the new Stanley Cup Celebration they said was in?

# 277 actionhank @ 09/06/14 07:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Skyhook71


	I'm totally new to Hockey this year (Real or Virtual) and I was going to get this game on Tuesday like everyone else. However, I've been reading the backlash that EA has been getting for what NHL 15 is turning out to be, and I will have to wait it out and see what and if they will patch in later. Honestly, even from a armature hockey fan I also felt like the demo seemed very bare-boned with the menus very plain and kind of generic. Maybe because I'm used to the other sports leagues who have games with tons of stuff thrown in to keep gamers busy all year long. BTW, I was appalled by the last gen NHL 14 -15 comparison video. Then I came here and seen what people were all complaining about, and right away remembered how bare the menu screens were and how hollow the demo felt. Yes, I know it's a demo. But even then there still seems to be a bit of weight to it like the UFC did. I totally side with the fans here who got their game short changed this year for whatever reasons that may be. As much as I love the Madden this year, there are a lot of bugs and glitches that are still peeving me 2 weeks later. (This has to be the buggiest madden to date IMO) I see NHL 15 has some bugs of it's own. I've already seen a madden like glitch in a YT video already, and I'm thinking this might get very interesting to say the least. Link: ---> http://youtu.be/EFIm8CHqjqE?t=21m48s Now someone might jump up and say. "Well, it's not fair to get mad because we don't know what the story behind it is..... blazzy blah." That's the problem, we don't know why and how come it's taken up to 3 days before launch of this highly anticipated game of what the deal is. Also as to why fans have to scout out EA's Early Access to inform other paying customers/fans and possible NHL's future hockey fans (me) of your product because we are to be left in the dark. I'm not bashing EA, I'm calling the cards that I see laid out before me and other fans, and if they or someone doesn't like it. Then hey, they are entitled to their opinion just like I'm entitled to mine. Now with my first impressions rant out of the way. I do have one question. I've read that there will be no other leagues in the game this year, yet in the team select mode (demo and full game) there is a button for "Random League" (Y). Are they available but just in exhibition mode?

Bishop's attempt to dive and save that puck instead of moving left and kicking out the left leg is a perfect example of why the goalie AI has been, and continues to be awful. I don't need diving saves every 3 shots, EA, i just want a goalie that knows how to stop a puck when he should be able to.

# 278 tjung0831 @ 09/06/14 10:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bigwill33


	I'll confirm that for you. No, you cannot do that.

Thanks for the info.

# 279 ERA @ 09/06/14 11:16 PM

Am I the only one still contemplating getting this? I'm really disappointed with EA, trust me, but I cannot live another year without hockey. My last hockey game was NHL 12.

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# 280 Caniac94 @ 09/06/14 11:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Freakywwe


	What happened to the new Stanley Cup Celebration they said was in?

Exactly. And after Rammer said there would definitely be a new Stanley Cup celebration this year. This celebration has been in the game for YEARS now. Looks just like a copy and paste. Rask doesn't even look like Rask and Chara being the same height as Toews... laughable. Can't really say I'm surprised though after all the many things that they've claimed to be in the game but actually aren't. NHL 16 better be one hell of a hockey game to makeup for this debacle. I'm not even sure that would really even make up for it.

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