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NHL 16: Let's Talk About the Features

02:54 PM - May 19, 2015 by ChaseB

At this point, we have now received the major bullet points that EA will be touting this year for NHL 16. The big things that detracted from NHL 15 were a lack of modes and a general rushed feeling everything had off the ice. Clearly, EA is trying to correct those issues this season.

So let's breakdown what we know piece by piece and talk about all this.

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# 21 milesizdead @ 05/20/15 12:44 AM

This is what NHL15 should've been. Personally I'm fine with the new EASHL, even though I enjoyed the grind to L3, I appreciate the preset builds as a way to promote player skill and team work. Maybe people will play less 2's now that the fast grinder build is no longer available

# 22 Dino @ 05/20/15 09:43 AM

Excited to hear or hopefull that they indeed took Boosts out of the EASHL. I can now stop playing Ultimate team and wasting money. Look forward to paying $60 for one game and no add-ons. Maybe EA is just giving the EASHL fans who complained so much last year, a one year pass on Microtransactions. Hard to believe if true.

# 23 GlennN @ 05/20/15 10:43 AM

Totally agree with: "If I'm more hesitant to believe in something coming through, it would be noticing huge differences on the ice as NHL still struggles at times to even make the really great players feel much different from much worse players."

I only play offline Franchise mode in sports games, including the NHL series. The two things I most wanted, in order, are (as you folks said) more differentiation based on the rating attributes, and better tracking of player bios, stats and awards. For me, the whole "morale" thing is silly if I don't have the immersion of being able to follow the careers of the players by looking at their player card. I'll wait for the reviews and then decide (of course, I say that every year and end up buying anyway, so there's that).

# 24 murph17 @ 05/20/15 09:37 PM

Hats on ice for hat tricks are back! [emoji1][emoji599][emoji599][emoji599]

# 25 13whitebread @ 05/20/15 09:46 PM

I hope they do something with the awful animation when you score a goal and the one player jumps on the others back after scoring a goal. This just does not look right.

# 26 CrackinBacks @ 05/20/15 10:16 PM

Pretty disappointing when one of your key feature upgrades are that mascots are being added...??? Really?? We're talking mascots....how silly is that

# 27 TDKing @ 05/21/15 08:26 AM

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Originally Posted by CrackinBacks


	Pretty disappointing when one of your key feature upgrades are that mascots are being added...??? Really?? We're talking mascots....how silly is that

Hey, and playoff beards!!

# 28 canucksss @ 05/21/15 04:25 PM

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Originally Posted by TDKing


	Hey, and playoff beards!!

As much as I like this, I hope its not all of a sudden having beard during playoffs. I want to see "progression" and not just a "miracle" that as soon as the playoff starts, all players have beards.

# 29 scitychamps87 @ 05/21/15 05:03 PM

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Originally Posted by canucksss


	As much as I like this, I hope its not all of a sudden having beard during playoffs. I want to see "progression" and not just a "miracle" that as soon as the playoff starts, all players have beards.

EA has mentioned that there will be progression in terms of beard growth as the playoffs goes on. However, I think in terms of miracle beards just appearing as the playoffs begin...I think we will see that. Hopefully, the beards in the first round are pretty short, that way it looks like guys just stopped shaving when the regular season ended and the days off added some hair growth. But, we won't really know for a bit.

# 30 actionhank @ 05/21/15 07:48 PM

I hate to sound whiny, but the Player Creator still looks years behind every other game.

Picking from a bunch of pre-fabricated faces is the worst. Cool, I can add a massive Santa beard to this face that looks nothing like me. EA has had the same player editor since NHL08, at least, with a majority of the face models being the same.

The equipment editor has worked well enough, but the face and player editor haven't evolved at all, and it's a real disappointment to see, when I've been creating better looking players with MLB The Show for years now.

Edit: And apparently player editing is still out for Be a GM. I didn't think EA could possibly be more disappointing than they were with the way they handled the NHL15 release, but not adding the simple things that help to improve the game that we had before is just piling it on. Here's hoping it's incorrect, or something they change.

I can't understand why they do it that way, but if you're still unable to edit player equipment to better reflect their real equipment, or to change traded players equipment to match (Goalie pads, looking at you) then I am just blown away. It's not that it's a game breaking issue, it just doesn't bode well to me for them to ignore something that bothered so many. I just don't know how much EA cares anymore. Maybe SCEA will take up hockey too.

# 31 Arrowhead21 @ 05/22/15 04:52 PM

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Originally Posted by murph17


	Hats on ice for hat tricks are back! [emoji1][emoji599][emoji599][emoji599]

get your priorities in order, boy

# 32 canucksss @ 05/22/15 11:01 PM

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Originally Posted by actionhank


	Maybe SCEA will take up hockey too.

I JUST HOPE SO!!!

This will make PS4 even sell more, especially if they will provide us a game better than EA's and that is not difficult to do

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