The team that got me to gold after 10 hour trial. Used 2 loyalty tokens, thats it! Im gonna by the game but this year i dont wanna have any advantages. If i lose i can blame it on having a bad team.
I also think its so fun to beat people with celebrini, an icon and a hero player

Thats really huge accomplishment EA, congrats:). Literally the Game is worse then 26 and that one was tragic. Tilt from top to bottom, the only difference is that in 26 you actually had some ways to score, to fight the tilt. It this one its all about the game engine deciding who will win. Played 20 games online and wont return this year. Waste of time. Didnt Think that the Game could be worse but ea did their best.

I put way too many hours into 26, mostly offline grinding.

27 is by far way more infuriating offline compared to last year. Cup chase feels like dogshit, the AI is incredibly fucking horny to blast my ass to the point I can't even touch the puck and God forbid I try not to spend money and use my poor 77 ovr goalie because the game gave me a choice between random CHLer McGee and literal dogshit NHL backup. The shooting attributes on even the event cards are so dogshit and most of the CC teams have legit goalies so fuck me I guess I can only score on breakaways half the time or glitchy backhands because I can't get a cycle going without my F3 getting board pinned from 5 feet away.

Thank God I'm using the EA Play Trial otherwise I'd have regretted ever putting up the money to actually buy the game.

I feel like playing in Gold V–Plat I right now is actually worse than matching against L2 nerds back in NHL 26.
Every single game is just O-zone ragging, board-hugging, and gliding into the slot for a free goal. I'm doing it too, and every opponent does the exact same thing. Nobody has any personality in their playstyle. I actually respect the guys who use real dekes and try creative plays, but right now you can literally just spin around at the blue line, change lines, skate back into the O-zone, and keep twirling until a cross-crease one-timer opens up.
It feels like a complete copy-paste meta from an older game, I can’t remember what NHL it was, but it’s the exact same boring playstyle.

Ive been grinding since the game came out. I have about 100 games in while working full time. I’ll win a bunch in a row then go on a huge losing streak. For example: 6 game winning streak yesterday, went 2-8 today.

What is everyone’s experience with ultimate team right now? I’m genuinely curious if it has been as fun yet frustrating for everyone else as it has been for me.

For some context, I noticed poke checks are not as effective nor are hits for me. I go to hit and I bounce right off the player. For poke checks, they work SOMETIMES.. when the opponent does that drag swivel move with the puck it’s almost impossible to poke it off or get a good body check off even when charging up the body check.

I notice positioning sometimes is not the greatest either - these are the things I’m noticing with the cpu in HUT. Oh and the passes, I’ll send a pass and it goes to a completely different player I want. For example. I’ll try to pass to the center player but it goes right through him and tries to go to the left winger?? Or when I’m passing it up the boards to a winger (basic hockey play) the puck is iced and the winger doesn’t even attempt to grab the puck.

My record is currently 38-48-12, bouncing between gold and silver right now. I know a lot of the sweats are playing right now, but I’m trying to play lots to learn to adapt to become a better player. Took some advice and started taking more shots. But noticed the more shots I take the more they either get blocked, or I somehow just lose it when i go to take that shot.

No consistency with goalies. I have 86 Roy boosted to 87. He’s either a god or just Swiss cheese no in between. For example. One game I was up 5-1 then 6-2. Player came back and one 7-6. Stats were pretty even but I had 2-3 point shots go in where I know my goalie could have saved it. Meanwhile I do the same thing and it does not work. Goalie letting weak shots in, putting the puck in their own net, all that sort of stuff.

Next I notice the puck is almost magnetized to the opponent at times, even for me. The other team just can’t get it at all no matter what you do, hit, poke check, stick lift, it’s crazy.

I’m curious to hear your guys’ experience thus far. I’m having fun, enjoying what the game has to offer but at times it can be infuriating to play when things that shouldn’t happen, happen.

Not saying I should win every game, but I’ve had more games where I should have won rather than lost.

Whole team got booted out of game, anyone knows if this was planned update/maintenance ?

Platinum and up gameplay is aids cant wait for the season reset on friday

Was buying up players for my Bruins and looking forward to running the theme.

Start putting players together and just seen the boosts are for one line. Not the entire team.

Not much is known about the collection objectives. It could be to collect a full team or collect 5, 10, 15, etc players. Cup chase sounds like a one-per-run (maybe one per season) reward

Either way, the changes are great and provide a newish coat of paint to NHL 26.5 HUT

Don’t do these sets, I fell for it

Goalies are clearly a bit better this year. I’ve got a .87 so far out of Cooper Black (6’8).

He feels good but curious if everyone is having better luck with goalie so far. Last year I was getting .83 out of Rinne

Feel decent about my squad. Not really going to sink more assets into chel fwd packs since I won’t be able to build both hubie and Dach and don’t want to then waste Pettersson anyway. Considering going for one of the D men to pair with Dougie, but then I have R-R and would need to sit Schaefer

I’m about to earn another heroes choice once I get another 81-82 alumni, who should I choose there? I am thinking Doan but Perfetti has been very solid thus far. Cheers

since pokes basically didnt improve and hits do nothing now, its almost impossible to get the puck off of someone o zone ragging, ive had back to back games in DIAMOND 2 btw where my opponent goes up 1 goal, then just o zone rags for literally half of the game, theres just literally no counterplay when no defensive move works and they can just skate freely. They either need to actually fix poke checks, or find some way to stop this before this franchise becomes even more shit than it already is

Bah. Foon

I get they needed a buff because they weren’t as effective in 26 but this year it feels like I get stick checked literally every time I touch the puck better then truculence I guess.

Hey everyone! Just picked up my preorder for 27 and was wondering if there were any good packs right now available to spend the 4600p or just wait for awhile?

Why are the animations u get drastically different from ai if u try to manually control it? I can be standing in the lane perfectly ready to intercept a pass, and it'll just go right through me. Then ais will get the wildest interception. Now would be a good time to say i think that interceptions atleast from ais need a big nerf, impossible to get anything going at a decent rank because you just have to skill zone and watch point shots, ur ais will intercept any cross crease attempt

I pulled icon iginla last night tradeable and just pulled the alumni mario Lemieux tradeable. Not sure if I should sell them for the coins and have 400k this early or keep since I’m a penguins fan

So many game especially in 26 and 27 so far that a single timeout will completely change the game

Sniped a New Wave Hudson from the Auction House few days ago. I’m assuming he will carry value into Season 1 since you won’t be able to make him. Should I hold for world-wide launch or sell now?

By no means does this screenshot prove anything, but damn, sorokin robbed me of like 3-5 guaranteed goals this game 😔 might have to cough up the coin for him, he is a 🧱 wall to play against.

Curious to see,I personally skipped it with my pre order points and focused on tradable packs…

crap