Be careful what you ask for. The most of wishlist videos of the game changers and top players were looking for the following: 1. Different rewarding system (XP path...) 2. One-timers back in the game 3. Guaranteed rewards 4. Play what you want and earn rewards 5. Each card to has value 7. Affordable event cards (fantasy, master sets...) 6. A more fluid game 8. Better presentation of the game EA done it all and everybody are pissed off. Human nature or just negativity that is spreading like an infection? I would love to hear a comment from the HUT legend, my man, NoSleeves
@@Vengeance_De_La_HoyaI feel this is the case because although a lot of the rewards are lower tiered cards i feel with the trade in sets to make the 75+ cards it evens out because I was never able to make a fantasy card before but with the objectives and free collectibles we get I can make multiple this year and I haven’t even gridded as hard as years past - that being said I still think the rewards need to improve overall for season 2
We're pissed cause all they had TOO DO WAS improve on what they had.....not changing a thing for 5yrs then a whole new thing....we wanted the 1 timers from past years. Better rewards doesn't mean shitty rewards...
Recently came across your channel and I just wanted to say thank you so much for your amazing breakdowns on the new cards and in ultimate team overall. It helps a lot thank you have a wonderful day!
Hi Sleeves, thanks for the great work. I do love many things from this year, even the xp path, but clearly need a little boost for season 2. My major issue is with hut champs. I really loved grinding my 20games for a lot a of packs even though nothing were garantee. I did only 9 win for getting a mega pack, because if i cant reach 15w, i was getting only marleau and a bad pack or what seems to be a bad pack. We got Drouin and Dubois 84 bnd, i really cant care less about Marleau. What i would love to see, is like last year, a good old champs and a comp season with garantee player, so when i loved the parameter of the comp season or i loved the player like i loved Rempe than i could play both you know. I really hope champs comeback like before, i really really hate the format right now
@9:18 Love you Sleeves, Appreciate you taking the time to breakdown and respond to my comment. You took a lot of time to hear me out and I truly appreciate that. I love your critical and just commentary on the game. You are also right, when you talk about the importance of finding positives during the bad times. Because, if it’s all bad it does just sucks. Seriously, taking 10 minutes to breakdown and respond to my comment and giving me a voice. Is something I’m truly grateful for. And made me feel valued. At the end, you asked if I had an Idea to have more packs while keeping the market as it is currently. Unfortunately, I don’t have a suggestion. I don’t think both “Big Packs” and “The Current Market” can exist. I don’t think I want “more” small packs. What I think I want is bigger packs, with more cards in them and more likely hood of pulling a Higher overall card surrounded by other cards that are great fodder. Currently, I’ll have a 5 player pack. With 4 bronzes and 1 75 overall card. And that’s just lame to open lol. But last year I’d have an 8 player pack. With 7 fodder cards and maybe 1 player that could make a lineup between 82. And I could take those fodder and make team builders or whatever. But like we’ve said. I don’t think both can exist. Either we receive more cards and can make Team Builders or whatever. Or we have a Market in which cards hold their value high. It’s just lame opening bronze cards lol Apologies for the long comment, Thanks Sleeves, You’re doing a great job!
Hey Sleeves, just wanted to offer a perspective from someone who has played HUT every year since NHL 14. In 14,15,16 and 17, I used the market to build my team. I would end up building the same team every year and while 17 was the only time I ever qualified for D1, it was a boring strategy. Since 18, I have overall built my team through packs and events. I also have tried to not use cards two years in a row. (Example, had TOTY McDavid and Gretzky in 23, had TOTS Mackinnon and then Lemieux in 24) The X-factors and PUI were also great because it was someone I could make a leader on my team throughout the year. The changes this year have made this strategy a bit harder, but I’m still doing it because it’s more fun for me as a player. I technically broke NMS by putting $5 into the game at the beginning of the year but otherwise won’t spend money. I’m planning to basically just use my coins on sets throughout the year or save it for a special item that will make my experience better. I’m still having fun with the game and the fact that gameplay isn’t as frustrating anymore is a blessing. Thanks for letting me rant, always enjoy these videos!
Howdy Sleeves, Forget the dopamine rush from packs. Can we mention the manic depression we experience when the next tier you have to grind gives you coins? I don't hate the XP format nor the objectives rewards. It would be nice to have in-game bonuses to XP, though. Like, what if randomly, each game had mini objectives? Like moments. For example, score top shelf goals for 100 XP. Get a hat trick with your right winger. It could break the monotony and help us along the path. Cya next video.
the sets are making me lose my mind. have to individually place each card into sets because autofill doesn’t work and can’t multi select. really hope this gets fixed soon.
Hey Sleeves, thanks for being the best content creator for chel on RUclips and Twitch. Just wanted the chime in and say this is the most fun ive had playing nhl in a long time. Ive been playing since the early computer days and seen alot of varation in the game in that time. I play world of chel as well as hockey ultimate team and I feel as tho this is the most competive team ive had to start a year in a long time. I agree the xp path is dog water, but to be honest it could be a simple fix for ea. With overalls going up by the time season 2 starts give us bigger more rewarding packs and even make them untradeable to protect the market. Giveing us a chance at better cards/set fodder for chase cards and MSPS. I for one never say no to "free" from this game or any game. Keep up the great work and LETS GO OILERS!🎉
It hasnt been as bad as the vocal critics have been . I had early access, which had worse rewards. I did get lucky on the 68+ pack from the XP and pulled an 82 sanheim fantasy card that sold for a million
Hey yo, just had 2 things I wanted to add. I really hated the old style of hut where everyone would make "the best MSPs" like toty or tots and then you have multiple cards locked into your lineup all year and am really enjoying the ability to just buy/sell/rent whatever cards I want this year and constantly be changing up my team. Also, just wanted to shout out and represent the community of ppl like myself who don't work in an office and watch/listen to all your content while commuting from different job sites. Anyway, I don't comment or talk much in discord or twitch but I'm a long time follower and love the content. Keep up the great work!!
In response to the marketplace being a job of a task anymore, it definitely can feel that way. But to go along with what sleeves said about just selling tradable cards, the way the market is now you could literally just list each card for auction and set it to end at high traffic times of the day. You’ll make just about as much as they’re “worth” without the headache.
A lot of great points being made. I have played HUT every year since it started and I haven’t bought NHL this year yet because I just have other priorities and no longer want to keep joining the endless grind that it had always been. So, from an outsiders opinion with no dog in the race as of right now: I agree with you when it comes to the trade-off of less packs and chances as lottery tickets in exchange for more coins and liquidity. Never in my time playing HUT (outside of when I let the credit card get out of control) have I ever had a coin count on hand big enough to just go buy the newest card out there. Even when I did, knowing that it was going to be outclassed in a week and the price cratering always made me turn to spending coin on set fodder instead. The ability as a no money spent player to confidently buy any card you want to try knowing you want take a bath if you don’t like it is amazing. If they can balance the effort to reward ratio a little more on xp path, then the actual team building and collecting part of the game would be in a really solid place more so than any other year I remember. Keep up the great work. Even though I don’t play the game, I still enjoy getting all of the tea from you when I can.
The gameplay is great this year other than the D to D perfect one timer cheese. As someone who loves to manually defend, ive basically given up in the D zone and just keep one guy high at the point so they cant do D to D one timers. I would sell my first son, push my grandma down a flight of stairs, ANYTHING to block the D to D 1T. Since I started doing this ive been smoking people in D3 and am close to D2. The skill gap is going to change tremendously if they ever patch this. Love watching your videos everyday man.
Barzal - Brind’Amour - Base McDavid CA Stamkos - CA Matthews - Modano Base Mackinnon - Base Sid - SN Jagr GB Kyrou - HT Couture - Base Kucherov CA Makar - Gonchar GB Dobson - Guhle XP Drysdale - GB Theodore. I have an X-Factor captains pack I haven’t opened and want some guidance on what the best move would be for me. I’m leaning towards Kucherov but the Heiskanen looks insane too. Who should I choose?
Very well explained! You are right on with everything. I watched someone open packs and they were mad because it was 3 75s in one pack. Im like wait a min are you not realizing how many coins you just made. We used to get nothing in old packs. Atleast now if you don’t get pulls you make coins on every pack basically. It is just a diff market. And if you honestly enjoy playing the game in my opinion you should like this market better, you are correct it’s the pack attics that want to rip packs more than play the game.
Sleeves. You are the Goat. Been a fan since "how to suck less" vids. thanks for all your hard work. Ive recently changed my approach/perspective to playing daily and agree there are some positive changes like cards holding value. I just wish they would fix some of the egregious bugs like. Replays over critical face offs and not being able to add multiple cards to a set. For every step forward EA makes it seems like them take 2 steps back. Thoughts on the interface issues and having to open a pack for a 75ovr from moments instead of it just going to my inbox. I've spent more time in the menus this year and it's aggravating.
love the videos! great to listen to while grinding out some games after work. What the heck is up with arenas! there are none on the market and no packs to really get them from.
Yeah people need to watch out bc a card being BND is coded into the game as not being able to put in any set so it’s not something EA will even try to make an exchange set for. I just don’t think they have the ability to do it.
Whats up sleeves, idea for fixing the moments issue. I think they dont want moments to give xp because of how fast and repeatable some are, allowing people to exploit and grind them. A good fix would be adding one of the objectives (like complete game or win a faceoff) and have the reward be xp. This can replace weird reward passouts like getting 1000 coins in 2 different rewards. Keep up the lords work my man.
I dont think people are asking for repeatable xp. But I dont have time or the care to do the weekly 3 min period moments games for the bad packs. You get 45xp in objs I dont think an extra 5k from a dozen moments at the end as the final reward would hurt anything.
For context I am a full time NMS player. I complete all the weekly moments and objectives. Play my 20 Champs games and all. I was sitting on 1.2m coins and didn't like any of the first week of fantasy cards, based off your advice of go after who you want I decided to pull the trigger and build Gartner from the team builder set(I know I could have used coins toward McDavid but I really wanted this card) it only cost me about 400k with the 2 free ones from moments, still leaving me with plenty for a 2nd week fantasy card and after 10 games or so I can confidently say I do not regret it at all. This card feels awesome and better then anything else in the market that I have tested. I would advise others to not be "scared" to spend a little coin to get a card you want.
Hey Sleeves, I have been playing HUT since NHL19, and am also an avid MLB The Show player during the summer. This years moments has reminded me of getting collection fodder in MLB with the monthly awards. However, it would be nice if the moments had a few objectives instead of being individual moments. In the end we do want the rewards, it just sucks that its long and drawn out.
Easy solution for first question, Do one of the BND sets for week 1 and one BND set for week 2, Build UT of your favorite player of week 2 that isnt a BND duplicate!
First up, keep up the awesome content. I could be wrong but it feels like you're really enjoying yourself this year and it's great to see. I'm curious if you think the FUT gambling lawsuits and regulatory scrutiny in Europe could be impacting the way that EA decided to flesh out rewards and packs this year? Lastly, have you reconsidered potentially renaming the team to Thai-yoda Rav4s? Thanks for all your hard work keeping us casuals informed over the years.
Hi Sleeves, thanks for another awesome video and being a great content creator. I loved the weekly packs and such, but after hearing your feedback on it, you’re exactly right. My question to you is - how do you make the game more entertaining and enjoyable for yourself? Ive done multiple theme teams, collected cards from my favourite teams, and tried tons of different players out. Am I just getting bored with the game mode? I’m Tier 40:60, if that means anything. I’d love to hear how to make it more fresh for myself. Thanks again for the videos! Take care, Stay safe Happy gaming! - Coolin Killin It
Hey Sleeves, I've commented before that this is my first time playing an NHL game from release so all this craziness is new to me. What I find interesting though is that the issues plaguing the release of this game are seen across the gaming ecosystem when a new game is released. But it does seem somewhat new to the NHL franchise. So I guess my question is, are the issues that we are seeing now new to the game's release when compared to years past? Since I haven't played any of the games at release, I really have nothing to go off of. But again, a lot of the things that are being talked about such as microtransactions, bugs in the game, missing content, or lack of rewards, are things that I've seen in other games that I have played at launch. As always, thanks for the great video, you've become part of my daily RUclips routine.
Hey sleeves, watch all your videos I appreciate the positive outlook it’s really changed my mindset on how they’re doing things this year! Do you think that they will do a collectable trade in set for the fantasy collectables at the end of the fantasy hockey event like they have in years prior? I’ve already got marshement in my random and Made coyle as I’m a bruins fan with most of my collection. I plan on doing the random week 2 base fantasy pack but will have extra collectables left over!!
to add onto the other pack gamblers here We are taking a bullet to have base cards and other cards hold value which overall is a great thing. If you want to test a card before committing resource to build its UT version we can do that this year without risking a significant drop in price after we finish testing it Rewards are currently bad, 50 of the 74 cards in my bonus packs were 74 or lower overall. While Eichel hasn't felt different from Mack, Xp Laine or XF Nylander (i hear good things about nylander). On top of that Eichel is BND so he's either rotting in your collection or creating a log jam at LW if you want to keep Nylander xf and play to build like fantasy garland or a TOTY (right shot forward) later compared to a choice pack since not everyone needs a right shot winger The game has early builds of good systems that need to be polished but currently it doesnt feel like theres any reason to play rivals outside of qualifying for champs. Squad battles gives more xp and you don't need to deal with the one time forcing players, or raggers or back door players Somehow this game feels more like a job imo than last years and last years had us going against these "one time forcing players, or raggers or back door players" for the guaranteed of fodder maybe better rewards. If they would just give us more consistent fodder rewards (75+ overalls, especially in the xp path) it would really improve the game. You could even juice the xp path and put a daily xp limit on it so the idiots like me who can do the whole thing in 2 weeks are limited to whatever EA decides is the earliest time to finish If alumni players are going to be included in packs and packs are so far mostly bronze cards, then why can't we use guys like bronze Ryan Ellis or Avs legend Peter Worrell in TBs. overall there's stuff in the game that i think will be great down the road but this game feels like they change so much stuff and went with the approach that more change is better compared to focusing on one of these changes and making sure its really good and flushed out first, again like TB required players if you are going to lower overalls this much
Hey Sleeves, long time, first time. Massive Guelph Storm fan, Gillespie for Goalie of the year. I’ve come to accept that my 30+ demographic has simply aged out with this release. I don’t have 20-30 hours a week to grind an xp path for 77+ cards I just want to play SB and land in a rewards pool higher than last week. I’m just not the target demo anymore.
They should give you the option like in years past to choose better/more packs that are untradeable. This shouldn’t have a huge impact on the market at the high end but would lower the cost of lower overalls.
You mentioned that the moments and xp path are not where they should be but I think they are perfect. Winning games feels extremely important to help with the path and this is only the first path. The game wont last if the first path gives out insane rewards. Plus the daily and weekly objectives give out plenty of xp. It may be hard for those addicted to ripping packs and spending all their money on the game, but this is the best nhl by far for the free to play experience in many years. Also, moments seem to take the right amount of effort and time. The “exit and claim rewards” feature makes the process fluid and rewarding. I have played since nhl 12 and recently stopped buying the newer games because of a lack of change. NHL 18 was the best of recent years that I can recall with the addition of all the new dekes. This year feels amazing and rewarding, besides over powered defensive one timers. Obviously strategies can be adjusted to help, but I still hate the feeling of playing strong defence and blocking the shot lane to still get scored on. If this is fixed along with goalies not flopping around as soon as a couple shots go their way, gameplay will be the best it has been in many years. I can’t recall a year that goalies were considered “too good” and would love to see them amp the goalies up. As for the market, I love that cards are finally worth something again. The last time I can recall base cards being worth anything was back in nhl 14 when team building sets gave out coin rewards. I also find it easy to snipe players and gain coins fast. I don’t think it is a necessary skill for most players, but makes me feel rewarded as a free to play player. I made 700k+ this year just flipping 80s alone. One thing that I think could be added (if it’s even possible) is connecting the xp path to world of chel. Earning rewards for playing either game mode would be huge. I find myself making a tough decision of whether I want to play with my friends or just sit in a party playing hut separately. Hopefully this comment reaches you and thanks in advance for reading.
hello from Quebec. I have trouble listening to the entire episodes of who should you choose. This year, you respond a lot to criticism instead of talking about the players, and I understand, there are so many changes that it's difficult to miss. I love your content and your advice: the proof, I spent 300k on Macdavid to try him. I hope the content will be more geared towards the game and less towards criticism which is in no way your fault. thx
My left D is all bogged up, I got an UT base Quinn Hughes, BND pronger, BND guhle, and FH sanhiem. Do I just run it without sanhiem till he scores some goals and gets his OVR up? Feels bad to leave 1 out of the 4 out of the lineup. I have pronger on the left side for now to give Quinn some beef, but I also have Weber just sitting Edit: also thanks for all the content sleeves. Can’t wait for the strategy guide, as a 2nd year player I need all the help I can get
Hey Sleeves, you said that we should make the most fantasy card that we can. I actually have approximatively 1 millions coins and I could have about 80 fantasy collectible if I use everything. So I wanted to know if i should buy the 600k pack or like you said make 16 collectible for the pack and then make a fantasy card of my choice for each week. Thanks and love your content (from Québec)
The problems with packs are first of all those bronzeplayers they spam us with. You can keep the value of higher overall cards with a slow progress releasing higher overall cards, including icons, x-factors and teambuilding cards. The other problem with packs is to many of them have a fixed rating, its not fun opening packs when you know you can’t have pack-luck and getting a really good card!
Hey sleeves I’ve personally liked the changes they made to the game because of the amount of coins I’ve been getting but I’ve been able to play 2-4 hours a day and I’m at a point where it’s not even worth buying or making players from the action house because 85 (best overall you can buy) won’t even make my top 6 f or top 4 d now I just have coins building up in my account what do you think I should do
Hi Sleeves, we need more packs !! 19:00, Can you do a pole on how many people spent all their preorder points (4600) ? I am F2P and haven't even touched them I am sure it's same in community. Keep up the great work.
Hey sleeve I just made malkins fantasy card, he’s my favorite player and what got me interested in hockey, I didn’t spend any money, I just saved up players from the competitive packs, and grinded the objectives over the weekend, hopefully there’s not gonna be another pens fantasy card cause it doesn’t look like they’ll get another one, but if drew O’Conner got one that would that be sick
I may be outing myself as an idiot, but I hope this helps someone out there. I was experiencing some of the worst menu lag ever, felt like I was trying to play this game on a last-gen console UNTIL I simply closed the game and reopened it. Before, I used to just put my console in sleep mode and not close out the game. When it was time to play, I would turn on my console and NHL would still be loaded up, although I'd be booted to the main menu due to loss of connection to EA servers. After restarting the game, it made me realize that the game was probably open for a week at that point and was probably suffering from a memory leak. The menu was much more responsive after the restart. So considering this helped me out, hopefully some of yall get the same results!
Hey sleeves love the videos and discussions. I think this hut set up of cards lasting longer and slower overalls, it feels like we could/should go back to 20/21 more card release for all leagues because now there upgrades could be meaning full. Like a +1 overall to Chris Tanev for a 5 shot block night and ice pack. I think more fun cards/ theme team style could help some people. More cards upgrades so you favorite 4th liner or 3 pair shut down d man gets some love. I always hated that as a rangers fan I knew Dan Girardi would be Never upgrade. He scored 3 goals year but he was shit blocking monster. But got no love. And I know there’s a bunch of d man like that. Or a guy like Tyler Mott 4th liner but PK master. He shit blocks and hits. But gets no love.
Can make my first xfactor! Tough choice beteeen nylander and heiskanen. I have lots of RH wingers, stamkos, mackinnon, and soon to be eichel. My top LH is paul coffee, but just pulled Forsling in the BND set, who should be a top 4 Dman with a few more goals. I got Sundin so i could make a nylander sundin matthews leaf line. Maybe wait and see who the next LH MSP Dman is. Love to hear your thoughts.
Sleeves man i sold base mcdavid for 300k (bought for 180k weeks ago) on top of the 500k i already had and made connor garland. not sure if i regret it or not. Anyways love the content bro 💯
Hey Sleeves, I finished all the fantasy objectives and moments for this week and collected all 16 collectibles. Do you think I should go ahead and create a random fantasy card now, or wait until next week in case we are able earn another 16 collectibles and get an additional 8 to get a choice of one?
Honestly sleeves, I’m not a negative person but I’m FTP and I’ve never had less fun with NHL, I’m loosing basically every game and feel like nothing I try to change fixes anything
Hey sleeves, love the content been following you since nhl23. Will every team have a fantasy card? I have 40+ collectibles currently. I’m trying to make 56 to make whoever I want and a random. My question is more or less should I wait til week 2 in hopes I can make a Ranger? Thanks man appreciate all you do
Hey sleeves love the videos, Al maccinis is set up for my d to d one timers yet he won’t ever set up for it. Been doing squad battles for that objective for perfect one timers and he won’t ever set up for them other then for randomly for a single frame.
It happened for 3 games but the fourth one I’ve played just now right after it’s working? So weird, I didn’t change a thing so I’m unsure as to why it happened.
REALLY hope they can fix the slowmotion menu. I tried sniping cards but its too slow for me.. And having to spend so much time in them doing exchanges etc it really need to be improved. I dont care about effects and graphics in the menu just make it more responsive.
Hey! Sleevless is it worth to throw every 75 ovr to x-factor set and every 76-78 ovr to hologram icons because i want gretzky and i think Mcdavid is too big grind
Hey Sleeves, As a Utah (Coyotes) fan I am set on making whoever they pick for the Utah fantasy card next week. Assuming we will be getting another 16 collectibles for challenges, that would put me at 32 free collectibles. Would you recommend saving all the collectibles for next week or using this weeks on former coyotes like Garland or OEL. I’m NMS and still have my 4600 pre order points with 350k+ coins. I could probable make enough collectibles to get OEL or Garland and still make the Utah player next week. If I should drain my collection and make 2 fantasy cards, who would be better between OEL or Garland? (Year long player so current usability doesn’t matter)
the amount of coin fear i have is immense, idk im sitting at a little over 1.3M, i just have a constant feeling when looking at the market im gonna buy someone then a week later its worth like 150k less. Also seeing what mcdavid goes for and not buying at 130k cause when it releases its gonna be cheaper like every other year has prevented me from spending the 300k
Bonjour Sleeve How did you do your wildcard team this week? They raised the overall of the picks which is great but not the salary cap so you can't really use any wildcard and you're stuck with 80 ovr picks if you want to be under the cap with any wildcard
I used to be able to win a few HUT champs games a week and could save my Hut champs tokens for a jumbo pack. Now I can only get the awful assigned packs for the few wins I get. It’s no longer worth it for me or average players to try and play HUt champs and save up tokens for the packs we want
Hey sleeves, can you tell me what we are doing with these hat trick cards we keep on picking up I'm not sure on how many I have but I do know it's quite a few
How u doin’? From Long Island…. Do you think you would def make FH Random week 1 or hold the 17 collectibles for making who you want week 2. Especially if my fav NHL team doesn’t have a fantasy card yet. Thanks for all your work.
Do you think week 2 Fantasy will have even better players than week 1? I’m a sens fan and will 100% be building Giroux even though I’m doubtful he will get to 99ovr. I should have enough to build another Fantasy card, but I’m not particularly interested in Garland or any of the other week 1 cards. Is it worth it to wait and hope there are some even better cards in week 2 (ex. Hall, J. Skinner, etc.)
You keep bringing up how the NHL game devs are unable to make changes to the game because of spaghetti code. For a billion dollar company that is the most absurd argument I can think of, being a software dev myself. Sure there might be a lot of legacy codebase and new devs joining the team and undocumented code but for a billion dollar company, that should not be a reason for not being able to introduce new features and fixing bugs. If fixing something somewhere breaks other features elsewhere, that says a lot about the lack of unit testing and end-to-end testing. Just had to touch on this a little bit. Thanks!
I’m not exactly thrilled with any of the XP players. So wondering if I should just make Keumper an 85 and just roll with him for a few months? I know goalies aren’t all that, but …
Are the Supernatural Token sets gonna stay? I have enough to make one more player, I was thinking about making Josi but won't be able to upgrade him right away. Also they should release a Supernatural Marc-Andre Fleury with his McLovin costume for the card art 🤣
Hey Sleeves, is there any kind of free spreadsheet/database/webpage where you can filter players on their attributes, like speed, shot, defensive awareness etc?
Sleeves. If working on mcdavid x will the current X factors stay for us to make At some point to work toward mcdavid x will we still be trying to get 82 X factors a month from now to make mcdavid?
What I don’t get is why don’t they pull how rewards, SB, rivals etc from something like FIFA they’ve done great with that game. Might be hard idk I’m no developer but that should be how it is
With Boston's offense off to a slow start, do I still make Coyle? Or go for the safe bet in Garland. I'm free to play, so as much as I love Boston I don't want a dud card.
There's just no point in winning games! Last year in rivals, a win meant a lot since you'd get a lot more points which meant better packs! Now the wins matter for like 2 days every week and then we're back to not meaning anything... I just don't see the point in having a good team and trying to get better to win online since the XP rewards suck and I honestly couldn't care less about a xp battle pass
Not really a question but sleeves give me your opinion. Im really tired of everyone complaining about the rewards when it’s not about a pack dump this year it’s a slow grind and I get it if u don’t have time daily to play but even if u don’t u have to appreciate them for catering to the more avid player base and I find it’s better for free to play (if u play consistently) because no one feels the need to spend plenty on packs. Can we just sit back and enjoy what might be the best gameplay in the franchises history and i know the d to d one timers are a little too effective but in return it results in a different game style instead of just playing collapsing and hoarding the front of your net like plenty years past. Thanks for the content easily my favourite daily vids.
Hey sleeves I’m a free to play player who has saved 700,000 coins, I got the first week bnd fantasy set and pulled Connor Garland (so happy) my question is should I spend all my coins on next week fantasy collectibles to make any one from week 2 of my choice or should I continue to save coins for something better Keep up the great work!
@@makhowes6271 in all likelihood there will be a player that you like enough to build. I just mean if there really isn’t one that you are confident in or would want on your team then you shouldn’t make one just because it’s a fantasy card. Chances of that are pretty low though given the number of good players released this week.
The more and more time goes by the more i am assuming ea's goal this year was it to balance the market and the stuff you can make via sets now here is the problem and how i would fix this they did imo a great job with the Hut market because every card has a value how ever when it comes to stuff you can make i think they fumbled hard team builders power up Icons and supercharged X-factors are almost impossible to get and if so it will take forever to make them here is what ea has to change and its quite simple give us the option lets just say you hit in season 2 lv 40 in the xp path and you could choose between a bad tradable pack or a a super juiced untradable pack like 80+X10 i think this way it wouldn't effect the market and opening packs would be fun again
I love these mini coffee and chels every day :)
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Same here!
Yeah, Keso needs to do a “special” guest appearance for old times sake 😂
Be careful what you ask for. The most of wishlist videos of the game changers and top players were looking for the following:
1. Different rewarding system (XP path...)
2. One-timers back in the game
3. Guaranteed rewards
4. Play what you want and earn rewards
5. Each card to has value
7. Affordable event cards (fantasy, master sets...)
6. A more fluid game
8. Better presentation of the game
EA done it all and everybody are pissed off. Human nature or just negativity that is spreading like an infection?
I would love to hear a comment from the HUT legend, my man, NoSleeves
We get what we want, but we don’t get it in the way we think we are, and that’s what I believe is the problem.
@@Vengeance_De_La_HoyaI feel this is the case because although a lot of the rewards are lower tiered cards i feel with the trade in sets to make the 75+ cards it evens out because I was never able to make a fantasy card before but with the objectives and free collectibles we get I can make multiple this year and I haven’t even gridded as hard as years past - that being said I still think the rewards need to improve overall for season 2
@@robbiescott1183 agree!
We're pissed cause all they had TOO DO WAS improve on what they had.....not changing a thing for 5yrs then a whole new thing....we wanted the 1 timers from past years. Better rewards doesn't mean shitty rewards...
Recently came across your channel and I just wanted to say thank you so much for your amazing breakdowns on the new cards and in ultimate team overall. It helps a lot thank you have a wonderful day!
Hi Sleeves, thanks for the great work. I do love many things from this year, even the xp path, but clearly need a little boost for season 2. My major issue is with hut champs. I really loved grinding my 20games for a lot a of packs even though nothing were garantee. I did only 9 win for getting a mega pack, because if i cant reach 15w, i was getting only marleau and a bad pack or what seems to be a bad pack. We got Drouin and Dubois 84 bnd, i really cant care less about Marleau. What i would love to see, is like last year, a good old champs and a comp season with garantee player, so when i loved the parameter of the comp season or i loved the player like i loved Rempe than i could play both you know. I really hope champs comeback like before, i really really hate the format right now
@9:18
Love you Sleeves,
Appreciate you taking the time to breakdown and respond to my comment. You took a lot of time to hear me out and I truly appreciate that.
I love your critical and just commentary on the game. You are also right, when you talk about the importance of finding positives during the bad times. Because, if it’s all bad it does just sucks.
Seriously, taking 10 minutes to breakdown and respond to my comment and giving me a voice. Is something I’m truly grateful for. And made me feel valued.
At the end, you asked if I had an Idea to have more packs while keeping the market as it is currently.
Unfortunately, I don’t have a suggestion. I don’t think both “Big Packs” and “The Current Market” can exist.
I don’t think I want “more” small packs. What I think I want is bigger packs, with more cards in them and more likely hood of pulling a Higher overall card surrounded by other cards that are great fodder.
Currently, I’ll have a 5 player pack. With 4 bronzes and 1 75 overall card. And that’s just lame to open lol.
But last year I’d have an 8 player pack. With 7 fodder cards and maybe 1 player that could make a lineup between 82.
And I could take those fodder and make team builders or whatever.
But like we’ve said. I don’t think both can exist. Either we receive more cards and can make Team Builders or whatever. Or we have a Market in which cards hold their value high.
It’s just lame opening bronze cards lol
Apologies for the long comment,
Thanks Sleeves,
You’re doing a great job!
Hey Sleeves, just wanted to offer a perspective from someone who has played HUT every year since NHL 14.
In 14,15,16 and 17, I used the market to build my team. I would end up building the same team every year and while 17 was the only time I ever qualified for D1, it was a boring strategy.
Since 18, I have overall built my team through packs and events. I also have tried to not use cards two years in a row. (Example, had TOTY McDavid and Gretzky in 23, had TOTS Mackinnon and then Lemieux in 24)
The X-factors and PUI were also great because it was someone I could make a leader on my team throughout the year. The changes this year have made this strategy a bit harder, but I’m still doing it because it’s more fun for me as a player.
I technically broke NMS by putting $5 into the game at the beginning of the year but otherwise won’t spend money. I’m planning to basically just use my coins on sets throughout the year or save it for a special item that will make my experience better. I’m still having fun with the game and the fact that gameplay isn’t as frustrating anymore is a blessing.
Thanks for letting me rant, always enjoy these videos!
26:40 cam just straight up hit em with the “call the hotline” 😂
Howdy Sleeves,
Forget the dopamine rush from packs. Can we mention the manic depression we experience when the next tier you have to grind gives you coins? I don't hate the XP format nor the objectives rewards. It would be nice to have in-game bonuses to XP, though. Like, what if randomly, each game had mini objectives? Like moments. For example, score top shelf goals for 100 XP. Get a hat trick with your right winger. It could break the monotony and help us along the path. Cya next video.
Like hearing the side stuff along with who to choose. Entertaining hearing from the fan base.
the sets are making me lose my mind. have to individually place each card into sets because autofill doesn’t work and can’t multi select. really hope this gets fixed soon.
Hey Sleeves, thanks for being the best content creator for chel on RUclips and Twitch.
Just wanted the chime in and say this is the most fun ive had playing nhl in a long time. Ive been playing since the early computer days and seen alot of varation in the game in that time. I play world of chel as well as hockey ultimate team and I feel as tho this is the most competive team ive had to start a year in a long time.
I agree the xp path is dog water, but to be honest it could be a simple fix for ea. With overalls going up by the time season 2 starts give us bigger more rewarding packs and even make them untradeable to protect the market. Giveing us a chance at better cards/set fodder for chase cards and MSPS.
I for one never say no to "free" from this game or any game.
Keep up the great work and LETS GO OILERS!🎉
Trouba feels more mobile than his skating stats suggest and his body checking is soooo fun
Hey sleeves! How do you think they will adjust the next XP path? Do you think they will compensate for the lack of rewards this go round?
It hasnt been as bad as the vocal critics have been . I had early access, which had worse rewards.
I did get lucky on the 68+ pack from the XP and pulled an 82 sanheim fantasy card that sold for a million
Hey yo, just had 2 things I wanted to add. I really hated the old style of hut where everyone would make "the best MSPs" like toty or tots and then you have multiple cards locked into your lineup all year and am really enjoying the ability to just buy/sell/rent whatever cards I want this year and constantly be changing up my team. Also, just wanted to shout out and represent the community of ppl like myself who don't work in an office and watch/listen to all your content while commuting from different job sites. Anyway, I don't comment or talk much in discord or twitch but I'm a long time follower and love the content. Keep up the great work!!
In response to the marketplace being a job of a task anymore, it definitely can feel that way. But to go along with what sleeves said about just selling tradable cards, the way the market is now you could literally just list each card for auction and set it to end at high traffic times of the day. You’ll make just about as much as they’re “worth” without the headache.
A lot of great points being made. I have played HUT every year since it started and I haven’t bought NHL this year yet because I just have other priorities and no longer want to keep joining the endless grind that it had always been.
So, from an outsiders opinion with no dog in the race as of right now: I agree with you when it comes to the trade-off of less packs and chances as lottery tickets in exchange for more coins and liquidity. Never in my time playing HUT (outside of when I let the credit card get out of control) have I ever had a coin count on hand big enough to just go buy the newest card out there.
Even when I did, knowing that it was going to be outclassed in a week and the price cratering always made me turn to spending coin on set fodder instead. The ability as a no money spent player to confidently buy any card you want to try knowing you want take a bath if you don’t like it is amazing.
If they can balance the effort to reward ratio a little more on xp path, then the actual team building and collecting part of the game would be in a really solid place more so than any other year I remember.
Keep up the great work. Even though I don’t play the game, I still enjoy getting all of the tea from you when I can.
You're doing the lords work brother. Keep it up.
The gameplay is great this year other than the D to D perfect one timer cheese. As someone who loves to manually defend, ive basically given up in the D zone and just keep one guy high at the point so they cant do D to D one timers. I would sell my first son, push my grandma down a flight of stairs, ANYTHING to block the D to D 1T. Since I started doing this ive been smoking people in D3 and am close to D2. The skill gap is going to change tremendously if they ever patch this. Love watching your videos everyday man.
Barzal - Brind’Amour - Base McDavid
CA Stamkos - CA Matthews - Modano
Base Mackinnon - Base Sid - SN Jagr
GB Kyrou - HT Couture - Base Kucherov
CA Makar - Gonchar
GB Dobson - Guhle
XP Drysdale - GB Theodore.
I have an X-Factor captains pack I haven’t opened and want some guidance on what the best move would be for me. I’m leaning towards Kucherov but the Heiskanen looks insane too. Who should I choose?
Very well explained! You are right on with everything. I watched someone open packs and they were mad because it was 3 75s in one pack. Im like wait a min are you not realizing how many coins you just made. We used to get nothing in old packs. Atleast now if you don’t get pulls you make coins on every pack basically. It is just a diff market. And if you honestly enjoy playing the game in my opinion you should like this market better, you are correct it’s the pack attics that want to rip packs more than play the game.
Sleeves. You are the Goat. Been a fan since "how to suck less" vids. thanks for all your hard work. Ive recently changed my approach/perspective to playing daily and agree there are some positive changes like cards holding value. I just wish they would fix some of the egregious bugs like. Replays over critical face offs and not being able to add multiple cards to a set. For every step forward EA makes it seems like them take 2 steps back. Thoughts on the interface issues and having to open a pack for a 75ovr from moments instead of it just going to my inbox. I've spent more time in the menus this year and it's aggravating.
love the videos! great to listen to while grinding out some games after work. What the heck is up with arenas! there are none on the market and no packs to really get them from.
Yeah people need to watch out bc a card being BND is coded into the game as not being able to put in any set so it’s not something EA will even try to make an exchange set for.
I just don’t think they have the ability to do it.
Whats up sleeves, idea for fixing the moments issue. I think they dont want moments to give xp because of how fast and repeatable some are, allowing people to exploit and grind them. A good fix would be adding one of the objectives (like complete game or win a faceoff) and have the reward be xp. This can replace weird reward passouts like getting 1000 coins in 2 different rewards. Keep up the lords work my man.
I dont think people are asking for repeatable xp. But I dont have time or the care to do the weekly 3 min period moments games for the bad packs. You get 45xp in objs I dont think an extra 5k from a dozen moments at the end as the final reward would hurt anything.
For context I am a full time NMS player. I complete all the weekly moments and objectives. Play my 20 Champs games and all. I was sitting on 1.2m coins and didn't like any of the first week of fantasy cards, based off your advice of go after who you want I decided to pull the trigger and build Gartner from the team builder set(I know I could have used coins toward McDavid but I really wanted this card) it only cost me about 400k with the 2 free ones from moments, still leaving me with plenty for a 2nd week fantasy card and after 10 games or so I can confidently say I do not regret it at all. This card feels awesome and better then anything else in the market that I have tested. I would advise others to not be "scared" to spend a little coin to get a card you want.
Hey Sleeves,
I have been playing HUT since NHL19, and am also an avid MLB The Show player during the summer. This years moments has reminded me of getting collection fodder in MLB with the monthly awards. However, it would be nice if the moments had a few objectives instead of being individual moments. In the end we do want the rewards, it just sucks that its long and drawn out.
Thank you sleeves for the reply. I appreciate it. You’re a real one 💪🏽
Easy solution for first question, Do one of the BND sets for week 1 and one BND set for week 2, Build UT of your favorite player of week 2 that isnt a BND duplicate!
First up, keep up the awesome content. I could be wrong but it feels like you're really enjoying yourself this year and it's great to see.
I'm curious if you think the FUT gambling lawsuits and regulatory scrutiny in Europe could be impacting the way that EA decided to flesh out rewards and packs this year?
Lastly, have you reconsidered potentially renaming the team to Thai-yoda Rav4s? Thanks for all your hard work keeping us casuals informed over the years.
Hi Sleeves, thanks for another awesome video and being a great content creator.
I loved the weekly packs and such, but after hearing your feedback on it, you’re exactly right.
My question to you is - how do you make the game more entertaining and enjoyable for yourself? Ive done multiple theme teams, collected cards from my favourite teams, and tried tons of different players out.
Am I just getting bored with the game mode? I’m Tier 40:60, if that means anything. I’d love to hear how to make it more fresh for myself.
Thanks again for the videos!
Take care,
Stay safe
Happy gaming!
- Coolin Killin It
Hey Sleeves, I've commented before that this is my first time playing an NHL game from release so all this craziness is new to me. What I find interesting though is that the issues plaguing the release of this game are seen across the gaming ecosystem when a new game is released.
But it does seem somewhat new to the NHL franchise. So I guess my question is, are the issues that we are seeing now new to the game's release when compared to years past? Since I haven't played any of the games at release, I really have nothing to go off of. But again, a lot of the things that are being talked about such as microtransactions, bugs in the game, missing content, or lack of rewards, are things that I've seen in other games that I have played at launch. As always, thanks for the great video, you've become part of my daily RUclips routine.
Hey sleeves, watch all your videos I appreciate the positive outlook it’s really changed my mindset on how they’re doing things this year! Do you think that they will do a collectable trade in set for the fantasy collectables at the end of the fantasy hockey event like they have in years prior? I’ve already got marshement in my random and Made coyle as I’m a bruins fan with most of my collection. I plan on doing the random week 2 base fantasy pack but will have extra collectables left over!!
i think that if they did rivals/squad battle weekly rewards would work if they had the packs untradeable so hopefully the market wouldn't crash
to add onto the other pack gamblers here
We are taking a bullet to have base cards and other cards hold value which overall is a great thing. If you want to test a card before committing resource to build its UT version we can do that this year without risking a significant drop in price after we finish testing it
Rewards are currently bad, 50 of the 74 cards in my bonus packs were 74 or lower overall. While Eichel hasn't felt different from Mack, Xp Laine or XF Nylander (i hear good things about nylander). On top of that Eichel is BND so he's either rotting in your collection or creating a log jam at LW if you want to keep Nylander xf and play to build like fantasy garland or a TOTY (right shot forward) later compared to a choice pack since not everyone needs a right shot winger
The game has early builds of good systems that need to be polished but currently it doesnt feel like theres any reason to play rivals outside of qualifying for champs. Squad battles gives more xp and you don't need to deal with the one time forcing players, or raggers or back door players
Somehow this game feels more like a job imo than last years and last years had us going against these "one time forcing players, or raggers or back door players" for the guaranteed of fodder maybe better rewards.
If they would just give us more consistent fodder rewards (75+ overalls, especially in the xp path) it would really improve the game. You could even juice the xp path and put a daily xp limit on it so the idiots like me who can do the whole thing in 2 weeks are limited to whatever EA decides is the earliest time to finish
If alumni players are going to be included in packs and packs are so far mostly bronze cards, then why can't we use guys like bronze Ryan Ellis or Avs legend Peter Worrell in TBs.
overall there's stuff in the game that i think will be great down the road but this game feels like they change so much stuff and went with the approach that more change is better compared to focusing on one of these changes and making sure its really good and flushed out first, again like TB required players if you are going to lower overalls this much
100%
Hey Sleeves, long time, first time. Massive Guelph Storm fan, Gillespie for Goalie of the year.
I’ve come to accept that my 30+ demographic has simply aged out with this release. I don’t have 20-30 hours a week to grind an xp path for 77+ cards I just want to play SB and land in a rewards pool higher than last week. I’m just not the target demo anymore.
They should give you the option like in years past to choose better/more packs that are untradeable. This shouldn’t have a huge impact on the market at the high end but would lower the cost of lower overalls.
You mentioned that the moments and xp path are not where they should be but I think they are perfect. Winning games feels extremely important to help with the path and this is only the first path. The game wont last if the first path gives out insane rewards. Plus the daily and weekly objectives give out plenty of xp. It may be hard for those addicted to ripping packs and spending all their money on the game, but this is the best nhl by far for the free to play experience in many years. Also, moments seem to take the right amount of effort and time. The “exit and claim rewards” feature makes the process fluid and rewarding.
I have played since nhl 12 and recently stopped buying the newer games because of a lack of change. NHL 18 was the best of recent years that I can recall with the addition of all the new dekes. This year feels amazing and rewarding, besides over powered defensive one timers. Obviously strategies can be adjusted to help, but I still hate the feeling of playing strong defence and blocking the shot lane to still get scored on. If this is fixed along with goalies not flopping around as soon as a couple shots go their way, gameplay will be the best it has been in many years. I can’t recall a year that goalies were considered “too good” and would love to see them amp the goalies up.
As for the market, I love that cards are finally worth something again. The last time I can recall base cards being worth anything was back in nhl 14 when team building sets gave out coin rewards. I also find it easy to snipe players and gain coins fast. I don’t think it is a necessary skill for most players, but makes me feel rewarded as a free to play player. I made 700k+ this year just flipping 80s alone.
One thing that I think could be added (if it’s even possible) is connecting the xp path to world of chel. Earning rewards for playing either game mode would be huge. I find myself making a tough decision of whether I want to play with my friends or just sit in a party playing hut separately. Hopefully this comment reaches you and thanks in advance for reading.
Also, I have past nhl montages on my channel if you’d like to check em out
TOTW Bedard was a great card to spend my resources on. Legit has points in every game since I've got him.
hello from Quebec. I have trouble listening to the entire episodes of who should you choose. This year, you respond a lot to criticism instead of talking about the players, and I understand, there are so many changes that it's difficult to miss. I love your content and your advice: the proof, I spent 300k on Macdavid to try him. I hope the content will be more geared towards the game and less towards criticism which is in no way your fault. thx
My left D is all bogged up, I got an UT base Quinn Hughes, BND pronger, BND guhle, and FH sanhiem.
Do I just run it without sanhiem till he scores some goals and gets his OVR up? Feels bad to leave 1 out of the 4 out of the lineup. I have pronger on the left side for now to give Quinn some beef, but I also have Weber just sitting
Edit: also thanks for all the content sleeves. Can’t wait for the strategy guide, as a 2nd year player I need all the help I can get
Hey Sleeves, you said that we should make the most fantasy card that we can.
I actually have approximatively 1 millions coins and I could have about 80 fantasy collectible if I use everything.
So I wanted to know if i should buy the 600k pack or like you said make 16 collectible for the pack and then make a fantasy card of my choice for each week.
Thanks and love your content (from Québec)
Agree that HUT changes should have been communicated in the HUT deep dive...
As a flyers fan I’m thinking of making the sanhiem fantasy card especially after he scored last night can’t wait to get him
The problems with packs are first of all those bronzeplayers they spam us with. You can keep the value of higher overall cards with a slow progress releasing higher overall cards, including icons, x-factors and teambuilding cards. The other problem with packs is to many of them have a fixed rating, its not fun opening packs when you know you can’t have pack-luck and getting a really good card!
Ha didn’t realize there was that 600k pack. Popped it twice and got Malkin & OEL. Already had marchment from the 16 collectibles. Dubs!
Hey sleeves I’ve personally liked the changes they made to the game because of the amount of coins I’ve been getting but I’ve been able to play 2-4 hours a day and I’m at a point where it’s not even worth buying or making players from the action house because 85 (best overall you can buy) won’t even make my top 6 f or top 4 d now I just have coins building up in my account what do you think I should do
Hi Sleeves, we need more packs !! 19:00, Can you do a pole on how many people spent all their preorder points (4600) ? I am F2P and haven't even touched them I am sure it's same in community. Keep up the great work.
Hey sleeve I just made malkins fantasy card, he’s my favorite player and what got me interested in hockey, I didn’t spend any money, I just saved up players from the competitive packs, and grinded the objectives over the weekend, hopefully there’s not gonna be another pens fantasy card cause it doesn’t look like they’ll get another one, but if drew O’Conner got one that would that be sick
I may be outing myself as an idiot, but I hope this helps someone out there. I was experiencing some of the worst menu lag ever, felt like I was trying to play this game on a last-gen console UNTIL I simply closed the game and reopened it. Before, I used to just put my console in sleep mode and not close out the game. When it was time to play, I would turn on my console and NHL would still be loaded up, although I'd be booted to the main menu due to loss of connection to EA servers. After restarting the game, it made me realize that the game was probably open for a week at that point and was probably suffering from a memory leak. The menu was much more responsive after the restart. So considering this helped me out, hopefully some of yall get the same results!
Psych 101 love it!
100% right I miss the packs because I love gambling
Hey sleeves love the videos and discussions. I think this hut set up of cards lasting longer and slower overalls, it feels like we could/should go back to 20/21 more card release for all leagues because now there upgrades could be meaning full. Like a +1 overall to Chris Tanev for a 5 shot block night and ice pack. I think more fun cards/ theme team style could help some people. More cards upgrades so you favorite 4th liner or 3 pair shut down d man gets some love. I always hated that as a rangers fan I knew Dan Girardi would be
Never upgrade. He scored 3 goals year but he was shit blocking monster. But got no love. And I know there’s a bunch of d man like that. Or a guy like Tyler Mott 4th liner but PK master. He shit blocks and hits. But gets no love.
Can make my first xfactor! Tough choice beteeen nylander and heiskanen. I have lots of RH wingers, stamkos, mackinnon, and soon to be eichel. My top LH is paul coffee, but just pulled Forsling in the BND set, who should be a top 4 Dman with a few more goals. I got Sundin so i could make a nylander sundin matthews leaf line. Maybe wait and see who the next LH MSP Dman is. Love to hear your thoughts.
Sleeves man i sold base mcdavid for 300k (bought for 180k weeks ago) on top of the 500k i already had and made connor garland. not sure if i regret it or not. Anyways love the content bro 💯
Hey Sleeves, I finished all the fantasy objectives and moments for this week and collected all 16 collectibles. Do you think I should go ahead and create a random fantasy card now, or wait until next week in case we are able earn another 16 collectibles and get an additional 8 to get a choice of one?
Are you from St.Catharines?
Noticed the hat!
Hey Sleeves, I just pulled TOTW Bedard. Should I sell or hold onto him
Love the yap and you lol
Don’t even have the game this year 🤣🤣
Honestly sleeves, I’m not a negative person but I’m FTP and I’ve never had less fun with NHL, I’m loosing basically every game and feel like nothing I try to change fixes anything
Hey sleeves, love the content been following you since nhl23.
Will every team have a fantasy card? I have 40+ collectibles currently. I’m trying to make 56 to make whoever I want and a random. My question is more or less should I wait til week 2 in hopes I can make a Ranger?
Thanks man appreciate all you do
Hey sleeves love the videos, Al maccinis is set up for my d to d one timers yet he won’t ever set up for it. Been doing squad battles for that objective for perfect one timers and he won’t ever set up for them other then for randomly for a single frame.
It happened for 3 games but the fourth one I’ve played just now right after it’s working? So weird, I didn’t change a thing so I’m unsure as to why it happened.
REALLY hope they can fix the slowmotion menu. I tried sniping cards but its too slow for me.. And having to spend so much time in them doing exchanges etc it really need to be improved. I dont care about effects and graphics in the menu just make it more responsive.
Hey! Sleevless is it worth to throw every 75 ovr to x-factor set and every 76-78 ovr to hologram icons because i want gretzky and i think Mcdavid is too big grind
Hey Sleeves, As a Utah (Coyotes) fan I am set on making whoever they pick for the Utah fantasy card next week. Assuming we will be getting another 16 collectibles for challenges, that would put me at 32 free collectibles. Would you recommend saving all the collectibles for next week or using this weeks on former coyotes like Garland or OEL.
I’m NMS and still have my 4600 pre order points with 350k+ coins. I could probable make enough collectibles to get OEL or Garland and still make the Utah player next week.
If I should drain my collection and make 2 fantasy cards, who would be better between OEL or Garland? (Year long player so current usability doesn’t matter)
the amount of coin fear i have is immense, idk im sitting at a little over 1.3M, i just have a constant feeling when looking at the market im gonna buy someone then a week later its worth like 150k less. Also seeing what mcdavid goes for and not buying at 130k cause when it releases its gonna be cheaper like every other year has prevented me from spending the 300k
Garland and Marchment are both on PP1 as of tonight (probably won’t stay) but if it does those are cheat cards almost most definitely gonna be 99w
MLB has a reward XP path and then rewards for winning games that's separate from the reward path. NHL should copy and paste
Bonjour Sleeve How did you do your wildcard team this week? They raised the overall of the picks which is great but not the salary cap so you can't really use any wildcard and you're stuck with 80 ovr picks if you want to be under the cap with any wildcard
I used to be able to win a few HUT champs games a week and could save my Hut champs tokens for a jumbo pack. Now I can only get the awful assigned packs for the few wins I get. It’s no longer worth it for me or average players to try and play HUt champs and save up tokens for the packs we want
What’s the best xfactor besides mcdavid in your opinion
hey sleeves,do you think they will add a storage set soon,before someone rolls a fantasy card.
Hey sleeves, can you tell me what we are doing with these hat trick cards we keep on picking up I'm not sure on how many I have but I do know it's quite a few
How u doin’? From Long Island…. Do you think you would def make FH Random week 1 or hold the 17 collectibles for making who you want week 2. Especially if my fav NHL team doesn’t have a fantasy card yet. Thanks for all your work.
Be mindful when EA bumps up the overall of cards… Prices will dip on these MSPs… Happens in madden every year.
Do you think week 2 Fantasy will have even better players than week 1?
I’m a sens fan and will 100% be building Giroux even though I’m doubtful he will get to 99ovr. I should have enough to build another Fantasy card, but I’m not particularly interested in Garland or any of the other week 1 cards. Is it worth it to wait and hope there are some even better cards in week 2 (ex. Hall, J. Skinner, etc.)
You keep bringing up how the NHL game devs are unable to make changes to the game because of spaghetti code. For a billion dollar company that is the most absurd argument I can think of, being a software dev myself.
Sure there might be a lot of legacy codebase and new devs joining the team and undocumented code but for a billion dollar company, that should not be a reason for not being able to introduce new features and fixing bugs.
If fixing something somewhere breaks other features elsewhere, that says a lot about the lack of unit testing and end-to-end testing.
Just had to touch on this a little bit. Thanks!
I got 4 fantasy cards Middle stat coyle Carlson and Malkin I did the bnd set twice cause I'm a physco😂
I got a Brayden Point Supernatural card in a tradeable pack, should I sell it?
Even last year the nhl player packs included alumni players.
I’m not exactly thrilled with any of the XP players. So wondering if I should just make Keumper an 85 and just roll with him for a few months? I know goalies aren’t all that, but …
Hey I pulled Fantasy Jesperi kotkaniemi do you think he can hit 99
Do you think they will add the captain X factors and The good icons in packs?
Are the Supernatural Token sets gonna stay? I have enough to make one more player, I was thinking about making Josi but won't be able to upgrade him right away.
Also they should release a Supernatural Marc-Andre Fleury with his McLovin costume for the card art 🤣
This is a hockey game, you want to gamble, there is casinos for that
Hey Sleeves, is there any kind of free spreadsheet/database/webpage where you can filter players on their attributes, like speed, shot, defensive awareness etc?
Sleeves. If working on mcdavid x will the current X factors stay for us to make At some point to work toward mcdavid x will we still be trying to get 82 X factors a month from now to make mcdavid?
Do you think there will be a trade in set for packs for the left over fantasy collectibles?
What I don’t get is why don’t they pull how rewards, SB, rivals etc from something like FIFA they’ve done great with that game. Might be hard idk I’m no developer but that should be how it is
Is there any point in playing rivals anymore without the rewards? (Other then getting qualified for Champs)
I wanted to ask, when I build up 50 to 100,000 coins again. Who would be a good defenseman to buy in the auction house in that price range?
With Boston's offense off to a slow start, do I still make Coyle? Or go for the safe bet in Garland. I'm free to play, so as much as I love Boston I don't want a dud card.
There's just no point in winning games! Last year in rivals, a win meant a lot since you'd get a lot more points which meant better packs! Now the wins matter for like 2 days every week and then we're back to not meaning anything... I just don't see the point in having a good team and trying to get better to win online since the XP rewards suck and I honestly couldn't care less about a xp battle pass
Not really a question but sleeves give me your opinion. Im really tired of everyone complaining about the rewards when it’s not about a pack dump this year it’s a slow grind and I get it if u don’t have time daily to play but even if u don’t u have to appreciate them for catering to the more avid player base and I find it’s better for free to play (if u play consistently) because no one feels the need to spend plenty on packs. Can we just sit back and enjoy what might be the best gameplay in the franchises history and i know the d to d one timers are a little too effective but in return it results in a different game style instead of just playing collapsing and hoarding the front of your net like plenty years past. Thanks for the content easily my favourite daily vids.
I just opened a NHL players pack today from moments that had all alumni cards so not all of the packs were fixed
Hey sleeves I’m a free to play player who has saved 700,000 coins, I got the first week bnd fantasy set and pulled Connor Garland (so happy) my question is should I spend all my coins on next week fantasy collectibles to make any one from week 2 of my choice or should I continue to save coins for something better
Keep up the great work!
If there’s a player that you like you should make him, if not then hold off
@@Tbhd-s8u the second fantasy player isn’t worth it for the year?
@@makhowes6271 in all likelihood there will be a player that you like enough to build. I just mean if there really isn’t one that you are confident in or would want on your team then you shouldn’t make one just because it’s a fantasy card. Chances of that are pretty low though given the number of good players released this week.
@@Tbhd-s8u thank you!
I’ve never been more frustrated at a video game in my life
Sleeves, you’re showing your age with the “TPS” reports joke. Office space is over 20 years old bruh 😂
The more and more time goes by the more i am assuming ea's goal this year was it to balance the market and the stuff you can make via sets now here is the problem and how i would fix this they did imo a great job with the Hut market because every card has a value how ever when it comes to stuff you can make i think they fumbled hard team builders power up Icons and supercharged X-factors are almost impossible to get and if so it will take forever to make them here is what ea has to change and its quite simple give us the option lets just say you hit in season 2 lv 40 in the xp path and you could choose between a bad tradable pack or a a super juiced untradable pack like 80+X10 i think this way it wouldn't effect the market and opening packs would be fun again
I am so lucky I pulled a fantasy Giroux in my daily pack
I may be wrong but aint the point of HUT to open packs and get the rush?