Personally i think this is a great change overall for everyone that complained stating game needed to change. I enjoy the fact that I can now chose how i want to play instead of grinding out games (stress) against people i have no interest in playing against plus not everyone has ideal internet connections to play online modes. I myself have a great team and whenever new objectives come put i bench some of my players to put in the objectives players. Just think of it as your main players are injured and the objectives players are the call ups from the farm. Great job developers. Seriously
I don’t mind the change of rewards. My only issue this year is how they upgrade or release some of the cards because it’s not enough or don’t make sense most of the time
No worries, glad I could help you in some way 👏 don’t read all the negative stuff people write about this years game, it’s not perfect but also is still enjoyable
I couldn’t agree more. I got the game literally just a couple of weeks ago. Done nothing but play every moment, wild card, and completed every objective possible, and selling everything I got that wasn’t UT. Was able to buy 7 of those 90k packs, so that plus all the fodder you mentioned, I have 1 TB card, Vintage Icon Gretzky, Fox Captain XF and 2 of the PTN MSPs. Obviously, a great deal of that ability was the 40 TB moments and all the huge coin payouts of milestone objectives, so that type of progress won’t keep up. But, still, there is plenty of coins and cards to be earned if you have the time.
THANK YOU! Didn’t meant to shout but it’s just the constant complains from people that this year is PTW but it’s not. I am a live example that you can have the best cards and still be D4 😂 But there is plenty of ways to earn fodder for cards you after want to make.
This bouts to be 11m and 59s of Dino telling it like it is and that’s exactly what EA needs. They gotta hear the few things they’re doing right and the many things they’re doing wrong
In all honesty I am just sick of complaining, if you can’t stand it - don’t play it. If you want a good team without spending money - you have to grind as even skill don’t give you advantage anymore, SB player and D1 will end up with the same team almost. Content release and what they release most of the time sucks but you can have a good team if you want
@@DinoKrista @ true, but people complain bc they want a better game, and that’s not wrong of them. We all want to play a good game. Video games are meant to be a breath of fresh air, some time away to escape whatever’s going on in your life. Not meant to be played as a job or a chore. I personally like gameplay this year a lot, but I’m not gonna stop complaining about content bc something needs to change. What they’re doing with content is horrific and it’s killing the game, and despite how much I can’t stand EA because of it, I don’t want to see them fail. I want to see EA do a good job, and know a lot of the players are in love with playing their product
Yes.. it's not splurging if you got it!.. I recently figured out the sniping auction house issue. Now I'm making 70-80k daily from flipping low end cards.. so now I don't have to grind objectives any more. Now I'm liking HUT again.
@@anthonypierson6726 so instead of doing objectives well playing the game, you play the auction house and don’t play the game… yet somehow this is more fun?? Lol
The hardest difficulty to play this year is Pro and don’t ask why 😂 no one knows, superstar SBs aren’t harder than it was, we just adapt to the game I guess
how do you qualify for champs? i played planty of games. it says play 5 games to qualify but it wontnlet me get credit for that 5th game. do I have to win so many games to qualify? i just dont get it..the qualifier says 2 wins 2 loses and the 5th game is blank
No, to qualify you need to play Rivals, once you get 2000 points you can play champs for one week, next week you have to do it again. Rewards I. Champs are based on how many wins you get each week. Also, placements games in champs are only 3 nor 5. I think you are mixing it with Rivals division placement games
Just going to say you have won me over as my favorite NHL RUclipsr I appreciate your takes and the fact you don’t need to pray to lord EA like most creators. Keep it up
Thank you so much, there is so much EA need to improve but I just wanted to share how I feel about the options we have to get same top tier teams we could last year or year before.
I've spent a lot of money on Hut. This is my first year playing it. It's my only hobby, and I don't spend money on anything else. But I've been in a slump lately. Inching towards Div 3. It's much more rewarding earning cards, than buying them. You play better as well. There's more value to earning something and putting work into it. It's probably why I was in a slump today. Just my opinion
The game is designed to only win 50% if your games so now you are in the slump but will be out soon and start winning again. I like the grind just to see what I can make and to think how I use my recourse and coins to make my team better for longer and at the same time use players I like
The problem with the game is there is no benefit to spending money. All teams are basically the same and there is no way to get ahead because of the slow release of new cards, so everyone is on the same page waiting for new cards weather they have tons saved up or just grind the objectives for msps every week.
That’s a good point, mostly what money gives you is the cards you chase sooner than if you would grind. I know you can work the AH but not everyone know how to and have time to do it, I make around additional 300k each week from buying cheap and selling higher so it helps
My Jesper Kotkaniemi fantasy card should have been upgraded to 86 with his 3rd period goal vs the Islanders on Sat Dec 7. It hasn't been upgraded. This is why people hate EA.
I stopped playing after spending an entire week trying to qualify and play 20 champs games and just getting 6 wins and no Joe Nieuwendyk. The matchmaking was awful. There is not a game in my library where I commit that amount of time to something and walk away with nothing. The fact that you can't earn Champs collectibles and make a card in a set like in 24 is the worst way to reward, especially for those of use that aren't as skilled. We should be able to earn the card, just at a slower pace. The fact that I just lose that entire week of playing and don't walk away with at least some collectibles that I can put toward a future card just took all the fun out of the game for me, and I won't be returning until they change it (NHL 26?).
In HUT online play, you spend all game trying to prevent your opponent from getting off 1-timers because of how often they go in. I was one of the people who complained in NHL 24 that the 1-timer was all but removed and that I wanted them to be part of the game again. So my wish was granted in 25, but in classic EA fashion if they implement something in the game they make it unbearable like the full pressure system in 24. The skill based 1 timers are too easy to get off, and result in a goal too frequently. I was level 55 on the season 1 XP path and when the new season came out it wiped my progress. Why can't I finish the season 1 XP path now and then unlock season 2? This game mode sucks. The FOMO is the worst it has ever been. The timers on the MSPs and the Champs cards being only attainable with a 10 wins, and no chance at it after the week is expired are just part of the reason I won't be returning to this mode. I don't care about the packs. I don't spend money so the gambling aspect of the game being somewhat diminished doesn't affect me. I have been enjoying World of Chel. In WoC you don't spend all game trying to prevent 1ts because they aren't overpowered, like they are in HUT. They go in sometimes, but not at the rate in HUT. You can actually miss a defensive assignment and not get punished every single 1-timer attempt from the point. There is a social aspect to WoC that can't be understated. HUT is a very anti-social mode because it's just VS mode with team building and microtransactions. Anyway, I will keep a peripheral gaze on HUT to see if they change anything, but it appears like they are just going to keep going on business as usual and tweak some gameplay here and there. I don't think they can change the format of Champs rewards mid-stream or anything that involves content delivered via the horrible menu system that performs so badly, even on next gen hardware.
The champs rewards need to change, it should give one collectible for each win so we can get some rewards even if don’t get 10 wins, that’s why I avoid champs as it takes you too much time for rewards we get
I don’t mind gameplay, I win one and lose one, it’s very subjective and I am just going with whatever shit show we get. Not like we can change anything but just hope that NHL 26 will be better I guess
@DinoKrista of curse but I want something amazing to play with...like how the hell is the market full of these holos if you can't get them in packs. or can you?
Its amazing reading these comments how so many people have no idea what there doing lol. So many cards are given out each week for FREE you literally just got to play. There literally giving you collectables to make fodder for FREE this event. I made like 3 MSPs this event just playing. Matchmaking is ment for you to go 50/50. My goalie let in 7 goals in 13 shots in champs, I still came back OT2 to win 8-7. You know how? You play the META... dont like the way the game is played? Then lose more. Like its a video game and people just want to bitch. Give them everything and they will say theres nothing to do, the modes are all the same and freaking cry.
NHL community never knows what they want, they don’t want to grind, they don’t want things to be easy, it’s just all bad.. It’s a video game and if you want rewards you have to play, is it fun? No, but it’s there for you to choose if you want to skip it all and spend money or grind so you can make a good team. The gameplay is another thing but it’s also not what this video is about.
Grinding objectives for 84 overall is absurd. They should be rewarding us with 85s now, or even 86. The big fail is with champs.. i can grind auction house and snipe a good 86 for 50k. Playing 20 long games to reach HOPEFULLY 10 wins just isnt worth it. I like rivals but they need to mix BURST in there again. There should be double XP weekends sometimes. I could say more but i dont think anyone cares about what im saying 😂
They give you enough low overall cards to make high overall cards, that’s how I look at it. I don’t see them giving us 86 in a weekly objective any time soon. Rivals Burst would make it more fun and quicker to grind for points and XP. Double XP would also be a good idea, but will never happen probably 😏
First year i spend money and oh my god did i spend money and i have nothing to show for Most of my crazy pulls came from the xp path packs like necas and ove It took me a while to realize that its a gamble and i do not gamble So yeah if you are busy and do not spend money then no point in playing the game this year, they took off icon passing 😂 HUT is the cash cow for this game but they are doing cheeks job to make us spend any I miss 24 i used to play sb and do the dekes and all i had enough fodder for TOTY 😂
I think packs are only there to give you fodder and maybe a good pull every now and then. Lately packs have been better but I would not recommend spending money as you can get the same with just grinding. If you are busy no ultimate team is really rewarding, all requires time to complete things.
I don’t recommend buying coins as firstly it’s against the rules and you can get banned and losing your account because you decided to do it isn’t something I want to do. Also, you can always get scammed, if something happens who do you complain to?! I just play the game and earn what they give us and move on
Idc how much money u make just from playing this game but this game is dogshit. It's rated 1.6 stars. I'f there was another hockey game I'd burn the diac or use it as a coaster. It's horrendous
I don’t make any money from playing the game, it’s my hobby and I just enjoy the grind to see what team I can make. The NHL games are always rated low, even if the game isn’t bad.
I am not spending money, I started pack and play early in the game on my 2nd account and stopped when I realised that I don’t want to spend any money on any accounts. You clearly aren’t watching my videos to know. My main account and only account is Road to 99 this year where I put all my time in..
LOL she thinks it's easy to play on all-star or super star modes. Also some of the challenges are stupid hard, get 4 one timer shots. I bet she hasn''t played any of the games before NHL 20. I own ever EA hockey game except Mario Lemieux hockey. I own NHL 92 to NHL 25 I also own NHL Slapshot for the WII. NHL hasn't changed for over 10 years it is the same game every year. Except they take modes away like GM connected and hut rush.
If you own every game than you should know that playing against CPU isn’t hard once you figure out ways to score. I also never said challenges are not stupid but if the scoring one timer goals this year is what you find hard / stupid you maybe need to play another mode and not HUT
Personally i think this is a great change overall for everyone that complained stating game needed to change. I enjoy the fact that I can now chose how i want to play instead of grinding out games (stress) against people i have no interest in playing against plus not everyone has ideal internet connections to play online modes.
I myself have a great team and whenever new objectives come put i bench some of my players to put in the objectives players. Just think of it as your main players are injured and the objectives players are the call ups from the farm. Great job developers. Seriously
I don’t mind the change of rewards. My only issue this year is how they upgrade or release some of the cards because it’s not enough or don’t make sense most of the time
The last two Nhl games I had was 15 and 16. Getting back into the series with this game. Thanks for this video to get me back up to speed!
No worries, glad I could help you in some way 👏 don’t read all the negative stuff people write about this years game, it’s not perfect but also is still enjoyable
I couldn’t agree more. I got the game literally just a couple of weeks ago. Done nothing but play every moment, wild card, and completed every objective possible, and selling everything I got that wasn’t UT. Was able to buy 7 of those 90k packs, so that plus all the fodder you mentioned, I have 1 TB card, Vintage Icon Gretzky, Fox Captain XF and 2 of the PTN MSPs. Obviously, a great deal of that ability was the 40 TB moments and all the huge coin payouts of milestone objectives, so that type of progress won’t keep up. But, still, there is plenty of coins and cards to be earned if you have the time.
THANK YOU!
Didn’t meant to shout but it’s just the constant complains from people that this year is PTW but it’s not. I am a live example that you can have the best cards and still be D4 😂 But there is plenty of ways to earn fodder for cards you after want to make.
This bouts to be 11m and 59s of Dino telling it like it is and that’s exactly what EA needs. They gotta hear the few things they’re doing right and the many things they’re doing wrong
In all honesty I am just sick of complaining, if you can’t stand it - don’t play it. If you want a good team without spending money - you have to grind as even skill don’t give you advantage anymore, SB player and D1 will end up with the same team almost. Content release and what they release most of the time sucks but you can have a good team if you want
@@DinoKristahow else would you get a free team if you didn’t grind?? Last year you got literally nothing without playing lol
@@DinoKrista @ true, but people complain bc they want a better game, and that’s not wrong of them. We all want to play a good game. Video games are meant to be a breath of fresh air, some time away to escape whatever’s going on in your life. Not meant to be played as a job or a chore. I personally like gameplay this year a lot, but I’m not gonna stop complaining about content bc something needs to change. What they’re doing with content is horrific and it’s killing the game, and despite how much I can’t stand EA because of it, I don’t want to see them fail. I want to see EA do a good job, and know a lot of the players are in love with playing their product
Yes.. it's not splurging if you got it!.. I recently figured out the sniping auction house issue. Now I'm making 70-80k daily from flipping low end cards.. so now I don't have to grind objectives any more. Now I'm liking HUT again.
@@anthonypierson6726 so instead of doing objectives well playing the game, you play the auction house and don’t play the game… yet somehow this is more fun?? Lol
They should stop the content and fix the game
It’s not what the video is about but yeah. Gameplay could be better but I don’t mind it
Great content, Dino. Losing Passing Icons is a MASSIVE L. That was the main reason I used the camera angle you use. 😹
I just hope they bring back what was IN THE GAME and stop breaking the gameplay even more
i was wrong playing on superstar isnt as hard as i thought. did they change some sliders this year or something? super weird
The hardest difficulty to play this year is Pro and don’t ask why 😂 no one knows, superstar SBs aren’t harder than it was, we just adapt to the game I guess
@DinoKrista ya I guess so, now if I could find a way to play against real people
how do you qualify for champs? i played planty of games. it says play 5 games to qualify but it wontnlet me get credit for that 5th game. do I have to win so many games to qualify? i just dont get it..the qualifier says 2 wins 2 loses and the 5th game is blank
No, to qualify you need to play Rivals, once you get 2000 points you can play champs for one week, next week you have to do it again. Rewards I. Champs are based on how many wins you get each week. Also, placements games in champs are only 3 nor 5. I think you are mixing it with Rivals division placement games
@@DinoKrista I could be, ya I see the 2000 points, that's crazy hard to get 2000 points...that's like a week of only playing rivals or whatever
10 outa 10 rumple's beards on this video
😂😂 if Rumple watched it that means it’s good
Just going to say you have won me over as my favorite NHL RUclipsr I appreciate your takes and the fact you don’t need to pray to lord EA like most creators. Keep it up
Thank you so much, there is so much EA need to improve but I just wanted to share how I feel about the options we have to get same top tier teams we could last year or year before.
I've spent a lot of money on Hut. This is my first year playing it. It's my only hobby, and I don't spend money on anything else. But I've been in a slump lately. Inching towards Div 3. It's much more rewarding earning cards, than buying them. You play better as well. There's more value to earning something and putting work into it. It's probably why I was in a slump today. Just my opinion
The game is designed to only win 50% if your games so now you are in the slump but will be out soon and start winning again. I like the grind just to see what I can make and to think how I use my recourse and coins to make my team better for longer and at the same time use players I like
The problem with the game is there is no benefit to spending money. All teams are basically the same and there is no way to get ahead because of the slow release of new cards, so everyone is on the same page waiting for new cards weather they have tons saved up or just grind the objectives for msps every week.
That’s a good point, mostly what money gives you is the cards you chase sooner than if you would grind. I know you can work the AH but not everyone know how to and have time to do it, I make around additional 300k each week from buying cheap and selling higher so it helps
I couldn't agree with you more
Thank you so much for watching!
My Jesper Kotkaniemi fantasy card should have been upgraded to 86 with his 3rd period goal vs the Islanders on Sat Dec 7. It hasn't been upgraded. This is why people hate EA.
Lol, just upgraded on Tuesday.
EA is always late to the party, they upgrade cards only on content days not straight away which sucks imo.
I stopped playing after spending an entire week trying to qualify and play 20 champs games and just getting 6 wins and no Joe Nieuwendyk. The matchmaking was awful. There is not a game in my library where I commit that amount of time to something and walk away with nothing. The fact that you can't earn Champs collectibles and make a card in a set like in 24 is the worst way to reward, especially for those of use that aren't as skilled. We should be able to earn the card, just at a slower pace. The fact that I just lose that entire week of playing and don't walk away with at least some collectibles that I can put toward a future card just took all the fun out of the game for me, and I won't be returning until they change it (NHL 26?).
In HUT online play, you spend all game trying to prevent your opponent from getting off 1-timers because of how often they go in. I was one of the people who complained in NHL 24 that the 1-timer was all but removed and that I wanted them to be part of the game again. So my wish was granted in 25, but in classic EA fashion if they implement something in the game they make it unbearable like the full pressure system in 24. The skill based 1 timers are too easy to get off, and result in a goal too frequently.
I was level 55 on the season 1 XP path and when the new season came out it wiped my progress. Why can't I finish the season 1 XP path now and then unlock season 2? This game mode sucks. The FOMO is the worst it has ever been. The timers on the MSPs and the Champs cards being only attainable with a 10 wins, and no chance at it after the week is expired are just part of the reason I won't be returning to this mode.
I don't care about the packs. I don't spend money so the gambling aspect of the game being somewhat diminished doesn't affect me.
I have been enjoying World of Chel. In WoC you don't spend all game trying to prevent 1ts because they aren't overpowered, like they are in HUT. They go in sometimes, but not at the rate in HUT. You can actually miss a defensive assignment and not get punished every single 1-timer attempt from the point. There is a social aspect to WoC that can't be understated. HUT is a very anti-social mode because it's just VS mode with team building and microtransactions.
Anyway, I will keep a peripheral gaze on HUT to see if they change anything, but it appears like they are just going to keep going on business as usual and tweak some gameplay here and there. I don't think they can change the format of Champs rewards mid-stream or anything that involves content delivered via the horrible menu system that performs so badly, even on next gen hardware.
The champs rewards need to change, it should give one collectible for each win so we can get some rewards even if don’t get 10 wins, that’s why I avoid champs as it takes you too much time for rewards we get
I don’t mind gameplay, I win one and lose one, it’s very subjective and I am just going with whatever shit show we get. Not like we can change anything but just hope that NHL 26 will be better I guess
Hey how are you?
Hey, I am good, you ?
I’m good as well how’s the weather in the uk?
Windy, want summer already
shit i havint got sht with paying real money
But you still get silver cards to use for sets do you?
@DinoKrista of curse but I want something amazing to play with...like how the hell is the market full of these holos if you can't get them in packs. or can you?
Its amazing reading these comments how so many people have no idea what there doing lol. So many cards are given out each week for FREE you literally just got to play. There literally giving you collectables to make fodder for FREE this event. I made like 3 MSPs this event just playing. Matchmaking is ment for you to go 50/50. My goalie let in 7 goals in 13 shots in champs, I still came back OT2 to win 8-7. You know how? You play the META... dont like the way the game is played? Then lose more. Like its a video game and people just want to bitch. Give them everything and they will say theres nothing to do, the modes are all the same and freaking cry.
NHL community never knows what they want, they don’t want to grind, they don’t want things to be easy, it’s just all bad.. It’s a video game and if you want rewards you have to play, is it fun? No, but it’s there for you to choose if you want to skip it all and spend money or grind so you can make a good team. The gameplay is another thing but it’s also not what this video is about.
Grinding objectives for 84 overall is absurd. They should be rewarding us with 85s now, or even 86. The big fail is with champs.. i can grind auction house and snipe a good 86 for 50k. Playing 20 long games to reach HOPEFULLY 10 wins just isnt worth it. I like rivals but they need to mix BURST in there again. There should be double XP weekends sometimes. I could say more but i dont think anyone cares about what im saying 😂
They give you enough low overall cards to make high overall cards, that’s how I look at it. I don’t see them giving us 86 in a weekly objective any time soon. Rivals Burst would make it more fun and quicker to grind for points and XP. Double XP would also be a good idea, but will never happen probably 😏
First year i spend money and oh my god did i spend money and i have nothing to show for
Most of my crazy pulls came from the xp path packs like necas and ove
It took me a while to realize that its a gamble and i do not gamble
So yeah if you are busy and do not spend money then no point in playing the game this year, they took off icon passing 😂
HUT is the cash cow for this game but they are doing cheeks job to make us spend any
I miss 24 i used to play sb and do the dekes and all i had enough fodder for TOTY 😂
I think packs are only there to give you fodder and maybe a good pull every now and then. Lately packs have been better but I would not recommend spending money as you can get the same with just grinding. If you are busy no ultimate team is really rewarding, all requires time to complete things.
Keep up the great and If being a simp means appreciating quality content like this, then I’ll take that title. Proudly. Your the best Dino
Haha, don’t listen to others. Be you and know that I appreciate the support 😊
also the S2 XP path is much better. I like rewards but I like that I can make MSPS from every event seemingly now with free collectibles etc.
@@bbgarnettTotallyNotABot Same, its a grind but nothing should be for free
Your a massive simp and trust me that's a major insult
If you're gonna spend money, buy coins from a reputable seller who won't get you banned. Don't give EAs corrupt asses money...
I don’t recommend buying coins as firstly it’s against the rules and you can get banned and losing your account because you decided to do it isn’t something I want to do. Also, you can always get scammed, if something happens who do you complain to?! I just play the game and earn what they give us and move on
Idc how much money u make just from playing this game but this game is dogshit. It's rated 1.6 stars. I'f there was another hockey game I'd burn the diac or use it as a coaster. It's horrendous
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I don’t make any money from playing the game, it’s my hobby and I just enjoy the grind to see what team I can make. The NHL games are always rated low, even if the game isn’t bad.
You're not spending money the game?? You literally have a series where you spend money this year. Whata a joke
I am not spending money, I started pack and play early in the game on my 2nd account and stopped when I realised that I don’t want to spend any money on any accounts. You clearly aren’t watching my videos to know. My main account and only account is Road to 99 this year where I put all my time in..
LOL she thinks it's easy to play on all-star or super star modes.
Also some of the challenges are stupid hard, get 4 one timer shots.
I bet she hasn''t played any of the games before NHL 20.
I own ever EA hockey game except Mario Lemieux hockey.
I own NHL 92 to NHL 25
I also own NHL Slapshot for the WII.
NHL hasn't changed for over 10 years it is the same game every year.
Except they take modes away like GM connected and hut rush.
If you own every game than you should know that playing against CPU isn’t hard once you figure out ways to score. I also never said challenges are not stupid but if the scoring one timer goals this year is what you find hard / stupid you maybe need to play another mode and not HUT
I REALLY WANT TO GET A MCDAVID X FACTOR OR TOTY EVEN THOUGH IM A CANUCKS FAN I LOVE MCDAVID ❤❤😂😊
You will get it, how far are you?
I have 2 captains and half way to my 3rd I have school and soccer so it's very hard😊