nhl 19 franchise mode player progression

Even in some modes where there is some on-boarding to tell you specific mechanics of the mode, the overall picture of what the point of the mode is not presented, or is presented in a buried menu. Which brings up a bigger issue with the game– the on-boarding in many of the modes have issues. It made me Draft a team, made me play a game labeled Game 1 of 4– which I proceeded to lose, and then dumped me into Hockey Ultimate Team to build a new team without any explanation or warning as to why this was happening. On Ice Trainer (which shows suggestive contextual button prompts during gameplay) and Training Camp have slightly alleviated the issue and do provide discoverability, but ultimate the whole control set is not documented in one place nor can you try out and learn the whole control scheme in the training mode.ĭraft Champions is a mode that entered in NHL 17, and I really didn’t touch until this year, and it was confusing. There’s been an assumption in NHL games that you have played the game every year, and retained all of the knowledge about the control schemes from previous years.

Training Camp returns from NHL 18 and it’s a great feature, but they need to blow this out more. I didn’t really find much redeeming value out of the new NHL Pro-Am or NHL Ones modes, but I could see Ones be a little more fun if they did allow you to play it with your friends. There’s also a mode called NHL Pro-Am which an outdoor 3v3 hockey mode which almost acts as a single player campaign. World of Chel wraps together NHL Threes (3v3 hockey) and EASHL (6v6) in a unified mode, but also adds a new mode called NHL Ones which is an online-only mode where you have 3 skaters fighting for the puck and trying to score the most goals possible– all in an outdoor rink with the ability to customize your skater to wear various sets of outdoor wear. Instead, the focus, at least from the marketing side this year is on gameplay tweaks and World of Chel.

I enjoyed NHL 18 and was looking for NHL 19 to bring back online leagues, add more depth to the Be a Pro and Franchise modes along the lines of story lines, fake social media, etc.

Nhl 19 franchise mode player progression