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Originally Posted by Huntingwhale
Just started playing NHL 21 a couple weeks after after ignoring it since probably NHL15. Before that, NHL 08 was the last one I got into. There's enough new features in BAP mode in '21 to keep me entertained.
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BAP is a mixed bag, I like that there's more stuff in it but I have to wonder how much it's really adding to the experience right now.
My teammate, management, and brand ratings are all maxed at 1,000 pts and even when they drop 50-100 points because I was forced to respond like a ###### in some random conversation, they're right back up there within a game or two. Nothing particularly interesting has happened as a result of maintaining these high ratings thus far, and I'm over a quarter through the season as the leading scorer on the team.
I got a challenge from a teammate to get 5 takeaways in a game. Okay, let's do that. Well, there's a few problems with achieving that goal. First, the NHL defines a takeaway as any type of pressure applied to an offensive player resulting in them losing possession of the puck, but as far as I can tell the game apparently is only interested in non-physical methods of gaining possession like stick or poke checking, so my creaming someone and recovering the puck didn't count somehow. And okay, after a couple times you should check the stats and see
"Hmm, my takeaways aren't going up, maybe I need to stick-lift the puck carrier," except the in-game player statistics
don't show takeaway stats. Then I lose teammate points because I didn't achieve the goal, but again it doesn't matter because it gets gained back when I promise the coach to 'play it safe' then score on a risky play anyway.