The best NHL 25 sliders and how to use them

Oct. 8, 2024

Boost your ice hockey fun and authenticity with these NHL 25 sliders

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NHL sliders maintain a little-known modern tradition in EA sports games. By inputting specific parameters in the settings menu, you can tailor the NHL 25 experience to your liking – making it more difficult, or more realistic, or both. That’s what we’re aiming to do here. The numbers below should increase the challenge found within EA’s new ice hockey sim, and bolster authenticity too. All is explained in your NHL 25 sliders guide.

How to input NHL 25 sliders

You’ll know how this works if you’ve sampled our guides toMadden 25 slidersandCollege Football 25 sliders. All you need in terms of applying NHL 25 sliders is found in the settings menus. Jump into the game, then scroll down to the small Settings square on the left of the screen. The two key tabs are Game Settings and Gameplay Sliders. Go into these, then match the headings on the list below to each respective entry. Be sure to press R3 once you’re done, in order to save these sliders as a preset.

If no value is listed here than leave that slider at the default level. Once you’ve made the necessary changes, play a few exhibition games to test out the new feel of the game. In this way you can further tweak the experience to your liking. Wondering who to use in those practice matches? Dip into ourNHL 25 best teamsguide.

Game Settings

Gameplay Sliders:General

Skating

Shooting

Passing

Puck Control

Goalies

Checking

Penalties

As with our previous sliders guides, we need to pay tribute to the guys and girls atOperation Sports. Their forums are full of fans experimenting with parameters that switch up sports sims, and these NHL ones were heavily influenced byAl_Tito13andPearly.

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