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Glavesey
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3 months ago

Goalkeeper AI and positioning (offline/career)

Generally i find the goalkeepers to be good in most situations. They can also make a good variety of saves. 

However, there are a couple of improvements needed to replicate real life scenarios. These suggestions are for offline/career mode/authetic modes only.

1-1 - goalkeepers need to be quicker to come of the goal line and close angles. This results on 1-1s being very easy and often resulting in the aame kind of finishes. When keepers do occassionally come out it makes it much more unpredictable and true to life. Goalkeepers just need to come out more often and in different situations. 

Goalkeepers to close to the line - often when shooting at goal in the 18 yard box usually at an angle to goal, outside the width of the posts. Keepers stay too close to the line, this results in attackers being able to hit shots into too much empty space in goal. This makes across goal shots very easy and near post goals too easy as the keeper has to cover too much space. Your updates moving keepers closer to the nearpost have made this goals harder but only make the cross goal ones easier. If the keepes was 2 years further off the line this would mean that there is less goal to aim and would more accurately represent real world goalkeeping. It should simultaneously resolve near post and far post easy goals.

Diving direction - this would help with the above issue. Too often keepers dive paralel to the goal. Rather the plane of yhe dive should be determined by the the position of the attacker. In 1-1 and penalty area save the goalkeeper should dive on a 180 degree plane tonthe attacker. This would mean that keeper may dive away from the goaline or towards the goaline depending on the angle the attacker is to the goal. This would effectively close the angle on far post shots (keeper has to to dive less distance to get the ball) it would also allow goalkeepers more time to dive to near post shots which would increase the chances of them saving them. 

 

 

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