AI can't function if user not touching controller

Your surprised?!?! For years people have been echoing that the AI is not “smart”. They don’t read and react. They just match your controller inputs and match whatever movements you are making.

Dont believe me? Pass the puck to a defenseman in the neutral zone and wait for one of the checking forwards to catch up to your back. Then zig zag back to your own zone. You will literally watch them match your input without a moments hesitation. At least on madden the CPU AI reacts to what you’re doing on the field. They almost have to. This dev team solution for a more challenging game is to make the CPU psychic and able to do things the user can’t do.

I honestly believe the NHL series will eventually die. Just like NBA live. EA just won’t invest resources to get this series on to a healthy footing for the future. And honestly after all of the problems this year it doesn’t seem like the devs care either. The whole game is just riddled with bugs and a general lack of effort. This is just my opinion. If they want to ban me for it so be it. This game is a complete mess more than a month after release. Rosters are incomplete, players who have been in the AHL since last year are not in the game. Players who were in the game last year (juniors, Europe, etc.) who are AHL rookies are missing. European league rosters missing a ton of players as well. No full broadcast presentation. Every patch we get breaks something else, for instance 1-3-1 power play no longer assigned to coaches in franchise, 4 man and penalty kill lines now swapping wingers into center spot automatically. This game just really isn’t fun to play right now. I think people are going to give up on this series and next years sales will be so low EA may just say forget it. Not worth the time or money.

2k was able to recover from the WWE 2k20 debacle because they took a year off to iron out the bugs and revitalize the gameplay. But let’s face it. WWE games probably sell more than NHL games, and they can probably survive the hit of taking a year off to fix things.