Is there, or can it possibly get considered to remove all the auto assist when playing online?it’s so frustrating being dragged into passes, shots, missing a one timer opportunity and then your player auto chases the puck and shoots at nothing.honestly I get it for lesser skilled players to have this assist on. But this is like the auto back skate, it’s only useful until you have a firm grasp on how to use your back skate. After that it can be just as annoying if left on.I’d rather miss a pass or shot then get dragged uncontrollably or shoot 5 seconds later than I wanted to. It really takes away from any sense of immersive gameplay for more skilled players. Making players better time their shots or one-timers is just going to help people get better at the game. If a pass is thrown ahead of a player and he can’t get himself caught up, oh well, better time your passes on both ends. This would really benefit teams in chel looking for more competitive online play. Every game should have training wheels, but this game needs a mode where you can take them off!

@FloundinatorQQ wrote: @EA_Aljo wrote: Hey, there, @southpaw86 I would love the ability to cancel shots. That drives me crazy. Either missing or taking the shot because you're now in a terrible position. Hopefully, this is improved upon in the future. I know the team is aware of it, but I'll get it reported. Thank you. There already is an online pass assist slider. I'm cool with this one as pass aim can be pretty wild at times. We want to try to avoid having basic abilities being more frustrating than fun. Thank you for the feedback! We have the opportunity to cancel passes using LB, couldn't we just get LB as an option to cancel shot as well? I've thought the same thing. I'd love to see this happen.

Hey, there, @southpaw86 I would love the ability to cancel shots. That drives me crazy. Either missing or taking the shot because you're now in a terrible position. Hopefully, this is improved upon in the future. I know the team is aware of it, but I'll get it reported. Thank you. There already is an online pass assist slider. I'm cool with this one as pass aim can be pretty wild at times. We want to try to avoid having basic abilities being more frustrating than fun. Thank you for the feedback!

@EA_Aljo Yeah the pass assist is actually insanely useful as I’ve turned that meter to zero and learned how bad my passes can be sometimes haha. That said, cranked to 100 your ability to bank pass is pretty rough. I think an addition to these sliders even would be sweet. Getting dragged into a bad pass kills me. Good way to take an injury, we call it the suicide pass I’m not sure if there’s a community lingo on that one haha.

@southpaw86 I love doing the slapper from behind my own net to a winger on the boards. In many instances, they won't try to get behind defenders, but will make a quick or one-touch pass to a teammate in the NZ. In most cases, there's a defender looking to step up on the winger on the boards so making a quick pass gets the puck out of danger and leaves a defender out of the play. That's good advice about slowing down. Being in a glide also raises your accuracy with passes along with putting the puck on your forehand. As you mentioned though, conserving energy is always good. When your energy drops, it lowers your stats overall so best to use hustle when you need it the most.

@EA_Aljo wrote:Hey, there, @southpaw86 I would love the ability to cancel shots. That drives me crazy. Either missing or taking the shot because you're now in a terrible position. Hopefully, this is improved upon in the future. I know the team is aware of it, but I'll get it reported. Thank you.There already is an online pass assist slider. I'm cool with this one as pass aim can be pretty wild at times. We want to try to avoid having basic abilities being more frustrating than fun.Thank you for the feedback!We have the opportunity to cancel passes using LB, couldn't we just get LB as an option to cancel shot as well?

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EA_Aljo
Community Manager
3 years ago
Hey, there, @southpaw86

I would love the ability to cancel shots. That drives me crazy. Either missing or taking the shot because you're now in a terrible position. Hopefully, this is improved upon in the future. I know the team is aware of it, but I'll get it reported. Thank you.

There already is an online pass assist slider. I'm cool with this one as pass aim can be pretty wild at times. We want to try to avoid having basic abilities being more frustrating than fun.

Thank you for the feedback!
southpaw86
Seasoned Scout
3 years ago
@EA_Aljo Yeah the pass assist is actually insanely useful as I’ve turned that meter to zero and learned how bad my passes can be sometimes haha. That said, cranked to 100 your ability to bank pass is pretty rough. I think an addition to these sliders even would be sweet. Getting dragged into a bad pass kills me. Good way to take an injury, we call it the suicide pass I’m not sure if there’s a community lingo on that one haha.
EA_Aljo
Community Manager
3 years ago
@southpaw86 wrote:
@EA_Aljo Yeah the pass assist is actually insanely useful as I’ve turned that meter to zero and learned how bad my passes can be sometimes haha. That said, cranked to 100 your ability to bank pass is pretty rough. I think an addition to these sliders even would be sweet. Getting dragged into a bad pass kills me. Good way to take an injury, we call it the suicide pass I’m not sure if there’s a community lingo on that one haha.

It's definitely community lingo. I've always heard them as "sui-ees". I'm completely making up that spelling, but you probably get the idea. You definitely don't want to be known as that guy getting your teammates flattened with making a lot of these passes. You always have to be aware of your teammates coverage. Especially as a D man.

I haven't had to hard a time banking passes, but normally I'm saucing them off the boards. Which, I think is easier than banking a regular pass off the boards due to assist being at 100 as you mentioned.
southpaw86
Seasoned Scout
3 years ago
@EA_Aljo Agreed, the sauce has come a long way and probably the best way to get your pass up aside from a slammer to the boards from behind the net if you got a smart winger ready to go. Honestly for anyone reading and interested in avoiding having your guy get pulled into passes to the blue line, honing your sauce skills is key. Same with slowing the hell down. I see a lot of teams chasing to get behind the defence. It works when you’re playing lesser skilled teams who don’t know how to properly utilize their strategy settings for cpu. But if you’re playing a 6, or guys just like my team who love opponents like this. Slow down, less is more. Dekes, passes, shots, manoeuvring only get better the more energy you have, and the slower you’re moving. Automated actions are part of the game but not necessarily impossible to work around.
EA_Aljo
Community Manager
3 years ago
@southpaw86

I love doing the slapper from behind my own net to a winger on the boards. In many instances, they won't try to get behind defenders, but will make a quick or one-touch pass to a teammate in the NZ. In most cases, there's a defender looking to step up on the winger on the boards so making a quick pass gets the puck out of danger and leaves a defender out of the play.

That's good advice about slowing down. Being in a glide also raises your accuracy with passes along with putting the puck on your forehand. As you mentioned though, conserving energy is always good. When your energy drops, it lowers your stats overall so best to use hustle when you need it the most.
FloundinatorQQ
New Veteran
3 years ago
@EA_Aljo wrote:
Hey, there, @southpaw86
I would love the ability to cancel shots. That drives me crazy. Either missing or taking the shot because you're now in a terrible position. Hopefully, this is improved upon in the future. I know the team is aware of it, but I'll get it reported. Thank you.
There already is an online pass assist slider. I'm cool with this one as pass aim can be pretty wild at times. We want to try to avoid having basic abilities being more frustrating than fun.
Thank you for the feedback!
We have the opportunity to cancel passes using LB, couldn't we just get LB as an option to cancel shot as well?
EA_Aljo
Community Manager
3 years ago
@FloundinatorQQ wrote:

@EA_Aljo wrote:

Hey, there, @southpaw86

I would love the ability to cancel shots. That drives me crazy. Either missing or taking the shot because you're now in a terrible position. Hopefully, this is improved upon in the future. I know the team is aware of it, but I'll get it reported. Thank you.

There already is an online pass assist slider. I'm cool with this one as pass aim can be pretty wild at times. We want to try to avoid having basic abilities being more frustrating than fun.

Thank you for the feedback!

We have the opportunity to cancel passes using LB, couldn't we just get LB as an option to cancel shot as well?

I've thought the same thing. I'd love to see this happen.
southpaw86
Seasoned Scout
3 years ago
@EA_Aljo This year I find utilizing either the force deke up the boards, or even the reverse hit absolutely nasty moves for pushing yourself into the zone if a pass isn’t there. The deke, even if you take the body, you’ve pushed it in and got it right there for your C to keep pushing.

Now the reverse hit seems to do a lot more than what it says in its name. I knew it was there but never really utilized it until a cpu dominated my Headman in hut with no abilities on the specific player, and my headman is a truculent beast. Blown away.. since then I’ve been really working on nailing the timing. Yesterday actually in a chel game I had received the puck in the offensive corner but was pretty much trapped. Tapped x for a potential reverse hit but instead reversed his tie up to the boards where then my teammate snuck in for the puck and into the wrap. Unreal I absolutely dig this move.

You definitely want higher strength to pull it off or utilize the ram ability as I find the best way to utilize abilities this year on any build is towards puck control over shot or pass abilities. Sure you got guys with close quarters or truculence in abundance, but if you’re built like a wall of strength and puck control those guys are utterly useless.
southpaw86
Seasoned Scout
3 years ago
@EA_Aljo That’s actually a fantastic idea. I imagine the hardest part to adding new features is making the button layout way too complex, but that’s definitely a more than reasonable way to cancel a shot.
EA_Aljo
Community Manager
3 years ago
@southpaw86

I gotta start using the reverse hit. It's just a new-ish move that I haven't gotten used to. It's gaining popularity. My EASHL club went up another team that utilized this really well. Definitely something I need to put some time in to learning. I play D so I don't think it'll come in as handy being a forward, but it will have its moments. I play quite a bit of HUT so there are opportunities for it there of course.

That's awesome about reversing the pin. I actually didn't know you could do that. For sure gonna need to give that a try.

It would be great to see LB added as a cancel shot button. I know the team is aware of this also. While it seems like it's something easy to add, it's one of those things that's easier said than done. For example, if you want to cancel a one timer while the puck is on the way, like holding up for a one-timer or hitting pass for a one-touch pass, you'd end up going in to a shot block animation. If you're in possession of the puck, it's also the deke modifier so these conditions have to be accounted for. Which, adds to the overall complexity of adding what seems like a simple feature.

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