Auto assists in multiplayer
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 pla...
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@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.
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@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.
- @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
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 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.
