Does team quality matter in ultimate team?

@RiditelvesmiruI'd need to see the game played out and tell you just how many of the 40 shots are worthless. What you deem viable probably isn't even close to viable in the game.

I mean when I play squad battles offline my shooting percent is like 40%+.  I just have no need to take shots that aren't effective.

@Riditelvesmiru If you're looking for answers, little piece of advice, you won't find it on this forum. All you're going to find is people telling you that the problems you've experienced are in your head or that you are the problem in the first place and that you need to improve your skills. Truth is, is not in your head and is not your skills. This problem has been reported many times with video proof and for various NHL editions. If you play enough HUT games you will even find a pattern so either you accept it and keep playing or you do what many of us did and you stop playing this game.

@Raven969 

Can you be more specific? What makes you think lower rated teams are unfairly winning? If this were true, where are the top teams not using all bronze players?

If you win less than 60% of your games I'll most certainly say what you're experiencing is a skill issue. That is perfectly fine and nobody should feel ashamed/bad about it, but there is unfortunately a good/better/best way of playing NHL *because* its a video game and not a perfect 1:1 sim.

In a general sense and in theory, yes, higher shots and puck possession should mean the outcome will be in your favour, but context is needed. There are so many minute details that go into every player and play.

OVR does tip the scales, no doubt, but there are ways to combat that

@Riditelvesmiruif you want to win some games you can play NHL hockey, if you want to win a lot of games you play EA hockey, and if you want to win nearly all games you use every available cheap tactic including trying to desync the game. This is what top players do. Some people in these forums I would consider a level 2, they will use every EA created advantage short of hiding behind the net or desyncs. To someone who wants to play real hockey this is just as bad as someone hiding behind the net and to them/ or someone who would hide behind the net, you're just not good because you're not taking advantage of what EA has put into the game. If you want to win a lot that's what you gotta do. So you have a choice, don't complain and learn EA hockey.. or complain and hope the devs hear/ listen and try to make some strides to make this game behave a little better. Tbf to the level 2 people I mentioned I think a lot of them WANT things like L2 abuse to be fixed, but until it is they're gonna take advantage of it.

Personally when I was playing I wouldn't use the L2 stuff and some of the other unrealistic stuff (except in arcade threes) but I was only taking high % shots. My shooting % was usually between 25-35% and my build was not made for shooting. Everyone has their limits to how far they want to take advantage of the game. I just knew I wasn't taking a shot from a place that had almost 0 chance to going in. EA goalies are nothing like real goalies. They really need a big update/ full redo of how goalies behave. They are just taken advantage of too easily on some shots and will make saves 100% of the time from other places. One timers went from far too easy to a little unrealistically difficult. If a buddy and I are on a 2 on 0 it almost always makes more sense to just go 1 on 1 with the goalie rather than go for a 1T. I personally think they need a real goalie/ goalie coach to get with developers and teach them what goalies do, how they behave, what's difficult for them to do.. get an idea of what a bad goalie or good goalie will do and how they will behave. I also think human goalies should get a bit of a boost and cpu goalies a bit of a reduction in ability (in WoC) so that more humans want/ try to play goalie. Also more clubs WANT a goalie. My friends and I never want to play/ have a goalie due to how awful we all are at it and how good the CPU is (when not going against a shot that has an 80% chance of scoring.

@rsandersr47 

We're not aware of a way to desync the game. Desyncs can occur due to connection related issues. If you have any steps on how to force a desync, send them to me in a private message so I can let the team know.

@rsandersr47 

There was an issue a few years back, but that was resolved and we haven't been aware of a way to force disconnects since. If you hear of any ways to do this, please pass on the details. Otherwise, connection issues are normally the culprit.

@rsandersr47 

Thanks for the feedback on this. Hopefully, we'll see the training camp return in the future. I was kinda surprised at how many requests we got for it.