Goalies

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@kezz123 wrote:

This is not a game for people who:

A-Understand real hockey and want a somewhat remotely similar experience. 

B-Plays Defense

C-Plays Goalie. 

This game is targeting very blatantly: 

-Racists (black guys blonde beards and racists names rampant, especially from Qc players) 

-Kids who want to "danglez snipez" and have as little resistance as possible to doing whatever they want with the puck. 

Its pretty sad. 

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Omg as someone who has played hockey my whole life, and EA hockey since the start, A couldn't be more true.  It's why I get more frustration than enjoyment anymore.  The game simply isn't programmed to let you be successful by playing legit hockey.  In fact, that works against you because goalies stonewall you.

 

It's not until you play selfish ballerina hockey, not passing, one man shows, that the goalies become beatable, and in very unrealistic ways.  This issue has gotten progressively worse since David littman left.

 

Shortly after came HUT, and it's been clear their focus shifted to prioritizing their monetization of the game after initial sale, than providing quality products and innovation.  Their greed is ruining what used to give me and about 40 others on my friends list hours of FUN daily, to 2 of those people on my list playing a game or two here and there, and I cannot play more than 2 games anymore without being frustrated at the lack of polish and respect for their customers who actually understand, and want to play a legit virtual hockey game. 

 

We want the hockey in this series back.  Let your streamers and game changers develop a figure skating games and play that but we want hockey back, and it's pretty clear we've reached a point where I think EA might actually feel their customer losses this year.  Let's hope so.

And here we see some pushoff to go quite far, but you really see how it treats it like the surface between his pads and the ice was frictionless, like an air hockey puck.  He glides way more than in a real game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlogYmkt3pc

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@VeronicatheCD wrote:

Here is some more magic goalie movement.  He manages to, from a butterfly, float across the net without pushing off of anything.  He isn't pushing off his right pad or the post, he just floats over and then jams down the puck.  There is no beating the goalie anymore - it is only shooting where the goalie doesn't expect it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hxjbVCBFyQ

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This one is very annoying for a couple reasons. You’re right that he hasn’t pushed off anything and that he should be pushing off the post. The goalie’s right leg in this case is in horrendous position before the push every begins. By now every goalie in the league has mastered the RVH to the point you could say they over-rely on it. There is no way an NHL goalie has his leg on the outside of the post when trying to do an RVH. 

I also don’t like how he can shift the angle of the left side of his body without using any momentum.