Agreed, this is especially bad in Squad Battles. It doesnt' matter who's in the opposing goal or what the difficulty is, they are good. Paired with the AI defence whihc blocks almost all passes around the goal... it's funny how no matter what pass you try, it almost always goess straight to the CPU d-man's stick or legs... almost like it was programmed to do that.
The consequence is that there's no point in trying to make good plays. If you want to score and win, all you need to do is just circle around and look sure goa chance. So circle around the goal and bury it far side, or dangle until you get alone with the goalie, left-right-left and score, or scate from the side across the goal and shoot farside top corner. Easiest way to create these opportunities is dump the puck, take control of the winger on the opposiing side and meet the puck around the goal line at the side, and then proceed to score as above. Rinse and repeat. You sure take the fun out of the game...
Scoring true hockey goals is made even harder, because your AI players hardly ever are around the goal to deflect the puck of to shoot rebounds. And if they're there, all they seem to do is get bound by the CPU player, or just be out of position to do anything worthwile, OR they skate straight into your guy for some reason... I just don't get what the AI is trying to do for you. You do get these occasinal flashes where they're doing the right thing, but whenever you get a good crosscrease one timer thing, the CPU goal just saves it like it wasn't anything special. So why bother with trying to create anything?
And of course your OWN goali lets in easy shots. It's normal to have shots like 9 to 40 in your favour, and you just barely win. And CPU passing is 98.8%🤒
Is there anyway to fix this with slider? I'm a newbie to the Nex-Gen NHL games I played 22' for free and loved it so I got 23' and I'm playing on Semi-Pro and the Defense and Goalies are just insane.
