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3 years ago

Is anything being done about Truculence?

Please can someone from EA explain how truculence is balanced for 3v3 club play, would love to hear a response…

You guys nerfed stick checking for 23, yet truculence remains just as good if not better than it was in 22

There are zero penalties in 3v3 club for hitting. No boarding, charging, elbowing etc, yet all the stick checking penalties like tripping, slashing etc are still in???? I missed the memo where in the real NHL, when it goes to 3v3 OT, they put their goons out to board and charge people because they are immune to penalties 

You mistime 1 poke and your guy gets stuck in mud for a defender to blow past, yet you can skate around holding up on the right stick with truculence with zero speed impairment penalty and not have to actually time anything???

Even if you time and hit your pokecheck, 9 times out of 10 they pick the puck back up immediately and you’re stuck in mud from the poke, yet truculence gets massive hit assistance to the point you don’t even need to line up your hits, just hold up on the right stick and the game will take over and steer your player for you. It doesn’t even matter what move the opponent makes because the game will autocorrect your hit for you and smash them anyways.

How does this crap pass testing and get the decision that it’s balanced? It was already OP in 22, now 23 has doubled down on it to the point you’re a complete fool if you aren’t using it in 3s, and all this does is turn it into goon squad central where the game just simply isn’t fun to play what so ever. 

Tone down the hit assistance it gives you, add a speed penalty for just holding up on the right stick like a monkey, and add boarding and charging penalties to 3s and you fix this broken mess, it’s not hard guys…

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