Meaningful Changes For NHL 24

When I think of forced manual slap-shots, I am not talking about what is currently in the game (which is horrendous I agree). I am saying we tweak the response time needed to flick up on the Right stick/R3. The way I thought of doing this is imagine a window of maybe .4 - .5 seconds to press up on the stick from the time it leaves the player. However, if you start spamming it like I know many forwards (and dmen even) do, you instead go into that last chance puck animation diving to shoot it and taking yourself out of the play. Then we can get rid of the dumb animations that are currently in the game when you go to pick up a puck that missed your stick and your guy just shoots it because the shot was still "buffered" from before. It also adds a small but still noticeable skill gap in timing that the majority should be able to feasibly react to. .5 seconds reaction window is way more time than is needed and much lower than the 1.5-2s currently in the game when you press up on the stick to shoot.

As for the 3v3. I agree we shouldn't get rid of it. Including it created a space for the 2s,3s and even 4s groups to play club together. This made it so no matter your group, at most you would have only one other computer in your party. The penalty shots are pretty brutal, especially drop ins, but overall it does make the game mode go quicker because there is no slowdown with penalty time vs a 10second break for p-shot. I honestly don't know a better way to do this while keeping the game pace the same which is what I like about the mode. That as well as the creativity you have in 3v3 is much higher. You can actually do more dangling just because of the extra ice offered and its nice to see them be usable in something since 6s they aren't all that viable.

@hiperayHey,

As of right now though, I still don't see it as a reliable way to use it even if they tweak the timing window as you sugest, it's just one of thoses ''in reality'' thing that translate horribly in video games. You have to assume with tip top precision your teammates move/passes at all time, when, how, soft or hard pass while trying to be square with LT (which can be an absolute pain sometimes) with passes that take less than a seconde to reach you. Also when ever you flick up you stick, your skates completly stop moving and you completly lose control of your guy which let you slide the direction you're going until you release your right stick again.

I would hate to see defense players at their blue line going for a one-T and miss more than 50% of the time giving breakaway all the time.
Maybe in some future edition but I don't see this working well enough yet.

Again this can work to some degree with top players playing club all with mics and on and on....but for the average players or below, ouch! Disaster.

As for 3vs3 drop-in, maybe they can simply cut on the penalty timer slowdown and just let it go the same speed penalty or not. It would actually make the game goes faster than waiting on penalty shots all the time. Penalty shot are almost pointless with all the abuse/use of glitch/flaws to score. The amounts of players going all the way to the board to cut with speed in front of the G for a far side goal is ridiculous.