REBOUNDS
NHL 22 1/2 rebounds edition is literally what this game is has become...you play PERFECT DEFENSE and all they have to do is shoot a floater and the goalie doesn't know how to kick the puck to the cor...
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EA_Aljo
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@Jagavekov wrote:
Rebounds aren't physics based in EA NHL games and never have been. Pucks always have a destination, based on player attributes. That is why there are no loose pucks, and why you have a better chance at scoring off a rebound off a slow shot from the corner than from a hard slapshot from the point.
Nothing is pre-determined.
While I agree that rebounds can be an easier way to score, setting your D strategies to collapsing and protect net will help keep your players in better position for gathering up rebounds.
@EA_Aljo so why do rebounds always seem to find sticks? I'd say well over 75% of rebounds end up on somebody's stick immediately. I should do a test to verify this. Do a tally of rebounds that don't get absorbed by the goalie and how many go into loose areas when surrounded by players vs to players. It sure seems as if the goalies are hell bent on kicking the puck to where that solo forward in no man's land tends to be. He could be 90 degrees to the goalie and he'll find a way to wait to a kick his skate out to perfectly deflect it to him.
- EA_Aljo
@TheUnusedCrayon wrote:
@EA_Aljo so why do rebounds always seem to find sticks? I'd say well over 75% of rebounds end up on somebody's stick immediately. I should do a test to verify this. Do a tally of rebounds that don't get absorbed by the goalie and how many go into loose areas when surrounded by players vs to players. It sure seems as if the goalies are hell bent on kicking the puck to where that solo forward in no man's land tends to be. He could be 90 degrees to the goalie and he'll find a way to wait to a kick his skate out to perfectly deflect it to him.This hasn't really been my experience. While I agree goalies could handle rebounds better, most of the time my defenders are picking them up. Not that I never see a goal from a rebound of course. I'll shoot for them if I get the opportunity. They're a part of the game and you see them frequently scored in the real world. I play D in EASHL and you can tell when the other team is setting up for them so I position myself to have a good chance at picking them up first. Again, rebounds may not be perfect, but a video game also isn't exactly a 1:1 recreation of the real world sport. Hockey has some incredibly difficult physics to capture in a video game so it's not always going to be perfect.
- @EA_Aljo one of the biggest things that plagues the game is the goalies don't use their technique to redirect pucks. If a puck is coming in on them they usually kick their pads out 90 degrees which is a recipe for disaster in a lot of cases. A puck shot from the point or a fair distance away should get redirected to the corner most of the time but instead they tend to hit the toe of the pad and shoot forward.
I suppose the issue arose from all of those goals that went in for the past 2 years where they'd hit the pad and then go inside the post because the goalies made zero animations aside from the butterfly a lot of time too. @EA_AljoSo I did a test on rebounds since I made the claim that 75% of them are going straight to the opposition. Turns out I was wrong, but not wrong by much and I believe the only reason why it wasn't 75% is because of the amount I recorded, the shots were placed so that they didn't have the opportunity to go to the opposition (for example a low shot on the left pad but the opposition is on the right side).
I did a test of CPU vs CPU and The results were as follows:
8 bad rebounds straight to the opposing team's stick
8 rebounds that didn't go directly onto the opposing teams' stick (with 1 that went right by it but ultimately didn't get picked up).
So technically 9 poor rebounds to 7 well-directed rebounds or at least rebounds that went into open space. Majority of the good rebounds were off of blockers. As expected, the poor rebounds were mainly off of the pads. I think it is fair to say that 75% of rebounds that come off of low pad shots go to the opposing stick.
This is obviously a small sample size but I do find it interesting how close I was with such an egregious statement.
Anyways if you want proof the game can be found here: https://youtu.be/OUdHUz11bu4 (the video is being processed on youtube at the moment so may take a few moments to be viewable).Edit: I'd also like to add that I'm not sure if any went straight to a defender's stick now using my recollection. I'd have to re-review the game.
