Self sauce
Hello everyone, I have a question about the self sauce with the puck. When you are defending and you trying to make a poke check, your player are getting slower. But when a person with the puck ma...
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EA_Aljo
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@nhlking89 wrote:
So then it is correct, that you getting an advantage with it?
Normally you should getting slower, because you starting a new aniamtion with your stick, like when doing a poke check.
There is no advantage to self-saucing. It never actually gave a speed boost either, but there was the idea that it did so of course this was used frequently.
But the stick movement is making you not slower, correct?
And what is with the other point, that the AI is reacting to it?
- EA_Aljo
@nhlking89 wrote:
But the stick movement is making you not slower, correct?
And what is with the other point, that the AI is reacting to it?
Going into a glide, poking and DSS you down, but not stickhandling.
Yes. Holding DSS never gave a speed boost.
- @EA_Aljo You could have fooled anyone back in NHL 22. Everyone did it even if you told them otherwise so obviously they felt differently. Gamechangers and Esporters all used it. I believe it was even said to slow a player down but that didn't prove to be correct at all.
- EA_Aljo
This wouldn't be the first time people believed something was in the game that wasn't. I had the self sauce used against me many times. Rarely did it ever make a difference.
