Stick Lift pretty much automatic penalty
Seriously... hitting the X button, even when perfectly positioned, results in hooking or slashing like 90% of the time... regardless of sliders... just wow
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@DEDLYGOD Yeah it's brutal because it is like taking into account your arm when doing the lift and you are hitting their arm with your arm and somehow a stupid penalty happens. They really need to adjust where a sticklift aims for the most part. I mean when you are practically side by side chances are you wouldn't hit their hand in real life. So they need to adjust the targeting because we know it's semi-assisted.
Stick lift has never had any leniency - if you weren't pixel perfect it you'd be sent to the box guaranteed. For 23 it's much better just dump all your points into cross check, balance, and strength and just never stick check again.
- @TTZ_Dipsy Sticklift was semi decent in NHL 22. Yoink made it actually work great til they nerfed it for some stupid reason. But the best years of sticklifting were from the PS360 days.
It's something that really should be worked on as it's a huge part of the game especially in corners both offensively and defensively. - @TTZ_Dipsy So as a season mode player I suppose I just need to just forget about poke checking and just focus on defensive positioning and body checking.
I notice that if you get in the right position your player will automatically poke the puck away.- @NewHockeyFan I don't think so. Even on rookie low skill AI players dodge checks like Wayne Gretzky. Focus on shot blocking.
- @VeronicatheCD Thanks. I will work for on that. I have only been playing since June and still have a lot to learn.
- @TTZ_Dipsy That's all well and fine, but there being a way to work around it or not use it only proves it's a problem...we do what we can but EA needs to do their part as well...maybe fix the absolutely broken goaltending as well....AI of opposing team is the illegitimate child of Roy, Brodeur, and the actual Jesus. Meanwhile my 91 overall tender constantly lets in bad angle bunnies, sometimes just doesnt react at all, and cant seem to find a puck that is anywhere beneath him...either buff our goalies or turn down the God mode of their AI, preferably both.
Also with all due respect to EA, this whole "videos or it didnt happen" stance is not acceptable. We tell you the issue in detail. ...your testers easily replicate to confirm its an issue, a user story is created and prioitized and it gets slotted for a release....why is that so hard for things that are clearly an issue...the answer is money...and the short view that spending to fix issues costs and doesnt make money.. we keep playing and paying.. so why fix anything
The problem for me is that when there’s a scrum at the net after I’ve shot and I’m trying to quickly press square, I end up taking a fast rebound shot and then immediately high stick someone because I’ve pressed too many times.
when I’m trying to be more careful, I end up with the puck on my stick with an open net, but don’t press the button fast enough because I’m worried I’ll high stick someone.
I think we should be able to remap stick lift to triangle so that this doesn’t happen - but they don’t allow that on ps4 for some reason.
