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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Propably the reason they went from 4min periods to 3min periods; everyone is sitting in penalty box 🥲 EA-kind of fix.
- EA_Aljo
Community Manager
Hey everyone,
I've reported this to the dev team and will report back when I have some details. Really appreciate the feedback on this.
https://www.xbox.com/play/media/WAK7GFB5
this was a stick lift penalty. It’s broken.
- @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. What I love is using a hybrid control. When you go to shoot and someone pokes the puck you get called for a penalty. It happens to me literally every time.
Season Mode is UNPLAYABLE. Nothing but repeated slashing penalties. The stick lift button is the SAME AS THE WRIST SHOT BUTTON SO DAMN NEAR EVERYTIME I TRY TO SHOOT THE PUCK OFF A REBOUND I GET A SLASHING PENALTY.
If you try to be quick on a shot rebound in the crease while the puck is in play you slash the defender if they get the puck first. EVERY SINGLE TIME.
PLUS IF YOU BARELY TOUCH THE OFFENSIVE PLAYER IN THE LEGS WITH THE STICK IT IS A TRIPPING PENALTY.
ITS BEEN 48 HOURS SINCE I BOUGHT THIS GAME FROM GAMESTOP SO I CANT GET THE FULL VALUE ANYMORE.
So I am stuck with this POS until they put out a patch for this mess.
Playing BAP, and while I have not gotten one slashing penalty yet - I always poke rather than lift stick - my teammates and the other team seem to get 10-15 slashing penalties a game between them. It is so overdone that special teams seem to play 20 minutes a game - which sucks when I can't get on the PK line because I get hit a lot being a primary puck carrier?
- @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.
