Ouch! thanks guys, pleased!
This is the post I’ve always wanted to post, but I’m far too lazy for that. Great job and couldn’t agree more.
Goalie community needs some love as well.
again about animations
Cover the puck?
we need to rework the covers.
I'm for more goals from long shots, but when the goalie made a mistake, there was a screen.
but not such goals
@bruanor09 once again your posts are very detailed and show the potential of this game. I have played Goalie in the past and while I agree that the Goalie animations are poor and have been for a long time. I also think goalies are in too powerful a place right now too on the human level.
Goalies can sit very deep in their net and be rewarded with save after save. They do not have to take depth into account and will sometimes even be penalized for coming out of their net. Ive seen goalies sitting on the left post and yet some how glove save a one timer heading for the top right corner of the net. Goal line sitting is very strong in this game to the point that we don’t see these snipe type goals in the high slot or these blue line d to d gold one tee shots actually go in unless tipped.
I think we need to make it so butterfly is completely manual. If you dont press butterfly when the shot comes then your goalie stands to save the puck. This would make five hole, low blocker, and low glove shots viable which would then force goalies to go butterfly and then that in turn opens up the corners for snipes. We also need to make it so the goalies are forced to come out and challenge the shooter during high scoring chances, or vs tips from the point.
This all said I would love to see more animations for goalies if they were penalized more for bad positioning. More specifically animation cancels where you flick up on the RS to poke the puck away but it doesn’t work so now immediately you flick left on RS to slide to the left side and make a pad save with your stick still out in front of you from the missed poke. Goalies are constantly “recalibrating” their attempt to make the save as the scenario changes. This is very visible in penalty shots where a goalie might make three different “animations” to stop the shooter. Goalies should be allowed to cancel animations into other moves and should not just be stuck doing a animation for a predetermined amount of time.
Again I will reiterate if we turn up the cold water (goalies get new cancel animations), we also need to turn down the hot (goalies get punished and sniped on for poor positioning and depth/require more manual butterfly save inputs) to balance things out.
