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Kmahrle83
Rising Veteran
3 years ago

This is why people feel the game is cheesy

Ok so here's a clip from squad battles.  Superstar a.i.   

The opposing team is an 84 overall.  This is with around 4 min left in the game and he has yet to get a single shot.  The lead up to this was his a.i. ragging in his zone for about 30 seconds, so I changed up forwards.  No matter how I poked or dislodged the puck, him or a teammate would get it back in physics defying fashions.

As soon as I switched forwards, he makes a run down the ice that when you see the video broken down you can only come to the conclusion that the game WANTED the a.i. to score.  If that's not the case, then there's some major tomfoolery in the game that's been around far too long and needs to be coded out.  Take a look:

 https://www.xbox.com/play/media/FH9DVMYFWP

First, you'll notice a.i. controlled poulin 91ovr put her stick in the passing land only to move it out of the way just before the puck reaches it, yet notice how jarnkroks body is twisted in a way that makes him perfect casting for an exorcist reboot, and one handed corrals the puck.  Yeah, ok.  Lol

Next, I'm controlling Adam fox using dss.  You can see I make contact with the puck and dislodge it so my vrana can grab it.  Now, I GET that vranas stick was in front of jarnkroks body so him losing the puck is correct IMO.  Then, watch jarnkroks body contort yet again to pick up a puck he has no business getting.  Then, he shoots, Talbot saves, then all while running into the goalie, jarnkrok kicks the puck in.....and it counts of course.   First shot for them all game long and I could just FEEL the game working against me to create this for the a.i.

Am I nuts here or does anyone else notice unfair a.i. advantages?

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  • Clip isn't playing for me. I tried a few different browsers and just get "Something went wrong" msg.

    I favor Squads and play a lot. I don't notice "unfair a.i. advantages" per se but I can tell when they switch up based on how the game is going. I don't give much weight to the team OVR but the ratings & stats on each player. Lot of 84OVR teams will still roll out a bunch of MSPs or Xfactors and can be more challenging. 

    The new ToW from Wednesday was nasty and wouldn't let me get to 5 but I got into a hitting frenzy and ran my players out of position leaving the AI open at the crease. But it didn't feel 'unfair.'

    ETA: I got the clip to play and its the replay and not live action. I've never felt the replay is the same as the game play and fills in gaps. 

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    Kmahrle83
    Rising Veteran
    3 years ago

    You're right.  I've really doesn't matter.  Often times a 77 ovr will be harder to beat than totw for me.  THAT is an issue tbh.

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    Kmahrle83
    Rising Veteran
    3 years ago

    Trust me, this happened live action just as it happened in replay. Even if gaps are filled, how is any of that ok?

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