Tips for Defending in '23
Seems like many people have some gripes about defense - myself included. Over the last couple of weeks, I've refined and adjusted defensively, and I feel that I've gotten more comfortable in defendin...
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@EA_Aljo wrote:It wasn't just the influencers. There was a huge amount of feedback from the community that they hated playing against the "skill zone" style of play. The game is meant to have as much manual control as possible. Not just sit in the middle of your own zone and let the AI players defend for you.
While I get they are similar, there's still a big difference between your offensive players getting open and defensive players not taking action. They still get in to position like offense does. Offense also doesn't shoot for you whereas skill zoning had defenders playing defense for you.
Getting into a scoring position where the user can just hold 'shoot' after a pass (for a one-timer) is literally the a.i. scoring for you.
Like I said, the CPU A.I. doesn't need to 'play defence for you' but they absolutely should take some actions here:
Literally right on top of the puck carrier:
Why am I being forced to frantically swap defenders due to an effort to coherce 'manual control' whereas the offensive player just needs to wait for their A.I. to get in to position to score with the added luxury of being able to just skate through the 4 other players I have no ability to control at the same time?
Literally in a perfect spot to strip the puck... but nothing.
Meanwhile, his A.I. gets in to the perfect spot to obtain the loose puck:
While the defensive A.i. is aloof to the puck carrier in front of him:
What's even more insane is when the 'muted a.i.' takes active steps to expose you defensively:
@KidShowtime1867 Just perfect examples as always.
