What is your honest assessment of the game?
Due to the game being so absolutely horrendous in so many areas I figure I'd break down the sliders into their own areas and see how you would rate each area. I will start: Skating: 7/10. Still som...
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Skating: 7/0 - Speed and turning are in a nice spot in general but I have issues with the effectiveness of L2ing with full control; I think a nerf to speed would help here. I'd personally like to see slightly faster side to side movement but its not a deal breaker.
Shooting: 6.5/10 - I'd like a faster release on many types of shots, especially at speed. Pre-emptive aiming received a major nerf a year or two back which sucks - It sometimes feels like the puck doesn't go where you want it to.
Passing: I'm the goal scorer, not the playmaker haha. I'd like to see passes release way faster and a return of the give-and-go / tic tac toe style of hockey.
Puck control: 6/10 X-Factors are starting to really bork this stat - Sometimes the puck is glued to my stick while other times I'm losing it out of nowhere. Puck definitely snaps in favour to offense over defense.
Goalies: 2/10 They're major bum cheeks (never in my wildest dreams did I think they could make em worse); Pulling the G for an extra attacker is way more useful. I'm not happy with the changes they made.
Deking: 6.5/10 I miss the old manual dekes ☹️. I think side to side dekes need to be faster at speed - I often feel quite sluggish even as a sniper.
Defense: 4/10 Game definitely favours offense over good defense. If you aren't pixel perfect and have high stats you're just asking for trouble. Defense requires the most work out of everything to fix and its infuriating.
Checking: 6/10 Inconsistent at best and X Factors are breaking the game. I demand a remap feature so I can have a dedicated hipcheck button.
AI: -11/10 Pure dog poop. I'm not gonna get into it, look at my other posts to see how I really feel about these turkeys.
Penalties: N/A I mainly played 3v3 where more than half of all penalty types don't exist so I dunno what to say here. I loathe players/teams that desperately rely on baiting penalties.
Fighting: *thumbs down raspberry/10* I used to be a fighting god in the days of 1st person views. Thousands of fights under my belt with like a 90% win rate lol, it was crazy! Fighting now is a shell of its former self and so lame and unresponsive. What a shame.
