@Sega82mega wrote:
I heard people IRL arguee that defence is much harder to play and so I agree, but there has to be some sort of justice.
There’s 'million's way' to avoid defence and thers no direct 'cheat' to use as a defender.
You just try all the stuffs that's there for you to use and hope for some 'bad luck' for the puck carrier.
That last video from kid could/or should have result in at least 3 battles for a loose puck, instead there was none.
I guess there's no direct suprise hearing people complaining about the offens getting way to much credit vs the defence.
I think you could say that the game has potential to be twice as fun, as soon as they get the defence to be in a place were it's fun and effective to play. I dont think I need to say challenging, because there's already a ton of that in it's current state.
Not to mention, frustration.
For real, I think with a few tweaks to loose puck battles and adding some kind of actions from the A.I. - this game could improve quite a bit in the eyes of the community.
IMO, it's the HUT streamers who make up much of the Gamechanger group used to provide feedback privately that influenced changes to muted A.I.
The one defensive setup they had trouble exploiting with their behind-the-back, no-look backhand-sauce pass to an open winger (which used A.I. to get to the open space) was when someone controlled one defender. Using that one defender, you could shut down the constant (and I mean CONSTANT) push to the slot and FORCE the HUT Bunnies to actually make realistic passes (not the aforementioned glitch passes) which reuslted in a more realistic, but still 'sweaty' game when playing competitively.
They complained directly to EA about that, and now we have A.I. that's muted and prolonged puck possession through traffic, which is EXACTLY what the HUT bunnies need in their streams. They NEED to be able to move uncontested through the neutral zone and the slot, generating speed so that they can get those sweet wheel-snipe-celly goals for their Twitch streams and TikToks.
What the COMMUNITY needs is the A.I. to step up when they can without being too overpowered. The COMMUNITY needs tools to be able to shut down the HUT bunnies' constant obsession with scoring the same goals they find success with 90% of the time by way of not having to constantly swap control of defenders because they're basically just pylons most of the time.
