@KlariskraysNHL I agree with all of this. The problem is the human element. Too many people want to play with CPU players and have them.defend for them and just play offense and then get upset when the CPU is bad. In EASHL the CPU SHOULD be bad. The mode is made for all Human players.
My experience in 6's is like this.. we usually have 5 guys (sometimes 6 when someone doesn't mind goalie) we have no problems on the mic. 6 people talking is fine and it's rarely even about the game. Most of the people I play with are friends from home, the problem with that is we all play at diff levels. So if a cpu is better than someone it gets really frustrating playing vs a team of half CPU who seems to always take advantage of the guys who are not quite as good. I tend to play C so I usually try to help out the guys who are not quite as good but it's nearly impossible if the CPU is good enough.
Personally I just think a few changes need to be made to make the game a better experience in 6's
Give tools to allow teams to recruit players and tools for free agents to find teams. Drop in is a nightmare.. it should be used to find players/ teams. Maybe allow teams to scout drop in lobbies and send requests to players. Give players a stats page that shows a bunch of data so teams can get an idea of how they play across diff modes/ games. Maybe give more boosts to playing with full teams?
Goalies need LOTS of work.. probably more than anything else. I know it was posted that giving goalies RNG wouldn't work due to sweaty players finding what works.. however, it would at least give a cushion of time before they find those things.. and maybe teams are better at defending a player going short side or going for the 1T or whatever and can have the goalie play the way they want. All that being said my goal as before was to get mostly HUMAN goalies. So cpu goalies being bad.. is not the worst thing at all in fact, I'd be okay if they were made worse to make human goalies more respected and sought after.. I think human goalies need boosted.. or maybe give a specialized mode to help them learn to play the position. I dunno why EA got rid of training camp but bring that back and add a goalie camp. Give a lot more love to goalies in this game period. A lot of the complaints in these forums would likely go away if human goalies were more common but most people just hate the position because of how unresponsive or foreign it feels. I'm not suggesting I have all the answers for what to do with the position but talking to someone like the guy who does between the pipes videos or whatever would be cool.
Defense.. their tools need boosted.. every year we get new dekes, new ways to score. Every year Defense seems to get a little worse (except the year we got DSS, that was nice!) I think hitting needs reworked a little. Bumping someone off the puck just needs to happen a little more often rather than big hit or nothing at all. Board battles need reworked as they always seem odd haha. Puck pickups need reworked.. currently players get poked, stick lifted, hit and then just get the puck back.. add some type of cool down period for how long it takes to regain puck possession (maybe hands or puck control or offensive awareness can help minimize that cool down) the puck also routinely seems to navigate itself to the next closest offensive player all too often, I'm not sure if this is just really bad luck or something in the game making this happen so often but when the puck dislodges it should not be finding these players as often as it seems it does. I get the game wants players to keep possession of the puck so it doesn't feel random but sometimes it seems the game does too much to help the offense stay in possession. Defense is better at picking off passes imo so that's good. I also think pokes need to take less penalties. I'm fine if someone pokes multiple times while behind a player (he should probably get a tripping minor) but if a player hits LT just prior to someone hitting the poke.. I think the first poke should just bounce off a leg or something. I dunno how often I'm at the side of someone and consider poking but not sure which animation I will get, let us throw out a poke and if we see he's gonna go for the legs I know not to poke again and get in better position. For what it's worth I don't take many penalties but I also play pretty conservative and try to bump them or poke only when I'm in near perfect position but in real hockey players are trying to poke all the time.
