Any love or changes to Defence players?

I really hope the class system gets an overhaul to compensate for us losing more and more energy when the L2 crowd keeps dancing around thr ice

If there’s going to be attribute boosts for offense there should be attribute boosts for defense against a team that LT spams and you’re in position to take the puck 

I could be wrong it seems like the new system will force defenders to be overly aggressive to mitigate their stat depletion. The article I read said you could lose 5-7 attribute points at a full bar which is insane

Sigh.

Another year of crazy offensive additions to include the goalie becoming more dumb when teams just opt to shoot anywhere on the ice for boosts.

Why do I play defense in this game.

Remember a video reveal is meant to show this happening over and over.  Just play the tech test and see how it goes then.  They are open to upping or toning things down I believe.  Also I believe LT-ing has been greatly decreased.

I hope they fixed the hits, when you try to hit someone, you aim perfectly, but he just continues skating as nothing has happened.

Like if he's untouchable 😃

Yes it looks very worrying atm for defence men, good thing they're at least trying to improve the goalies.

I just can't believe that they're introducing the exhaust engine with the sustained pressure, vision passing & one touch passing, and even making the most complex dekes one button affiars (apparently even the michigan)... and all you got for defence is revised hitting? With the added bonus of missing your hits badly apparently?

No mention of how defensive skills work next year? Is everything there the same, and is the X still almost automatic penalty? Maybe we'll get more info, but it doesn't really look great. The fatigue factor doesn't really bother me as stamina hasn't been very important for d-men, but that will change now apparently?

And great looking hits is cool, but even last year with TRUCULENCE, you could take out a player with a hit, so much so that it takes ages to get up, this is especially bad for defenece men: if you're trying to cycle the puck on the offensive zone and passing the puck at the blueline, and someone takes you out with a truculent hit, there's no way you will get up in time to defend when the play turns towards your goal. And you can often get these hits pretty late too without penalty. (But one touch passing might actually help here?)

So I hope there's somethig more for those playing defence, the exhaust system would seem to encourage more active defence, but therein lies the risk of missing a hit or poke (does poke still work the same?) and actually doing more harm than goodf. I've always thought playing D is the most difficult task of the skaters, and looks like it's getting even more so?

The more difficult something becomes to play the more wanted/attractive the good once will be. It creates a skill-gap, instead of the feeling that 'everyone can play defence, you just spam'.. 

So, I have no problem with defence being hard to play, but it has to be on fair conditions.

As long as It's hard and fun,
And not,
hard and frustrating.

If offens can beat me with clean actions, I lift my hat, but if offens beat me with LTing and other unstable mechanics that can be used to create offensive advantage, thats no good.

Thats when defence becomes boring.

Thoose who play defence with poke spam and hits should never be the once that set the standard for playing D.

But if you are good at gap control and know when to push and when to hold, thoose should be the once having a good time playing D.

I would say good D set up conditions for good offens.

The best present or love defence can get, would be if LTing was a thing of the past.

That alone has been the worst enemy to playing D sence way back. 

But I guess a thing like that wouldn't fit the marketing of the game..(the unique selling point).. Even though I think the promising from EA of no more LTing would get a lot of people in line for a purchase. 

OK, so they've added some new things to Offense and somehow improved goalies. I'm playing defense. It looks pretty terrible for defense, and it will be even more difficult to play proper defense in 24. Why should I buy this game? Just to experience "pinned" effect?

Another year without any improvements for defense, because of goals goals goals. Offense currently have automatic source passes, automatic goals using close quarters, automatic OT, now they've got automatic dekes and automatic passes just by button click. What in the heck is that ?