Defenseman AI

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@RelentlessJ69 wrote:
@rsandersr47Well then we're playing different games, cause the AI on our team rarely wins puck battles, we'll poke check the puck and it'll go right to the other team, we hit someone, puck goes right back to them. I'm not talking about offensively, I'm talking about the defense AI, they should not be that bad. Not to mention, there's been games where our AI took FIVE penalties before the 3rd period even started.

Also, I don't like drops, out of the drop ins games I've played, I've met maybe one or two people that are decent, the others are either awful or troll the entire game.

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So the CPU you play with are bad AND the humans you play with are bad. How often are you guys winning games? Have you considered that defense is just hard and not particularly the AI? Or that maybe you're not doing enough on defense yourself? Do you feel in a mode that was created to have full teams of humans, the CPU players should be expected to perform better than a human you find in drop ins? To me it sounds like you just want someone on the backend to take care of everything for you.. I could be wrong.. personally I'd suggest you suffer through drops until you find a few guys to play with. It could take a few weeks but you could have a solid team for the rest of the year, and you could learn to play together. Of course IF you guys aren't doing enough on the backend the defenseman is probably gonna say something where as a cpu I just gonna look worse than they already have to be and you can continue to blame them. Again, not saying CPU is good, they are bad. But in EASHL a LOT of humans are bad so CPU should play like a base level human. Want a good defenseman? get a human and get them better. 

However, I do think we're playing diff games if you're not seeing them win puck battles or getting to loose pucks first. They will always take the perfect line to a puck. They know exactly the bounces it will take, they know when to stick lift you for it or bump you and they can feel much harder to knock. They are bad at a ton but getting the puck, making short passes, and getting 1Ts/ wristies in the slot they are pretty solid. Overall they're still better than most base level players.. which is roughly 30-50% of the community. If my life depended on winning 1 dropin game.. I'd prob take a cpu over a random. CPU is bad, you can skate right by them, but most humans are extremely bad at positioning and wont even be in place to attempt to make a play. Do you think the CPU should be better than humans? I'm sure it would make life easier for people who only play forward, of course then the they would complain the CPU defends too well on the other team.

I just personally feel a CPU should not perform better than a human. Personally if i made the game EASHL CPU players would be even worse, to the point people WOULD go out of their way to find other humans to play with. If youre not doing that still then it means you too feel a CPU is better than a random human. I remember drops back in the day and one team would go up 4-0 all but 2 of their guys quit and they come back to win 6-4. CPU gets all 6 goals and shuts down the other team. Been on both sides of this. Humans should not get punished for playing well or be punished for playing vs cpu. Playing with and against CPU is the most unrewarding experience. I would NEVER want to play a 6s game with 2 humans per side. I'll take the occasional trolls (and just quit out) as much as I hate them (trolls) over 3 cpu skaters. Also, I've played countless hours of quick 3s and have yet to find a single troll. Lots of decent teammates. Lots of bad teammates. But the stats don't matter, quit if you want. It's quick games and you can play with tons of diff people all night and see who plays well. If someone plays to your liking add them and invite them to 6s. I've added a lot of friends on there and now I get invited to games all the time.