Defenseman AI
Ea please fix the defenseman AI they are always getting beat and they are not poking checking
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They totally went overboard but the AI was nerfed to force better defensive play from the humans - Been a major problem for a few years now and I'm not sure they're able/willing to change it
Yet in Eashl 3v3 most teams will run a forward and defenseman and have an Ai winger or center. The Ai forward becomes the best player on the team. Hes always in great position in the offensive zone and when that human dman wants to play Forward the Ai will cover for him. Its an absolute joke.
If you play center winger in 3v3 the Ai dman is virtually useless. He waits till the opposing player skates by to turn around. He never hits or attempts to poke check even when the guy is directly next to him. The Ai dman also waits forever to pass to open players or makes the bank pass off the boards when it isn't necessary. Ai dman also wont shoot without the human calling for a shot.
Again The Ai has been one of the biggest areas EA couldve focused on instead the Add more and more garbage to this game before they fix the biggest problems.
- @Cher-Sharkisian AI forwards are easily better than the defense AI, they take too many penalties, but at least they have use. If the defense AI was half as good as forward AI's this wouldn't even be a discussion lol. Williams and Brunner take a hundred penalties a game, but at least they can score.
The ai Forward is often a teams best player/crutch.
If you are playing as a 2 man club in 3v3 most teams will run a forward and a dman because the Ai forward will play back if the dman wants to load in as a dman but play forward all game or the Ai forward will be in perfect position with a great shot or very easily finds the rebounds faster than a human because the Ai reaction time is almost perfect.
Ai Dman on the other hand is a teams biggest weakness. I think id rather be given the option of a placing a traffic cone anywhere on the ice over the Ai dman.
- @Cher-Sharkisian I rarely play 3's, but I have noticed that in the game I have played. Our club plays 99% of our games in 6's. Normally we have 3, 4 people on at the same time, in the times we do have 3 people, I play RW, a friend plays C and another friend plays D. When we have 4 that person goes to LW, and on the rare chances out other clubmate can get on he goes to the other D. But its rare that we have everyone on at once, its usually just 3 or 4 of us at the same time.
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