Discussion of “own goals”
Can there be a patch soon to solve this issue? I just played one period where 3 out of the 4 goals were “own goals”. CPU knocks in two of mine and I somehow put one into my own net. This is borderlin...
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The root cause might be the inability for defensive players to pick up loose pucks.
Similar to the intercepting problems, this could probably easily be fixed by tweaking the defensive awareness sliders, which are probably close to 0 right now. ..if they'd only care to make the game enjoyable.
@couture2fat2fly I agree, I think it's a combination of low defensive awareness, too high of incidental contact effectiveness, and low offensive awareness pickups.
Also, the AI D should never be skating toward their own goalie after they recover a puck, yet it happens frequently. Poor AI programming, as protecting the net and keeping the puck AWAY from it should be priority #1 for AI. If they recover the puck in their own crease, they should immediately chop it toward center ice or a corner, yet they constantly recover it and begin skating into the own goalie.
The own goals are insanely frequent this year.
Also, the AI D should never be skating toward their own goalie after they recover a puck, yet it happens frequently. Poor AI programming, as protecting the net and keeping the puck AWAY from it should be priority #1 for AI. If they recover the puck in their own crease, they should immediately chop it toward center ice or a corner, yet they constantly recover it and begin skating into the own goalie.
The own goals are insanely frequent this year.
@EA_Aljo I don't wanna sift through any more of my videos - this is all I can get at a glance.
Yes, I'm counting pointless penalties in 3v3 since they lead to guaranteed goals. Yes, I'm throwing in a few instances of the AI crashing the net for no reason even though it didn't lead to a goal (I've brought this up years ago and it was never fixed). Yup, some of the goals were by me -- This is to show how useless/ineffective our current defensive capabilities are.
There needs to be urgency from EVERYONE to keep the puck away from their net, whether that's all automatic or new manual controls
