Goalie feedback
Two nights ago was the worst EA NHL experience I've ever been apart of. 13 goals allowed in 3 games and 8 went in off the goalie or defense due to ridiculous bounces. I was told to "get proof" with v...
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@TTZ_Dipsy Don't get me wrong. If any one of these clips happened and it was an isolated thing. I wouldn't care. Crap happens. It's a video game and it's not perfect. But it's been two straight nights(7gp) of 90% nonsense.
Wednesday my LW partially blocked a slap shot at the left point. The puck deflected and was heading to the right corner. Hit the RD at the bottom of the right circle and bounced toward the net, went Underneath a standing goalie, hit the left post and went in.
Multiple "own goals" due to weird puck bounces or awful animations. And again. If it was once and a while like it usually is, so be it. But the game is unplayable when 12 of 19 goals against over the last 7 games have been "bad bounces" or EA nonsense. That number doesn't even count the handful of garbage goals we scored that we shouldn't have
Wednesday my LW partially blocked a slap shot at the left point. The puck deflected and was heading to the right corner. Hit the RD at the bottom of the right circle and bounced toward the net, went Underneath a standing goalie, hit the left post and went in.
Multiple "own goals" due to weird puck bounces or awful animations. And again. If it was once and a while like it usually is, so be it. But the game is unplayable when 12 of 19 goals against over the last 7 games have been "bad bounces" or EA nonsense. That number doesn't even count the handful of garbage goals we scored that we shouldn't have
Ya my buddy and I stopped playing - It's disheartening to see a clear skill gap in the game get washed away with horrible AI.
Easy to say play a game with all humans but even then actually playing as a goalie is worse feeling than watching an AI.
We need better mechanics and more animations for shot blocks, the AI needs perception and anticipation, there needs to be some sort of innate fear for all players when the puck is close to the net
I've said before that the lack of contextual awareness in the AI for animations is an issue. For instance, there will be times where the skater is in close, so you drop into butterfly. Then, when the shot comes low, your goalie will hop upas if he's trying to save a mid/high shot, thus giving up a low/5 hole goal he would've otherwise saved.
From speaking with other goalies who play competitively, I think the consensus is that we're tired of our goalies reaching out like stretch armstrong to save great shots painted for the top corner, but our goalies constantly giving up goals on simple shots because the puck hit us and bounced around our pads and in, or the goalie having the puck sitting in clear view right next to him, but not being able to cover it, or goalies constantly fumbling the puck instead of just catching it cleanly on simple wristers, or the game thinking we're screened because a player is standing slightly off to our side while our goalie can clearly see the puck.
It's interesting to me that, in an effort to make playing goalie less frustrating, they created the tether system - something no goalie main asked for, and something barely anyone uses, but completely ignored the issues discussed above which are some of the main sources of frustration with playing goalie.
I only play 5s so AI goalies for me. But they need to make the easy saves. And when the puck is in the crease or under them or whatever... just cover it. Dont kick it in or whatever.
Had one where he was sitting on it. Instead of doing the "closed legs sit on puck animation" he decided to try and get up which kicked the puck in.
What's weird to me is how it feels like the puck physics almost change once a shot's been taken. Like, when the skaters are passing the puck around, shooting for rebounds, or stickhandling back and forth, it's as if the puck's glued to a predetermined course. But, once the puck hits the goalie in the chest, all of a sudden the puck starts bouncing around like flubber.
I am have these same issues, sevel times a game itss ridiculous, a guy shoots from the corner and can barley hit the net and scores, or walk over the blue line and a cheap wristwr flutters in, i have adjusted my attributes and skills, it dont matter what i do, its so frustrating when ur making crazy saves all game and those cheap ones go in
https://www.xbox.com/play/media/Kgcqy3yk3L
> I make the initial save
> puck bounces off my stick, up to my chest, down to my pad
> my goalie randomly decides to sit down for no reason which knocks the puck up and under my arm and into the net
What the hell, man. Lol. It's nonsense like this that makes me want to uninstall this game.
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