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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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.
Something I actually want to put out there - I'm not sure what's going on this year, but goaltenders CANNOT corral pucks in their torso area for their life. You shoot a puck, they make the save, but if that save is NOT a glove save AND the puck didn't get redirected by the goalie to a different area of the ice, the goalie will try to cover it (since the puck didn't move away from them after the shot). When they go to cover it, 95% of the time the puck will FLING away from them, as the goalie will hit the puck with something else before getting to actually cover it with the trapper.
I'm dead serious. 95% of the time.
https://www.reddit.com/r/EA_NHL/s/kIUlZZTznP
Another clip from reddit
don't know if anyone else has noticed this but when the goalie goes down, they always open up their five hole and pucks just slide in. The amount of goals that I've seen resulting from this is just insane. This has been from day 1. Goalies are tuned to rob you on cross creases and backhand forehand breakaways but throw a weak shot at the net and all hell breaks loose. The puck hits the goalie and they can't control it resulting in a rebound, own goal or unexplainable things. Very frustrating!
- @Nammer604 You're not alone. Over the last couple of years I've posted several clips of the issues goalies have on what should be trivial shots or how they handle loose pucks around the net.
More and more it feels like close games aren't decided, win or lose, by which team makes a mistake or a great play. They're decided by which team benefits from the wonky game mechanics, especially goalies. And it's not "frozen water slant", it's just random. It makes a lot of games feel unrewarding even when you win.
But there's little we as players can do other than continue to point out instances where the game doesn't appear to be working correctly and hope the developers will take note and continue to improve things. All goalies are bad in nhl 24 lmao !
Side note- I have interference set to 5 and I still get called constantly for it. Absolutely ridiculous!
@johnjel80 Aren't you supposed to set it lower if you want fewer penalties?
Thats what I thought.
Really wish they'd fix these goalies, since by now there have been way more than enough videos posted to show proof of the problems. For some games, it certainly feels like the game just decides that your goalie is going to let in everything for that game, no matter what you do or how good you play defense. Really frustrating to play a position how it's supposed to be played, and it ultimately doesn't matter because your goalie can't make any saves.
- @Destroyer95 The goalies need fixing and your players shooting the puck into their own net need fixing
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