Goalies need to be addressed
https://youtu.be/TCQbd8u9Cks?feature=shared Finally I got this clipped but this has been way too often in this game and it needs to be addressed with the developers.
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Goalies are in a really, really bad place right now. They're somehow worse than in NHL 23 and they were so bad then I couldn't imagine them getting worse. But here we are. At this point I suspect it will take years to get goalies back to being reasonable.
Your clip is a good example of just two of the problems. First goalies have a great deal of difficulty with pucks coming at them from the corners. And then once the puck is loose in and around they're feet they just lose their minds.
@PlayoffErrorThey weren't so bad before the patch that supposedly was gonna make them better. Somehow these changed ruined goalies more than before.
From the 1.4 patch......
Goalie Size Balancing:
Community Feedback: There is not enough incentive to use smaller goalies over larger goalies. Larger goalies feel like they cover more physical space and are harder to score on. In EASHL, this results in the majority of players creating large sized goalies and in HUT, players primarily dressing tall goalies.
Save Reach is now scaled by the height of the goalie.
Smaller Goalies will receive less penalty when making far Reaching Saves.
Larger Goalies will receive a higher penalty when making far Reaching Saves.
Currently, Save Reach scaling is only enabled when Light Work or Extra Padding is equipped.
User Goalie Save Accuracy:
Community Feedback: User Goalies who are square to the puck are too inaccurate at making saves, allowing pucks to squeak through, while User Goalies who are out of position are making too many highly accurate reaching saves.
Increased the max accuracy of a User Goalie when making saves with a high Precision score. Precision score is calculated when attempting a save and is influenced by multiple factors (attributes/screen/fatigue/reach/etc.)
Increased bonus applied to Precision score when User Goalie is square to the puck and requires less reach to make a save.
Increased penalty applied to Precision score when User Goalie is out of position and required to make far reaching saves.------------------------------------------------------------------------------
They should have left large goalies alone and simply raised smaller goalies reach somehow. And somehow the goalie save accuracy went to complete hell and it's sad. I was actually happy with goalies for the most part before that patch.
@KlariskraysNHLTo be fair, he goalies were terrible in 24 before that change. But I agree it seems to have added an entire new pile of problems to goalies.
I wonder if that change was tuned entirely around high-rated HUT goalies and modes like WOC are getting the shaft because of it?The thing that's really sticking out lately ( in addition to all the usual goalie problems ) is just how many shots end up deflecting off the edges of the blocker or glove and into the net. And and I'm not talking about desperation saves, these are run of the mill unscreened shots from the perimeter. Things you might see once in a blue moon are a regular occurrence.
It reminds me a lot of the 'shaft of the stick' save from NHL 22. Something that would normally be a once or twice a season lucky highlight save happened every other game.
