Hitting acceleration reverted today 2/5

We all know, who cried most, it was EKI :D  Stop listen player on 1 ms ping please Kappa 

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@EA_Aljo wrote:

@sirajs 

I just hate going up against teams that only care about hitting. It's just frustrating and annoying as I just don't feel like that's an authentic way to play.

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@EA_AljoBingo. It was worse in NHL23 before the overall change to the hitting engine in 24, but the hitting thing remains an issue. In EASHL when our team (we usually play 5v5, cpu goalies) is matched against a team of 3 or more big guys with truculence, we just back out before the game kicks off. We've played too many frustrating games where its a hit fest, pace of play is slowed to a crawl with all the calls. Win or lose it was just aggravating so now we just avoid that and are better off.

I think you had to roll back the hitting change as it seemed to have been an overcorrection but my hope is you guys find a middle ground between the change and reverted status.

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@EA_Aljo wrote:

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@KidShowtime1867 wrote:

Obviously I'm in the minority on this, but I'm uncertain how anyone who wants this game to be sim would agree that accelerating from a body check attempt is favorable to a more nuanced and positional approach to body checking.

I don't consider the hitting mechanic to be perfect, but the recent change did add responsibility to the hitter which opened up the game a bit more. But I'm outgunned on this one and the community has spoken. Looking forward to abusing the heck out of this again.

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I agree. I preferred the changes to hitting, but obviously much of the community did not feel the same. I'll say it once again, we get requests for the game to be less arcade and then get complaints when that happens. 

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Because majority play HUT and the money is in HUT. It's no different than FIFA or Madden. This hitting affected HUT to a point where periods would go by without a hit from either side. Find a middle ground. I appreciate their efforts to fix the hitting speed boost but if the fix kills hitting then how do you expect players to defend? 

Will you fix the poke check? After the last adjustment 

knocking the puck off guys sticks 

2,3, 4,5 times in a row…….he still gets the puck back 

he gets the puck back throws a weak writer on net and scores.

wtf

defense is gone

knew it would happen, 

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@RatedxPGxEnigma wrote:
@phomi99Hey, they are tailoring changes for CHEL too (because of battlepass)

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Not much though, it was fun back then when guys had to grind to a higher level and the equipment had attribute boosts. The preset attributes that you can bring up and down a bit still doesn't offer much creativity and it's lazy feature from the old team.

This is the best team we have had in a long time so hopefully they do put more effort into it next year because we have had the same format for how long? 

Back out for truculence, but watch every single replay. What a time saver. 😆 

You are right. This gameplay tonight after the patch is crap. 85 hits a game is not hockey. No skill required. This game is not hockey. There will not be a much needed overhaul to this game until it is new gen only. It is so not fun to try to play hockey when the game play is just crap like it is now.