Hitting acceleration reverted today 2/5

My only big gripe about hitting is always the fact that, for me personally I am a dangler. I love deking in the game and think it is very intricate when you get down to it. However, when I dangle a body checker, I don't want them to be able to block the movement of the puck while they are in this hitting animation. I have had too many times to count where I beat the guy but the puck bounces off the players stick as they are trying to hip check me or when I deke someone only for the game to track which direction I am planning to go to and the body checker is just holding down on the stick and letting the game correct his movements to hit me. When the change was implemented, I found it much more possible in that brief time, to deke players that were actually trying to body check you, which is how dangling should be to some extent. Things like the chip deke are near impossible to use because you separate yourself from the puck but the player is holding down the check button and either blocks the puck being chipped with his body while animating to hit you or is tracking your guy with ease thanks to the assist. I just felt with the change, dangling became more usable and punishing to those caught out of position trying to check me. 

Detach Charge Hiting immediately. But immediately. Are you kidding normal NHL players? If the players don't know how to defend in the game, let them learn, but this is absolute *. So patch quickly and detach charge hit immediately!!!

@EA_Aljo 

This is insane. The fix on the acceleration was the best change you guys made to the game this year. How could anyone want this to be reverted??? The game actually felt amazing for a short period of time. Not it feels like NHL BLITZ. So disappointing and reminder how out of touch EA is with what the players want. 

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@doleylama108 wrote:

This is insane. The fix on the acceleration was the best change you guys made to the game this year. How could anyone want this to be reverted??? The game actually felt amazing for a short period of time. Not it feels like NHL BLITZ. So disappointing and reminder how out of touch EA is with what the players want. 

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Reverting the change was a direct response to what the players wanted. I definitely get that not all of them wanted this. Myself included. We have a very diverse audience though. Not everyone has the same idea of what makes this game fun.

Also, keep in mind that we're still reviewing this and it's entirely possible changes could still be made.

I've been following eki for the past few years - and for those who think hitting in a hockey game is 'unrealistic' the * eki pulls off is actually unrealistic. He routinely makes passing plays that you will NEVER see in real hockey. If realism is the goal, then EA should work on improving defensive abilities, not nerfing them like nerfing hitting, especially when hitting is as an essential ingedient to hockey as cheese is to macaroni and cheese. If you have a cheese allergy don't eat mac n cheese and if you don't like hitting don't play a hockey game. The nerf to hitting was ridiculous, hense the massive negative feedback and speedy reversal.

This is not a slam on eki, hes a great player and seems to be a good dude, im just replying to the argument that the current hitting is unrealistic while players can make ridiculous skating moves and pass the puck through three sticks for a goal, or where just because the puck is in your zone for a few seconds all of your defensive players become slow zombies auditioning for the three stooges, and all-world players like mcdavid are completely gassed in a minute of ice time. If realism is the goal, hitting is way down the list of unrealisric stuff in this game. The people who have a problem with hitting are the ice dancers and obi wan kenobi passers and they really arent concerned about realism they just want to play no touch peewee hockey. Skill players in hickey hate hitting too, but its part of hockey anyway. One of the reasons the all star game is so unliked is because there is no physical play. If you think this game is a ghost town now, follow thier advice and it will get a lot more sparce.

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@Treatmentworke66 wrote:
@KlariskraysNHL VS plays way better than HUT and when they nerfed the boost the game played great, HUT is joke all these xfactors and abilities ruined HUT ,but like always the twitch streamers and top players dictate how the game is tweeked

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This is absolutely not true. The feedback from you all here plays very heavily into each update we release.