Well yeah if someone is skating at me I shouldn’t have to hit or skate back and hope the poke check works. I’m telling you this is what needs to be fixed. If a forward skates into me and I have high d awareness my guy should skate and take the puck or the poke check there should’ve jarred it loose and then the team would have a transition play.
I see it all the time in real Games. Instead of dumping the puck the team tries to force it in and it’s easy to strip the puck and go the other way.. but for some reason in this game you have to do a a precise move on defense. Overskate or underskate it shouldn’t matter. The player should be able to pick that puck up and make contact I would think? Otherwise teams can just force every play.
I just still don’t understand why the game is so forgiving to offense but do unforgiving to defense. I guess that’s my main point. Why should it be hard to dump the puck? Why should it be hard to take the puck? Why does the game have to be harder than it should be. I shouldn’t have to compensate and play conservative on that play with it’s the forward who was too aggressive.
i dunno. Maybe I’m just crazy but you have to admit there should’ve been more of a collision with the puck there
@TasteofChicago91 wrote:Well yeah if someone is skating at me I shouldn’t have to hit or skate back and hope the poke check works. I’m telling you this is what needs to be fixed. If a forward skates into me and I have high d awareness my guy should skate and take the puck or the poke check there should’ve jarred it loose and then the team would have a transition play.
I see it all the time in real Games. Instead of dumping the puck the team tries to force it in and it’s easy to strip the puck and go the other way.. but for some reason in this game you have to do a a precise move on defense. Overskate or underskate it shouldn’t matter. The player should be able to pick that puck up and make contact I would think? Otherwise teams can just force every play.
I just still don’t understand why the game is so forgiving to offense but do unforgiving to defense. I guess that’s my main point. Why should it be hard to dump the puck? Why should it be hard to take the puck? Why does the game have to be harder than it should be. I shouldn’t have to compensate and play conservative on that play with it’s the forward who was too aggressive.
i dunno. Maybe I’m just crazy but you have to admit there should’ve been more of a collision with the puck there
No you're not crazy at all. the offense is completely handheld while the defense requires absolute mastery of all the game mechanics to put themselves in the best spot to not get beat.
the lack of low-speed hitting and incidental contact makes defense that much harder and that much farther away from real hockey and real positioning...everything about this game is so passive and about getting an auto interception....which again passive defense isnt a thing you see in high-level hockey when players have stamina and auto interceptions arent what id consider a skilled play from a video game perspective so im not sure why we keep going to the route of 900 mph passes and auto intercepts when we have the tuners and sliders to take a more skilled and manual approach to this game without removing too much aaccessibility
