Make Hitting Great Again
Put the same controls we've had for 15 years back in the game.
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@Sgt_Kelso wrote:I have great difficulty with shoulder hitting using skill stick. There's something about the direction of skating or maybe speed changes once you push the right stick down, I always seem to miscalculate the distance & speed of the opponent or my own speed. This is mostly in EASHL. But I noticed that when I play in HUT with players like Sami Salo or Rasmus Dahlin, who I assume have good hitting stats, it's much easier to connect with hits. It's almost like they have some super auto hitting aim going on? Is it simply the case of having good stats in hitting?
After trying total control for hitting, I am not a fan. It makes hip checking ridiculously easy, that's pretty much it. Hip checking being way OP and ridiculous, please do something about it. And also, please do something about the hitting animations too, it's supposed to be SHOULDER hitting, not knee or head butting. Those animations look plenty weird.
I don't get this 'Hip check is OP' argument right now.
I think a LOT of people are too comfortable skating at full speed along the boards, and EA introduced a mechanic for defenders to shut that down. And now, you've got people mad about that.
If hip check gets a nerf because of this current backlash from people who can't avoid it, I'm gonna be really disappointed.
So anytime you're near the boards you're fine automatically being stripped of it?
Because that's what the hip check button is. Doesn't matter what speed you're skating at, the other player can be moving very slowly and throw it out and that's his puck now. No boarding, no good connection needed, it auto-missiles, etc.
I'm baffled how you wouldn't think this is op.
I think it's fairly ridiculous, how you can have literally no speed at all, just stick you bum out, and bang the opponent flies over you, even if his momentum was to the opposite direction or wasn't moving at all. It seems to break the laws of physics at times?
@TheUnusedCrayon wrote:So anytime you're near the boards you're fine automatically being stripped of it?
I'm baffled how you wouldn't think this is op.
Maybe because I didn't say that?
I'm top 100 in OVP. I've played roughly 20+ WoC games with a Div 1, Div2 team. I've seen the hip check be attempted plenty of times and maybe land once.
I have ZERO issue with hip check and I rarely use it. I have ZERO problem avoiding it when I see it coming.
I think the majority of complaints are coming from HUT users who are playing a mode that is already plagued with issues when it comes all the boosts and attribute fluctuations. In this mode, I can see how something like Hip check is OP because in that mode, the smallest adjustments make anything OP. Not to mention I've seen the hip check bug out in HUT but never in OVP/WoC. HUT is a cancer.
@KidShowtime1867 wrote:
@TheUnusedCrayon wrote:So anytime you're near the boards you're fine automatically being stripped of it?
I'm baffled how you wouldn't think this is op.
Maybe because I didn't say that?
I'm top 100 in OVP. I've played roughly 20+ WoC games with a Div 1, Div2 team. I've seen the hip check be attempted plenty of times and maybe land once.
I have ZERO issue with hip check and I rarely use it. I have ZERO problem avoiding it when I see it coming.
I think the majority of complaints are coming from HUT users who are playing a mode that is already plagued with issues when it comes all the boosts and attribute fluctuations. In this mode, I can see how something like Hip check is OP because in that mode, the smallest adjustments make anything OP. Not to mention I've seen the hip check bug out in HUT but never in OVP/WoC. HUT is a cancer.
The majority of complaints comes from non 1v1 modes where if you play against good teams it's clearly an issue. 1v1 modes of course it's easy to avoid. You only have to focus on 1 guy doing it.
And my first 20 woc games didn't have it either but now it's the meta and every good team is using it.
If you've only seen it plenty of times, then you're being ignorant to how OP it is when a whole team of 6s or 3s uses it whenever there's a puck along the wall.
I've got some clips I can post a little later on the games we played last night. Hip-checks are NOT hard to do. If you connect with just a PIECE of the player anywhere on the body, they will end up losing the puck or stumbling. It happens in the corners. It happens in open ice. There are more hip-checks being thrown in games by teams that know how to abuse it (to include my team) in 6v6. It has nothing to do with speed or position. It's just the best way to dislodge the puck currently, because even using the poke perfectly with positional play doesn't guarantee a good defensive outcome, but that hip-check seems to nearly never fail.
