Make Hitting Great Again
Put the same controls we've had for 15 years back in the game.
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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.
@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.
@TheUnusedCrayon wrote:
@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.
Hip check is effective versus players trying to constantly squeak by defenders and/or skating too fast with the puck. Rather than make adjustments, people want the mechanic nerfed. I have no doubts it will be. There have been instances where a hip check triggers an animation bug - obviously that should be fixed. But I don't think it should have its effectiveness nerfed because "top players" have a hard time avoiding it.
@KidShowtime1867 wrote:
@TheUnusedCrayon wrote:
@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.
Hip check is effective versus players trying to constantly squeak by defenders and/or skating too fast with the puck. Rather than make adjustments, people want the mechanic nerfed. I have no doubts it will be. There have been instances where a hip check triggers an animation bug - obviously that should be fixed. But I don't think it should have its effectiveness nerfed because "top players" have a hard time avoiding it.
Which people do you think have an issue with hip checks working perfectly as intended and shown in real life as in the way you just described?
You honestly think people are in an uproar and want a nerf for something working the exact way it works in real life?
