Make Hitting Great Again

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.

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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.

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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. 

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@KidShowtime1867 wrote:

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@Beauts90 wrote:

Although I personally want everything in the game to feel realistic and I don’t think open ice hits do in NHL 24, I don’t mind the hitting system overall.

 

The most difficult hit in hockey, hip checks being tied to a button is a completely different story though.

 

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It's really not that difficult to be honest. It's mostly about timing and hip placement. The same goes for executing a good hip check  in '24. Some people make it seem like you just press the button and it happens, but that's not really the case. Although it is a simple button press to get the actual hip-check movement, you still need to execute it properly and time it perfectly or else you just brush off the intended target. 

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But… that’s what makes a hip check difficult. Timing and hip placement while trying to use your opponents momentum and maintaining yours is a lot harder than skating into somebody and turning your shoulder 30 degrees.

It is kind of funny though, since I said how difficult it is, there have been 4 or 5 beauties in the NHL so far.

Anyways, back to it being overpowered, no hate here towards you, but all across social media including the gamechangers say it is really overpowered. I’m curious if you think it is just everyone going full speed or are people using it because it seems much easier to pull off than the traditional body check because of the changes made in 24.

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@Beauts90 wrote:

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@KidShowtime1867 wrote:

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@Beauts90 wrote:

Although I personally want everything in the game to feel realistic and I don’t think open ice hits do in NHL 24, I don’t mind the hitting system overall.

 

The most difficult hit in hockey, hip checks being tied to a button is a completely different story though.

 

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It's really not that difficult to be honest. It's mostly about timing and hip placement. The same goes for executing a good hip check  in '24. Some people make it seem like you just press the button and it happens, but that's not really the case. Although it is a simple button press to get the actual hip-check movement, you still need to execute it properly and time it perfectly or else you just brush off the intended target. 

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But… that’s what makes a hip check difficult. Timing and hip placement while trying to use your opponents momentum and maintaining yours is a lot harder than skating into somebody and turning your shoulder 30 degrees.

It is kind of funny though, since I said how difficult it is, there have been 4 or 5 beauties in the NHL so far.

Anyways, back to it being overpowered, no hate here towards you, but all across social media including the gamechangers say it is really overpowered. I’m curious if you think it is just everyone going full speed or are people using it because it seems much easier to pull off than the traditional body check because of the changes made in 24.

 

 

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I think everyone is using it precisely because many people are going full speed at all times down the boards. 

I've had literally zero people successfully hip-check me in 6v6 because I know how volatile trying to burn down the boards at 100% speed is. 

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?

Not when you have people using X and b on Xbox all they do now is hold X guy bends over and keep gliding and if he gets near someone guy goes flying or using b for check no skill in that at all and let’s hold Y for one Michigan after another 

@KidShowtime1867It's not OP. It's broken. Hip check is the go to meta for checking currently because if any part of the check touches a player it will cause a stumble and/or loss of puck possession. I probably threw less than 5 hip checks in 23, but this year, it's the only check that's effective.