Community ManagerHappy to see that EA are still adapting and improving things.
Hope the new tuner will not mess up my sliders too much🫣
I think the pressure system was poorly received because it was so lopsided in favour of offense - by adding a feature that allows the D to counter/build their own, it'd be near perfect in my opinion.
I've played at a high level as well and can see the merit to a pressure system but fully agree there need to be certain tweaks. I have been absolutely gassed and more willing to take a hook/slash and be on the verge of just passing out but I've never floppy chickened my way in goal or outright didn't make an effort, no matter how futile, to get my body infront of the puck.
Losing more stamina and making harder to regain is realistic, but I don't like to see a timed lockdown on it when i'm literally not moving at all
Agreed with your statement about balancing offence and defence. Instead of pressure system, could make stamina or boost system. Standing does not decrease stamina, puck ragging does not increase pressure. Offensive points for passing, shooting, stick checks and hits. However, defence gets points for shot blocks, interceptions, checks and pokes. 2 systems countering each other to tilt the advantage…one for scoring and one for regaining control and exiting the zone. There’s a systematic advantage to wearing a team down that goes beyond stamina.
PS…puck pickups are still frustrating and I’ve played this game for a long time, especially when I hit a guy and he gets up and gets the puck before me!!!
My buddy and I just played our first games since the first playoffs.
My screen froze while trying to back out due to horrible ping so I quit and found out it counted as a loss (the countdown didn't even end on my screen). We finally found another match and it was like playing in mud with 60 ping - our computer D was skating off randomly in his own world and our goalie wasn't any better (in fact he was his usual much worse self); they scored on us twice when we had full pressure - somehow our energy lowered faster than theirs...
We're officially done with 24. I get the game for free and still feel completely ripped off; feels like nothing has changed
