@KidShowtime1867 wrote:
@phomi99 wrote:Just be honest you don't like that you have to do more manual defending this year.
Ever since EA stopped allowing passive defending to be so successful, the complaints about 'defense being nerfed' have increased.
Many people got used to:
- just sitting in a passing lane
- mashing poke check with impunity
- charging a puck carrier and exploiting the suction-cup-hitting that forced puck carriers into a collision
- paying zero price for mismanaging their momentum in terms of skating, body positioning etc..
Over the years, EA has changed it so that:
- You need to be actively defending. Standing still greatly diminishes your ability to intercept/deflect passes
- almost an instant tripping penalty when poke check is used incorrectly
- Hitting changed to be timed, and puck carriers were given tools to avoid being 'sucked' into hitting animations
- Defenders now lose a step when mashing poke check
- an increased emphasis on taking proper routes allows people with real hockey IQ to get a 'step' on the puck carrier
That last point is something I never see brought up on these forums; routes.
The complaints of people saying a player with 75 SPD outskates my team of 90 SPD tells me that the player with 75 SPD is taking routes that don't involve stopping, starting or huge shifts in their body momentum while the team with 90 SPD is constantly stopping, starting and taking bad routes to areas of the ice.
Nobody mentions this. Ever. Not to mention that passing to a player in stride (who then utilizes puck pickups to accentuate their reception animation) will yield the exact same 'speed boost' that people claim to see from their opponents all the time.
I see people CONSTANTLY make a pass to a teammate and the instant that player receives the pass, he enters a backhand - because most players have learned that holding backhand gives you some protection against a hit.
However, doing so completely negates ANY speed and momentum that receiving player would've had.
Oh no doubt the traces of those rats still show in their gameplay today. The amount of people that turn to their backhand and glide is hilarious because now you just blow them up which is how it should be. They don't know how to enter the zone. I would say for every 10 games I play maybe 2 that you can tell have knowledge of basic hockey IQ.
What's actually interesting and something I noticed last week. The opponent's I run into with goalies 6ft4 and under know how to play but soon as I run into Markstrom or Sogaard I'm guaranteed at least 12min TOA. Then at the end of the game they have the nerve to say "pressure system abuser" . If you are going to sit back and let ur centre just be frozen in the crease, I'm going to cycle. Is it boring, Of course it is but you choose that situation.
@phomi99
I believe you wont be that long on this board because you're going against the flow. The nature on this board is to create complaints about the game not its users.
But for me you are welcome to stay, its important with different opinions for the discussion to move forward.
Keep swimming against the tide if you have the strength. ☺️👏
Kidshowtime is doing a great job as a counterweight, worth saying. Not everyone can be a 'yes sayer'.
@Sega82mega wrote:@phomi99
I believe you wont be that long on this board because you're going against the flow. The nature on this board is to create complaints about the game not its users.
But for me you are welcome to stay, its important with different opinions for the discussion to move forward.
Keep swimming against the tide if you have the strength. ☺️👏Kidshowtime is doing a great job as a counterweight, worth saying. Not everyone can be a 'yes sayer'.
The game isn't perfect by any means but it's strides better than any NHL we have had in a long time. The OP lost all credibility in his rant when saying last year's NHL was better.
I was a community manager for a game company in San Fran that had 8 titles. Forums is literally 95% complaining. I was just here recently to bring something to the teams attention I don't plan on reliving those CM days lol.
@phomi99
Yeah I guess if life goes as wished- there's really no need to change anything, same principle goes here, those with frustration is probably those who shall/will speak.
But it's easy to forget so it's good to see people that can argue against the 'general complaints'.
Otherwise it gets so one-dimensional. 😏
My own 'feeling' without even have trying it is also that its a better game then not.. without saying too much.
* I need to add it's not just sore losers with frustration that file complaints, there's also those that want to contribute to a better game by saying what they would like to see improved. But thats why the constructive part is so important.
Toxic game play at its finest ,this is what these devs have created, this guy ozone ragged the puck for almost 4 minutes ,this is why the puck flip was nerfed so garbage like this can happen, like I'vesaud no one should be patting themselves on the back or taking a bow for this disgraceful representation of hockey
