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@KidShowtime1867 wrote:
@llamaverox wrote:When trying to defend passing lanes, pucks going right through players, as offense has 100% puck pickup on passes but defense is completely out to dry on it.
You can absolutely be in a passing lane and guarantee 100% interception if you properly position your player in order to do so. If you can't, then you engage the intended recipient. Defence 101.
Let's not exaggerate. You can absolutely be in good position to pick off a pass and prevent the offensive player from getting a shot off and still get screwed by the game mechanics.
This happened just the other night. Defensive player facing the incoming pass, in a glide and in body position such that the offensive player should have no way to get their stick on the puck. Instead of picking off the pass or at least disrupting it with his stick the game chooses to use a kick animation which fails. Then the offensive player quite literally phases his stick through both the defender's feet/legs to get a shot off. The icing on the cake is the goalie failing to make the save because he's trying to stop a completely different shot.
And no, I don't think the correct play here is for the defender to turn his back to the play and try to shove the offensive player.
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@PlayoffError wrote:
@KidShowtime1867 wrote:
@llamaverox wrote:When trying to defend passing lanes, pucks going right through players, as offense has 100% puck pickup on passes but defense is completely out to dry on it.
You can absolutely be in a passing lane and guarantee 100% interception if you properly position your player in order to do so. If you can't, then you engage the intended recipient. Defence 101.
Let's not exaggerate. You can absolutely be in good position to pick off a pass and prevent the offensive player from getting a shot off and still get screwed by the game mechanics.
This happened just the other night. Defensive player facing the incoming pass, in a glide and in body position such that the offensive player should have no way to get their stick on the puck. Instead of picking off the pass or at least disrupting it with his stick the game chooses to use a kick animation which fails. Then the offensive player quite literally phases his stick through both the defender's feet/legs to get a shot off. The icing on the cake is the goalie failing to make the save because he's trying to stop a completely different shot.
And no, I don't think the correct play here is for the defender to turn his back to the play and try to shove the offensive player.
This is an interesting one. I agree it shouldn't happen. I also think it's a pretty edge case. The stick passing through the skate is most likely intended. Had the other skate not been lifted, the stick would have passed through it and not been able to contact the puck. Most likely, this is a very uncommon scenario.
If we had full sim and sticks didn't pass through objects, this could have played out very differently. The defender probably would have ended up getting tripped unintentionally since most people will be trying to take a shot. They don't think about the player in front of them and worry about causing a penalty. This is something the community would most be really unhappy with as it would happen constantly.
