Why did you changed the hitting ? The hitting and hitting controls in this game is not working at all . Are you planning on bringing back hitting and the hitting controls (skill stick ) that we have had for many years that worked fine or should we try to get our money back ?
It might be more difficult for us to perform hits this year but it's not for the CPU team is you play offline. Just look at the video below. It's from the replay but you can still see how fast the player came to hit my D man. I was surprised and did my best to dodge the hit but I couldn't. Is there a button that I don't know of that can give our players such a speed boost? Also, I'm quite sure this would have been a charging penalty in a real NHL game.
@6hpy2hzsfzas wrote:This was a shock to me this year. Hitting was just fine before and I never heard someone complaining about it. This year it's just unrealistic. Look at the video, in previous NHL versions, this would have been a successful hit. The timing looked perfect, not to mention the player skating through the referee. Instead of improving the game they changed stuff that works just fine. Offline in previous NHL, the CPU players were a bit dumb and easy to check but that doesn't mean they had to changed the whole hitting mechanic.
You're just holding shove here. You need to make contact on the release of the shove button.
@6hpy2hzsfzas wrote:It might be more difficult for us to perform hits this year but it's not for the CPU team is you play offline. Just look at the video below. It's from the replay but you can still see how fast the player came to hit my D man. I was surprised and did my best to dodge the hit but I couldn't. Is there a button that I don't know of that can give our players such a speed boost? Also, I'm quite sure this would have been a charging penalty in a real NHL game.
You'll notice here that the CPU releases the shoulder check button and makes contact on the follow through. That's why hitting is different this year; previously you'd just hold the hit button and then glide into your opponent. Now, you have the responsibility of timing the release in order to ensure the shove makes the most impact.
@KidShowtime1867 wrote: You'll notice here that the CPU releases the shoulder check button and makes contact on the follow through.
That doesn't explain the burst of speed and the charging penalty not being called. How often do you see a hit like this in the NHL?
@KidShowtime1867 wrote: You'll notice here that the CPU releases the shoulder check button and makes contact on the follow through
That's right...and it was simple to execute. It should have stayed that way. Nobody asked for a change
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@6hpy2hzsfzas wrote:
@KidShowtime1867 wrote: You'll notice here that the CPU releases the shoulder check button and makes contact on the follow through.
That doesn't explain the burst of speed and the charging penalty not being called. How often do you see a hit like this in the NHL?
@KidShowtime1867 wrote: You'll notice here that the CPU releases the shoulder check button and makes contact on the follow through
That's right...and it was simple to execute. It should have stayed that way. Nobody asked for a change
You mean nobody ever said the game was a copy and paste and to change things up? I thought you all wanted simulation and not simplicity? I get that hitting is harder now, but it's far from impossible and the 51 hits a team did against my club last night is a good indication of that.
My issue is when you line up a hit, and your player swerves away from the player at the last second. I have been burnt in offline play by the AI a few times, when missing the check at the last second. This usually occurs when lining a hit up from the side. If you in front, you can almost always get the hit in.
@EA_Aljo wrote: You mean nobody ever said the game was a copy and paste and to change things up.
That's not what I meant, people say that every year but I never heard people complaining about the hitting mechanic. So why change a winning recipe.
If you want it to be more realistic my suggestion would be to give an option to avoid hits maybe. In a real hockey game, if you are coming down along the board and a player angles you to hit you, you can slow down, push the puck forward for a teammate and turn your body facing the board to avoid most of the hit. So you can make the choice to avoid the hit but you lose the puck. You can also put a knee down so the opponent will hit the glass instead of you.
So instead of adding new dekes every year that most people don't use, you could add an option to avoid hits in a realistic way.
Community ManagerYou can avoid hits. We get a lot of complaints that offense is overpowered and can hang on to the puck too easily. Skilled players are also good at recognizing when a hit is coming and can avoid them or take the hit while getting rid of the puck which results in taking the hitter out of the play. You also can face the boards and pin yourself (if using the skill stick controls). It would be good to have more options for avoiding hits of course. I'm not saying there shouldn't be. I just don't think that there's a problem with the change to hitting. I know it's not for everyone, but it also works very well.
@EA_Aljo It's harder to hit, hence it's easier to avoid hits but it's unrealistic especially offline. My suggestion his to bring back the hitting mechanics like it was and add an option to avoid hits in a more realistic way. If the player has the speed and skills to avoid hits, good for him but at least we know we missed the hit because the player was skilled not because of the hitting mechanics. Keep it simple and people will like it.
