NHL24 Be a Pro AI
So I finally decided to start a BaP player in NHL23 (since I got the itch to watch some hockey) to supplement my normal online versus play and my lord... is the dev team aware of how horrible your AI...
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@rabid55wolverine wrote:
The AI is at best mediocre and again the fact that you have to pour in hours and hiyrs of testing and tweaking says everything about how the AI plays in this game. Just because you can set sliders to make the game "like real life" to a minor extent means absolutely nothing to be honest and please don't think that is me taking anything away from what you do making sliders that work but EA is the one that needs to put hours and hours into the game to make the AI work properly and not do stupid things over and over.
Just the simple fact that you have to make the rosters different too and change ratings says a lot about where the game is at.
As far as a dead game goes, yes you might play it a lot offline but the majority has vanished from this game and will be firing up the new one. There might be 10 to 15% still playing 23 but that makes this basically a dead game.
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First of all no game's AI is even remotely perfect out of the box. Every game from 2K to EA had flaws in them. But I saw something I really liked about 23 in general and that’s why I spent hours on end coming with these changes. Was it my job to do this ? Of course not. But I first started this journey when I saw that I could really change some AI behaviour when editing specific values for the players. Especially the DMEN… Then it became an obsession, cause the more I found stuff, the more the game played like I always dreamed a hockey game would play 😀
We always have to keep in mind that this game's DNA has always been on the Arcade side, so making it play closer to a SIM is no easy task indeed… I can’t even play the "default" Simulation sliders from EA for more than 5 minutes. That’s why the major edits on players needed to be done, to tame that wild arcade horse that’s under the hood….
I just played a game at LD locked and kept a very close eye on my AI buddy on the right end side, and I never saw what you see ? One time we switched position when he came out the bench first and he covered for me on my side. And after we switched during the play when it was the right time to do so. Like you will see often time in real life.
And I won’t be just saying words, I will shortly post an unedited period of me playing LD locked and we can analyze their play if you want ?
That is why NHL23 will become (has already become) my GO TO Hockey game for years and years down the road 😀
Just for my own curiosity, what kind of player editing do you do? I’ve seen you mention that you reduce specific attributes for the players, so do you use the same reductions for every player, or do you go through and adjust every player specifically?
Does the overall ratings of your players differ much from EA’s ratings?
@Beauts90 wrote:Just for my own curiosity, what kind of player editing do you do? I’ve seen you mention that you reduce specific attributes for the players, so do you use the same reductions for every player, or do you go through and adjust every player specifically?
Does the overall ratings of your players differ much from EA’s ratings?Well the player edits follow a certain path/formula to equally either go down or up in certain categories… So that the OVR fluctuates at the same rate for every players around the league.
Player Edits goes hand in hand with the game sliders you have no idea.
The overall ratings differ in a way that the DMEN got a major BUFF compared to EA. The DMEN have been left to dry ever since NHL21 IMO... Maybe something went wrong when the XFACTORS made their appearance ?
The forwards also received a BUFF in the DZONE to help to counter that arcade/offensive DNA like I was talking about earlier…. It is now fun to play Defense and you feel that your teammates got your back also.
