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nateforz's avatar
2 years ago

One touch passing and loose pucks

@EA_Aljo

One touch passing is an awesome new mechanic, but it should only activate when you receive pass from a teammate. Right now, it activates if you hold the pass button before retrieving a loose puck. There are a lot of scenarios where you want to hold the pass button to prepare a strong pass before retrieving a loose puck, and then continue to hold the pass button after retrieving the puck to wait for a good pass. But if you do that now, it will cause an immediate, unintended one touch pass as soon as you touch the loose puck.

I'll give a scenario where this makes sense: let's say the opposition dumps the puck in to your D-zone. You hustle to the puck and want to get ready to do a long stretch pass as soon as you get thethe puck. You hold the pass button before you get the puck to "charge" the pass. But now if you do that, it executes a one-touch pass immediately. You're not necessarily prepared to aim that pass, nor want it to be executed until you release the pass button. It makes more sense if it's only activated if receiving a pass from a teammate in my opinion.

  • And for what it's worth, if you want to try reproducing it, the one touch passing on loose pucks only activates if the loose puck is moving. If the puck is at a standstill and you hold the pass button before obtaining posession, then the one touch passing doesn't fire.

5 Replies

  • RSall14's avatar
    RSall14
    Seasoned Veteran
    2 years ago

    Agreed, needs to be changed to as soon as another player gets possession from a pass.

  • @nateforz I think I may disagree with this one but I have to try it out first. It makes logical sense having to settle something before firing it off full force.

    It also creates a reason for a forecheck.

    I'll have to see how this goes but right now currently the way it is makes logical sense. You shouldn't be able to precharge a non-possessed puck.
  • PhRoST's avatar
    PhRoST
    2 years ago

    Do you have any feedback on this months later?

    Other than the new button passing, I think I liked the old logic better. I feel you could sort of "One Touch" by cleverly tapping the trigger timed right to perform such an action, and you would get whatever effort on the pass you got, which seems to me is like what happens when you hold the trigger now.

    However, since the game already includes logic of "Holding Pass Button = Stronger Pass", I get what you're saying but I feel as though you lose the ability to make a predetermined effort on a play you see unfolding, knowing you're going to need to make a stronger quick pass, instinctively you used to hold the trigger and you could release when you got the puck.

    Just felt better to me, IMO.

  • NeonSkyline21's avatar
    NeonSkyline21
    Seasoned Ace
    2 years ago

    I'm a little confused about how one-touch passing works in this year's game. There are times when I'll make a pass to my teammate and then before the pass arrives I'll tap R2 and hold the LS in the direction I want the pass to go but then when the receiver receives the pass, no pass is made. 

    Is there a timing element to one-touch passing in which the pass isn't made if the button is pressed too early? I feel like pressing R2 at ANY time during transit should result in a one-touch pass. That's how it used to be in the NHL14-16 days, IIRC. 

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