Please bring back NHL 23 controls
Please this is unplayable
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@337fd0ef3db761a8 The easiest fix to the LT issue was simply decreasing your players attributes while using it so that he couldn't spin around unrealistically, but still allowing you to make proper hockey plays by opening your hips to protect the puck. It really shows they are not familiar with hockey outside of a casual, beginner standpoint.
The protect puck mechanic is fine only in a vacuum - in reality, what happens is that you are skating down ice with the puck, using turbo (which many of us have bound to paddles for easy/near-constant access), and then your stick handling becomes deactivated. Now, not only do you have to hold the L stick to move your player down ice, and the turbo button, AND the LT (which many advanced players do on breakaways for quicker control of the stick), but you have to remember to release the turbo button if you are going to move your stick in any direction. It's just clunky, makes little sense, and seems to be an overlap of mechanics caused by inexperience with the finer control aspects of the game that have been in place for years.
The skill stick was the ONE thing NHL games had going for it and that made it fun, yet realistic, to play. And they've gone and tried to recreate the wheel, obliterating the logic that was in place for no good reason.
The protect puck mechanic is fine only in a vacuum - in reality, what happens is that you are skating down ice with the puck, using turbo (which many of us have bound to paddles for easy/near-constant access), and then your stick handling becomes deactivated. Now, not only do you have to hold the L stick to move your player down ice, and the turbo button, AND the LT (which many advanced players do on breakaways for quicker control of the stick), but you have to remember to release the turbo button if you are going to move your stick in any direction. It's just clunky, makes little sense, and seems to be an overlap of mechanics caused by inexperience with the finer control aspects of the game that have been in place for years.
The skill stick was the ONE thing NHL games had going for it and that made it fun, yet realistic, to play. And they've gone and tried to recreate the wheel, obliterating the logic that was in place for no good reason.
@75fd980e1b183900 wrote: It really shows they are not familiar with hockey outside of a casual, beginner standpoint.
lol Or, you know, they're developing a game to be accessible to everyone ? I don't get the constant shots at EA for nOt uNderStanDiNg bAsiC hOcKeY when they're literally trying to simplify the actual sport so that it's accessible with a videogame controller.
- @KidShowtime1867 The thing is , it was literally more real and accessible in past years lol. You wanna give people total controls to have fun that’s fine but I don’t think people realize that’s an ironic statement bc now players that learned to play this game as good and real as possible have way less control and creativity.
For experienced players LT is another way to protect the puck by closing the hips for a split second and it’s used in many scenarios all across the ice. It’s not just used to cheese and skate backwards.
@337fd0ef3db761a8 wrote:For experienced players LT is another way to protect the puck by closing the hips for a split second and it’s used in many scenarios all across the ice. It’s not just used to cheese and skate backwards.
No. LT was abusive. It was not realistic the way it was abused by "experienced players". I speak as one of those experienced players who abused the heck out of it.
Does anyone know how to adapt? This is getting kinda silly at this point. "I want my LT and protect puck cheese or it's unrealistic"...just nonsense. Use your teammates, setup offense, make good reads and passes. Stop trying to be the hero on every carry and dangle past entire teams. Also, if anything the hitting is still over powered. Does anyone watch an actual game anymore? The not realistic thing is getting so old. If you are complaining that you can't dangle through everyone every play and have every hit you try be a perfect open ice smash, you have no idea what realistic means.
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