Community ManagerI absolutely get what you're saying. I'm just mentioning how I personally resolved this. I would prefer to have the old controls back myself.
I know I’m going to be in the minority but I absolutely love the new puck control. It has really cleaned up the gameplay. Gone are the days of abusing it to pop around in the corners. As for the issue the OP is having there is a very simple fix. Stop clicking the LS when you start deking. Or embrace the protect puck and finish the goal off of it.
@Big_E_Bronco50 wrote:I know I’m going to be in the minority but I absolutely love the new puck control. It has really cleaned up the gameplay. Gone are the days of abusing it to pop around in the corners. As for the issue the OP is having there is a very simple fix. Stop clicking the LS when you start deking. Or embrace the protect puck and finish the goal off of it.
I'm with you on this. Not sure why it's so difficult to not click RS while executing a deke.
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@KidShowtime1867 wrote:
I'm with you on this. Not sure why it's so difficult to not click RS while executing a deke.
Yep. As much as I tried, I just couldn't stop clicking it. It drove me crazy. I'm comfortable now with moving those functions to the paddles, but still wish I could just have the old controls back. Except protect puck. I'm glad that was moved.
In my experience, it depends on the wear on your particular controller. On my standard Xbox controller, the sticks wear down to the point where just breathing on the right stick causes it to click.
Not a huge issue if you have a controller that has button mapping. On my Gamesir G7 SE, I just mapped the right stick to do nothing when pressed.
@SummerOfDekesAre you talking of protect puck or reverse hit? Because R3 has nothing to do with protect puck, it's L3 that's proccing it + the right stick to protect left or right (while holding down L3).
Clicking R3 (with the puck) is for reverse hit....and without the puck + aiming a direction, it does a puck chop which can be very handy at times.
@Big_E_Bronco50The problem is not the puck protect in itself...but the fact that you can't either use the puck protect OR stick handles when you click L3. Not clicking on L3 is not a fix...Sometimes you are not really given the choices to use it or not when pressured, need to rush between two players or need to gain some distances from a opponents. And when I do so, I dont want to be forced in protect puck everytime agaisnt my will.
Even though the old protect puck was exploited and abused, I was able to chose which one to use depending on the situation. Not anymore.
If we all had elite controller like Aljo with paddles, we could move the puck protect proc/modifier to a paddle and everyting would be perfect, but we cant with the normal controller. I know they wont bring it back to B unless they make some major adjustement to avoid the abuse again. But at least give the option to deactivate it. It's not like some of us are asking the impossible.
The way you choose which one is literally by clicking or not clicking LS. You can still choose. Just need some stick discipline.
@Big_E_Bronco50The point is you should be able to use either puck protect or stick handles when you speed up by clicking L3, not 100% forced into puck protect...Like it has ever been before.
Clicking L3 is a choice (to some degree) but also a poor excuse to leave a bad mechanic/buttons combo in place they introduced this year. When you're forced to use the hustle to get away of whatever situations because, yes it happens several times through out a game, it's not so much of a choice anymore...and yet I want to be free to use my stick the way I WANT....not the way the game decided to for me. Pretty straightforward to understand.
The real choice is to use stick handles or protect puck whether or not I'm using L3 (hustle).
If they are allowing to remap puck protect to paddles for thoses with elite controller....then damn, I'll be buying an elite controller specifically for this. 😩
