Revert The Goalie Update
It's time to admit you had no idea what you were doing when you made the AI goalies dumber, the game is somehow in even worse shape afterwords. The AI goalies now let in everything from everywhere, ...
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Goalies in this game are just miserable. You can just skate inside the blue line and throw the puck on net and there's a good chance you'll score.
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In what world should a goalie ever have this much trouble with a weak wrist shot from the blue line that's COMPLETELY UNSCREENED?
@EA_Aljo this is embarrassing.
EA_Aljo
Community Manager
Community ManagerWe're aware of the feedback on goalies as well as how they're playing so hopefully, we'll see changes in the future. Also, while they are obviously letting in some weak goals, the examples you provided aren't going to happen with every shot. They're also saving a high amount of shots from the points. I see more good goals scored than weak ones. Still though, it's always frustrating to have shots that seemingly should be saved end up in the back of the net.
@EA_Aljo wrote:We're aware of the feedback on goalies as well as how they're playing so hopefully, we'll see changes in the future. Also, while they are obviously letting in some weak goals, the examples you provided aren't going to happen with every shot. They're also saving a high amount of shots from the points. I see more good goals scored than weak ones. Still though, it's always frustrating to have shots that seemingly should be saved end up in the back of the net.
Yes, of course not every single one of those shots is going to go in, but the point is that I can go into practice mode one on one with the goalie and throw unscreened, weak wrist shots from the blue line and put a good number of pucks past the goalie. That shouldn't happen. In real life, when you see plays like that, it's because you looked up "worst NHL goals ever" on YouTube. Those kinds of horrendous goals happen rarely in the NHL, but we see them all the time in this game.
The goalies are either not good enough, or the skaters are way too strong. I mean, the build I used in those examples has about 83 wrister accuracy and 85 wrister power. Why should those shots be going in at all?
- EA_Aljo
Why shouldn't those shots go in though? These are still supposed to represent professional players. Just because they have a score in the 80s doesn't mean they shouldn't be allowed to score.
@EA_Aljo wrote:Why shouldn't those shots go in though? These are still supposed to represent professional players. Just because they have a score in the 80s doesn't mean they shouldn't be allowed to score.
Because it's an unscreened shot from a mile away? Any pro goalie who let in those kinds of shots would quickly be unemployed.
Just to be clear, there's a reason why pro hockey teams fight so hard to protect the net front and middle slot while conceding point shots. It's because point shots aren't dangerous by themselves. Point shots are really only dangerous when there's a screen or deflection. If neither of those two things are happening, as is the case in my clips, then those shots are the easiest thing in the world for goalies to deal with. And, yet, here we are where the goalies in NHL 24 are falling over themselves in sheer terror of weak wrist shots from the blue line with no screen.
