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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@SummerOfDekesGoalies is by far the hardest thing to get right if ever. If the same shots were to never go in then goalies would be godlike. The problem is the simple routine ones also get mixed into that RNG and cause these problems. My personal fav goal against is the one where they shoot it from along the boards and the goalie simply doesn't react at all to the puck on the ice. And I blame a bunch of the goals on set animations. If we could get separate limb movement it could be awesome, but also very hard to program I would imagine and make look realistic. I'm not a fan of the goalies getting "tired" and I really hate the fall on their rears animation when it's simply not needed at all.
I do think goalies have gotten so much better in robbing people side to side and stopping breakaways more often when reading the side they are going to properly. At least human wise they have.
@KlariskraysNHL Set animations definitely play a big role. I also suspect that there's a fixed number of shot locations as well. Every year there seems to be a different set of shot + save animation pairs that happen way too often.
Back in NHL 22 this save was a common occurrence. Cross-ice pass and the goalie would make a desperation save with the shaft of his stick. Something that would be a once-a-season highlight reel save in the NHL was happening every two or three games in NHL 22:
In NHL 24 what I'm noticing a lot lately is the number of goals where the goalie gets just a piece of the puck with the edge of his blocker. It's something that's not out of the ordinary as a one-off, but when it happens multiple times a game, every game it starts to stand out as artificial. I don't have a clip, but I'm sure I could get a few next time I play.
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