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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To be fair, even on FIFA the goalkeepers are bad. It's tough for sports games to nail. Make them too OP and everyone skillzones, make them like NHL 23 which was non existent and the goal count goes up to 15 lol.
My biggest issue is height being too much of a factor. 67 Boyko will outperform a 95 Hasek. Makes literally no sense.
I don't have the experience playing as a goaltender, but they are too much at the mercy of X-Factors, screening is too wide (and they don't look around them properly), the covering animations are horrendous (and poorly timed), the poke checks (computer goaltender) are predictable and can be taken advantage of, they give up terrible rebounds too often (professional goaltenders at least attempt to deflect pucks to the corner), scrambles are too frequent and the goaltender tires too easily, own goals or the goaltender knocking the puck into his own net are way too frequent as well.
That's one big messy paragraph of some of the things that need to be looked at off the top of my head.
https://www.xbox.com/play/media/NKHqMmFWpE
This is what needs to be eliminated from the game. Relatively simple wrist shot that nails the goalie in the logo. Instead of being able to calmly gather the puck, the goalie plays hacky sack with the puck like he's Freddie Prinze Jr in 'She's All That' before knocking the puck into his own net.
