@6hpy2hzsfzas I'd have to watch your game play to see why you're losing to lower rated teams but I suspect you play loser against them than the higher rated teams. Probably taking more chances too and getting caught out of position.
Your complaint is on the 10,000' level and you just can't disseminate from that large a breadth. As I posted above, you have to look closer at what you're playing against.
Generally speaking, the higher rated teams I've come across have been built with smaller more skilled players easy to knock around. The low 80OVR teams and below are built with more TWF and PWF and can match the size of TBs and tougher to knock around. The build on the lower rated cards are also wildly out of balance. They can still have high rated stats in key attributes and be nerfed in others.
The ToW squad is not balanced and you're only playing against 1 maybe 2 lines at each end of the ice. Once the top 6 FWDs & D-pair leave the ice, the other lines are fairly easy to beat if you don't make mistakes. I think the current ToW is a 92. Sounds like a powerhouse but look at the stats and you see you're playing against items with mid to low 80s in the key attributes. It's also rare that it has the more valuable Synergies activated where many players build teams with low rated cards to do just that.
I’m sure it’ll be an unpopular opinion, but I think this year’s game just doesn’t feed the “win every game” mentality that prior year games did. I feel like you can kinda tell by us only being at 89’s on weekly sets. Weren’t we at 91-92s in years past? Makes every single stat variance that much more important. It’s not just about speed, but strategy. And if you run into a team whose strategy is a perfect match to yours, it can end badly. I could also be very very wrong hahahahaha.
that said, my biggest pet peeve is going for a one time or going to shoot, getting knocked off the puck and my shooting motion then becoming a checking motion netting me an interference penalty. Happens at least once a game. Meh, oh well!
@nyr62 wrote:I’m sure it’ll be an unpopular opinion, but I think this year’s game just doesn’t feed the “win every game” mentality that prior year games did. I feel like you can kinda tell by us only being at 89’s on weekly sets. Weren’t we at 91-92s in years past? Makes every single stat variance that much more important. It’s not just about speed, but strategy. And if you run into a team whose strategy is a perfect match to yours, it can end badly. I could also be very very wrong hahahahaha.
that said, my biggest pet peeve is going for a one time or going to shoot, getting knocked off the puck and my shooting motion then becoming a checking motion netting me an interference penalty. Happens at least once a game. Meh, oh well!
these penalties are so tiresome. no reason for them and they make no sense half the time.
Couldn’t agree more!
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@Jeff_frm_Edmond s To a friend in one thread here I posted a video of how a 72 value silver player totally nailed my 88 Josi. So what was so special about him that he destroyed him like that.???
https://www.xbox.com/play/media/bQZzQPiLkS
We really need to see the build of the "72" card but it's clear Josi is off balance performing a deke and anyone could really blow him up there.
As I stated earlier, the AI will be near perfect when playing Squads on Superstar.
@Jeff_frm_Edmonds Another win against the 92 Featured Squad. I scored 5 goals on 16 shots. I posted videos of 2 of the goals. My question to you is what does it has to do with tactics and player ratings? I just put the puck to the net. I was the first one surprised when I scored these 2 goals.
That looks to be Brett Hull on goal 1, correct?
If so, he's known to have a pretty good shot. His Gallery of Greats is 99 shot with Sniper FWD & Shooting Boost active (95 without) and his PUI can go to 95. I don't remember the goalie in that game but sniping far side off the rush is one of the popular goals in NHL games and with a SNP like Hull should be pretty successful, especially if you can add some Abilities on him like Gold Shnipe on the GoG card.
2nd goal looked to be tipped. if not, the goalie is screened by the player in the circle. That also looked to be Bobby Orr and if you have Heatseeker on that's an automatic goal. I toss Heatseeker on all my D-men and that's one of my go to plays.
I know there are players that are good enough on the sticks to do that with Base cards but pretty sure the majority of players need cards like GoG Hull & Orr and their stats & abilities to score goals like that. If more people could do that with Base cards they would.
