Teammate AI
Ok, so I’m hoping this works. Mind you the reason these videos are long is because I was streaming, I kind of wish they were recorded with my voice at the time because you’ll see subtle slo-mo happen because I’ll be explaining something on stream. I hope the devs see this and can help explain while I try and explain each clip.
Clip 1: https://twitter.com/boredjason/status/1709326037329301688?s=46&t=VDcTiKkgVNHIhpeMzhe1jg
In this clip with the faceoff win I bring the defenseman down and around behind the net to start a break. I have a problem with the AI of the center in this situation. Mind you the only change of strategy I had changed was I really dislike the “close support” so it is now as “stay wide”. Why is it that the center Pageau goes around to the LD spot while the LD is still in the vicinity? Also in the break I’m hoping that Pageau will start going up the ice on the break with all that open space and he just stops??? Thankfully the pass goes to Lee and isn’t intercepted but it just kind of kills the whole breakout. Is there a way to get the center to start to break off the faceoff win?
Clip 2: https://twitter.com/boredjason/status/1709330439897243698?s=46&t=VDcTiKkgVNHIhpeMzhe1jg
In this clip I’m confused how I tried to hold the Coyote player to the boards and even tried to push them and neither thing happened. As the replay continues you see the Coyote player who starts behind Pulock beat Pulock to the puck (ok, I’ll play along sometimes a player can sneak around another if they have more speed in a scenario). But then HOW does Pulock get control of the puck?? Because I’m getting beat to the puck I try and make Pulock push off said Coyote player but because I gain control through and behind the Coyote player, Pulock somehow on the backhand (with more power than a normal clear) YEET’s the puck down the ice. I don’t know how Pulock’s backhand gets down the ice so accurately to the goalie but that somehow saves the icing haha. I’m still confused on how that happened, maybe someone can explain how Pulock gets the puck there.
Clip 3: https://twitter.com/boredjason/status/1709330692688040409?s=46&t=VDcTiKkgVNHIhpeMzhe1jg
Romanov vs Keller. In all my years of playing a game, I don’t know how to better positionally play defense than this and yet Keller without skipping a beat in one fluid motion pokes the puck off of Romanov’s stick from behind him, to getting in front with speed and away to steal the puck, to turning and scoring an absolute beaut of a goal. How does Romanov lose the puck when he’s got full body positioning on Keller? I know I’m real life Keller is quick but not that quick that he could do that all in one motion. I wish there was audio on that clip because myself and the chat during the stream articulated it so much better.
Clip 4: https://twitter.com/boredjason/status/1709331213771489349?s=46&t=VDcTiKkgVNHIhpeMzhe1jg
Again like previous clip 1, I’m concerned about the speed of a break with the center up the ice, but here it works ok. My biggest concern is how the RW & LW (Barzal and Wahlstrom) are on top of each other the whole time going into the zone. Then this is where it gets even more fun and I lose it on the game, I pass to LD. From what I then wanted to do was a tic tac toe pass from LD to RD to LW for the one timer because I feel I could get a good shot off from that high, maybe have a nice rebound opportunity if it goes wide. Instead I got my RD pointing to PASS to the LW which takes him out of the play and instead forces the game to pass to the RW who is clearly out of the play, in the corner behind two Coyotes. Even though I’m trying to select the pass to my RD the puck goes to the RW because the RD is in a dumb animation that doesn’t have offensive awareness? Mind you the RD in this situation is Pelech who is rated at 84 O awareness. What is the fix in a scenario like that? I’m truly baffled.
Please EA, I love hockey, I’ve played this game for years but the quality of this game keeps going down. EA said they fixed teammate AI but under the strategies that EA has in the game it just feels like every player is constantly confused. Please I wish someone from the dev team could explain why and how this is happening in these clips. Apologies for these being twitter links as it’s the quickest way for me to get them uploaded
