Hitting needs some improvement.
The hitting needs more aim assist so we get less cheesy miss animations. It's too easy to avoid hits skating straight at an opponent but simply turning your body negates the hit. It doesn't feel righ...
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Yep, it still feels like the last game where everyone just abused EE and twirled around in circles. Now that they've removed it from WoC people are just using 94-95 agility and stopping on a dime in the slot or puck-protecting through hit animations, just like EE did, wow isn't that crazy! We played a team already where both forwards did nothing but the spin move animation repeatedly and they were completely un-hittable during the animation, just sliding past 2-3 people hitting them at the same time. That club was already 48-1 abusing it.
I'm not saying bring back speed boost hitting but even the total control hipchecks lock on more than the traditional body checks. What I see now is even more hipchecks spammed and ppl spamming poke checks to defend.
This game will get boring quickly because the growing trend already is to offensive zone ragg the puck because we can't be hit.
This game would be perfect with NHL 23 hitting mechanics, this time timed hitting has been a giant fail.
Maybe it's because I only play 1v1 modes but I'm totally against anything that would urge the devs to bring back speed boost hitting. NO. THANKS.
I've had no trouble hitting dudes who are in a position to be hit. It's just more realistic now such that you can't bail yourself out by turning into a heat-seeking missile and rocketing at the puck-carrier even though you're beat.
Let's leave it how it is for at least a month and see what kinds of clips we're getting. Also, if you're having serious instances of puck-ragging/hits not working, why not post those clips to this forum so that we can discuss them?
I don't want speed boost hitting. I want hitting that works not twisting my hip while the guy is lining me up for a hit and then he goes right around me.
I wouldn't worry I don't feel that hitting is truly in a bad place. Sure players can shrug off some hits kind of easy in some situations that they might stumble/lose balance but don't. Most assume it's a hitting problem but I believe it's more of a skater balance/bubble type problem in a way. My hitting is actually up quite a bit this year to around 4-5 per games where as last year I barely average 1-2 per game.
