Hyper agressive UI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dear EA,
Can one of the developers please explain one thing to me? Where have you seen hockey where an average of 30 hits per third (or even 90 hits per game) were scored by an AI-controlled team? Don't get mad at me... maybe I'm being a little harsher now, but getting this game to a state where it's practically unplayable is really the pinnacle. I understand and I'm used to you laughing at us customers and players every year with a supposedly "new" game with "new" features and improvements and ignoring old problems that most of the community points out and still being able to charge full price for a defacto roster update + a few new problems.... as I say, I'm used to you making us idiots. But for you to be able to make me (us) hate playing hockey like this by constantly being chased by AI players the entire game, who have only one goal and that is to destroy me, is really the pinnacle. Does anyone test the game before releasing it, or before you patch it? Do you even take into account the feedback of fans and therefore customers or do you just ignore it? (I think I can answer that myself...). As someone pointed out here, adjusting the aggression sliders to 0, I repeat to 0, doesn't solve anything, maybe it reduces it a little, but it's still unrealistic and frustrating. The funny thing is that you still force us to balance the game ourselves by adjusting the sliders, as if it's not your problem :D :D. I think I'll speak for most of us offline players, that we don't care if we can create a hockey player in excessive detail, adjust the colors of the jerseys, etc. The most important thing for us is that the game is balanced and, above all, playable. I recently came across a similar post in the community that is 6 months old and one of you replied that it's being worked on.... 6 months and nothing, are you serious? Are you kidding me?
In case you didn't understand what I'm talking about, I'll write down here in points the main problem that makes the game an unplayable battle (I won't mention the other problems that the game has and are no less frustrating, because as I wrote, you're screwed if these mistakes are still the same for several years)
Hyper aggressive AI - the only intention of the AI is to take down those players. It's common that when I have the puck, three AI players are able to chase me all over the field until they just completely take me down... Even on my own half, when I want to give my teammates a moment to offer themselves well for a pass, I'm constantly being chased by an AI opponent who simply wants to "kill" me. But we don't stop there... the AI is hyper-aggressive even towards my teammates who don't hold the puck at all... in other words, if I want to create something and lock the opponent in his third, and try to create a chance to shoot and score with passes, I defacto have no chance, because within a few seconds the AI opponent will pointlessly take down all my teammates and finally the only player who is still standing is me with the puck (not for long, because in a while the whole AI five will come after me again to take me down too).
Since I don't expect to get an explanation, it is quite possible that you will delete this post, but I would like to at least return to my original question, which you could perhaps answer, which is: "Where have you seen such hyper-aggressive hockey?"
Aren't you really stupid to release a game in such a state and not even fix it after more than half a year? Don't you have any conscience or self-preservation instinct? Probably not... especially since sheep buy the game every year and the rest is not our problem.
Maybe the fault is ours and when developing the game you are inspired by some matches that we ordinary fans don't watch... suffice it to say... in the end the fault is ours. But I've never seen a hockey match like that before.
