Speed boost and charging penalty
I am a skill stick player. With the introduction of total control, which I think is a joke, I still managed to stay on skill stick. I know that EA needs to get more players but by giving them dekes, ...
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With total control you just push circle on PS5 and the player will automatically aim at the opponent.
This is absolutely 100% not true. You need to aim the body check with LS. Pressing Circle is a 'shove' and not a full body check. Holding and releasing Circle is a full shoulder/body check. These still need to be aimed and timed correctly to be impactful. Some of you are developing this belief that Total Control = automatically aiming body checks and one-button push means 100% successful Lacrosse goals all the time. Completely not true at all. These things still take time, space - and skill to assess the situation to the point you can execute these moves without interference.
when you press circle you get significant speed boost and you can charge from all the rink and still won’t get a charging penalty.
Also 100% not true. Currently, you can press body check while accelerating and the body check animation overrides the acceleration stride animation. The body check animation should absolutely negate acceleration speed - this is absolutely true. But what's not true at all is that hitting body check while accelerating gives you an actual boost in speed. It doesn't.
It's the exact same scenario as the current 'LT issue' that people claim gives players a boost; it doesn't. At all. However, initiating LT while skating laterally does negate lateral skating animations that would otherwise impede speed & acceleration giving the impression a player is accelerating. But they're not. You're just expecting them to lose speed when LTing (which they should) and the illusion is that they're gaining speed.
Please don't take this as me saying this is how it should be. I'm not saying that at all. I'm just saying how it currently works. This does not mean I endorse how it works. Just trying to give a better understanding.
if you try too slip a check you could draw elbowing penalties not all the time but at least you could
You can't draw a penalty like this. A penalty is a probability response. A player executing a body check has a certain probability they'll trigger a penalty sequence based on their discipline rating, current stride, speed and trajectory - etc.
There is no mechanic to 'slip' a body check, so claiming it draws elbowing penalties doesn't make sense.
The only true way to 'draw' a penalty in this game is to LT with the puck, causing the probability of a trip from an errant poke check to rise considerably.
.there is zero skill in pushing a button
Every action in this game is a button push.
I didn't say they're was a mechanic to slip a check, but if you did try to avoid a check by either trying to stride deke or just turning, sometime it would draw a penalty.....and since you mentioned no mechanic for slipping a check the new skating mechanic actually does help kind of slip checks
