Get out of here. High percentage... When a team is obvious with it, they are scoring absolute beach balls from anywhere. In the corner behind the goal on a back hand with no momentum and not even facing goal? No problem. At the blue line on a backhand facing away from goal while skating away from a check? No problem.
God forbid they're actually able to face the goal and shoot, that's 99% going in against illegitimate teams.
To the White Knight or Cheater trying to run interference and claim that coincidentally higher ranked teams tend to be more skilled - please - everyone knows that the higher you go in the ranks of ANY game these days - the higher the percentage of cheating - Top tiers of ANY ONLINE GAME right now is infested with cheaters.
Honestly I'm not sure what your argument is, that there is ZERO cheating in NHL - Or any game? - Obviously cheating exists in every online game - Even something like Valorant with absolutely obsessed Devs. Are you trying to claim NHL is somehow immune to this with the ABSOLUTELY ZERO effort made to combat cheating? Get real.
I posted a most recent clip in another thread I started showing a team that was just body checking our goalie out of the net all game just to really rub it in. I chose this clip because any other clip I show, some white knight or cheater can just say, well that's RNG, or some other nonsense.
The real problem is that if community managers are out here running interference and trying to gaslight on the issue, then we can all save our money on 26, because we know they are part of the problem that will keep things exactly as they are. And how they are is the dwindling of NHL and fair online play.
Anyway. It's up to the DEVS at the end of the day. Do something about it, or watch the game continue to turn to dust. If you want to kill it off, keep doing nothing like you have been. You have people that have been gaming since the franchise started trying to give you honest feedback, and you're deciding on this course of action as a response. So be it.
I don't want to dog-pile here, but if you're running into people you think are cheating, post the video.
I've never seen in-game cheating. People taking advantage of meta weaknesses in the AI goalies? Sure. Bad bounces? Yup. Terrible goals because the AI goalie temporarily loses their mind? Absolutely. All frustrating, but nothing approaching cheating. Even with things like skating and hitting, I've never seen anything that could only be explained by cheating. Exploiting bugs in the game to create unrealistic skating or hitting? Yes, but nothing that would indicate anything else.
The only thing I've ever seen in EASHL I'd consider cheating is the goalie-pull spam disconnect exploit and that was a long time ago.
Very likely I’m wrong here but is there not some kinda way to call a timeout at a certain time and have it screw up the other persons energy? Just a yes or no is good as I’d rather not advertise it here if it still exists. That’s really the only thing I’d classify as cheating cause if I remember correctly it needed to be timed properly. Obviously not a big deal as you only get the one time out and would probably only be used if your losing but as far as cheating, that’s the only thing I could consider even a possibility
