What is EA doing?
It seems the company is purposely self sabotaging their development over the years. It's pretty obvious at this point. The job postings are for lead devs of the game engine and "1 year contracts". ...
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I'm not going to guarantee something will be fixed. It's not unusual to find a last minute issue that delays a fix. Rather than tell everyone X issue is being addressed in the next update, we'll give a statement acknowledging the issue. There have been many times where I said this and they were still fixed in an update. I can't say anything about what's coming until it's been announced. In some cases, we'll mention this early so you'll see that discussed here.
I understand you have a position with only so much oversight and can't guarantee things. I appreciate the acknowledgements. I do not appreciate when the team has months to work on things.
1. LT - Can't hit players unless it's perfectly lined up. Can't stick check them unless it's a perfectly angled sweep check.
Then you get the LT wraparound glitch that neither your computer dmen or goalie will track and it's a goal 90% of the time you're playing div 2 or div 1 players. I have to manually switch to my goalie but it happens very quickly.
There is absolutely no reason for it to be in the game.
https://youtu.be/9idZ-3rKbys?si=HOwsuUpzPaBq2HXw
I outplay my opponent and I lose because of this garbage.
2. Every time I deke and my opponent misses their poke / sweep check. I can't be tripped. Doesn't matter if it's toe drag, between legs, windmill, toe kick, or even a basic holding forehand or backhand. My skate will flop sideways or my leg will lift awkwardly. No trip.
3. Stick lifts. You'll get a penalty when you barely touch your opponent or miss them entirely but when your stick literally goes through them or you hook them. You don't get a penalty most of the time.
4. Manual switching to players needs to be adjusted. I don't care if my player is closer to the puck carrier. I want to switch to a dman and backcheck because a lot of the time my dmen don't move until the opponent is beside them skating faster already. Then it ends up a two on one. Even if you have a NZT set up and conservative offense.
5. Players should not be able to glide around without being able to be knocked off the puck. When I switch to a bigger player, I should be able to deck them easily. If I don't my computer won't do it either. I can set my strategy to aggressive defense but my computers still do nothing.
6. Players shouldn't be able to glitch their stick into the boards or play the puck into the boards without losing possession. That needs to be fixed and it hasn't been fixed ever.
7. Computer forecheck is a toss up. My players will only seem to check my opponent if they're the only one in the offensive zone. The moment I leave they will hit. If I am forechecking with my computer. They do nothing. Same goes for defending. It's rare they will check with the human player.
8. Reverse hitting is broken. You shouldn't be able to reverse hit when you're stick checking or poke checking your opponent with space. On the flip side, hip check should not be an alternative to counter a reverse check at slow speeds.
9. Hip check has been broken for about 3 years. Even the smallest slowest hip check can know the opponent off the puck. Especially in WoC with a small player with low hitting and strength. I do it all the time.
10. Poke checking is too accurate. You can press it multiple times and it doesn't loss effectiveness. I have been told the more you poke check the less accurate it is. You can even poke check accurately without even looking at the puck. I have also asked poke check to be included against non puck carriers. You can take interference calls without the puck. Tripping shouldn't be the exception. Intelligent defending should be a thing.
11. Passing the puck when you're infront of your opponent's goalie. I can place two of my players on both sides of my opponent's goalie and they can manage to pass through my players more than half the time. It should be an easy empty net goal.
12. The menu UI in the game has been absolutely awful for years. It's laggy and it's completely unnecessary to have so much "fancy" animations. Making sets and opening packs is a chore in HUT especially. If I make multiple xfactor / icon packs. I want the option to skip the annoying opening animations. I don't want to sit there for 20 minutes opening multiple packs. The coin animation glitch in HUT has also been there for years. I will be in the middle of a game in intermission and coins get counted from like an hour ago.
13. "Skill based one timers." There is absolutely no skill involved in holding the right stick up when making a pass. It is extremely easy to score from point one timers.
13.1 Puck bounces are predictable when a player shoots blocker side via snap shot or one timer. The puck goes into the down low corner 90% of the time. Allowing your opponent to easily grab the rebound and set up point one timers perpetually. If you preemptively set yourself up down low to get the rebound you still chance putting yourself out of position to make a block.
14. Passing - Icon passing is still not fixed. Passing to players at the point is also needing adjustment. You make a pass without any player in the passing lane and the pass goes no where near your teammate. Then you get to play fetch.
15. Over skating the puck. I have a new controller. I have tested this in online and offline. There are times when you're controlling your player to get the loose puck and your player will just simply skate over the puck or away for no reason.
I could go on but there you have it. Things that need fixing that have been there for multiple years as well.
EA_Aljo
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Community ManagerLT - Can't hit players unless it's perfectly lined up. Can't stick check them unless it's a perfectly angled sweep check.
I have had no problem hitting players doing this. Can you get some video of sweep checks not working?
Every time I deke and my opponent misses their poke / sweep check. I can't be tripped. Doesn't matter if it's toe drag, between legs, windmill, toe kick, or even a basic holding forehand or backhand. My skate will flop sideways or my leg will lift awkwardly. No trip.
I'm only aware of this happening with the between the legs deke. We'll need video of it.
Stick lifts. You'll get a penalty when you barely touch your opponent or miss them entirely but when your stick literally goes through them or you hook them. You don't get a penalty most of the time.
We're aware of hooking calls not happening.
Manual switching to players needs to be adjusted. I don't care if my player is closer to the puck carrier. I want to switch to a dman and backcheck because a lot of the time my dmen don't move until the opponent is beside them skating faster already. Then it ends up a two on one. Even if you have a NZT set up and conservative offense.
We'll need video of this. Personally, I have had no problems with switching players. Especially with manual switching.
Players shouldn't be able to glitch their stick into the boards or play the puck into the boards without losing possession. That needs to be fixed and it hasn't been fixed ever.
While I'm in agreement for the most part, this would make skating along the boards with the puck almost impossible. We have to have clipping to a degree. Otherwise, it would cause limbs to bend in ways that would break them. Hopefully, this improves in time.
Computer forecheck is a toss up. My players will only seem to check my opponent if they're the only one in the offensive zone. The moment I leave they will hit. If I am forechecking with my computer. They do nothing. Same goes for defending. It's rare they will check with the human player.
Can you get some video of this?
Reverse hitting is broken. You shouldn't be able to reverse hit when you're stick checking or poke checking your opponent with space. On the flip side, hip check should not be an alternative to counter a reverse check at slow speeds.
A poke check should still work if you make contact with the puck. If this is happening and no poke is occurring, we'll need video of it.
Hip check has been broken for about 3 years. Even the smallest slowest hip check can know the opponent off the puck. Especially in WoC with a small player with low hitting and strength. I do it all the time.
I would absolutely love to see the hipcheck be less affective.
Poke checking is too accurate. You can press it multiple times and it doesn't loss effectiveness. I have been told the more you poke check the less accurate it is. You can even poke check accurately without even looking at the puck. I have also asked poke check to be included against non puck carriers. You can take interference calls without the puck. Tripping shouldn't be the exception. Intelligent defending should be a thing.
Poke check aims at the puck. So, if it's not timed properly, it's easy to miss. Personally, I don't think it's too accurate. If you're close enough to get poked, you stand a chance of this happening. Protecting the puck better, deking or getting rid of it will evade pokes better.
Passing the puck when you're infront of your opponent's goalie. I can place two of my players on both sides of my opponent's goalie and they can manage to pass through my players more than half the time. It should be an easy empty net goal.
It frequently is an easy empty net goal. Take control of those players and get them in better position. So many people blindly pass the puck out. You can switch to one of your players in front of the net and move them back a bit.
The menu UI in the game has been absolutely awful for years. It's laggy and it's completely unnecessary to have so much "fancy" animations. Making sets and opening packs is a chore in HUT especially. If I make multiple xfactor / icon packs. I want the option to skip the annoying opening animations. I don't want to sit there for 20 minutes opening multiple packs. The coin animation glitch in HUT has also been there for years. I will be in the middle of a game in intermission and coins get counted from like an hour ago.
Agreed.
"Skill based one timers." There is absolutely no skill involved in holding the right stick up when making a pass. It is extremely easy to score from point one timers.
You do have to time it right. You can't just hold up and get a perfect one T. Regardless, I'd like to see these modified so they aren't so affective or easy to do.
Puck bounces are predictable when a player shoots blocker side via snap shot or one timer. The puck goes into the down low corner 90% of the time. Allowing your opponent to easily grab the rebound and set up point one timers perpetually. If you preemptively set yourself up down low to get the rebound you still chance putting yourself out of position to make a block.
Goalies could be better with rebounds. Regardless, this can be countered. If you're facing a lot of shots from the point, anticipate your opponent is going to do this and protect the points better. Intercepting D to D one T's often lead to an easy goal.
Passing - Icon passing is still not fixed. Passing to players at the point is also needing adjustment. You make a pass without any player in the passing lane and the pass goes no where near your teammate. Then you get to play fetch.
Yes. We know about icon passing. I haven't had a big issue with passing to the point when it's aimed right, but the team is aware of the feedback with this.
Over skating the puck. I have a new controller. I have tested this in online and offline. There are times when you're controlling your player to get the loose puck and your player will just simply skate over the puck or away for no reason.
Even when going into a glide? We'll need video of this.
