I play tested the new patch on BaP as well and I am finding that it is still heavily tied to point production and now also +/- . It’s so frustrating when as a winger I am defending the point D man when we get scored on yet I am getting penalized. Playing your position doesn’t even matter you still get hit with the “Bad line defense” like all years prior. I am also getting scored on every other shift. Even the games where I get a point, I am still -1 or -2 for +/- and will get a 40-60 form score. The games where you play well and not producing offense it is ever so slightly better than pre-patch but not good enough.
For anyone who wants to play realistic hockey on All-Star or Superstar, or for anyone playing a Defense role, form score makes it not fun and has unrealistic criteria to move up to a 3rd line.
xPRODI1GY your are exactly right. that's why I skate all over the place to try and stop the scoring and when they do score, I get 'missed assignment' penalty plus the 'bad line defense' penalty. I complained about that since 24 but they didn't listen to that. I can go from 55% in defense down to 30% when they score just 1 goal. it would take me the rest of the game to get back to 50%.
Apparently this 1 on 2 at our blue line was bad line defense by me: https://youtu.be/MgSiSYJ3QZY?si=-0bdYHGkhIECxr2U
yep. your lucky you just got bad line defense and not that plus 'not covering your man' and 'missed assignment' lol. I was wondering about that earlier today. I was al by myself, since my other Dman decides to skate up with the 3 forwards, when the puck was stolen between the red line and my blue line. I had a 3 on 1 (me being 1). so I skated back and went to the closest man to the goalie. their winger passed it to the center man, who was closing in on the goalie, so I tried to poke check (but missed) and he passed it to the other man I was guarding and they scored. well needless to say I got the missed assignment and bad line defense. who was I supposed to cover? at least I tried.
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