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4432bnp2uqno's avatar
4432bnp2uqno
Seasoned Newcomer
3 days ago

Fix the Goalies

Why do the AI goalies suck so bad year after year? I shouldn't have to turn sliders all the way up and make my goalie super human just to be able to make a **bleep** save.

4 Replies

  • AI has been slogging behind humans for over a decade now; We've had multiple tech changes (hitting, skating, awareness, etc.), that only help widen this gap further.

    At this point we need a complete overhaul from the ground up (this needed to happen at PS5's launch too - they ditched last gen for pretty much no reason so far). 

  • xsaw2121's avatar
    xsaw2121
    New Adventurer
    2 days ago

    You know every year they tell this many anime animations or this many new animations and every year we end up in the same spot the goalies are dreadful they were dreadful in the beta they're dreadful now. Until ea is willing to admit there's an issue with the goaltening in this game they're never going to fix it unfortunately and it doesn't help that this game is just loaded with different glitch goals all the way back to NHL 14 really and in their marketing material they towed oh the goalies are better this year no they're not if anything they're probably gotten worse because you've ended up speeding up the players how they move on the actual ice itself which is nice cuz they move a little more realistically now the problem is you've left the goalies to basically hang out to dry because you give them no extra tools except flopping around like chickens with their heads cut off essentially so really have you fixed anything or have you made the game worse you probably made the game a lot worse unfortunately and that's just EA that's just a company they are now I think we just have to come to accept that

  • not just compy G but player G as well. they are even worse than compy G. but they won't do anything to fix it because goals sell the game. nevermind they are hindering half of the players on the ice. 

  • EA_Aljo's avatar
    EA_Aljo
    Icon for Community Manager rankCommunity Manager
    8 hours ago

    Thanks for the feedback. Can you give me some more details?

    What are you seeing as glitch goals? Meaning, goals that are scored due to a bug in the game. I'm not talking about shots from high percentage scoring areas, but ones you have to use an exploit/bug to score.

    Can you get some video showing the goalie behavior you'd like addressed?

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