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.
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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
EA_Aljo
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Community ManagerThanks 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?
here you go 18 second mark. it's a high scoring area but why does my guy scrunch up? this animation is causing so many goals to go in this year.
i want to be clear i'm not upset that they scored, this goal can happen. i'm upset at HOW it's scored. this animation is terrible and no goalie shrinks up during a shot.
- EA_Aljo
I'm not seeing the video. Can you link it for me?
weird it's now telling me the clip was deleted... i'll see if i can grabe another.
If I may step in here and kind of bring a little light on this whole issue the issues go back all the way to NHL 15 essentially the glitches have been the same if you go back and read the forms over the years you'll see them they have never been addressed we've been told they being address in plenty of different marketing material but it's never come to light in the actual game and now that you guys have sped up the players and made them more athletic sort of speak. the goalie have become worse because they moved too slow the goalies need to be sped up to be able to keep up with the pace of the game even user goalies and the AI goalies are just they're either absolutely spectacular or they can't stop a puck if their life depended on it there has to be some sort of middle ground to be reached here where the goalies are a little bit more consistent especially the AI like in many games I've played online so far in the world of Chel it's either the goalies or goalie standing on his head or he's giving up seven goals on seven shots with really no answer because he's just coming out of his net and flopping all around the place and not really playing goalie. I will also add that a lot of the animations that the goalies have are very out of date they look like goalies from the 1980s and some of the animations the whole goaltending programming in NHL needs to be reworked essentially from the ground up to have any chance of fixing this problem but again it's just an opinion and it's mine alone so there you go
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