Community ManagerThe game is a puzzle meant to be tried and proven, its not an answer book. Too many people are used to the old way of games, where you picked it up and new A did this, B did that. Games are so much more complicated these days, if you weren't intercepting passes with maxed out defensive awareness, you should be trying other things. That is the fun in trial and error, creating multiple builds, figuring out all the little intricacies that are built into a game like this. These things were solvable to those willing to put in the work, or ask the right questions. EA_Aljo knows how many questions I've asked 😂. Even the best games of all time were puzzles, Zelda for one. Keep expanding your horizons and never stop questioning everything. Its worth it.
FourZeroVI sports games are mostly simulation unless fully said they are arcade. thus they are also a teaching tool. so for player creation for new players the mystery should be finding out strategy to beat the traps, 1-2-2, breaking into Ozone, breakouts, not the general understanding of how their player works. that is counter intuitive and painful for any new player. if you say using the same example PUCK CONTROL is to control the puck but then the stat doesn't control it, but defensive awareness does. I agree there should always be mystery in progression but not at the detriment of making broken player builds for any game mode BAP, ONLINE or selecting players for your franchise. again this is a simulation game not a roguelike or souls like RPG where the intent is 1 v 1 or 1 v many. sports always come with explanations of concepts and how they should be applied.
See that's not how I understood defensive awareness, defensive awareness to me was being aware while the other team has possession, so this included who has the puck, how fast your reaction was to those people and what they did, which then included being ready faster to intercept a pass. I also had always hypothesized that hand eye came into play when looking to intercept saucer passes which based on the release today is true. Puck control always by definition felt like it would affect all types of puck control so when I ran high puck control and high defensive awareness and high hand eye and was picking off passes left and right, I knew I was onto something. None of this was really hidden in my mind, just never stated definitively. Maybe I'm a little proud of myself that I was correct on a lot of things, but I also enjoy puzzles of this type where I get to see my trial and error pay off. In addition, people are blind to any advice that isnt their own, as a goalie who had information like this, I spent countless days trying to convince my own team to trust my research only to be basically laughed at so I'm enjoying the release of information I have known for about 2 years now.
Feel free to check out the report I made on CPU players, maybe youll find something useful there as well. I put some work into it. :)
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