Initial Trailer Impressions

thebrazenhead75 take ANY IQ or awareness system that they create with a GIANT grain of salt. Years ago they added a goalie awareness system so that they would be aware of where the puck was and different dangers of incoming offensive threats.. there were hundreds of videos posted of a puck sitting right in front of a goalie and an offensive player coming in and slapping it past the goalie because the goalie was seemingly unaware of both where the puck was and the threat of the incoming threat. Idk how many times the AI has been updated and people just skate right on past them or do 1 of a few diff inputs to make the cpu freeze. I actually prefer poor A.I. in WoC because I want people to seek out humans and you should be punished for playing with a cpu in a mode made to play with humans but in every other mode they should be decent. I feel like hockey A.I. shouldn't be as difficult as they make it seem. I feel like with some of the A.i. they try too hard. The CPU instantly reacts to button presses which can give the cpu a huge advantage vs poor/ new players but a huge disadvantage vs experienced players because they use that ability to exploit them. Quick inputs before passing an A.i. d man or going in vs a goalie are easy exploits. It's like playing a football game on the hardest difficulty (they often know what play you're running) call a run up the middle in a heavy set like Maryland I but then take it outside and the hardest difficulty will blitz the gap the play was supposed to go so you can easily get yards on the outside. An experienced player finds these exploits but new players or players who try to play the game correctly will struggle. The A.I. is so good at some stuff that it's bad if that makes sense. It becomes predictable. A.i. needs to have thresholds or slight behavior lag.