Issues with the AI "balance"
The in-game AI feels as though its consistently manipulating gameplay in ways that break immersion and fairness, tilting matches in its own favor. Instead of providing a fair challenge, these behavio...
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EA_Aljo No, I was playing through the wildcard event and from what I remember, I was bringing it out from behind the net with Seguin to start my cycle but the pass bugged out and gave me possession in time to get crushed. I think I was gonna send it low on the other when the guy on the blueline got it? Not sure exactly.
As for the Reinhart issue, no I didnt think to hit the share button and consistently forget it can go back a few minutes😅, the cards were both red so it didnt register immediately until I couldnt find him as a forward for my lineup but had an 89 Andersson Capt available in my defensemen, but I've already burned a bunch of cards to make 5 McDavids to make another Sam Reinhart Captain card🤷♂️
EA_Aljo
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Community ManagerThanks for the details. Unfortunately, we can't do anything about either of those. We'll have to wait and see if we get other reports. Definitely let me know if they happen again and try to get a video. Appreciate it!
EA_Aljo how does this game get regular updates, and each one proceeds to make the game feel progressively worse and throw the idea of "competitive play" out the window? The AI are absolutely ABYSMAL when you are playing in the defensive zone, hustling from their zone to the back of my net with no stamina loss while player cost seems ONCE AGAIN amplified even worse than prior, as keeping pace with that same AI will leave me drained way before the corner... poke checking is atrocious both in accuracy and power, if I'm the slightest bit off in either I'm getting absolutely dogwalked ALL game. And the AI suddenly skating into walls and then backwards to avoid incovenient bodychecks is getting beyond old and is mentally tiring at this point, I can literally switch players, hold the body check button and with no change in movement the AI starts stutter-stepping and changes pathing to keep you "just out of range" at all times. I don't get how over the course of an update, It feels like having to relearn defensive spacing and positioning just about every time something is tweaked. Given the odd chance to actually achieve my intended defensive maneuver (body or stick check) theres always a "convenient change in trajectory" and the puck just drop or flies directly to another.
What point does contributing clips and context to the issues experienced with the game actually hold? Like, what explicitly needs to be shown, to show that the issues experienced in this game are worthy of significant changes from the ground up so it can start remotely scratching the surface of resembling the sport? My intent with the whole initial post was to hopefully contribute to adding constructive criticism that would help improve the game, yet it consistently goes in the opposite way and feels worse the more they "improve it"
- EA_Aljo
Player fatigue didn't change with the update.
Seeing video examples helps understand exactly what you're experiencing and what the AI are doing.Player fatigue doesnt have to be the only source though, you could achieve the same effect if you give attributes more weight causing endurance to burn faster or not last as long, there would be more to it than 1 adjustment to keep a similar feel but, hypothetically, if attribute effect in september were say 2/10 importance and it slowly increased from there, it would explain why even "the same player" never "feels the same" after updates even though you're not adjusting fatigue, not saying this is the case but its also not as simple as "player fatigue didnt change" because it can be felt, this new seasons skating feels like you're trying to skate a slush covered street with no ice. But its hard to explain, if you're pushing a specific player up the boards into the offensive zone, depending on something not obvious to the player, stamina burn can go from half to empty in 3 steps over the blueline, whereas 99/100 other times I could drag it down behind the net and still have ¼ to ⅓ stamina left to cycle or make a play and I cant record stamina meters in instant replay🤷♂️ so its not like I can give clean examples of what "does/doesn't feel natural". Its just "odd games" where things feel totally one sided. As a player, a stick lift requires a bit of patience to obtain possession after the check, but in the last day alone, AI consistently gain possession faster not just after checking my stick, but even when I successfully do it, I'm having to wait for the player to get possession before I can leave(I can physically leave, it would just be without the puck) which is impossible without getting yours lifted 3 or 4 times. It makes net front battles insufferable on defense because the AI can shove poke and lift in a crowd with seemingly perfect accuracy which leaves my defenders hunting the puck like headless chicken while the AI either; wins the race to the puck, or lifts the stick on a defender who just touched it, made me switch to and now lost it because it stopped for a hair while I took over🤷♂️ and thats not even talking about the penalties youll take if youre wrong
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