NHL 26 BaP AI Feedback
I cant imagine how the devs haven't managed to fix teammate AI. They are completely useless in BAP. You essentially have to do everything. The only thing they are half decent at is shooting.
For at least 6 years now your teammates just skate directly into the defence on the rush 9/10 times they just give up the puck without even trying to avoid the defender. And that's being generous.
Meanwhile on defence your teammates let the attacker skate through them every time. They can't clear the puck. They will hold onto it if anyone is close to them, and this year I have noticed they also make terrible passes up the middle to get intercepted.
I could live with all this to be honest, but in BAP they also punish your defensive score no matter how little fault of yours it is that they scored.
Example: it was about halfway through the game. I was trying to have a good two way game. I was playing the wing. Recovered pucks, blocked shots, made hits. Had a pretty decent rating even without scoring. Then McDavid skates around 4 of my teammates clumped together in the middle of the ice, breakaway, goal. Now my defensive score is below 50%. Because of one play, I was not responsible for.
It is so hard to get your defensive score up. Even if your team scores when you're on the ice to give you a plus. Don't matter. You better score 4 points a game or else you'll have a bad rating.
When it comes to be a pro. Do less, please. Yall are bad at making video games. So just give us a be a pro where you can start in juniors. Don't have terrible cheesy conversations, don't have AI voiced press conferences. Don't have energy and health levels. Don't treat us as a special player where every arbitrary choice we make in conversations effect our teammates perception of us. Don't make it a story, because you all write like it's a rushed high-school project. Please do less. Let us just dump points where we want them, don't make any resource management mini game that is so poorly thought out it is broken.
Say what you want about "pricey pond hockey" but when we have this new be a pro for another 5 years, this will be much more hated.
Edit: Modified the title to better reflect the content of the thread. -CM
