Sick and tired of glitches and computers not doing anything.
Players skating around like they're having an epileptic seizure (I have epilepsy, so don't think for a second I'm making fun of people with it) or LTing.
You cover your opponent and pinch them along the boards. Only for your computer to skate up to them and do nothing. No stick check. No body check. Nothing.
So they pass the puck along the boards to the blue line to try and set up one timers. I set my strategies to tight point and staggered. I'm covering the passing lane and pinch my opponent again. What happens? My computer again comes close to take the puck away with me. No stick check, no body check. Nothing.
It's like a flip a coin simulator to see if your team performs at all. Some games your players forecheck, body check, stick check, intercept passes. The next game. Nothing. You literally have to switch players constantly and do everything on your own because your computers are useless.
There is ZERO consistency in the game.
It doesn't matter if you're playing HUT, WoC, Online Versus. The computer is useless. You'll send your forwards to leave the zone early to get a two on one situation. Good idea, right? Nope. You have the two on one and 1 of 6 things will happen.
- Your winger will skate to the blueline slow down and curl off for no reason.
- Your winger will stop up at the hash marks and curl away for no reason.
- Your winger will set up for the one timer but hold on to the puck for just enough time for your opponent's goalie to get into position THEN shoot.
- Your winger won't be in position and will follow you to the same side for no reason.
- Your winger will completely over skate the play and end up behind the net and miss the one timer completely.
- Your winger will be in position and score a one timer.
The defensive side of things can be quite similar. You want to protect a lead? Set up the NZT? Your computer will collapse into the NZ. When your opponent gets their breakout pass. Your computer dman won't pinch the player. They will skate towards the middle of the ice and your opponent easily blows past them. That has been a problem for YEARS. Some games it works but when it's a 1 goal game and I have 30-9 shots on net versus my opponent. Don't count on your computer to make any clutch plays.
And before you try to break down what I'm doing wrong. I can assure you I don't make many mistakes. I understand the game mechanics and how people take advantage of them to pull of cheesy wins.
When I am forced to move like figure skater Yuna Kim and use the same boring backhand / forehand goal every time to beat the goalie. It gets old, real quick.
But when I deke around my opponent and toe drag short side or shoot through screens. Their goalie plays like a they've just won a Vezina trophy.
This is constructive criticism but it seems over the past few years. It's fallen on deaf ears and it's extremely disappointing.
We don't expect perfection, we expect consistency.
