Unplayable scripted garbage!!!
The CPU reacts faster, shoots faster, skates faster and makes total unreal plays! CPU goalies are superhuman, no penaltys called, hitting is way to much etc., please 2k, come over this f….ng company ...
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Which mode? CPU are a LOT better in some ways.. but FAR worse in others. WOC is a really good example. In THREES they are extremely good at defense because the ice is so small and you don't have the space to really take advantage of their deficiencies. They suck up loose pucks, know where they will go before it takes a bounce/ save from goalie, they intercept more cleanly, they hit hard and are HUGE (Mascot) yet skate fast and win nearly every 50/50 vs a player... but they are insanely stupid.. so a semi smart team parks them in front of their goalie to take away 1T's and rebounds and just calls for the puck because they are also perfect at passing, given you don'tcall for it with an opoosing player between you.. in 3's and 6's they are an absolute liability as it's easy to skate right past them like they're not even there. They are braindead but instead of the devs improving a.i. they just boost their abilities. The less CPU you play with/ against the more fun you will have in this game.
Thank you for your detailed answere! I only play (since NHL 94) Franchise or Season modus against the CPU and the AI is getting worse year by year! Absolute no sim character , no time and space for creating nice and real hockey plays! Once have the puck you will hit by the superhuman oppenent (at Superstar level) and they score so easily goal after goal while i have to work like a pig for every kind of success 😒thats frustrating at all and i play different kind of hockey games for decades!!! The producers only care for online users, offline is no money machine, maybe im too old for this **bleep** 🤦
You could always lower the difficulty some. I've not really played those modes at all. I know if you jump on the Operation Sports forums people usually create A.i. sliders and difficulty settings to give you a better representation of hockey. Playing online is far from perfect too but I do find playing against real humans more rewarding. If nothing else they at least skate differently and take different lines than you're familiar with the A.I. taking. Of course you will have to deal with people taking advantage of everything EA has failed to fix. L2 stuff.. auto breakaways.. broken Xfactors, 0 creativity as far as builds because the EA builds and hitting.. if you can get over all of that it can be fun. Of course there is also HUT too and with a salary cap it's better imo. It can be played fully against cpu but it also has online games that you can be rewarded for playing if you choose to do that. Probably a good halfway point for you. Challenges would have you playing against all sorts of diff difficulties. I really hate the randomness of packs and it feels like a giant cheap gimmick but apart from packs I've enjoyed it.
"You could always lower the difficulty some."
Anyone who plays the franchise or be a pro game modes knows that this is not worth doing if you want to play hockey.
And yeah.. sliders not works properly 😂
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