WOC Defense

This game, specifically EASHL/WoC is in a world of hurt right now.   This game is playing night and day different from launch, and not in a good way at all.   It's borderline unplayable right now.   If you're a club that thrives on sound, structured hockey like ours is...it's extremely unforgiving.   I'm a 25 year vet of this series with my own money, longer than that when you count gifts and stuff prior to 2001.

"Winded" get ups- Look, I get that they'll be slower if you're winded, but 40 in game seconds for a non-winded get up (still 3/4 full stamina) is egregiously awful.   15 in game seconds for an injured get up, 5-10 for a non winded/non-injured get up would be enough.

Pokechecks- Specifically bad position pokechecks are being rewarded again.   I understand that we don't want the embarrassingly soft tripping calls 25 was known for, but my lord...there's got to be a few more called.   

Hit Bubbles-  These seem to be back again, seems that unless you run truculence (which definitely appears to create a massive contact box, or "hit box"), people can just bubble off you.   The attributes effects definitely need some fine tuning

Puck Pickups-   Since the last tuner, we've noticed that one team, either ours or the opponents seems to ever be able to scoop loose pucks.   Every game, one team can skate into a mess of 12 legs and come out with it clean, while the other team skates right over an uncontested loose puck.

Passing- This is atrocious right now.   Even with Send It, Tape to Tape, and 90+ passing, passes consistently seem to go random directions.   This is was the easiest one for me to determine, because my first thought was "I didn't aim correctly/moved the stick too fast", then I went to thinking that my controller was pooched, so I switched to a brand new out of the box one...same problem.   OPA also seems to reset after every game, even when you adjust it in the settings menu of WoC, which I'm sure doesn't help matters

X-Factors- Big problem since the tuner/update is X-Factors not triggering.  Big Rig hasn't triggered for me once in three days on my build despite the conditions being met, Spark Plug hasn't worked in a week.   Then there's Wheels/Elite Edges that are WAY too OP'd similar to truculence.   In a perfect world, just keep the attribute tweaking and drop the X-Factors...make the reliance more on skill alone as opposed to skill + boost.

Gameplay as a whole- Right now, it's ugly.   Clunky, disjointed, no flow.   There needs to be far more interference penalties...you're getting trucked 5, 6, 7 seconds after releasing the pass with no call.   Goalies are suddenly embarrassingly inconsistent yet again, despite having been great on launch.   Game's in a bad spot and falling fast.