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Masher_Smasher
5 years ago

Body checking is IMPOSSIBLE

Just started my BAP career as a RW with Oilers using Grinder prototype. Can't body up anybody. It's insane! 

That's a huge problem for me because I'm a defensive-minded forward, and I rely on physicality to turn momentum. I've failed about 80 percent of my coach's in-game challenges because AI skaters slip thru point blank collisions.

Is this by design? I appreciate the developers have upped the difficulty of Pro difficulty, but c'mon guys. Let a player's strengths be a player's strengths.

I have to say though, this is otherwise the most visually and technically stunning game I've seen in this series. I'm finally attracted to CHEL, and it seems the EA team has cherry picked the best parts of the career experiences of other games (NBA 2K, Madden) and combined them in BAP.

Overall, job well done. Just please make some tweaks that tilt the game a little bit more toward scrappers. Ya know, the old school guys that actually built hockey?

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  • TTZ_Dipsy's avatar
    TTZ_Dipsy
    Hero+
    5 years ago

    Checking physics and logic are the same as last year iirc

  • SuperMountie's avatar
    SuperMountie
    12 months ago

    There's also the referees always calling penalties on your team, but the AI is allowed to hold up your players from moving and apparently run your goalie without the goal being waved off. I don't know how many times I go to make a hit, only to miss and end chasing when my player is right in front of the opposing player. Back to the referees, I had one player get knocked down and ended up being called for tripping. How can you be called for tripping when you're the one getting knocked down? 

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