NHL 21 complete mess!
What happened to EA??? They used to be so... average.... at making hockey hockey games. This one is a complete mess. The goalies are non existent. Even with the sliders all the way to 100, the goalie...
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EA_Aljo
Community Manager
Community ManagerThe game is not copied and pasted. There's a lot that goes into the game with each new release. Of course, it's built on top of the previous generation of games, but we don't take last year's game and change the year on it.
The computer players aren't faster, but they are excellent at conserving their energy. Humans tend to hustle when they don't need to. They also rarely let their goalie cover the puck. When you pass it out, your players just get that much more fatigued which lowers their attributes. You'll probably see a difference by covering the puck and manually choosing which lines you want to use. I play on Superstar and have had no problem keeping up with the AI players, but I'm also very careful about managing my player's fatigue.
So about fatigue... how exactly is that computed regarding the length of the game? Can you wear a team down to where in the 3rd period even though it says they have full energy it will decrease at a much more rapid pace due to taking hits and how much the player has expended energy in previous periods? It's so hard to get the details of what actually matters vs what does not like even on the attributes what all they mean etc. Shouldn't EA have the details spelled out much better somewhere?
- EA_Aljo
The previous periods aren't taken into consideration. Energy is maxed out between periods and drains as they play. Hits and hustling are the biggest contributors to fatigue.
So essentially you can't grind down a team over the course of a game. At least I know now. thanks
- EA_Aljo
Correct, but you can grind them down over the course of a period.
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