Community AdminAs someone who only plays Goalie, here's what I noticed from previous years.
1. Goalie movement is sqetchy. Sometimes I will move just a bit and others I'm way out to lunch.
2. Goalie refuses to hug post on most occasions.
3. Way too easy to score on while in perfect position and attributes are high. I get it your trying to make it fun for players but it's getting very annoying for goalies.
4. Seems like attributes have no effect. Wish it would go back to the old ways when you can actually customize your attributes.
5. Angles are off. Players on the boards with the puck and goalie is still facing straight and doesn't want to angle towards the puck
6. Changed goalie stance multiple times but seems like it's always the same one during gameplay. Hoping it's just like that for the beta test.
GT: Multipl_Scorgsm
I was tooling around with a goalie in free skate (didn't want to subject some possibly really nice people online to my experimenting), and I noticed some of these things too.
To my eyes, although it would need some testing or number crunching, it seems like scoring percentages and high danger scoring chances are way too high for this game to be considered a simulation. I watched a User Goalie get scored on yesterday by a lazy wrister off the rush that was in no way dangerous - it was a save animation I had not seen before where the goalie reaches over to catch the puck cross body. Half way through the animation, it was like the model reset and started to do a blocker save but it was too late. Was that some kind of User input override? I don't know.
If EA wants these games to feel more like hockey, get the Gameplay to feel more like real hockey not arcade hockey. I get it, I'm sure their marketing department is convinced the majority of the player base would cry over 2-1 or 1-0 games being more common place. That's fine for HUT and Eliminator and those other modes... (can you just make it a separate game already?) but for simulation styles?
It seems like if your going to User goalie in this game, you better be mentally prepared to get shelled and that sometimes a great game from you still means you were scored on 4 times. Players if you have a User goalie, firewagon hockey is not the way to go...
