Re: CPU Player Cheating ?

@dustmann 

Yes. You're not able to change the difficulty of the daily challenges. If they are too difficult for you, it might be good to spend some time in practice mode raising your skill.

A higher rated player is better than a lower-rated one, but they still are limited to the skill of the human controlling them. Until you can provide video of this happening, we won't be able to do anything about it as we're not aware of any issues with lower-rated players skating faster than higher-rated players.

@dustmann 

Thanks for the feedback. If you get any more videos, please post them here.

@dustmann 

You just needed to aim better. If this is happening to you frequently, try aiming a little less to far-side of the net.

@dustmann 

You are skating right into the path of Morrissey. He too is skating towards your player carrying the puck. Had you kept skating straight forward instead of taking a path that directly went into him, you probably would have stayed in the lead and generated a scoring chance. I also don't know the fatigue of Kane. It's 6 - 0 with 8:15 left in the 2nd. Most likely Kane is fatigued. Also, it seems you're doing something right as you have a 6 goal lead.

@dustmann 

Again, here you are skating right into the defender. You could have toe-dragged and gotten around him though. He's already ahead of you when you pick up the puck. He's got a step on you and you decide to take a path that leads right to him. Skate down into the corner if you're uncomfortable toe-dragging. This will let your teammates gain the zone which will give you some other options.

@dustmann 

You poked when you were too close to the player. Your hand went through his body. It's possible the animation isn't the right choice here, but I would need to see it at full speed to get a better idea. Regardless of the animation, it's a deserved tripping call.

@dustmann 

Can you point out specifically where their players are better than yours? I see you continually skating into traffic and turning the puck over where you could be passing to your teammates and setting up good plays.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_36ALLC_jHs

look at my player and the opponent.
And again he hits his stick through my player's legs.
But apart from that the opponent is faster than my player

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVTuIKdi_sc

too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzHO6lIEacI

here you can see how GamePlay makes my player turn off before the puck.
The opponent gets the puck --- goal

@dustmann 

In your first video, you're showing incidental contact along with DSS. Incidental contact doesn't cause tripping and you don't see the stick bouncing off bodies. As far as DSS goes, you have to sweep the stick from inside-out to cause a trip. Having it connect with the outside of the leg and going in, won't cause a trip or allow you to effect the puck.

I'm really not sure what's going on in the second video. Can you give me more details?

In the 3rd video, chances are excellent had you turned to the left, you would have picked up the puck.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9VwSf4CJWA

A foul by my player, 2 min penalty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uahJPv7AxOg

Same game, foul by opponent, no penalty

There are 2 identical fouls, but penalized differently

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWVEM-P98Kk

Kean has the puck, duel.
Video 0:36 shows how Kean is activated and I control him.
From video 0:37 another player is activated by GamePlay for some reason.

And I didn't change players

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I keep saying it
"The GamePlay" manipulates the game

@dustmann 

Those 2 penalties are different. In the first one, you're poking them from behind. In the second video, the stick is clipping through the player, but they aren't poking. It's incidental contact and not causing the player to trip.

As far as the player switching goes, I'll keep an eye out for it. I'm not seeing other reports of players randomly switching. Thank you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRZO6TPu_5M

My own teammate, which is controlled by the CPU, runs towards me and rams me, although everything is free on the right. Which brainless one programs this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cobt5qXUbJ0

why doesn't the player take the puck?
You wrote in the last report that a CPU player accepts the puck even if he does not see it.
So why isn't my player doing? He is not even activated

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddxftlhpbSo

Player with shooting is activated, I want to drive the player behind the puck, but what does the goddamn * GamePlay do?
It activates the player with the Nr28? Why ??????
He stands in front of the opponent and is blocked by them. What the * GamePlay thinks? Sorry, but such brainless scenes annoy and excite me?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llHfOTJV06E

the opponent pokes through the legs to get to the puck.
If my player did it, then the opponent would take off like a swallow and I would get 2 minutes because of the leg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRXIbZTF9hY

Exactly such scene excites me.
The CPU player hits the puck, takes it and then the puck through the legs of my player with the bat.
He has an advantage and can continue driving unhindered

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0opDlxs2NHU

My player only touches the tip of the skates from the opponent and this falls dramatically on the ice and I get 2 minutes because of leg poses

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The important thing about the game is that you can play fair, whether you win or lose, but EA Sports doesn't understand that.
"Read the forums often", then you can see that there are many negative criticisms

@dustmann 

I agree with the first video. While it doesn't happen very often for me, I've had AI players get too close to me. Normally I pass or still am able to get around them, but I understand the frustration here.

For the second video, I'm not sure why he didn't receive that. I'll pass this on. Regardless, passing isn't always 100% guaranteed. Passes can still be missed.

In the 3rd video, you switched to the player closest to the puck. You could have switched back to the other player to try to make a play on the puck when you realized he was the best option.

The last video shows the puck being loose. Where is he poking through the legs to get it? The puck is loose and picked up by the player in the best position to do so. The defenders don't pick it up because their sticks are passing through his legs.

@dustmann 

The puck is knocked loose through incidental contact. It's then gliding under its own power. The stick is passing through the legs, but not while it's in possession by anyone.

I don't see a problem with that tripping call. It was a bad poke and there's a risk vs reward for poke checking. Even though he didn't make a huge amount of contact with the skate, it's possible that it could still cause a trip. You need to be more careful with your pokes.