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In no particular order... HUT - Would love a "Dismiss (Never show again)" option for various screens/prompts to save a little bit of time. Some examples include new HUT promotions (a dedicated ...
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I don't really touch online, so I won't comment on the original post as I wouldn't have much to say.
As far as @subnauticalman88 list goes though. This is a great list and is exactly in tune with what we have all been saying here about the offline modes.
Without further listing the bug fixes we all want/need, my addition to the "wish list" is a better way to clear the zone. In the NHL, players use the boards, the glass, chip the puck, and flip pucks high to get them out of the zone. As implemented in game, these moves nearly always result in icing or a puck-over-glass delay of game penalty. The last thing you want in these situations is a defensive zone faceoff, as one of the CPU's greatest "cheats" is to score off of a won faceoff. I refer to this as a "cheat" for two reasons:
- Your AI teammate positioning when losing a faceoff is laughably bad.
- The CPU can pass and shoot (one timer) faster than any possible human reaction.
Without diving deeper into discussions on how the CPU covers/protects the slot (which is via blatant holding/hooking/interference, not a "stick/body tie up") vs. what your controls will actually allow you to do, or how your AI teammates "cover" when you control a player "out of position" (sorry, your responsibility is actually covering the guy wide open in the slot, not skating yourself out of position because you think I'm out of position), we need better control over the methods to get the puck out of the zone. These shouldn't be 100% successful (guys in the NHL do ice the puck, too), but as currently implemented, these methods have a near-0% success rate. Many NHL players are also really good at sending the puck down the ice just far enough to not be icing, as well. Maybe a way to do this is with a different slider for "clear speed", for example, instead of just relying on "pass speed"... trying to bounce a puck off the boards and out, for example, is a lot different of a maneuver than trying a bank pass to a non-existent up-ice teammate.
Of course, that would also lead me into discussions on why change player is on the same button as pass, and other multi-function buttons...
tl;dr wishlist: better way to clear the zone
There definitely needs to be better tools for defensemen when it comes to moving the puck out of the zone and up the ice. I’ve always wondered if different players or player types should have different advanced moves. So instead of having a deke that they don’t have the skill to pull off, the combination would result in a different action that would be more suited to their play style. I’m actually not sure if I would prefer this method compared to what we have, but it would add more separation between players and some of the tools could make for different ways to play the game as well.
"Signature moves" would be cool... I wonder if I would have the skill to pull them off 😃
After another couple seriously-frustrating days of dealing with AI idiocy, two more additions to the wishlist, from me:
- Ability to set what your AI goalie should do (strategy) when a puck is cleared into his end
- Sliders to work as-advertised/have actual meaning, or a point to them
Rarely does the AI goalie ever leave the crease anyway (contrast to NHL goalies that basically come out and stop every puck sent into their zone for their D men to pick up, or that actually play the puck), and I'd say a good 75% of the time when they do, they get whistled for playing the puck outside the trapezoid (when all they're even doing during this animation is stopping the puck behind their net as it's flying around the boards, as they should be doing). Why isn't this animation directly behind the net, instead of out in this danger zone? Stupid. Sure, you could say "turn off the trapezoid rule"... but then we're not playing a simulation of NHL hockey. My answer would be a choice list of like "play the puck", "stop the puck", and "don't leave the crease". Maybe allow for a different setting when on the PP vs. other times.
On sliders, the ones that disgust me (and is why I opened a largely-ignored thread a while back) are the individual penalty sliders. Boarding = 0 needs to mean "do not call this penalty ever again". I have it set to zero because this game doesn't know WTF boarding is, and calls a game misconduct if a player gets hit by a stiff breeze when you glide past him, let alone when hitting the guy legally.
Most of the penalty sliders are completely meaningless. Why is there a Delay of Game slider? If the puck goes out of play from your end without being deflected (glass or person), it's a penalty. Call that. The game never calls Too Many Men (when players jump off the bench and onto the puck or into your skating player, nothing is called). Contrast that with the general "Fights" slider (though, why is this one just 0, 1, 2??)... you put that on zero, there is absolutely no fighting in your game. On "1", the AI will pick a fight for any reason it feels like (NHL games don't have 4 fights per game, especially in the playoffs)... at least some are skippable. I'm afraid to put this on "2"... maybe doing that unlocks one of EA's abandoned fight franchises instead of playing hockey anymore.
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