The CPU does not take stick penalties offline.

Bump. See this would be an easy thing for the dev team to check. It's independent of anything more technical than "PS5".

@Rigu7I've had one tripping penalty n slashes from the AI trying to stick check me, I messed with sliders (I think putting AI poke check accuracy way down for CPU/ stumbling n incidental contact up/ CPU aggression up/ CPU tripping penalties up may have done it)

but after this one time I've yet to get it to happen again, I actually got so excited to see it finally happen n that's just sad lol. How do you take a cross check if it's even possible?

This has to be fixed or else the game is just full on cheating by not being able to take stick penalties (Tripping, high sticking, cross checks)

Worth bumping.

Same lack of CPU penalties issue mentioned here:

https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/Franchise-Mode-Unplayable/m-p/10916759#M1159

It's also covered as a major problem in Operation Sports / Reddit.

@Rigu7I watched the AI put their stick right through my legs and feet to get the puck, how the AI cheating wasn't a critical issue is just pathetic.

Love how EA responds so fast to posts about online modes yet when the AI is full on cheating we can't get a response (I see so many responses here on threads for HUT and CHEL but nothing for this issue) you can't ignore the offline players over online players, just like you can't ignore the online players for the offline ones.

@EA_Blueberry Another link for this problem can be found in this thread

Let me ask you all a question. When you're maxing out the sliders for penalties what expectations do you have for the rate of penalties? How many penalties do you expect the AI to cause each period or game?

@EA_BlueberryAt max the AI should be taking a penalty almost every attempt at taking away the puck (just a very high amount each period since maxing out a slider in older games usually resulted in unrealistic amounts of penalty's which works to balance it at a lower setting)

At 50 I't should be around at least a minimum of 2 -4 a game depending on how well the player can draw a penalty (force the AI to take a riskier attempt at the puck) a players discipline stat (lower the stat the more careless they are at going for pucks) and their stick check rating (higher rating the smarter and more accurate they are at going for the puck) remember tho there should always be a chance to trip up the player (the same for tripping the AI) it's how well you or the AI is playing that greatly determines the penalty.

Bumping. This is still an offline play killer post December patch.

You get very, very few penalties regardless of sliders.

In one isolated test period it seemed as if things behaved as expected, but after that nothing bar the occasional interference or hold call. Zero stick, boarding, charging, elbow calls in a thirty minute game with maxed sliders. Could never recreate that isolated success.

The 20 and 21 behavior is in there, but some issue is clobbering the AI's desired tendencies 99 percent of the time in 22. Have tried numerous combinations, deleted saved data etc. No joy.

No powerplays kills Season and Franchise mode in terms of actually wanting to play the games. File under "still broken".

This isn't a subjective issue, there should absolutely be pens and it should be straightforward to debug the AI tree of the CPU players to find out exactly what their penalty tendency is at any instant and thus identify any indiscrepancy with the user's desired settings.

@Rigu7This has to be one of the top priorities for EA, penalties can be the biggest factor in a hockey game.

Letting it stay this way for this long is cheating offline players and basically it's EA telling us "Fair play doesn't actually matter, why would it count as a game breaking bug that requires an immediate fix if the AI can play without consequence in comparison to the player." especially when it's extremely important game play elements like stealing pucks/ special teams. Intentional or not this is what's happening.