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.
Bump.
