No more manage team from the pause menu?!?!?!?!
December 29, 2017 4:45AM
edited December 2017
Thanks EA, just when I thought you couldn't possibly get any worse. First you make it so we can't adjust strategies between periods, now we can't take a time out or adjust strategies in the pause menu. Seriously what are you guys doing?!
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Can you adjust dump/carry for each line? What about pinch/hold for the d? The d pad strategies only offer so much customization. Which imo is very limited.
They got rid of manage team in the pause menu. You can only change on the fly if you use skill stick controls. Hybrid you had to wait until intermission or use your pause. Now you can't do either.
I can't recall what the menu is off the top of my head, but I take a timeout frequently. I also don't use hybrid controls so changing strategies on the fly isn't a problem.
No. You can't. I haven't touched their dump/carry since day 1. I'm talking about the other numerous strategies the D-pad and face buttons change. If you're on hybrid though, I hear you're out of luck as you can't change strategies on the fly.
Haven't been able to change on the fly since xbox 1 started, but you were able to change during intermission, and during your pause. When 18 came out, you could change during intermission, but then they took it away. You could still change during a pause, but now that is gone as well. There is just no reason for it. And you could change on the fly on xbox 360.
This is exactly the point. Why offer those customizations for offline but not online? Why have a control scheme that can't utilize some aspects of the game? Why have a "fully released" game that has half baked and unfinished features that are to be expected of early access games?
Take hybrid controls for example, they have been missing the ability to use d-pad strategies since last gen, what possible excuse could exist for why that hasn't been resolved? There's literally no reason other than the people working on the game have no direction and just do what the suits think they should.
There's a reason a lot of the best games these days are from small devs who self publish and don't bother with aaa publishers who try to force the direction of the game.
I don't know why what you mentioned isn't in place. I'm sure EA has their reasoning. Since I don't make the game, I'm not going to make assumptions about the suits or their direction. It is what it is. I use skill stick controls so the hybrid issues aren't a concern to me. I can change strategies just fine as well so it's not feeling half baked to me. You don't even play the game, but your opinions are your own and I respect that.
You can't change strategies just fine. If you're trailing going into the third period and you want to adjust it so that your players play with more energy and less efficiency, you can't. If your opponent calls timeout late in a game while you're ahead, and you want to tell your D-men to hold the line, and not pinch, you can't.
There is literally no menu option allowing you to manage your team during intermission or when your opponent calls a timeout. Can you not see how incredibly stupid and unrealistic that is, and how completely ridiculous it is that the devs took that option out of the game? It's absolutely bonkers that I have much less control over my team in this game in 2017 than I did when playing FIFA 99, almost twenty years ago.
In that case, yes. It's frustrating you can't do that. I also know that some options have been limited due to exploits with causing games to desync.
As far as playing with less energy, change your strategies on the fly so they aren't so aggressive. Don't use puck side attack for example. Use contain puck instead. Don't use 1-2-2 aggressive. Use 2-3. There are options. You can also manage energy better with manual line changes during stoppages. No, it's not perfect. I get that, but it's not like you have no options at all.
Yes and rather than fix what's actually causing the desync they remove options and features the user should be allowed to have. That is a constant theme with ea and a big reason I don't support them anymore. Instead of fixing the core issue they remove the features on the top that can be exploited to cause problems.
If they were as easy to fix as you seem to be implying, they would have been done. The past update also helped with desyncs. In the few hundred games I've played of 18, I had one desync. In 17 I had 2 or 3 and played around 1500 games. Removing features instead of fixing is not a common theme. Look at the updates that come out. There are far more actual fixes than features removed to avoid exploits. I'd much rather have an exploit removed instead of waiting who knows how long for a fix. Besides, exploits will always be there. The win at all costs mentality hurts the game more than anything. It's near impossible guarantee there will be no exploits.
That's fine is you use skill stick. Hybrid has no way to make these changes now.
Yes. That would be really unfortunate when using hybrid. Hopefully it gets fixed.
It is simply pure negligence and/or an intentional f-u from EA that hybrid controls can't use d-pad to coach strategy on the fly. If someone is trying to say this is to prevent an exploit I don't even know where to begin with that argument, that's simply insane.
I just hope there is a competitor someday soon, until then I am done with video game hockey.
I think timeouts need to be changed. They should no longer just give max stamina back to both teams. Instead they should give like 25% back to the team who called it and 20% to the opposing team. Timeout request should also be queued so that they take effect during or AT the next stoppage in play. That way if one team takes a timeout with less than 2 minutes left, and then the other team calls for a time out immediately, the 2nd team's timeout would only take effect when the next stoppage in play occurs.
Also, this is wishful thinking, but calling a timeout at the right or wrong time should affect how much stamina you gain back.
Agreed. I get why they took out the ability to call for a timeout when your opponent paused the game, but there's no reason why you can't manage your team strats and lines from the pause menu. Just make the TIMEOUT option grayed out if that was an issue.
The TIMEOUT option is already grayed out during intermissions in offline play (where you are allowed to manage your team during intermissions and, obviously, all pauses). So it would have required literally no change to just keep it that way for online play. The fact that they took this option out is yet another move that makes me wonder if the devs ever actually play the game (and yes, I know they do).
There is no momentum shift as there is no momentum. That didn't make the transition from the last generation.