Can't wrap my head around what the AI is doing here

PlayoffError

I don't expect much from the AI. I don't expect them to bail me or my teammates out when we screw up. But I would like them to at least not actively sabotage us.

There's three clips in the video below. All pretty much the same. My buddy playing defense joins the rush and the AI more or less drops back to the point. All good so far.

But when the puck gets turned over the AI makes a beeline from the center of the ice to the sideboards allowing the opposing team can skate right on by for a breakaway or a two-on-none. The last one is especially egregious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiuj0sjNzfI

TheMajjam

I'm on mobile with a weak connection so I can't see, but I have a question. Is the AI a F or D? I have played 3's games where if the AI is a F and the two players are F and D, the F AI breaks and fails to continue to cover the point. Often at times he will skate away from the play.

PlayoffError

TheMajjam wrote: »

I'm on mobile with a weak connection so I can't see, but I have a question. Is the AI a F or D? I have played 3's games where if the AI is a F and the two players are F and D, the F AI breaks and fails to continue to cover the point. Often at times he will skate away from the play.

The AI is a forward. We've tried playing with AI defense and AI forward and basically playing with an AI defense-man one of use would need to be constantly dropping back to play defense because regardless of how conservative you set your strategies the AI defense-man in 3s just charges the net in the offensive zone like a man possessed. At least the AI forward will occasionally drop back to play defense. It's a backwards but you do what you can with what you have.

TheMajjam

Yup! I think it's a technical issue. The AI forward's defense needs to be tweaked if he's the last man back. I have run into this issue a lot when a forward drops and is replaced by an AI. What I can't remember is which position this happens on, center or wing. I've brought this issue up in the past, as well as others, but 3s hockey is probably not even on their scope to touch.

sgiz1

EA needs to program the AI (dman or forward) that if they are at the point (furthest man back) that they always stay farther back than the farthest forward/skater on the opposing team looking to cherry pick or break out, yes even if that means you have one less man in the offensive zone. Having the AI let opposing skaters skate to center ice while they stay in the offensive zone is just stupid hockey IQ, that's what defense at the point is all about, keeping a check on skaters streaking up ice, etc. nobody gets behind you!!!

ExSnake01

It's the "skill gap" in action.

GandhiShotMe

This is what kidshowtime calls "user error". By the way, I'm not trolling. I'm being dead serious. It's not an attack, don't ban me. This is legit the video he was asking for.