Another video question. What should I have done?
January 9, 2017 7:14AM
edited January 2017
So in the clip here, I make a bad pass with my LD directed to my RD but opponent breaks the pass and go for a breakaway. I instantly try to switch to my RD but nothing happens and as you see he go right to the boards, I hold R2 but it just switches to the guys on the left side chasing the opponent.
As you can see I press R2 like a madmen trying to switch to the guy coming in to the middle from the right but it never switches to him.
How can I switch to my RD who has a better chance of getting back and defend if I can switch directly to him since he is already on his way to his own zone but on the wrong side of the play. if I can control him I keep on going to my zone to the middle and can defend against the breakway.
Is it best just to not switch and try to catch him with my LD?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl6B9RjY5Lo
As you can see I press R2 like a madmen trying to switch to the guy coming in to the middle from the right but it never switches to him.
How can I switch to my RD who has a better chance of getting back and defend if I can switch directly to him since he is already on his way to his own zone but on the wrong side of the play. if I can control him I keep on going to my zone to the middle and can defend against the breakway.
Is it best just to not switch and try to catch him with my LD?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl6B9RjY5Lo 0
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Not trying to analyze, just trying to improve my gaming and maybe someone had a tip that I should press that button or whatever, I just recently learned that by Holding in R2 on PS4 lets ju switch to last defender, dont work all the time, but it is helpful to know and maybe by asking questions others can improve their game by reading and helping each other out.¨
And by discussing things like this, maybe Ea snaps some things up to improve the game for NHL 18.
If you read the posts you can see that I did that and it just switched between the guys chasing the opponent.
Yeah I cant remember if I went for a hit since I made the pass for a one-timer I pressed up to release a shot with my rd but since he broke the pass it never switched to my RD for shooting and my guy skated up since it didnt switch.
While we are talking about that, do you often feel like your d-men are facing away from the puck a lot of times when you bring the puck down low and go for a pass against the boards up to the D-men. Almost 3-5 times out of 10 my d-men is not facing the bords but rather just has the back turned to it skating backwards and not interested at all at picking up the pass.
I feel this happens a lot more often now than it did in the beginning when the game was released like a tuner made that happen more often. Probably just in my head but few things are mor frustrating when you make a easy pass back to the D-men and they dont care about the puck whatsoever.
RD is just doing his own thing right there. I think having the D inverted makes a bit of difference as well. Their sticks are to the inside so when the puck comes down the boards they have to turn or whatever and they go all wonky. And the guy in my clip was right handed so I don't know what his problem was.
Yeah exactly like that, sometimes they dont even spin just skates with their **** against the board, also thought of having sticks inverted but that shouldnt be the problem since sometimes it works fine all game then next game 8 out of 10 passes they miss. Some things are way too random.
At what point did you hold R2? I can't tell.
The RD is a lefty, or do you mean in a scenario of a righty RD? The RD does his job by covering the LW but doesn't have the AI presence of mind to anticipate the incoming breakaway. Ultimately the best time to change to RD was at 0:06 but that likely wouldn't have been ideal either because the CPU already changed its momentum so you would have been caught flat footed either way.
Edit: NM I see what you meant by the spin move. I think the spin is a result of him initially trying to go alongside the boards but missing the puck, has to change his momentum and from there the game calculates the quickest 180 is the direction his momentum is already going (even how slight it was).
As soon as I saw that I was behind with my LD I press R2 to switch to my RD who is moving towards my zone but to the right instead of the mcenter of the ice but it didnt switch so I try holding R2 right after and it switched to one of my forwards further behind the opponent with the puck.