Imposed Losing Streaks "In the Game"?
Picked up the game in Feb and have been slowly building my team over the past several weeks. Overall Team Stats: 96 OFF, 95 DEF, 92 GOA. Synergies activated: X-Ray Vision; Wrecking Crew; Level-Headed Leadership; Two-Way Player. Made it straight to D1 winning the division title for all but D1 along the way. Been in D1 for the past couple of weeks now, typically playing a few games a day. Obviously once you get to D1 the games change drastically, but I continued to win about 7 out of 10 games consistently, up until yesterday. Here's what I've experienced since then:
-Absolute inability for my players to score. Open slot shots hit the post or go feet wide, despite High-90s shot accuracy ratings with X-Ray vision synergy activated. Wide open 1-t's hit the post, have no pace or power behind them, or simply lead to whiffs.
-What I can only call a "magnet effect" surrounding pokechecks - when I poke, 80 per cent of the time it ends up zipping right back to the opposition, or leading to a penalty. Conversely, my opponent pokes and sticklifts until the cows come home and doesn't face more than one penalty per game, typically. Often they are able to pokecheck me from behind without taking a penalty. (ie, through the back of my players' skates)
-Complete inability to win puck battles. My stick literally goes directly through the other players. It would be nice to at least get called for a penalty. The other teams' players are often able to skate directly through several of my players.
-General airheadedness from my players: compelled by some unknown force to skate the exact opposite place they should go.
-Consistently achieving a combination of two or more of: outshooting/winning more faceoffs/greater time on attack, yet losing by one or two goals, typically on a bizarre, late third-period goal.
Can anyone here explain what is going on? Is this something everyone has gone through this year? I've tried changing players, changing strategies, etc. and it's all the same. I've been a D1 player consistently each of the past two years, but strategy/player adjustments have always allowed me to overcome these kinds of slumps. This year seems different.
-Absolute inability for my players to score. Open slot shots hit the post or go feet wide, despite High-90s shot accuracy ratings with X-Ray vision synergy activated. Wide open 1-t's hit the post, have no pace or power behind them, or simply lead to whiffs.
-What I can only call a "magnet effect" surrounding pokechecks - when I poke, 80 per cent of the time it ends up zipping right back to the opposition, or leading to a penalty. Conversely, my opponent pokes and sticklifts until the cows come home and doesn't face more than one penalty per game, typically. Often they are able to pokecheck me from behind without taking a penalty. (ie, through the back of my players' skates)
-Complete inability to win puck battles. My stick literally goes directly through the other players. It would be nice to at least get called for a penalty. The other teams' players are often able to skate directly through several of my players.
-General airheadedness from my players: compelled by some unknown force to skate the exact opposite place they should go.
-Consistently achieving a combination of two or more of: outshooting/winning more faceoffs/greater time on attack, yet losing by one or two goals, typically on a bizarre, late third-period goal.
Can anyone here explain what is going on? Is this something everyone has gone through this year? I've tried changing players, changing strategies, etc. and it's all the same. I've been a D1 player consistently each of the past two years, but strategy/player adjustments have always allowed me to overcome these kinds of slumps. This year seems different.
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Try enjoying the game have fun try different things also shoot the opposite way you are skating and put pucks on net good things will happen.
This game can be incredibly frustrating at time and it seems like the odds are stacked against you alot. In reality they aren't and some people are better than you and sometimes you get the lucky bounces and sometimes you don't.
I don't agree...I'm saying alot of my games I'm deatroying my opponent and this stuff is always happening. I've been playing this game a very long time and I know the difference when I actually play someone really good. I'm frustrated witht he the ton of games where the other player has almost no shots no time in the attack zone and no obvious skill and by some miracle they win. It's ridiculous how many times it happens to me and other players over and over again.
You're in D1 and D2? I've played against you when I was in D3 or D4, seems fair. No wonder you kicked my ****...
There is a lot to be said why you always seems to lose in 3rd period and why you always seems to get penaltys when your opponents does not
The short answear is that EA wants to make sure that the players that spend real money in this game most of the time will win even if they deservs it or not
Your absolutely right. I see the proof all the time. I just had a game against a guy that had no clue how to play and I outshot him 46-5 and in the last period I somehow lost 2-0. Like ****!! This happens to me constantly...its no coincidence. Drives me nuts. No point even playing hut because skill has nothing to do with it. It's pathetic!!!!
I would have to say I disagree with the more you spend the more you win..I say this as this year I actually spend some real money on this game as last year I got super frustrated playing against super teams. This year I put together a pretty nice team, 99, 99, 98 and when I play other "super teams" the games seem to go better but if I match up against someone with a bunch of base players and people I have never heard of they seem to fly around the ice and I can't do anything against them....EA needs to get dedicated servers for this mode for it to solve the problems, I play EAHL as well where EA has the dedicated an never have I yet to have nay issues ini that mode...
Oh. Then there is a dude with the same name on Ps4.
If you two actually believe this you both have your head in the clouds IMO. I have a stacked team (99,99,98) that I paid for. I am decent at the game, not great (usually stay in Div 2-3). I get beat regularly by players that are better at the game than me regardless of who they have in their lineup. I actually get more concerned on start up when I see a no name player than I do when I see Datsyuk. There are some games that I feel I should win and don't or the odd time I get hugely outplayed and win but it doesn't happen a lot but it also happens in real hockey. I find most of these occur when there are connection issues.
Skill level and connection have everything to do with it. This game is 100% not pay to win, believe me. I have paid, I don't win much more with a stacked team than with a decent one but it is just more fun to play with. It is Ultimate Team after all. The top (legit) players in this game are the top because they have more skill (and usually a good connection), not deeper wallets.
I'm not the one with my head in the clouds. If you read what I wrote I'm talking about drastically out playing my oppent by a huge margin tons of times and all of a sudden in the third period the **** starts. I've seen the exact same thing happen time and time again in the exact same way. I know when I've been beaten because the player was better and I know when I've been beaten by a predetermined game. Its a joke.
I was always sick and tired of people writing stuff like "EA are just after money" and such, but after 20 years of playing EA NHL it's become evident that they don't give a #### about creating a good gaming experience.