Puck pick ups
December 20, 2017 4:56AM
edited December 2017
I know i'm not the first to say it, but the puck pick ups are terrible. I always hated it but now it's been like 2-3 games i lose because of it. you go to pick up the puck and your guy just skates right over it and then the other team has a breakaway. Unbelievable. You pock check the puck off someone and your guy goes to pick it up but then this whole animation makes him curl in nice to pick it up but forgets the puck behind lol. Even when I make a pass to my teammates the puck just goes right by them or it'll just simply bounce off their stick. And then this game can come out with new cards and new packs ( to spend money on) daily. So many things wrong with this franchise and game. I wish 2k would've never left 
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You can thank the cry babies that wailed for “realism” because they couldn’t hold their own on pre-TPS NHL.
I am all for realism. This game however is far from it. Not sure why the devs believe making the game play like beer league hockey is true to the NHL. NHL players are not clunky and know how to skate very well and are fluid. They also don't struggle picking up loose pucks. Realism is not the issue unless of course they've never seen a professional hockey game.
Puck pickups in particular are no better in HUT, and my entire team is basically 93+. They still glide past pucks without reaching for them, stare at pucks that are right in front of them, get stuck in pickup animations, etc.
Yeah - AI players regularly just stare at the puck and don't react, even when they aren't in motion and the puck is in front of them. This is in both offline and online modes.
Yeah been noticing that too. I feel as if the AI on defense has been ultra terrible lately in every one I've played. Again, incidental most likely. Very small sample size (like 3-4 games in drop ins).
It's not incidental - it's systematic. It's been a problem all year, and got noticeably worse when they toned down defenders' awareness of the puck in one of the early tuners.
Agreed. I played a game recently where the puck bounced off the back boards in the AI opponent's end. The puck trickled out toward the off face off circle. As it did, the opponent's AI defender skated BACKWARDS AWAY from the puck! But I guess this is EAs version of realism.
Also, for the puck pick ups, it also doesn't work if you hard check a player. He can be flattened out on the ice and your player will skate over the puck several times without being able to pick it up. Then, the player you checked pops up and grabs the puck. This has been going on for awhile now and I guess EA has chosen to ignore it.
It's a business so the higher ups are trying to make profits of course...but to think the people on the ground level don't care is..is just silly.
Easy solution to puck pickups. Make stick handling and puck control just like this.
If what you’re saying is actually true then they wouldn’t have had such an amazing game on last gen.
Maybe we need too much as an adults to be entertained by a videogame and they just can't keep up.
So they rather focus on casuals.
No that’s not it either, for me anyway. I was an adult when NHL 09, 10 and 11 came out and I spent more hours playing those games than I’d like to admit.
The game was god awful on last gen and full of problems/bugs/glitches too. The only thing that made it tolerable was playing the game vs. people who knew how to play hockey at the competitive level like LG.
The reason people are tired of this franchise is that it has never evolved over time into something more complete. It's always been an arcade mess that tries to combine simulation features and it fails miserably because the core gameplay is never fixed.
Players STILL skate while having an swivel in the middle of their bodies. That's NHL Hockey ('92) on the Sega Genesis days stuff!! Goalies still can't make simple things like hugging the post or covering the puck work properly.
Add on top of it patches and tuners that "fix" things only they CLEARLY don't fix much... Like the latest tuner that was supposed to "fix" the poke check spamming and make it less accurate. It's not. It was supposed to make goalie saves more "forgiving", they're not.
People are tired of this. EA's own "content creators" have stopped streaming this game. Where you could go on twitch on any given day and find the big NHL streamers like Realmiviens, JERZNetwork, Millertimegames, NugeTV and Himoccio, now they're all either NOT streaming anymore or they're streaming other games like MLB The Show or Fortnite... LOL!
EA is shooting themselves in the foot with this series. Nobody wants a mish-mash of Sim-Cade hockey. Either make it 100% arcade (HUT) or 100% simulation (EASHL) and you'll see both sides actually be happy again and buying the game in droves.