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Originally Posted by bubbsy
My complaint is the opposite. As usual, EA appears to have turned the tables to the offensive side of the game yet again by dumbing down the poke check. The best thing going for nhl 13, in my opinion, was that they brought a rewarding feeling to playing defensively, getting in passing lanes, having an active stick.
Now, it's back to NHL 12, where players can skate/pass uninterfered after getting out of their own zone. offline play (season) on allstar/default is brutal. It's back to that game of basically waiting for a good minute of watching the CPU skate circles around you in your zone until:
1.The cpu scores, with the goals all being of the following variety: - short side snipe
- broken stick or blocked shot that goes directly to the cpu forward with goalie completely out of position
- Trickle goal off goalie equipment
2. You take a penalty
3. Wait for the cpu to go shot after shot where they are always first to the rebound, and maybe after 3-6 iterations of this, you finally get the puck or your goalie covers it up.
i seriously think the EA team looked at this tuner strictly from the online/eahl perspective, but have ignored offline play altogether. I can't see how anyone playing offline (season) on the allstar/default settings can feel that the game play is satisfactory. |
this was exactly my experience. Skate along side the other players, hitting them, pokechecking them and the puck will stay right on them. A minor problem is that it can be impossible to get the puck, the major problem is the defensive A.I. is completely moronic. They will skate away from the puck/stand flatfooted, be way out of position for no reason causing odd man rushes all the time.
Supporters generally will just say I wasn't good but my record was 14-13 online so it's not like I could never win, never going to play again because of the broken core gameplay mechanics and because I don't have it anymore. How anyone can defend it when the hitting is fundamentally broken baffles me, hipchecking a guy onto his head only to have him get up with the puck and score 1 second after says everything about this game, it is not more realistic, it is garbage.