[Yamer]

Skater responsiveness and agility have been completely nerfed, so it's back to trying to maneuver a bunch of Buicks in a physics environment set-up for Fiats (they look agile to me, alright?).

Now I can't counteract some of the stupid mechanics the game has. The board-pin feature is so fundamentally broken and ridiculous. If you're within 2 feet of the boards, no matter which way you're facing or how fast you're going, the CPU will pin you. Before the patch I can pivot quickly and accelerate away. Not anymore.

Same goes with the CPU never allowing any gaps. There is no such thing as a breakaway for user-controlled players in this game as the CPU will catch you every time. Before the patch I had a fighting chance to stay ahead of the defender, now it's back to impossible. Same goes with trying to create space. Zero acceleration and reduced agility makes it near impossible to create any space to do anything effective.

While I'm complaining, why can't I make any trades once the season is over? Why do I have to wait until draft day, and why do I only have 3 minutes to make a trade? These mini-game elements need to at least incorporate reality, like being able to make a trade in June outside of the mini-game.

And what's the point of 'Trade Value' if it's just a guessing game anyway? And teams way over value draft picks.

/Whine Mode