defensive ai infront of the net is awful

[havoc00]

Seriously I've seen better defensive Ai on those old Gretzky games on the n64

[bigwill33]

That is what I had been saying since the demo, into the EA Access version, and with the final version.

There are no settings or sliders to fix it either. Hopefully they do something with a tuner, but that remains to be seen.

95% of my goals were a result of my backside defender leaving his man or just not tying up his stick in any fashion to take away the pass to him or the resulting shot from him.

The only way I have countered it was to dumb down the CPU shooting accuracy sliders and up the goalie reaction slider. But that isn't really fixing anything, just neutering the problem, more or less.

[havoc00]

Quote: Originally Posted by bigwill33

That is what I had been saying since the demo, into the EA Access version, and with the final version. There are no settings or sliders to fix it either. Hopefully they do something with a tuner, but that remains to be seen. 95% of my goals were a result of my backside defender leaving his man or just not tying up his stick in any fashion to take away the pass to him or the resulting shot from him. The only way I have countered it was to dumb down the CPU shooting accuracy sliders and up the goalie reaction slider. But that isn't really fixing anything, just neutering the problem, more or less.

Its beyond frustrating and almost game breaking.

[bigwill33]

Quote: Originally Posted by havoc00

Its beyond frustrating and almost game breaking.

I can see how you could feel that way. Try touching your sliders to lower some cpu things and fiddle with the goalies. This won't help with online play, but it is the only way that I could manage to get the computer to even score on shots outside of the top of the crease.

They took out the tie-up in front. Which I am actually happy about. But as I mentioned in the impressions thread, they didn't put in anything to replace it. Nothing to tie-up or pin-down a stick. And the AI is just atrocious on your team when defending the front of the net.

I am actually surprised that more people don't point this out. It seems that only a handful have made this observation.

[ParisB]

Seems like most goals I give up are immediately after a turnover, it's bam bam 2 sharp passes, in the slot one timer. My CPU defender just lets them skate in untouched.

[DJ NEO]

defensive ai is very bad indeed.

[Smirkin Dirk]

Fiddling enough, helps.

Ive made my goalie reaction slider higher, their shooting lower, maxed out my poke check.

The main thing is taking control of a big physical defender and Ding up on anyone in the slot.

[Smirkin Dirk]

Another prob is the lack of defensive controls. Other then spamming poke check there's not much.

The stick lift is just asking for a penalty...and that's it really.