Absolutely HORRIBLE Goaltending in NHL 17

[NinthFall]

They were supposed to fix the weak goalies from NHL 16 for NHL 17 and even marketed the NHL 17 with all new goalie system, but the goaltending is almost worse than before.

Goalies are out of the crease now more than ever before and weak wrist shots go in more than often AND goalies are super fcucking slow.

The only thing goalies now learned is to use their stick

I have 88 overall luongo who lets in so many weak shots god damn his saving % as of now is 0.767

Here I uploaded 2 videos to show as examples

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzJ9aKJJlcA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vV_K7PEyQM

[BlacknBlue]

Online is now just a game of enter the zone, shoot low from high boards for far side rebound, crash far side and tap it home.

This works almost all of the time, to go along with all the old cheese and money goals that still work from before.

Real hockey plays don't work, however. They still warp from post to post, with no push, to make unreal stops on nice setups. So you're better off with the cheese and weak stuff.

Gameplay is really bad this year. Online is worst it has been in years, and that's saying something. Sad thing is... The beta was tolerable. But the updates have once again catered to the non-sim crybabies. Already regret opening the box.

[thedudedominick]

Online is a joke.

Goalies just dive out of the net on short side dekes. Give up way too many easy short side shots. Rebounds on soft shots just shooting out to the far side slot for easy goals.

Big part for this is EASHL hustle being so overpowered the far side offensive player just blows by the AI D man and is in perfect position for a rebound.

[mynutees]

Quote: Originally Posted by BlacknBlue

Online is now just a game of enter the zone, shoot low from high boards for far side rebound, crash far side and tap it home. This works almost all of the time, to go along with all the old cheese and money goals that still work from before. Real hockey plays don't work, however. They still warp from post to post, with no push, to make unreal stops on nice setups. So you're better off with the cheese and weak stuff. Gameplay is really bad this year. Online is worst it has been in years, and that's saying something. Sad thing is... The beta was tolerable. But the updates have once again catered to the non-sim crybabies. Already regret opening the box.

Couldn't agree more. Game is awful online atm. Simple fix would be to rollback to beta tuner.. not sure why this hasn't been done yet.

[solidus29]

Registered just to say your are absolutely right. No idea why they just don't revert back to Beta settings....game is rough...

Quote: Originally Posted by mynutees

Couldn't agree more. Game is awful online atm. Simple fix would be to rollback to beta tuner.. not sure why this hasn't been done yet.

[VeNOM2099]

Quote: Originally Posted by solidus29

Registered just to say your are absolutely right. No idea why they just don't revert back to Beta settings....game is rough...

Because the game build we got to play during the BETA isn't the same build we're playing now. Also, EA changed a few things about how the goalie engine makes a decision on what type of save animations to use on certain shots.

During the beta, goalies would often make a lot more desperation type saves which people complained about because a lot of times after one of those saves your goalie would get stuck on his butt. So EA changed the behavior so that goalies now do a lot more reactionary saves when they're in good position to do so.

My problem with that is two fold. First, doing this didn't resolve the issue with the goalies freezing during certain save animations, it just made it less likely to happen. Second, reactionary save animations still have the unnerving ability to nudge you out of position. It's really frustrating to be perfectly centered to receive a shot on your chest, and then see the goalie move slightly left or right so he can make a save with his shoulder instead, and watch the puck bounce up, over and trickle into the net!

FFS...

[G_e_e_z_e_r]

Online is unplayable this year. This old gen port of a game is dead to me.

[stevostl]

Quote: Originally Posted by G_e_e_z_e_r

Online is unplayable this year. This old gen port of a game is dead to me.

are you guys talking about 1 v 1 online or EASHL when you say unplayable?

I have been addicted to the EASHL so far this year so that is whY I asked... i'm surprised you say that is all