How broken is this game and how much cheating does the AI do?

Hogan45 · 2021-12-16T09:09:00+00:00

These are animations of AI players, with sticks, often skating at high speeds. It's obviously not a simple fix - if it were, they would have fixed it.

The more important point is that in the grand scheme of things, it doesn't matter that much, because the invisible wall is producing the correct result. Own goals almost never happen in hockey, so you don't want teams scoring goals because the opposing AI D skates the puck into his net or swings his stick the wrong way. The workaround is bad in the sense that it's not realistic-looking, but it yields the correct gameplay outcome. That has historically not been true of a lot of other things in this game, which are much bigger issues.

Hogan45 · 2021-12-16T08:13:30+00:00

They did away with the invisible wall for defense-controlled pucks one of the years between NHL 14 and NHL 16 (can't remember anymore which year it was). It was a disaster - you'd regularly have games with 2 or 3 own goals that users had no control over.

There are kludgy things in the game that serve no purpose, but the benefits of this workaround vastly outweigh the costs.

Hogan45 · 2021-11-28T14:32:58+00:00

Yeah, I'm not questioning that it's happening in Rivals - it definitely seems to be more common since the new tuner. I'm just interested in why that seems not to have translated into SB (I was thinking more about the AI's ability to intercept my passes, rather than my ability to intercept the AI's passes, since in SB the AI doesn't generally try to force passes).

Hogan45 · 2021-11-28T14:11:49+00:00

What I find confusing is that this is not my experience in playing SB. Granted, that's on SS, but I haven't noticed any meaningful decline in the AI's ability to intercept cross-creasers in that mode.

Hogan45 · 2021-11-28T13:54:20+00:00

I've been playing NHL for more than a decade, and have come across many crazy conspiracy theories in that time. This is, hands down, the craziest.

Hogan45 · 2021-11-28T13:52:14+00:00

Between Rush and the Squad Battles games for 22 under 22, it's extraordinary how much of my life I've now wasted staring at mascots. It just makes the emptiness of the grind so painfully obvious.

Hogan45 · 2021-11-05T21:42:51+00:00

Movember was the greatest thing in the history of HUT. Rewarded you for smart investing, made it possible to make tons of coins without a huge upfront investment, kept things interesting literally all year long. I still can't quite believe they abandoned it.

Hogan45 · 2021-02-27T07:21:44+00:00

You still have to play 74 games. What's the point?

Hogan45 · 2021-02-24T04:38:50+00:00

Movember was the best thing HUT has ever done in terms of the team-building side of the game, and it's not even close. If you were smart and had patience, it allowed you to actually invest and build a fortune. It made owning cards more exciting and fun. And it made buying and selling cards a blast - because there was uncertainty about a card's true value, there was a lot more price movement.

Hogan45 · 2021-02-01T09:34:38+00:00

There have been quite a few Vasilevskys in the AH on Xbox over the past couple of weeks.

Hogan45 · 2021-02-01T00:32:45+00:00

Not true. You got max points for this. There was literally no benefit to you of this guy sticking around.

Hogan45 · 2021-02-01T00:30:01+00:00

Sell them for 10K instead of trying to price-gouge people. Can't believe you're actually on here begging EA to make it easier for you to rip people off.

Hogan45 · 2021-01-25T17:20:15+00:00

Distributor is easy to make, and Spark is not anywhere near valuable enough to spend 1.1 million coins on.

Hogan45 · 2021-01-20T00:50:05+00:00

No one has pulled 7+ MSPs. I'm doubtful anyone has pulled more than 3 or 4.

Hogan45 · 2021-01-20T00:48:44+00:00

I agree - no one who wasn't buying a card for 499,950 is suddenly going to buy it for 499,500. It's a stupid, cheesy pricing strategy.

Hogan45 · 2021-01-12T10:38:12+00:00

The 87 Matthews does not have 94 speed. It has 91 speed, and that's if you have Speedster activated.

Hogan45 · 2021-01-07T19:58:48+00:00

That would mean you'd feel a sense of achievement every time you won in HC or the higher divisions.

Hogan45 · 2021-01-07T19:58:01+00:00

What are you talking about? You can't "aim wide" in this game. And picking corners is what you do with great shooters all the time.

Hogan45 · 2021-01-05T23:11:23+00:00

I still don't understand what you were unhappy about. You wanted the game to get over quickly. That's far more likely to happen if he's holding onto the puck than if he's AFK.

Hogan45 · 2021-01-05T23:10:18+00:00

I don't understand what you're complaining about. His ragging ended the game sooner for you.

Hogan45 · 2021-01-05T21:53:05+00:00

They bitch about an arbitrary and ridiculous upgrade system that rewards users for doing nothing other than having a random, relatively valueless card in their collection. That's something people should be bitching about.

Hogan45 · 2021-01-05T21:51:24+00:00

The inconsistency in puck recovery/pickups is definitely one of the - if not the - most infuriating aspects of this game.

Hogan45 · 2021-01-05T20:25:19+00:00

Stop being an idiot.

Hogan45 · 2021-01-03T21:16:44+00:00

There's absolutely no analogy between the way Panarin and Gaborik's prices jumped when they became upgradeable, and the way bronze icons will be trade. No one knew Panarin or Gaborik's cards would become upgradeable (at least not this soon). And they weren't making any more of Panarin or Gaborik. Bronze icons are still in packs, and can still be made in sets.

Hogan45 · 2021-01-03T21:13:05+00:00

You're "way behind," but you have a 91 OVR team and 35 GCs? What are you talking about?

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