Puck carryer slows down around mid ice?

[BlacknBlue]

Love this site. Best place to go to get ridiculed and flamed, with no repercussions, if you happen to expose game breaking flaws within a game mode that others don't even play or experience.

God forbid you don't praise a game with every post and risk degrading someone's opinion, that was apparently shallow in the first place and crumbles if everyone else doesn't agree with it.

Waste of time and energy. Not like EA visits this ghost town anyway.

The issue is real. It has been documented and experienced by many online players. I even took the time to post video evidence, myself. Yet all we get is soft excuses and defiance on the matter. Followed by ridicule and shaming. All of which is apparently acceptable here.

[Rowdy725]

I noticed this issue as well. I purchased one of the "new" PS4 controllers after I read that those could be played hardwired with a USB cable to eliminate the lag that the 1st generation suffered from. Now that I'm playing with the new controller (and a long USB cord) I haven't noticed this issue at all. NHL is much more enjoyable now.

[actionhank]

Quote: Originally Posted by BlacknBlue

Love this site. Best place to go to get ridiculed and flamed, with no repercussions, if you happen to expose game breaking flaws within a game mode that others don't even play or experience. God forbid you don't praise a game with every post and risk degrading someone's opinion, that was apparently shallow in the first place and crumbles if everyone else doesn't agree with it. Waste of time and energy. Not like EA visits this ghost town anyway. The issue is real. It has been documented and experienced by many online players. I even took the time to post video evidence, myself. Yet all we get is soft excuses and defiance on the matter. Followed by ridicule and shaming. All of which is apparently acceptable here.

Look, plenty of people (myself included) give this game and EA it's fair share of criticism. But, there's a very big difference between complaining, and constructive criticism. If you just want someplace to complain and have people say "Yeah! Me too!" that's fine.

As I've said twice in this thread, there need to be more evidence of something. In the one video that's been posted, it looks like the slowdown occurs when the player goes from skating with one hand on the stick to skating with two, then right back to one. Working in IT, I hear the same stuff all day at work. People say something doesn't work, but can't show me what's wrong...meaning I can't try to figure out why it's not working.

If it is well known and documented, it shouldn't be hard to get together some more video evidence to be examined and make a case with.

[jeebs9]

Quote: Originally Posted by actionhank

Look, plenty of people (myself included) give this game and EA it's fair share of criticism. But, there's a very big difference between complaining, and constructive criticism. If you just want someplace to complain and have people say "Yeah! Me too!" that's fine. As I've said twice in this thread, there need to be more evidence of something. In the one video that's been posted, it looks like the slowdown occurs when the player goes from skating with one hand on the stick to skating with two, then right back to one. Working in IT, I hear the same stuff all day at work. People say something doesn't work, but can't show me what's wrong...meaning I can't try to figure out why it's not working. If it is well known and documented, it shouldn't be hard to get together some more video evidence to be examined and make a case with.

I work in IT too, 13 years of experience. The one thing I've learned is too never minimize someone problem. Either the user doesn't understand or there is a actually problem. I've seen this one time on a break away and I just thought I was crazy. But I recently erased my videos to get space for 2k's last patch smh.

[BlacknBlue]

I experience this nearly on a every online game basis, whether it happens to myself, a teammate in club, or I see it happen against my team. I have recorded it, but never have taken the time to upload it to YouTube, personally. Cause what would be the point? I'd still have people telling me I'm dillusional, that it doesn't bother them so they don't mind, or that it's an issue on my end. Nobody from EA will see it and comment, so why bother, right?

But it took me all of 15 seconds, while at work, to find a video of it online. So I know it is real and I'm not alone, or alone in being bothered by it.

So my options are to either keep my mouth shut and suffer with the issue for a 3rd straight year, or post somewhere about in the hopes that enough people care that it reaches some mythical EA rep that supposedly frequents this wasteland of people who cannot stand to see someone post something that differs from their opinion, even when it is based in fact and supported by evidence.

I might go as far to say that the patrons of sites like these are just as much at fault in holding this hockey game back as the developers that make the game. It's like a never ending cycle of garbage in-garbage out. When you get feedback that only supports mistakes and bugs then why would you ever work to fix them? Because when someone does step up with "constructive criticism" it isn't well received. All because people are too delicate to have their opinions swayed by noticing flaws that they were blind to. It's like just because water flows from your pipes and there's food on your table every night, doesn't mean that somewhere in the world someone isn't starving to death.

[Rubio809]

Quote: Originally Posted by BlacknBlue

Love this site. Best place to go to get ridiculed and flamed, with no repercussions, if you happen to expose game breaking flaws within a game mode that others don't even play or experience. God forbid you don't praise a game with every post and risk degrading someone's opinion, that was apparently shallow in the first place and crumbles if everyone else doesn't agree with it. Waste of time and energy. Not like EA visits this ghost town anyway. The issue is real. It has been documented and experienced by many online players. I even took the time to post video evidence, myself. Yet all we get is soft excuses and defiance on the matter. Followed by ridicule and shaming. All of which is apparently acceptable here.

Wait. Who the hell here said you weren't entitled to your own opinion?? You brought your theories and others have theirs. To me you sound as if you are bitter that others have their own opinion and merely want more video proof.

So people can't form their own thoughts if they are not in agreement with BlackandBlue's.....ok. Sounds pretty condescending to me.

[actionhank]

Quote: Originally Posted by jeebs9

I work in IT too, 13 years of experience. The one thing I've learned is too never minimize someone problem. Either the user doesn't understand or there is a actually problem. I've seen this one time on a break away and I just thought I was crazy. But I recently erased my videos to get space for 2k's last patch smh.

And I definitely don't mean to sound like I'm minimizing his issue...but when there's one video posted, and we get told "The users are holding the game back!" and he says he can easily find other videos, but doesn't link them, or better still, recreate the issue, then it's hard to sympathize.

If it's an issue, it definitely needs to be addressed, but to know for sure, it'll need to be tested by more than one person, and with a certain bit of control to the testing. Someone just saying "It's happening a lot, and I found a video" seems to be a bit lacking.

[speels]

I've been keeping an eye on this thread and was very interested in what people were having to say about this. The one thing to check before everybody gets all up in arms about being flamed and such is your sliders. There are a couple really interesting things in the slider section that make this game a little odd.

The first one I would check is the speed and agility od puck carriers sliders. Most slider sets have these at around 50. At 100 on the scale the puck carrier will be able to skate as fast and be as agile as a skater without the puck. At 50, what does that say, that I am slower when I have the puck? That could be why the defense can catch up to the puck carrier. Also, when you use the hustle button and the player kind of pushes the puck ahead with one hand you then for a second become a non-puck carrier so you get that boost. I would test it with the puck carrier speed and agility at 100 and see if you notice any difference. My guess is you won't see that.

On another note, there are a couple of sliders that are odd. The effect of boards on puck carriers and non-puck carriers I have found to be messed because the CPU never runs into the boards so it really only affects the HUM player.
Also a couple of the sliders suggest that by putting them to 100 the attributes will completely determine the outcome of a play or situation. Why can't they all be that way? Is that not what we want that the attributes affect who is great at say making passes and shooting accuracy?

Anyway, just some things that have been bouncing around my head.