Worst Sports Game Trend in 2020: AI Somehow Got Dumber

[ChaseB]

Well, this ended up being one of the few split decisions from this year's voting. The...

Written By: Chase Becotte

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[MrArlingtonBeach]

I can chime in on community feedback not getting heard - in relation to PGA Tour 2K21.

There is an ongoing, well-documented issue with career mode scoring. AI players have their scores change between rounds, and sometimes, the winner of an event (shown in the immediate post-round leaderboard) isn't the same one shown once the game takes you back to the career mode menu.

I submitted a ticket to 2K Support about this, and they simply asked me to reinstall the game, clear the cache, etc. Nothing works doing that - this is an issue with either the game's code or something on the 2K servers, since career mode requires you to be connected to them to even enter the mode.

The game has been out since August, and multiple people on various forums have called out this problem, but nothing has been done about it. Instead, the 2K21/HB Studios teams have moved on to the "Clubhouse Pass" phase, asking people for more money for things like gold MyPlayer clothing and a flamingo-shaped putter.

[ChaseB]

Thanks for the feedback here mate.

[The EVHL]

Ai is my biggest gripe with the NHL series and it's for these same reasons you mentioned in Madden and 2k. Routine plays like "cover the slot as a weakside defender" are something the AI fails to do even routinely, even play playing itself! "help" defense in hockey if you will, is something EA has never been able to do correctly. You can actually see their "help" defense result in the AI double-covering areas you already have covered because you're not in the 100% perfect spot according to the AI, so that leads to the AI "deciding" that leaving their man wide-open which effectively destroys any advantage you may have earned via your own position, is the smart thing to do because they're "helping". Meanwhile, if the user does get beat at the point, your AI teammates will all stand still and watch the opponent walk-in and take whatever shot they want with the abundance of time they have. The AI helps when they shouldn't, stands still when they shouldn't. It's a mess, and it's why NHL Hitz Pro still has the most accurate and realistic in-zone play of any hockey game to date, and it's really not even close.