Improved consistency of penalty calls from errant stick lifts Increased deking success rate in keeping the puck. Player attributes still provide a big range in ability but all players will be improved from where they were with the change. Improved consistency of blocking incidental stick contact if the stick collided with body geo first Improved pickup solve consistency Players will no longer drop their sticks Improvements to AI goalie decision making when playing the puck out of their net. Mostly impacts goalies that were too aggressive AI goalie puck tracking improvements Reduced the chance ai skaters will put the puck over the glass for delay of game penalties in World of Chel
Yes. Super annoying. Shouldn't have been in online gameplay to begin with and it probably took them 5 minutes to remove it.
To be fair, if you get crushed by a hit, you shouldn't be able to magically hold on to your stick every time. Where's the realism in that?
What it really does: Stick lifts now only work from behind since hooking isn't coded into the game. High Sticking is still allowed. Interference isn't called if you don't injure the person. There are two kinds of AI, blind and god. AIs that replace players who leave and always blind. Pushing people off the puck always is in favor of the shortest person. ***Increased the chance ai skaters will put the puck over the glass for delay of game penalties in World of Chel Results found after ten drop-ins and several club games.
I don't care how realistic it is. Getting laid the fuck out already takes you out of the play enough without you having to go pick up your stick on top of that
To be fair, there’s no real way to consistently dodge hits in this game like there is in actual hockey. It’s bad enough that players can get injured in a virtual game due to rng, losing your stick is unnecessary and stupid.
