Would appreciate a little increased agility for defenseman, but other than that I like the skating. I feel more in control of my player in this beta than I've ever felt at any point on 16.
Still a lot of auto-skating. It seemed in 16 to mainly effect Dmen, but I've noticed quite a bit at forward now too on the beta.
Skating for me on defense is completely better. In 16, I felt like I would need to hammer my stick in another direction to try to get my player to stop on a dime. I feel now, it's more genuine with the pressure aspect of how aggressive you are with the stick.
Only issue I have are the auto animations. Generally only seem to occur, without the puck, when I try and coast/glide. Then all of a sudden my guy will turn and start skating without any input from me. This I would think should be removed
I like the skating. Only issue i have ran into is my guy randomly stopping/slowing down when back skating. As far as auto skating goes, i havent really experienced any outside of maybe 1 "seamless" puck pickup.
Extremely hard to comment considering, 16 was so dog shit that we just appreciate what ever we can get.