![]() ![]() If defense gets better goalies get worse and have to rely on defense to stop a lot of the plays. That’s what EA does with goalie and defense. If you've heard me say these things before in previous year, it's because it's mostly more of the same again. There's barely any difference between them other than some stats and attributes, but you can negate most of them by having the right Traits and Specialties activated. Oh, did I mention we're still stuck with the same builds we've had for years? Yeah, y'know the Stand Up goalie that hasn't existed since the late 80's? The Hybrid and Butterfly builds too. The only difference maker is your build's Size, so once again the "meta" is to make a 6'6" Juggernaut Goalie with 180Lbs weight and you're good to just stand there and do nothing to make saves left and right. Whether your out covering your angles and challenging the shot or in the middle of your net camping the goal line, you have the same exact chance of making a save (or not). Just "Goalies gotta get sniped" again.īeing in position still doesn't matter as much as it should. The next shot in the same exact location your goalie decides to just drop down like a sack of moldy potatoes and shrug letting the puck go through. One time you'll make an amazing stretch save to snag a puck going top corner. ![]() Save animations are once again fairly random. There are no hop step movements to cover more space inside your crease, so we're still stuck "shuffling" 4-5 times in order to "move" and cover the open net. And you're stuck in that mode until you get back into your crease and in "Goaltending mode" to make saves again. ![]() Congrats!įree skating is still laughably slow. If you get caught in it (it seems to be laid out about 1 foot all around the posts and back of the net, well you just allowed the other team to score an empty net goal. Off the skate deke nhl 21 Patch#There is still a patch of Chocolate + Peanut Butter sauce around the nets if you try to go pick up a loose puck behind it. Off the skate deke nhl 21 how to#Of course these are the people we should be taking advice from on how to be a goaltender. They barely "tend" the nets and just stay in the middle on their goal line all game, rarely moving more than an inch in either direction. As I said in the NHL 21 Technical boards, it almost looks like the devs paid attention to the "Elite" E-sport players who rarely use either function and so decided since it's not "used", might as well relegate the move to some more obscure controller input and make the spread eagle save holding RS down instead of Holding X and then RS down. It's very awkward to do when you're also trying to hug the post, which is when a goalie might want to use that the most. They shifted the Paddle down function from tapping or holding RS down to holding LT (Butterfly Save) + A button (or X on the Playstation). Worse even, when one of your teammates hits you, that can happen too. People crashing into the goalies and pushing the puck in through your legs (no Interference calls), but in other instance when the player barely breaths on you they'll get the goal called back. Shots that hit you in the Logo still roll around your body like a Slinky going down the stairs (alone or in pairs) and right into the net. The worst ones are shots that hit you on one side and inexplicably shoot out in the other of what you would think could be physically possible. So you can expect now to kick out shots that come at you more often, but you'll still kick them directly to the front of the net for a juicy rebound fairly often. I do so only EXTREMELY lightly) is still the same. They gave us a few new animations (Hooray!!) but the underlying "goaltending" engine (pardon my use of the term. How are goalies? Not much different than they were in previous years. Nowadays the best goalies in the game barely surpass 80%. I finished NHL 11 or 12 with 89-92 save %. I used to be able to stand on my head from time to time with a 32 save shut out against a good team. I used to love playing goalie until they switched to Xbox One/PS4 and goalie controls became abysmally sluggish and delayed making it near impossible to enjoy and be consistent. For those of you who have tried it, is it better? ![]()
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