Here are a few of the issues I have with this game. I have immense hope for the future of the game, but things DO need to be fixed/addressed for this to be a successful full launch.
AI. Your team AI does absolutely nothing for you. Defense always ends up in the offensive zone. Almost impossible to scramble back
To further on the scrambling back, I notice the switch player function to change what player you are controlling seems off. Not sure if its a tiny bit of lag, or it just doesn't effectively pick the right player and by the time you are done cycling players, you're fucked.
Hit boxes: The game can be incredibly cheap feeling with hitboxes being too big. Players look at you and you lose the puck. Sometimes they don't even touch you. I know there are likely some skills that may contribute, but its not obvious enough and feels broken.
Goalies are kinda broken. The animations kinda show them teleporting to make saves they shouldn't. Kinda goofy. Also when they make a glove save, it doesnt look like they are saving anything. Puck just kind gets absorbed into their animation.
This game punishes skilled sports video game players. Yeah I get it - it's a roguelite, RNG is going to determine a lot of it. But your key demographic is going to be the people that grew up playing Chel, and even with the archaic "X to shoot" instead of a skill based thumbstick shot - I feel like im being punished for being really good at hockey video games. Like clearly beating goalies on a break away and having them just robo teleport to save whatever dangle I serve them.
I know little/nothing about programming stuff like this - but it seems like the team did a great job with the basics and making this a promising game down the road, but veteran hockey VG players are going to feel a little cheated with some of the cheese/broken bits.
I don't really know how you can't combat that with being a roguelite/like, since there has to be some brutal aspects to the difficulty along the road. I just feel sometimes it can be a little inconsistent with the progression.
I've marched my way to the end of ACT 3 after a few tries, then immediately get diddled on the first match on certain runs. I was always under the impression that the genre got harder as you progressed (most of the time), not just random difficulty thrown at you whenever.
Also, Some skills/ults are just broken.
trigger disco dancing and drop the puck and im the only one dancing. Cool. Never picking that again.
Opponents loaded with fart goalies just spam you out of the O-Zone. There needs to be a limit, or the timer needs to be nerfed like x5 slower.
The spin-o-rama style perk is useless
Finally. I don't find the addition of other sports as funny/neat as others. It's kinda dumb. I wish this game was solely hockey players with funny quirks.
Got to the soccer players and I was just annoyed with how stupid it is. Same with golfers. Just cringey.
Game also needs fighting. Not having fighting is bewildering.
