Picking up the loose puck NEEDS to be a button

This game is so AI sided, any loose puck goes to the AI 99 times out of 100. Poke check: Straight to AI’s stick. Dead hit: straight to AI stick. Loose puck in the slot: straight magnetized to AI stick. It’s bull, you can’t go for the puck yourself you have to let your CPU controller chase down the puck and get it for you. Yes you would immediately switch to them when they pick it up but regardless it forces you into that shitty play style.

They could easily fix this by making it so you have to press a button to scoop up the puck, and make it timing based (and player stat modified) so whoever was closer to the puck (assuming player stats are equal) when X button is press picks it up. The way it stands is absolutely unplayable for playing against AI. Sure if you play against real players only this doesn’t matter, but it absolutely ruins it for everyone else and it’s such an easy fix.