trying SO hard to enjoy this

[ImWeTodd-Ded]

controlling the puck is impossible for me. maybe if the puck was to have lower speeds? i have dinked with my settings a million times to try to get it feel just right but MANNN its hard to control this puck. how do u guys do it !!!

[Poo Crumb <destroyer of worlds>]

TRY LOWERING SENSIITIVTY/INCREASING POV

[-⁧⁧eren]

Skill ceiling is too high man you just have to sink in the hours, there is no way around it. I suck too by the way but it's just how it is.

[riinkratt]

Originally posted by Poo Crumb <destroyer of worlds>:

TRY LOWERING SENSIITIVTY/INCREASING POV

bingo - most people suck at this game because you havent learned that it takes *very little stick movement* to control the puck. remember youre on ice, the puck is going to slide and move very easily. you should barely be tapping the puck with your stick. lower that sensitivity, most of the time youre using your feet to move into the puck and just lining up your stick to make contact but not actually swinging your stick around, and increase your FOV to probably 100+ so you can see most of the rink in your peripheral without having to use the left click, very sparingly are you gonna quickly click it just to get a general direction to line up your character with. it becomes a lot easier once you realize that youre only needing to angle and line up your stick to make contact but not really swing it. most of the work is done with your feet.

[NickDrip]

Higher fov makes a huge deal. Most people I play with run between 100-120.

[Economically Viable Jason]

Why cant steam add some real hockey games like NHL or 2K?! They have all the horrible sports on steam like soccer! WTF!

[Choogs]

Originally posted by Economically Viable Jason:

Why cant steam add some real hockey games like NHL or 2K?! They have all the horrible sports on steam like soccer! WTF!

Licensing. “Steam” can’t just add sports games cause they feel like it, they didn’t make the games they can’t just sell them without asking. EA only allows certain sports games to be ported to PC either because they want the console market to keep status or because apparently there “isn’t enough demand” for hockey games to warrant an expensive move to PC. If you have a problem it’s with EA not Steam

[Choogs]

Originally posted by 💩ImWeTodd-Ded:

controlling the puck is impossible for me. maybe if the puck was to have lower speeds? i have dinked with my settings a million times to try to get it feel just right but MANNN its hard to control this puck. how do u guys do it !!!

You need to do three things:

1. Play on low ping and high fps servers; seriously this makes such a huge difference, you have almost no time to control the puck before some moron slaps it off your stick, having anything above 50 ping makes gathering the puck take way longer and you have no chance to control it.

2. Increase FOV to 100-115 & lower sensitivity; You see way more of the ice and can also have the puck in front of you more so you aren’t tunnel vision on the puck. Having lower sens might make it harder at first to raise/dump the puck but it will be worth it, if you keep accidentally losing the puck your sens is too high, you should be able to push the puck forward and sideways (stick handling) without worrying about losing the puck, and you can’t do that on high sens.

3. Slow down and learn stick radius; The biggest concept you need to figure out in Puck is the stick radius. Try this in practice; if you have the puck too close to your player you have no control, your stick will barely move and it is not intuitive at all. What you need to do is keep the puck as far away from you as you can without lifting your stick. This allows much more freedom in controlling the puck, either pushing it forwards or stick handling side to side. To achieve this you need to stop holding W all the time and slow down your character to keep distance between your body and the Puck. Also note that you have way less range to the sides of your stick radius, so keep the puck in front of you as much as you can. This takes practice, Puck is not a very intuitive game, you have to train your brain to adjust to the floaty controls and restricting stick radius, just keep playing the game and you will get the hang of it.