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How to shepherd through goal?
- Thread starter jwalks
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melbournemartin
Brownlow Medallist
If the ball is bouncing then trying to bump the opponent shouldn't end up in a spoil. You should probably just try to kick it through in that case if you can.
At the moment you can't use the right stick to bump in the marking contest, which could act as a shepherd. That is coming in the patch dude!
At the moment you can't use the right stick to bump in the marking contest, which could act as a shepherd. That is coming in the patch dude!
This. Will make it possible to shepherd the ball through for a goal as well as making marking contests more interesting.
Ant_
Premium Platinum
Yeah it sucks when you kick at goal and the defender can punch away easily on the line. Ability to bump in the marking contest will make things far more interesting
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melbournemartin
Brownlow Medallist
I'm assuming that if you bump too early you will give away a free kick? Lynden Dunn does this ALL the time.
Beloved
Brownlow Medallist
It will also make the game even worse for online.Yeah it sucks when you kick at goal and the defender can punch away easily on the line. Ability to bump in the marking contest will make things far more interesting
Ant_
Premium Platinum
It will also make the game even worse for online.
Depends on if there a free kick for too early in the marking contest.
Beloved
Brownlow Medallist
I can foresee this game becoming a shepherd-fest. That's what I was alluding to.
melbournemartin
Brownlow Medallist
We will see. There needs to be a balance. At the moment if there is a marking contest where the players are side by side, 9/10 times the spoil will win if the player chooses to spoil.
In a game just before I had Frawley vs Roughead on the goalline and I went to spoil but Roughead marked. I was dead-set amazed.
In a game just before I had Frawley vs Roughead on the goalline and I went to spoil but Roughead marked. I was dead-set amazed.
Is this unrealistic though? The vast majority of contested marks in modern-day AFL are taken on the move, with an opponent trying to spoil from behind. If players are side-by-side, it's much easier to spoil, and the spoiler will almost always win. That's why it's bad to kick it high on top of your forward's head (unless it's a pack and you've got crummers), and better to hit them on the chest.
It SHOULD be difficult to take a side-by-side mark.
Spot on, and also when you have a Riewoldt/Brown/Cloke type they tend to win most of their side-by-side contests anyway, so atm I reckon the game is perfect in this area. The problem I see is they are making legend harder, which is necessary, but introducing things like this could negate any increases in difficulty.
Beloved
Brownlow Medallist
As I've said before, most of the people on here have issues if they can't do everything they want to do every time but when they do it consistently, they complain that it's too easy.
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The game shouldn't be hard because the controls aren't responsive. It should be hard because the opposition are good.
On Legend the AI sometimes goes nuts and will link up passes like crazy, leaving me with almost no chance to get the ball back. They should be like the permanently IMO.
On Legend the AI sometimes goes nuts and will link up passes like crazy, leaving me with almost no chance to get the ball back. They should be like the permanently IMO.
jazzalinko
Debutant
Only just got the game, trying to bet it on legend before PSN comes back online, and the patch makes it harder to get the trohpie.