Strikers Abusing Drag Animations, But Goalies Get Another Nerf?
Without goalies there is no Rematch
"Our strategy has not changed since that dev update: keeping emerging and high-level mechanics as much as possible, but removing egregious examples of the ball teleporting, and unnatural and unreadable player movements." -Sloclap
Emphasis on "unnatural and unreadable player movements". Why take a sledge hammer to goal keeping when this is still in the game! These are all tournament games BTW.
https://youtu.be/5iTstpn_1Ok
Player gets dragged to the left, then dragged to the right on the next shot. He starts on the PK dot and gets dragged 2 full body lengths to the side. But what about this one?
https://youtu.be/ETgkEUNNmKw
He runs to the right, just to get dragged back in the same direction he just came from! But thats not the worst of it. You can outright exploit shot animations.
https://youtu.be/9mpOcvA7Xvs
His shot is aimed at the side wall, then he just inexplicably turns mid shot and shoots it near side. Like WTF is this? And you can do that with every type of shot too. Missile shots and even passes.
https://youtu.be/pQtn3IHv954
Video explains it all. So while you're out there nerfing goalkeeper dive ranges and dive tracking, then making the ball bounce off keepers more often, strikers are out there abusing their animations. I'm fine with all the goal keeper nerfs, but only if we can rely on reading accurate animations. And when you hamstring goalies but let strikers fly around on jetpacks and kick the ball full power in a direction they aren't facing, its simply not fair.
And goalies don't want to play a game that is not fair to them. If we get another bad patch, the competitive scene is going to take a huge hit and nobody will want to play goalie. As I said before, without goalies there is no rematch.
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20 May
Dunsford MergedHighlighted comment
Sloclap, without goalies there is no Rematch.
In competitive scenes, goalies are the hardest role to fill. There are far more pro teams than there are goalies. Its already a stressful job and its common for goalies to take breaks from the game, but what you did to goalies in patch 11 did a lot of damage.
In patch 11, goalies took a huge hit. Yeah people were abusing forward dives, but you tuned them down way too much! You got rid of the forward dive auto correct, but you also killed aggressive goalkeeping so we can't run out and stuff shots. You also got rid of magnet hands, but did it without speeding up dive speed. While this reduces the effective dive length, it also reduces the effective reaction time. In short, goalies had to completely relearn how to play because of the unintended side effects of the nerfs. I've made the adjustments, but I still jump over loose balls on the ground!
Teams are constantly struggling to find a goalie, and with the current state of go -
22 May
Noble System"Goalies Nerfed While Strikers Still Abuse Animations" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2026-05-20), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.