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And that was the point. Tell us what the plan is and lock it in. Or base it on a democratic decision based on what the players want. That is the best option. Skip a poll. Send a DM to all participating teams from ECL Winter and let the captains collect votes from their teams without pressure from intimidating top players. And let a democratic decision remain a democratic decision.

The important thing is probably what Furyan wrote above. In this thread, Kenu says that it is likely a full ability ban for the upcoming season. Like Furyan wrote, we need a confirmation on this as soon as possible. Or a decision in another direction, as long as the decision is finalized so people can start practicing the right way. But as it looks right now, the latest information should be understood as ECL Spring being played completely without abilities.

vNexs II is looking for a FORWARD and LD for the starting six for ECL Spring and upcoming tournaments! FW: Center or winger does not matter. We are keeping an open mind to all possible solutions and will test different position mixes during the tryout period to see what works best. LD: Skilled with the puck, strong in two way play. Last season ended abruptly in the first round of the ECL PRO playoffs. It was a season filled with challenges, where the starting lineup was finalized just days before the opening faceoff of the first round. During the season, circumstances forced us to play the final 20 games with three defensemen on the ice, which is neither optimal in the short nor long term. - Now we have every opportunity to reset and establish a starting six early for the upcoming season, and at the moment we have two open spots in the lineup. - vNexs II is the organization’s PRO team. In addition to the PRO team, we also have one team in ECL Elite, one in ECL Lite, and one in ECL Core. We have established a clear foundation for how we want our teams to play, with a consistent structure running from the Elite team down to the Core team. Because of this, we prefer to move players internally between teams on nights when a lineup is not full, rather than bringing in external players. This allows us to maintain the same style of hockey, even if the player moving between teams has a different skill level. - This approach also gives players in the lower divisions the opportunity to play alongside players from higher divisions, allowing everyone to learn from each other. - When a team is missing a player and the option exists, we always look internally first before scanning the market, as we are doing in this case. The gap in the Elite team before this season was filled by players from the PRO team, and so far this has worked out very well. Requirements Winger or center LD Nationality does not matter Willing to put in time for practice and be available for tournaments Age does not matter, but if we can find younger players that we can develop according to our style of hockey, that will be prioritized If you are interested in trying out with vNexs II, send me a DM or contact me on Discord.

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But now you’re adding the pay-to-win angle to a situation where SG just banned things because you have to buy certain items now to use them, even though you had more than 8 weeks to unlock them for free. Meanwhile, you’re ignoring items that still can’t be unlocked anymore, but players could unlock them during Season 1. Why weren’t those banned when Season 2 started? It would’ve been pretty nice to not deal with Elite Stick ‘Em Up, which can make anyone look like Lidström in the defensive zone. The defensive X-factors still break the game more than the offensive ones do. Even I can admit that as a defenseman, even though I haven’t used Stick ‘Em Up at all this season and only recently tried Quick Pick. (I'm stupid) Everything is just weird. The arguments don’t hold for why this is being done. Anyway, I’m going outside to touch some grass now. Have a good evening, Antti.

The reactions are probably because nobody asked for this, but it’s happening anyway. If they had listened to the community, they would have banned everything before the season started. People have adapted their playstyles based on perks. There are even teams that actively “hunt” X-factors to trigger during their attacks. I also think it’s reasonable that some things get removed. I recently played another tournament without them and it was actually pretty fun. But there is no valid argument that it’s “pay-to-win”, because everyone could get these things for free. And there are still items in the game right now that were on the Season Pass in Season 1 as well. And I remember, for example, Furyan saying “make the choices before the season starts”, and those choices were made. But now they are changing things right before playoffs start, and it affects teams. It’s honestly pretty clumsy.

Why are you flipping the argument the wrong way? Why should everyone who actually put time and effort into the game and their season be punished just because you did not? I have not seen anyone complain that another player has Elite Quick Pick just because they do not have it themselves. If you really wanted it, you had the same chance to unlock it as everyone else. If players did not care about getting it during the whole regular season, why should it suddenly become unfair now only because the “lazy” player now wants to be “smart”? If you want it now, you can buy it. If you wanted it before, you could get it for free.

Everyone had over two months to unlock these X-factors in the game. So let us not pretend that you had to buy all the X-factors. But as someone else wrote: Just ban everything that is Elite if something really has to be banned a few hours before some teams start their playoffs. Everyone had over two months to unlock these X-factors in the game. So let us not pretend that you had to buy all the X-factors. But as someone else wrote: Just ban everything that is Elite if something really has to be banned a few hours before some teams start their playoffs. Forgot to Quote Antti

This time at least they did not write that they "listened to the community" and turn it into a lie. Now they just did what they wanted without asking anyone. You have to give them that. This was the most honest post in years!

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It extended your forward career by at least two years, So it definitely does something to the animations.

You are deflecting again. It is not me who does not understand. We literally had over 100 messages from the community showing they want it like it was in FCL and SCL last year. That is not my personal opinion, that is the majority speaking. If you refuse to understand that, then that is your weakness ------- (your picture) Point by point: Close Quarters goals do not “just happen anyway”. CQ modifies release priority and aim assist inside close radius. Without CQ many of these shots do not trigger the high speed priority release animation. Frame comparison testing shows completely different outcome from the same shot simply because CQ unlocks a different animation branch. “One timers are easy to defend if you play actively” is also incorrect. Certain one timer styles combined with traits bypass normal defensive stick collision validation inside ICE Q. This is the exact reason Golden One Tee was banned in multiple competitive formats. It is not just about positioning. It is animation override. “Goalies make weird saves anyway so traits do not matter” is wrong. Traits modify which animation state the goalie gets access to. Animation state is outcome determinism in NHL. Without that trait the goalie is not given the same animation choices. That is not subjective. “Auto poke is broken no matter what” is only partially true. Auto poke is only unbalanced because certain traits buff recovery acceleration and turn sync after poke. Base poke without those trait modifiers is significantly more fair. Removing trait buff gives real risk reward again. “Truculence simply makes physical play more viable” is incorrect. Truculence automates force and knockdown threshold. You do not need correct angle timing or weight advantage because the trait applies force anyway. This removes skill expression. “Counter attacks score anyway” ignores the problem. Abilities artificially push low probability chances into mid or high probability outcomes by triggering faster and higher priority animation states. That does not strengthen structured defense. It increases chaos.

You are serving an open net here. I really cannot stay quiet when you come with a weird statement like this again. What exactly made the gameplay worse? Skill issue? I seem to remember that your team claimed it was a skill issue to not be able to defend against Golden Onetee before it got banned. Because when you actually look at the numbers, it was only your team (Parasite) that scored fewer goals per game after you lost Nikkedangles and when Golden Onetee was gone. If Nikkedangles is the best player in the world or if you were simply too dependent on him and Golden Onetee, I will leave that unsaid. But nothing you are arguing here is supported by the statistics, other than the fact that you lost the throne in both FCL and ECL to teams that were simply better. So before we start talking about that a world without abilities ruined the gameplay, are you sure it was not just your team who got worse?

Parasite are still waiting for their money. One of our players asked them a couple of hours ago. If they have received it now, then forget what I just wrote. International payments can take up to three days. So hopefully everything has been paid out. But in that case, SG should be able to come in here and show the transactions so people do not have to feel worried. But come on, we have all missed paying a bill at some point, right? Of course people are following up on this, Sportsgamer’s legitimacy is what is on the line here. A lot of players have been defending SG because they presented a payment plan, and we critics were supposed to back off because of that. Now it is already at least one day late, and soon it is the weekend with banks closing in about two and a half hours. Let us just hope SG looked at the wrong day in the calendar. Or that it is simply a delay caused by international transactions taking time. Parasite, however, are from Finland, so it should just be one button press away, unless the money has to bounce around in some obscure country first. I really hope you all get your money today. You deserve it and you are entitled to it.

If you are going to listen to the community feedback, then why not ban everything? Most people have said for a whole year that everything should be banned. And if you are not going all the way, why not remove Stick Em Up? Right now every Elite player is running Stick Em Up Elite. When there is no speed boost to get past defenders, and you face the poke aimbot on every player, the game is turning into trench warfare where everyone only plays defense and waves their stick. So why not go all the way and remove everything? Like someone wrote earlier in the thread. X Factors are simply boosts for star players in HUT. And now there is not much left to use at all, so why not just remove everything?