Tuner update coming v1.02 Sept 15

[leaffan]

From EA Forums:

The primary goal of this update is to increase goal scoring and decrease the advantages of solo, dangler style play in favor of more passing.

The specific changes are:
-Increase shot accuracy overall.
-Increases to shot power in some situations.
-Increase friction on dive.
-Increase poke check effectiveness.
-Face-off tuning, primarily to help CPU in certain situations.
-Decrease fatigue rate during odd man situations (when clock is scaled and you are limited to two lines).
-Decrease teamplay penalty for missed pass attempts.
-Small increase to pass receptions (online games and HUT, offline can adjust using slider).
-Small decrease to puck control (online games and HUT, offline can adjust using slider).
-Narrowed the range of the agility effect.

For offline players these changes are on Tuner V1.02 (except those noted as online/HUT only).

The developers appreciate everyone's constructive feedback and continue to work hard on the game to get it down to the perfect balance.

[leaffan]

Nothing on fixing the terrible defensive ai and terrible goalie ai.

Increased shot accuracy and power really just screams rocket goals.

The increase in pass reception is nice but they need to totally redo the passing anyways. Its awful this year.

Stop increasing the poke checking you queers.

[dave]

Passing makes me puke this year.
I understand lowering percentages for tough passes, but simple passes should be simple.
Not this year.

[Rudi]

I have no problem with the passing, this update will hopefully help my non existent offense.

[PP]

Is this for online? anyone who is already boosted will be scoring even more goals.

[leaffan]

I have no problem with the passing, this update will hopefully help my non existent offense.

My problem with passing is I like to make fast passes. I simply cannot do this anymore thanks to the way you have to charge your pass up.

You can't just take a pass and fire it off to the next player real quickly. With this stupid system you have to hold it for a second and then let it go by that time you lose your window of oppurtunity.

If I can make those passes in real life with ease I don't see why a video game based off nhl pros has this problem.

[leaffan]

Is this for online? anyone who is already boosted will be scoring even more goals.

Yah.

Apparantly the poke checking/decreased puck handeling thing is to stop people from circling around like a bunch of figure skaters.

[PP]

My problem with passing is I like to make fast passes. I simply cannot do this anymore thanks to the way you have to charge your pass up.

You can't just take a pass and fire it off to the next player real quickly. With this stupid system you have to hold it for a second and then let it go by that time you lose your window of oppurtunity.

If I can make those passes in real life with ease I don't see why a video game based off nhl pros has this problem.

if u hold pass while the pass is coming to u your guy will get rid of it pretty quick

[killgod]

Yah.

Apparantly the poke checking/decreased puck handeling thing is to stop people from circling around like a bunch of figure skaters.

That's what the decreased agility is for, so people can do the famous EA Sports "S" move that you see in just about all their games.

NHL magnifies the shit with the ability to just hold A and go back and forth. It's always a pleasure playing a top 10 player in OTP.

[leaffan]

if u hold pass while the pass is coming to u your guy will get rid of it pretty quick

That never works.

For me anyways. When I goto release it after holding it nothng happens.

[wingsfan77]

Can anyone give me tips for the long stretch passes that keep bouncing off myself and my team? I try holding in LT to face the puck but it seems like 9 out of 10 times the puck bounces away.

[Ravin]

Honestly, there isn't much you can do. Krebs did a stretch pass to me last night from inside our zone to just before their blue line and I scored. Guy took the pass no issue. Then later on, another chance, and it bounces off my stick. This time, my guy was wide open, no one even close. I think it has a lot to do with offence awareness, strength, and hands.

[wingsfan77]

Figures, I thought maybe we weren't doing something right or needed to make certain attributes better.

[PP]

slot shots are still autogoals. sigh. now they just tap up on shoot and winger buries a laser.

[leaffan]

Now the game feels more like NHL10 just with physics hitting and some better goaltending. This is 1v1 online. I actually like this because my shut down defensive style I used last year is back to working this year now. This was an issue I had before because poke checking was so shitty before.

EASHL was kinda disappointing tonight. Poke checking is back and its in full force. We played a team full of boosters and pretty much quit after they scored their 4 goal. Although I kinda put this towards not having our proper defensemen.