Tuner 1.03 due out Sept. 22

[leaffan]

Another week, another tuner update is set to come out. It's schedule to go live at 2AM PST/5AM EST.

Adjustment highlights:

-Increase maximum speed when hustling (L3).
-Easier to generate/maintain speed doing forward crossover turns.
-Decrease goalie acceleration.
-Increase chance of penalty when a stick lift breaks a stick.
-Decrease chance of stick lift causing a dropped stick.
-Increase to slap shot power
-Increase non-puck carrier acceleration and agility and decrease puck carrier acceleration and agility.
-Weaken shots in certain situations that were leading to goals with too high a frequency when cutting across the middle of the ice.
-Increase chance of losing balance when carrying the puck (Versus, OTP/EASHL and HUT only).
-Increase chance of losing the puck when deking or turning sharply (Versus, OTP/EASHL and HUT only).
-Increase chance of tripping on a poke check (undoing previous change that affected online and HUT modes online).

The changes that affect offline games are contained in tuning version V1.03. You can opt not to use them by switching to V1.02.

The main objectives of the update are to reduce the amount of solo skating and tune scoring balance. The "losing an edge" animation where the player falls down that was rarely seen previously will now happen more often, in particular when a player does a lot of sharp turns with the puck and is getting bumped by opposing players. Almost all stick lifts that break the stick will result in a penalty.

The next tuning update will probably be next week.

 

[PP]

increase slap shot power wtf?

 

[leaffan]

The decreased goalie accell had me scratching my head.

 

[Irish]

How about decrease the effectiveness of the stick lift? Where is that at?

 

[wingsfan77]

I really don't like using the stick lift in this game because it seems like every time I get it to work the guy doesn't miss a beat and just keeps skating with the puck.

 

[Fappin Raptor]

The stick lift is not as effective as last year, which is good. I feel the same way you do wingsfan.

 

[wr50l]

LOL WUT? I dominate puck carriers with the stick lift.

Have played quite a few games with the update. Penalties for stick work are way up and the poke check is a little less effective. Also, interceptions and pass gathering is a lot harder if you have low puck control.