New Tuner/Patch: LT with puck nerfed, goalies react better to wraps, ping fixed (Feb 20th 5AM ET)

Nxckles · Feb 19, 2019

TL;DR
- LT with puck nerfed, "it's inbetween where it was in NHL 18 and where it was now"
- goalies track and react better to wraparounds
- ping will display correct number now. It was only displaying half of what it should have been. 10 ping will now show as 20 ping but will still feel the exact same.
- released February 20th at 2AM PT/5AM ET

https://forums.ea.com/en/nhl/discussion/240896/nhl-19-tuner-1-04-available-february-20th-5-am-et

Hey everyone,

Tonight at 2 AM PT/5 AM ET, Patch 1.55 and Tuner 1.04 will be going live in NHL 19. For notes on Patch 1.55, click here.

Tuner 1.04 is based off of the latest tuner for online play with a few more updates based on feedback we've received.

All Online Modes will be using tuner 1.04.

TUNER 1.04 NOTES

Turned down the top-level ability for speed, acceleration and agility when backskating with the puck

Overall, this will help address the issues we have seen the community raise regarding backskating with the puck being overpowered, especially when entering the offensive zone.

This value is in between what the penalties were for backskating with the puck in previous NHL titles and what they were with no penalties. The changes will be subtle, but should help prevent the effectiveness of backskating with the puck.

Backskating without the puck will be unaffected by these changes.

Added improvements to faceoff tuning to fix potential rare edge cases that were being reported around faceoff counters not working reliably at times

Fix for an issue introduced in tuner 1.02 regarding AI penalty frequency in offline modes. Penalties from the AI offline using this tuner will now be the same as they are in tuners 1.00 and 1.01

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https://forums.ea.com/en/nhl/discussion/240895/nhl-19-patch-1-55-notes-available-feb-20th-5-am-et

Hey everyone,

Tonight at 2 AM PT/5 AM ET, Patch 1.55 and Tuner 1.04 will be going live in NHL 19. For Tuner 1.04 notes, please view the tuner post here.

Patch 1.55 is adding in the highly-requested addition of the ability to have a Wins-Based Competitive Season/HUT Champions leaderboard. Also included in Patch 1.55 is the previously mentioned fix for the Network Performance Screen and some gameplay improvements relating to goalies tracking the puck and players behind the net and improved blends from deking into quick shots.

Please note that while Tuner 1.04 will be bringing in some changes to a player’s speed, acceleration, and agility when backskating with the puck, there were no other changes made to skating.

Read below to find out everything that is in Patch 1.55.

Hockey Ultimate Team

Added in a new Leaderboard functionality to have HUT Champions and Competitive Seasons scoring also be Wins-based

Wins-based Competitions will rank players by the number of Wins, with Round Points used as a tiebreaker.

Points-based Competitions will continue to rank users by Round Points.

Removed the ability to see the opponent’s team name and information during the loading screen. The screen will show your network connection and the HUT logo now.

With the addition of Wins-Based leaderboards, we will be able to use them in any HUT Competitive Season mode while still maintaining the functionality of being able to do Points Based events. We wanted to maintain the Points-based competitions functionality as there are certain season structures (i.e. HUT Champions Qualifiers) that make a lot more sense to do in Points-based competitions as opposed to Win-based.

Additionally, we have removed the ability to see your opponent’s team name and information during the loading screen as we received complaints from a lot of players that opponents would back out against them if they recognized their name, making it harder for them to find a game. You will still be able to see the connection bar as you enter the game.

Online

Fixed an issue where the Network Performance Screen was showing a user’s ping rate as half of what it truly was. (e.g. a 20 ping rate showed up on the screen as 10) This was a purely visual fix and will not affect your online experience. It will now show correctly on the screen.

Gameplay

Improved how goalies track puck and player motion behind the net

Improved how goalies react to wrap around attempts behind the net

Improved blends from deking into quick shots to make the timing more realistic

Improved motion into backhand toe drag in some contexts

Identified and fixed a bug where a player skating backwards with the puck wasn’t properly accepting the “with puck” penalties to speed, acceleration, and agility. Alongside the bug fix, we’ve also done some tuning changes to reduce the impact of what the original values were supposed to be.

The gameplay changes made will help address some of the key areas we’ve seen complaints about: backskating with the puck, wraparound goals, and “shovel shot”-style goals. These are the only gameplay changes made in Patch 1.55
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https://twitter.com/TheFlopFish/status/1098041659244273665

it's inbetween where it was in NHL 18 and where it was now. It was still super effective when used properly in NHL 18, any top player would know that it was.
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l Dings l · Feb 19, 2019

Cringe

xKillzone99 · Feb 19, 2019

Gonna get hate for this, but a ton of bad players who only relied on LT spam are actually gonna have to get good at the game... What a shame...

jackD00P · Feb 20, 2019

xKillzone99 said: ↑

Gonna get hate for this, but a ton of bad players who only relied on LT spam are actually gonna have to get good at the game... What a shame...
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@Sejje

clutchcolbs · Feb 20, 2019

Wow a tuner for goalies? Thank god.

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