NHL 19 Tuner 1.03 - Expected Availability October 24th @ 2am PST

Tuned down AI aggression towards the puck carrier and loose pucks in Online VS and HUT

Further muting of AI defensive actions in Online VS and HUT. There will still be some rare cases where the AI will perform a defensive action if the puck comes loose as we want them to defend passes and their logic works similar on pass receptions and loose puck acquisition.

Improved cases where an AI goalie was reacting too quickly to passes even when not reading a pass.

Improved cases where an AI goalie was able to recover too easily against their momentum.

Improved cases where goaltender passes were getting overly assisted

Improved some cases where players would sometimes lose the puck from incidental contacts that weren’t big enough to trigger a stumble. This was done by increasing the distance the puck needs to be from the stick for incidental puck loss. Collisions of stumbles or greater remained unchanged and will follow the same physics behavior as before.

Improved a player’s ability to withstand push checks at lower relative speeds, especially from behind. Results will still vary based on the players involved and the more detailed context of the collision.



We’re continuing to monitor some other major areas of feedback from the community, however at this time we have not implemented any changes. These include skating and poke checking.

This tuner is aimed to help address two major areas of feedback we have seen from the community: the prevelance of Skillzone defense and incidental contact/bumps being too strong.