January 28th at 02:00 AM PST/05:00 AM EST

AI skaters will not perform defensive actions against active puck carriers The Beta Tuner Rollback allowed this for the first 2-4 frames, which is why people saw the change in the AI Note: the AI will maintain their skating aggression and positioning from the roll back as people preferred it as opposed to the past gameplay tuner

AI skaters will not commit penalties in Online VS or HUT

Reduced the chance ai skaters will put the puck over the glass for delay of game penalties in World of Chel

Added back in the forehand stick lift faceoff win speed increase

Added in the fix to the energy regained at the whistle so that we see more realistic rolling of lines Many players commented that they felt they were able to stack their lines to use their top players more frequently, which provided less of a realistic experience.

Tuning fixes for AI Goalie logic for when to play the puck out of their net Sometimes goalies were getting a little too aggressive; this will help prevent that

Added back in consistency for user goalies to transition to post hug at extreme facing directions

Tuned back in the penalty logic changes around trips

Tuned back in the pokecheck accuracy improvements

Split the difference on the stick lift penalty tuning so it will be between Tuner 1.00 and Tuner 1.03 A majority of the community mentioned that while stick lifts were too strong in the Beta Tuner, they were also causing too many penalties in 1.03 which made them less effective. This change should help find the proper balance for them.

Added back in puck pickup tuning fixes

Tuning out dropped and broken sticks again in online modes

Added back in the tuning to increase loose puck deke success

Tuned back in the changes to lower goalies’ ability to react to passes as quickly when they aren’t reading pass

Tuned back in fix to lower assistance on goalie passes

Finally, we split the difference between Tuner 1.00 and Tuner 1.03 on the incidental puck loss distance tuning but keeping the low relative speed hitting tuning from 1.00 This will help address the complaints we saw in Tuner 1.03 around players being unable to bump players off the puck at low speeds in the corner, but reduce the amount of incidental contact puck loss that we also saw complaints about from Tuner 1.00



The tuner is now live. Thank you for your patience.Late last night we caught an issue with one of the tuner changes not working properly and have postponed the release of it. We will provide more details when we get them.Hey everyone,First and foremost, thank you everyone for providing feedback regarding the Beta Tuner rollback. We received a significant amount of feedback from the entire community and have taken that feedback in as we work on our next tuner to help make the gameplay better for everyone.While we have been hard at work collecting and digesting all the feedback from the surveys and written responses, we have also been working on getting the next tuner ready so we can get it in game as soon as possible.We’re excited to announce that the next tuner update will be coming on! The tuner will be built directly off of the feedback we received from the past two weeks. In order for us to do this quickly, you will once again see it as an update to Tuner 1.03 as we are first making the updates to online modes only, just as we did for the rollback. Entering any online experience, you will be asked to redownload that tuner to get the changes for the online modes. These tuner changes are only available for online modes.We will continue to monitor gameplay with this new foundation and will eventually put up a 1.04 tuner with final tuning that will be able to be used Offline as well.First and foremost, this new tuner update will use the Beta Tuner (v1.00) as the foundation for gameplay. When going through the feedback, a lot of people preferred the core gameplay aspects of v1.00 especially related to both skating and hitting.With Tuner v1.00 as the foundation, we will be making the following adjustments to align with feedback we received:Again, we thank you for your constructive feedback in forums, on Twitter, and in messages. The detailed feedback we saw along with the video clips we received allowed us to understand and address the issues to help make the game better.We’re excited for you to get your hands on the new update and we look forward to seeing your feedback on it!-The EA SPORTS NHL team