First NHL 12 Screenshot Revealed, What Differences Do You See?

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Quote: Originally Posted by plaidchuck

I agree about the constant tuning. It's a great thing to have but all they ever do with it is try to fix the EASHL and bork off-line game play.

After reading variations of this comment a lot lately, I went back and played a few games with the first/second tuner. Two things that jumped out at me were puck protect was useful again and there appeared to be more speed separation. I believe both of these were tuned with the EASHL in mind and did have a negative effect on offline play. Unfortunately, there were some good changes in the later sets so it's somewhat of a 'pick your poison' scenario.

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So what I'm saying is, there probably is something similar for NHL12 that shows the major additions/improvements, but it hasn't been leaked... yet.

How dare you hope for such a thing I agree on the pick your poison thought, but can't they seperate the two? In other words can't they have an update for one, but not the other?

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Quote: Originally Posted by savoie2006

I agree on the pick your poison thought, but can't they seperate the two? In other words can't they have an update for one, but not the other?

Yes, I think it is feasible, but not how they want to do it or at least that's my impression. Some of the tuners had changes that only affected online play. However, what I think you're getting is having two distinct tuning "philosophies", which I assume would be less than ideal from the development/testing/implementation perspectives.

I do agree with your general premise though... if tuning changes X, Y, and Z are strictly aimed at online exploits that would not apply to offline play, releasing two tuners at once -- with the "current" one having the online tuning -- would be ideal. This is more or less what they did with 2.0/2.01 and the auto backskate issue.