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[shogunofharlem3]

Quote: Originally Posted by Josam27o7

How is everyone feeling about how this latest patch ruined the skating. There is a floatiness to it now. It has completely ruined the experience. Why devs? why?

I find the opposite, but I use my own sliders and I think it is skater agility, which I equate to ice friction, because when my guys turn they are heavy depending on what speed I try to turn at and if I try too sharp, I lose the puck depending on the puck carrier. I'm pretty happy with that.

I just wish they would tone down the AI reaction time. I've been speaking of it for a while. I have such great games but hate that the millisecond I press poke check, they pull their stick away, if I spam it, they will weirdly looking do it over and over.

Go to shoot, they are able to stop it because they are programmed to poke when you shoot, but there should be a delay there as to when you shoot, they react, maybe the puck is already by them. That is my one single gripe with the game right now. Hoping a new patch or update could fix that as there is no slider for it.

[Josam27o7]

Quote: Originally Posted by shogunofharlem3

I find the opposite, but I use my own sliders and I think it is skater agility, which I equate to ice friction, because when my guys turn they are heavy depending on what speed I try to turn at and if I try too sharp, I lose the puck depending on the puck carrier. I'm pretty happy with that. I just wish they would tone down the AI reaction time. I've been speaking of it for a while. I have such great games but hate that the millisecond I press poke check, they pull their stick away, if I spam it, they will weirdly looking do it over and over. Go to shoot, they are able to stop it because they are programmed to poke when you shoot, but there should be a delay there as to when you shoot, they react, maybe the puck is already by them. That is my one single gripe with the game right now. Hoping a new patch or update could fix that as there is no slider for it.

What is your skater agility setting? I use al tito's which is 45. The problem with the patch is that now you only feel weight on really sharp turns at higher speeds. Before the patch when you tried to accelerate you could feel the weight of trying to pick up speed, it felt like you were controlling something substantial. With the patch, everyone feels like feathers when they accelerate. The patch also introduced this problem, instead of taking 5 strides to cover a certain amount of ground now it only takes 3 (The patch introduced a float to cover more ground w/ less strides.)

[MizzouRah]

Quote: Originally Posted by Josam27o7

How is everyone feeling about how this latest patch ruined the skating. There is a floatiness to it now. It has completely ruined the experience. Why devs? why?

I'm on mostly defaults 4/4.. but I feel the exact opposite. I think skating is the best it's ever been, players have more weight to them, depending on size/attributes. In fact, this last patch/tuner has nailed the game play for me in all areas.

This is what I expected when NHL 17 was released.

[THESHAMISASHAME]

Quote: Originally Posted by Josam27o7

How is everyone feeling about how this latest patch ruined the skating. There is a floatiness to it now. It has completely ruined the experience. Why devs? why?

Im on near default and I agree it feels very floaty and I have worse reaction time but this happens every year after updates so if it worth it start tweaking sliders but then expect a domino effect to some degree .

Its 2016 and you have ask is it worth it ? As I just wanna pick up and play with a few tweaks but once again even with all the new sliders its just not worth it at times especially without in game sliders .

[Splitter77]

I'm using all Titos sliders and this latest patch has knocked my shots on goal down about 5-10 shots per game. Love this patch.

Anyone know what the gameplay tuner did?

[Therion7]

Quote: Originally Posted by Josam27o7

What is your skater agility setting? I use al tito's which is 45. The problem with the patch is that now you only feel weight on really sharp turns at higher speeds. Before the patch when you tried to accelerate you could feel the weight of trying to pick up speed, it felt like you were controlling something substantial. With the patch, everyone feels like feathers when they accelerate. The patch also introduced this problem, instead of taking 5 strides to cover a certain amount of ground now it only takes 3 (The patch introduced a float to cover more ground w/ less strides.)

I have skater agility now set to 41 ( I was using 45 pre-latest patch ). Also, you mention acceleration. I play on game speed 2 but felt that was a little slow originally so gave that a slider a small bump to 55.

I've now turned acceleration down to 51 and these two changes brings back the weightiness you mention. The best way to describe it is that you can sort of feel a standing player pushing off his skates to pick up speed.

Do agree, this week's patch brought a bit of floatiness and the subtle dev-side increase in these two fields gave the action on-ice a pinball multiball feel that was just too frantic to what I'd been playing up until now. Good news is that you can definitely get the old feeling back and it also reduces goal totals a little because you're impacting all players ability to figure skate and do crazy stuff.

If you're in season mode, maybe mod your two sliders, save, quit then do a full restart of the game from the dash / XMB, just to make sure the changes actually take. Sometimes, I'm of the opinion they don't.

[DJ]

Quote: Originally Posted by MizzouRah

I'm on mostly defaults 4/4.. but I feel the exact opposite. I think skating is the best it's ever been, players have more weight to them, depending on size/attributes. In fact, this last patch/tuner has nailed the game play for me in all areas. This is what I expected when NHL 17 was released.

I agree. In fact, I'm liking the way this game plays so much right now that I decided against getting any other games this weekend, and will focus the next few months on NHL 17.

[jake19ny]

I don't know....I'm running out of energy trying to find a sweet spot with this game. Not liking the new tuner. I've played 4 games with it and every game both sides are scoring 4 of more goals. I'm seeing the old magnetic puck back and the loose play seems gone. I don't understand how a player gets knocked to the ice and an still get up and skate in with the puck before I can gain control of the puck. In 3 of the 4 games the CPU scored a goal by shooting it over the net and it hits the glass bounces off into my goalies back and into the net. The CPU is doing the old NHL16 back skating through the neutral zone until it gain entry. Ugh....these are my settings I had great games with prior to patch and tuner. I'm just exhausted trying to get this game to play decent. Taking a break