NHL 24 April 25th Gameplay Tuner

Wow, I can honestly say I didn't see an update coming, especially so late into the cycle but uhh... what?

What counts as a small goalie? Might as well reduce a few inches for a massive boost. Please stop wording posts like this - I beg you, just tell us exactly what does what and how to do it.

LOL the last thing you wanna do is buff Truculence - are you insane? This and Shrug it Off changes will only encourage more goon build meta and ballerina skirting the defense, especially AI.

Edit: I've had a few days to just stew over this and still can't believe it lol

This is a horrible change, why would you buff truculence? Nobody was asking for this, you can already zap a majority of peoples energy with it as is.

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Gameplay Tuner Updates - Available on April 25th, 12 PM ET

Developer Feedback:  We are improving Light Work and Extra Padding X-Factors to encourage their use when using smaller goalies.

• Increased Extra Padding and Lightwork Zone Ability buff for small goalies by 40%
• Increased Extra Padding and Lightwork Superstar Ability buff for small goalies by 15%

Developer Feedback:  We are balancing how much stamina damage is delivered from big hits and boosting Truculence and Shrug It Off to create more incentives to equip these X-Factors. 

• Reduced Non-Truculence hits to deliver a max of 35 stamina damage on biggest hits.
• Increased Truculence Zone Ability to deliver 75% extra stamina damage on biggest hits.
• Increased Truculence Superstar Ability to deliver 35% extra stamina damage on biggest hits.
• Increased Shrug It Off Zone Ability: Will reduce incoming stamina damage from hits by 75%.
• Increased Shrug It Off Superstar Ability: Will reduce incoming stamina damage from hits by 30%.

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Lmao buffing truculence, I swear man.

No one asked for this..

Fix the un realistic speed boost hitting and  all the things that fans and Players are saying. Can u ea seriously listen what the players are saying?. 

we need the full Presentation back as an option for the offline modes for nhl 25  and that we see more save repalys and the starting goalies at the beginning in the pre game intro for nhl 25 

No one wants Truculance buffed. It's already too much as it is (O.P. over powered). Plus the ability for truculance to knock anyone down from any angle with just a hand on the shoulder including from physically unrealistic angles is over powered. Need to at least counteract this with the increased possibility of getting called for charging, elbowing, crosschecking, or boarding (when close to the boards). Would help with its OP use in game as it is. Thanks for listening to my Ted talk. 

Just goes to show you they don't play their own product whatsoever.

Whatever is left of the player base is gone after this tuner, literally NO ONE asked for this.

It will now be mandatory in CHEL modes to run either of these to even be able to play the game after the stamina update tuner.

Just, wow, just so completely out of touch with your own players. It's actually insanely embarassing.

WHO is making all these terrible decisions?!

EA and game developers, sorry to say this but you have phenomenal skill to ruin this hockey game completely.

You know that truculence is so op. Super small players can hit or pump you off the puck easily, doesnt matter if you are much bigger.

Many competitive tournaments have created own rules and banned truculence. This decision is based to poll answers by players so im pretty sure that most of us are laughing to your decision to buff truculence. 

I have to ask that are you guys working drunk or under some kind of medicine? 

I think only way to get better and good realistic hockey game is that we need competitor to markets. Hope so we get this in the future.

Then you EA seriously need to concentrate to fix things which are important and what we customer really want… 

No one wanted Truculence Buffed and Shrug It off is a waste of an X-Factor Slot with other X-Factors being better. Can we also get a precise definition of what "smaller" goalies are? 6'3" and under?