There hasn't been a tuner update released, yet.
There doesnt have to be tuner, patch works as well. The tuner mostly only changes slider positions. The patch can change all the defaults of the variables (or how tuning is calculated) that the tuner is supposed to then fine tune. This was confirmed 22(?) by Aljo.
The patches could have altered how the speed etc is calculated or the default speed variable, but why? Makes no sense to speed up the game as its now. Hope its a mistake and they accidentally pushed legacy code etc. and will revert. Not the first time with this series…
I mean, they CAN change how the game plays in a patch, but I don't think there was anything like that mentioned in the recent patch notes.
I think the likely answer here is that the gameplay hasn't actually changed, people are just getting used to the game. Personally, I don't think the game really feels any different than when it released early.
They also changed wildcard penalties to penalty shots and then reverted it. This wasn't in any of the patch notes yet they went in and changed it.
The players know that they changed something and whether it's technically a tuner or an unmentioned patch note is just arguing semantics.
