NHL 10 Roster Update 7 and Tuner Set 1.03 Available, Post Impressions Here

[Redshirt_EA]

By the way, another new exploit goal has surfaced already (not the face-off one that was just mentioned) so I'm expecting we'll be making another update when we've figured out a good way to deal with it.

[Assassin]

What exactley is a tuner set? I never really got to mess around with NHL 10 that much. And I'm planning on picking it up soon and I have no idea what a tuner set is.

[Redshirt_EA]

Quote: Originally Posted by Assassin

What exactley is a tuner set? I never really got to mess around with NHL 10 that much. And I'm planning on picking it up soon and I have no idea what a tuner set is.

If you've ever played around with Gameplay Settings it is a bit like changing those, except instead of a few dozen things that can be tweaked there are a couple of thousand.

In previous versions of NHL all these values are tuned only before the game ships and could only be updated with a full title update (patch). With NHL10 we can update the tuning values with an update on the servers. A tuning update is much more limited that a patch, but has the benefit that it can be turned around fairly quickly (testing is the main time involved) compared to a title update.

The main reason we want to update the tuning is to deal with online exploits. It is impossible to anticipate or test for all possible problems (the game probably gets 100 times* more play within a day of release than during all of development and testing) so having the flexibility to deal with things after the fact can help a lot.

So online is the main impetus behind wanting tuning updates, but it also gives us the changes to address offline play to some degree.


*pulled that number out of the air, don't quote me on it.

[kerosene31]

Quote: Originally Posted by Redshirt_EA

Not sure what shot you mean, can you describe it? Please use PM if it is something exploitable online.

PM sent. If someone out there knows more about it (like exactly how to exploit it), please send it to Redshirt.

[Dino]

Quote: Originally Posted by Redshirt_EA

By the way, another new exploit goal has surfaced already (not the face-off one that was just mentioned) so I'm expecting we'll be making another update when we've figured out a good way to deal with it.

Wow, that was fast. That is a shame. sad face.

[Redshirt_EA]

Quote: Originally Posted by Dino

Wow, that was fast. That is a shame. sad face.

With as many changes as were made it isn't entirely unexpected that there would be some hiccups with it. Looks like it might not be too difficult to fix this specific problem though.

[LuGer33]

Quote: Originally Posted by Redshirt_EA

With as many changes as were made it isn't entirely unexpected that there would be some hiccups with it. Looks like it might not be too difficult to fix this specific problem though.

Sounds good.

[savoie2006]

I'm not suprised a new exploit has surfaced. Too many people have too much time to find these exploits. EA might as well hire an entirely different team to fix these because they will spend all year every year trying to "fix" them. If the game developers keep trying to, they may never get their next game finished. Either that or find a way to punish them so it doesn't continually happen.