EA Sports has now released a new update for NHL 19 for PS4 and Xbox One. The update is available now for you to download.
EA Sports announced the new NHL 19 update via its official website. Make sure to download the patch in order to improve your gameplay experience. As always, also make sure to give EA Sports feedback on all the latest updates.
Anyway, you can check out the full patch notes posted down below.
Hockey Ultimate Team
- Added in a new Leaderboard functionality to have HUT Champions and Competitive Seasons scoring also be Wins-based
- Wins-based Competitions will rank players by the number of Wins, with Round Points used as a tiebreaker.
- Points-based Competitions will continue to rank users by Round Points.
- Removed the ability to see the opponent’s team name and information during the loading screen. The screen will show your network connection and the HUT logo now.
With the addition of Wins-Based leaderboards, we will be able to use them in any HUT Competitive Season mode while still maintaining the functionality of being able to do Points Based events. We wanted to maintain the Points-based competitions functionality as there are certain season structures (i.e. HUT Champions Qualifiers) that make a lot more sense to do in Points-based competitions as opposed to Win-based.
Additionally, we have removed the ability to see your opponent’s team name and information during the loading screen as we received complaints from a lot of players that opponents would back out against them if they recognized their name, making it harder for them to find a game. You will still be able to see the connection bar as you enter the game.
Online
- Fixed an issue where the Network Performance Screen was showing a user’s ping rate as half of what it truly was. (e.g. a 20 ping rate showed up on the screen as 10) This was a purely visual fix and will not affect your online experience. It will now show correctly on the screen.
Gameplay
- Improved how goalies track puck and player motion behind the net
- Improved how goalies react to wrap around attempts behind the net
- Improved blends from deking into quick shots to make the timing more realistic
- Improved motion into backhand toe drag in some contexts
- Identified and fixed a bug where a player skating backwards with the puck wasn’t properly accepting the “with puck” penalties to speed, acceleration, and agility. Alongside the bug fix, we’ve also done some tuning changes to reduce the impact of what the original values were supposed to be.
The gameplay changes made will help address some of the key areas we’ve seen complaints about: backskating with the puck, wraparound goals, and “shovel shot”-style goals. These are the only gameplay changes made in Patch 1.55
