Different scouts will specialize in different skills and regions, and each of them will have thirty ratings that will affect the scouts’ abilities. Players will be able to assemble teams of twenty scouts in total, both pro and amateur. The Franchise Mode in NHL 19 also overhauls scouting mechanics, which according to EA Sports is “deep enough to be its own management game”. Hit tracking has also supposedly been improved. In addition, NHL 19 is also making use of a new physics system that reworks the in-game collisions. Movement in the game will place a heavy emphasis on both, size and skill, and animations will flow into each other better than in previous games. Several different skaters were motion captured, and EA Sports have overhauled the animations to make them fluider, and more realistic and authentic. Like most new EA Sports games, NHL 19 will make use of the Real Player Motion technology. They will have a new physics system for collisions, as well as new PBR lighting.

EA Sports confirmed that they didn’t have plans to make the game for PC or for the Nintendo Switch. EA Sports have made use of new technology for the development of NHL 19. NHL 19 was announced in June 2018 for a September 2018 release on the PS4 and Xbox One.

It will be available on the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. NHL 19 in a hockey sports simulation game developed and published by EA Sports, based on the NHL license.

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