NHL 21

Art
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Uniforms
- Fixed issue with the Calgary Flames Reverse Retro Neckline coloring
- Fixed issue with the Colorado Avalanche Reverse Retro Crest being too low on uniform
- Fixed issue with the Ottawa Senators Reverse Retro Crest Coloring on uniform

Logos
- Updated Nurnberg IceTigers Logo

General
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- Added Spengler Cup teams to Play Now and Online Versus
- Fixed the text for the Sherwood Code V Player Stick in Creation Zone

  

Gameplay
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General
- Fixes to cases where tripping penalties were being missed
- Updated dive block animations to be more flush to the ice
- Fix for users being forced out of vision control when receiving a manual saucer pass
- Fixed a case where one-timers from specific pass angles were weaker than expected
- Fixed a case where players were not being called for goalie interference when hitting the goaltender after taking a shot
- Various Desync fixes

Goalies
- Fixed a case where the puck could go through the goalies stick 
- Fixed an issue where goalies were auto-covering the puck through the net when on the post

AI
- Fixed a case where the AI would get stuck behind the net during a breakout
- Improved situations where defensive AI players would lose their assignments off a faceoff tieup loss
- Fixed an issue where defenders would skate away from the play if their target went for a line change

Franchise
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- Fixed the bug where players with low overalls and player roles have high trade value in Franchise
- Fixed the bug where franchise Record Book tuning are not displaying accurate stats
- Fixed the bug where auto created players in franchise get created with 0/99 for all the skating style sliders

Be A Pro
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- Fixed the bug where low player overall still grants captaincy in sophomore year
- Fixed the bug where shift length timer counts slower than it should
- Misc. conversation and challenge fixes

HUT 
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- Added a ‘Max Average Ping’ Setting to HUT Online Game Modes which can be used to reduce or increase the Maximum Average Ping you’ll matchmake with
- Added the ability to Hide the impact of Team Synergies (from other players) in the Player Information screen
- HUT Rush Events using players from your HUT Collection will now pre-populate your Team by automatically picking your highest rated players available. You’ll still be able to make changes before confirming your team for the Event.
- Fixed an issue where Quick Swap wasn’t available to add Locked Players to Powerplay or Penalty Kill Lines in HUT Rush 5v5 Events
- Fixed an issue in HUT Rush where sometimes both teams Mascots wore the same jersey

World of CHEL
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General
- Added a ticker stats system in the WoC HUB to better showcase your Career Stats, Club Stats, Player Rank, and Club Finals Results and you can click into those stats to be brought to new stats summary screens
- Created a new screen to track Player Career Stats, Club Stats, Player Rank Stats and Club Finals stats
- Added additional content into WoC for upcoming Chel Challenges. Check back often to collect the latest cool new content

Fixes
- Fixed an infrequent crash at the end of a club finals game
- Fixed an issue where the screen became completely black during a penalty shot
- Fixed a rare crash that would occur when skipping the outro NIS in an EASHL game
- Fixed an issue where equipping facemasks would cause hair clipping through helmets
- Fixed a post-game issue that caused the GAA and Save % for goalies to be cut off in the 3 stars of the game showcase

Art
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Equipment
The following equipment has been added to NHL 21

- Bauer Re-Akt 150 Player Helmet
- CCM Tacks 910 Player Helmet
- Warrior Alpha DX Gold Player Stick
- Warrior Cover RS Pro Player Helmet

Uniforms
The following uniforms have been added or updated in NHL 21

NHL
- Colorado Avalanche Home, Away and Alternate
- Dallas Stars Alternate
- NHL Reverse Retro Uniforms (All 31 teams)

AHL
- Colorado Eagles Home and Away
- Henderson Silver Knights Home and Away

ECHL
- Newfoundland Growlers Alternate
- Rapid City Rush Home, Away and Alternate
- Wichita Thunder Home and Away

QMJHL
- Acadie-Bathurst Titan Home and Away
- Baie-Comeau Drakkar Home and Away
- Blainville-Boisbriand Armada Home and Away
- Cape Breton Eagles Home and Away
- Charlottetown Islanders Home, Away and Alternate
- Chicoutimi Sagueneens Home and Away
- Drummondville Voltigeurs Home and Away
- Gatineau Olympiques Home and Away
- Halifax Mooseheads Home and Away
- Moncton Wildcats Home and Away
- Quebec Remparts Home and Away
- Rimouski Oceanic Home and Away
- Rouyn Noranda Huskies Home and Away
- Saint John Sea Dogs Home and Away
- Shawinigan Cataractes Home and Away
- Sherbrooke Phoenix Home and Away
- Val-D’or Foreurs Home and Away
- Victoriaville Tigres Home and Away

Penny-DEL
- Adler Mannheim Home, Away and Alternate
- Augsburger Panther Home and Away
- Bremerhaven Fischtown Pinguins Home, Away and Alternate
- Dusseldorfer EG Home, Away and Alternate
- Eisbaren Berlin Home, Away and Alternate
- EHC Red Bull Munchen Home and Away
- ERC Ingolstadt Home and Away
- Grizzlys Wolfsburg Home, Away and Alternate
- Iserlohn Roosters Home, Away and Alternate
- Kolner Haie Home, Away and Alternate
- Krefeld Pinguine Home, Away and Alternate
- Nuremberg Ice Tigers Home and Away
- Schewenninger Wild Wings Home, Away and Alternate
- Straubing Tigers Home, Away and Alternate

Improvements
- Updated the Montreal Canadiens Scoreboard and Power Ring Video Art
- Fixed an issue where the North Bay Battalion uniforms were missing the chevron logos on their arms

  

Franchise
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- Fix for an issue in the Franchise Mode Edit Lines Screen when selecting the "Substitute in all lines" option.

  

Gameplay
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General
- Fixed cases where players would deflect pucks in unintended situations
- Fixed a specific case where a penalty shot was called despite the player not having a clean break
- Fixes for pickup consistency while the puck is around the net and goaltenders
- Fixed a few specific pickups where tall players were having trouble picking up the puck 
- Fixed some cases where reviewed goals were overriding goalie interference situations
- Fixed a case where players were unable to get back on the ice after taking coincidental roughing penalties 

Physics
- Fixed a case where stick on stick contact wasn't being recognized
- Various post whistle and scrum player alignment fixes
- Fixed various cases where players would lose the puck unintentionally when blending between animations
- Fixed some cases where collisions along the boards were leading to either no hit reaction or a smaller reaction than expected

Goalies
- Animation improvements to various goalie stances 
- Added glove down butterfly proximity for old school goalie stances
- Various goalie save animation improvements
- Tuned Goalie redirects to avoid some rare collisions where they could redirect the puck off themself
- Improved some cases around guessed saves for human goalies
- Reduced the likelihood of the goalie triggering a preemptive desperation save if the threat is far from the goalie/net
- General tuning for how the ai goalie tracks the puck
- Various puck cover improvements 
- Fixed an issue where the goalie would sometimes spin when attempting an on ice cover

AI
- Improved some Defensive AI gap control cases while defending against the rush 
- Fixed a case where puck carriers could split the defensemen while the defenders switched their coverage on the rush
- Improved weak side defender coverage in front of the net
- Fixed an issue where a player would sometimes choose to start a net battle after starting to intercept which would unintentionally allow pucks through

Training Camp
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- Added videos to training camp for the new dekes introduced this year

Presentation
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- Fixes for screen tearing with certain camera angles in various arenas
- Various camera tuning
- Added replays in the Pause Menu
- Added the ability to skip NISes for rounds 1 and 2 of Eliminator Threes
- Update to the bench camera within Be a Pro to give a better view of the action

World of CHEL
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General
- EASHL Club Finals history screen was added to showcase the top teams from each WoC Season
- Added additional content into WoC for upcoming Chel Challenges. Check back often to collect the latest cool new content

Fixes
- Fixed an issue where the game would sometimes softlock if an opponent suddenly quit after starting a match 
- Fixed a rare hang that occurs during the intro NIS of an EASHL game
- Fixed an issue where the user would sometimes crash on the Post Game Screen
- Fixed a rare crash that would sometimes occur when trying to back out of a post-matchup Dressing room
- Fixed a rare issue where users would sometimes hang in a Threes Eliminator Club Dressing room
- Fixed an issue where the title sometimes hangs during a 3v3 Drop-in game intro 
- Fixed an issue where the dressing room host gets removed from the dressing room if an opponent team backs out at the matchup screen 
– Fixed an issue where any user skater on the same EASHL Drop-In team can pull the user goalie at any point during a game
- Fixed an issue where the Club Pants & Socks were not showing the correct club colors in the post matchup dressing room
- Fixed an issue where the Player stamina and traits/specialties overlaps the goal scorer overlay
- Fixed an issue where the Team overlay was overlapping the Round overlay in Threes Eliminator
- Fixed the Player model overlapping the Player Name during the End of Game, Player of the Game Screen
- Fixed an issue where the championship jerseys had a 20 instead of 21 for the jersey number
- Fixed an issue where changing your gloves for a second time in Creation Zone was not equipping them 
- Fixed an issue where custom logos and center ice lines were not showing up during games in users arena
- Fixed an issue where the Club custom ice line was showing up in the Club Finals Arena
- Fixed Club default search settings not carrying over to the Dressing room matchmaking settings 
– Fixed an issue where players EASHL goal total during the game intro NIS would show as the combination of goals and assists 
- Fixed an issue where the Opponents have their name cut off in the Pro-Am Dressing Room
- Fixed an alignment issue for the Ones Eliminator player list in the abuse reporting 
- Fixed an issue where the player progression screen referred to XP received from Chel Challenge cards as Rank Rewards 
- To more easily read the Player Rank a thousand comma separator was added in the Player Summary Screen
- To more easily read the Experience Points a thousand comma separator was added in the End of game screen when a user gains over 1,000 XP 

Franchise
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- Fix for an issue where defenders were not showing the correct line chemistry values.
- Fix for an issue where Auto Scouting would not rope in early round prospects.
- Fix for an issue where you were unable to see the goalie filter when assigning a scout.
- Fix for an issue where LD and C are mislabeled in the edit lines screen.

Be A Pro
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- Suspected Fix for an issue where the users BAP player's stamina would not decrease when on the ice.
- Added in Neutral States to certain promises. For example, the user promises to be the 1 star of game, the user will now get receive lesser punishment for still performing well but not reaching the goal. Previously you would fail and get the full punishment.
- Added in a Trade Request Conversation that can be accessed in the Main Hub in the user initiated conversation tab.
- Added in new conversations to renew a re-occurring salary perk when it expires.
- Added in the ability to edit shot style and skating style post BAP creation.
- Updated the user experience of the training screen
- Various miscellaneous fixes to conversations.

HUT
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General
- Removed the automatic pop-up when entering Edit Lines before advancing to a game
- Press the OPTIONS button to advance to game from Edit Lines
- Made various bug fixes and visual tweaks to Base Items and Primetime Items

HUT Rush
- Fixed an issue where Players would see the result of the previous game played after their opponent disconnected
- Fixed an issue where the the Goal banner would display at the end of a game in HUT Rush Threes
- Fixed an issue where the Goal banner for a Game Winning Goal would not display at the end of a game in HUT Rush Threes
- Fixed an issue where one of two actions displayed in the points ticker at the same time had the incorrect display name
- Fixed an issue where the game could continue without selecting a side after a controller disconnect
- Fixed an issue where the camera would sometimes be zoomed in too much during the intro/outro in a 5v5 game

HUT Rivals 
- Fixed an issue where only 1 Pack Reward per Rank was displayed

HUT Challenges 
- Fixed an issue where Objectives visually appeared to unlock (while already being unlocked)

Play a Friend
- Fixed an issue where a Player would get an error message trying to join a Play a Friend Game as the 3rd Player

Auctions 
- Fixed an issue where the option to Filter Auction by Buy Now Price was missing

Collection 
- Fixed an issue where the duplicate icon was not present on duplicate players

Edit Player
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- Fixed Edit Player where the overalls are consistently shown between Creation zone and Menus.

Art
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Center Ice Changes
Updated the following Center Ice layouts:

NHL
- Arizona Coyotes
- Calgary Flames
- Ottawa Senators

Uniforms
The following uniforms have been added or updated in NHL 21

NHL
- Arizona Coyotes Home
- Calgary Flames Home, Away and Alternate
- Ottawa Senators Home and Away
- Vegas Golden Knights Alternate

ECHL
- Greenville Swamp Rabbits Home, Away and Alternate
- Maine Mariners Alternate

SHL
- Djurgarden Hockey Home and Away
- Farjestads BK Home and Away
- Orebro Hockey Home, Away and Alternate
- Rogle BK Home and Away
- Skelleftea AIK Home and Away

Liiga
- KalPa Kuopio Home and Away
- Mikkelin Jukurit Home and Away
- SaiPa Home and Away
- TPS Turku Home and Away

ICE
- Dornbirn Bulldogs Home and Away
- EC-KAC Home and Away
- EC VSV Home and Away
- EC Red Bull Salzburg Home and Away
- EHC Linz Home and Away
- Hydro Fehervar AV19 Home and Away
- HC TWK Innsbruck Home and Away
- Graz 99ers Home and Away
- SPUSU Vienna Capitals Home and Away
- HCB Sudtirol Alperia Home and Away

HockeyAllsvenskan
- Almstuna IS Home and Away
- BIK Karlskoga Home and Away
- HC Vita Hasten Home and Away
- IF Bjorkloven Home and Away
- Kristianstads IK Home and Away
- MODO Hockey Home and Away
- Mora IK Home and Away
- Sodertalje SK Home and Away
- Timra IK Home and Away
- Tingsryds AIF Home and Away
- Vasteras IK Home and Away

Nationalliga
- EHC Biel Home and Away
- EV Zug Home and Away
- HC Ambri-Piotta Home and Away
- HC Davos Home and Away
- HC Fribourg-Gotteron Home and Away
- HC Lugano Home and Away
- Geneve-Servette HC Home and Away
- Lausanne HC Home and Away
- SC Bern Home and Away
- SCL Tigers Home and Away
- Rapperswil-Jona Lakers Home and Away
- ZSC Lions Home and Away

International
- Hockey Canada Alternate

Improvements
- Fixed an issue where the 2016-17 Detroit Red Wings Home Jersey had stretched Numbers and Letters
- Updated the Florida Panthers Scoreboard and Power Ring Video Art
- Updated the All-Star team’s arena to be the Enterprise Center in St. Louis
- Fixed the All-Stars Home Arena where it was showing an international goal crease and missing trapezoid

  

General
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- Fixed an issue where HUT and Creation Zone icons would be missing on the PS4™ System when going into game prior to the full game installing

Gameplay
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General
- Fixed issues where the skating style preview animations weren't displaying the slider adjustments properly

Stick Checking
- Fixed a case where sometimes pokechecks would not go the direction intended
- Fixed an issue with defensive skill stick tripping logic

HUT
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Auction House
- Fixed an issue where a user would sometimes crash when purchasing an item in the auction house

World of CHEL
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General
- Fixed stability issues found in post game UI

  

Gameplay
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General 
- Penalty shot logic improvements 

Physics
- Fixed various cases where hugs and pairups were not exiting properly
- Stick height tuning for various player heights for the lacrosse move

Goalies
- Additional save animations for set, butterfly and spread V 
- Animation improvements to the old school stand up goalie stances
- Various upper body puck tracking improvements
- Improvements to spread V locomotion and save selection
- Improved responsivness to attempt new covers when a puck is deflected or has already hit the goalie
- Various other user goalie cover improvements
- Improved AI goalie behavior to fake and lacrosse dekes
- Various user goalie right stick responsiveness and consistency improvements 
- Fixed a case where goalies would get stuck in a sweep animation when hit by another player
- AI goalie tuning around 5 hole shots
- Improved AI goalie ability on long unscreened shots that were scoring too often
- Fixed cases where goalies were unable to abort out of long covers if the puck gets deflected or picked up leaving them vulnerable
- Improvements to AI post play behavior to defend against wraparounds

Skating
- Various stick blending improvements when tranistioning between skating styles
- Various offplay skating improvements 
- Fixed cases where players were pivoting the wrong direction while coming out of a pickup

Shooting
- Fixed a case where one-timers would aim at the ice if a pickup was requested at the same time as a shot
- Fixed a case where spin shots were playing in unintended situations
- Fixed cases where the puck would frequently collide with the players skate while performing a between the legs one-timers
- Improved cases where one-timers were not triggering when intended  
- Various shot release point fixes

Pickups
- Various pickup animation improvements 
- Various pickup improvements for picking up pucks around the crease, goalie and goal line
	- Logic on the offensive side is intended to prevent pickups that pull the puck back from the goal line when a tap in is all that is wanted
	- Logic on the defensive side is to help the defensive player pick up pucks on/around the goal line to avoid weak own goals
- Reduced the distance for successful skate pickups around the net to reduce kicked in goals offensively and defensively
- Fixed cases when picking up pucks while backskating would sometimes pivot players unintentionally
- Various glove pickup fixes
- Fixed some pickup animations where taller players would unintentionally miss the puck 
- Improved bat-down collisions that were missing pucks that should have been knocked down

Passing
- Animation improvements when passing out of a backhand toe drag
- Fixed some cases where passes out of boardplay were not respecting the requested direction

Stick Checking
- Fixed a case where players were getting unintended trips while blending out of a poke check or DSS
- Fixed a case where stick on stick collisions were not forcing the puck carrier to drop the puck
- Fixed some cases where players were getting tripped unintentionally from the front
- Various poke check accuracy improvements

AI
- Improved teammate support when in boardplay
- Fixed cases in  3 on 3 breakouts and rush plays where the defender was too aggressive on more conservative strategies (Standard and Passive)
- Improved cases where strong side wingers during breakouts either left too early or did not support the puck carrier
- Improvements to AI defenders that were getting stuck in gap control for too long
- Improved various cases where AI defenders were getting caught flat footed on the rush
- Various additional rush defense AI and gap control improvements
- Improved F1 logic where they were overcommiting to the weak side in the 1-2-2 neutral zone strategies 
- Fixed some cases where AI puck carriers would back track with the puck into their own zone 
- Fixed some cases where players stopping near the blueline were getting pushed offside by AI players
- Improvements to AI dump retrieval logic
- Improved some cases where weak side defenders would abandon positioning goal side to pressure the puck carrier

Presentation
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- Fixed an issue where the camera would shake when set to zone for both goalie and BAP online camera in EASHL

World of CHEL
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General
- Pre-match lobby now show new match ping threshold ranges
- EASHL Club Finals pre-match lobby now blocks opponent Club Name, Online ID, and Player Prestige Level
- EASHL Club Finals games now count as soon as players start to load into the game instead of at puck drop. 
- Drop-in Team names have been changed to the Nighthawks and Ice Breakers to align with the new casual clothing colors and add easier team/player recognition.
- 23 Ai Players have been replaced with new identities, including the 2 starting goalies in Threes Eliminator, EAHSL Drop-in & EASHL Clubs.
- Added additional content into WoC for upcoming Chel challenges. Check back often to collect the latest cool new content. 

Fixes
- Updated the Threes / Ones Eliminator Player Progression bar in the post-game to match the game mode colors
- Fixed alignment issues with Player Rank Badges in Intro/Outro overlays
- Fixed the grouping of unlocked traits in the Post-Game
- Fixed an issue with Playoff beards where the correct length wasn’t being used for Club Finals games.
- Fixed an issue where your previous placement animation would continually be displaying after the season stat had moved on to the Auditing Leaderboards phase 
- Fixed an issue where Player Rank Badges were displaying the incorrect rank within the leaderboards
- Fixed an issue where Player Rank Badges were not appearing in Post-Game player summary screen
- Fixed an issues where your settings would be reset if the user entered Free Skate

HUT
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HUT Challenges 
– Added Retry option to Pause Menu for Solo Challenges