Your existing savegames will be compatible with the updated game.
This hotfix addresses some critical issues, particularly with college hockey, that became evident after Tuesday's release, as well as a small number of other fixes/changes we were able to make without risking additional complications. Barring any game-breaking issues becoming apparent, our next update will be in a couple of weeks and will address a much larger number of things, as well as including the "Current" start option with updated rosters.
Changes:
- fixed issue where some college teams were releasing senior players on March 15, even if they were still playing at that point
- increased advantage of team holding the player rights (i.e. verbal commitment) on National Signing Day
- teams are much more likely to try to secure their committed players first on National Signing Day
- significantly increased college team staff budgets and increased number of starting staff
- 2023 OHL and QMJHL drafts now have more and better players avaialble - they're still fairly weak drafts, but we'll be working on that in the next update
- adjusted early-season college rankings (in news story) to de-emphasize teams who've played very few games
- the text on the buttons in the Steamworks popup are no longer cut off at the top and bottom
- fixed issue where right-clicking on a player to make a trade could result in the trade interface opening with another team in the spot where the user's -fixed issue where right-clicking on a player to make a trade could result in the trade interface opening with another team in the spot where the user's team should be
- FPHL is visible again on the league setup screen at the start of the game
- made more additions to the historical presets (injuries/suspensions) file
- added player name back to the personal details section of the player screen's Bio tab
