The first big update has hit recently-launched Eastside Hockey Manager, the ice hockey-centric sim game from the developers of Football Manager.
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The title is currently in Early Access on Steam (release details here), and Sports Interactive will continue to grow and improve the game. It is now updated to version 15.1.0b, the first of what studio head Miles Jacobson says will be bi-weekly patches.
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There are a slew of changes in the update, adding some visual features, fixing the UI, and making several gameplay improvements. These largely relate to AI, particularly how the computer evaluates player trades, values, and contracts. That's important in any sports games, and as fun as it is to improve your team, it feels to cheap to get a clearly unfair trade done. Here are the patch notes:
New features
- Graphical playoff tree for viewing playoff stages
- Added skin graphics for attributes on player and non-player profiles
- New AI for evaluating the overall roster changes in trades
Database Import changes for 2014 rules [apply to new games started with newly imported databases only]:
- Changed various relegation stage stats type to playouts
- Changed Swedish league relegation stage to have two rounds of games
- Updated Russian league points system
- Added alternative schedule with olympic break for Russian league schedule
- Adjusted expected wages in Russian league
- Adjusted expected wages in Finnish leagues
Database Import changes for 2006 rules [apply to new games started with newly imported databases only]:
- Fixed olympic years for older historical databases
Gameplay changes:
- Improved AI evaluation of players in trades
- Improved AI for trimming roster when near salary cap limits
- Improved chances of players waiving their no-trade clause when being traded to a contender
- Scout assignment instructions default to "Recaps only" for reports
- Improved AI evaluation of draft picks in trades
- Improved AI evaluation of expected turns of draft picks
- Improved AI for responding to trade offers when offering out players to all teams
- Improved AI for putting expensive older players on the block
- Updated NAL scheduling templates to fix the issue of too many consecutive games
- Updated NAL all-star game date
- Fixed away jersey selection for certain leagues to use white away
- Fixed GM patience not resetting between trade negotiations
- Fixed league statistics CSV export for playoff stats
- Disabled foreign release clauses on standard contracts at Russian teams
- Nation overview screen now lists only first nationality players in the top players/youths
- Fixed contract extension demand strings on contract offer screen
- Fixed international tournament host selection news item year being one year off in some cases
- Fixed North-American pro teams signing players from juniors during playoffs
- Allowed human managers to keep three goalies on roster without warning when not coaching games
- Fixed team ranking evaluations for season preview news
- Fixed best players by position evaluations for season preview news
- Entry level contracts signed near the end of the season will now automatically slide one year forward
- Fixed being able to offer contracts to restricted free agents in Russia
- Fixed rights expiry date for players drafted out of college
- Adjustments to older player progression
- Adjustments to player budget changes between seasons
- Adjustments to shortlisting players for major hockey nations
UI changes:
- Improved usability of the news screen buttons
- Improved visibility of the text color in section tabs in the titlebar
- Darkened screen containers slightly for improved readability
- Changed action buttons in titlebar to use inverted colors for better visibility
- Fixed attributes being shown on training panel with the "Hidden" attribute display option on
- Fixes to some team names not displaying on various news items/screens
- Fixed duplicated offering club name in offer sheet news item
- Added extra information to tutorial info for screens that require confirmation before continuing
- Moved "Roster" action menu with the "ask coach" actions from the subtitle menu to the key actions area in titlebar
Other changes:
- Fixes to missing club names/colours in some databases
- Added keyboard shortcut (ESC) for preferences in the start screen
- Fixed a crash related to staff notes
- Fixed a training camp related crash
- Fixed a crash with contract offer screen quickflicks and see also menu
