NHL 18 Patch 1.04 Available, Adds Little Caesar’s Arena, Equipment, Uniforms & More

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NHL 18 patch 1.04 is available today, adding Little Ceasar’s Arena, equipment, uniforms and much more. Check out the patch notes below.

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PRESENTATION:

Stadiums

• Added Little Caesar’s Arena (Detroit Red Wings Home Arena)
• Updated Verizon Center to Capital One Arena
• Updated Nashville Predators Center Ice
• Updated New York Islanders Center Ice
• Updated Ottawa Senators Center Ice
• Updated Pittsburgh Penguins Center Ice
• Updated St. Louis Blues Center Ice
• Updated Washington Capitals Center Ice

EQUIPMENT:

Added True Hockey Equipment

• True Hockey A6.0 SBP Hockey Stick
• True Hockey XC9 ACF Hockey Stick
• True Hockey A6.0 Player Glove
• True Hockey XC9 Player Glove

The following uniforms have been updated in NHL 18:

NHL – National Hockey League

• Updated Edmonton Oilers Pants with updated logo
• Updated Calgary Flames Home and Away Socks

AHL – American Hockey League

• Added Rockford IceHogs Alternate uniform
• Added WBS Penguins Alternate Uniform

ECHL – East Coast Hockey League

• Added Atlanta Gladiators Alternate uniform
• Updated Colorado Eagles Home and Away uniforms
• Added Norfolk Admirals Home, Away and Alternate uniforms

CHL – Canadian Hockey League

• Added Brandon Wheat Kings Home uniform
• Added Erie Otters Home Uniform
• Added Saskatoon Blades Home and Alternate Uniforms
• Added Sudbury Wolves Home and Away uniforms
• Added Val D’Or Foreurs Alternate Uniform

DEL¬ – Deutsche Eishockey Liga

• Updated Home and Away uniforms for all DEL teams to 2017-18 season

National League

• Updated Home and Away uniforms for all National League teams to 2017-18 season

SHL – Swedish Hockey League

• Updated Frolunda Indians Home and Away uniforms
• Updated Karlskrona IK Home and Away uniforms
• Updated Malmo Redhawks Home and Away uniforms
• Updated Mora IK Home and Away uniforms
• Updated Orebro Hockey Home and Away uniforms

HockeyAllsvenskan

• Updated Timra IK Home and Away socks

EBEL – Erste Bank Eishockey Liga

• Updated EHC Linz Uniforms
• Updated Graz 99’ers Uniforms
• Updated Medvescak Zagreb Uniforms
• Added 2017-18 Red Bull Salzburg Uniforms

ELH – Czech Extraliga

• Rebranded PSG Zlin to Aukro Berani Zlin (Logos, Uniforms and Center ice logo)
ISSUES FIXED:

Game Modes

• Fixed an issue where game rarely crashed when sim intervening into a game due to injuries
• Fixed a crash during league creation in Franchise Mode

HUT

• Fixed an issue where a user would encounter a crash in gameplay after using the auction house to get a new player
• Fixed an issue where playing with 12 friends in a HUT game will cause a crash after the first goal is scored
• Fixed an issue that caused a rare crash at the end of a game in Competitive Seasons
• Fixed an issue that caused a rare crash when entering your team name and abbreviation in the Team setup screen
• Fixed Eric Eschweiler’s player portrait

EASHL

• Fixed a crash that was happening on the EASHL Team Matchup screen when entering the screen
• Fixed an issue where when playing a 6v6 match it would sometimes cause a crash at the opening face-off
• Fixed an issue where a rare crash occurred on Xbox 1 when a user edited their player’s last name in Player Creation or Edit Player

Online

• Fixed an issue where users could not find an opponent when playing with a local guest

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