EA NHL 24 update 1.40 (patch 1.4) details released for PS4 and Xbox One players. According to the official NHL 24 1.40 patch notes, the latest update brings notable changes to gameplay mechanics, goalie behavior, tournament rules, franchise mode, and presentation. In addition, NHL 24 patch 1.40 also includes various tweaks and changes.
Recently, the game was released with positive reviews. Unfortunately, players are still facing server issues with the game. Today’s NHL 24 version 1.40 will address a few of these issues.
Check out more details below.
NHL 24 Update 1.40 Patch Notes (1.4.0)
Gameplay
Goalie X-Factors:
- Community Feedback: Certain Goalie X-Factor Zone Abilities don’t provide enough incentive to use. This results in players feeling like they have limited choice when assigning Goalie X-Factors.
- Goalie X-Factor: LIGHT WORK has been updated to provide more gameplay benefit:
- Added a boost to Goalie Precision vs Wrist Shot / Snap Shots.
- Added a boost to Goalie Precision vs any shot within 20ft of the net.
- Goalie X-Factor: EXTRA PADDING has been updated to provide more gameplay benefit:
- Added a boost to Goalie Precision vs Slap Shots.
- Added a boost to Goalie Precision vs any shot further than 25ft of the net.
- Goalie X-Factor: WHIRLWIND has been updated to increase incentive to equip Zone Ability and provide more gameplay benefit:
- Increased the Zone Ability Teammate Energy boost
- Goalie X-Factor: HANDLED IT has been updated to more gameplay benefit:
- Increased the Zone Ability Teammate Energy boost
- Goalie X-Factor: ENERGIZER has been updated to provide more gameplay benefit:
- Increased the Zone Ability Teammate Energy boost
Goalie Size Balancing:
Community Feedback: There is not enough incentive to use smaller goalies over larger goalies. Larger goalies feel like they cover more physical space and are harder to score on. In EASHL, this results in the majority of players creating large sized goalies and in HUT, players primarily dressing tall goalies.
- Save Reach is now scaled by the height of the goalie.
- Smaller Goalies will receive less penalty when making far Reaching Saves.
- Larger Goalies will receive a higher penalty when making far Reaching Saves.
- Currently, Save Reach scaling is only enabled when Light Work or Extra Padding is equipped.
User Goalie Save Accuracy:
Community Feedback: User Goalies who are square to the puck are too inaccurate at making saves, allowing pucks to squeak through, while User Goalies who are out of position are making too many highly accurate reaching saves.
- Increased the max accuracy of a User Goalie when making saves with a high Precision score. Precision score is calculated when attempting a save and is influenced by multiple factors (attributes/screen/fatigue/reach/etc.)
- Increased bonus applied to Precision score when User Goalie is square to the puck and requires less reach to make a save.
- Increased penalty applied to Precision score when User Goalie is out of position and required to make far reaching saves.
Push Checks in Front of Net:
Community Feedback: Recent changes increased the chance of getting called for a penalty when Push Checking in front of the net. Defensemen want a way to clear the net, allowing for better defending in close proximity to the crease to prevent screens/deflections/tap ins.
The defending team can push check and knock down their opponent within [20ft] of the net with reduced risk of drawing an interference penalty.
However, multiple push checks within a short time frame, regardless of distance to net, can result in Cross Check penalty.
Other Improvements:
- Added new Goalie save animations for quick saves to the glove and five hole.
- Adjusted Goalie Save animations when diving to their glove side to keep blocker higher.
- Players can now perform Jump on Boards celly if celebration triggers while along the boards.
- Fixed a rare crash bug that could trigger when taking a slapshot.
- Fixed an issue where Skaters would accelerate faster than expected while preparing for a Shoulder Check.
- Goalie will transition into proper stance when coming off post in VH stance, allowing them to make quicker saves from shots from the corner.
Be a Pro
- Fixed an issue where the coach could tell the user goalie that they are not meeting expectations even if the user has good stats
- Fixed an issue where saving changes in Edit Player reset the play-by-play name to A.J.
Presentation
- HUT – Player Card is now present during Flex Moment goal celebrations
- Classic Goal Celebrations – Players can now celebrate by jumping into the boards during classic goal celebrations (contextual – player needs to be close to boards)
- Classic Goal Celebrations – Celebrations trigger more immediately after button press
World of Chel
- Fixed an issue where user’s goalie settings do not persist through title reboot in World of CHEL
- Fixed an issue where Users cannot assign Alternate Captaincy in Club Members
- Fixed an issue where the Club Finals records are not being displayed in accordance with the new Finals playoff structure.
- Fixed an issue where Ones Eliminator and Threes Eliminator modes were not accessible during Club Finals leaderboard auditing.
- Fixed an issue where the World of CHEL Club Finals Elimination Retry pop-up only triggered on exiting and re-entering World of CHEL, not in Dressing Room after elimination.
- Fixed a failed to retrieve data (FRTD) issue that users were encountering when entering the World of CHEL store.
- Fixed an issue where being a Special Character in the Dressing Room, previewing items in the World of CHEL Store would cause the avatar to break when returning to the Dressing Room
- Fixed an issue where the goal celebration preview button was nonfunctional in the item preview screen in Battle Pass & World of CHEL store.
- Fixed an issue where some users with EA Play subscriptions couldn’t view or receive EA Play incentive offers in the WOC Store
- Fixed an issue where the purchase text is missing for EA Play Membership Chel Coin Rewards
- Fixed an issue where the EA Play Rewards headers were missing in the World of CHEL Store
- Fixed unlocalized text that was present in the World of CHEL Store descriptions.
- Fixed the Great Britain Player Banner Background so it shows the correct flag.
- Fixed an issue where users would lose functionality trying to open the Battle Pass after completing an online World of CHEL game.
- Fixed an issue where EASHL matchmaking would change to the Finding Opponent step even if the user doesn’t find any Teammates.
- Fixed an issue where Matchmaking doesn’t advance to Finding Opponent after five seconds when skater positions of a dressing room are filled.
- Fixed an issue where users could hear the opponent’s VOIP in the pre-game matchup screen for EASHL game modes.
- Fixed an issue where a customized club jersey logo color wasn’t displaying in the game correctly.
- Fixed an issue where a Clubs Away logo wasn’t brought into gameplay.
- Fixed an issue where the Jersey preview is not correct after one club changes jersey selection in the EASHL matchup screen.
- Fixed an issue where the default player equipment didn’t appear in Club Identity correctly.
- Fixed an issue that would sometimes show players wearing the Anaheim Ducks jerseys when returning to the dressing room after a game.
- Presentation – NIS Logic – Intro/ Outro – Special character player classes are cut off in Clear Player Intro
- Fixed a rare crash that would sometimes occur when quitting the match after puck drop.
Hockey Ultimate Team
- Various UI Fixes
Uniforms
The following uniforms have been added or updated in NHL 24
NHL
New York Rangers Third
All-Star Uniforms
AHL
Calgary Wranglers Third
Colorado Eagles Third
Utica Comets Third
ECHL
Utah Grizzlies Third
Canadian Hockey League
North Bay Battalion Third and Fourth
Halifax Mooseheads Third
Prince Albert Raiders Third
Cape Breton Screaming Eagles Third
The following changes were added previously.
Gameplay
Community Feedback: Lacrosse Shot is too easy to perform with low dekeing rated players.
– Added a chance to bobble a Lacrosse attempt while performing the move using the Total Control skill move button. The lower the deke attribute rating on the skater, the higher the chance for a bobble.
– Increased the difficulty of performing a Lacrosse attempt via Skillstick to match NHL23. The right stick now requires a more consistent Rotation Speed or the skater will lose the puck.
– Skilled Up X-Factor improves the playback speed of the animation like before and keeps control of the puck similar to last patch
Community Feedback: Players are taking unintentional push check related penalties in the offensive zone when trying to one time or shoot a loose puck.
– Holding Vision Control, while in the offensive zone and opponent doesn’t possess the puck will now prioritize Shooting over Hitting when using the Right Stick.
Community Feedback: Players have found unintentional ways to shoot the puck while charging a Pass, resulting in ‘curve’ shots or unrealistic shot animations.
– Fixed the reported issues so players cannot trigger the wrong shot animations and gain an unfair advantage.
Community Feedback: Charging a Shoulder Check can cause your skater to gain a quick boost of speed as they align for a hit which allows them to catch up to players unintentionally.
– The maximum velocity a skater can reach while charging a hit has been capped.
– Removed the bonus Hit Assistance while using Truculence Zone Ability.
Community Feedback: Goalies are stuck in their poke check animation too long without being able to breakout into a save. This allows players to easily bait them into a poke and then score. Some poke check animations take too long for the goalie to extend and recover.
– After the apex of a Goalies poke check animation, they are now able to break out into a save animation.
– Extremely long poke check animations have been shortened to be more consistent with the rest of the poke check animations.
Community Feedback: Players have found a high percentage way to score, while shooting the puck while the goalie is transitioning off Hug Post in a specific pose.
– Slightly increased the distance a Goalie will stay hugging the post when a skater comes out of the corner, allowing them to make more controlled butterfly saves.
Community Feedback: Players have found a way to gain an unintentional boost of speed while saucer passing to themselves with certain skaters and from the backhand.
– The distance the puck travels at minimum power saucer pass is now based on player velocity, pushing the puck further from the player.
Community Feedback: Skaters unintentionally enter the Slap Shot windup animation after stopping Protect Puck while holding right stick in a downward angle.
– Users must release the right stick to the neutral position and push the stick down again to trigger a slapshot windup from protect puck.
Other Fixes:
– Fixed an issue where Vision Pass Icons remained visible after the end of a Period.
– Fixed an issue where NHL Skaters who lost their helmet would not skate directly to the bench.
– Fixed an issue when using Vision Pass to pass to an extra attacker could trigger a poke check animation.
– Fixed an issue where a team may accidentally get a too many men penalty in OT.
– Fixed an issue where an extra Goalie Indicator was visible in Ones.
– Fixed an issue where the faceoff location after a net is knocked off the moorings was incorrect.
– Fixed an issue where certain Shot Block animations were playing incorrectly.
– Fixed an issue where Goalies can get push checked through the net while in Hug Post.
– Fixed an issue where Nets were coming off the mooring too easily during gameplay.
Tournament
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Champions Hockey League – Added new rules for the tournament.
– Minor penalties are dealt the same as a major penalty: a team which caused a minor penalty will remain shorthanded even if the opposing team score a goal
– Serving delayed penalties: a minor penalty will be served even if a goal is scored while a delayed penalty is pending
– Shorthanded goal erases current minor penalty: if a shorthanded team score, the minor penalty against will end
Franchise
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– Added Regulation Wins to Standings
– Added more chemistry links between X-Factors for abilities based in skating, shooting and puck skills
– Increased impact of total player worth when running Head Coach Preferred Lines for all Coaches
– Fixed an issue where CPU teams couldn’t sign 2-way contracts when up against the salary cap, this change helps teams sign more contracts
– Fixed an issue with CPU teams signing AHL potential players to entry level contracts in Free Agency and during the Re-Sign Phase, this change can prevent teams from signing more contracts and these changes end up canceling out, causing CPU teams to sign roughly the same number of players as before, however they will be signing players who have a better chance at developing
– Fixed issue with the stats shown on the Conn Smythe trophy overlay
– Fixed an issue where players without scouted X-Factors showed up in Player Search when filtering by players with X-Factors
– Improved rookie signing logic so CPU teams can hold off on signing lower overall prospects who have potential until they develop
– Improved CPU team logic so they sign low overall AHL potential players in free agency less frequently
Creation Zone
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– Removed invalid UI popup when creating a large number of players and teams
– Added Chel branded NHL goalie equipment to offline creation zone
– Music now ducks when previewing player audio emotes in Creation Zone
– Various UI Fixes
– Fixed an issue causing players to be unable to bypass NHL23-level player, goalie and team creation limits.
Players will now be able to create:
– 80 total teams
– 1750 total skaters
– 250 total goalies
Presentation
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– Faceoff Hype Spotlights – Reduced brightness intensity. Animated logos no longer converge on ref’s puck-dropping hand.
– Goal Multiplier Banner now properly appears in broadcast flow in HUT Rush
– Fix for the score clock displaying remaining time incorrectly
– Improved authenticity of Detroit Red Wings goal horn
– Improved authenticity of Buffalo Sabres goal horn – three blasts
Commentary
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– Fix for incorrect reference to overtime in shootout mode
– Fix for incorrect reference to “first goal” on goals scored in WoC drop-in
– Improvement to Shot Block commentary flow
– Fix for intro speech incorrectly referencing teams being from Western/Eastern conference teams
World of Chel
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Matchmaking Update:
Community Feedback: When forming a Drop-in Team in WOC, users may have to wait the full matchmaking time looking for a User Goalie who may not be available.
Once a Drop-in Team has reached Max Skaters, the team will continue to search for a User Goalie for 5 seconds and then automatically begin searching for an opponent.
Club Info / Player Stats Drawer Update:
In preparation for EASHL Club Finals, we have restructured the way the Club Info / Player Stats Drawer appears in WOC modes. The info displayed will be relevant to the mode you are currently in, with the ability to toggle between Club Info and Skater/Goalie stats using the Right Stick.
Creation Zone Update in World of CHEL:
Community Feedback: The multiple presets within CZ is very confusing to users, many of which don’t even realize they have to customize Home and Away separately for Skater Casual and Pro as well as Goalie Causal and Pro
Consolidated the Home/Away/Alternate outfit Presets to a single button instead of a subscreen to make the switch between each simpler to understand.
Edits from Character Appearance (inclusive of applying a special character), Details, Shot Style, and Skating Style will be copied between Home/Away/Alternate outfit presets, so the user doesn’t have to manually maintain these changes for consistency between them. We did leave everything else to be manually edited so a user could decide they may want a completely different clothing and equipment style between Home/Away for example.
– Fixed a crash that would occur when a user navigates to the customization screen from recent items after opening the World of Chel Starter bag
– Fixed an issue where Player names are displayed as “EA PLAYER” throughout Leaderboards
– Fixed an issue where the Ones/Threes Eliminator leaderboards were not displaying the rankings
– Fixed an issue where push checks were leading to a lot of penalties around the net
– Fixed an issue where rarely a goalie could get push checks through the net while in a standing hug post
– Fixed an issue where the player avatar isn’t loading correct in the World of Chel Main Hub, or in Gameplay
– Fixed an issue where the stats drawer was missing the player level and gamerpic
– Fixed an issue where the glass would never break in the Carter Lake arena
– Fixed an issue where the player banner backgrounds are squished during the starter bag open animation
– Fixed an issue where the character and scene darken for a moment before loading into free skate
– Fixed an issue where the score clock has the EASHL logo overlapping the team’s name in EASHL
– Fixed an issue where special character would appear in the presets after editing multiple presets
– Fixed an issue where the special characters do not reflect the current selected home or away presets
– Fixed an issue where having a facemask equipped before equipping a special character will result in their mouths being closed
– Fixed an issue where special characters would cause minor rendering issues on the ice
– Fixed an issue where alternate Pro presets couldn’t select a special character
– Fixed an issue where if you had a special character equipped on loadout slot 11 and reboot the game it would then show loadout slot 11 as locked
– Fixed an issue where World of Chel store displays countdown timers as expired when quick resuming
– Fixed an issue where non-actionable buttons were present when selecting certain items in the World of Chel store
– Fixed an issue where the Home/Away options would stay on screen when purchasing a banner
– Fixed an issue where the soundtrack was still playing when emotes were being previewed
– Fixed an issue there equipping the Chel helmets would cause customizable helmets to read as non-editable
– Fixed an issue where new branded gear is not sorted alphabetically in the customize tab
– Fixed an issue where rarities are not present on default unlocks in the World of Chel creation zone
– Fixed an issue where the helmet cage color wasn’t locked/disabled if the user’s helmet did not support a cage
– Fixed an issue where changing Club Identity or Captaincy sometimes caused crashes for club members
– Fixed an issue where the user was unable to navigate to the club alternate jerseys in the post matchup dressing room
– Fixed an issue where the user would crash when inviting another user to the club when the club was just created
– Fixed an issue where a user was not presented with an error message when sending club invites to a user who has blocked communication set to on
– Fixed an issue where the EASHL stats drawer was not tracking 3v3 and 6v6 stats separately
– Fixed an issue where the condensed info drawer doesn’t show up in the EASHL 3v3/6v6 dressing room
– Fixed an issue where it was possible to search solo in quickplay 3v3 as a club
– Fixed an issue where Away and Alternate fonts for club jerseys had extra color zones with no functionality
– Fixed an issue where the user was able to open the select mode option overtop of match strategies in the clubs dressing room
– Fixed an issue where Club Finals Drawer was appearing outside of the club finals dressing room if the if the user leaves their club while in a dressing room and creates another club
– Fixed an issue where the club UI overlaps when user is in gameplay
– Fixed an issue where the club finals champion message had text that was cut off on the screen
– Fixed an issue where the correct club jersey was not being displayed in the dressing room
– Fixed an issue where crowds are not wearing the home club colors
– Fixed an issue where selecting the logo tile in stock branding took the user to a blank screen
– Fixed an issue where the user was removed from the dressing room after a game if they selected the Battlepass unlocked items pop up
– Fixed an issue where the XP token appeared squished if the user opened Battle Hub Rewards while on the Battlepass Tab
– Fixed an issue where users would receive a debug text message when trying to use a Battlepass token after they had completed the current Battlepass
– Fixed an issue where the locked icon appears in the wrong place for Battlepass items the user has not unlocked yet
– Fixed an issue where the pause text was missing when a global xp token is active
– Fixed an issue where the user would get softlocked in-between the state screen of Battlepass when timer hits zero
– Fixed an issue where the premium Battlepass reward tiles were showing the incorrect color in the Tiers unlocked screen after returning to the World of Chel
– Fixed an issue where the pre-order Battlepass XP multiplier tokens would temporarily disappear after completing the Battlepass
– Fixed an issue where the scrollbar issue in the Battlepass tier rewards
– Removed text that incorrectly showed a chapter completion reward in Pro-Am
– Fixed an issue where the locked icon only showed in from of the Player XP reward and not the Battlepass XP reward for Pro-Am games
– Fixed an issue where the Pro-Am reward icons were inconsistent sizes
– Fixed an issue where reporting a user through EA Layer would cause an error saying, “content could not be reported.”
– Fixed an audio issue that would say it was a user’s first goal with this team in every drop-in game
– Fixed an issue where the VOIP status icons were missing in the VOIP overlay during gameplay for World of Chel and Online Versus games
– Fixed an issue where the VOIP icon triggers when a user is not talking instead of when they are talking
– Fixed a text issue where the goalie save % was 3 decimal points
– Fixed various missing assets & text in World of Chel
– Fixed multiple debug text, wrong text, and wrong color text issues
Hockey Ultimate Team
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– Removed fighting from HUT Moments
– Fixed issue in HUT Moments where coins earned would not be granted until backing out to HUT Main Menu.
– Fixed issue in HUT Rush where pack was not displaying correctly.
– Fixed issue in Trade Pile screen where backing out from Compare Price took you to the wrong screen.
– Fixed issue where some Jersey images were not displayed at the correct proportions on items.
– Fixed issue with ability to edit extra attackers and shootout lineup.
– Various UI fixes.
Uniforms
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The following uniforms have been added or updated in NHL 24
NHL
Calgary Flames – Away and Heritage Classic
Carolina Hurricanes – Home, Away and Third
Edmonton Oilers – Heritage Classic
Florida Panthers – Home
Los Angeles Kings – Home
Nashville Predators – Home and Away
Ottawa Senators – Home
Pittsburgh Penguins – Away
Toronto Maple Leafs – Home, Away and Third
AHL
Bakersfield Condors – Third
ECHL
Adirondack Thunder – Home and Away
Allen Americans – Home and Away
Florida Everblades – Home and Away
Greenville Swamp Rabbits – Home and Away
Idaho Steelheads – Home and Away
Kalamazoo Wings – Home and Away
Norfolk Admirals – Home and Away
Rapid City Rush – Home and Away
Worcester Railers – Home and Away
Canadian Hockey League
Brandon Wheat Kings – Third
Lethbridge Hurricanes – Third
Liiga
Lahden Pelicans – Home and Away
Tappara Tampere – Home and Away
SHL
Frolunda HC – Home and Away
Linkoping HC – Home and Away
Modo Hockey – Home and Away
Rogle BK – Home and Away
Skelleftea AIK – Home and Away
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