NHL 24 Feature Suggestions
I’ve created a feature list that would be nice to see in the NHL 24. I’m a Franchise Mode only player, so these features are focusing on Franchise Mode and Roster features. I totally understand that ...
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I really like these ones: 🙂
Roster Updating & Player Creation:
- Let user created underaged players be moved over to the European teams and all the Canadian Junior Leagues.
- There are no restrictions for under-18 players to play in those leagues.
- This would save a lot of time when creating rosters and trying to move the players onto the right teams. Now you need to change their age, move the player and then again adjust the age back.
- When in the “Create A Player” list, give an option to sort and see the created players by position and alphabetically.
- As an example: Show only “Left Wingers” or players whose names start with the letter “H”.
- This would help with managing the user created players when there’s hundreds of them.
- Give a full player modifying rights to real players (Also in the Franchise Mode)
- This would help roster creators to modify wrong information that the official rosters sometimes have. As an example, earlier we had Arber Xhekaj’s height and weight wrong that could have been fixed by users themselves without waiting for an official roster update.
- Let us merge roster files with official roster updates without it resetting our changes.
- Basically, let us choose which file will be the master file when merging.
- This way we could get updates of the new official rosters (new players, player pics etc.) without cancelling our changes on the real players and removing the user created players from their teams.
- You can just have a flag that if the player has been modified, the merging will ignore it and move to the next one. The merging would only merge the players/data when the player hasn’t been modified or is a new one.
- I’m not sure if player pics could have another flag that lets the merge only update the pic. So I understand if that’s not really possible.
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Franchise Mode:
- Add generated pictures for auto-generated players.
- The game already has this feature in Be A Pro-mode. So minimum resources needed for this feature.
- This type of system has been used as an example in the Football Manager franchise and brings a bit of extra life in the game.
- Have country specific name pools for auto generated players.
- Currently there’s random English names used for many European countries and it breaks the realism.
- As an example: Your FIFA franchise has proper name pools that could be just exported and used in an NHL franchise.
Edit: Changed text from red to black to make it easier to read. -CM
Here is a wishlist I have for features that should be added and/or brought back into the game:
To add:
Being able to view created players by team and/or last name, because that way, if I use a SnipeNScore Productions roster, I wouldn't have to scroll all the way to the bottom just to find Zdeno Chara
Custom logo editor, as the current logo set might not fit all teams offline players like me want to create.
Expansion in the middle of Franchise Mode, especially Custom League. This way, if you start in, for example, the 1999-00 season, year 2 (equivalent to the 2000-01 season) would have created versions of the Minnesota Wild and Columbus Blue Jackets.
Vintage pre-Edge style jerseys in Create Team, as nowadays, you would probably have to use a mixture of Reebok Edge style jerseys and Adidas Adizero style jerseys. Speaking of Create Team...
New uniform styles in Create Team (shoutout to @Juhani_91_91 for the uniform list I am about to put):
New York Rangers home uniform
Chicago Blackhawks home uniform
Dallas Stars home uniform
Pittsburgh Penguins home uniform
Calgary Flames home and away uniforms
Seattle Kraken uniforms
Detroit Red Wings home and away uniforms
All Reverse Retro uniforms (this would be especially beneficial for people like me and SnipeNScore Productions, as we make retro and/or retro-inspired rosters)
New city/region options (shoutout to @MV75 and his Offline Creators Wishlist for some of these. If you want ones not here, go check that thread out):
Sweden: Ornskoldsvik, Gavle, Ostersund
Finland: Jarvenpaa, Utsjoki, Kokkola
Russia: Sochi, Yekaterinburg, Perm, Samara, Voskresensk
Kazakhstan: Astana, Oskemen (used to be Ust-Kamenogorsk), Almaty
Latvia: Riga, Daugavpils, Liepaja
Belarus: Minsk, Mogilev, Pinsk, Brest, Grodno, Vitebsk
Ukraine: Kyiv, Mykholaiv, Kharkiv, Odessa, Bakhmut, Kremenchuk, Donetsk
Lithuania: Elekrenai, Vilnius, Kaunas
Iceland: Reykjavik
Canada: Duncan (British Columbia; my hometown)
USA: Arkansas
Have non-American names for players from France, Switzerland, Denmark, Norway, Poland, Italy, Croatia, Hungary, Slovenia, Asutria, and Rest of World... if you guys ever have prospects generate from Rest of World anymore.
Allow for even more customization of created player faces, such as being able to change the skin colour at will (this was a thing 2 generations ago, but hasn't been a thing since NHL Legacy Edition, from 2015)
Have Franchise Mode go on for as long as you wish (It's not 2009 anymore, and the 25 year limit wasn't even a technical limit, as NHL 2K10, which released the same year, was able to do this on weaker hardware!)
Generated headshots in Franchise Mode (shoudout to @MV75 for this). I want this to apply to created players in the mode as well.
To bring back:
Viewing players on custom teams in those teams' uniforms. This was a thing in NHL 20, yet hasn't from NHL 21 onward.
GM Connected. One of the big new additions of NHL 23 was crossplay, which would have been a perfect time to bring back this mode.
We have 108 real stadiums in FIFA 23. It great, that we have in FIFA 23 so wide selection of stadiums around world. Forexample there is all Premier League stadiums, almost all stadium from Budesliga and LaLiga, can also be found there stadiums from Saudi League, MLS and Argentine league. We have 35 real arena in NHL 23. This 35 arenas keep inside 31 of 32 real NHL arenas and 4 arena from National League (Switzerland). Would be nice, if in NHL 24 would have it all AHL arenas, real IIHF World Championship arenas and more arenas from Europe. Here list of arena, which would be nice got from Europe to the NHL 24.
- Nokia Arena, Tampere Finland (Home arena of Ilves and Tappara) *
- Gatorade Center, Turku Finland (Home arena of TPS)
- Globen, Stockholm Sweden (Home arena of AIK and Djurgården IF) *
- Scandinavium, Gothenburg Sweden (Home arena of Frölunda HC) *
- Malmö Arena, Malmö Sweden (Home arena of Malmö Redhawks)
- Mercedes-Benz Arena, Berlin Germany (Home arena of Eisbären Berlin) ^
- Lanxess Arena, Cologne Germany (Home arena of Kölner Haie) ^
- O2 Arena, Prague Czechia (Home arena of Sparta Praha) *
* Arena has hosted NHL Global Series game
^ Arena has hosted NHL Global Series friendly match
If in NHL 24 is same leagues than in NHL 23. Here is list of team changes in leagues.
North America
NHL: No changes
AHL : No changes
ECHL: No changes
Major Junior
WHL: Winnipeg ICE franchise has sold and move to Wenatchee, which located state of Washington. Team new name is Wenatchee Wild.
OHL: The Hamilton Bulldogs will temporarily move to play in Brantford and during this time the team will be called the Brantford Bulldogs. The reason for this move is the upcoming renovations of the FirstOntario Centre.
QMJHL: No changes
Europe
SHL:
- Brynäs IF relegated to the HockeyAllsvenskan
- MoDo Hockey promoted to the SHL
HOCKEYALLSVENSKAN
- HC Vita Hästen went into bankruptcy and relegated to the HockeyTrean
- Nybrö Vikings IF promoted to the HockeyAllsvenskan
- Kristianstads IK was moved to the HockeyEttan
- Kalmar HC promoted to the HockeyAllsvenskan
LIIGA: No changes
NATIONAL LEAGUE: No changes
DEL:
- Bietigheim Steelers relegated to the DEL2
EXTRALIGA (Czechia) : No changes
ICE HOCKEY LEAGUE No changes
IIHF Tournaments:
IIHF MEN'S WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS:
- Hungary relegated to the Division 1A
- Slovenia relegated to the Division 1A
- Great Britain promoted to the Top Division
- Poland promoted to the Top Division
IIHF WOMEN'S WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
- Hungary relegated to the Division 1A
- France relegated to the Division 1A
- The team who will be promotion from Division 1A resolves in August. The following teams play in that tournament: Austria, China, Denmark, Nederland, Norway and Slovakia
IIHF WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIP (U20)
- Austria relegated to the Division 1A
- Norway promoted to the Top Division
CHAMPIONS HOCKEY LEAGUE
The following teams has removed at NHL24, because teams not qualified on CHL season 2023/24
- Brûleurs de Loups (FRA)
- Comarch Cracovia (POL)
- GKS Katowice (POL)
- Slovan Bratislava (SVK)
The following team qualified on CHL season 2023/24
LIIGA:
- Tappara
- Ilves
- Lukko
- Pelicans
SHL:
- Växjö Lakers
- Skellefteå AIK
- Färjestad BK
NATIONAL LEAGUE:
- Genève-Servette HC
- EHC Biel-Bienne
- Rapperswil-Jona Lakers
DEL:
- EHC Red Bull München
- ERC Ingolstadt
- Adler Mannheim
EXTRALIGA:
HC Oceláři Třinec
- HC Dynamo Pardubice
- HC Vítkovice Ridera
ICE HOCKEY LEAGUE
- EC Red Bull Salzburg (AUT)
- HC Bolzano (ITA)
- HC Innsbruck (AUT)
METAL LIGAEN (DEN)
- AalborgPirates
LIGUE MAGNUS (FRA)
- Dragons de Rouen
FJORDKRAFT-LIGAEN (NOR)
- Stavanger Oilers
TIPOS EXTRALIGA (SVK)
HC Košice
ELITE ICE HOCKEY LEAGUE (GBR)
- Belfast Giants (NIR)
Hopefully we get few new leagues to the NHL 24. @MV75 has mentioned the following leagues in topic " offline creators wishlist"
- Tipos Extraliga (Slovakia)
- Mestis (2nd tier in Finland)
- Elite Ice Hockey League (Great Britain)
- USHL (Highest junior hockey league in USA)
- NCAA
In addition some of these leagues should be add to the game
- Swiss League (2nd tier in Switzerland)
- DEL 2 (2nd tier in Germany)
- NAHL ( 2nd highest junior hockey league in USA)
- Fjordkraft-ligaen (Norway)
- Metal Ligaen (Denmark)
