Meanwhile me here belting every team by 40+ on hardest
im begging for the AI forwards to stop tagging my defenders when im trying to bring the ball out of the backline. Its completely unrealistic, especially when the AI defenders are free to roam around when they bring it out of the back?
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Player movement is much better in the latest patch! Great to see improvements are being made there.
Not auto-saving your previous lineup (season mode) is an embarrassing glitch to still be featured in the game though. Itās all Iāve been playing until management mode gets some love, and having to re-do the default team every game drives me nuts.
Sliders & the ability to edit/develop specific individual player stats is a must!
I donāt understand the logic behind excluding those incredibly popular & useful elements of an AFL/modern sports game.
And unfortunately the game still lacks any real sense of physicality - tackling is still all one way and the lack of ability to bump properly in an AFL game is ridiculous (and so unrealistic!). There isnāt even any player niggle to be seen in the replays.
If you get the timing right and hit the contest with pace, youād love to really feel like you nail someone in a bone-crunching tackle.
If you tidied up these elements, improved the camera angles for set shots/replays, cleaned up the UI & stats, and really put some serious work into management mode, weād have a killer AFL game.
Lots to like but still a long, long way to go.
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Any tips on the best way to clear the ball from a stoppage would be appreciatedā¦Im terrible.
Just donāt kick it backwards because your defenders will be getting tagged by forwards like in a real footy match. /s
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Feel like it can be impossible sometimes - iāve had runs, especially in front of my own goal, where itās just constant tackle and ballup a good 5-6 times until I finally cave in and just press L2 ( I think) + X and hack it away (usually ends up out on the full). AI manage to run it out and handball it away fairly easy though if Iām not pressing tackle the second the ball is moved
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Is there any chance for the next patch to drop before the Finals start @JNT_BA and maybe some more info about pro team or Xbox etc?
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Bring on the next patches!
Anyone up to the draft at the moment and able to advise if the filtering allows more than 1000 players yet? Search All Players in team management tends to show every available player in the game, but when inside the draft whilst searching to use a pick, it was restricted to 1000
Fingers crossed, we have a week off footy now, so letās hope for that little bit of juicy stuff prior to it 
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Ah, the 1000 limit. Iām running into that still with new custom players. Must be an arbitrary limit.
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I thought Iād check this page a couple times today hoping for someone to post something, and 12 hours gone by and nothing said, fingers crossed something this week, need a footy fix of something 
Can someone give me tips, with the set shot. Iām averaging 12 plus behinds a game and 4 or 5 goals.
A training and tutorials mode as promised, would go a long way.
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Anyone know when the next patch will be out?
I found playing on an easier difficulty when the game first came out helped me learn the game heaps, that way I had more opportunities to have shots on goal and play around a bit more. Yeah a tutorial mode might be cool but is it really needed?
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Gotta agree there. Learn on easy then go hard 
stat leaderboard dont work in management mode or competition. Game is on the up and up hardest difficulty is a massive jump from hard, sliders need to be added to help change that and customize what works for you. would be good to add in a way to change a playerās position in management mode of have them a secondary position if possible in the future depending on how hard it is to do. Stats on the hud that pops up during set shots are also bugged showing massively incorrect statistics. Game is feeling great though!!! hopefully not too long until the next update but better for them to get it right then rush it.
also would be good to see AI set up in different formations in the centre square and on defensive kick outs as sometimes i cannot kick to anyone as theyāre manned up so would be nice if you could let plays roam away from their man and be a option for a short chip on a kick in and even have the setting in tactics to add a spare defender behind ball and a tagging role for a player and you can choose who they can tag just thoughts is all.
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When taking a set shot, always aim to the far post. If they are right footed, aim just inside the right hand goal post. If left footed, aim just inside the left goal post. The power you basically just need to stop it inside the blue and youāll be right - unless youāre kicking from outside 50 then it gets tricky (but youāll more than likely not make distance than spray it).
On the run Iām missing the same amount as you. The little dial moves so quick itās just hit and miss sometimes as to whether youāre going to goal or not. For some reason I tend to have better luck holding down O for longer than quickly tapping and releasing. But Iām averaging 8-10 behinds a game on 5 minute quarters
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