“Update Notes:
Added new animations(Big Hits, Hit Ups, Drive Collapses, Hurdle Jumps, Sidesteps, Goosesteps, Fends, Tries, Conversion reactions, Celebrations, Disappointments)
Added ability for Coaches to select jersey numbers for the season for relevant competitions.
Balanced attributes based on Player skill values.
Addressed Player Likenesses.
Corrected Player Positions and Skills
Corrected Minimum wage for competitions based on real life.
Corrected stadiums being played at when spectating matches in Career mode.
Rectified team of the year showing full squad of 13 players, top try scorer and Under 23 player of the year award.
Balanced frequency of injuries in Career mode.
Improved contract logic for Rookie and Star Career modes.
Improved start of career allocated space in salary cap helping Coaches with re-signing players.
Improved watch list notification alerting Coaches when player on their list is available.
Improved Lighting across the board.
Improved Aerial collects.
Improved timing of Ui for cutout passes on play the ball.
Improved audio and presentation in cutscenes.
Improved Stability”
Well, so far:
I’ve seen no option anywhere for a coach to edit jersey numbers.
Super League is still sponsor free on sidelines and without pitch markings.
Referees still don’t shout tackle counts.
Still no stadium announcer.
I haven’t seen any new animations. Though there seemed to be a new animation for the kick off ball-placement different to RLL4.
No wind effect when goal kicking.
At least Huddersfield have the correct shirt colours now haha.
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Did you just list the patch notes and then say: I still don’t see… and list stuff they didn’t say was in the patch notes?
Unless I am mis-reading where did they say in the patch notes that referees will begin shouting tackle counts, that there’d be a stadium announcer, wind effects when goal kicking?
You then say you haven’t seen any new animation - before listing a new animation that you saw?
So feedback based on the patch notes are:
You still haven’t found anywhere for the coach to edit jersey numbers.
Do you have any other feedback on the rest of the stuff they actually listed in the patch notes?
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I was addressing things that still haven’t been fixed. Chill.
Well he has a point, no point putting up patch notes and then seeming surprised at what is not in the patch … even though it is not included in those notes anywhere 
You could have just done your post without patch notes and it would have made zero difference.
But anywho 
You write what you want, the joy of the internet 
For the life of Brian can we get some way to specifically match colours? LB copy and RB paste like other games? Trying to match using the sticks is infuriating as they never move to the number you want ha ha. Aim for 100, get 98, get 101, get 97, get 103, get annoyed and get 84, even more annoyed when you then get 101 … creep the stick as gentlyyyyyy as you can … and get 97 
#pleasehelpme
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It’d be nice if they could clean up the presentation some more in further updates. Stuff like the double whistle after a try, try cutscenes players clipping through the crowd and ad boards, ref positioning and ref callouts etc.
REALLY like the new kickoff cutscene; just the camera focus and lower angle looks superb imo; if we could get more cutscenes at deadball situations with this camera I’d be very happy.
Gameplay feeling a lot better, still think the wingers and outside backs need some tweaking with support play. Still go missing after a line break.
My markers getting caught out at the play the ball some more forcing to defend in the line a nice touch. A player switch system like the cut out pass with the button icon above the player would be great in defence.
Kicking still underwhelming imo. They really need to add all the kicking options that are available in AFL26, especially their manual kicking system would work so well in this game, as too AFL26’s grubber system which roll for days.
Would like to see Camera sliders added like we have in AFL26 too. Would like a bit more height/top angle on End Far camera with a touch more zoom.
All in all gameplay is a lot more fun imo, still with some ways to go but 14 patches in a vast improvement. Seen half a dozen of the new animations in the couple of 20 minute games I played that looked and fit well. Will tweek some more player stats as I go along, feel the AI tackle stats could be upped on my end. Cheers
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Wow that’s a huge list of issues addressed for a game that is what 2 weeks released??? Shameful it was released in the state it was/still is
I’ve seen a few different types of sidesteps now, including someone turn backwards into a tackle. Glad to see they have indeed added more animations, makes for a bit more unpredictability in play. Still the strange errors creeping in, my player knocked on in-goal, but they gave it as a drop out so I got the ball back, rather than a 20 metre restart for the opposition. It still seems random as to whether the opposition have a name bar along the bottom, it seems to appear or display arbitrarily with no rhyme or reason! 6 and 6 are still a mess with the numbers being mixed up. There is rain, now, as someone else said, but still no wind. All in all, though, there feels like many more reasons to be optimistic two weeks into this games life especially with the latest patch.
EDIT: Does anyone know why Super League has a different style scoreboard to other matches?
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I updated a decent size patch last night.
Positives
We now have penalty goals included on the scorecard which is good. The jerseys looked way more dirty after a game in the wet.
Negatives
Still no indication of wind affecting kicks. No indication of wind direction.
No AI player names on screen.
No ref calling the tackle count.
My created teams the Port Moresby Hunters and the Suva Raiders had their logos changed to English superleague clubs (minor inconvenience as it was easily changed and you can only play a single game with them)
The major change in an 80 minute game on pro mode ps5 was the amount of intercepts both the AI and the controlled team made. There were about 40 in the game which is ridiculous, that needs to be tweaked.
The easy chip to score is still there which needs to be looked at.
I can get my half or dummy half to do a cutout pass 3 deep but if I try it in open play on the run to a winger the ball either goes to ground or goes into touch on the full even though the winger is in a good position to catch it.
Still nothing change in jersey or stadium creator. This i believe requires a major overhaul taking the best components of RLL3 for jerseys and RLL4 for stadiums and making them better with more options.
Still no NSW Cup or International teams maybe time we got an explanation for that as NSW has the biggest Rugby League supporter base than anywhere else in Australia with 9 teams currently in the first grade comp.
Still no custom competition so we can start creating our own teams and playing a comp.
Gameplay has gone down to a 7 out of 10 because of the excessive intercepts and overall the game is still 4 out of 10 until we see some improvement in the creator section, and the competition options.
For those interested the game i played the Hunters won 25 to 16
I will add in over 30 hrs of play (60 minute and 80 minute games in pro mode) outside of career mode I am yet to see an onfield injury or HIA and I have the setting on normal.
I have stopped playing career until the majority of bugs are fixed as you need to start over to see the effects.
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I’m guaranteed at least one injury a game in career mode and that’s with the setting on reduced. Still can’t buy a penalty or six again though. Are HIAs even in the game?
Not sure if HIAs are in it, silly if they aren’t. When I played career I had 6 agains and penalties. I got 7 rounds in before I decided to wait til they’d fixed the game more.
Ummmm!?!? This is new…. WHY THE ACTUAL F ARE MY PLAYERS WALKING OFF THE FIELD WITH 6 mins to go!?!?!? A $100 GAME WITH MICROTRANSACTIONS and this
is what you produce!!?!
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Can you please fix the sub glitch? player 2 can never sub his players off - only player one can
A minor one, but gets on my nerves. The grand stand signs at GIO Stadium are back to front. I.e. the Mal Meninga Stand and the Gregan-Larkham stand.
Also, the interchange players are on the wrong sideline as well. They should be on the tunnel side with their chairs.
Overall, liking the newest patch and game is in a much better state 
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It seems like crossplay has stopped working for me (on PC). I can only see other PC players online and can’t be viewed by friends with PS5. Is this happening for anyone else (bug just started last night after the big update).
they need to have less strict matchmaking because at rank 1 only matching against the same person like 5 times in a row now, who’s also a lagger with dodo internet
Anyone having issues logging in from the main screen
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Think everyone is having the same problem atm
yeah they took servers down, at least not working for pc/steam, I was winning a game 16-0 almost done, probs get nothing and lose a contract how good
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Yeah i would say its all severs its the same on ps5. They better hit us with free contracts its ridiculous how many i have lost
A bit of notice like a twitter post or something would have been good
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