Still can’t switch sides to change lineup before starting a game. “Press triangle to switch sides” doesn’t work.
CPU player name also not appearing. Sometimes (rarely) it’s there on kick off then just disappears for the remainder of the match.
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Have been saying this for ages and have sent numerous tickets in as well. Frustrating!
I had a moment last game I played. Scores tied, final few seconds of GP extra time, my team had the ball about 10m out. Passed to my five-eighth directly in front and went for a field goal to win the game. Drop kicks the ball and it’s heading over the black dot. Then a tackler tackles my kicker (it was only a fraction of a second after he kicked it, but the ball was well clear of any other players. It was going over and I was about to win the game).
But as the tackler tackled my kicker, the ball reversed it’s direction immediately and was sucked back into the arms of my kicker who was being tackled. Game drawn.
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I will literally volunteer to be play test this game. Surely someone from BA plays the game after a patch and sees these bugs before going to market
Unsure if I’ve found a bug or if I don’t know the NRL rules as I only watch super League. Was going for the 2 point drop goal achievement and every time the goal goes post and in it only counts as a 1 pointer. Is that the rule or is it a bug? Bit silly if that’s the rule, I assume it’s a bug
I haven’t seen it in the game, but sounds like a bug unless your kicker happens to step on or over the 40m line while kicking.
Simulated a game and the player run meters bug is still there, does Big Ant test the game after a patch is done this bug wasn’t in the game before until recently.
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Offsides are not working properly at all now. Players can stay offside and still make tackles next play without penalty.
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100% not. At first I thought the same so I made sure I was observing it properly.
When 2 people who are on pc try to play custom match the game bugs out and never loads in the game, but if you play someone who is on console the game loads in perfectly fine, been trying to play a mate for the past week with this issue and have not been able to play with each other
Game could do with a big list of gameplay sliders like other sports games so we can configure every aspect of the gameplay as we want to.
Not sure how many times this has been flagged, but there’s actually no difference in the playing difficulties at all over the last few updates. When I first played the game, rookie was harder than amateur, but in amateur all you had to do was run at someone, step or hit them up, and you’d get past and run right to the line, didn’t matter which position. Now the step is worthless, if you hit someone up and break the tackle someone who’s nowhere near you magically jumps on you so you can’t break right through, forwards have slowed right down. Backs aren’t strong enough to break irrespective of attributes too. Still all the other issues around offsides, forward passes and grubber kicks still haven’t been fixed too. Feels like there’s been some great improvements made to the game in the background such as promotion in English leagues in career mode, but the actual gameplay needs better attention now. Please though do keep up the good work on programming and updates.
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New update new problem. When defending inside the 10 metre line. Defenders retreat back to the dead ball line before coming forward to defend their line. They fixed the player defenders not being back the 10 all the time and have now created this problem.
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Absolutely spot on that mate. It is like if the offside of your players was not awful you can defend properly which makes AI seem basic.
So I do think that if all the bugs were fixed then the only thing left to fix is the gameplay which is harder.
Like if User can defend peoperly then AI cant dart from dummy half, you dont give pens away or yards, and then they dont make metres.
Also if the user was as reactive as the AI then could open defenses more
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The defensive line movement needs nerfing its too fast. The other thing I’d do is add proper sliding defense where the line can actually slide left and right by holding dpad left or right and compress by either holding up or adding compress to L2 controlled defense and players draw into the selected player manually.
They could even add sliding to left stick by holding L2 and pushing left or right on the left stick for a fully user controlled defensive line. This way with a slower defensive line speed or players defending speeds the same as attacking speeds it would allow for more scrambling situations if you slide too much one way or the other or hold up/L2 compress too long opening gaps for sweeping plays one side to the other.
This is just a way to possibly create a more balanced attack/defense where decisions on defense could actually matter rather than the way it is now where the line defense covers sideline to sideline too easily requiring right stick moves too often.
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Why in the year of 2025 when I try to change to the CLOSEST player, it selects the fullback who is 20m behind the play?
Then to frantically keep mashing the button to switch to the closest player, it takes at least 5 attempts and during this time, a tackle is being made or the other team scores.
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More bugs from the latest update. Apart from defenders running back to the dead ball line before moving forward to defend the try line.
There is an excessive amount of intercept passes thrown by the CPU players whether it be directly to a defender next to them or to a defender in the line when they throw a cutout pass.
Knockons happening when it isn’t a knock on and not being given when it is.
Grubbers into the in goal are now way harder to do.
Picking up the ball near the sideline is again now ending up being taken over the sideline. There is no rain anymore even when the setting is set to wet or showers.
One other issue is sometimes when defending the opposition player names appear for 1 set then are never seen again in the game. Just make it a permanent feature.
I also had my first injury in well over a hundred hour long custom games. Maybe make that occur a little more frequently as well.
The ref still doesn’t call the tackle count. I can’t stand listening to the repetitive boring commentary so it would be nice to have the tackle count back in the game.
What’s the use of the match type creator if it doesn’t work in a game. Please fix this.
I also had the cpu kick a 40/30 in a mens game recently which means the NRL game doesn’t work properly either as it is set to off by default.
Something that has always been in the game that needs correcting. Touch judges don’t move when a penalty kick goes further than them over the sideline. This is an animation that needs to be addressed.
Unfortunately the one step forward two steps backwards scenario is playing out in the updates.
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The other team just passed it out into touch, then the other team received the ball and I didn’t touch the ball at all!
Knock on not given, players aren’t inside even though they’re square, dummy no longer works, CPU can do things that we can’t, I got the ball from getting a player into touch and then from the play of the ball opposition got it back from an offside penalty
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