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.
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.
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.
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
YESS!!! Whenever I go to edit a players skill by pressing L2/R2 my game says there’s an error and it closes itself, so I have to reopen it again and again
Is it just me or has this game gone backwards? Maybe 4 updates ago it was pretty solid & was enjoying it quite a lot, but feels so out of control now. For example, grubbers too long now, the dogs breakfast at dummy half, no longer support runners in position to receive passes & of course the bugs with player skills & logo’s disappearing from shared teams/jerseys.
I agree - there is virtually no point, even in Amateur difficulty level, of passing the ball out wide as the defenders always rush up…then tackle the centres and wingers as soon as they catch the ball = grrrrr!
Online, short kick offs are killing the game, the game now feels slow, I was playing in veteran and now can barley score on amateur, when held you tackle over the try line and it goes to the 10 to play the ball, there a huge cap in the defence line and also defence is to slow to get back on side, people scoot from dummy and get easy 10/20 mtrs.
this happens to me every game (prem challenge) also happens after someone kicks it out and i get the ball and either after a hand over cannot control the players just run’s straight out.
