Can’t create logos anymore… is this permanent? Or being looked into? 
Also whatever happened to HBK, Ross and the others who kept us informed? We use to be valued as Forum members… now we seem like second-class citizens. 
Bring back Jimmy!!!
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latest update has really unsettled fluid of play;
- dummy half delay with picking up ball and passing quite frequent.
- trying to execute set play after pressing pass 3-4 times and dummy half still not passing on some occasions, overall due to dummy half issues hard to run set play options with decoy runners involved.
- grubber power over the top (need ability to “power up” grubber by preessing in button longer etc..
- Get AI to actually run set plays against user controlled teams based on user defence and field position.
- tryiline defence and players retreat to dead ball (already mentioned by others)
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Don’t suppose you’ve had any issues getting trophies at all? I’m trying to get the platinum on ps5 as pile them high, golden boot, try try try and terminally online haven’t popped for me despite being definitely meeting the thresholds for the trophies.
Personally I dont play for the trophies, I am more interested in gameplay being balanced right for each respective difficulty. I have many ideas which has been submitted in a concept document that I feel will go along way to what my vision for the game should be whilst still acknowledging everyone wants different things and experiences… I really enjoy AFL26 sense of contest and reward when pulling off a play so soemthing similar in RL26 I would like to see transposed. Hope the trophy thing gets sorted for you just the same.
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I’ve had this happen a few times was playing against cpu and on last tackle the player who was kicking the ball kicked it towards their own in goal
When your opponent leaves the game in premiership challenge you lose points for quitting deduction
Also still feels like the game forces you to lose a game after a good run of wins giving away high tackles, no players onside, random dropped balls and running plays incorrectly constantly after a few wins in a row
Calls go the wrong way a lot of the time especially with knock ons the team who does it gets the ball back
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Game has gone so bad I swear, was much better 3-5 updates ago, Big Ant just won’t listen to their audience and this game was so not worth the wait, they need a really big update and work on everything they just did to it to make the game even worse because the game just has no joy in it, starting to become a joke. I’m not saying this out of hate, im saying this because I’ve been raging out on this game for the past two weeks. MAKE YOUR GAME BETTER BRO, THIS HAS GONE SO BORING!!!
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Just downloaded the new update. Played a short game to see any changes in pro mode.
Still have the problem where the defensive line moves beyong the dead ball line before defending the try line.
The CPU threw 5 forward passes in 6 sets they played.
Still can’t use created match type. It just reverts to the NRL rules no matter what changes you have made.
Still no ability to have at a minimum a 17 team custom comp. A 20 team would be nice.
Good news. Referee calls the tackle count now and the CPU names are on display when you are defending. Thanks for listening guys.
Not sure if we have rain back in the game though. No unusual extra bugs but i only played a 10 minute game will now play an 80 minute set to wet to see if this update has taken more forward steps than backward ones🙂
Update. Results at halftime
Stats look pretty decent.
Bugs apart from what is already listed.
On one set when the Tigers had the ball they kicked on the 4th directly into one of their own players in an offside position. The ball went about 10 metres back towards their own goal line was picked up by Bula and play continued. On the last tackle they kicked directly into Bula playing the ball they picked it up were tackled and it was a handover. No penalty for either kick being into a player in an offside position.
No rain but the players were muddied up a fair bit.
Still a bit of work to do by the look of it.
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Way too many forward passes from the CPU and way too many of those silly play the ball things where the cpu dummy half just stares at the ball that has rolled behind him for a second or so before picking it up.
Anyway it was a decent game and would have been better if it had less errors.
Still giving the player of the match to the hooker and again to the losing team. Not sure how they work that out but if part of the criteria is to give points for how many passes you do then the dummy halves will be the only ones ever to get it. Yet to see another position get it even in a game i played where 1 player scored 4 tries and set up 2. I think they should look at that.
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Just to be clear I have no involvement in development of the game, Im just a passionate fan like yourself. I have reverted back to playing RLL4 until patch fixes the negative things I have of the game and trying to emulate things how I play RL26. The Bigant team will get there, unfortunately as they introduce fixes that may require repealing functionality back to a previous build in order to implement the change…then the building up starts again, as I understand it. There is still work to do for core gameplay, features and content just hoping it gets sorted before the next installment is due to be developed…or is RL26 a living build that will be foundational for the next one…
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Tell your developers to undo all the work with the hooker cause the hooker for some reason powerless to us can’t pass which is the job of a hooker the delay pass that the hooker does means you can’t run a set play unless you tell him to pass the ball input before the play of the ball which means the players just stand there don’t run the lines you guys need to run tests betas before release or this game will be your downfall as a company good luck and I mean that cause that will be the end of league games union games cricket games basically all the sports games that we in the southern hemisphere play
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Totally agree, the rage is because most of the CPU opportunity comes from things you can not control.
You can not decide which player is selected in defence, and this is unpredictable so CPU makes breaks cos I do not know who is getting selected.
You can not help if a pass hits your players head, face or hands without them catching it, which normally happens in space. Made even worse with CPU razor like reflexes.
You can not drive CPU back hardly ever in Defence which means offsides are up, again made more annoying that CPU drives you back every time with the D line waiting for you.
You can not help the timing from pressing pass miles away from the D line but getting walloped every time. And again made more irritating that CPU can pass right up in your face with my players contacting them without tackling.
Rage is the spit on word mate
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Nacon you guys really need to fix the defenders retreating behind the dead ball line whilst a tackle is being made close to the try line or over it. Playing a womens game this morning 1 of my girls was getting pushed back over the try line whilst the majority of the other defenders were not only behind the dead ball but over the fence. A try was scored because there were no other defenders close enough to help.
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Just to re-iterate, I have no connection with the development of the game. Have you tried moving your dummy half player out of the ruck slightly then passing to the pass option within the set play you want to run? This seems to work more often than not…but it can cause outer players within the set play to over run or converge on some occasions.
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Well involve yourself more and fix this game, more tackle breaks, the set plays n when we can pass it, these “offside” calls when u cant really do much even tho your players are square, make attributes more accurate, the off loads, and add some support runners bro, RLL4 had that but this doesn’t, if they just fixed everything before they released the game no one would be complaining, how do u release a unfinished game? Like really we waited almost a decade for this piece of garbage? RLL4 is the perfect example of what the game should be like, but yet they’re focusing on graphics n what players look like n jerseys instead of the actual gameplay bro. I’m taking a break from this game, games gone fr
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Hate to say it but I agree. I played RLL4 consistently until RL26 came, and while it had it’s issues, I actually enjoyed playing it for that entire stretch.
Right now there is still no longevity for RL26. It’s getting better in some aspects but a long way to go to be polished
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I hope this is the right place to pop these incidents I encountered this morning. If it makes any difference, I was playing an NRL season game in Amateur mode, and I only ever play against the AI.
#1) This penalty goal attempt was given. Ball ricocheted off the outside of the goalpost. Clearly did not go over. Touchies watched it, and only once it hit the ground did they raise their flags.
#2) Same game, incidentally..! This time, the opposition’s player had made a break and was on his way to the tryline before my player ankletapped him, sending him sliding onto the tryline at which point another one of my players jumped on him to effect the tackle. It was hard to see in-game (as I use the rear-view playing mode), but it looked damned close, so I checked out the replay. Screenshot attached. This was ‘tackle four’ play the ball. Not a video ref decision. Game continued.
Now, I’m not going to complain, as both benefited my team (and I won 8-6 … so both proved the difference!), but felt it was worth mentioning anyway, should anyone else experience these and developers read these comments.
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That’s fair. I’ve been playing a lot of the campaign on the current hardest difficulty and enjoying the challenge. As someone who enjoys the game and knows they’ve done the correct thing to platinum the game and just have it bug like that. The lack of communication from bigant is beyond annoying.
I played two online Prem Challenge games last night.
- The first match ran smoothly until it went into Golden Point, where the game suddenly crashed to desktop.
- The second match crashed at half-time, right after I opened the match stats screen.
These crashes make it really difficult to play online consistently, as I haven’t been able to finish a full game without the game closing unexpectedly.
Notes:
- Both crashes happened in separate sessions.
- No noticeable lag or warning signs before the crash.
- Offline modes seem stable so far.
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Still the same old bugs with hookers, defending on the try line is cooked, tackled without the ball is still a thing and doesn’t get called and quitting deduction when your opponent quits the game
Another HUGE bug is only have 2 or 3 players on the field while the rest of the team all walk to the bench and become unusable for an entire game forcing me to either quit and lose premiership points or play it out and lose by 100 points
Also how have you dropped the ball that hard not to make Tedesco the captain of the year, full back of the year and dally m winner the first obsidian card instead of Reece Walsh and literally every other award winner atleast a team of the week Dimond card. Marky mark still only has a green card not even atleast a sapphire ? Developers slob all over panthers, broncos and storm players and forget about the actual best players in each position
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This game is so messed up, why on earth is my fullback running up to the tackle every single time, even when it’s a 2 or 3 man tackle already covered or in progress, nope there’s the fullback sprinting up to the tackle. It’s both hilarious and ridiculous at the same time
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