Only problem I’m finding with lowering defensive aggression, once the defence aggression is lowered I’m finding although it does help slightly with time with the ball in attack before defence gets to you , I sat my controller down and without even touching it watched 4 tacklers each slide off my player who was standing still?
Hopefully big ant keep patching some issues for us
Yea very weird, because in earlier build the defender would join in and help turn the player to cause the ball to be held up. I even remember giving a tip to a player (that holding the left shoulder key seemed to help the defense come in tighter so that it would protect against the 1 on 1 drive over try, the most annoying and least satisfying try on both side of the ball, when the AI does it and when the user does it. Come on Big Ant, thanks for the sliders but fix this already, I am sure most of us are tired of seeing this drive over 1 vs 1 try, does not matter if by the user or AI either way, it is the most predictable and boring try ever. If there is a way to more likely add a second defender to stop this then please let us know, although I doubt it because I can score the same try on the AI. Please fix this Big Ant, and thank again for the sliders.
How do yoi fix this problem please ?
Just started playing after the new update.
I kicked a ball out over the dead ball line from the kickoff and the restart was from my 40 metre line.
Everytime you are near the sideline defending a kick your player takes it into touch. This happened 5 times in the first half.
The opposition kicked the ball straight into the hands of their own player coming back onside in an offside position and it was play on.
Long balls are over the sideline or flying over the intended player into open space on a regular basis.
CPU last play kicks have gone back to the short crap they were a month or so ago.
The game was just starting to get better and now some of the old bugs are raising their heads again.
Still can’t use custom game settings.
Still can’t play a custom comp with 17 teams.
Pity i was starting to enjoy it again.
Update
The game just finished with the ball in flight from a line dropout even though the siren went off after the kick.
On a good note though. No more defenders retreating back beyond the dead ball line before coming forward.
A request as well if you read these. When or if we ever get to play a custom comp with 17 or more teams can you also allow us to set our own rules. For example turn off 40/20s etc, 7 tackle sets, 6 agains so we can play some old school 80 minute footy.
Come on guys.. deleting my post?
Own up to what you’ve done.
The game was not ready for release
Constant patching attempts have proven that
Some questions to Nacon and Big Ant.
Why do i have to change the difficulty level everytime i go to start a new round in my custom comp. It reverts to Veteran difficulty every time.
Why can’t i use my custom match i created. The game just reverts to the NRL rules when playing it even though i set it to my custom ones.
Also please bring back the no 7 tackle set from a restart that Live 4 had.
I opened a pack and got Payne Haas rated 95. I also decided to purchase the same card in auction on the cheap in order to flip.
Soon as i placed the purchased card to resell, my original payne haas card became inactive. Shows in my line up however not in my player inventory. When i try to launch a game, it advises me payne hass is inactive.
How do i get my card to become active again. I have a few that are like this with other players to
Update: Selling the auction one didn’t restore properly; buying another swapped what was active and one disappeared.
I lodged ticket #42179 close to five days ago and I’m still awaiting a reply. Given this relates to paid in-game currency, could you please provide an update or timeframe for resolution?
If I don’t receive a response soon, I may need to escalate through other channels.
Thanks for the latest update regarding the support players..definitly a step in the right direction..
with the set plays can you please add a slider or switch where we can alter the randomisation of the plays every tackle even to the point where they are not random at all they stay where we leave them? I feel it’s so random to the point where all the players are running around all over the shop. a simple fix of lessening or completely ridding the random changes of the plays would completely change the offence and be a simple but major change
Nga Mihi 
Has anyone noticed the footy points are severely depleted after playing a game? Instead of the usual 8500-9600 I’ve been getting 1600-1800?
Did anyone else not get the rewards for playing in the “The Smiths” comp. Was meant to be a powerhouse pack for winning or something. I don’t know but I literally didn’t get nothing and our team won… soooo. Big Ant? Can we sort this one out please thank you appreciate it. I have attached photos for reference
That’s a win for the AI, as you can see the damage done was not enough to complete this coach battle.
Certainly worded weirdly, I’ll get the guys to make that clearer.
But in this case, the results are correct, and the event was not won by the community.
There seems to be a bug with the attendance at the stadiums. its showing a full crowd but only 5k attendace in a 25k stadium. and almost no crowd at other stadiums and a full sellout attendace at the games end. Ive got the crowd size set to realistc - based on club members. and the club members far passes the maximum capacity of the ground.
I can honestly say that I’ve never even noticed there are crowd figures!
I also don’t play Pro Teams or whatever that’s called, nor do I play against anyone else, only the AI, so maybe it’s only there for those games?
But, in reality, they could have been there the whole time and I’ve just never ever once noticed it.
Only noticed it the other day on carrer mode.
I played a few games a few days ago, and bugger me, they have crowd figures! Never seen them before. Nice touch, though.
Just smashed the Seagulls 18 tries 7.
PS5 30 minute halves pro mode.
This game is way too easy now to get big scores. Played 6 lost 1. Ave for almost 55 Against 40.
After 6 games the majority of tries scored against me probably 70% plus are drop down in goal tries because you can almost never get defenders in goal to help out their mate. Maybe like in rugby they should add a button to get more defenders into the tackle like they get more to a ruck. For me maybe 15% are drop down because the AI gets more than 1 into the tackle.
Found a couple of easy ways to get more ball. Short kickoff to your fastest winger or centre works 90% of the time no worries or on the last kick the ball directly into a defender you get it back for a 7 tackle set around 80% of the time. Also when you feed a scrum there is a massive gap to run through on the open side if your player is fast enough.
Nice that the defenders don’t retreat beyond the dead ball line now they just stand around watching tries get scored unfortunately.
Still way too many stupid plays around the play the ball that need attention.
Blatent offsides not getting picked up.
The player renditions take on unhuman characteristics during flexes after tries which is disturbing and realistically unprofessional from a company that specialises in sports games.
On the editor side. When you create a stadium you don’t get the crowd standing watching in areas where there are no seats. No team jerseys on fans. Dragons supporters in pink shirts. Not a Red V in the crowd. Still no hill creator.
Jersey editor still doesn’t have the options it’s predecessor had. You can’t pick an official jersey for your created team. The colours you use to create don’t transition into the game like the old creators. Whites are definitely not white as an example.
Still can’t use custom match type in a custom comp. Custom difficulties are useless and don’t work. Still can only have 16 teams in a custom comp. Jerseys don’t get wet they just get more dirty on wet days and fields don’t look like rain is affecting them like older versions.
The game was getting better again play wise 2 updates ago and now is going backwards again. The next 6 games i play i am going to play in veteran to see if that lowers the amount of tries and stiffens up the defence.
Round 1 Dragons 44 Tigers 34
Round 2 Dragons 50 Raiders 32
Round 3 Dogs 58 Dragons 40
Round 4 Dragons 36 Sharks 24
Round 5 Dragons 58 Chooks 52
Round 6 Dragons 100 Seagulls 42
Play around with the sliders. They will help fix a lot of your problems with gameplay difficulty balance.
Any time you play a quick match with non official roster it reverts back to original roster after.
Thanks Radman, if you get a chance can you post a picture of your settings. Any slider that increases the chances of more defenders getting involved in the tackle instead of standing around, particularly on the try line? In early renditions of the game this seemed to work much better, the 1 on 1 struggle over the try line while defenders stand around and watch is particularly annoying on defense and unsatisfying on offense when scoring. In past versions of the game the second and third defender would get involved to help make the tackle and hold up the ball. This felt more realistic, instead of the defenders just standing around. It felt like in early versions holding the left shoulder button would help getting a second defender involved. Not sure if the latest patch reflects this. Will go try.
