Just some more feedback on players. This time I am looking at Skin Tones and headgear
Charlie Ewels - Bath
He has an accurate face scan but I feel his skin tone is too dark. Again if we have the ability to edit some things like this ourselves it will be good. I personally would make his skin tone a bit lighter or white. But yes thanks for telling the community about licensing issues around editing appearances concerning stakeholders and clubs. Finding a middle ground would be good to change and edit some things for users editing players.
Lastly I raised a ticket on James Botham - Cardiff. He was wrongly put as a fullback for Cardiff. He is a Flanker. Jacob Beetham or Cameron Winnett play Fullback for Cardiff
Would there be a possibility to clone or copy a licensed player and create a then user created version? I feel like this was done in another game? Would be stamped with a user as their creation instead of a licensed version.
P.S JNT it is a good time to lock this thread and create a new one for the current patch
Just some more players that are in the incorrect playing positions. Edinburgh Prop Javan Sebastian. He has been incorrectly put at Fullback. If this could please be fixed at some point in the future. Thanks
Hi all thank you for the patch, really hoping for a hot fix or small patch to come out this week as rucks are incredibly slow again and I’m dealing with a lot of mid game crashes so unable to even play a full game lately
Some more feedback on other gameplay issues. Sorry for the regular posts but I have a lot of time this week to test the game as I am off work and will be working a lot less the next few months. I just trying to cover on many issues.
Feedback for Rain :
I had only 1 match appear with Rain conditions two days ago when I played a night game at Allianz stadium. Unfortunately I had to stop the match after a few mins to take phone call and I shut the game down.
Since then I have been trying to get a match with rainfall at either Allianz stadium or other stadiums , day or night. I have tried about 15 - 20 times in one sitting starting matches and then closing it and starting another match. No luck to get rainfall again. I wanted to analyse the rain fall animations more closely before giving feedback. I was unsure at the time if the rain animations was clear enough once in general open play when I played 5 mins. It was more evident to see it when they ran out of the tunnel at start of match.
It would be good in the near future to put a weather conditions menu tab so we can choose the various weather conditions before a match or even a season mode match. Wind conditions would also be good if this can possibly be chosen too.
Dropped Ball :
I don’t think from any high kicks or box kicks I put up have I ever seen an opposition fullback or winger drop a ball. This is on medium and easy difficulty. I think random events like this need to occur for the Ai and user controlled players.
Mauls:
I think mauls currently do not allow you to pass the ball out until you get about 6-7 of your own players in the maul. I think it should allow you to pass at any point in the maul process regardless of the amount of user players binding.
You get more often rain games at night at the Namibia stadium but have to say it needs improvement in later stages as you don’t really realise it’s raining until you see it in cut scenes
For some reason I can’t reach your early access server to submit tickets anymore for bug reports
I know I have submitted 5-6 ticket reports in the last few days but they are all valid and serious issues ( From rucks, teleport tackle and kick charge down teleport issues to wrong player positions, TMO rulings).
Ticket #24999 had been done through the big ant website for your other mainstream titles and game classed as “other” on drop down menu.
I had a major bug with the maul.
I was controlling my players in a Maul for Rugby 25. My player exits and breaks free multiple times after I was pressing the R2, R1 buttons on PS5 controller and right stick up maybe ? As you can see In the video I not sure if he is being tackled by invisible teleport tackle issue with the radius ?
The maul animation is excellent though. It looks realistic with the lock standing in the middle as it moves.
Rainfall feedback
Rain appears to be very light and hard to see in general open play. In close up and cut scenes you can see it more. In my opinion if it’s supposed to light rain it’s ok ? But if supposed to be a normal or heavy rain then it does not give this visual impression or enough atmosphere. It would be good if you can make more rain droplets visible In general open play. If you watch that Maul video , once we have the high behind camera view of the field and maul it’s almost impossible to see it’s raining .
Just want to give heads up hardest might be easiest because I played this game on easy and medium can’t score tries and barely get gaps play on hardest and gaps are opening up and scoring tries just a shame AI is dump as hell because they can’t score
I agree. I just tried the same thing this evening and found the game flowed better. Worth for people to have a go with harder difficulties. I actually managed to get a few passes away from the first receiver too.
IDK, I have always played hardest. I am giving easiest a go now and you can bump and step players. Gaps are there, the FB seems more often not in position. I will come back and edit this if it changes … but Easiest seems a lot easier to me?
I found medium very easy. I think you must have just had a very good game? Although you are right, Hardest does not seem hard at all either. Will try hard just because. Even though playing this bug infested version is no fun
And that is hard. IDK, only single games but playing still felt much easier than hardest to me. Yes you can put 50 on teams but I think that is just more because the overall difficulties will need to be raised once everything is working? Very cool though … you have given me some interest to go and test the theory out
Hahah must have been, but think sometimes the glitches work out in your favor because one game did a steal and seems like AI was bit shocked and didn’t touch the player so free run to the score bored, but feel you need play SA rugby World Cup style rugby to score I feel just use players around the ruck to bring the defense in and straight pass to wing
Well I was using the same way I do always, around the ruck and hitting the centre to create gaps. I found they were easier to find in the lower ones. But I haven’t played in a while, so maybe will go try hardest and see.
It could totally be easier than the others somehow, hard to know fighting through all the bugs like you say. Lets hope this next patch whenever it arrives makes the game playable again so we can have a clearer picture.
I am now going to try hardest and medium alternating thanks for the tip!
Don’t know if anyone has any tips for the mauls yet because when I’m defending the maul I can maul them back the whole field but when it’s my maul it seems like it it’s not going anywhere
Small piece of feedback on the team selection menu. It would be great if the RS or the L + R triggers rotated the player so we could see the full 360 of the kit. Especially handy for when we are going through and checking out all the kits and appreciating BA’s handy work.
In game modes, please include tours like rugby 2011. Southern hemisphere and nothern hemisphere tours. Grand slam if you beat englad, wales, scotland and ireland. Realistic season modes mirror real seasons per national team. Test series for july tests.
I agree, from 2026 NZ and SA will be re starting touring every 4 years. 3 or 4 tests and midweek games. NZ tour SA in 2026 and then SA tour NZ in 2030.
So to be able to replicate those in a game mode would be great. Select the number of main tests to be played and the amount of mid week games etc.
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Although you are right, Hardest does not seem hard at all either. Will try hard just because. Even though playing this bug infested version is no fun 
thanks for the tip!
