I figured out how to customize the gameplay balance to your liking.
Go to Academy >Players > Filter > Belongs to club, then cycle through to your team with the left and right dpad, then select accept. Then select a player to adjust with X and then select skills and now you can adjust all the stats for each player in your team or every other team in the game.
Changing Forward speed and acceleration to around 50 helps create a more realistic balance between backs and forwards and you won’t have the problem of forwards outrunning backs.
A quick way to test your teams adjustments is to play a game against the same team you are adjusting.
It can take a while especially knowing all teams and players need to be adjusted but the option is there!.
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Nice one man, might try that out!
Wish there was a way to share whole game rosters like other sports titles do.
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What difficulty are you using as your base Radman? I wish we had sliders
i will have a look at this @Radman , good to see old faces on here from the old RL/Sidhe forums
I’ve played some more games and mainly just dropped the forwards down the the 50’s speed and acceleration it makes a more realistic balance on any difficulty and the game is more fun for me but the way the game plays needs some adjustments for sure especially defense.
I think maybe the top end speed for outside backs could be raised a bit to get that extra burst of speed onto the ball out wide and to generally separate the speed of backs and forwards a bit more.
Would be cool to have the sliding defense mechanic from Live 1 brought back and adjusted a bit so you can slide left and right with L1 and R1 as well as compress by holding together. The sliding defense in this game doesn’t do anything of value to help you defend and the L2 defensive option just gets exploited by the step every time. Making this work and having the AI do it would allow the player to see defensive shape better rather than the one dimensional always spread evenly as is currently used.
A faster play the ball speed for a start would help making defensive shifts more urgent and if you don’t use sliding defense you should be exploited because it would be lazy defense.
A request that would help things a lot is it would be very nice to have a pass speed adjustment bar so you can toggle the pass speed to your liking.
Are you able to upload your teams please? Interested to give them a go
There’s no quick way to do this. All I can suggest is to go through your own team list, change down the forwards speeds to around the 50 mark and bump your backs up to max then play a game versus the same team to test out your changes then just adjust other stats to how you want them.
Don’t know about speed but other stats simply aren’t working.
The game is so broken.
Changed sidestep, fend, break tackle & dummy all to minimum 0 values across all players from two seperate teams.
Upped all tackling and passing stats to their highest in the 90’s.
Still manage to pull off successful sidesteps and tackle breaks on every tackle of a set. And AI threw 5 forward passes in a ten minute half.
3 updates in 4 days might have to check back after the 15th patch rolls out.
all the good games have customisable players etc
The best way to fine tune it is to throw the code base in the bin and find a developer who isn’t grifting it for a quick buck
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Bit of a shame to read. Sounds similar to rugby 25 in regards to certain stats not making a difference
If this is all working so well, why not petition Big Ant , to add a simulation mode that does this? I am sure for them it would not be that difficult. They can probably just due a % reduction on forwards across the whole game, a lot quicker, not all of us have time to go in an manually change every player stat. Lets go, let start pushing for this, lets petition for this, because they said sliders would take a lot of time and effort. Big Ant has been pretty good about things like this, when we pushed for 5 in a ruck in Rugby 25 they eventually add it. So they do listen if there is enough support.
The amateur difficulty really needs a looking at and needs tweaking.
I am winning games by 40+ points without conceding on rookie which is ridiculously easy.
But when I go onto amateur I literally cannot score any points and lose by 20+.
The jump in difficulty is massive and This needs addressing otherwise this game will get boring so quickly. I can see several people have made comments on this in the Megathread.
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Field GOALS ARE THE WORST!!! EVEN 2 Point Field GOALS!!! CAN WE PLEASE FIX THAT!!!
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Was the same in RLL4 and still no changes. A difficulty slider might help, pleeaassee…
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Radman would like an update with your current state pls. Have you altered anymore player stats? Cheers
Hey, I basically just universally adjusted Forwards, Second Rowers and Hooker to 40 speed and accelleration but 50 is also not bad.
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Yeah nice. How about halves and outside backs did you make any adjustments there? Or have you left them at defaults? Cheers
I basically kept them at default but you can bump them to max if you want for extra effectiveness.
I’ve left backs at default for now, think they’re ok with all of the forwards set in the 50’s. Thanks, game definitely running a lot better with these changes.
Think BA may have finally fixed the AI fullback ‘running the ball over the sideline after a punt’ bug ? Haven’t had it happen since the last update and I have peppered quite a few kicks close to the sideline 