Na in the end the Producer, Designer, and I go over tickets and forum posts so as long as it is somewhere we see. That’s the most important part.
Should be soon hopefully if I look at steamdb there has been a lot off updates the last 2 hours.
And it’s on qa nacon atm so if it’s same as tiebreak should be public after that if all goes right I guess
Will probably be tomorrow Aus time as it is almost 11pm where the studio is.
Update seems like some might have it and some of us are still waiting
I’m gonna write this here since in Europe we have the EA 2 . Here’s the feedback.
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Tackle: finally some good animation but it’s still not that .we getting most of the time 1 on 1 tackle and they are all dominant tackle.still feel like rugby league and not union every time there is a tackle the defender get back on his feet and go in the defensive line so basically if you are in offense you’re always outnumbered cause you have one player on the ground and 2 support so you end up with 12 attackers against 15 defenders everytime so how are you supposed to have a good offense? Have you ever watch rugby union? I’m sorry but never in my life I’ve seen 15 players on defense most of the time the tackler is on the ground and you have one or two guys trying to contest the ball that what make the space. Never saw one penalty for high tackle.We need more different tackles animation it’s always so same and it feel boring .
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ruck : for the good part i like the animations when the support is Cleaning the defender on the ruck and i like when the defender blow the ruck support on a counter ruck,the number 9 is more stick to the ball and we got faster ruck so that’s a good point too. However the time between a tackle and the ruck formation is still too long that feel so unrealistic you getting tackle your opponent getting back on his feet go back in the defensive line and after that you got the ruck formation I’m sorry but NO. That’s not how it’s supposed to work when someone is tackled the ruck should be this instant and because of that jackling is way too easy now.I never saw one penalty in the ruck for hands in the ruck or not realising the ball or even an offside . Box kicking is impossible every time you getting tackle.And last but not least the most important point is that i take no pleasure playing cause there’s no mini game for the ruck to be competitive it’s just adding player so it feel Boring as hell the scrum is fun cause you have to do something respect the mini game and the timing to win the ball here we have nothing it’s just automatic no fun it’s supposed to be a simulation competitive game i don’t feel the fun neither the competitiveness.
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passing : still too floaty and even worse now that we have a good defense.
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kicking : can’t feel the difference between a back and a forward kicking same power same distance don’t you have some grade and some sliders? Kicking is still to powerful i can kick from my 5 m and en up in the 22 opponent.
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Lineout : same as the ruck NO FUN cause no mini game it’s just press one button and it’s all automatic no mini game not enjoyable at all no penalties in this aera too.
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maul : same thing feel like automatics no mini game so no fun so why should i do a maul? If you keep going with the maul even if you progress the refs ask you to use it.
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scrum : still the best point of the game really fun love the mini game and feel competitive the only part of the game where i see penalties only thing too work is the number 8 when he choses to carry it need to be more fluid and maybe put more difficulties in the scrum so that if I’m dominant i want to keep pushing until i get a penalty and if I’m being dominated i want to get the ball out before i getting penalized. and now add some combinations after the scrum.
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graphics : every grass from every field look so awful and so unrealistic it’s really not pleasant to see and we need more intro animation and more animation during the game like stats, focus on player , emotions. every players body look the same and that’s really tickles me they all look like league players.
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game flow : really a lack of reactivity this patch put more bugs into the game the time between joining the ruck and contest it it’s unreal but in a really bad way, defense way too strong like i told you we can’t enjoy playing in offense cause there’s no tackle breaking or no breaking line, now i don’t even know who I’m passing the ball to no indication, no support running no momentum, don’t feel like i can accelerate or control the pace of my game it feel really clumsy. The pace and speed of the ruck is killing every momentum.
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sliders : please work on your sliders on defense on offense on kicking on breaking tackles on miss tackles on offload
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offense : the worst part of the game, there’s no sliders so basically if I’m not trying to bump of or hand off or step someone i can’t never break a tackle or win the line so we end with us making 10 phases starting from the 50m to end up into my 5 meters cause you can’t never break the line if you don’t try any move and just run into the defense and since there’s only 1 defense animation which is the dominant tackle you loose meter every time you carrying the ball. I think you need to reduce the speed of the defensive line coming at you so you have more time to Planified your attacks. WORST POINT is the fact that you can’t still get a proper offensive line so now you have a too good defense so you can’t do anything in offense cause your players are poorly placed. Again we want to see some PODS i want to see the difference when a back or a forward running the ball i want to have the choice of what I’m doing not just passing but have a decent attack R1 and L1 should be ball for the pods and R2 and L2 pass for the back, in my pod i want to be able to make a pop up pass to my support or hitting the back behind my pod. I want to be able to set my offense with the directional arrows the depth the space how i want my pod after the 10 or after the 9 like rugby 22 , i want some combinations after a ruck like rugby 22 and rugby 08 and rugby challenge. We want more offensive animation i want my players to break tackles and offload for god sake i can’t even offload. I want to feel that i can make the ball alive by moving it with some fluidity i want to feel that i can control the pace of my offense like basically every other rugby game than this one i just want to have fun.
Defense : more tackling animations i want to see 2 tacklers on me i want to see high tackle i want to see shoulder tackles, leg tackles, hips tackles, ball tackles i want the tackler to stay on that ground not getting up straight away i want to see penalties for dangerous tackle. I want to feel that i can control my defensive line with the space the pressure i want if i want to rush or control if i want to put pressure on the ruck or leave the ruck alone to set my defense. I just want to have fun.
I got all respect and all love for you but ain’t no way you telling me that you testing your game before realising the patch cause in just 2 min we all feel like the game is unplayable and unenjoyable.
So what do you have to remember is : WE JUST WANT FUN . I want to feel that i have the control not that all is automatic. I want the game to be competitive with some mini games around aera that made rugby fun like ruck and lineout and scrum i just want to have fun running the ball trying different way to score a try i want to have fun defending and trying to win the ball back by making the offense drop the ball or loose it because of a jackle.To be honest the game feel less and less enjoyable and the time make it worse cause we all feel like when you make one step you get 10 step back and I’m not the only one feeling that just watch every rugby YouTubers and go on some of the rugby discord all we want is fun. That’s all thanks.
Need to be honest. Easy fix. Use rugby 22 gameplay, add rugby 25 animations, graphics, planned game modes, licenses etc and build from there. This game is unplayable and can’t see how our feedback can resolve anything.
It will be very soon, i even had it ready last night but I wasn’t looking when it went live
So a new topic has been created. So feedback there will be best. I’m going to “lock” this one to keep it clean but also for preservation to not cross-contaminate updates.