On the first day the game came out I played it on a friends PS5 and just simulated through career to see what it was like, I was offered the Blues job within one successful year of coaching.
On Xbox which is my actual console that I own I’ve never been offered the job even after winning the grand final 4 seasons in a row. I think a patch might’ve ruined that or it just isn’t available to Xbox users, four successful seasons in a row would usually result in a rep job being offered I’d think.
How can the run meter stat not be added on career mode but all the others have SMH please fix this Big Ant
Can we have auto save disabled and have the ability to simulate day-to-day? I want to have multiple saves on one playthrough like in EA games.
Two-player capability in Manager mode please. Surely it’s a simple job to make it just like the play now or competition modes in that regard.
90% of my gameplay is in coach career, The mode could use some additional features like some overall team training you can do in the off season, and being able to select specific players to train in certain areas to improve. I’d love to be able to have my fullback as a backup kicker or have someone really good at a 2pt field goal. Essentially practice mode, but having stamina costs etc
We definitely need a yearly roster breakdown, I can barely understand who I have for how long.
Can anyone help me understand how career mode works? What exactly can I do about form and player happiness besides spend cash?
Is a players potential locked? Do I need better facilities to get them to improve? I’d love some ways to focus training certain players up as I’m ready to move others on.
I really don’t know how to improve form. It seems every bench player I have hits bad form?
Maybe it’s out of scope but I’d love to have some form or skill bonuses I can assign after a game. Sometimes there are great league moments that don’t really register as a big deal to the computer, like a player crossing the field to make 2 try saving tackles in the dying minutes but then they’re still down on form so I’d love to be able to give them a boost in some way.
Some other coaching decisions would be nice and would help emersion like assigning cover tactics like if the fullback had to make a tackle on the forth I can select which centre I prefer to drop back while the winger moves to cover fb.
Just more things to do between games, it’s very bland at the moment. Although the gameplay has improved and I’m having fun playing on pro, I just hope they’re going to keep working on career mode seeing as the game sold so well
Agreed it is very very barebones in it’s current state. With even some minor changes it could be vastly improved.
You can’t even see who is playing well in the league in general, no substantial player progression, lacklustre managerial options
Thank you for the awesome game and hard work you guys put in th Rugby league 26. Only request im asking if you add the world cup on competition. Please again Thank you so much.
Would be great to import the custom teams into manger mode, simply by swapping teams out. Would be great to fully manage them, and alongside some of the other suggestions I’ve seen on the thread such as training would be good. Then taking your custom team through the recruitment process.
Is there any potential to add academy style graduates, I’ve seen in other games it’s very basic and basically regens retiring players with a different name. But with same potential, that we could train and mould into world class players too. So the squads are constantly being refreshed every year, making it more interesting
New update they’ve added a weekly training schedule, it’s not bad but I haven’t looked too closely tbh. Glad it’s there and they’re adding things into the mode.
I hope there is a little tweak where you can add in your game day so it’s part of the plan rather than switch back and forth but that’s not a massive issue.
Maybe some selection tweaks in the future so we can see more details about players for selection, origin selection being restricted to 26 players across 3 games isn’t right.
Edit. Only 3 saves for career is weird to me
I want to acknowledge the Big Ant Team for HEARING the calls for co-op capability in Coach Career! You guys have made excellent progress in this game and I’m super pleased to see this change happen so soon as well. Thank you so much!
Run meters back in the stats yet? Individual player stats for players on other teams?
I think it’s hilarious you get to see stats like run meters, line break assists that give a player MOTM on one screen but they aren’t listed anywhere else.
Anybody have some tips on form for bench players?
I can’t figure out why my bench spots all hit bad form. Winning games, usually around 30 to 40 mins of game time, evening if I sim the games it’s happening. is it a bug or am I missing something?
Basically my whole squad have low morale/form. DWZ scored 4 tries and still had 2 red downward arrows.
Big Ant, could we include the ability to start as a representative coach like in RLL4? Would love to coach the 2025 Origin sides within career instead of waiting a few seasons to earn it.
I’m not saying remove the feature entirely just have the option to start.
Again this is an issue. They trying too hard to incorporate fifa elements but not following up. Would be cool if they randomised who comes off contract as well
Why is there is promotion to super league??
Would be good to be able to play career mode with custom leagues, like on RLL4.
Really need to have promotion across the English leagues, have the play off winners replace the team that finished bottom in the division above. Keep it really simple.
Would also be good to get custom leagues into career mode too, easy way to do this would be to replace the league with a created league that the league is based on. Would also be good to change out teams for created teams too.
Sure this was all there in RLL4
The new age search filter for recruitment is a welcome addition. It was painful to scroll through the list trying to find a junior to invest in.
Some control over recruitment coaches would be good too, we get one recruitment given to us at the beginning of every year and it would be good to request position. Getting 3 fullbacks in a row isn’t good recruitment (unless they allow us to change their positions)
Some more interaction/activity with the recruitment staff would be nice to see. On top of requesting a player by position, making a list of “interested in” positions if I’m looking to offload some players. Small stuff like messages throughout the year about players to watch from those positions.
Some reports on how rep players played or if they were just in the squad.
As others have mentioned, a way to see when a player is coming off contract on our watch list so we can make cap space to make a big signing.
In the team lineup it would be nice to have a little goal or insight into players to improve their form? Like maybe one thing like more passes and the better our coaching staff we get more details?
Off season training for players would be a good opportunity to change player positions. Not crazy changes but within a grouping (like prop-lock-second row as a group, hooker-halves-lock, winger-center-fb) where essentially it’s a dice roll with a percentage chance of success. Ideally it would be training games and if we can hit objectives can successfully change position but thats probably out of scope.
On the nswcup side of things I do wonder how that will be incorporated into coach career. In the past games have you been able to play games as your nswcup side and first grade? I like the idea of playing some cup games to build players up and having players from cup go into first grade fill in during injuries.
When will we be able to swap a custom club for a licensed club within career mode or insert our very own custom leagues. This would be a great addition. You could potentially insert your own custom club into whichever league you wish, enter your favourite NCL team into league 1 and coach them all the way to super league for example. With custom leagues, you could expand the lower English leagues and backfill positions with extinct teams. Expand the NRL with future plans for PNG and Perth bears. Expand the super league to 14 teams. Create the NCL and have it feed into league 1. Even create and play a league set up of American rugby league teams if you wanted to create them. All within the ability to utilise them through career mode would allow players to play these seasons and systems over a number of years
Can you make the stats more advanced for players.
Like what teams they played for and their stats for those teams.