I haven’t gotten a single issue with career mode yet but theres still some weird things that happen after year 2 or 3. Pretty much every teams overall goes into the 60’s and the team you play on pretty much always finishes bottom 2. i simmed a whole 25 year career to see and only made finals three times where none were won and the rest were all bottom 2 finishes with % in the 50’s. won nearly every brownlow though
My thoughts on career mode.
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Defending - Have a player indicator pointing to your direct opponent or say “hold LB to chase direct opponent” just to give some idea on where to be as a defensive player and when the opposition has the ball. (Maybe this comes with more positioning skill although mine is quite high)
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Tackling needs to be made a bit stronger in contests, I feel there’s too many quick kicks out while the tackler is just getting there, needs to be more dropping/holding the ball. Maybe a tutorial video on how to properly tackle just for me haha after two games I still don’t quite understand what you want me to do to lay one
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Running/sprinting- my career player not sprinting to get to the drop of the ball for a mark even with stamina, instead ends up making it on the bounce slowly. Also the stamina drain while jogging is understandable but maybe the rate needs to be turned down. Seems like my direct opponent can run all day yet I run 30m and am cooked.
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Subs - Probably should’ve gone captain and turned auto subs off so probably my fault but unless Michael Voss is coach I don’t think your 190cm big bodied mid should be taking a rest in the ruck
also think my ruckman is shorter than me for some reason (WAU18s) -
Marking - seems a bit random and hard to move to right position when the ball is in the air. No one to jostle with but doesn’t run to the area required even though I’m trying to make him go there. Maybe another video
could even exist by now
Crashing - thinks it’s been addressed in the megathread and coming on an update soon but my career seems to crash every time I’m winning and never when I’m losing…
Overall though love the game mode and will end up playing a lot of it.
Same here mate, every time i try to load into the match the game crashes just before the first siren. Paaid 100 bucks for this game and i cant even access all the features.
Also I’d like to see a behind player camera which follows the ball so you are always looking at the ball/goals if you have the ball. I prefer the end to end cameras but you can’t follow player as if the ball is behind you can’t see anything that’s happening. Like from a kick out you are basically just looking ahead at goals with no real sense of what’s going on behind.
The player indicator for when you are off screen is almost useless as you may pop out on the screen no where near where the icon is. Needs to follow exactly where your player is to be able to move off screen efficiently.
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Just got drafted by Tigers.
this bloke is a unit - Presbyterian Gibraltar.
Why the name? It just came up.
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Is anyone’s u18 team just getting slaughtered? Not sure what the go is with my save. I’m playing as a general forward in Vic Metro, 5 minute quarters, we’ve lost by 90 and 120 in the first two games. Midfielders get killed by the opposition. Difficulty has been on Hard so wondering whether it needs to be toned down to easy for my AI teammates to even have a chance? Poor design if thats the case, the AI should be even enough, it should be me as the player who’s impacted by the difficulty.
Side note, anytime I get an opportunity going forward the stupid game always allows my opponent to slide in front for the easy intercept (stuck in the mud 23 vibes).
In my first season in AFL at Richmond, we finished mid table and I won the Coleman and All Australian Honours. I also got a trade to the swans in the trade period. It felt very Jason Horne-Francis-esque.
UPDATE
Well my player captained the Swans to a flag over Fremantle in the granny. Hoorah.
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Well, much like AFL23, the concept is 5/5 however execution is 1/5. Mid way through first season in career mode and have found following issues.
-unable to create multiple careers using the appearance from an existing player meaning you have to do it over & over again
-random quantity of disposals
-no control over my player when in a contest, resulting in being continually outmarked without any effort. Also found my player will stop running when on a lead, resulting in opposition player overtaking & winning the ball.
-goal accuracy is bit out of whack. Players continually snapping goal after goal from the shapest of angles whilst being tackled
-old set shot mechanics were far superior to the current one
-VFL side ends up with all identical bald players.
-gameplay could be a little more flowing. More clearance kicks and less handballs causing it to pinball around.
Hoping their will be some patches to fix these issues before i get bored & put it back in the cupboard like i did AFL23
My Career is going well on my end on the PS5, started a couple different ones as a mid-fielder (Most Fun) and Forward (Will be fun once the leading is patched).
Question though, has anyone said no to the draft on the first year?
Interested to see what happends haha. If not I’ll experiment tonight
No but I assume you’d just keep playing for your selected state team.
Yeah that is what I assume also, I’ll find out haha
I simulated and selected no to the draft on purpose to see what happens.
You end up getting to pick a VFL, WAFL or SANFL side to play for and then when the midseason draft rolls around you then get the option again to nominate. That’s as far as I went with it.
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Sounds like a pretty accurate situation then.
This is a big thing for me. The camera angle at the moment is super junky and a little frustrated. Please for all the footy gods out there can we just have a locked behind the player camera for player career mode
This could be fun actually!!
get a few more skills built up before making it into the AFL.
Hmm!!
Agreed, however for now i use end dynamic & use L1 to pan the camera up the ground until the ball is coming back my way. This stops the glitchy end-to-end changing randomly
Most frustrating part of player career mode atm is calling for the ball and have the ball come to you in a less than advantageous position
What would be nice is that once you call for the ball there should be an icon to indicate the Ai has recognised and accepted your request and at the same time allow your player to direct where you want the ball.
This could work by holding the triangle button and like manual kick aiming, aim where you want the ball. Release the triangle when you have marked your preferred spot to where you want the ball to go to.
Take for example I like playing as a defender and so many times the ai would kick to you but also in reach of your opposition. Would be good to let’s say ask them to kick the ball to your left and to your advantage and away from the oppo on. your right.
As players in real life, when we ask for the ball we can use hand signals to say ‘ hey kick it here for me’ should be able to do it in game.
Negative. When in a real game do you get the ball exactly where you want all the time?
In AFL (Australian Football League) players absolutely use hand signals, gestures, and verbal cues to communicate how they want the ball delivered and what play to execute.
Hand Signals & Gestures
Like for example a Forward Leading for the ball:
A forward might POINT into space to show where they want the ball kicked
another one is that I play Futsal on Sundays and the amount of times I would point to where I want my teammate to pass the ball happens all the time. They won’t hit their target all the time but at least they know what I expected them to do.
Playing in careers mode notice things that need changing
- Assist on contests needs to be able to turn off.
- Need a different camera angle