Pre Launch Megathread

Twistie just randomly dropped some gameplay footage in a twitter reply???

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Who cares, GTA6 trailer just dropped

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Finally got caught up on everything, from someone who’s played a tonne of 23, this game looks like a massive improvement:

  • The blending between animations is the biggest improvement for me, players don’t look like they’re ā€˜snapping’ from one animation to the next like they did in 23.

  • I love all the new gameplay additions (set shots, marking, jostling, bumping all look great), personally I didn’t think on the run goal kicking needed any major overhauls as it works pretty well atm in 23.

  • Player career looks like everything I was hoping for, the one thing I’d like to see added is an overall grade and stat bar for my player (similar to NBA2K) so I can keep track of my stats/performance.

  • Glad to hear there’s a 3rd person camera for player career, hopefully there’s also a button that allows us to change our point of focus from the ball to our direct opponent (trying to find your opponent after a turnover was always a struggle in Evo 2s player career mode).

  • The presentation improvements are great as well, those slow camera zooms/pans on the pre-game cutscenes are very nice and even the logo transition is improved.

  • The atmospheric audio (player and crowd noises) sound great as well, only a small sample size but I like how the crowd built up in anticipation as the ball flew towards goal on the set shot.

To anyone who thinks this looks even remotely close to 23s gameplay, you either haven’t played 23 in a long time or you’re just straight up lying to avoid giving big ant some credit.

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Hear me out. Imagine they added a park in AFL26 like in 2K in mycareer. You could play HORSE at the footy posts (potentially wager credits) or just kick to kick with a mate. Maybe some 3 vs 3 games. Not too sure logistically it would work.

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Shadows on the ground are very badly done…even shadows comming from far off objects like floodlights and too sharp. Animations have improved a lot but minor things like absence of jersey physics really breaks the immersion. Not for AFL 26 but BA needs to improve upon volumetric lighting.

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Yay new video let’s goooo

Is this the last video

Just need team lineups on the screen before each match added and we will be set @JNT_BA

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Thanks for all your hard work @Pink_Panters much appreciated by all mate, keep up the awesomeness!!

You still posting management mode video mate??

Has the video been taken down? Cant seem to watch it

Weird but management mode one is up now

Yeah I had to delete the guernsey video as one of the song bugged out.

Here is the management video instead!

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Do you know if in Player Career mode whether you can control/play as the entire team like normal?

Yep it’s all in the player career video with what options you have!

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@Pink_Panters Did they mention at all if player career stats is one of the things they fixed for coach mode?

what difficulty were u playing on, AI looked a bit silly

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He was playing on Easy

He was on easy, you can see it at the start of the match. Possibly why wind had less effect on goal kicking too

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Was hoping for some new celebrations but still could be some but less confident now but still looks great very keen to get stuck into it tomorrow

did anyone see the little snipit of gameplay twistie put on twitter