Rugby 25 Megathread

Hard to know really, what system and view? I play on PS5 side-cam and I’m noticing that the player support still isn’t all it could be with some very poor examples still there.

I’ve been avoiding passing to the wing when they aren’t there, but there have been occasions when the wing is more or less there and the pass still goes out to touch. They seem to want them in almost perfect back-line alignment and then it works.

It seems worse if you try and draw defenders in with any sort of drifting/sweeping run from the player in centre position. When you do that the winger doesn’t seem to know how to sprint with you in a proper support position and ends up behind you in what would be a 5 o’clock position, sometimes bunching in close to you, then the pass either isn’t on anymore or they just don’t catch it.

In real rugby a winger needs to be able to sprint that support line following the centre’s drift, or cuts in sharply for an inside ball when space is running out.

Wing is a position that needs special attention for support timing and logic for attacking moves, right now many other players are mostly running reasonable support lines.

Finally, I don’t mind the occasional bullet pass now and then, but the CONSTANT bullet pass to the ground and a near PHYSICSLESS ball zooming over the sideline without stopping? Surely they need to fix dropped ball to slow and roll a LOT less???

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