Is it normal? Nope
Do things sometimes get lost, yep. Send in another one so they see it. Even if it’s just one pointing back to your original one.
Ive already sent others but still no answers.. I will do again thanks
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GotBy
I wouldn’t mind a 1 patch per week for gameplay.
Right now i think is quite stable gamplay wise. Like i said tuesday i think AI is a bit too coservative on the attack style, 98% just goes into defence and with some offload. I got 2 passes before tackle in 4 matches.
The attacking style or approch is for sure hard to implement properly, is based on situation, team strategies and overall style of playing.
Playing wide near the 5 meters is suicidal most of times, but it depends… your opponent is starting to leaves gaps? They are getting more tigth defensively? Are you that confident to not lose the ball with a rushing defense?
All this and more are considered by a team when choosing what to do.
The same thing occurs in every part of the field.
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Hi @JNT_BA
If we find players that look opposite as they do irl (wrong hair, skin colour, height, etc), are we supposed to raise a ticket to support? Or are they all supposed to be reviewed eventually?
I understand that less famous teams, for example Spain, don’t get photogrammetry but some of them are conpletely wrong.
Since we cant edit existing players yet, what’s the way to go? Thanks!
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Hello, I’m Playing in hardest on steam.
I think It is fair for the AI to be harder to tackle, but next step in my opinion is to make It use the kicks more !
- Kick-off reception > clearance kick from the 9
- 30m zone > Clearance kick from the 10
- 50m zone > Kick aiming for the 50-22.
- 40m>40m zone > Some up and unders (when fixed)
With those features, I’m sure players won’t have the feeling of spending their time defending against freight trains !
Thanks for the updates !
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Would love a few more Penalties for the user 
but loving the game
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Hi @JNT_BA thanks for the latest update. It’s definitely challenging now however as others have said it’s maybe not challenging in the right way. Making the first receiver invincible through fends and offloads doesn’t feel right and the missed tackles being as high as the number of tackles is just not realistic. The lack fn momentum animations in tackles and the ability to ride the tackle and drive forward to gain metres, especially with the forwards is so noticeable now. I’d much rather see the AI make metres through actual forward play with momentum and driven runs up the field than continuous offloads and fends.
I mentioned this in my ticket 28913 but please look at how the AI played in Early Access 2, specifically interim patch 2. Although the AI lacked the right intent to pick the gaps they set up in much better attacking shapes, forwards kept to pods with supporting players in the pods hitting rucks after a carry, backline players looping behind the pod to take a pass from a pod and also passing down the line, tactically kicking when needed and using special moves like the step at the right time.
Additionally how much are individual player skills having on the difficulty? The reason I ask is that I have created some custom teams and purposely made certain players stats for things like rucking and offloads really bad yet this doesn’t make any difference. The flyhalf for example had terrible offload and ruck skills however was able to offload every contact and then entered nearly every ruck on attack, which of course then took them out of the next play.
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This week has definitely been a step forward to last weeks patches that’s for sure
Edit: whilst I’m thinking about it, I meant to ask this a few weeks ago but forgot.
I am a big Leicester Tigers fan and noticed right away that the stadium in game doesn’t look like Welford Road irl.
So I was going to ask, similar to what the team did with the StoneX stadium, are they planning on updating other stadiums at all?
Reason I ask is because the in game version of the Europcar Stand doesn’t look anything like it’s real life counterpart.
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I think this is good tuesdays gamplay updates thursdays visuals and etc updates it gives big Ant enough time to test the gameplay updates out thoroughly
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I just am dissapointed that this game was sold at full price as the finished piece but it clearly is still early access.
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Just started my next season mode AI v AI game.
URC Championship:
Scarlets lead Connacht 19-14 at half time. It’s been an entertaining half which I’ve enjoyed. A number of offside penalties resulting in kicks to touch which I’m glad to see.
Just one thing puzzles me though. Why is the Left Prop for Scarlets kicking off the 2nd half? Surely the designated kicker in the team, in this case Ioan Lloyd, should be kicking off?
Maybe something for the team to have a look at @JNT_BA
It’s not happening every time so maybe just a random bug. However, I thought I’d let you know as it has happened in other games too.
Just another thing I’ve had which is good. An offside in the 22 and the opposing team awarded the penalty have opted for a quick tap and go.
I’m impressed. Some much needed variations to these penalties now. Good job Big Ant 
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Same with Franklin’s Gardens, The Stoop, Kingston Park, Ashton Gate and a few other Premiership stadia - only two which are bang on are the Salford Community Stadium and the fully licensed StoneX Stadium.
Dunno what version of the game that I’ve got (probably the latest patch version for XBox) but I just don’t see much improvement when watching Comp v Comp game. AI still would rather keep it tight and offload down the field whilst I’m screaming to pass the ball to a colleague who is in space and could make say 10-15 yards…but no. They evade the first tackle…make a few yards…offload…and repeat. It’s getting a bit tiresome to watch now!
Sad news 
I started my first game under play now of my rugby tournament and game froze after 65 mins in game…
Very sad
Tbh I’m with @TheJackSmit on this topic.
I know it might be asking a little too much at this point in time. But I am hoping that over time the team may look at updating some stadiums to look like their real life counterparts. As best as possible anyway.
Many thanks
Btw in my previous match I had another offside penalty inside the 22. Connacht committed the offside and Scarlets were awarded the penalty.
I applaud the situational awareness of the AI for going for a kick to posts. They could have gone for kick to corner or tap and go. However, because Connacht were trailing by 12 points at the time with 10 minutes to go, dare I say this but was there some mental AI awareness knowing for well that the 3 points would take them out of losing bonus point range?
Just a thought that is all. Maybe just me over analysing as usual.
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This sadly makes a lot of sense. To make a game like Rugby with the sheer number of teams Big Ant have put in it, you need a massive amount of pretty accurate data for all of the individual players across a range of skill categories. They have to add up to what the team’s overall score should be more or less and that’s just for one team!
With the number of teams in this Rugby game, that’s a mountain of data to get through and Big Ant are not a huge company. Then they’re doing AFL, Cricket, Rugby, Rugby League and Tennis. I love that they’re doing all these projects, I buy them all except AFL, but it just about seems impossible for one moderately sized team to get all the skills even 70-80% right.
So there are no doubt a huge number of discrepancies and if skills were fully implemented, the game would probably play even more weirdly than it did at first release with players doing some unusual things. How do they counter this? I’d suspect that some things players can just do, no matter how their “stats” are for that thing.
When you think about it, you can play players out of position and they more or less do the same thing and there’s no consequences at all for playing someone in a position which isn’t one of their “3” positions.
Up until recently there was very little difference in speed between front rowers and fulllbacks. So right now, the same thing is going on with fend and offload.
Why won’t Big Ant hand things fully over to the games skills and stats? I’d have to imagine that it could cause all sorts of dramatic variances in outcomes across the user base and make patching things up much more difficult to manage.
Also, if Big Ant chose to implement custom players being able to be put into any team, it opens those teams to players with absurd data from the Community. Then it may unbalance the experience and make the game much worse.
If individual player skills are fully implemented, you’d only need 2-3 custom players on the field who have crazy skills (99’s in some areas and 0’s in others) that you downloaded from the community and then the game would produce some massively irregular results. One person’s experience with let’s say Munster, would be wildly different to someone else’s with the default team.
So I feel like Big Ant have some areas of the skill sets locked to certain levels globally across the game. Fend and Offload appear to be two of those areas.
Make no mistake, I’m not having a go at Big Ant, I can see why they are being careful, they seem to be seeking stability before making other changes. I do hope things can gradually change over the coming weeks though.
It’s great @JNT_BA is engaging with us all and he should be able to express his opinion on the game of course. I do happen to think that his opinion about the balance between AI and human fending/offloading being somewhere near where it needs to be is wrong though.
I think the AI and human need to be able to do this based on the skills and fatigue of the attacker and defender. Right now it is NOT at all like Rugby.
I played actual Rugby for 24yrs and if the ball carrier could always fend off the first defender I would have noticed it. I honestly probably saw that maybe 5-10% of the time in real life. I’m not saying it should be that low in the game (it is a game after all), but less like 100% of the time and more like 50% would be great, but more tied to player skills.
Instead the game needs to be more diverse than that. It needs the bump-off to actually work without a 30m run up and the sidestep to be more effectual. It needs AI players to be more agile and swerve and step into gaps, rather than first tackle invincibility.
I love a good fend and an offload, they look GREAT! Though I’m a bit worried if this current Fend and Offload fest which is a MASSIVE chunk of the game is seen as being anywhere near where it needs to be.
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Hi Team,
Just some feedback on Goal line areas. The Durban Stadium. PS5 Hardest Difficulty. Coach career. This is before last nights patch on PS5
Ai player Mapimpi for Sharks was about to ground the ball then was tackled on legs lower body and then got back up in goal area then dived again into touch. Not enough room in the goal line area. Can this be extended ? Or at least stop the Bug when if the Ai player gets tackled on lower body/waist they still ground the ball with momentum and don’t get back up again.
Had another similar incident. Ai player tackled , ran out of room went to ground ball in dead ball area.
I lodged a ticket #29269 this morning with a video with time stamps. Thanks
Get gud!!!
Na this is still something we want to look at, especially around how plays work in the goal zone with specific tackles.
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Hey @JNT_BA ,
As always, thanks to you and the team for the hard work.
I won’t add anything regarding gameplay, a lot are doing it way better than I am.
Regarding “customization”, do you think we might be able someday to switch/add some teams, logos, competitions in the Career ?
As you know, I’ve made a bunch of logos, would be cool to replace unlicensed competitions logos by official created ones etc…
Is it something that is planned for the game or not yet particularly ?
Cheers and when gripsocks?
PS: Just managed to do a bumpoff with a player named Michael on an other one named Shep. No lie.
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Career is a pretty locked system atm with how the schedule works. As lots of data points have to be very specific to exactly what is in there and what happens to maintain the save data without bringing in new variables that would cause career instability
TLDR I don’t want to ruin career saves.
Even while typing this i thought of something we may be able to do. I’ll submit what I was thinking to the career mode guys. To see what they think.
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