Ok no worries. I’ll wait until next Tuesday before I try the game again. 
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Spot on. At the moment, those of us who have bought the game are essentially Crowdfunding a project. Having bought several Big Ant games in the past, I trust them to improve it to the point where I actually want to play (as occurred with AFL 23). At the moment though, it just isn’t fun.
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I wouldn’t have put it better.
At this point I am mostly hoping that many more people like me have supported this project and Big Ant realise that it is worth making all the improvements, if not on this game, on the next installment.
But there are basics needed urgently on this one, specially the ones regarding the laws of the game. (Calling a mark, fixing the offsides -the players in front on the kicker can recieve the ball or tackle the opposition reciever and nothing happens-, knock ons, high tackles, sin bins…All this is non existent at the moment.)
Let alone COMPLETELY RANDOM player likeness. If there is not photogrammetry for certain players, at least take the effort to get the skin color right. And if you can’t, let us do it!.
I’ll be back on tuesday hoping for the best but once again expectinf not much.
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I cant even play a game now on PS5 keep getting booted after selecting sides, still dont have all the leagues/competitions in career yet either
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There’s no point in having sliders yet, the guys need to fix the gameplay and stuff first as otherwise sliders will be useless and will have more bugs, let them fix the game fully first and then maybe they can introduce sliders when everyone’s happy with gameplay being fully functional and bugs being fully gone.
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Paddy Jackson, who plays for Lyon OU, springs to mind regarding skin colour. In game he his portrayed as a black man. When in actual fact he his white irl.
But yes I brought this game, not only because I like Rugby Union and League, but because I know Big Ant’s other games that I play, Crucket 24 and Tie Break, have now become really good games.
I know with the right amount of people purchasing and playing this game it will be worth them spending the time making it better.
I have all faith and trust that they will too because they have with the other games they have released.
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While this is great to be okay with, we are 17 updates in and nothing changes apart from sliders being moved. When AFL23 was released, immediately they released a roadmap. Also, dont know why you guys think this is okay, it kills the playerbase of the game and for us that like to play online and not mess around building stadiums, the game will have no players if its ever fixed.
This game should be fixed, re-released as rugby 26 with upgraded squads and all of us beta testers should NOT have to pay for it.
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I think all the above comments are fair. I am still supporting the game and its improvements but the custom playface and custom team game breaking play now issue has really hurt me
I can’t say I’ve lost all faith but I was shaken by that glitch entering the game at this point. Patches need to be tested , it’s vital new issues don’t keep popping up and in break previously working features
I’m disappointed by this I can’t deny it
Should just take it back to the previous patch rather @JNT_BA
Actually your last paragraph is my biggest “fear”, being trapped in a scam. We paid for an unfinished game, and we will have to pay again once it will be finished.
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Rightly so, hopefully not but I also can foresee it. And of course, as we have no other options since licensing is monopolized and us online players need other players to play, we are in a way forced if we’d like to play a game of the sport we enjoy.
Can’t wait for the end of the Early Access. Official Release will be sick
When Patch ? When MASSIVE Patch ?
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If the attacking team grounds the ball behind their own try line, the defending team should have a 5m scrum. Currently this results in a drop out for the team that grounds it. Please can the rules of rugby be implemented in the game?
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Lesson learnt. Do not buy games where Big Ant is the developer. You got my cash this time, well played, but lesson learnt.
I desperately want to support local, but when this is the caliber it’s extremely hard to justify.
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Hi Team,
Any chance you can revisit looking at halftime Stamina increases.
I just feel the stamina that replenishes at half time for the starting 15 is way too high, bringing nearly all players back to 100% before second half. Perhaps it should only increase for players by 15-20% to restart second half ? Playing in second half you almost don’t need to make any replacements based on stamina drain currently. Thanks
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Before you say I’m deleting your criticism. You’re more than welcome to put it back up. But when you “*&^$” your words to avoid the censoring I will delete comments immediately. I have no tolerance for that and further trying to do it will result in further action.
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Hi JNT, entirely up to you, but much of the recent “criticism” posts are not really what would be called constructive. Is there any way they could be compiled and put into a separate thread for “Criticism of Rugby 25” thread?
We all know the game has a laundry list of minor issues, and maybe a couple of handfuls of bigger ones and yeah there’s nothing wrong with pointing them out and being annoyed, but some of these posts add nothing to the process of fixing the game and just push good posts further up the page. Heck I’ve criticized the game many times, but try to also add what I think is going to help improve the situation.
Anyhow, while I’m here, just curious if the major issues with Custom teams not working in Play Now is on the more “urgent” fix list?
Also, is there any likelyhood of perhaps adding a little more kicking distance to clearance kicks from inside the 22, to make it worth doing? Due to the overwhelmingly strong attacking abilities with ball in hand as the game stands, territorial kicking is somewhat redundant just now. Even if this just has a stronger effect for kickers with stats in the 90+ range.
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They’re working now they just are having issues the the ground setting. Already updated on our end and will go out with the next patch. Unless you’re saying you can literally not play with them at all? I’ve got no issues with mine when I change their home ground until the update goes out.
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When updating AI teams gameplay, each team must have a different style. For example some.teams like fiji play with flair, offloads en all out attack. Where some teams play a territorial game. Some teams dominate with forwards, some teams box kicks or up and unders. Can’t have same style of game play for each team you play against, othwise it will be to easy to figure out a way to win. Ai must also addapt in game your style of play and be able to change its game play, like fifa. This is a lot to ask, but I’m sure you guys are skilled enough to do so. It can be as easy as designing slides like rugby challenge games had for each team.
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