Has there been another secret update to make the game worse? Or is the xbox version just rough as nails.
First time playing on the xbox since wednesdays update. This is the final tackle stats on a 5 minute game on hardest.
My players missed 84 tackles. Every single carry by the AI is back to Handoff or Sidestep.
Sometimes they are able to perform both actions on a single carry. Followed by an offload, for the next guy to just dodge another tackle with a sidestep.
AI also sprinting to rucks whereas my guys take their sweet time and I couldnt get the ball back.
Issue with kicking from tee has returned where once kicked the ball rotates 90° and the ball flies like a watermelon rolling down the hill.
AI also missed 2 conversions (which dont get me wrong, I like they CAN miss conversions now) but AI were playing as South africa, and Pollard missed 2 conversion from infront of the posts? Maybe on easy they could miss that, or on hardest missing from a touchline conversion, but litterally infront of the posts on hardest is so jarring as basically no international fly half would miss that type of kick.
Weve also got the return of the classic “once AI offload, they become a ghost for 1st tackler” glitch. Which isnt helping those missed tackles as they can litterally walk through the defence.
Also had loads of issues with my defensive line have these enormous gaps because of the 5 player rucks, and the AI can exploit way too hard. The AI attack seems to be able to pick a pass from anywhere on the pitch where the first reciever just runs through 2 defenders (while both my guys dive on the floor not even close to a tackle) and then run atleast 50m up the field before my fullback can get the tackle (which is just handed off anyway) and they run over to score. I had 4 instances of the AI running 80m tries against me from 1 phase and I couldnt do anything about it. And 2 of those tries were by props. How can props still sprint 80m and outrun wingers in this game after multiple updates targetting that exact thing.
Its crazy how different this experience is to playing the PC version on wednesday. Where the AI could barely get the ball off me. Is this going to be another instance of the pendulum swinging too hard the other way as a consequence of nobody liking the last couple of updates. Because if so, were in for another rough week this week.
No colour screens today though, so thats a… win… i guess 
P.S.
Started messing around in testing, you can pick the ball up with your scrum half and run laterally across the field, and the AI dont move until you run forwards, so you can run 50m sideways before just running around their winger, and because everyone is still the same speed. You are away for a try.
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