Fantastic, not a content creator on You Tube myself, but it’s obvious that some of them have a very positive and constructive outlook and I’m glad that you as part of the BA team are seeing these videos.
I found it interesting in this one that one of the things he talked about was ruck contests and how a blend of Rugby 22’s system and RWC 2011 might work better, as the current system feels more like a surprise if you win or lose the ball rather than the result of competing for the ball as you do feel in those other two titles. This is something I’d mentioned some weeks back in a very similar way, so I did wonder if he’d perhaps read that one from on here.
Another brilliant point was him bringing up contesting kicks. He really nailed that one. The current multi-ringed cirlcles are a complete mystery to me and for some reason, when chasing a kick-off your chasing player changes at times for no reason.
As for his thoughts on general play kicking, it’s meter bounce-back and lack of distance, well that one’s so obviously not where it needs to be that I’m sure your team is going to be all over that some time in the next month or so surely.
The goalkicking system in AFL 26 did look to have some transferrable elements, so hoping there’s time for a revamp there too eventually.
Anyhow, I hope most of the team have recovered from whatever hit a bunch of you last week, not just so we can hopefully see a good patch, but just genuinely of course.
Please can we mix it up with players complaining to the referee before a lineout, rather than it always being my loosehead prop (or just remove that cut scene)?
A few notes from my side once again. I have mentioned a lot of these before and I know that almost everyone else has too, but just playing over the weekend again, I found these my most annoying points.
Creative Team:
I started 3 different careers because I wanted to experience three different leagues and eventually get international offers from 3 different countries. I play as The Sharks in the URC, Saracens in the Gallagher Premiership, and The Blues in Super Rugby. The URC, and Gallagher’s licensing is there, the field is marked, the presentation is all beautiful, but not with Super Rugby? No Marking on the fields? the referees wear big ant clothes?
There are still no advertisement boards in the stadiums, it looks dull.
There are players I noticed especially in The Sharks team who’s faces are still not scanned in yet, that is not Lukhanyo Am and Aphelele Fassi, and how can some of the bigger clubs and countries still not have their player names where it shows “number 1” or “number 8”? Surely you have the licenses as the kits are right?
There are still no national anthems
The crowd is boring, they barely make any noise when their home team score or win a penalty, or break the line
Commentary is awful
I have asked multiple times in the past about whether The Rugby Championship, Rugby World Cup, NOC, and Currie Cup will be added into the game
If they are not, then for heaven’s sake, give us the ability to create these tournaments ourselves. The format for Custom Competitions does not allow us to create the World Cup or The Rugby Championship. And how can we still not name our Custom Competitions?
That is not what rain should look like
Most players with long hair has these weird white specs when the camera is on them
There are try-scoring dives I have never seen in a rugby game. That strange handstand try animation should be canned. How can we not yet touch down the ball without diving?
I have never seen a ref wear a whistle like a ring, it is wrapped around his hand and he holds it between his thumb and index finger when blowing the whistle.
Gameplay:
It is impossible to be able to break through the first defender every single time and then to add to that the attacking player offload the ball where that attacker will also now be able to break the first tackle, add to that my defensive line is completely confused, my players run right past the attacking players making no attempt to tackle, I find myself conceding a try in 2 - 3 phases.
What determines which player I will switch to on defence? I have tried figuring out how the game determines who should be the next defender, but it is completely random. The player I switch to should be the next most logical defender.
What on earth is going on with my defensive line drifting away from the attackers? All it succeeds in doing is create a gap wide enough for Big Show to fit through.
The scrum mechanic is stupid, PLEASE NOTE IT IS NOT A SIN TO STEAL ONE OR TWO IDEAS FROM PREVIOUS GAMES!!! I understand you want your game to be original but goodness knows there are better scrum systems out there.
Why can I not win a scrum without my scrumhalf having to pick the ball up before it collapses yet?
The lineouts are stupid. The jumpers do not stretch to the side like friggin ballerinas, it should be one smooth motion, up and down, maybe an outstretched arm to tap the ball from the defending team, and once the ball has been taken, it’s either throw the ball to the scrumhalf while still in the air, land and then throw the ball to the scrumhalf, or land and form the maul.
There are still no set plays in the game?
Goalkicking, AGAIN, IT IS NOT A SIN TO STEAL AN IDEA OR TWO FROM ANOTHER GAME
There are probably still so many issues that I forgot to mention, but this me.
I want to love this game so much as it is a very beautiful game, but it keeps breaking my heart.
Made a topic for Currie cup and Japanese Leagues to be added! Join in and and you thoughts on that. We as fans bought a game hoping for a rugby game with the best licensing and gameplay.
Speak up
So there is not much I can say at the moment. Will things continue to be updated? Yes, I will not say which things until I am 100% certain.
Do I want to provide a list of what will come with updates? Yes. I will try to get one as soon as I can. I have already reviewed some of the updates the guys have been working on around some things, and these will go out when I’m happy with them. Not this week, as they are not fully prepared.
Will I say they are big? Without knowing what “big” means to each person, I cannot answer that.
While I’ve been a little more absent here than I would like, and in the future will be a little more absent while I do some things behind the scenes.
Some things have moved internally, and once it’s all been ok’ed, “I” will provide you guys with what updates I can. Unfortunately, the next few weeks will be busy for me as “I” am now focusing purely on Rugby 25, and I will not be working on the other titles or most of the other things that I would normally do.
Edit: Yes, there is still a patch this week. The updates I mentioned have nothing to do with this week’s update.
