Rugby 25 Megathread

@JNT_BA @Lachie_BA

What I have realised with the “Hold Ball” button, if I press it multiple times, say like 5 times, a prompt on the screen says “RELEASE “ which I think is the right concept, but for the wrong team, it should be for the Defending team, so that they should release te ball if ruck is already formed, perhaps you can look at that, and adjust this to the defending side, and so one can compete at the ruck until it says “Release” or get penalised for Hands in the ruck, but also the Attacking team can then be penalised also for holding on,

Also, the trajectory for Kick offs needs to adjusted to higher and a bit further, it doesnt give defenders enough time to get under the ball to perhaps win it back from a kick off,

Also, i see a career mode for Player in Cricket 24 that seems so advanced, how have you not thought of this for Rugby 25. Anyway, please also make this game a bit more realistic with dirt on the jerseys etc, players cant always be clean.

Also a Man of the Match after the game will be good as well, and letting the captain run out first, and being able to choose long range and short range kickers, also being able to change Captain in game when the captain gets subbed.

Where is the “handbags” scenes, where guys are in a scuffel, Kickers showing to Post and Refs actually doing the animation. Also Change the unbind button on defense, because it just change between players in the ruck

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Haven’t played the game in over a month, maybe two but has the transfer system been updated yet so you can actually sell your guys and people offer on them?

Last I played it was just transfer listing them and nothing happened.

Biggest items we need added to the game soon:

  1. Ability to play all competitions listed in the career menus with custom settings (pools, etc.)
  2. Custom camera settings, including more angles
  3. Custom pitch and field markings
  4. More women’s teams
  5. Full editing of teams and players
  6. SLIDERS (Kicking distance, penalties, player speed most important)
  7. Set plays
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I personally think the AI isn’t smart enough therefore making it very easy to play against on the hardest mode. It needs to ability to do everything the player can if not more on hardest.

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Tried to play a competition and went to edit lineups and its stuck on my screen. Exited match still on my screen and took disk out put it back in and still stuck on my screen. I can still do things like create players and that but hard to when you have player lineups on your screen @JNT_BA can you please fix it?

Haven’t played in months, so the game any good yet?

True but they also get unfair advantages that the player doesn’t. Such as knock-ons, forward passes and offsides not being called for them, while they can knock down 1 or 2 players at ease before going on big breaks, while the defence open up for them or just stand there. Also the fact that they can easily turnover the ball within one or two phases after you won the ball, usually by the trylines. I’d rather have those unfair advantages sorted out first. That and the fact that the AI players no matter how slow they should be are seemingly outpacing anyone.

Played a few games over the weekend. Most I’ve played since EA. To be fair the game is getting better. A few things that need fixing

Player attack positioning - support runners are way to deep.

Line out and scrums. - they just don’t work properly

Set plays.

AI still a bit naff.

Would also love to see far away camera angle when kicking off and kicking to touch. Not a big fan of the current camera angle. To close for me.

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I really think if they don’t sort the game soon or offer some form of discount on other functioning BA products or their next attempt at Rugby that people just boycott BA products. This isn’t a Demo and people habe forked out reasonable amounts of cash for this

Shameful BA.

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Have played it a few times since the weekend patch (PS5 Side-Camera) and some things have obviously improved.

Frame Rate - Seems to have improved immensely.
Animation Errors - These seem to have been cut down a lot, perhaps frame rate was a cause, but I’m sure I’ve still seen one or two.
Kicking - It seems more or less back to where it was, which I’d call acceptable, but not great.
So, well done on that patch BA. A step forward without too much in the way of any steps back.

There are still some issues that are recent or introduced.

1 - There is an issue when someone tries to score a try from a certain distance from the line. I suppose I’d best describe it as being very close to on the line itself. The game often does not register the input for a certain distance around the line and you have to be careful not to run dead.

2 - There are a lot more intercepts now. This seems to be caused by allowing players more freedom to cross the advantage line during open play. Obviously you do want this to be a possibility as intercepts happen in the real life game and also offsides from being on the wrong side of the advantage line and tackling and/or interfering with the play. Although whatever has been changed from how it was, I would hope there was a “half measure” from where it is now. It is still important to be able to be offside in open play, or drift through from defence and possibly get an intercept, but right now it’s been changed a bit too much.

3 - I’m not too bothered by the Goal kicking system, I can kick them fine all the time now, but I know many others are having issues getting the ball to travel. For me the issue is that most goal kicks are far too easy to read for wind and it’s too easy to nail any power from half up to full before it hits the top line of the red player circle. I’d prefer an accuracy target to hit too, which could either be at the top or the bottom of the bar.

4 - General Play Kicking. I’m really hoping that without mucking up the kicking system again as happened last week, that we could be given a little more power (5-10m) from our kicks. Right now I’m playing game after game with friends or the AI and finding that it’s much better not to tactically kick. You don’t get enough distance to warrant it at all, and your opposition will make most of that distance back as soon as they catch the ball.

5 - Tackling. Tackling is a problem in this game. It doesn’t matter if you go early, or what looks to be well timed, or if you tackle late, you’ll get the same result. Either an effective tackle or fended off. It doesn’t seem to matter your timing, it doesn’t seem to effect the chance of a high tackle or anything, your timing as a tackler doesn’t really seem to come into it at all. Also, the DIVE TACKLE. Why put in there? It has no range at all, when players are running towards the try line and you get close cover-defending, there’s no point pushing dive tackle as you simply will have the attacking player continue to move away from you and you’ll go splat on the ground. There needs to be some range to it and it also seems weaker than the normal tackle, which is sad because there’s no reward for trying it. I’d prefer it was stronger as it’s harder to achieve from a gaming perspective.

That’s just another of my long posts, but thanks for what work has been going on lately. It is slowly getting better now. I hope you have some great things coming in future updates!

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I feel like the player stats doesn’t matter and it should. For example if you have a high tackle stat then it should be harder for players to bump you especially if they have a low fend stat. And some forwards like Hanekom is faster than some of the backs and I feel like the stats should reflect that and it should show when playing the game. Also I feel there is no momentum or physicality in the game I want to see proper carries and I want to feel the collisions and tackles but it doesn’t feel like a rugby experience it feels like empty bodies with the same stats according to what position they play. I think there should be higher focus on the feel of the game. I feel like it can be slowed down a bit and to get you kicks away and to really make the physicality a thing in the game. Also the stepping animation is not working at all because they step too slow and another player then tackles you from behind look at Kurt-lee and Kolbe for example they step with speed.

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I miss Mauvaka 11 #ThrowbackMonday

Early Access is not a throwback though, it’s still on-going :wink:

Quand Patch ?

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@JNT_BA what happened to the rain graphics? I remember there was that one update where it actually looked like rain and felt like it had a effect on the game, now it’s just back to white dots/lines falling half on the screen and not even on the ground most of the time you don’t realise it’s even raining and just looks like screen/game picture is glitching

Also when are we going to start seeing fires coming out of the fireboxes that is in the game when we score tries will at least make the game look more exciting.

Was surprised today playing with women’s it’s like it’s actually a different game AI in women’s plays actually good rugby I was shocked when I saw it, question what can the team do to get that gameplay in the mens games

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Ai performing set plays? Damn uce, give us your copy

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Mean! Ill check it out..odd1x is the GOAT

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Please Please Please just allow us to edit teams, It will complete the game! I want to make the update the England team, make the Lions and create teams of the year etc. COME ON! :rugby_football: next update :folded_hands:

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i agree , this is a big thing in Rugby , to create your own teams and also edit teams !!

Think we have to create our own game in our mind that works !!!

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Custom Teams:

  • Would like to see us able to put names on shirts for custom teams
  • Able to name and give custom competitions logos
  • More logo slots for custom kits
  • Logos to be able to go across the back of the shorts and not get cut off.

SOMETHING I’VE BEEN WANTING TO BE FIXED FOR A WHILE: Not being able to see past logos mad, only can see the name the image in manage logos and when adding to kits doesn’t appear and makes it hard to see what logo is what. PLEASE FIX ASAP

A few things that have been a while waiting for, would be nice to finally see them in the game.

Oh and also GRIP SOCKS!!!

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When French Div 3 @JNT_BA ?
Do you remember this old Narbonne logo leak from our mate Kelvin ? :wink:

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@Bapean @Callum_4 wishful thinking guys.

Far too many gameplay issues require fixing and/or reimplementing into the game.

For all the licences, teams, stadiums, competitions etc I’m afraid it’s let down badly by poorly implemented gameplay.

I don’t know if Big Ant’s :ant: hands are tied by higher ups but I am surprised at this title being in a poor state at this point in time.

Especially as their previous titles such as Cricket 24, Tie-Break etc have turned out to be good…eventually.

I can’t remember them taking this long to correct everything with those games compared to this.

I still take a look every Wednesday in the hopes that there may be a solid update.

However, maybe that’s me wishful thinking.

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