Rugby 25 Megathread

MAJOR ISSUES:
Offsides:
Since the full release I have probably played 5 games and yet I have recieve about 50 offside pentalies against me, its silly and frustrating to play with this. Like in the picture you can see my team (blues) have the ball yet my 9 (finley christie) has been penalised for offside when he coming to pass the ball along

Scrums:
I have stolen the ball in the scrum which seems to work well, however when I am pressing the buttons as the white line goes into the green it either says late or early on some ocassions, this is not an error as it says early and late when both times have been selected at the same point and it very clear as day in the green.

Additionally, if in one case you have the ball and select early or late you can then never get the ball out even when the ball is at the back of the scrum. I believe if you have possession of the ball you should have some advantage of the scrum even if you press early or late and would be cool if the early or late would factor how much your driven back in the scrum than whether you can get the ball out

Passing:
Through play the passes don’t always go to hand, you can never pop pass to someone close to you or offload. Passing with a player 10-20m away is fine however if they are closer or further the ball is chucked to the ground or off the pitch.

Passing from the ruck has now change were the players run around which changes the options of A,B,X,Y and therefore when making a pass to a player you think its going to it changes to another player

Rucks:
Rucks have been very weird, when they drive me off that fine and the 9 picks the ball up on their team and carries on, however when I push them off it makes it very hard for anyone on my team to steal the ball and instead the player who has made the tackle stands their and steals the ball when he is in an offside position which is nothing I can control

MINOR ISSUES:
Custom Cups:
Max at 8 teams and is very limited to what you can do, however is great that custom teams can now be added

Kickers:
When teams win pentalies it never seems to be the chosen kicker taking the penalty and is normally a forward like the hooker or flanker

BONUS:
Player creation:
Adding more customisation to the players would be great, like having head tape and more tape options, along with tattoo and hair options and different types of boots to choose from

Team Creation:
Logos still seem to appear stretch and would be cool if not but not a priority along with being able to add more logos to the kick would be epic and more kit designs

Stadium Creator:
Adding Logos onto the pitch and post pads would be cool. Along with ability to change colour of post and pitch markings

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Rucks are even worse on series x now. The push over animation is kicking in for the attacking team instead of the defending team. Is anyone even checking these patches before they are pushed out?

Does anyone else think its weird you can only add your custom players to your custom team and not any other players such as the international ones or the ones from the licenced comps?

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Hi all,
Besides how the gameplay looks like, that everyone covered in depth.
The way to replace the players during the game is not intuitive.
You rather should have something more like what is in FC24, where you have recommended players suggested, and also suggestions in game to confirm.

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Because now we are smashing random buttons, because the system has not been explained in detail, in the tips section I posted a theory on what I think is happening in the rucks, first off I think they are still tuning them (Feb 14 patch helped considerably), second, I do think there is a certain button combination that works best given the tackle and how close the supporting rucking players are, so I am hoping there is some skill involved and its not just stats and random. I have noticed that players that ruck better do seem to be getting the turnovers more, so sometimes I try to anticipate turning into a specific player to try to tackle and steal at the ruck, or support the tackling player by manually turning into and binding a strong forward to the ruck for the push over. I think I have seen enough evidence that it may not be random. At least this what I am hoping for, that each situation you have to think, whether to send 1 player into the ruck or whether to send in 3, would be nice to have the option of occasionally smashing up to five players in a heavily even contested ruck. And this is why getting rucks right is so important, it is a game within the game.

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I agree but disagree, I mean, these are really bad rules that some unions adhere to protect their ā€œmarketā€, it feels better not to have then implemented, cause if they do there is no point in racking up money if you only can buy a selected few players. I just wanna play it like fifa and build a Toulon out of a Portuguese club :sunglasses:

Hello everyone. My team Agronomia Rugby is for the first time is the game (Portugal Top 10). Can anyone please send me screenshots of the full squad? Thank you so much!

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Update on the hotfixes you pushed out for PC.
No crashing when trying to load the punt tutorial.
Still crashing when I go to the community hub and search all stadiums, scroll to about page 3 or 4 and then it crashes to desktop.

  • Unable to steal a lineout is awful, there is no point in kicking for touch to maybe steal a lineout like in real life rugby but I can steal a scrum which rarely happens.

  • The offside penalty occurring makes no sense and usually the AI get awarded it.

  • AI ruck speed is faster than mine, their players immediately enter the ruck then scrum half arrives and passes the ball where as mine arrives and has to wait for my players to enter the ruck, my scrum half waits a few more seconds this is all while I am pressing the pass button and then my scrumhalf will pass the ball.

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There are so many issues with this game it’s overwhelming to even start to list them.

But I’ve just discovered that a lot of the PS Trophies aren’t working either.

I’m starting to wonder what these guys have been doing for over a year because this is so shambolic it’s hard to find the right words.

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I am generally confused if this is a bug or it’s not a bug ?
I basically wanted to upgrade many Super Rugby teams to 45-50 players. Particularly the Australian teams as I have many junior or reserve players already created but now the game will not save your changes once you shut the entire game down. It goes back to default teams once you open the game to play it again or the next day you turn it on. Players you added to squads now deleted.
Also we should be able to edit licensed players skills and positions. I can’t see why we can’t be allowed to do this as player form either improves or drops over their careers.
I lodged a ticket today for many Lions URC players classified in the wrong player positions. Also players across a number of teams don’t even resemble their real life appearance. Example - Johnny Dyer - Fiji Rugby Test player at Biarritz looks non Fijian and has a Caucasian appearance. Other examples - Brad Wilkin at San Diego Legion. A Caucasian player from Australia but is a bald African player in the game.

HGotBy*

Hello teams.
I submitting a lot of tickets while playing the carrer mode.

One thing that is a bit strange and a bit ugly is the fact that some lower rated teams (i’m playing as Benfica) have huge stadium…
I know this is probably something you gonna add later.
But is awkward playing a rubbish rugby cause you are 50 rated team while being in a sold out 40000 seaters…

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Done a bit of slagging of them on here , but they released a patch today that at least means you can play on PS5 now so fair play .Crashing issue seems to be sorted . Overall it needs improvement but I’m sure they will get there . I reckon Ardea Savea must be on commision though , as he’s been mentioned in every six nations and Edinburgh game I’ve played so far :joy::joy:

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I noticed my game would only crash if I was winning before 60 minutes. The minor patch today seems to have fixed that on my PC.

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I played this game this afternoon and must say it was the most annoying 2hrs because I had FOUR crashes (PS4) after updating the latest update :rage::rage::rage:!!

If this doesn’t improve sooner rather than later I’ll end up buying EA25 and play it until the summer because I just don’t find it enjoyable playing for hours on end with crashes galore and no chance of winning due to very poor passing and no chance of a steal!!

One positive though is that Murrayfield, Principality and Scotstoun stadiums all look excellent :stadium::grinning::+1:.

FYI refunds are possible on Xbox, I requested a refund and reported the game for being unplayable and unfit for sale and got my money back. So for all others affected by this cash grab for an unready game Xbox store are giving refunds

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Does anyone else have a backline that runs all the time or is there a way to stop this as it is nice to be able to have a bit of a kicking game especially from your half but unfortunately I seem to have to run in a different direction to try kick otherwise you just get tackled

Been an issue for pretty much the whole early access

Been asking for the ability to put the 10 in the pocket for months

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I feel sorry for the people that paid full price, such a disappointment. Reff doesnt seem to understand offsides either, commentators seem to be watching a different game. BigAnt, play Rugby 08 and take some notes. Playing with NZ and Flanker loved to walk through the rucks, the passing can still be pretty wild. Would be awesome from scrums, rucks, mauls etc to select Fromt Left or right button for frontline pass and Back Left or Right button for backline pass. Being able to steal lineouts would be great to

Today’s patch has helped on PS5.
I won a scrum for the first time and passed the ball along the back line!
Trying to keep the faith for more updates! :pray::crossed_fingers:

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