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Hi Team
All of these need to be fixed for the next update
38 man national squads. 30 man national squads ARE NOT BIG ENOUGH SQUADS. IT SHOULD BE 40 MAN SQUADS OR LIKE WITH CLUBS 50 PLAYERS MAX 30 PLAYERS MINIMUM.
All champions cup games Venues fixed
And National teams (INTERNATIONAL FRIENDLY games need to be made more realistic and international friendly games also being played in early July
Change left footed kickers who are marked down as right footed kickers back i named all the left footed kickers in a previous post I can post them again later. AND (BEN HEALY & JAMES O’CONNOR I SAID ARE LEFT FOOTED BY ACCIDENT THERE RIGHT FOOTED SORRY)
AND FIX PLAYER POSITIONS AS MENTIONED BEFORE
E.G. SHANE DALY FB & WINGER., Give TOM AHERN AN OPTION TO PLAY AT BF AND HE IS ALREADY MARKED DOWN AS A SECOND ROW HUGO KEENAN FB JACK WILLIS N8. THAAKIR ABRAHAMS SHOULD HAVE AN OPTION TO PLAY FULL BACK AND PETER O’MAHONY IS A BF NOT A OF MORE NAMES WERE MENTIONED IN MY PREVIOUS POST.
AND FIX PLAYER RATINGS. E.G. ALEX NANKIVELL CURRENTLY 75 RATED SHOULD BE 85
TOM FARRELL CURRENTLY 80 SHOULD BE 85
CALVIN NASH CURRENTLY 82 SHOULD BE 87
JOHN HODNETT CURRENTLY 79 SHOULD BE 83
TOM AHERN CURRENTLY 80 BUT SHOULD BE 85
RONAN KELLEHER CURRENTLY 85 SHOULD BE 88
JACK BOYLE CURRENTLY 76 SHOULD BE 82
THAAKIR ABRAHAMS CURRENTLY 82 SHOULD BE 87 AND HAVE AN OPTION TO PLAY FULL BACK
OLLY CRACKNELL CURRENTLY 79 SHOULD BE 84
HANRO LEIBENBURG CURRENTLY 82 SHOULD BE 84
SOLOMONE KATA CURRENTLY 79 SHOULD BE 85
ADAM RADWAN CURRENTLY 83 SHOULD BE 86
JOSEPH WOODWARD CURRENTLY 75 SHOULD BE 82
FINLAY BEALHAM CURRENTLY 84 SHOULD BE 88
THOMAS CLARKSON CURRENTLY 81 SHOULD BE 84
DAN SHEEHAN CURRENTLY 91 SHOULD BE 93
JAMES RYAN CURRENTLY 86 SHOULD BE 88
JACK CONAN CURRENTLY 86 SHOULD BE 89
TOMMY O’BRIEN CURRENTLY 82 SHOULD BE 86
JIMMY O’BRIEN CURRENTLY 83 SHOULD BE 85
OR JUST GIVING US ACCESS TO EDIT PLAYER RATINGS LIKE IN EAFC WOULD BE REALLY GOOD IDEA
AND PLEASE PLEASE MAKE VIRGIN MEDIA PARK/STADIUM AVAILABLE IN MENS MODES PLEASE
AND MAKE THOMAND PARK/LIMRICK STADIUM SEATS RED AND ROOF WHITE OR JUST MAKE THE STADIUM LOOK MORE REALISTIC LIKE WITH THE TERRACE BEHIND BOTH GOAL POSTS AND JUST BEFORE THE STANDS ON BOTH SIDES AND MAKE THE STAND GO UP HIGHER.
MORE PLAYER FACES
NEW REFS
ADDED CHAMPIONS CUP KITS LIKE MUNSTER & LEICESTER TIGERS ARE NOT IN THE GAME BUT LEINSTER AND HARELQUINS AND MORE TEAMS CHAMPIONS CUP KITS ARE.
ADD SCRUM CAPS TO PLAYER THE COLOUR IN THE BRACKETS
MIKE HALEY (BLACK)
THAAKIR ABRAHAMS (BLACK)
RORY SCANNELL (BLACK)
JOHN HODNETT (RED)
DIARMUID BARRON (BLACK)
JOSH VAN DER FLIER (RED)
JOSH WYCHERLEY (BLACK)
MARK DONNELLY (RED)
LOUIS BIELLE BIARREY (RED)
SIMULATION SETTINGS
MUNSTER ONLY 80 RATED SHOULD BE 85
LEINSTER ONLY 85 RATED SHOULD BE 87
SHARKS ONLY 82 RATED SHOULD BE 85
National teams ratings
IRELAND ONLY 89 RATED SHOULD BE 94 RATED
ARGENTINA 
ONLY 83 RATED SHOULD BE 85 RATED
SOUTH AFRICA 
ONLY 90 RATED SHOULD BE 94 RATED
NEW ZEALAND 
ONLY 88 RATED SHOULD BE 93 RATED
All champions cup fixtures being played in stade de France?
AND WHY DO BENETTON KEEP ON WINNING THE URC EVERY YEAR WHEN IN REAL LIFE THEY FINISH 7-15th place
HOPEFULLY THIS CAN BE FIXED FOR THE UPDATE ON WEDNESDAY
Thanks 
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Why yelling ?
Good one lol
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THEY SHOULD JUST HAVE THE RATINGS AUTO UPDATE WITH THE WORLD RUGBY RANKINGS EVERY MONDAY.
YOU KNOW, THE ONES WHERE IRELAND ARE NOT AS GOOD AS NEW ZEALAND 
#CAPSLOCKMAKESTHEFORUMROCK
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If Ireland should be 94 than France should be 97+ after that 27-42 from six nations !
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Seeing as the world cup 2023 tie in was abandonned. And we never got a RWC 2019 game, I think all ratings should be used from this week in 2019 for all ratings going forwards for no particular reason, and would be astonished if everyone wansnt in complete agreement in unison 
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How many minutes halves are most people playing on? I think this is relevant to how many tackles. I normally play 10 min halves to get somewhat realistic score lines, It would be interesting to compare to Rugby Challenge series and Rugby 22 to see miss tackles to successful tackles. Also have to see what the game is considering a miss tackle, there are some tackles I have done against the AI that deserve to be missed tackles because I had a terrible angle and momentum. It feels like if I line them up well with the shoulder strafe get good momentum I get successful tackles, I feel most of my missed tackles are coming from me mis managing the 1 on 1 when they get a line break. I just don’t know if the tackles are more successful the game would be challenging enough. I don’t now how much realty transfer over to fun game play. Overall they got a long way to go but I do think they can get a good game out of this build, the AI in there league games are normally fairly good on high levels, so I think in AI difficulty we will eventually be pretty good, so not to concerned about that, it is more so the implementation of the mechanics, the mechanics themselves for rucking , and scrums is not bad , just need better implementation.
I see no issue with that either ha ha. No change for us! 
I play 5 min halves. I rarely get through a whole game though because I get tired of the nonsense and turn it off
but by half time it is always somewhere between 35 to 49 nil.
I agree there has been some improvement to the AI defence, but their attack … that is non existent. They score now and then from the usual nonsense exploits or bug (aka your guys wont stand under the kick off to catch the ball and it just bounces until the AI picks it up) but I don’t see any competitive games using even sides. Mostly though the AI get their a** handed to them and remain scoreless.
When South Africa, France, England or Ireland etc can beat me playing as the All Blacks I would think the difficultiy was right. There is hope with that though I guess. I think they will continue to do difficulty in the most infuriating ways though i.e making your winger run away from attackers and toward the touchline to stand on his own etc.
It is cool that some people are enjoying the game, happy for those guys. For me though, this game is miles off even being an average game right now.
I would think having more first time tackles made and less succesful linebreaks would translate to fun game play because then you actually need to use tactics. Maybe even kicking would become useful then? As it stands you can often run back a kick off to score. Maybe sometimes it takes a few phases, but there isn’t much fun in just running and offloading 24/7 really.
You don’t think that breaking the line less and needing to find different ways to unlock a defence would be more fun?
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Yes agreed, what I meant is if user success against the AI first tackle, if it was more effective the AI would really not be able do anything. Yes, agree it is to easy to fend the first tackle against the AI, I had mention this before, almost like an old school game pattern, run at an angle, fend pass fend pass all the way down the field. I don’t know if its just that I have played so much Rugby challenge series and Rugby 22 and Rugby 20 that I welcome the change in mechanics. Still hoping for the best. And yes, I am one to use offense and defense tactics, pod tactics, and set plays on the other rugby games. Even on Rugby 25 been trying to use the different formations and tactics. Even though don’t really need to to win.
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Well if Toulouse and Leinster are 85 & 87 rated Then springboks should be (94 rated) they are the best team in the world they deserve to be 94 rated and Ireland & All Blacks are Even matched teams. Ireland are No doubt the best team in the six nations alongside France and England so why when I simulate the six nations 10 out of 12 times Italy Scotland or wales win the six nations
What I was trying to say in my earlier message Is the simulation needs to be more realistic. And I forgot to mention France Earlier they should also be the same rating as Ireland
@JNT_BA i really hope the dev team worked hard this 3 weeks to get us a big update as 3 weeks very long time. I do believe that this update will show us gamers and lovers of union rugby if there is a good game or a trash game. Lets see what happens
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Val asking the real questions.
Hes a real one.
When criicket 26 ?
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Who thinks that this 3 week update will seem like 3 weeks worth of improvements, features and bug fixes and who thinks that this will offer no more than previous single week updates somehow?
Bear in mind the incredible similarities between Rugby '25 and Rugby League 26 and how we’ve all been told that there are two separate teams working on these two different games. Then factor in how busy Big Ant has likely been with the lead in to “League” over the last 3 weeks. 
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I havnt got a good feeling about the next update. I find it too convenient that the 3 week updates just happened to start 3 weeks before rl26. And due to the constant let downs since rugby 25 release i have very little hope
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Oh yeah sure sure, I see no bias here.
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I am betting on it being just another weekly update. Although, there could be something game improving in a specific area or two in there from JNT’s comments about what they were looking at.
But like you say, just depends if they got to it or not with Rugby League 26 coming out.
I mean, if we all haven’t learnt to temper our expectations by this stage … we would probably need to go touch grass for a while.
Personally, like @Wolfrugby noted … I am really hoping for some of that sweet sweet stability in this next patch.
Edit: Seems we already got some today? lol
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RL26 fans are not ready for Improved Stability every weeks 
Edit:
Btw, if JNT is now producer, I guess someone else will take his old position on the forum and to celebrate his position, should free the Gifs. That’s your moment Lachie (or Kelvin)
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Some things I’ve been pushing for are in, some things still need more work.
Some team and player updates, some UI changes. New refs are in, thankfully, some variety.
Contested collects needs some more work as it’s certainly not working to my standards. Adjustments to Ai reaction so when you pull the ball out of the ruck, you can’t basically run to the wing so they’re certainly more active.
Some… other things that I dont want to promise as it will need to be slammed to test that it wont ruin existing data to do with teams. Still testing hundreds of saves now to make sure there are no issues with existing data.
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People run sideways to the wing? well if it made them happy I guess!
See now, new team and player updates and new refs are a nice change to inclusions. The contested catches will be a nice one when in.
Colour me intrigued 
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You never just grabbed the ball from the ruck and ran straight to the wing as the AI just watched you do it? Yeah I did and it annoyed me so much.
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