Rugby 25 Megathread

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Patch notes? Na this will just be a hot fix. Who needs patch notes.

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I take it as October 127th confirmed for this week

#Lines
#Gripsocks

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I think October 127th is still too soon. Maybe November N15.

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Dang, I knew it !
November N15, here we go

Lines, fixed rucks, stability improvements it is

We on course for a wednesday or friday patch ?

Plan is always Wednesdays. No ruck changes, yet.

Lines are… something.

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This … sounds … ominous :rofl:

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Does it play better sure in my opinion. Is it where I want it, nope.

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Ok sweet as, can measure expectation based on that. Better, but not finished. Check.

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@JNT_BA nice, glad to hear we’ll see some form of the new ā€œlinesā€ coming in. Anything more you can say at the moment as to why it’s not quite where you want it?

While positioning is better placed, around rucks attacking and defending, I want to expand the options for that. I will not make promises on that, as what I would like is a much bigger job. I’m a big fan of the set play options from NFL.

Some very weird decisions are made, as well as with the changes, there is still more work to be done to clean up the passing, as bullet passes are way more common than I would like.

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@JNT_BA thanks definitely sounds like a promising change with better positioning. Madden style playbooks being the ultimate end goal would be incredible, even if that only became a thing in R27 or something. Right now all I’d give would be able to change the structure on the fly like in RL26. Having say 2 different set ups if you were in 1/3/3/1 vs 2 different set ups if you were in 2/4/2. Oh and the option to pick and go with a forward from a ruck

Dayum, would love something like that

If we all ask Ross that we would like something like Madden for Set Plays, maybe he will release more budget for the game.

#VoteJNT
#JNTPresident

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Mentioning the plays from nfl is interesting. Its my fave sport to both watch and play. The idea of translating reading a defense alignment both before the phase, and during to pick the correct passing option would be great obviously lots of work needed though.

@JNT_BA thanks for the update on this. Apart from the ā€œLinesā€ and player positioning has other things been fixed for example the ā€œHeld upā€ over the goal line, ā€œKnock-onā€ resulting in penalties, correct implementation of Rugby Union rules. Or is it only the lines and player positioning that has gotten attention?

So I guess my thing back to that would be which rules?

Of the ones I see mentioned, they have been addressed. Some rules are impossible to break, while not ideal, is how some will work with the current systems. Do you just mean offside and knock-ons need work?

I search and I see ā€œrulesā€ but no one says what rules so I can look into it.

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Yes, I agree most is working, it is more the Offsides and Knock-on’s that I was referring to.

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In this update, no. Will there be harsher penalties? Yes. Will high tackles be increasing… oh hell yes they will, I hate that I do it perfectly as code intends, and it’s like no. One of the guys is already looking at what I pulled apart to clean up that cause that’s a whole… thing. On my version, does AI high tackle now? Yes, does it work like I would want? No, nowhere near it.

Knock-ons are are little more complicated. I want to increase the amount of instances they can happy cause it is quite safe at the moment, but that risks them going out of control. Have I had any massive offside errors? Nope. Do I know they happen? Yes.

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Will cards (Yellow & Red) be more likely in this update?