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Yes guys
I am playing career mode and match objectives does not register after the game…
I have played 10 games and still nothing even after winning 5 matchs in a row I still did not receive my objective points…
Can you please help

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It’s clear that they do not have the resources to put anywhre near 40 hours a week onto the game. The question is where do they apply the limited resources to? My view is things that people have been crying about for ages:

  1. Kicking distance
  2. Side steps
  3. AI options depending on the area of the pitch - the AI needs to understand how to play for territory, to pass the ball on a clear overlap, to try to find the ground when kicking, utilising a variety of kicks, grubbers up andunders etc…it is simply too easy to just pile the points on at the hardest difficulty.
  4. Offside rules!!

To be fair rucks have improved alot, but i fail to see the logic putting limited resources working on scrums and mauls, which may happen once a game when the above are impacting 90% of the gameplay

Perhaps they could make a poll and actually ask the users the areas that we want prioritising???

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All the talk of Scrums!! I played 2 games and didn’t have a scrum! Can we just have some good running rugby lines and back set plays and updated squads and kit ?!?!?!?!?

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Played two matches on ps5. Turned it off.
Support lines are not improved at all. No pass fluency at all. It’s just not fun and still a broken mess.

3 weeks for a scrum fix and even that is not perfect either.

I really can’t believe this is all we got.

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Agreed mate, the scrums seem harder if anything and certainly don’t feel like a three-week-long project. Disappointed so many other things were not addressed, and won’t be for at least another 3 weeks. A shame as the game is more or less playable now but still has issues that could be ironed out. And still no Women’s World Cup?

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I noticed this about a week ago, clearly completing match objectives in career mode like passes or run metres, but doesn’t register as being complete (PS5)

@JNT_BA do we have any patch notes for todays update thanks :+1:

Just saw the latest video from Mad Dragon (who I think is on Xbox/PC). The L2/R2 graphic doesn’t obscure the meter in his version. Did they not spot this in play testing? Basically, PS owners have waited three weeks for something that has made the game worse.

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And no patch notes. Pretty frustrating TBH.

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An absolute joke, my patience has finally worn thin with Big Ant. Three weeks for this?

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So you telling me in 3 weeks the patch notes will state fixed issue with scrums… ooh no @JNT_BA will we get a hotfix this week still?

On PS5 here.

In all honesty I wanted to like the scrums. I really did, but for several reasons I just don’t think they are any better. The indicators being over the meter? That was just nonsense. These things obviously had to be placed. How does that get missed?

Then there’s the slight tweak to the view. I play on the newer broadcast cam and what happens with a scrum? Well a side-on very close up as per normal. Then after the hook a diagonal sort of view and overhead kind of view and then finally an end-on camera view (even if you play side-cam or broadcast). Then if you can get the ball out ( yes “if” ) the camera will eventually come back to your actual play camera view.

The whole thing looks to be do-able from the view of broadcast, side or end-on without the camera changes, so why not?

The halfback seems to have the hardest job in the world responding to our pleas to pass the ball. It hasn’t happened for me. In the first drive or two of the scrum, he sometimes turns side on and looks away???

Number 8 pick up seems like it’s the only way to move the ball out of the scrum, but even then it’s as awkward and stilted as it could be.

I actually dreamed of a halfback passing to his backs off a scrum. What kind of fool am I?

This feels like it’s less than half finished.

What can I praise? I’m seriously thinking about it. Ahhhh, they’ve slowed down the fast engagement, hook and drive meters. They’re attempting to make the camera angles look more relevant to the game play I guess, but haven’t managed it. Rugby World Cup 2011 did it well. Successfully. There is nothing about their method in that game (or their earlier scrums in '06, '08 etc) that is an intellectual property. Just use that. If not in this version then in the future.

The whole process is clunky, tedious, unlike real scrums and boring. Could they at least put in an option to turn off the first few seconds of packing down? I’ll take anything I can to trim down this soul crushingly clunky experience.

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Hi Team,

I was hoping for URC to be updated in the patch. How far are we on this ?

Are you updating player stats along with Kits ?

Removing players from teams ?

I just feel there is very little to do now with this game until we get some competitions updated.

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@JNT_BA There is nothing particular agains’t you, I’m 100% sure that you and your guys working on union are doing the best you can and working hard.

When true essence of rugby as advertised?
When fun when playing ?

The game was initially planned 2 years ago.
From all my heart of gamer and rugby fan, I wanted to love that game. Sometimes, there are some good bites. But overall…

We have understand that there will never be a “magical patch” that makes the game great again and everything nice and fun. That the process will be long.

Tbh, every three weeks feels like a let down.

If the scrum as such is the “final” scrum we will get for R25, well, for me, it is not good. It is not for me. Good if some lads will like it.

Cheers

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Please don’t say that this is the definitive scrum mechanic! PS5 players can’t even see what they’re doing at the moment! Surely there has to be a swift hotfix…

Mhmm, ones already being worked on. The issue is… we can’t work out why the icons are like that at the moment, and ours are fine. By ours, I mean literally the PS version we play on, but of course, we get it on the public version. It seems to be a rendering issue. I have three graphics programmers looking into why it is like that, cause that’s not how it is on ours. We’ve already moved stuff around to clean it up so that the overlap can just not happen, but it’s still not right.

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That’s good to hear, cheers.

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@JNT_BA any chance while they are looking into it, an option in settings, to turn them off completely can be added. Honestly for me it’s not helpful but can understand why others might want it. Thanks

Sure can add that in as well not sure if that will make it in this hotfix but can do it in the future.

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Any news on when squads will be update for 25/26 season and kits?

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