Totally agree!! The feedback on this forum is really great and the devs can take that into account for the future, because it will probably take some time to implement. The passing should be nr.1 priority, because majority of the frustration, negativity and unplayability comes from this. I’m no expert but it should be easier to fix than the other mentioned issues. Let’s hope that within the next few patches we get some vast improvements in this category.
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Changing players - when ball drops on ground, players around ball can’t be selected and are non responsive. Also selecting players on defense, choosing closest player doesn’t always work.
Penalty kicks - if you get a penalty in own half, you can choose kick at goal and can move the ball until 50m line.
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Hi Big Ant. One for the presentation/art team
An easy win for more atmosphere in matches would be flags in the crowd of the teams playing, or slogans. Additionally advertising in stadiums, currently they feel empty.
Also with regards to weather, floodlights and rain interacting with eachother to create that white effect you see on rainy days. Currently it just feels like a few drops showing on the screen without any real affect on gameplay or atmosphere. I know its from 19yrs ago, but Rugby 06 captured the cold with steam coming off players etc really well. Cold games felt cold, rainy games felt wet, and the stadiums felt more alive.
Pitch condition could do with some variety, different shades, patterns, degredation and field markings too. I hope this is helpful info, really wanting this to be successful in the coming updates!
Oh and also the haka, has that been mo-capped? 
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10000% agree said this in feedback like last year etc hell even Cricket has more than this atm 
The graphics of the game are perfect, but if you play with match difficulty at easy it is as if you are playing hard, at rucks the ball is constantly stolen, it should be much easier to win the ball as you only play at easy, at scrums you never win the ball, pushing to gain ground is impossible, giving a drop goal is the hardest of all the rugby games I have played. Make rucks, scrums and drop goals the same as in rugby 22 or at least make the match difficulty easy so that it is really easy not hard. Match difficulty on easy is the hardest difficulty on easy that I have played on a sports simulator.
So I decided to do the rest of the updates on the xbox version… BigAnt… why are all my matches now pink 
@Lachie_BA @JNT_BA
The rest of the game is completely fine. Even the pause menu colours are all correct. But as soon as you jump in to a match, the screen gains a complete pink hew on it. Even in Replay mode.
*EDIT
I scored a try… and now one corner gained some correct colour? Have I discovered a secret game mode where the more points you score, the more the screen corrects itself?
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My sympathy to the community manager who takes every punches here. What we really want now is a message from the DEVELOPPERS that claryfies:
- Our problem wirh rucks/lineouts/maul etc is…
- we attempt to do …
- Our goals is to have …
- We can do that is xxx days/weeks …
That’s the only way to restore some calm and hope. (I rememeber the famous “the developpment is going well” a year ago (!))
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50-22 dont count, each forward is my kicker, i literally have the ball in hand and get penalised for being offside, i kick for touch clearly makes it into touch and the commetator says its a terrible kick and that i never found touch, my fend doesnt work, players losing speed as they run, the list goes on, $50 for this garbage on release, cmon guys
I haven’t been able to play at Alianz Stadium since launch because its blue lmao
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As a reminder to all - any posts that are deleted/edited are only a result of that post breaching the community guidelines, something everyone here agrees to, before joining the forum.
Several posts in this forum may be considered a breach of these guidelines but have remained up because while they’ve been critical, they’ve at least been fair and reasonably worded.
Being argumentative is not the same as being constructive. The more time that is spent here ensuring that these guidelines are being followed - is time taken away from responding to Support tickets & logging them with the team. This means we don’t have time to share things like Extended Patch notes and details on the team’s upcoming plans for patches.
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Please explain how some people posting on a forum. Takes away from your ability to release extended patch notes and from communicating with your customers. Just so we are clear this is not me being argumentative it is a genuine question because this seems like it is just a very crap excuse
Also constructive criticism may come across as argumentative to you but to others (especially the customers) it is just being critical of a game that let’s face it is currently well below par from what should be expected. This should not result in posts being removed because of a rightfully critical/angry tone being used to convey their emotions about a product that they have spent cold hard cash on.
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Charging 49.99 for a game that was literally not ready to be released, I don’t know how you expect people not to be argumentative . We’re not idiots, Ross was telling people to “wait for the day 1 patch”, the video from early access 1 said the main focus is gameplay so people are gonna argue these points
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We will remove any posts that do not follow the guidelines. Thats it. The inability to follow these guidelines is up to each person, I just blocked one person’s account for constant breaking of the rules. It is also not our personal choice when extended patch notes get published.
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This doesn’t make sense though if it’s not up to you when the extended patch notes are released how does it have anything to do with this forum just completely contradicts what Lachie was saying earlier
See the word “share” we do not make the notes, we share them with the community on behalf of the team.
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Are you not supposed to be on holidays mate ? This guy never stops haha
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Well when I jump on and see what Lachie is dealing with. I can act with more authority, so had to do some house keeping.
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If the patch notes are not made by you and are made by the team then a quick copy and paste and posting them in here takes no time at all. This should not be affected by you having to deal with what you are calling “Social Commentary” or Argumentative language. Just seems like a bit of an excuse to me but I will leave it at that
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@JNT_BA appreciate that there are rules to the forum that is fine but a lot of the posts on here are people frustrated with their current experience of the game and the minimal communication on what is being done to change things. We were told that there would be a road map prior to launch outlining rosters and face scans, we’ve not seen that and now Ross has now said there will be a gameplay patch tomorrow. It would just be great to get a bit more communication ahead of time on when roadmaps are coming and what to expect in patches.
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You know I was going to delete this but let’s use this as a teaching moment. Lachies job is not to simply sit here and watch the forums and “paste” things. If you think that, then that’s a weird job to have. He and the others in my team have many responsibilities. Every action taken here means something takes longer there and what takes longer there means less here. It’s kind of like time is a finite resource and every action has a knock on effect. Especially while I’m not in studio to directly help them. Lachie also helps with the support site for people who actually need assistance. So yeah when he’s here, people who genuinely need help and are not sitting here with the “social commentary” lose out.
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