Also still doesn’t/cant (why?) carry through weekly in competitions
had a few maul collapses - but no penalties or anything? Was the 3 weeks to create the maul collapse graphic just to avoid the ball getting stuck in there?
was having a wildly fun game in a comp between Arg & SA - 65th minute pause to make some subs and the whole thing freezes …
If so, this did not work. Just had my 3rd game since the patch and the ball got stuck in a maul and it just stayed there no matter what I did. Had to exit and restart the game.
The mauls appear no different to me than when they last appeared in the game. Haven’t had a collapse yet and it sounds like it’ll be inconsequential when it does happen.
Love that you can add players to clubs but then can’t still remove them from their previous clubs.
Hi Team,
Feedback on a project I started to try and make Rugby 25 Flow Better and be more enjoyable.
I spent 1 week editing all of the Super Rugby Pacific players across all teams for 2025. It was about 520 players including 40 or so custom players. PS5 console.
After playing 2 matches I have seen a big improvement in terms of Trys / points being scored by Ai. Still not perfect but the playing the game is a lot more enjoyable. More intent from Ai to run to the Try line.
Much faster speeds edited for Fullbacks , Wingers , Centres. 80s to 90s. About 95% of these players.
Slower speeds for Props 30s to 40s and Locks 40s, 50s, early 60s particularly. Not all these players under this range but I would say 80%
Started off an Otago Highlanders coach career campaign. 10 min halves. Hardest Difficulty. Smashed in first game by Ai Waratahs.
Second match we beat the Ai Blues but they had instances in the game to get momentum to almost overtake take us on scoreboard. It was a reasonable battle.
My main point is , if we had more realistic stats it can help make the game better it at least have some speed gap between backs and forwards so more Trys csn be scored by users or Ai.
It should be noted though I also edited Agility, Evasion, Passing , Break Tackle, Fends, Discipline. Focus, Determination. A few more. So it isn’t jist speeds. It’s hard to fully explain, I just did what I could from my own knowledge as a Rugby Fan.
Playing these two matches has so far been very enjoyable and more exciting. I felt really challenged.
Hopefully in the future the Stats guy you have hired can maybe use the stats to unlock the game to make all players play better across all competitions.
Amended team stats after editing 520 players across the competition.
Thank you. Sincerely. But I can’t not see and not say that it’s weird that it’s a player who cares about the difference forwards/backs and not the dev.
Do we imagine a player that change size in a basket game?
@Rugbygamer40 is there any way for us to download your team updates. Im on xbox
Hi there ,
I unfortunately can’t share the teams as they are are licensed teams that are “Locked” for sharing. Also the licensed players edited are also Locked for sharing individually. (Just to be clear - Locked as Licensed Teams and Licensed Players by Developer Fan Hub Sharing Controls )
Just quoted a small part of your excellent post.
I’ve done similar, but only with a lot of players in the NPC, not the full squads unfortunately. I can confirm that I’m definitely getting better contests, better variation between forwards and backs and better competitive AI also.
I have seen some incredibly ludicrous skills assigned in places from the development team. I’ve seen a whole lot of players with blanket numbers right across different skills, like 80, 80, 80, 80, go to the next page of stats 80,80,80, 80 etc.
It’s like they just had no time, are spread too thin to actually do a thorough job. Some players just have the exact same likeness as others, just clones. All sorts of things are bad when you look thoroughly.
It’s a shame they don’t task a group of users to make better likenesses and skills and use those.
Well done on your work Rugbygamer 40, it’s a shame it’s not shareable. I’d like to share my NPC teams in a similar manner, but the licensed player issue is a problem sadly.
Thanks for sharing your experiences and thoughts on this. It’s good to know you have had similar success with editing stats in a different competition.
Glad you have been enjoying the game from the efforts you put in for editing.
I am doing all these things to find solutions to this Rugby 25 because I am trying not to abandon this game. I love Rugby video gaming and I am trying to not give up on this game.
The thing is it takes up a huge amount of time for editing and not everyone has this time to spend which is understandable in our busy lives. But it’s good to at least prove that this measure can positively improve the game.
Yes I agree a lot of generic stats , wrong stats or identical stats given to players across all teams and competitions in the same positions with little variation. The speed between forwards and backs has given little room for line breaks or long range Trys. I will continue playing through my edited competition and see how challenging it is.
Yes player likeness is another big issue, just a lot of inaccurate player appearances of non face scanned players.
I just hope our feedback helps change the developers approach to stats for players. I have never seen any rugby video gsme before that has generic stats for players.
On a last note , I posted a YouTube Short this morning on my channel of an example of an Ai Long Range Try , Joey Walton at NSW Waratahs. He ran from his own goal line to score a full long range Try with a cool side step. I have not seen an Ai try like this in months.
I wanted to edit international teams the way you did with Super Rugby pacific, but it is a waste of time because the gameplay is too bad, plus all the glitches, bugs and nosense are making it very difficult to enjoy the experience.
Now, reading your opinions, maybe I’ll try, but license players has become an hindrance, unfortunately.
All of this is very frustrating.
Bear in mind that you can change the stats of licensed players (at least I can), but you can’t share them to other people unfortunately.
Please give it a go. Put some serious thought into the stats and the of course the differences between Forwards and Backs, etc. Start with two teams and then have then play each other. I think you’ll find it helps. It won’t make some aspects of the game better, but it should make the playing experience noticeably better.
Thanks for the reply, yes I’m hoping that the game can be improved too. I do hope that the developers can ask for help rather than put out teams in such a poor state that they unfortunately are ruining their game. I’m sure that team by team we could easily make significant improvements.
Problem with license players is that you can’t remove them from the teams. Tier 1 international teams may have some updates from BA, but this is not the case for the rest of the teams. There are players who retired in 2022 and are in the rosters and can’t remove them.
Thanks for the support, I’ll try.
Has anyone been able to play online since the update? I know there isn’t a huge online player base, but I usually get 3 to 4 games online every night. But since the update I haven’t found a single match online. I’m on PC, so not sure if it is just a PC issue. Would love to find out if anyone has been playing and getting games since the last update.
So weird that with the addition of AI the games have not gotten better. Older games are much more thorough and complete, its unfortunate, I have had some enjoyment with the game, its seems like there could be a really good game in there. But horrible sidesteps, scrum mechanism, maul mechanisms that simply do not work, they are broken. It’s not a matter of it being a good or bad system , they just do not work. Not being able share licensed edited players. Enjoying the game at times because it is Rugby and its somthing somewhat new. But this is what happens when a game has to start from scratch ever 2 years, because a different developer takes over. The one good thing that although at a snail pace it has gotten better little by little, but it seems the progress has slowed as of the last couple patches. But at least it is getting better little by little, Rugby League 26 has actually gotten worse, went from a fairly fun game that needed some tuning to a game back on rails, and extremely repetitive and boring particularly on level pro and above, not sure how they can actually make a game worse with added patches, at least Rugby 25 has been improving in very small steps.
They should hire some of you guys to do a data base of player editing, why would they have so many stats and capabilities and then just put standardized ratings across the board. I am sure that if some of you were given the opportunity and the tools, you would do it for free. 
Come on now Big Ant you can do better, have purchased so many Big Ant games on different platforms some of them the same game on different platforms, so many that have showed their support, finish improving the game already, stuff like player ratings being so of, is just plain insulting. At the very least give the community the tools through sliders and open player editing so we can help improve the game and then share. We want to play a good Rugby game!
When will D1 Bangladesh kits be updated for new season ? It looks weird to play with last year kits.
Also anyway we can add stores, schools or buildings around the stadium to make it more real ?
Not sure if possible ( dreams are possible ) that Prod2 team dont play default in stade de France ? Any random small stadiums are fine from the nice stadiums in game.
Thanks
What’s your YouTube name?
Are we anywhere near getting all the kits and rosters updated for premiership, urc, Top 14 and Pro D2? As its nearly Christmas this is a bit disheartening that it hasn’t been done by now @JNT_BA as specially as some players moved and where literally move in the next patch mid season last year
Any hint regarding what will be included in next patch in two weeks ? Cheers
@Tigersmad83 Saw you’d started trying to create a kit for my son’s team. Any luck?
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