You made my day !
The “few” tweaks are :
- Rules
- Rucks
- Mauls
- Lineouts
- Forwards binding
- Collision animations
- Attack positionning
- Defense positionning
- Strategic kicking
- Drop goal
With these few “tweaks” yes it will be good 
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You forgot Gripsocks
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Sorry strategic kicking, defense and attack positioning are skill issues…
I’ll give you the rucks but nothing else on that list needs more than tweaking. If you don’t like it there’s plenty of other rugby games to play my friend 
Ok. Show me your skill by posting a video of:
-drop goal
-50/22 kick
-an attack with backwards in a deep line
-stolen ball into lineout-
-binded pick and go
-cross pass by a kick
… such things that never happen in a real rugby game
(And I played every rugby video games)
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50-22 used to work during EA
Following today’s patch, it seems that the contest in lineouts is possible
Drop goal is possible but the animation doesn’t look so good as the kicker is not in the pocket
Cross pass by kick are possible, I already achieved some
But there is indeed still a lot to improve in every aspects… When Patch ?
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Just curious, has anyone had a player sent to the sinbin yet?
How is attack positioning a skill issue 
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You’re just confimring that you didn’t play the EA bro…relax, its just a video game
After 3 years, i’m now totally relax. I’m even nice cause I sincerely wish that BA can at the end make a good game, for their financial and mental health.
That said, it appears to me, to thousand of players who has tried it and even for the developpers that it’s impossible to say Rugby 25 just need some “tweaks”.
The core gameplay need to be built, not tweaked. The only thing you can do now is passing (randomly and without running trajectories before the catch) and kicking in front of you.
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There is no support play when the ball is passed to the backline. As soon as the center gets the ball and makes a break to try and score, there is still no support. The winger is nowhere to be found. Many times the ball gets passed to the left or right. It ends up going into touch.
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What system do you have RLL3 for? If it is for steam, someone downloaded an awesome slider for it, It has been a few years since I downloaded it , should be able to google it, but helps make the game what it should be, you can tweak everything how you like it, most Indepth slider system I have ever seen RLL3 plays great. Yea, I like Rugby 22 rucks, has a little of everything, sometime quick ball 1 player ruck sometime your sending 5 players on rare occasion in to control the ruck, it has so many variation. And the jackal works great. Lots of folks don’t even know its a split second thing the jackal to gain advantage in the ruck in Rugby 22 on both offensive and defensive side. If they fine tune Rugby 25 system and add ability to add 2 more to the ruck, add holding on and improve the isolated Jackle, could be a cool 3 button system, where each senario is different and has different advantages, I like how if you hold the shoulder button and B on a tackle straight on you can do a standing tackle, that should put you in a better position for the steal/Jackle. Although it is easier for the offensive player to fend you. This is a great risk vs reward system if implemented correctly. The high and low tackle system of RLL3 was great , just was not implemented well on standard settings, with the sliders you can tune this to perfection.
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Sadly I’m in console (playstation) so no sliders for RLL3 , sadly but it still plays good enough for a career mode which is what I play . Yea 22 was actually a decent game just so much screen prompts and writing everywhere which is bit annoying. And I have no idea how to get more angle in my goal kicking, 
I’m missing some absolute sitters… Annoyingly I actually really want to start a career mode on this but currently just can’t face the gameplay…
Online Opponent received a yellow card yesterday but i am not sure if the player was removed 
looked like a sub annimation 
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Come on man, im not saying that the option for more depth and set plays wouldn’t be nice, but if you have issues attacking, especially now with the latest patch, then its a skill issue.
I’ll say it once more, you have to pick up and go and hit in tight at the rucks. if you do this, then big gaps open up in the midfield. You should also hold the pass button for long throws or double tap it for straight short passes. Anything other and you risk interceptions etc., This is how the game wants you play. If you think they’re going to rewrite the entre code to be more like rugby 08 at this stage then you’re going to be disappointed.
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@MrBacon, love all the points you raise, the differentiation of look and stats between players is vital for overall feel of the game. The players also look very similar in their body shape - Union is for all shapes and sizes, which this isn’t yet portraying but arguably get the game play right before the art element is what’s needed. All other points 2-8 make total sense and (for the Devs) i concur with these thoughts for their trending.
After 2 - 5 times going backwards in the tackle (behind the gainline) a team would have “lost their momentum” and usually look for a kick of some description, especially at the top level.
The offside in defence needs a look at, I have been able to stand in the passing channel / fully offside when defending (which I have done a lot of) and not draw an offside penalty, which is funny for a time, then gets a little silly - think the Italians against England in the 6N game a few years back.
Lionmaul, AI single pass and rucks, 100% agree need modifying. Sliders would be a great addition, but if the game can be made effective for all levels through the difficulty selection, sliders wouldn’t necessarily be needed?
@FilthyBandit, YES! Could make these element enforced above a certain level / difficulty? Make it alterable in the game settings? So that those learning the game or that aren’t regular gamers / rugby fans arent put off by not understanding why button mashing isn’t working? But those subtleties would improve the feel of the game.
BonnotXV, agree with you that there are a lot of areas which need adjusting, but the foundation is there, it holds promising shoots from a gamers perspective.
Definitely needs the ability to enter a defensive and offensive strategy for a team, set starting positions in attacking shape, set running lines, pod structure. Like the fact the forward’s field split and defensive pressure can be adjusted with the D-pad in game, which still doesnt make much difference with the whole stats not seemingly being that well employed at the moment, but having ability to set strategy before a game starts and tweak in-game will be a marked improvement.
BA Team - the comparisons are probably getting annoying to games which you may not have developed. Probably easier to take mechanics from AFL 23 or RLL 4 and apply them to Rugby 25. That being said, if you are able to take the “good bits” out of the other historical Union games and combine it with your licencing and sports video games knowledge then Big Ant will be able to firmly add the Rugby Union society to their roster of games - firmly hitting the Ross Symons vision - “What we decided to do, because my passion is sport, outside of [video] games, and so we thought, “Sport is renewable. There’s always a sequel. There’s always another season.”” It doesnt need saying, buuuuuut: gamers can be a fickle but loyal bunch, think of the success of Fifa vs Pro Evo Soccer, get it right and we will all flock back for more and more, get it wrong and it’ll be Tennis and Cricket dev (this thread knows which is the best of those 3 sports). We are wishing and willing you to succeed! We all want you to create a game where we ask ourselves “Where did those last 2 hours go!?”, not “What is going on here?” We all have faith you will do it, keep up the good development, early days since release, big up Big Ant.
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What time are the patch notes releasing? And update?
Nothing for me in the UK, where abouts are you? Nvm just popped up
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UsA brother. Ok Sweet
i just stole my first line out! i even audibly gasped when it happend
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