Played on Friday am (Korea time), think version .2570 and it felt pretty good, stable and things were generally working.
Just played Xbox update .2591 for a few games and everything has regressed, only positive is no crashes. Every box kick fails and is an auto penalty, no players pick up loose ball, balls bouncing off of heads, strange quick lineouts, players standing around the ruck refusing to pick up the ball, lots of waiting for player to pass from ruck, can’t pass from scrum just keeps going til penalty awarded
I generally keep this constructive but don’t understand how this last update made it through
Hard to be positive. Apart from the insanely poor game-play that has been commented on a million times, the general aesthetic of the state of play is akin to a local under 8’s match. Just watching a CPU match without playing should’ve been enough to tip off that something is seriously wrong. I wouldn’t have had as big of a problem (even with the unplayable mechanics) if the game just looked like free-flowing rugby. Instead we get 30 players all running around clueless with a 1/10 ability to pass, kick, be in a useful position or react when a buttons pressed. Prefer to watch every game of the Waratahs 2021 season again than play 20 minutes of this game. Being the mainstay video game for our sport with a purpose of growing and pushing the game, it is very disappointing and downright offensive to Rugby. $300 on rugby games in 6 years and I’m still playing RWC 2011
Hey really hoping you could make the logo creator more usable the tools are there just seem super difficult to move objects around and copy and paste was really hoping it was easier to use
(XBOX)
I love creating things from scratch on other games just seems impossible to even write a name for example please change it so it can be used because it seems endless with the possibilities
And if you could look at making it possible to add players to any team similiar to rugby league live
Love creating players just wish I could add to any club also please make it easier to break tackles
Feels extremely difficult for a highly rated team against a lower team to even bust a tackle 2025-02-22T13:00:00Z
The latest update is a sign its improving.
I get a lot of enjoyment online than vs a.i and so im enjoying it much more. Scrums lineouts anc kicks are great now. Work on the rucks and passing is still needed but its getting there.
Tip for you all, play online its more rewarding
Can I ask a question? I’m new to career mode, if I sign a player? How do I get home to actually be in my line-up? Or do I have to wait until the next season?
The user passing will seem improving because we can try different things and styles. But the thing that is hurting this game so much is the ai passing it’s just not there at all , one pass tackle, that’s all they do every play , every match and every team . Been said thousands of times and it’s so obvious I’m not sure how after all Ea you end up with a rugby game we’re your ai can’t string 2 passes together? … They improve this and the game will at least be more playable and then fine tune ruck’s and get the rule’s and tmo and sliders etc , but passing is desperate they address as its not acceptable at all …
Yes, at the moment, user passing needs work, but you can have fun with it.
AI passing is nonexistent beyond the first player pass, making defending extremely repetitive and boring. I feel like turning into the opposing team by switching player control to the offensive team on turnovers and playing the offensive part of the game until AI passing gets fixed. Like, offensive training until AI offensive intelligence and passing improves. Don’t get me wrong the graphics and running animations are much better than Rugby 22, but rugby 22 still has many more different animations for different aspects of gameplay. Hopefully the animations will grow over time. The slowdown effect of Rugby 22 is also nice for play calling and on the fly formation changes. This all plays a big part to make a complete rugby game simulation. It funs to make changes to plays and player formations on the fly, it adds a whole other level of Rugby game play.
Strange thing is rll4 had tactics and ai passing and a bit of a kicking game etc . Seems they have taken the tackling animations and player markers etc straight from rll4 and left out the actual important stuff as mentioned above. Also wish they would use the grass graphics of RLL3 , best they ever had it
Hopefully they are just working on a new passing system and will be introduced asap , … .
Alot of people did not notice but when Rugby challenge 4 first came out you could add 5 players to the ruck, then they ruined it with a patch to 3. Its annoying they have to dumb down the game for casual gamers, many people that own rugby games are into the simulation of rugby! This is the reason I like rugby challenge 3 over rugby challenge 4, even though it would be nice to have the set plays of Rugby challenge 4. Also for ADD people they shorten the scrum time in Rugby challenge 4 compared to 3, scrums in 3 are better because of this, in Rugby 22 they also dumb down and sped up the scrums, when it first came out Rugby 22 had fun competitive scrums, that was like a mini game allowing you on occasion to move the scrum forward and gain substantial meters, rendering the scrum as an actual weapon in attack, then they sped them up and made them quicker (so to just get them over with)(if you want to get them over with, go play Rugby league:)), so annoying when they have something good and they change it to satisfy the casual player. Make the game as real to the real thing as a simulation, and then add sliders so players can make it as arcadey as they want to so you satisfied hardcore simulation players and casual arcadey players.
Never managed to get hold of rugby challenge 4 , but weirdly a new rugby challenge 4 has just been released on ps store but it’s a weird one as it says no licensed team but rugby 7 etc , so it must just be a fan made one ( tennis elbow 4) for rugby or something. yea I still play rugby challenge 3 struggling graphically now tho… I’m more a simulation fan I agree they need to a add options to add up to 5 definitely makes risk/reward element to it . I guess they have to cater to the bigger players base and not go to simulation and scare away players. Hopefully next week we will get some improvement to attacking play and in turn will make user defending interesting and fun .
In career mode, would it be possible to include the option to sim the rest of a match you have already started?
Sometimes, its good to start a match but you might not want to play for the entire match, so would be useful to sim to the end… or even part of the match and jump back in, like in Cricket 24 when your player is no batting/bowling.
Lets go Pumas Argentina