Hi Big Ants…
The bump offs is still unresponsive🤷♂️
It doe not work only fend off
1 Like
Not seeing a lot of change gameplay wise, not sure sing holding on in the ruck get penalised all the time AI don’t hold it 
1 Like
We asked to allow us to edit squads, but no one is listening.
7 Likes
Is the update out on ps5? South Africa?
Noticed a couple of things, tackler contest takes way too long. The opponent 9 is able to get to the ruck and distribute the ball before the tackler is even on their feet. I’ve had a couple of offloads go skyhigh for some reason too. When my offloads are successful, they are given as offside for some reason. I assume its due to the ruck rules starting to apply when the player goes to ground and when the passed to player catches the offload, they are infront of the “Back foot” of the ruck, resulting in an offside
1 Like
BIGANT team… Can we implement quick subs as on fifa and so on? Eould be great to have
Hey you already can do quick sub. Press select on controller it then allows you to make quick subs
3 Likes
I dont understand how AI vs AI in EA were great games with lots of scoring on both sides, that were representative of the difference in team ratings, and since launch the games have turned into 0-0 snooze fests. Please fix this. Either weaken their defense or preferably, significantly sharpen their attacks in purposeful passes, purposeful running/support lines, purposeful tactical kicking and also far less scrums on penalties. There should be nearly NO scrums on penalties and either 1) kick for points if the penalty is in a place where the kicker could reasonably expect to make the kick, or 2) kick for touch in all other situations. Glad there are now 20 spots in custom comp, but the next world cup will have 24 spots, so you still wont be able to do your own version of the next world cup. Also no infringements by AI in the ruck, like holding onto the ball etc
12 Likes
Much thank you brother 
I’ve noticed the sprint stamina has been nerfed on this update. Especially forwards have a lot less sprint available. Think this is a step in the right direction and adds some jeopardy when you make a break.
Just want to call out the tackle animations. They are really great (I know they haven’t changed but wanted to call out a positive!). If there is some way to make the hits feel more powerful (player voices / grunts, knock ons, more vibration, pushing players back in the hits) this would be even better. I like the suggestion of a big hit that could result in a high shot or a card (I still haven’t seen a card issued!).
Playing on PS5, hardest difficulty, side cam.
Thanks for the updates. Please keep them coming
5 Likes
Today’s patch is a significant improvement which is great and it feels like we are getting back on track (for the most bizarre journey).
AI is playing better now, that said I can’t play my back like they do. They seem to get a formation we don’t.
While the AI is doing the right things it’s still near impossible for them to score since player tackling rarely if ever fails. I don’t
Passing off a lineout is still broken and the backline just descends into the lineout for some reason. This was never like this in the old EAs so have a look back at this.
I like the new stamina but a lot of players deplete their stamina way too quickly.
I feel like with the new stamina system it forces you to kick.
The rucks are still a mess though as I’m so confused as to what I should be doing.
Please show player names when players are selected.
A phase counter would be nice.
This is the right direction now do the needful
5 Likes
Really disappointed that the patch notes state:
" Adjusted Evasion Controls
The controls for evasion moves on offense have been adjusted. With the right stick, Up is Bump Off, Left and Right are a Sidestep and Down will Fend. These controls are camera relative as per the movement of the left stick."
First of all just played a game on easiest to test it on Side Cam and you STILL can’t fend going right to left! I tried about 10 times and no it just doesn’t work. Why when Big Ant actually looked at evasion controls and the camera relative functionality did they not see this!???
Tried bump off a couple of times and that didn’t work either with either direction of play. Maybe it requires much better timing than Fend?
1 Like
A new update but a big problem remains unsolved, when a player is put on the ground, nothing happens anymore, he remains stuck with the ball on the ground while the other players look at him without being able to do anything, it is a very big problem because from that moment all you have to do is exit the match and play the match again.
4 Likes
This situation happened to me recently. 78th minute of a game that I was winning. AI player stole the ball a metre from his own tryline…and this ‘player lies on pitch’ issue occurred. No amount of button pressing or stick movement could rectify it. 
4 Likes
I think in relation to player face scans and players created on licensed teams not looking at all realistic, we should be allowed to edit the teams and put in our own player creations that will look more realistic. I would like to have the freedom to do this.
I have seen many, many players across all competitions and teams that look absolutely nothing like how they do in real life.
As some people have pointed out , why have licensed teams with no editing allowed if some of the players don’t look realistic.
Plus I would like the freedom to remove the players that do not look like the real life players.
2 Likes
Hi Big Ant,
A few bugs/issues I have noticed since the recent update. Many of these were all in my first game after the last patch.
The halfback occasionally passes the opposite direction of your input and into touch, had this twice in my first game.
This offload was given as an offside penalty. The player was neither in front of the action and the pass direction was backwards as well.
The bug where the game does not register you scoring is still there too.
And after this type of offload there is often invincibility for your runner afterwards.
Not sure what I do not like about this default kicking posture, perhaps it is the angle the kicker stands in relation to the ball and the posts but it just doesn’t look legit to me. Having the basic type stance as Ramos has would be far better imo.
Some of the UI could do with a bit of scaling as names are too condensed as this one is.
There is a large amount of work needed around the player placement and camera angles in cinematics as they are often in areas of the park that do not make sense considering the try … or they just end up walking through stands, ad boards and crowds like these guys. There is also a number of grounds that obscure the goal kicking metre when a kick is taken close to the touchline due to poor camera placement.
Being able to add 20 teams to the custom tournament is great. Not being able to change the name so the competition just always says “Custom tournament” isn’t. Would be great to even just be able to rename that. Throwing in a cheeky multi season promotion relegation option would be even nicer (dreams are free).
Great to see we really did receive improved passing this time. Yay us!
10 Likes
As others said, loving the updates keep them coming!
One request that should be easy fix, career mode the stats from training/player growth aren’t showing on the lineup/contracts/international squad pick screen.
The stats do show in game when making subs, e.g speed or kicking improvements, can this please be fixed? Makes squad/lineup picking much more difficult as isn’t showing any player growth or decline, but is showing it during the games.
3 Likes
Hi Big Ant, my humble comments to improve the gaming experience:
- It would be great if players’ kits got dirty during the match, like in Rugby 08.
- Some fair-skinned players have dark skin, which takes away a lot of immersion from the game.
- When you score a try in a contested situation with an opposing player, it’s always a turnover for the defending team, even when it was clearly a try.
- There should be a TMO.
- The career mode is too boring, and there are too many suspensions for high tackles.
- The scrum has to be perfect to avoid collapsing, which should be improved.
- Improve defense at the post, as pick-and-go is still the best option to gain ground.
- Further improve running lines, passing, and player positioning according to their roles.
2 Likes
Honestly wish the AI Vs AI games could be better too… 0-0 ain’t fun
1 Like
I feel you guys need to focus on one thing till it’s pretty much completed rather than every update we get a feature or game mechanic that’s more broken as atm it feels we just getting half as updates, and btw making players just running out off stamina just after 5m doesn’t improve difficulty just make the game worst maybe fix AI and make them better than you wont have to nerf stamina if you guys actually knew how to work on AI stamina wouldn’t be an issue