BUG: Custom players don’t have their age reflected correctly in club lineup.
Added Ben Waghorn, born in 2004, but in Quins lineup it for some reason lists him as a 24 year old?
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I can feel a slight improvement with the new update. Keep in mind, “slight”.
Otherwise the game feels the same as before.
AI Still constantly going for scrums when they have a penalty.
It feels kind of like the AI defense got a bit stronger? Maybe part of the “difficulty adjustments” they made, but still not nowhere where it should be. So defense kind of improved I guess…
However the AI attacking is still the exact same. No improvements. I keep scoring tries and beating the opponent something - 0. They never get any points. Even when they get an opportunity to get at least 3 points in front of the poles, they instead go for (you guessed it…) a scrum.
The only time when AI actually gets a try is when they become invincible. No one can tackle the AI at all when they make some line breaks or directly after they did a hand off. Same goes for when I have possession. Sometimes I make a line break and do a hand off or offload, then I become untouchable. This bug must be fixed.
Then the stamina still drains way to quick. The burst you get is great when you do make a line break, but still after a few 10 to 20 meters my guy is all out (again I am playing on Hardest)
The rucks also feel a bit easy for me. Reason for saying this is, when the AI has the ball, and they do make a small line break (if and when they pass, but still NO offloads??) then I can easily just get the ball back from them in the ruck. This is why I say the game is too easy.
Even tested the difficulty out by eating my dinner and leaving my controller on my desk, letting my team defend against the opponent AI. Even then, the opponent could not make any meters against me. This is breaking the game for me and causing me to just alt + F4 as I can not play another match as for example the Italians agains Ireland and beating them 30+ points to 0.
Something to note, the Bump still does not work properly. Tried a few times and got maybe only 1 bump out of 20+ attempts. I don’t know if it is a timing thing? But constantly just getting this red bar over my players stamina gauge.
So overall, new update. I appreciate the hard work you guys are putting in the game, but we still need much more improvements. The opponent defense does feel a bit more improved for me but not up to standard for a rugby game to be remembered by. I understand if you needed to fully release the game due to certain licenses perhaps? And I don’t mind this, at least just give us something properly playable and fun. In the current state, I still can’t recommend it to anyone as of yet. So more work needs to be done.
However, hats off the Big Ant for still trying their best to improve the game and listening to the community. It is a rare sight from Games nowadays. Just please don’t give up on the game, it has so much potential.
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There is still a lot of high tackle animation for “normal/regular tackles”. it feels weird to have so much of it with no penalities aswell.
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I think another competition would work for this, maybe something aiming more towards a club World Cup? Something to give those rest of world clubs more meaning in career mode
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I think it’s resounding fine. That said it’s still boring. You can’t use your backs and it’s ends up being a fend spam or get to the winger. Overall player positioning is just broken. You will barely use your Outhalf and overuse your forwards.
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Still me.
Played a bit more.
Stamina seems to go down as it should.
Played a 7 Minutes match and didn’t need to change anyone 'cause no one was really tired.
Some adjustment has to be done.
As i’m learning Offside is actually implemented in the game.
The referee will call an offside when a player, that never comes back to the ruck,“interfere” ( tho sometimes is just there) with the opponet.
But once a player comes back in line, he can cross the offside line even tho the 9 never played the ball.
This has to be addressed.
In quick play, if 2 teams from the same competition play each other, could the scoreboard, logos and sponsorships be the same as they are in competition and career mode? For example could we have Gallagher Premiership branding if I choose a Quick Play of Bristol v Harlequins?
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Why are there so few penalties? I simulated 80 minutes, and one team received one penalty. With more penalties (including for high tackles and knock-ons), the game would be much more realistic. Am I the only one who thinks there are too few penalties?
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Every custom player is currently aged 24 regardless of what DOB the player is given when it’s created. It would be good if this could be fixed at some point in the future.
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Good stuff Nesreviac, will try the YYY BBB in the ruck. Is this normally a pushover animation or a quick steal animation? I have come to the conclusion Big Ant is not given detail instructions on how to work the Rucks, because they are still being worked out, if that is the case, I understand, you don’t want to be constantly changing instructions on how they work, when they are constantly adding to the system. As mentioned, the three-button system could work out well if they match the animations with what is happening. I think x/steal, once the ruck forms should either be a successful Cheat hand in the ruck or a penalty or if you continue to press Y it should try for a safer pushover in the ruck, which also has a low possibility of over doing it and being penalized for , coming in from the side, or alligator roll, which is now illegal. Would be a cool way to implement some of the new rules. (imagine seeing an alligator roll animation:)) Big Ant has to think risk vs reward system for every aspect of the game, that is what makes it fun, then of course, timing and stats come into play. Just like scrums, it’s a fairly good system but they are boring now because there is really no real advantage to doing really well in them, you should be able to gain substantial meters if played to perfection, and or you should be awarded a free kick because you overwhelm the opponent at the scrum, and they infringe or collapse the maul. The scrums will be boring until they have a bigger prize for playing them well or you suffer if you play them bad. Does not seem like that complicated to fix, because the system is there, but the result are not. Same thing with Mauls and lineouts, Mauls on the offensive side, may even be to rewarding at the moment as I can score a 10-15 meters drive of mauls on offense every time. The defense needs a better reward by holding up the mauls and turning the ball over. The AI is useless against defending the maul and is not productive in the maul on the offensive side either. ( there is no point in adding players to the maul defensively against the AI) There must be some kind of miny games, for these aspects of Rugby for them to feel fulfilling and fun. If someone just wants to get through these aspects of Rugby quickly, then it may be a good idea for them to just, play a Rugby league game instead. (not knocking people that like Rugby League, as I have a modded RLL3 game that is currently my favorite game I currently own) And although I only played Rugby, I follow both codes.
Rucks, Maul, and Scrums are a huge part of Rugby and how good a team is in each aspect of the game in these categories makes a difference in how that individual team plays. There must be good rewards for playing these aspects of the game well. " This my friend is Rugby".
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It’s true there just aren’t enough penalties in the game. You watch a game in real life and there are numerous penalties of all kinds. Be these for offside, high tackle, not rolling away, not releasing the ball after being tackled etc etc. I think I have had 2 penalties at the most in any game so far. More often than not a scrum is chosen even when there’s a good opportunity to kick for goal. It’s still early days though. Hopefully in a few months or so as they keep rolling updates out, these amongst other things should be ironed out. Fingers crossed. I play AI v AI btw.
As reported by Bapean (in his case competion scoring), there appears to be some issue with displaying correct points information. Another example is this screenshot…
Also, quite often for some reason pushing Square (X on Xbox) can result in kicks when within 2m of the line or sometimes even over it!
I’ve found it ends to be a pushover from the ruck once the two players have gone to ground if you add men in straight away. Haven’t tried it yet since the new patch though, have been trying out other things for now.
Or… in a similar way to how we can select the match ball, maybe an option for Broadcast Packages could be added. Saves people like Mad Dragon having to simulate a full season in Competition mode just to get the cinematics for stuff like the URC final etc!
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Great from the community picking up on these issues
I am on vacation so can’t play the game for another little bit but I am reading a lot the comments
I think the new photogrammetry is welcome for Pau etc but I would love to see some images
I think the ability to zoom in closer in academy mode on licensed player faces would be massive and help a lot with being able to sss who has a good face or not
Perhaps this zoom option could be enabled when viewing the player likeness from manage roster screen ?
Just played my first game since more than a week ago and with all these updates the game feels exactly the same 
and difficulty has barely been touched or even worked on I will say as I still beat teams higher rated then me 50+ on hardest difficulty
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Je n’ai jamais pris ou vu un carton jaune est-ce normal ?
I understand that you’ve never seen a yellow card and wonder if it’s normal?
Depends on the number of games you’ve played really, but yeah I’ve played maybe 40-50 games now and I’ve seen 2 and saw another one when my friend was playing the game.
It’s far below normal, but I’m sure they’ll bring more of these into the game sooner or later and hopefully for logical things that the user does wrong, ie:
Repeated off-sides by the same player.
A second high tackle by the same player. High tackles need to be badly mistimed or the player holding the tackle button for too long. (Holding the tackle button for a short while should make for a more solid tackle, but too long and it’s a high or dangerous tackle!).
A player being pinged for being in a couple of rucks in which Holding On Penalty happens.
It would be great if these sorts of things would be looked at.
Edit: Another thought with how to handle high tackles. Once the team has done maybe 2-3 in a game, it could be good if for the rest of the game the ref warned that team that the next one would be a yellow minimum. That would be any player, one who’s infringed before or not!
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Hi Team,
Male Custom Teams have now all disappeared since the patch update. PS5.
I had about 12 teams previously.
I got all the custom players still in the game but not assigned to any team.
This player below Gideon Van Der Merwe was assigned to a Custom Toyota Cheetahs Team.
Will I need to remake all the custom teams I downloaded or created with their details and their kits with logos again ?
Is this a bug issue or has this been done on purpose till we get women’s teams added. Thanks
Further screen shot - Clicked on club to allocate a player to a custom club. None on list
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Just played a 2 player with my son and at half time subs can still only be done for the team with the lead controller - post patch.
Also there seems to be a bug with the pocket kicker. It seems like he can’t kick it when positioned in his own in-goal attempting to clear.
While I’m at it, there seems to be a problem with the dive tackle (Triangle or Y) when cover defending. I’ve had this several times when running towards a player I’m wanting to tackle who’s running straight for the corner. I’ll change to the fullback, chase on the diagonal all the way up to the attacking player, get really close, push the dive tackle button and he dives away on another angle completely missing the attacker.
Uh oh this is bad , is any way I can avoid this happening I haven’t downloaded new patch yet
I also have lot custom teams and haven’t uploaded to community yet still working on players
If anyone has any suggestions please let me know , thanks
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