Hi what time is it live today and do we have any patch notes?
Thanks for letting us know
Please sort AI itâs been over a month. Make it more realistic with passes, breakdowns, pens.
If you do CPU vs CPU it most often times ends 0-0. Please address this
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PC already live. Consoles later this afternoon (usually 2pm UK time). When the Rugby 25 socials post about a new patch, thatâs when all platforms have it.
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Have the PC guys been playing the new patch and have they messed up the grass textures now?
Anyone played and can tell us what changes theyâre seeing?
To be honest the last patch or two have been pretty small improvements and I think weâre well overdue for something significant covering a range of issues and complaints.
Hasnât really been a patch that has covered a broad range of things from the lack of field markings, AI difficulty, pocket player not moving forward when kicking, kicking actually functioning when you have a direction held at first, the 10 not being pulled into far too many rucks, academy improvements, a decent ruck ball winning system, five into rucks, focus on structure and forwards mostly into rucks, quick throws functioning more logically, improvements to a boring and very limited line-out system, improvements to AI not taking scrums all the time, a shortening of the scrum process, more variation in player ability based off skills, bump offs working and really it wouldnât be that hard to keep on going.
You would think with the community in agreement across the board with many issues, and the game feeling like itâs a mostly finished but partly not experience that communication would be a little more apparent.
After all most of the community are being very civil and polite, and of course thankful for the good things that have been implemented so far.
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This game is going nowhere fast.
PS5 latest patch (today)
Yes looks sharper but that is it.
Still kicking to touch left footed.
Still ruck is a mess
Still scrum is a mess
Still invisible bug..
No point in listing the details of these issues since itâs been listed many many times since early access.
They just donât care
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Custom Competitions still have a long way to go.
32+ teams and Pool Stage option need to be possible in order to replicate the upcoming World Cup and the Champion/Challenge Cup format.
I think there also needs to be some custom Club Competition for the rest of the Clubs who are not participating in Champions cup. Competitions like MLR and Super Rugby need it, itâll add more value to them for a career mode.
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Was this even an update? I donât see much improvements in AI at all. Still the exact same moves and easy to read.
When I saw the updates say âDifficulty changesâ I was hopeful but after playing it nowâŚnot much changed.
Hardest difficulty still easy and without any challenge.
Stamina still draining very quickly and like I said before, 10-15 meters then BAM out of stamina (stamina regains faster when stationary which is cool)
AI Defense feels a bit more challenging which is great. But still, I am scoring 30+ points against them and they end up having 0 on the scoreboard because of no proper attack.
See below match of me playing as Portugal, against Springboks, as the away team on the hardest difficulty. Firstly, home team needs to have some type of additional momentum or advantage, then I was able to Scrum the living daylights out of the springboks. This should also not happen. They are known for their good scrums.
Please just make the game more difficult.
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Can I make a request that patch notes are updated somewhere else instead of, or as well as, X more regularly?
Twitter is an absolute cesspit now and Iâve found myself having to log back on just to see whatâs going on. Itâs horrendous! Bluesky would be amazing if poss
Theyâre posted here as well (with additional details):
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Any update on when the womenâs 6 nations teams will be added? I recall from a post a while ago this was supposed to be for the start of the tournament.
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Itâs pretty ridiculous that they havenât added the womenâs teams yet, especially as youâve been able to create a custom womenâs team for weeks.
I found that you can add custom women players to custom menâs teams, but when you play with them, their bodies disappear and you only see their heads and limbs.
I think someone said it here before, and if anyone has any dev experience feel free to correct me, but these updates are so small and make such small changes, they must spend no time on them, hence why we still dont have the womens teams.
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Not a dev either but thereâs no way theyâre more than number tweaking in the background to paper over cracks, way too quick a turnaround for substantial changes - especially considering how many delays happened before launch
Hopefully thereâs big changes being worked on in the background but I canât say Iâm hopeful
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Yeah like if we were dealing with honest brokers here, I think you might conclude their is a significant patch being worked on in the background, but every week we get crumbs with no communication so it is hard to have any hope for that.
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I think itâs great that niche Polish, Bangladeshi, and Brazilian teams are represented in the game, but it would be quite poor if at least the 6 nations teams arenât added whilst the tournament is going on, especially as itâs building up towards the World Cup.
I donât know about that. Iâm all for quality over quantity.
There hasnât really been much effort put into those leagues as well which is a bit of a punch in the face for those leagues too.
Imagine being told youâre in a game to see you look nothing like yourself. Not even being the correct ethnicity.
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Since every update doesnât deliver what you expect:
I played âRugby Challenge 4â again after a long time. This is exactly what a rugby game should be like. Thereâs passing, kicking, the rucks feel good. There are penalties and penalty kicks, etc.
Itâs so much fun, I donât need Rugby 25âŚ
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The transfer system needs to be overhauled. Thereâs no transfer window in rugby but there seems to be one in this game. Would be nice to have the option to sign players whenever and negotiate with clubs to sign them or loans.
The search filter is also very limited and resets every time you do anything with a player. 
Also there are never any offers for players transfer listed. It just seems to be a case of waiting for contracts to expire and that can sometimes be years in game. I should be able to release players or swap as well.
I donât think anyone who plays this game would object to the developers borrowing how other sports games transfer and signing systems work.
Oh and add academies
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I have basically decided to create my own versions of some of the developer made players in many teams that are either not accurate at all or default template versions. Simply because if I start a career or competition I want to see accurate players running around.
Some developer made players are simply default âTemplateâ appearances you get when you go to create a player mode and select a template,
I have no idea when the players will be updated. I understand there is a backlog for face scan uploads but I not sure all players are face scanned so I donât know if they will have edited updated realistic appearances in the future.
I am sharing my players created in Fan Hub. Only issue is that you canât remove the developer made players so you get a double up in the actual team.
(Lots of these âTemplateâ players across teams in MLR )
My Creations to try to bring in some realistic appearances
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Is anyone seeing the wind having much impact on kicking, either for touch or goal kicking? Would be good to see this cranked up a bit
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