It does give you that feeling that you’re not locked into one team (or a number of them if playing with friends), doesn’t it? Has been a design choice of Big Ant Studios for a long time (as far back as RLL1 I think).
As you can simulate all the way up to the final and then play as any team who made it, it does feel wrong even if you don’t choose to do that. It also somehow minimizes the exciting tension in a game, as you know if somehow things go wrong you can just pick another team.
I prefer the approach of most other sports development teams in making you commit to a team (or teams if playing with friends) right at the start of a competition, but hey it works I guess. It’s just never got less odd for me.
See, this is probably the best explanation from a gamefeel point of view. When I see this suggested my brain just goes… just do it that way but with the whole season and don’t play as the other teams. But this brings a new perspective, “I” didn’t think about.
It’s certainly something we would like to do in the future.
I think only around 6 or 7 missing hairs. The face scans though for England, Wales and Scotland women look excellent
France women look like they are still awaiting more photogrammetry but what has been added looks really good.
I hope for custom competition that in future update we can assign a trophy and see that cutscene at end of tournament I think that would be nice for created competition
And also being able to change stadium for custom competition would be great
Hey Buddy, out of curiosity how far ahead in builds are the bigant dev team playing the game and can you give any insights on whats being tested to be implemented? Im really hoping for fatigue and player attributes to have significant impact on the users experience so tactics such as targeting weaker/fatigued players can result in reward.
Hello! Please solve the problem when the player is put to the ground with the ball and from then everything is blocked, time just passes and you have to replay the match. It is a very big and very annoying problem that has been there for a very long time, I have written to you so many times, I have also attached images and it has not been solved so far, please pass it on as a priority. Thank you and good luck in the future.
I’m pretty much done with it now. I’ve bought the early access pc version and pS5 version hoping for things to change. Hardly anything gameplay wise has changed. Rucks, scrums and line outs are the worst of all rugby games to date. All Players are still kicking to touch left footed. There is nothing to enjoy here. How many responses have we had from BA on this forum regarding gameplay issues and how they plan to tackle it. Nothing!
Why have a forum or early acess when clearly they not listening to community. All these issues has been raised almost a year ago.
I would like to know who I can send an invoice to at BA. I’ve been a beta tester now for a almost a year and would like to be paid.
So as an predominately online player (since AI hasnt been a challenge since game launched and for the people finding a challenge against AI, once you learn the game more it will become very easy), I have some feedback of some recurring issues that dont seem to have been addressed -
Can we see the opponent kit to change the kit? Can we also pick the stadium?
Offside penalties are left, right and centre. There is a really annoying bug where you get a turnover, the ball comes to your side, then your 9 goes to the other side of the ruck and you concede an offside penalty.
I feel like player switching is not smooth online.
Overall, offisde rules are not enforced with long kicking, which is a fundamental rule of rugby. It would be great if the game could reflect the actual rules of rugby union.
I encourage people to try play online, there are people like the guy at top of leaderboards that dont play genuinely and just play on custom 99 rated teams and spam hand offs, but there is a certain core of players trying to play authentic rugby (kicking etc).
Just into another AI v AI game and I’ve noticed a couple of things. The first I’m not sure if it’s a bug as it’s happening quite regularly. When the player is tackled he stays down and the other players gather round as though they are about to commit to a ruck. However, they just stand there and the opposition player goes in to grab the ball. He then proceeds to walk back towards his team mates before being nailed in a tackle. Not sure that’s what’s meant to be happening. Secondly I’ve noticed this issue on fewer more infrequent occasions whereby the clock is in the red, the team with the ball in their own half go to kick the ball into touch. They seem to make a real hash of it. In this instance it’s right on half time, clocks in the red, player goes to kick the ball into touch hits his own player with it and the opposing side regain the ball and score a try. Surely in situations like this the player should be making a more forceful kick into touch. That has reminded me of another issue regarding kicking the ball whilst the clock is in the red. I’ve had an instance where a team is trailing and looking to get back level or take the lead. The 80 minutes are up and instead of trying to get the ball forward and score a try to get back into the game, they decide to perform a box kick into touch or for the opposing team to gather and kick into touch?? This wouldn’t happen in real life. Not sure if you are aware of those issues so thought I’d bring them to your attention.
So you’re actually saying that adding teams and art to a game has nothing to do with gameplay programmers ? And you’ve been saying that since the beginning of Early access, so i do kinda get the frustration and i do kinda understand your passive aggressiveness towards someone being upset after buying half a game full price and still complaining about the gameplay being so far from finished more than a month after full release, and still the few stuff that’s in there being buggy as hell.
But hey, come on mate, women rugby… how come you’re able to drop this patch with branded stadiums only for women stadiums and the men’s stadiums being in the game since the beginning of early access still look so naked poor. That has nothing to do with gameplay development, this is only cosmetic, it has been asked for ages for men’s stadiums, yet you’re able to deliver this women’s teams with branding on the pitch and advertises everywere in the stadiums, and still nothing for men ?
It would have been nice to finish men’s art before adding unfinished women’s art…
You pretend you don’t really care and handle easily the negativity but the truth is you enjoy bullying people with legitimate complaints.
What’s in the game is far from finished : so buggy it’s unplayable, and the art isnt finished (neither players nor stadiums). Yet you still add this women’s unfinished content, which is as unplayable. I guess negativity is gonna be around for as long as this game is in this early access state.
Any plans to fix the visual bug of not updating overall ratings from training? They work during a match, but not during lineup, squad selection, international squad or contracts/transfers but are working, as in game they do work and the ratings update.
Just reflagging, as would make career mode fun and hopefully isn’t too intensive as it’s working, just not displaying on certain screens if that makes sense. Thanks!
Unfortunately I think the game won’t improve much from this point onwards, bear in mind it’s been in development since before the 2023 World Cup. I think they’ll have a couple more updates and then focus on the rugby league game that everyone thinks they’re making.
Has it though? Like how could it actually have been in development that long and be in the current state, I mean it does not even correctly enforce the rules of rugby union… One might call this a basic element for a rugby game to actually reflect the sport.
Got them sorted as quick as I could to get that out.
