Rugby League 26 - Megathread

Yeah, I enjoyed doing objective-equivalence on FIFA. Hopefully they provide us with objectives that’s achievable without the need of doing anything too drastic gameplay wise.

You’ll be surprised when they’re up and running a lot of them will be for the grinders.

I’d expect to see some like have 50,000 line break meters etc.

The weekly’s will be pretty simple tasks though :+1:

I Have the game I’m on pro team but don’t have a full team I’ve chosen my 2 players and still missing one and won’t let me exit to even buy a player help me it’s been like this since it’s fixed I just want to play that game yous are restricting me even more.

Does the servers ever work on this game all you get is internal server error the whole time

Playing on PS5 this afternoon, the latest patch seems to be a step in the right direction:

Pros:

  • The hooker is following the play a lot better. Play the ball could still be quicker, but this is an improvement.
  • Having stuffed up another 40/20 attempt, and kicking it out on the full, the opponent got the ball in the right position, which is good.

Less ideal:

  • Had the AI take a clean catch and run into touch (it was very close to the side line) and another case run the ball dead. Could be one offs though.

Edit: Hopefully some game stats will be added in the coming weeks.

Yeah, same for me. I’m not sure why they did that. Every other game and NSW & QLD Cup. Hopefully they’ll fix it soon

2 Likes

Does anyone know how to invite friends that are on a different console?

Hi, if new jerseys are introduced such as Indigenous, women in league or Heritage is patched in in the future, would we have to restart our career modes to have them in career mode?

How could stat’s ( tackles, running meters, tries etc) not be part of the career mode. Its bad enough that the halfback wears the number 6 but i can look past that but no live stats in a career mode, thats a huge miss and is standard in a spots title…

2 Likes

Settling a brother sister debate as a family friend.
Haven’t bought the game yet but who is higher rated? As there is no spreadsheet open for all to see.

Lee Kershaw (Hull KR) think I’ve seen a 75 rating.

Or

Emma Kershaw (York Valkyries) women’s team

Ok I’ve just been playing some more rugby league 26, post the two patches that have arrived over the last 24 hours.

From a gameplay perspective it does seem that the hooker is arriving significantly quicker to rucks and that’s a good thing.

Although I have been playing a season of NRL and up until those two patches I was gradually getting to grips with the game on amateur and I was starting to post scores of 18-6 and 20-4, up from winning some and losing some about 6-0 originally.

Since those two patches it has seemed harder to score again, add my scores have dropped down again. The AI seems tougher and seems to score tries, that are putting the ball everywhere rapidly and almost impossible to stop for me.

AI players which I had noted were getting in the road of offloads immediately after release of the game, did seem to have been patched to not be in the intercept line of where you intend to offload. Now they seem to be back and doing that again.

It’s my number one annoyance, opposition players hovering around my side of the tackle waiting for an offload and preventing any possibility, or else it’s an intercept.

There still seems to be a problem with when you make a break that your support is often 10-15m behind you and that the opposition seems to be able to instantly do a 180 and sprint up on you almost straight away.

When you have someone break the defensive line in a real game of rugby league, that defensive line has to turn around and run fast in the opposite direction (which nowadays they are good at), but it is impossible for them to turn and chase as fast as they sometimes do in this game.

Since the patches I have noticed it is a lot easier to give away high tackles, now even if you don’t sprint at all you can still get done for a high tackle.

Also I’m not massively hung up on stats, but seriously this game has nothing. Nothing at all. We need to be told that this is being worked on. The game seriously lacks depth without them.

It also needs international teams sooner rather than later.

I’m not as much a rugby league fan as I am a rugby union fan, but I generally like this game a lot. It makes what has been released as rugby 25 look like a total joke and if I’m totally honest an insult really.

Rugby league 26 is in a vastly superior state to rugby 25 and I really hope it continues to improve.

3 Likes

Any else getting the “The primary user has been signed out. You have been returned to the title screen” again or just me? Xbox Series X btw.

Just saw there is a new update any ideas

I know this is a small gripe but still annoying- correct field logos. Playing a state of origin competition match, there are no field markings at all, let alone ones for origin. The field markings and sponsorships on the sidelines do not match what we saw in the promo video for the game. Again small issue compared to the main issues with the game but the realism does matter for it to feel authentic. I do hope they fix this soon

Further to what you have typed. Apart from the NRL and Super League it seems advertising around the grounds for other competitions is a little bare bones?

For instance the Challenge Cup has logos on the post protectors and on the shirt sleeve of the clubs only? It would be nice to see logos added to the ad boards etc.

Just an observation I’ve also noticed that you have Toulouse Olympique and Featherstone Rovers’s home ground set as the MKM Stadium?

There are also a few other teams like this. Is this because of licensing issues? If so will you be obtaining the licenses for these teams stadiums and implementing them into a future patch?

Many thanks :+1:

1 Like

Played my first online game tonight. Went okay, thing was my attackers kept running ten yards upfield so I was left with no pass option A LOT. is that common?? I thought, might be latency but the game was a stable 25ms so I don’t think it’s that. Never happened in the few offline games I played. Secondly, how are we meant to make subs?? Surely can’t be pausing when the game doesn’t pause for both teams?? Ended up having to run the starting 13 all game because I couldn’t pause to make the subs. Thought it might be d pad but that just seemed to control tactics

The thing that bugs me a lot is the stupid “pass it pass it pass it” chant like how does that make any sense whatsoever, do these people even know rugby league?

Grubber kicks, grubber kicks, grubber kicks.
Come on now?
Huge part of league play , they are terribly weak. Enjoying the game some, but the lack of being able to use long grubbers as weapon is disappointing. Please fix the grubber power, particularly by skilled players.
They need to go much further, and your kicking player should not be able to over run your own grubber, particularly when kicking it with power.

On a positive note, liking the fends and hit up’s and offloads, although offloads need more receiving player momentum, up and unders need more work.

Cheers

What if they slowed down forwards but added a new stat to players for play the ball speeds where forwards would have a higher play the ball speed than backs n can use your forwards to get on the front foot to create more attacking opportunities out wide for the speedy backs! Also would like to have a new tactic on defence where you can make your defence line rush up more aggressively useful for on your goal line also to charge field goals down of course have risk with it like offsides increase high tackles this tactic was in rugby league 3 on the Wii n worked really well would like it to come back!

refunded this putrid game. rather my $100 back then the buggiest copy of a game out there.

2 Likes