Does anyone have some suggested sliders to make the game more fun? I’ve turned the defensive aggressiveness down and followed the suggestion above to set everything to amateur or rookie except for certain things but I still can’t really attack well at all.
I’m not a newbie to these games at all having played a ton of RLL4 and I was doing well on RL26 before whatever update they made. Lots of games ending 6-0 or 0-0 at half time with 10 minute halves…
Looks like you have decided to ignore the problem where the majority of the defensive side move beyond the dead ball line when a try is being attempted leaving the defender alone with no help. This is a major problem that needs fixing ASAP. How you have let this continue for months is ridiculous. Bad optic and shows a total lack of knowledge of the game. I will stand corrected if you can show me a video clip from the last 100 plus years that show a grade side ever doing this. You won’t find one. You don’t have to retreat 10 metres in defence of your line ever.
I’m generally positive on rl26, have found ways to enjoy it, mainly by dropping halves and wingers tackle ability down so there’s chances in attack but since slider patches came in player stats are officially broken. And as far as I can work out through trial and error sliders aren’t working properly. I’ve set big hits and drop ball % to zero and even put all backs and halves big hit tackle and drive tackles to zero in player stats, yet I can still put big hits resulting in ball spills and drive Payne haas back to nsw at will, with any back whenever I choose. I think big ant have put sliders in but the code is overriding inputs. Please fix this issue. The games become way too easy and boring in defence since last couple of patches ai on any difficulty just hit up and do nothing with the ball.
Yeah I’ve almost given up on the sliders, been over a week and I still can’t get the balance right for myself. Really just hoping people start posting some custom sliders in that I can copy and try out.
I was planning on having a go today or later tonight. Even with sliders things ain’t going to get better until passing and support play are fixed.
But maybe if you tell people what you are looking for in gameplay then someone might be able to help you improve your experience. The last thing you need to do mate is have a bunch of different customs thrown your way. Peoples idea of “fun” is completely subjective.
For example my idea of fun is being able to spread the ball with sharp passing and have predictable support play. I want gaps to open up in defense because I took a player into the line and got a good draw and pass. I also want to be able to put a hit on with a player who should be able to put a hit on. But I don’t want cheese where I can just smash anyone with anyone and get the ball back. I want fast players to be fast, I want kickers to be able to kick better than everyone else. I also want to play against an ai that is creative and doing all the above against me. I want to be able to choose when I tackle so if I read the play wrong I get punished if I get sucked into a draw and pass. Things like that are fun for me.
I don’t want to play against a difficulty level that is purely based on ‘artificial difficulty” which these sliders actually prove this game is based on. There is no intelligence going on here, the reality is you are only tweaking how much the game hampers you when playing, the timing of a tackle, an offload, the step, the hit up. How quickly your players get gassed.
The underlying fundamentals are not changing, so all the frustrations I have with this game remain. The artificial difficulty issues are improved now so there is a type of fun you can have but it’s minimal. Because you are not doing anything else with these sliders. To be honest this is how BigAnt has always done these games, difficulty has always been about getting the player to face the ai with less tools or become perfect with timing etc it’s never really been about facing a smarter more creative ai.
Hence why there is no real fun to be had eventually as you either win every game or lose unfairly because you can’t do anything you expect to do, so feel cheated.