Rugby League 26 - Prelaunch - Megathread

Day of release, same as PSN and Xbox.

I was thinking it would be good if BigAnt could allocate a button that you hold down to bring the closest 3 defenders into the tackle. It would give you the chance of driving back the attackers at the expense of leaving gaps in the defense.

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I’m really hoping for a lot better player movement response (spin on a dime and change direction a lot quicker instead of a big circle arc needed!) - this change alone I feel would improve gameplay alone before even looking at defensive and attacking lines etc . Also feel like the sidestep and offloading has always needed a bit of tweaking - from RLL4 at least anyway!

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Trailer confirmed tonight.

Where did you see this? Source?

It’s on the big screen at Accor.

Just saw it on twitter. Looks like a better version of RLL4 which is what I was expecting haha. Sidesteps still look funny

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I saw just a bit. Looks sharp. But need to see gameplay.

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yeah I only saw an off screen recording but the graphics looked good. The hits felt proper impactful and I saw that swan dive. So hyped. Hoping it gets released digitally tonight

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Let’s go Blues!

So, now that a trailer has been revealed at Origin III, can we get it released online somewhere?

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Well that was a bust, for the game and ā€œtheā€ game. :frowning:

They are just being annoying now. Just release the damn trailer.

This is the best version I’ve seen so far

Link was here but I can’t post links here. Check TheRoast Instagram.

It’s the same animations from the last game, the diving try, stepping everything lol hopefully the gameplay is smooth i would hate it if the game is just a replica it’s 2025

Peruse the menus. Play a quick game between 2 random teams. Check if there is a Wolfhounds team (Ireland national team) and if not make one of my own with Irish heritage players from Superleague and NRL teams (mainly SL).

I know that’s 3 things…but I do this with every sports game that I buy

I understand there not being a online ā€œpre-orderā€ as usually most platforms don’t put a game up for preorder unless there is a ā€œspecial editionā€ or something along those lines but I really hope they have a pre download option a few days before so it’s ready to play minute of launch. There latest cricket game was quite a large download and if that game is anything to go off in terms of how Rugby league 26 will play, I’m excited!

I think the number of views on this forum compared to their other titles and how long those games have been around or first leaked shows how much support a Rugby League video game & the team at Big Ant has - already upto 10.5/11k views even a week out prior to release - not sure what other games stats were though :slight_smile:

I think with all our constructive feedback post release for any bugs or niggling gameplay issues that we may find for them to work hard on rectifying, we can really make this the greatest game iteration yet RL fam!

1 week to go - Bring it ON!!!

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I’m not mad it’s a polished RLL4. The Animations look so good though. Models look amazing, the wide angles of the girls moving when we get the walshy swan dive try were amazing. The Raiders driving tackle was ah-mazing imo.

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I think it’s not their choice but NRL who has to release the trailer (from what I have seen from tweets)

Yeah it’s all on the NRL for marketing it seems