Rugby League 26 Wishlist
General Wishlist for Menus / Settings:
- Should be easy to edit player and edit team. Similar to nba 2k. Why do I have to either edit a team or edit a player. Should just be able to both at once or assign the player to a new team.
- Edit length of time remaining on their contract. Should be able to change. This is important when starting a new manager career otherwise free agency available players are the same every time.
- Multiple hairstyles per one person. Tevanga Munster Saab etc.
- Soundtrack in menus , need more songs. Continue to add throughout updates.
- Auto update rosters , important for feeder clubs bringing new players to main club. Need to auto remove and auto fill into team.
- potential half year face scan updates.
- No same player with same name should be able to be in two teams. We should not have 5 clearys in a 2025 game.
- Commentary basic, needs overhaul. Can and probably will turn off after a while.
Wishlist for Manager mode:
- Coaches should matter to a team. Hiring staff like Bellamy should improve player stats. Hiring someone like Cleary should improve feeder recruit potential, and Bennett to improve recruiting players from other teams.
- Create a potential rating to keep every players from being in the 90s, too popular or common.
- Players who retire could become coaches.
- More injuries during season mode
- Contract extensions should be easier. Many players nowadays will extend , especially if team is doing well.
- Trades need to be optional. Maybe base it off team needs. So if you want a winger and storm needs a lock, should look into that trade.
- Disgruntled players - morale. Players need to want to leave or choose to love it. Especially if you sign another player in his position, or not getting game time or start.
- Badges would be great to seperate the players. Examples could be : High ball catcher, spiral bomb kicker, 40/20 expert, field goal expert, offloader, tackle buster, long ball passer, sidestepper etc
- Super league ratings need to be adjusted in comparison to the nrl. No one there should be over a 75 to be honest.
- The ability to drop or trade some people off roster because of poor performance.
- Send a scout to watch cup grades and get analysis report on younger prospects to sign for cheap and for potential.
- Get reserve grade face scanned.
- Signing family members should matter to players sticking around. Cousins and brothers are commonly in same teams. Trbo brothers, Burgess Fainu May etc.
Gameplay Wishlist
- Goal kicking should be harder
- Chip and chase should be harder
- Spiral bomb needs to be implemented and the opposition need to time the catch otherwise itās a knock on (similar to bomb on try line) Burton and Fogarty should be extremely difficult to catch.
- Sunshine on players should matter when catching the ball. Meter should be there and button should be pushed every catch. With the sun it should be slightly harder or quicker to time it right. Makes for tactical thinking on a kick.
- Commentary sucks. Vossy.
- Stronger or heavier players need to hurt the small halves or wingers. Strength should matter especially one on one tackling. Alternatively, speed should matter. No way should a prop contest someoneās step or Hammers speed if line break is made.
- Tackles need to matter. 1-1 is way too easy. Haas should need at least 3 people and players should be able to signal more or less people to go in or out of the tackle. This would affect the stamina system how you play.
- Home games need to matter more. I donāt notice any difference. Should improve stats.
- Origin needs to be more physical. No difference at all in origin.
- Weather needs to matter more. Wet weather needs more drop balls or knock ons.
- Signature animations like try celebrations like AFB , Trell MIT or Hammer would be dope.
- When running plays from hooker, you should have buttons to push above every player to be able to pass to quickly. As you pass to that player it should continue with the available players so that it is fluid and unpredictable. This would also take away the need to hold L1
- Need to fix the issue where CPU have to get ready before you can play the ball. Stamina and off sides should matter and is a huge part of the game today. They seem to be able to run you down but we canāt go without CPU getting ready and itās crap. Itās also crap cause that makes holes in defence.
- Post contact needs to be worked on.
- Scoring a try thatās contested could have a meter Green try , yellow knock on, red is high risk of shoulder injury.
- Short ball passing needs to be faster.
- Signature kick animation before the goal kick.
- Dive tackle needs nerfing
- Stamina needs fixing with wingers and backline. Tired after 4 runs and stay tired. These guys play 80 mins they have stamina in real life.
- Would be cool to choose origin players. So select the 17 from the 22 squad. And kinda have morale affected from that.
- Sin bins and send offs for high tackles need to happen more.
- CPU gets away with too much knock ons, forward passes. Adjust sliders or have sliders to adjust for offline player.
- Animations when scoring tries are weird, when they jump on the players at the hips.
- Fullback one on one tackles need to be less successful as they are almost non existent nowadays.
- Fix the wind.
- Coin toss on who starts.
- Running plays need to be smoother and more realistic. Hooker half FB play is so clunky and forward passes.
- Wide balls need to be fixed. So does draw and pass
- Should display stats when someone scores a try, should see a stat saying TRIES TONIGHT & TRIES THIS SEASON. Also Goal kicker should have kicking stats displayed of same nature.
- Be able to send players to drag opponents either out of play or into try area for drop out.
Pro team Wishlist:
- Starter pack from the your fave team at beginning. 5 players at random eg Tigers.
- Donāt make it so much pay to play. Earning players would keep consumers playing Pro Team more.
- Have players from different years. Like Roger 2021 or Prime Inglis. Etc.
- Position lock to limit everyone having the same powerful teams. 3 positions max per player.
- Option to Play with friends online matchup.
- Uniform should be customisable
- Commentary should have range for pro team if players from previous teams linking up eg Latrell and Teddy or Brandon Smith and Hughes.
- Pack odds to be fair.
- Players from past to come too eg Shaun Johnson Greg Inglis
- Team of the Week cards / Player of the Month
- Offline challenges and game modes.
I donāt play Player Career to know what it needs.
