Hi everyone,
Is anyone able to recommend slider settings for Rucks ?
These have been adjusted with values from medium. Some higher values across the different areas of the field for rucks.
I usually find it hard to win the ball with Ai having a higher value but do this so they can maintain some possession. Has anyone got any better suggestions? Thanks
Honestly have no clues. Since the patch, the AI steals all the rucks and I can’t steal one. This wouldnt be a big problem if the AI had a realistic way of playing. But now the game is just them holding the ball for 5 minutes never managing to score. I consider increasing the offload to benefit from the bug when they launch floaty passes around. Or just stopping to play.
Rucks for me are ping/pong and you cannot build phases. Agree, AI cannot score unless they break first tackle 100% of the time. They have 0 strategy and never kick. Game plays the same every time and getting stale.
I finally understood and found corrrect settings.
You should only try to “steal” the ball when the attackers is alone on the ground. I you want to win a turn-over, add 5 players in the ruck before the ai. This works for me I’m able to get some balls. Even if the ai is still not playing rugby, this is a step forward. ^^
Please share your settings??? @Alphaspade
I’ll give that a go. I can win rucks, but it is still a lottery. When attacker is alone, I 100% of the time get penalised for hands in ruck when there is no ruck. They should be getting penalised for holding on.
What team are you playing with? With two fairly even teams like Argentina vs Australia on Hard difficulty, I am having no issues retaining the ball in rucks. Maybe slightly more turnovers in the ruck then real life, but definitely not pin pong rugby (same as Rugby Challenge 3 or 4 or Rugby 22). And I rarely do 4 or 5 in the ruck on both ends of the ruck. You have to make sure that you playing like real rugby, if you keep throwing the ball out wide and no support, or out sprinting your rucking support, then you will get turned in the ruck. Also I have noticed if you press to early on the jackal you will get called for hands in the ruck, this part still needs polishing but seems to be improved in the last update. We still need the tackle, stand and jakal feature, and the AI holding the ball, more. Another tip. If I feel like I am isolated on offense at the ruck will press the hold button on offense when I am tackled, to help retain the ball, but if you hold to long you will get called for it. Again, other then the missing features and polishing it needs, for me on hard difficulty rucks feels to playing a fairly good simulation type rugby. I did change some sliders, so maybe that is helping. I definitely extended the amount of time to play the ball in the ruck, before ref forces you to use it in the sliders.
I am playing all different teams and levels. I try play like a real game but even if I play forward game with support its all over the place. I haven’t had time to play with sliders again but maybe later in the week.. I am not spending too much time on game as I feel it is repetitive and getting very stale with old teams etc.
Those settings seem to be just the Hardest Default.
Hardest settings with :
Still not satisfying tho.
AI still making poor choices and not being dangerous enough.
I cannot seem to get the sliders right for rucks. I cannot win a ruck when AI has the ball but they turnover all the time when I have the ball. Makes game hard as they never kick and most games I end up with max 30% ball. Any suggestions would be welcome.
Edit: not “hard” more, lack of enjoyment. Even with 30% possession I can still win.
Have you tried adding 5 players in the ruck ? This is the better way to steal a ball at this time.
I have but still feel I cannot get the right balance in rucks. Either too easy to win or cannot get the ball at all.
Scrums are a mess now too. AI never penalised yet I get penalised all the time, even when I hit everything in the green.
What happened to rucks after the last update that introduced ruck sliders?
I can’t win a ruck even on easy with all sliders to my favor. But had no issue before last update.
Did you get any luck with this? I played again for the first time in ages, kept cancelling the game to change sliders for rucks as they would steal every time I had the ball and then I cannot get the ball back. I changed right down to 0 and still the same result. Game is unplayable and just plain frustrating.
Same still. We need a developer @JNT_BA etc to explain and do a hot fix or the game will be unplayable.
Too bad because I was having fun before the ruck update.
Sadly, they just read the posts and not update us. I have given up until any updates, if any will come. Thanks for your reply though.
Here are some slider settings which makes the flow of the game feel very nice. The only issue is, once you get used to it, you will be winning the AI easily. Sometimes the AI will have some decent scores, and I think I had one game where the AI was actually pretty good. But the way that the sidestep and evasive manoeuvres work, makes the game feel so much better, I which this was the default game option.
Let me know how you find it and if anyone could add or adjust to get the AI to be more of a Challenge.
Nice work mate, can’t wait to give them a try later!
