Rugby 25

[Sour Patch Kid]

Game released yesterday and already from what I have seen a massive, day 1 patch has been reported. Sounds just like AFL 23 when it came out

 

[Don't Skip Leg Day]

So for this today and tried doing some of the tutorials which mostly are impossible.

Either the controls they are showing you are wrong or the game is broke as they don't work.

 

[Don't Skip Leg Day]

I'd also add on ps4 it takes about 2m to load each match which is ****.

 

[Don't Skip Leg Day]

Loads of bugs, every game we've played so far has crashed. It's been released way too early I think.

Really hard to select a player on defence and really hard to see which player you have selected. I'd also add the game seems to play without any human interaction. It's odd.

 

[Bluemoon]

Wish I could say it was great to hear the feedback but it really sounds poor.

The nfl games get the coming together at the line of scrimmage down pretty well so it always bemused me why the ruck is so complicated. The passing motion and open play I understand a bit more.

 

[Sour Patch Kid]

Everything I've seen on Big Ant's forums about the game are terrible. It is being pretty well savaged by everyone who has played it.

 

[Don't Skip Leg Day]

Everything I've seen on Big Ant's forums about the game are terrible. It is being pretty well savaged by everyone who has played it.

I mean the game crashes all the time, some part or functions just don't work (you can't even get a kick away), the subs are all wrong, teams have their 2 kicking, the commentary says the opposite of what is happening on the pitch in areas, the breakdown is not fun, passing is really slow and poor…(the list goes on)

But the graphics are nice.

 

[Sour Patch Kid]

I mean the game crashes all the time, some part or functions just don't work (you can't even get a kick away), the subs are all wrong, teams have their 2 kicking, the commentary says the opposite of what is happening on the pitch in areas, the breakdown is not fun, passing is really slow and poor…(the list goes on)

But the graphics are nice.

That is one consistent thing I read. The graphics are great and the number of licenses is better than any game before buuuuuuut....... when it comes to game play a lot of people are saying that Rugby Challenge 4 is better.
Sad, I was hopeful but based on recent Big Ant projects, saw this coming.

 

[Don't Skip Leg Day]

That is one consistent thing I read. The graphics are great and the number of licenses is better than any game before buuuuuuut....... when it comes to game play a lot of people are saying that Rugby Challenge 4 is better.
Sad, I was hopeful but based on recent Big Ant projects, saw this coming.

The game is so far off a rugby union game it's shocking. You can tell it's made on a league foundation as it's a rugby league game in all but name.

From what people have said though the company should keep improving things but at the moment it's not fun at all and basically unplayable.

 

[nik]

The game is so far off a rugby union game it's shocking. You can tell it's made on a league foundation as it's a rugby league game in all but name.

From what people have said though the company should keep improving things but at the moment it's not fun at all and basically unplayable.

Rugby 25 is based on a 10 year old rugby league game. They would have been better off starting fresh instead of converting rugby league to rugby union. They used all the RLL4 animations as well (which is different to rugby union especially around contact, rugby league contact is far more upright nature, whilst rugby union the ball carrier often goes low to enable quick recycling) hence they cut corners. Remember when Rugby Challenge first came out they had the late great Jonah Lomu doing motion capture - rugby specific motion capture.

I am confident BA will continue working to improve the game, but there is a long way to go gameplay wise just to get to the standard of Rugby 22, RC4 etc.

 

[Sour Patch Kid]

I am a bigger fan of league than union but play both RC4 and RLL3 so I completely understand what you are getting at. Pretty sad with all this time that they did not get something so fundamentally basic as animations/movement patterns right. I don't know a lot about programming, but I would think that would be a pretty massive fix to the game.