Suggestions/ideas for Rugby 2012

[joey]

One thing that would be good is the ability to have players run dummy lines on phase ball. In the previous game it became hard to run play off phase ball and the game got repetitious. Add in the abiity to call for a short "crash line" with a player running in behind him and things of that sort.

 

[sambãd5]

Also, if a player is playing out of position, they shouldn't have incredibly bad handling, this is frustrating when you injure your flyhalf, then your backup flyhalf... Also, you should be able to edit players positions like in Fifa games, how you can say where they stand in attack and on defence, if you want extra men in the lineout or bring a few out for more defence.

Customizable moves! That would be awesome.

Yeah nothings more annoying than needing a player to be in a positon that they can play, but not in the game. Whats the point of geting a player like toeava or necewa, when you cant use them in the entire backline? Just thank god that they dont count the flankers as open side and blindside, or else someone like soialo who can play lock, both sides of the scrum and no.8 can only play 3 of them!. What pes does is good, where if they cant play on the right side, (ie a side mid, who prefers the left side) but its able to hold his own there. there is shifting and changing in the loosies especially, because they are simmilar positions, but lauaki isnt a 7!

I would like to see some customisation of where players are thn. something like what madden does, where you can put a HB/FB in a WR position. that way we can have a big loosie (lauaki) in the black line for one play. what could happen is at a set play (scrum or lineout) you press R1 and it goes into a side screen where you pick a player to move for the phase. it is a very potent wepon if you have all the fowards tied up in the scrum or lineout and you get a massive bloke like lauaki crashing towards a center who isnt known for his tackling, or even at the 5/8. Even defencivly, we could even be luckly enough to see a drop back No.8 again! just like the ol' days.

 

[Hurricane Nate]

Some simple changes would do me fine,

-Like crooked throws being a free kick, not a penalty (rugby08)
-Stadiums that are full for the big games and not so much for unimportant/smaller fixtures
-Better skip passes not big lobs
-Improved handling for the forwards, they can catch and pass these days
-Improved grubbers
-Improved mauling and the ability to control it (direction)
-Improved AI, why is it that they never take gaps or overlaps and kick drop goals alot in 08?
-Improving the ruck or making it look atleast more realistic
-Making the tap kicks a bit more fair as in 08 by the time you tap it the oppostion are much closer than 10m
-Being able to edit the postions for players as in 08 some are wrong or back up postions are wrong
-Having the weather effect the game more like the wind and rain
-Being able to allocate a gameplan to your players (ie. positive/fast paced think southern hemishpere or France, Wales, AB's or negative think northern hemisphere where the slow the ball and therefore the game like England and South Africa to a degree)
-Definately a tournament mode that is customisable
-Referees and touch judges that are visible
-the ablility to hold someone up in the try line
-A Video referee and slow motion replays to see if the ball was grounded
and most importantly online play so us southern hemishphere (superior) humans can waste the northern hemisphere (inferior) humans in a game of good ol' rugby just like in real life haha.

 

[TRF C A Iversen]

Some simple changes would do me fine,

-Like crooked throws being a free kick, not a penalty (rugby08)
-Stadiums that are full for the big games and not so much for unimportant/smaller fixtures
-Better skip passes not big lobs
-Improved handling for the forwards, they can catch and pass these days
-Improved grubbers
-Improved mauling and the ability to control it (direction)
-Improved AI, why is it that they never take gaps or overlaps and kick drop goals alot in 08?
-Improving the ruck or making it look atleast more realistic
-Making the tap kicks a bit more fair as in 08 by the time you tap it the oppostion are much closer than 10m
-Being able to edit the postions for players as in 08 some are wrong or back up postions are wrong
-Having the weather effect the game more like the wind and rain
-Being able to allocate a gameplan to your players (ie. positive/fast paced think southern hemishpere or France, Wales, AB's or negative think northern hemisphere where the slow the ball and therefore the game like England and South Africa to a degree)
-Definately a tournament mode that is customisable
-Referees and touch judges that are visible
-the ablility to hold someone up in the try line
-A Video referee and slow motion replays to see if the ball was grounded
and most importantly online play so us southern hemishphere (superior) humans can waste the northern hemisphere (inferior) humans in a game of good ol' rugby just like in real life haha.

You'll be killed by the Northern Hemisphere players for stating the truth in such fashion. (Just kidding northerners)

 

[best_fullback]

You'll be killed by the Northern Hemisphere players for stating the truth in such fashion. (Just kidding northerners)

Haha we'll just have to hold you both to that!

 

[Joni89]

Video Referee and Slow Motion Replays would be great!

I think the Referees must be visible.

The Assistant Referees could stick their flag out if there was an infringement missed by the ref and bring back play!

The Sin Bins and Red Cards must be more realistic i.e. given when in the opponents 22.

 

[alexcosty88]

hellou... please for rugby 2012 created NEW tournament -
TRI NATIONS
SIX NATIONS
TEN NATIONS
BRITISH & IRISH LIONS TOUR
...........................
MY TOURNAMENT (were select team,national team, club team)
Tournament

1 Irland
2 Wallabies
3 All Blacks
4 Los Pumas

Tournament

1 Crusaders
2 Munster
3 Stade Francais
4 Leiceter
5 Bulls
6 Brumbies

Tournament

EXAMPLE:
New Zealand tour
NZ-France
NZ-Biarritz
NZ-Leicester
NZ-Ospreyes......4,6,8,10,12......team

Club team tour
EXAMPLE:
Bath tour
Bath-Chiefs
Bath-Reds
Bath-Springboks
Bath-Wallabies....
In time tornament please created options TRAININGS. Difficulty club, pro,elite and veryyyyy difficult, strong elite. AND ONLINE PLEASE,and PC please.


Very nice day,

 

[TRF C A Iversen]

hellou... please for rugby 2012 created NEW tournament -
TRI NATIONS
SIX NATIONS
TEN NATIONS
BRITISH & IRISH LIONS TOUR
...........................
MY TOURNAMENT (were select team,national team, club team)
Tournament

1 Irland
2 Wallabies
3 All Blacks
4 Los Pumas

Tournament

1 Crusaders
2 Munster
3 Stade Francais
4 Leiceter
5 Bulls
6 Brumbies

Tournament

EXAMPLE:
New Zealand tour
NZ-France
NZ-Biarritz
NZ-Leicester
NZ-Ospreyes......4,6,8,10,12......team

Club team tour
EXAMPLE:
Bath tour
Bath-Chiefs
Bath-Reds
Bath-Springboks
Bath-Wallabies....
In time tornament please created options TRAININGS. Difficulty club, pro,elite and veryyyyy difficult, strong elite. AND ONLINE PLEASE


Very nice day,

Let's hope there are custom tournaments and tours. Custom Tours? Never thought of that. We don't get as many good tours nowadays, I'd be pretty excited for that!!!

 

[christin]

• Depth in competitions is a must. This means Rugby World Cups, Six Nations, Tri (Four) Nations, Lions tours, Super 15, Currie Cup, ANZ Cup, Guinness Premiership, Anglo-Welsh Cup, Magners League, Heineken Cup and Challenge Cup. GET THESE LEAGUES LICENSED! A Game mode which allows a player to control a club through many seasons, in all these competitions, making signings and developing players is very important. (as in Fifa 10 - Manager Mode)
• A data-editor so that you can edit stats, appearances, club, positions etc.
• Online play
• Regular updates/patches so teams stay up to date.

In terms of gameplay:

• Scrums must be dealt with better. The side that dominates should be able to win penalties/free kicks if they scrum better.
  - players performance in the scrum should be based on the point that they engage, the angle that they engage and the players they have on their team, compared with who they are scrumming against. If a side bores in or engages too early penalties/free kicks should be given too.
• Stealing ball should be harder, there are too many turnovers. More opportunities in the ruck, for example 'Killing the ball' and 'hands in the ruck' are the only offenses in Rugby 08, but side-entering, off your feet and holding on are not penalised.
• The suggestions on set-pieces, lineouts and running (e.g. hand offs/sidesteps) should be implemented too.

I agree 100% we need more competitions and all the above mentioned would be great to have in one game!

 

[marb10]

Thoughts + Suggestions for Rugby 2012

Introduce gang tackling i.e. more than one tackler

Allow different types of tackles - Running into a player with the ball should automatically trigger a tackle (This should be the standard tackle)
Perhaps a button to go high with the risk of getting a hand in the face or giving away a penalty, and a button to tackle low with the risk of getting knocked over or slipping off the tackled player.


Perhaps include a BIG HIT button or use the analog stick to initiate a bigger tackle. However the risk of missing the tackle is increase whilst using this feature. The success rate should be determined by the players tackling skill and also the speed and direction they are travelling at, also the speed/tackle breaking ability of the ball carrier.

It's been said, but a Be A Pro mode would be amazing in a rugby game

Lastly, the ability to design set pieces - Design line out moves and also back line moves, dummy runners etc

 

[Jordan12]

Manager Mode Rather than world leager that way you have th option to go with a weaker team and build up or you can go straight to the top if you choose to!
No knock-ons when you grubber kick and get tackled haha that gets me everytime!
thats all i have right now!

 

[Bokbe4k]

Just one suggestion :NO LUKE WATSON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[rorochalak]

Hi, (sorry for my English...I'm french)

Ability to play quickly penalties

Then I think the biggest problem on rugby 2008 was the ruck phase where it was a lotery and if HB happens to improve this phase of the game, it will be awesome.

Do you agree with me ?

 

[TRF C A Iversen]

Hi, (sorry for my English...I'm french)

Ability to play quickly penalties

Then I think the biggest problem on rugby 2008 was the ruck phase where it was a lotery and if HB happens to improve this phase of the game, it will be awesome.

Do you agree with me ?

The ruck and maul mechanics are quite simply THE number one requested improvement.

 

[rorochalak]

Ok, I'm agree, I hope they will succeed to improve ruck and maul mechanics but i think it will be diifcult

 

[Hurricane Nate]

Would be good to see fatigue be a bit more realistic too, like the players getting tired faster in the heat of Aussie or South Africa, the alititude of pretoria tiring visiting teams more so than the home team (Bulls/South Africa). Also defending
alot should really start to fatigue your players as in real life whilst being on the attack should start to lift your team a bit.

 

[suurwurm]

the option to be able to intercept passes(by pressing a button or something)

 

[ninebarmaximus]

The game needs to be more difficult as the old games where pretty easy.

I think it is important to point out, that even though we would all like a difficulty setting that is actually difficult, we would like it to be difficult for the right reasons, tighter defenses, more intelligent attacking etc.

The increased difficulty should and must be down to the opponents playing more intelligently rather than making the users players rubbish, or the opponents team supermen.

Prime example of this was the mid-field hole in 06
9 -> 10 -> 12 -> 13 ----> hole, when full back approaching pass to 11/14 try

If the AI was able to discover any pattern to the users play, it should at least attempt to compensate by filling the hole that the user is constantly using

 

[ninebarmaximus]

I think players definitely need to have more urgency about them. I don't like seeing players who are near to rucks just standing there waiting for the re-programmed forwards to amble in

Very good point, in RL if a player goes into contact the nearest players go in to try and clear it out, wingers scrumhalves whoever is at hand... it does seem a bit daft that you could have 4 backs looking on as a player is being molested at the breakdown because the slow forwards are still jogging up the field.

Its also needs to be pointed out, that in RL, when the forwards go into the ruck, the players who feel they are no longer needed in the ruck tend to get up and join the defensive line if they are physically able to do so

 

[pieda]

Hi there all

I am so glad i have finaly found something on a new rugby game

I have read through allot of the suggestions and most of them sound good

I would like to add one more thing if possible,which i think will improve the game a great deal and more people will buy it

How about making new tournaments for the the big rugby nations

for eg I am south african, and think it will add a extra dimension to the game if you could add the Currie cup to the game, so you can fight it out with your friends for the local cup BULLS VS WESTERN PROVINCE ETC

And maybe add the heineken cup for the english,air new zealand cup for the kiwis etc


This is just a idea that i think will be great hope you guys agree

please rerspond


Does anyone know if Hb is bringing out a new cricket game for the world cup as the ashes 2009 is boring