I think the game feels exactly the same after the patch. Still absolutely no consistency in anything that happens.
The game just decides you will miss a lot of tackles sometimes (players rated in the high 90s for tackling missing more than they make).
Your support players will will not move up with your player.
Your support players will always be in front of you.
You'll run up 50 points on the league's best defense.
The team coming last will be the best team you play all season.
You'll put in a grubber near the line, but a prop will bend down, pick it up and race the length of the field for a try. Luke Bailey, I salute you. Left Jarryd Hayne and the rest of the team in his dust.
Simple knock on - length of the field try
Try to pass to the guy next to you, but game decides that's not going to happen, cuts him out and a length of the field try results for the cpu.
My opponent passes the ball directly to me, but I just knock it down and it's 6 again for them. Would definitely be an intercept for the cpu, they don't even have to get to the ball for their intercepts.
I will make 27 line breaks to 7, but miss 3 times as many tackles. Work that one out.
Attacking on the line, pass to play maker results in an intercept too often. I've started running backwards near the line now to give myself space.
Teammates don't chase long kicks properly, even when kick formation is chosen.
5 seasons in now and the cpu is still yet to miss a conversion.
I've won 4 Grand Finals in a row now, each by around 30 points. They've been some of my easiest games.
Cpu still has no idea how to score apart from intercepts, lose balls and kicks (my kicks).
Had a few tries awarded by the video ref where I've been clearly a metre short of the line.
Players still get picked up by defenders when diving for a try.
Cpu still has it's slow motion dive super move that can't be defended.
Made 500 less tackles than any team last season, but made 300 more 1v1 tackles than any other team.
Players rated 99 for speed get run down too easily. Not all the time, just randomly and nothing to do with fatigue.
No difference between good and bad teams, as individual ratings don't seem to matter much for the cpu.
Still no physics. Scripted tackles that often have no relation to the direction a player is running.
Player ratings are all over the place. Hayne and Sandow are pretty much rated the same for tackling!
Even when winning by 50, I still feel the urge to throw the controller through the screen.
Even though it frustrates the hell out of me, I continue to play it because it's Rugby League and I continue to write long boring lists of problems I have with it.
All of this is from playing on the hardest difficulty.
is the patch worth it?
