Rugby League Live 2

[MattYg1]

Some good tips here....and this is where RLL2 ends up being a jekyll & hyde type of game.

One moment your bashing your way up field fighting for an extra meter or two before booting the ball down field & making the opposition fight their way out of their own territory....just like a real game.

The next moment I pass to Nathan Gardner who takes the first hit up & weighs what....56kg wet & watch him palm & bust his way through 3 forwards. Second hit-up is Paul Gallen who doesnt bust a single tackle the whole game?!?!? WTF?? It should be like tackling a forklift...yet the speedy guys like fullbacks, wingers bust so many tackles & palm off like champs, yet my forwards do nothing....

Passing I have found to be iffy. I can press the quick pass button & nothing happens, no reason why. Other times I will press when I shouldnt because there isnt a player close by & the ball flops onto the ground. I may be doing something wrong here but no consistency...its not a matter of quick press or holding the button, its also not a delay...the player just wont pass.

Tackling is a little funny too....Btw Iam playing Professional. I tried rookie & won 38-6, professional Iam losing close games or getting a horrible hiding. A massive gap between these two levels. In rookie the opposition had 50 missed tackles to my 5!!!! In professional they average out to be the same for both teams.
Often I have ambled up to a player in possession & bounced off him, no he didnt break the tackle, there is no animations, I just bounce off him without making an attempt to tackle.

The career mode looks like Sidhe version, just polished....

The advanced stats & man of the match are a joke. Basically as far as I can tell its most meters gained. Seeing as your fullback & wingers are beasts...they get all the awards. Really advanced stats = one stat?!? Couldnt they have included a few other things??
So far my game stats have reflected the following....

N Gardner.....20 hit ups.....250 meters
Down the bottom
B Gibbs.......2 hit ups......2 meters.

Man of the match N Gardner

I have enjoyed the game & I think it will be better when I get a hang of it. But the bugs in this game shouldnt be in it...if real supporters had designed & tested it.

Overall ..... 7 out of 10.

I think you'll find that right and left trigger/bumper (cant remember which one) reveals the rest of the advanced stats... there are A LOT of advanced stats in there...

The gap between rookie and professional seems concerning (I have only just started wrapping my head around Rookie after dominating Amateur)

 

[natheel]

How are you finding the kicking bud?

My only concern so far is that i have a great set of 6 where i dominate the ruck and make great yards up the middle and all i want to do is plug a kick into the corner and hold the opposition down there but the fullbacks and wingers seem to get to the kick on the full 99% of the time... very annoying or am i doing something wrong?

Goal kicking I've got the hang of

In field kicking not so much I've found some space on occasion but usually they're able to rush me and I have to get a chip in instead. Finding space you need more time or have a vision of where the players are. If they're deep do a short kick to the sideline trap the winger an push him out. It's a good tactic and a frustrating one if its happening to you.

 

[natheel]

I found 10 mins on ameteur is enough to flog teams. But rookie needs 20 mins to really start wearing a teams defence an pile on some points

 

[Qld-Sharkie]

I think you'll find that right and left trigger/bumper (cant remember which one) reveals the rest of the advanced stats... there are A LOT of advanced stats in there...

The gap between rookie and professional seems concerning (I have only just started wrapping my head around Rookie after dominating Amateur)

Ahhhhh...thanks matty, I apologize to Bigant then. Iam a pc gamer, this & Red dead are my first console games...Iam a noob!!!

 

[MattYg1]

Goal kicking I've got the hang of

In field kicking not so much I've found some space on occasion but usually they're able to rush me and I have to get a chip in instead. Finding space you need more time or have a vision of where the players are. If they're deep do a short kick to the sideline trap the winger an push him out. It's a good tactic and a frustrating one if its happening to you.

The only way i have found space is by changing the direction of my kick at the very last minute but even then the fullback on some occassions seems to get to it easily...

 

[MattYg1]

Ahhhhh...thanks matty, I apologize to Bigant then. Iam a pc gamer, this & Red dead are my first console games...Iam a noob!!!

haha you didnt send BigAnt a big email or anything did you lol...

 

[Qld-Sharkie]

How are you finding the kicking bud?

My only concern so far is that i have a great set of 6 where i dominate the ruck and make great yards up the middle and all i want to do is plug a kick into the corner and hold the opposition down there but the fullbacks and wingers seem to get to the kick on the full 99% of the time... very annoying or am i doing something wrong?

I have found the ground once...a monster kick over the fullbacks head. Why?? No idea...maybe the wind was behind me.
Playing Canberra I had a 40/20 against me..

Or kick on the fourth...wingers dont drop back till 5th..

 

[Qld-Sharkie]

haha you didnt send BigAnt a big email or anything did you lol...

hahaha....nope. But I did sent them an autographed pic of my hairy, white a$$ puckering at the camera. Is that worse??

 

[MattYg1]

hahaha....nope. But I did sent them an autographed pic of my hairy, white a$$ puckering at the camera. Is that worse??

No i think Big Ant refer to those as gifts...

 

[LSD]

Has anyone has issues with the sound and game kind of skipping or jumping. I seem to have this problem when scoring a try and Vossy sounds like a scratched record. It jumps about 5 times before continuing. Happens everytime I score?

 

[pennywisealfie]

Jharal Yow Yeh is amazing in the game

 

[Patorick]

So, has this been released everywhere?

Or just selected spots?

 

[Aaron_sfas]

Bit of a learning curve... but I can see how it will become a very challenging game by the time I get to Legend level.

Playing as Souths it seems the outside backs are all absolute beasts. Then with the forwards it's a matter of pass it to Taylor.

I'm a bit annoyed that you can't modify teams without them become "custom"... For one it makes it impossible to use created players in career mode, but also stops you from being able to add NYC players to NRL squads...

As for kicking into space, I haven't had any issues finding space. Although every time I put in a grubber kick the wingers come across and take the ball at full pace and run most of the field.

 

[[furrycat]]

f**k people are dumb.

"OH MITCHELL PEARCE GOT SELECTED IN AN AUS GAME THIS GAME IS SO STUPID THAT WOULD NEVER HAPPEN"

... Its a simulation. If he's playing good in the game, he'll get selected :roll:

 

[redvscotty]

I'm going to go check out JB Hifi on the way home tonight.

 

[skeepe]

I'm interested to know how the rookies progress after a couple of seasons. I remember in RL2, it seemed like every season a new batch of 5 or 6 Civoniceva brothers would enter the NRL and start dominating the rep teams despite not playing for their clubs.

 

[Wato]

EB have released it everywhere I think. It says its available on there facebook and website anyway.

 

[Springs]

Well I don't mind speedy wingers breaking a lot of tackles. Players like Sam Perrett break more tackles than any other players it seems.

 

[Qld-Sharkie]

How sad.... 2 minutes to go, 24 all Sharks vs Raiders, Jeremy Smith intercepts 20 meters out from the Raiders line, head back, arms pumping......he dives over the line & in the process drops the ball.........no one was touching him.....

NNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

But on a stranger note, one of my players dropped the ball over the line in a tackle..the ball went backwards, another player standing close put his hand on the ball, it went to the video ref & it was a no try....just like real life!!!!!!!!!!
Where is the section to abuse Harrigan & his pet chimp George??

 

[Parra Pride]

f**k people are dumb.

"OH MITCHELL PEARCE GOT SELECTED IN AN AUS GAME THIS GAME IS SO STUPID THAT WOULD NEVER HAPPEN"

... Its a simulation. If he's playing good in the game, he'll get selected :roll:

What about Nathan Merritt getting selected... In the front row...