Rugby League Live 2

[The Eagle]

Despite the rubbish its getting, I'm really starting to get into it. The games are a real arm wrestle.

This is why I love it, what difficulty you playing?

 

[Walt Flanigan]

Still only the second lowest lol. Winning most games now though.

 

[Dragon]

Yeah my xbox is rooted too paully, was kinda hoping this would be a good excuse to get a new one but think ill pass. If it comes out on PC ill give it a go. Just saw this on the sidhe forums and...

bulldogs

barba 84
hodkinson 81
keating 84
inu 85
morris 84
ennis 83
paerret 82
turner 82
lafai 85 (yes cause his the equal best back at the dogs)
goodwin 82
pritchard 91
lett 75
halatau 76
stagg 85
tolman 79
eastwood 76
payne 83
kasiano 82
reynolds 63
romelo 66 (^^^^ lol)
graham 73 (and the special ability to bite ears) sorry i had to
cutler 65
dury low
69
gavet 70
macdougall 68
foster 66
wright 67
pumipi 56
brett lane 66
alaalatoa 68
taupau 71
tagive 62
mcglinchy 61
jackson 62
i 68
brown 68
isies 53
finucane 61
jake finn 60
portlock 59

wut

 

[Tonearm Terrorwrist]

Lol nice ratings, and people said having edited rosters in career mode was no big deal

 

[The Eagle]

Still only the second lowest lol. Winning most games now though.

Get ready to push it up I need competition lol

 

[Munky]

I had an absolute blast playing this online tonight. The first couple of games I played I lost or had the person quit on me if I took more than a one try lead. Later on though I played quite a few full games. In one I made a break with Jennings and as I dived to score the cover defence came accross and forced a knock on.

If you pick your runners well from dummy half by checking their lines and picking a forward it really does play like a game of league especially coming out of your own half.

The guys I was playing against were obsessed with playing hot potato and just gave me field good position as they would always spill the ball.

Cutouts are a real risk if you try to go more than one man. One man cut outs work 90% of the time. The others are good for dummy half passes.

How do you leap for the ball? My bombs are really innacurate however they are my current method for pinning the opponent in their twenty. It seems some people don't know there is a button to have the player leave the ball so they won't take it into touch.

 

[Big Pete]

Is there still a generic competition mode that allows you to use custom sides?

 

[WarriorsFan4Life]

Yes Pete.

 

[Patorick]

16 custom teams.

Really?

 

[WarriorsFan4Life]

I can't sleep, I'm so excited, it's like Christmas Eve as a little kid lol!.

Finally the day has arrived.

 

[Big Pete]

I'll be fine then.

Can you edit the stats. of current players? Is there a limit?

Would be good if everyone involved in the league could agree to a universal set of new ratings.

 

[Big Pete]

Holy crap.

Just saw you can only customise 16 teams.

Well that nearly kills the game for me. My copy of Rugby League 3 will be more up to date next season than this game.

 

[The Eagle]

Smashed Parra 24-6, should've been 30 but kicking badly

 

[Springs]

Holy crap.

Just saw you can only customise 16 teams.

Well that nearly kills the game for me. My copy of Rugby League 3 will be more up to date next season than this game.

Oh for f**k's sake. And I thought only being able to have 16 in a comp was bad. Now I've also noticed that there's no real way to create your own comp, just replace teams in other comps, and you have to have the same amount of teams as the original.

So of course, there's no way to have a meaningful international competition without making a 16 team random world cup.

So the 6 teams I just spent hours creating I will have to delete if I want to update the NRL rosters. f**king hell.

I just keep seeing all these things that could not have been too hard to add (as previous games had them) that have been left out.

That is Rugby League 1 stuff. Career mode better be good.

 

[Special K]

The create a team/comp stuff was why I played RL1 even with its problems. Very lame considering this game has things like old jerseys etc which really lends its self to creating a new/old comp!

edit - The Australian team for the mid season test was

1. N.Gardner 2. Uate 3. Best 4. Tonga 5. John Williams!!! 6. Carney 7. Walsh 8. Gibbs 9. Smith 10. Ryles 11. Ben Barba 12. A.Tupou(who has not played a game all season) 13. Bird 14. J.Croker 15. M.Gordon 16. A.Payne 17. B.Morris

I then went to the "squad" they gave me to update the team but it was all wingers. Ben Barba backrow FTW!

 

[user_nat]

So JB has finally got around to dispatching, don't like the odds of it arriving this week.

 

[MattYg1]

day 2 i guess and really enjoying it... got my ass handed to me in a 40 minute All Star match last night but it it was a tight back and fourth contest until about the 50th minute in the second half and they just went on a tear…. Which is exactly the kind of thing that can happen in an All Star game…
There was one period in the game where I needed points bad so I started trying to pull off big hits… not good… I did a few times and Voss and Gould and the crowd were going nuts but then I think it was Thurston exploited it big time and they scored…

The one thing I am hoping is that with more playtime that I can eventually pull off the same things that the AI seem to be able to pull off... The major flaw I find (yes i have been finding the ground with my kicks more regularly...) is that the CPU AI on the opposition and on user team seems really unbalanced.

They rush up in defence where as my team kind of hang back and hold, also i am seeing the computer pull off set moves that i cannot seem to see my players running it at all...

It concerned me because i realised when watching the Gameplay video Big Ant released the tactics bar was on the screen during the Melbourne try where it went back on the inside to Quinn and i am starting to think that was AI that pulled that off while the actual user was on defence...

Anybody else noticed this unbalance or do i require more playtime?

 

[Qld-Sharkie]

Also player growth is farked as well, apparently it takes a whole season for one stat to go up making it impossible to develop young players into decent ones.

This is what happens when you get Victorians to make a league game.

From Admin at Big Ant...

There are various things that affect player growth in Career Mode.
Setting your staff rating higher (pre-season) will get you better results in training so ideally you should focus your training based on your current staff levels.
eg. Set training to attacking if you have a high Offensive Staff Rating.
Also all players have different growth rates. The younger players will grow faster, yet the experienced older players will have peaked so their growth rate will be much slower. Check the individual attributes to see where the growth is increasing. Hope this helps.

 

[WarriorsFan4Life]

I think you need more time matty, apparently the game shines on the higher difficulties.

I've only just started playing and I'm really enjoying it, I haven't won a game yet on amateur and still managed to get 4 trophies lol...getting close though just got to cut out silly errors I am making but that will come in time as I learn the controls more and learn to play smarter. Once I'm beating this level easily I'll move up.

I started on end to end view and I was getting hammered so I just had a go of sidecam and wow, it plays so much better and looks so much more realistic and fast, love it!. For whatever reason players even seem more responsive on sidecam and play flows better its weird but really cool. I guess its more being able to see the space properly between the sides so helps give you better idea of what you can and can't do. I'd recomend sidecam very highly if you want to play better.

 

[redvscotty]

I am a boss at conversions. Hit 9 from 11 from all over the place in my 62 - 6 flogging of QLD at the hands of a mighty NSW team.