Multiplat AFL 23: Launch Thread (Xbox release date TBC)

[Dannnnnnnnnn]

STATE OF PLAY:

• The game is out for Steam and PlayStation. There have been issues with Xbox release and it is unclear when the game will be available.
• Big Ant are aware that there are playability issues & bugs at present.
• Content has been temporarily removed from the game to identify where the issues lie.
• This content will be re-introduced via patches in the coming days.
• Big Ant have released a summary of what is to be reintroduced, which can be seen below.

Spoiler: Features to be added

Spoiler: MOST RECENT PATCH NOTES

Issues & constructive criticism are best communicated to: support.bigant.com

Michaels Twitch video with QA from Ross(BigAntStudios) from 31:40

 

[Pickitt]

AI Players don't sprint after loose balls for some reason
ANB-AI Viney-Me​

 

[KingNothing]

I have explained this like 5 times already, but here we go again.

firstly none of us are affiliated with BigAnt, so drop that viewpoint as it way off the mark and ignorant. I did next to zero editing on anything I posted. You saw it raw as It was played.


Can I just say up front, despite what some of you may think I'm equally as shitty at how this launch went, maybe even more so than all of you because I put myself on the line at midnight with a live stream of the game and got absolutley bombarded with a range of things from 500+ people on a game that no one was expecting. So if you think I'm all cheery with how that launch went you are heavily mistaken.


The game we have now at launch was NOT what we played at their office. What came out at launch is behind that.

All of the things everyone is screaming for stats, state leagues, better online, better AI, all the face scans etc etc, everything, was in the version of the game to go live.

played, tested etc.

Code doesn't always play nice though and something bugged and stripped all the things they added and the end result was the game we saw at launch.

Is it acceptable? no
Is it frustrating? absolutely
do people have a right to be annoyed? for sure.

But if anyone honestly thinks that BigAnt and the AFL would knowingly put out the game we saw at launch intentionally you have rocks in your head as it is so glaringly buggy and stripped back it's not funny.

All the things people are screaming for, that I mentioned above, are being re added as quick as possible and within 2 weeks the game we see now will be a distant memory.


I fully understand that 3/4 of you will laugh and wont believe the above, and thats ok.

I'm extremely comfortable with my stance on the above with what I know and it being fixed which will play out in the near future IMO.


I wont be posting on the subject matter in here anymore as I've given context on this more than once.

This here is what makes Big Ant a bunch of campaigners though.

Why do we have to rely on people that aren't affiliated with Big Ant to relay second/third/fouth/fifth/sixth/twelfth hand news?

How hard is it to tell us what happened? Or is their PR department the same as their QA department; non-existent?

 

[BigAntStudios]

 

[Quivorir]

I'm blocked. Can someone post the image pls?

 

[ShaunWDT]

This here is what makes Big Ant a bunch of campaigners though.

Why do we have to rely on people that aren't affiliated with Big Ant to relay second/third/fouth/fifth/sixth/twelfth hand news?

How hard is it to tell us what happened? Or is their PR department the same as their QA department; non-existent?

This is why people are questioning the legitimacy, feels like content creators are Big Ants PA's with this launch.

 

[Treehill23]

Just can't do that if a camera is clipping through obstructions, we would have to remove the grandstand/item clipping or shadow it out (obscuring gameplay), neither of those are good outcomes.

Happy to hear an alternative strategy.

Tbh, as much as people don’t agree with this (I don’t really care tbh, just want the flipping game fixed)
It’s good to see that Ross can actually take on constructive cristicism every now and then. Even if it has taken 12 months to do so
Nevertheless, you wouldn’t have had to block half of Bigfooty if these were the replies we were getting from the get go Rossco

 

[BigAntStudios]

AI Players don't sprint after loose balls for some reason​

ANB-AI Viney-Me​

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We're aware of this and it will be fixed very soon.

 

[droninglocust]

The post we've been waiting for all day lol

 

[Pickitt]

Will this all be in tonights patch or more just a list of things to come

 

[stkilda7894]

That's not a roadmap. That's a feature list that should've been published weeks ago.

I could've written that in 5 minutes and saved you the hassle.

Where's the timelines? Simply unacceptable

 

[PoTayToh]

I'm blocked. Can someone post the image pls?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FvWTrFCaYAYSsao?format=png&name=large

 

[Etto]

So what is coming tonight?

 

[Dr Jan Itor]

Looking forward to the updates! Still confident the finished product will be awesome despite the slow start

 

[Cheifkeith95]

Can you seriously not ****ing play this game with a mate on the same PlayStation

 

[droninglocust]

That's not a roadmap. That's a feature list that should've been published weeks ago

Not even a feature list, just a list of things in the game that should be standard.

 

[Mkcaptain]

Will this all be in tonights patch or more just a list of things to come

Those are the things they will have in the game in the 'next week'. So presumably by COB Friday

 

[LTFabled]

That's not a roadmap. That's a feature list that should've been published weeks ago

It's a list of things that'll be added over the next week. Pipe down

 

[Cummdog3000]

Sounds good mate, will we get proper patch notes moving forward? ( sorry if this has been asked 100 times already in this thread”

 

[DenieD]

Imagine having to patch in tutorials

 

[Ambrose Burnside]

That's not a roadmap. That's a feature list that should've been published weeks ago

Correct.

And has there been an apology for the state of the game in any of Big Ant's tweets?

 

[bennymate]

Good shit Ross

 

[Wettoast11]

Not sure how they are gonna do all that in one week

 

[KingNothing]

Not sure how they are gonna do all that in one week

Pro-Tip: They wont.

 

[RU_]

BigAntStudios - just to confirm I’m correct in my assumption based on the rollout above - state leagues will only be playable in ‘Play Now’, not management mode?

 

[Pickitt]

Not sure how they are gonna do all that in one week

Pro-Tip: They wont.

It's pretty doable if the things listed was intended at launch, it'll all be ready