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

 

[jonooo]

Simmed into season 2 of a management save and 3 of Carltons best have turned into genuine spuds. Curnow (31 overall), Weitering (36 overall) & Walsh (42 overall). Any plan in place to stop this from happening? BigAntStudios . Pretty game breaking really

 

[kingbob182]

Has there been any confirmation of what actually happened?
I've heard removing Pro MicroGambling Team mode broke the game.
I've heard a day 1 patch was corrupt and apparently there's no backup of the unlatched game or the patch itself.
I've heard it was the wrong version of the base game sent out.
I've heard (frome a reliable source) that Anonymous hacked Big Ant when they saw Kane Cornes listed as a Legend.

It'd be nice to have some idea of what happened. But maybe it's a toss up between looking like liars and looking incompetent.

 

[RayceHawk53]

I’m sorry, but can you seriously not move players around from one team to another yet? No option in Club manager to add players to AFL teams… so I can’t use custom players or teams in any modes besides play now yet? Wtf.

 

[Dannnnnnnnnn]

For what I think should be preeeeeeetty obvious reasons, we're not gonna condone or support speculation about who posters are IRL.

 

[Cocomarsh]

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Found a pic of Cocomarsh and Ross

The statements I have made are more directed at the immaturity of some of the people in this forum than for Ross as an individual.
Cheap personal attacks are not healthy. Eat sheat.

 

[MarcLocksCrustySock]

I must say, observing this thread over the past few days has been super entertaining

People taking the absolute Mickey out of the game and it’s issues, torching the developers whilst a small (yet loud) % of people running to the defense of BigAnt. It’s a fierce, intense entertaining battle - absolutely loving it at the moment - keep it ip guys! (Both sides Lol)


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Thanks Basil. I just want to give you a bit of an insight into the AFL23 thread team. We’re a bunch of unique individuals – haters, neckbeards, nerds, kids in our parents basement and BigAntStudios providing sporadic patch updates lacking detail.

We’re gonna engage with our minds and our hearts. We’re gonna exchange ideas, thoughts and even our energy. And to speak from your heart you need to have courage. You need to be honest and authentic. We’re not always gonna get it right. And sometimes, you’re not going to agree with us. But that’s okay, because just like you we care. Just like you, we’re passionate about the game. So if you want to come along for the ride, join us in this shit show of a thread, because we just love the footy.

 

[Fear Boner]

To you or I maybe not.
There would be people out there (single parents, low income earners) that have gone without to put a smile on there kids face and they get a game that doesn't work on day 1.
I'm not upset at all- totally predictable. My moral compass just says you should get what you pay for.

Mate 100% spot on , I feel for the parents just trying to do the right thing by their kids.

Moral compass should be you get value for money , but typically the game industry misses the mark.

Thankfully theirs choice here for refunds and move on , for the invested people hopefully we all get the game we envisioned because theirs a decent base here for a brilliant game in hopefully a few weeks but probably closer to a few months.

Cricket24 hopefully doesn't launch in a rough state like afl and a few lessons are learnt from about transparency

 

[Fear Boner]

Ive paid 1k a year to North for the past 20 years, so Im not averse to wasting money on football. Im getting this s**t when it comes to XB.

Thanks for the beta testing fellas.

sounds like me with Essendon a true "sunken cost fallacy"

 

[St 07]

BA should be held accountable for the gaslighting, abuse and mental health ramifications that the poor kids will suffer. Particularly ones without internet

 

[ice444]

For what I think should be preeeeeeetty obvious reasons, we're not gonna condone or support speculation about who posters are IRL.

Batman and i have never been in the same room at the same time..

 

[Lance Uppercut]

I was planning to go and buy this today. Perhaps not.

 

[ice444]

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Found a pic of Cocomarsh and Ross

I heard rosses mother was a hamster and his father smells of elderberries...

 

[UAWM]

Can we expect another patch today?

 

[ice444]

Can we expect another patch today?

Most likely.

 

[A Tiger 4 lyf]

Am I wrong in saying, Steam updates should be receiving more fixes/features than PS if it’s the same process for all steam patches?

I know the updates have been roughly the same so it can go through PS rapid patch system


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[Dannnnnnnnnn]

Can we expect another patch today?

I think Ross mentioned something yesterday about "tomorrow's" patch focusing heavily on tackling. The one that came through at 5am today was meant to be yesterday's - so as far as can be gathered from the info we have, it seems like there are plans to release one today.

 

[Chark96]

Any news on further patches coming this weekend??


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[pattymalone00]

Played this morning and managed to get a few tackles out which I don’t think I’d been able to do, also mainly kicked instead of handballing and the “switching” from one side to the other with kicks was rather fun and very life like…

 

[Xtreme]

Big Ant haven't made the best AFL and Cricket games? Surely that is what is most important.

I didn't know they made Aussie Rules Footy on the NES or Shane Warne Cricket '99!!
/s

 

[pattymalone00]

Any news on further patches coming this weekend??


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I think Ross said there should be one out today to address tackling but don’t know much else

 

[Xtreme]

For what I think should be preeeeeeetty obvious reasons, we're not gonna condone or support speculation about who posters are IRL.

I'm Spartacus

 

[RU_]

What camera angle is everyone playing on?

Tried end to end but the switch movement isn’t working for me when there’s a turnover.

Also, will we get patches over a weekend? Sony/steam wouldn’t approve them over weekends would they?

 

[hooked on fishing]

I think you will find that a lot of what was directed at Ross on this forum has been pretty disrespectful, and while not defending, I am not surprised that he has been frustrated by this at times.
He has put himself on the line to make a product for people like us even though it likely won't make a profit. And he doesn't have to - he has sold his company and could ride off into the sunset if he wanted to.
The fact that a CEO has engaged directly with the most passionate fans is more a positive for me, and I am possibly more forgiving when the expression isn't absolutely perfect.

But here are the facts - Ross has built and published the best AFL and best Cricket games ever made. I don't think this would have happened without his personal intervention, and I genuinely appreciate what he has delivered.
That is what is most important to me, not a word slightly out of line on an unofficial forum that he doesn't even need to give oxygen to if he wants to make things easier for himself. And if a smaller studio uses consumers as testers at times to put more money into core production, so be it.

I can tell you categorically that I value the Big Ant posts more than anything else on here, and that is what actually makes me come back. I hope stupid comments don't stop that from happening.

How is this not written by either Ross himself, someone he works for or someone that has something to do with Ross in one form or another.

 

[Cocomarsh]

I'm Spartacus

I'm Ross, his father and his mother apparently.
Or maybe just Gollum from Nacon's other upcoming game.

 

[Dannnnnnnnnn]

What camera angle is everyone playing on?

Tried end to end but the switch movement isn’t working for me when there’s a turnover.

Also, will we get patches over a weekend? Sony/steam wouldn’t approve them over weekends would they?

I really like end to end except for the switching. Being able to see downfield is fantastic and actually does highlight the strengths of the game watching AI lead and double lead relatively realistically (sometimes the spread is good too but sometimes your teammates are just magnetised to the ball in your hands, lol). But you're right that turnovers suck in that view.

I will probably stick to this camera while I learn the way the game plays and the players move, and then eventually find something else.