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

 

[Archer_11]

Some Key issues:

• Chris Fagan is tall and slim atm

Pretty sure Chris wants that left in the game.

 

[Dr Jan Itor]

Pretty sure Chris wants that left in the game.

And Stewy Dew is asking for diet tips!

 

[A Tiger 4 lyf]

Hopeful tonight enables

Tactics
Effective Wind

With some more gameplay tweaks

Maybe custom teams in all game modes too


Sent from my iPhone using BigFooty.com

 

[JJK17]

Anyone checked if auto interchange works on management? Keen to have a go later tonight.

it does

 

[GoldbergsGold]

Even with the chaotic gameplay, having quick select tactics would at least help with that. And I thought they were coming this week.

 

[GetAroundHim99]

Despite the game's faults at the moment. I am enjoying the game. It's only the fact I can only get through one-two games at a time before the game softlocks and crashes on me that's doing my head in at this point. If that was fixed, I'd probably be having a pretty fun time on my end despite the issues right now. What is there is pretty decent all things considered if I was able to play more than one to two games before it practically crashes.

I'm currently testing things to see if they might be causing the issue for me.

• I tried turning the music back on after I turned it off. (Didn't change anything.)
• I tried sticking to the same stadium for each game. (That did get me to the start of a third game before it soft-locked as the home team when through the banner.)

I'm mostly down to it either being related to a change of teams, change of uniforms or something to do with having my external hard drive in my PS5 causing some issues potentially. I think it's an issue related to memory maybe but I'm not a dev so I can't confirm.

I have sent the issue to BigAntStudios via their support link but I think they're still trying to figure this one out too from the response I got.

EDIT: I've just tested things by keeping the same teams in the same uniforms for multiple games and it still soft locks when you get to the third game....

Time to test out my Hard Drive theory by taking it out and testing things.

 

[Archer_11]

Hopeful tonight enables

Tactics
Effective Wind

Are these notes for the game or your next Dr appointment?

 

[CrowsArmy]

Just played a game on PS4 Suns 11.6-72 Dogs 8.2-50, 4 goals to 1 in the last quarter to win. Now that I understand how to properly mark with the vibrations the game is nice to play can’t lie. Just really need the crowd on PS4, tactics and effective wind.

 

[MarcLocksCrustySock]

it does

Lemme have a play play tonight den.

 

[BigAntStudios]

Played a bunch of online matches today and by jingo! the games were fantastic. No freezing when skipping cut scenes, no crashes and had a really enjoyable time, carrying over from my feedback and experience yesterday. Still some glaring issues though which I'll continue to post here in the hope Ross sees them and passes them on because I am not sure my tickets are being seen:

• Breaking tackles is still way tooooo easy;
• Player switching needs immediate attention;
• Handballs can still be pretty erratic and inconsistent;
• Random sections of play where no one can pick the ball up until a quarter ends or a goal is kicked needs fixing ASAP;
• The game sometimes decides it will just play on for you at random times after taking a mark, receiving a free etc;
• Somehow tapping through a behind occasionally results in a a throw-in instead of the point;
• 4th quarters deciding they'll restart once the final siren goes.

Overall though, I am thoroughly enjoying this game now.

The guys, including JNT BA , see very ticket raised and are acting on them.

 

[Xtreme]

There are so many momentum swings in this thread where we've got cheerleaders for the game, then those that detest the bugs throw their weight around, and those that pine for the older games..

Almost like a WWE contest, who's going to go for the tables, ladders or chairs first ??

So many tickets. I've been helping the guys a lot over there to take some pressure off them while trying to do my normal stuff. This hasn't quite worked cause I haven't been around here much. I pop in react to some things take more notes and head off again into the night, like a much far less impressive version of Batman, who is getting old and has sore hands from how much typing he is doing at the moment.

Bonus points if you cosplay while reading the tickets (in either said Batman costume or you get into the AFL 23 team spirit and wear your team colours while investigating!

 

[center half_bench]

Ok BigAntStudios appreciate all the work and patches so far but Ive just completed a season in management mind and i must say it grinds my gears how;

- players retiring like tom mitchell, when he probably wont retire next year

- delisted players r getting taken with top picks in the draft

- teams are delisting players that just wouldn’t get delisted e.g josh treacy or massimo d’ambrosio darcy fort

32

Darcy Fort

Age

31

Ht

204cm

Wt

98kg

Pos.

F/R

Career

Season

Last 5

D

8.6

2star

K

5.8

2star

HB

2.9

3star

M

1.9

2star

T

1.8

4star

G

0.8

4star

D

9.2

2star

K

6.0

2star

HB

3.2

2star

M

1.8

2star

T

1.8

3star

G

0.2

3star

D

7.6

2star

K

5.4

2star

HB

2.2

2star

M

2.0

3star

T

1.2

3star

G

1.2

4star

nathan murphy

28

Nathan Murphy

Age

25

Ht

192cm

Wt

90kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

11.5

3star

K

6.5

3star

HB

5.0

4star

M

2.5

3star

T

1.5

3star

MG

176.5

3star

No current season stats available

D

11.5

3star

K

6.5

3star

HB

5.0

4star

M

2.5

3star

T

1.5

4star

MG

176.5

3star

hayden young

26

Hayden Young

Age

23

Ht

189cm

Wt

88kg

Pos.

D/M

Career

Season

Last 5

D

10.0

3star

K

6.6

3star

HB

3.4

3star

M

3.2

3star

T

1.4

3star

MG

160.0

3star

D

10.0

3star

K

6.6

3star

HB

3.4

2star

M

3.2

3star

T

1.4

2star

MG

160.0

3star

D

10.0

3star

K

6.6

3star

HB

3.4

3star

M

3.2

4star

T

1.4

4star

MG

160.0

3star

jake bowey, the list goes on , you get my point

- no free agency period/delisted free agents

- trades/free agency between ai and ai are unrealistic such as sam draper to port, ldu to richmond, stengle tonessendon, gulden to st kilda , miers to gc

Again i appreciate the quick fixes and i think the gameplay is great at the moment and close to ideal, if not already there but things like this tick me, and i hope they can be addressed and fixed quickly,
Cheers!!

 

[ItsJonesy777]

The guys, including JNT BA , see very ticket raised and are acting on them.

That’s good to know. I was only mentioning it as these are things that have been repeatedly mentioned but I’ve not seen any of them addressed.

 

[skill1414]

I will try my best at explaining the issue with goal kicking which has been in the game since launch.

Here is the guide in game explaining how goal kicking works in the game. On paper it sounds good but in reality it is not how it works in game.

"Tap B when the meter is in the light blue zone for ideal timing"

This would suggest that you need to press B when white bar reaches this area.
However if you try to do that, the meter doesn't stop and it ends up being a shank kick.


Instead to achieve the perfect kick, you have to stop the meter short of the blue area and what is worse is the window for perfect timing is so big (hence why everyone complains that goal kicking is too easy).

You can see in this clip, I stopped the meter halfway and the ball went perfectly straight.

 

[iiCaptain]

I finally manage a close match on 'Hard' despite barely being able to mark/spoil/ruck tap and the CPU wrapping their arms around you faster than a long lost Aunt. The Dogs are only 3 points behind, 45 seconds remain in the last term and Macrae kicks the ball out of Marvel stadium.. from the centre square... with the roof closed.

 

[RG16]

State leagues when? An ETA would be nice. The one week "roadmap" is now approaching the end of week 2 and still many features aren't included. An ETA at minimum would be nice, that way we'd have an actual roadmap for features and not simply a list

They should've had gameplay sorted by now. Still way off

 

[lmaohelp]

Went tactics meant to be in already ?

 

[stkilda7894]

Did this patch actually work? Just simulated a season and went through the draft. First 18 year old that got drafted went at pick 24. 2nd u18 got drafted at 64.

My simulated team were lucky enough to finish 13th and get handed pick 2. Condolences to Carlton who finished 17th and got given pick 10.
(Just realised the draft order was that of the 2022 draft. Must be programmed into the game???)




26 year old Ash Johnson went at #1. This should neer be happening. The national draft needs to be made up of 95% 18-19 year olds. Delisted free agents should be programmed to only be re-drafted as rookies if there is no workaround for this.



But hey, at least I can draft a 98 year old born in 2005. The fact that you can set age separately to DOB shouldn't if even been included in the game, there was 0 logic with that one.

 

[GetAroundHim99]

Despite the game's faults at the moment. I am enjoying the game. It's only the fact I can only get through one-two games at a time before the game softlocks and crashes on me that's doing my head in at this point. If that was fixed, I'd probably be having a pretty fun time on my end despite the issues right now. What is there is pretty decent all things considered if I was able to play more than one to two games before it practically crashes.

I'm currently testing things to see if they might be causing the issue for me.

• I tried turning the music back on after I turned it off. (Didn't change anything.)
• I tried sticking to the same stadium for each game. (That did get me to the start of a third game before it soft-locked as the home team when through the banner.)

I'm mostly down to it either being related to a change of teams, change of uniforms or something to do with having my external hard drive in my PS5 causing some issues potentially. I think it's an issue related to memory maybe but I'm not a dev so I can't confirm.

I have sent the issue to BigAntStudios via their support link but I think they're still trying to figure this one out too from the response I got.

EDIT: I've just tested things by keeping the same teams in the same uniforms for multiple games and it still soft locks when you get to the third game....

Time to test out my Hard Drive theory by taking it out and testing things.

And that theory is out the window too... I don't really have a clue what could be causing all of my crashes at this point.

 

[Ambrose Burnside]

I will try my best at explaining the issue with goal kicking which has been in the game since launch.

Here is the guide in game explaining how goal kicking works in the game. On paper it sounds good but in reality it is not how it works in game.

"Tap B when the meter is in the light blue zone for ideal timing"

This would suggest that you need to press B when white bar reaches this area.
However if you try to do that, the meter doesn't stop and it ends up being a shank kick.


Instead to achieve the perfect kick, you have to stop the meter short of the blue area and what is worse is the window for perfect timing is so big (hence why everyone complains that goal kicking is too easy).

You can see in this clip, I stopped the meter halfway and the ball went perfectly straight.

Great post.

If it's a similar thing with other mechanics it's no wonder there are so many wildly different experiences. Like if the instructions say one thing but you actually have to do something different.

 

[imwinningagreatwall]

The recent update says online stability. Yet i still had the soccer glitch and mutants at the breaks? And spoiling has almost become impossible vs a Triangle click/clicking for a mark.
When will the online gameplay be ready

 

[ItsJonesy777]

The recent update says online stability.

The issues you mentioned aren’t stability issues.

 

[JJK17]

its getting very irritating now whenever i snap (LT+B) its crashes

 

[hooked on fishing]

Hopeful tonight enables

Tactics
Effective Wind

With some more gameplay tweaks

Maybe custom teams in all game modes too


Sent from my iPhone using BigFooty.com

I think the wind is working but it has to be blowing off it’s ass. I posted earlier about playing at utas with the wind blowing probably at its limit and it affected about 6 of my shots and 6 of the AIs.


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[Nicho50]

There are so many momentum swings in this thread where we've got cheerleaders for the game, then those that detest the bugs throw their weight around, and those that pine for the older games..

Almost like a WWE contest, who's going to go for the tables, ladders or chairs first ??



Bonus points if you cosplay while reading the tickets (in either said Batman costume or you get into the AFL 23 team spirit and wear your team colours while investigating!

I haven’t come across a game as polarising as this? Or perhaps as random when it comes to issues with this game?

I didn’t see or notice any of the teleporting issues and didn’t have a single crash when I was playing on ps5.

Certainly was issues with the lack of tactics , frees and the general flow/ game style that has made me decide it’s not for me even when fixed and that’s not a Big Ant thing either as I will be the first to admit I’ve pre ordered cricket without hesitation.