Multiplat AFL 23 - Part 2: Pro Team, more like No Team

[Kidneykid95]

Seems like patch notes are out already .. not sure how to feel about it.. thoughts??

ITS GONE LIVE ALSO! Just got it on PS5 = 1.7GB

 

[Dr Jan Itor]

Happy to live by a sword and die by it, my bias is clear, I am the CEO of Big Ant Studios.

The reason many of the posts look like personal attacks is because they are - cowards hiding their biases behind the anonymity of the internet and having a sook should anyone ever call them out on it.


Apologies - a tactics texture error that the team couldn't trap by the end of the day. They'll be in early tomorrow to make sure it gets done.

I’m actually off to bed anyway, no big deal personally! I’ll download either in the morning or tomorrow night

 

[RU_]

Happy to live by a sword and die by it, my bias is clear, I am the CEO of Big Ant Studios.

The reason many of the posts look like personal attacks is because they are - cowards hiding their biases behind the anonymity of the internet and having a sook should anyone ever call them out on it.


Apologies - a tactics texture error that the team couldn't trap by the end of the day. They'll be in early tomorrow to make sure it gets done.

So will PS5 still get it tomorrow or more likely to be Wednesday?

 

[bdawwg1021]

So will PS5 still get it tomorrow or more likely to be Wednesday?

Tomorrow.. why would it be Wednesday? Nit sure why there's confusion? Unless I've missed something.

 

[dylan7]

BigAntStudios have you preset every afl teams tactics to play like they do now? Or are they all just set to balanced?

 

[Treehill23]

Happy to live by a sword and die by it, my bias is clear, I am the CEO of Big Ant Studios.

The reason many of the posts look like personal attacks is because they are - cowards hiding their biases behind the anonymity of the internet and having a sook should anyone ever call them out on it.


Apologies - a tactics texture error that the team couldn't trap by the end of the day. They'll be in early tomorrow to make sure it gets done.

Oh the irony

 

[Dr Jan Itor]

Tomorrow.. why would it be Wednesday? Nit sure why there's confusion? Unless I've missed something.

My guess is will it be available by tomorrow morning or as an added addition to a Tuesday night into Wednesday morning patch

 

[Lesnish]

BigAntStudios the tactics definitely make ball ups far more interesting.
Only thing I would say is players are still too stagnant as the ruckman taps the ball.
Do you think we could see midfielders on the move during ball ups?
I will submit a ticket also.

On SM-S901E using BigFooty.com mobile app

 

[Xtreme]

Spoiler

Hawthorn #7 takes off like The Flash!!!

I only complain because it's immersion breaking.

I don't get it as the game play speed seemed tweaked to be slower in the Thursday patch!!

 

[Ambrose Burnside]

Oh the irony

Yeah, I mean god forbid anyone share glitch videos.

 

[Treehill23]

My guess is will it be available by tomorrow morning or as an added addition to a Tuesday night into Wednesday morning patch

Yep, this is what I was assuming

 

[RU_]

Tomorrow.. why would it be Wednesday? Nit sure why there's confusion? Unless I've missed something.

Patches come out the night of for Steam, early morning for consoles.

Patch notes says PS5 will get it on the 6th, if that’s the patch on the 6th, PS5 won’t get it until the 7th.

 

[BigAntStudios]

So will PS5 still get it tomorrow or more likely to be Wednesday?

We'll try to get it in as early as possible but as our "local" PlayStation HQ is SCEE in London, it will be based on their timezone - short answer, likely live in the AM of Wednesday if history is to be relied upon.

 

[bdawwg1021]

Patches come out the night of for Steam, early morning for consoles.

Patch notes says PS5 will get it on the 6th, if that’s the patch on the 6th, PS5 won’t get it until the 7th.

Ahhhhh gotchya.. cheers for explaining.

 

[GoldbergsGold]

I noticed wind is now visible at coin tosses, that's great. The standing tackles with the ability to pass out of it is back, which is much better.

 

[Xtreme]

Lasted until half time, will try again when the next patch drops!

 

[SledgeMania]

One thing I've wanted for years is player tactics.

At the moment it's all team based which doesn't truly represent the nature of how teams play.

I want to be able to tell my chf to get up the ground and help midfield. Or have a player loose in defence. Or tell my wingers to stay in wide areas only. Or be able to set a tagger.
Or maybe even tell my full forward, to lead to the pockets and not straight ahead.

This would truly make your team in management mode feel like it's your team. And also make the players feel unique. You should feel differences in how players play depending on what role their assigned.

It would bring stats into the game more. I.e. players like Jeremy Cameron

5

Jeremy Cameron

Age

31

Ht

196cm

Wt

94kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

12.5

3star

K

9.0

3star

HB

3.4

3star

M

5.4

5star

T

1.6

4star

G

2.6

5star

D

10.0

3star

K

7.1

3star

HB

2.9

2star

M

4.6

4star

T

2.0

3star

G

1.9

5star

D

8.2

2star

K

5.0

2star

HB

3.2

3star

M

4.6

5star

T

2.4

4star

G

2.0

5star

are much better at pushing up the ground than say Taylor Walker

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Taylor Walker

Age

34

Ht

194cm

Wt

102kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

13.0

3star

K

9.0

3star

HB

4.0

3star

M

5.7

5star

T

1.6

4star

G

2.3

5star

No current season stats available

D

8.0

2star

K

6.4

3star

HB

1.6

2star

M

4.2

4star

T

1.6

4star

G

1.6

5star

.

 

[11men1cup]

Is goalkicking (both set shot, and on the run) still completely broken?

On Pixel 7 Pro using BigFooty.com mobile app

 

[carn tigez]

Played half a game, tactics are awesome. Played zone, defensive mids vs Freo and they'd have basically all their backmen spare when they had the ball. But, sometimes they'd attempt a long switch and my zone players would come closing down the space. Never got an intercept but had some close calls.

Was worried tactics would be imbalanced and may still turn out that way, but from first play through the Zone didn't seem OP/UP vs man on man.

Marking contests are finally balanced! This was probably my biggest core mechanic gripe for a while, now almost solved. I still think the CHF v CHB results in too many marks, would love to see 50-50 where both players attempt a mark result in far more spills than marks, but every other type of contest felt right.

List of glitches/bugs that still make the game not playable for more than a game here or there;

• CHANGE PLAYER - this is game breaking currently. Will have a marking contest and won't get control of the player. As I flick around trying to find him I'm too late and meanwhile I've move 2-3 other players into bad positions.
• When there's a disposal mid tackle, it always goes toward a teammate if one is around. Both opposition and player. These need to be far more random, needs to be an element of risk disposing during a tackle. As it is now as soon as the ball comes out during a tackle, 90% of the time the tackle was redundant.
• The supersonic speed player glitch where they come from nowhere to get the ball
• Handballs going not where directed fairly consistently
• The large zone around the mark. Didn't notice if this had been reduced or not but still seemed problematic.
• Players still encroaching the mark during kick outs
• Can't win a goddamn hitout with Nank in centre bounce. Around the grounds I couldn't lose a tap and in the centre bounce I couldn't win one, so ruck contests need balancing.

One suggestion for the camera angle issues. If we could change the camera angle with the right stick after a mark that would be awesome. Personally I don't really use the right stick for selecting targets, I just aim with left stick and adjust power to hit a target. But even if we kept that, could use a modifier button to make the R stick move the camera angle. Would love to be able to rotate it quickly when taking the kick and then have it instantly snap back once the kick is complete.

 

[A Tiger 4 lyf]

Excellent gameplay patch!




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[hooked on fishing]

Is goalkicking (both set shot, and on the run) still completely broken?

On Pixel 7 Pro using BigFooty.com mobile app

Goal kicking/set shots is the one thing that has been working/ is the best part of the game since launch. How is it broken? Maybe you need to practise and get better

 

[GoldbergsGold]

One thing I've wanted for years is player tactics.

At the moment it's all team based which doesn't truly represent the nature of how teams play.

I want to be able to tell my chf to get up the ground and help midfield. Or have a player loose in defence. Or tell my wingers to stay in wide areas only. Or be able to set a tagger.
Or maybe even tell my full forward, to lead to the pockets and not straight ahead.

This would truly make your team in management mode feel like it's your team. And also make the players feel unique. You should feel differences in how players play depending on what role their assigned.

It would bring stats into the game more. I.e. players like Jeremy Cameron are much better at pushing up the ground than say Taylor Walker.

Would love quick select tactics, too. I think they're next. All out defence, defence, balanced, attack, to all out attack. Have CPU players come in for hand ball support with 1-2, 1-2 plays.

 

[pattymalone00]

Will there be presets for tactics for different scenarios like icing the game, stopping momentum, trying to win the game ect…?

 

[Quivorir]

Anyway back to the game. That tactic screen looks no deeper than evo 2. Is that correct for those that have played both?

 

[OhDustinMartin]

Anyway back to the game. That tactic screen looks no deeper than evo 2. Is that correct for those that have played both?

nope.

much different stoppage set-ups. forward line changes. zone affects the way the ai react.

pretty happy.

 

[Dr Jan Itor]

Anyway back to the game. That tactic screen looks no deeper than evo 2. Is that correct for those that have played both?

Looks to me a little more in depth, did I read somewhere there’s more tactics coming?