Multiplat AFL 23 - PS/Steam Releasing May 4, Xbox TBC

[Dannnnnnnnnn]

WHEN CAN I PLAY? READ BELOW:

• PlayStation (Physical): Thursday 4 May
• PlayStation (Digital): 8:01am AEST Thursday 4 May
• Steam: Currently 8:01am AEST Thursday 4 May, may be moved to 12:01am AEST
• Xbox (Digital or Physical): TO BE CONFIRMED, unlikely to be 4 May

Spoiler: Specific Big Ant quotes about the release:

Those that pre-ordered PS versions will be able to play on Thursday, disks will have already been mailed by retailers, they will also be available in-store.

Steam will also be available Thursday.

Stating the obvious, we are still having issues with XBox.

Seriously, anyone that looks hard knows there’s issues - why do you think there are so many exclusives for a particular platform that are not marked as exclusive, but are only on that platform.

If I took that road, life would have been a lot easier.

Xbox digital and retail will release at the same time - that is not a decision we get to make.

It applies now and I will no doubt pay a price.

Spoiler: Other Quotes

Re: commentary team

Spoiler: Other Quotes

Hamish is still there, Daisy didn't make it into the final version of the game.

We added Gary and increased the workload of Harf.

Re: game availability/release dates

I can never give 100% guarantee about anything in the future, but as it stands today, the statement I am prepared to make it that all stock that is at retailers on 4 May will be available for sale.

As to the amount that will be there for sale, and whether it is enough, that is a question I cannot answer.

It will be made digitally available on the various platform holder electronic stores.

Clarifying, the game will not release prior to 4 May 2023.

I am vague as there is one platform that has had sufficient stock at retailers and the other has not, and I cannot name them (contractual reasons).

The game will not be further delayed because of the numbers of units in stock.

Re: Steam listing

I've already put in a request for the screenshots to be replaced with current ones, they'll probably only be there for a day.

As much as the feedback has generally been positive, these are old, meant to be placeholder only and were not meant to go live.

Re: playing lists

All playing lists are accurate for the 2023 season.

Re: content creator footage

This is all prior to day one patch (as some have noted updates like numbers etc are apparent)

Re: Career mode

A head's up on Career mode.

At the AFL 23 Launch night I mentioned the non-team based Individual Career Mode in an interview with Dean (Twistie3). As alluded to at that same event, we were working with the AFL and AFLPA to include as many past legends in the game as possible.

The great news is that we have received approval for far more AFL legends than were previously envisaged, but this has meant that we had to make the tough decision to divert resources away from the Individual Career mode development. The individual Career Mode function will not make it into AFL 23, Career Mode will be entirely team based. I expect this mode to be include in future iterations of the game.

Re: microtransactions

You do not have to make purchases, things can be earned.

Re: general development

So fundamentally flawed, in so many ways, it’s bananas.

We are doing AFL as it’s a passion project, without us doing it there would not be one being made.

So much more upside with making games that are played internationally, let alone one that will not even be played in every state in this country.

 

[Exambolor]

Robbo has got himself a copy somehow… maybe he’ll be the man that’ll get some gameplay up

 

[Ambrose Burnside]

In the gameplay footage, whenever we see it, would love to see stuff we've never seen in an AFL game before. Things like gang tackling, players trying to keep the ball in if it's near the boundary rather than running it over the line, gang tackling, soccering it though automatically if the ball is in the goal square instead of trying to pick it up and running it over the line while you try to remember the soccer button, gang tackling, being able to play on quickly after taking a mark (without being tackled or smothered) instead of having to wait for a canned animation to finish playing and watching all your teammates who were free being manned up while you twiddle your thumbs, gang tackling, no pause in play and players positions being reset (which essentially means everyone is manned up again one on one style) at every clearance, and gang tackling.

Hopefully that's not too ambitious.

So yeah, Michaels and friends, would be great if you can show us what AFL 23 does that previous games haven't beyond things like better graphics. And what's changed since the reveal build. Not sure what you'll be allowed to show off (I'm assuming Ultimate Team will be out of bounds) but exploring (player) career mode would be much appreciated, the U18s, WAFL/SANFL/VFL etc and what pathways we have to make it to the big league

 

[hawk699]

Robbo is giving us some gameplay thank god

 

[Yablettt]

 

[AnAussieWancker]

BigAntStudios JNT BA Surley there is an online co op mode where you and a mate can play against other co-ops online kinda like CO-Op Seasons online in FiFa reckon it would be amazing to to climb up tiers in a ranked sort of way

 

[AnAussieWancker]

hang on

 

[Nicho50]

Cue the people bitching that he has physical copies so why can’t others on ps5…

 

[jdobs95]

Cue the people bitching that he has physical copies so why can’t others on ps5…

Cue the “Game won’t work until Ross flicks the switch” comments

 

[ESSENDON INSIDER]

Mitch Robinson

5

Mitch Robinson

Age

35

Ht

184cm

Wt

89kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

19.9

5star

K

11.2

4star

HB

8.7

5star

M

4.1

4star

T

4.7

5star

CL

3.2

5star

D

15.8

4star

K

11.3

4star

HB

4.5

3star

M

3.9

4star

T

1.9

3star

CL

1.8

4star

D

13.2

4star

K

8.0

3star

HB

5.2

4star

M

4.0

4star

T

3.6

5star

is about to cure everyone’s depression

 

[orazio ray]

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[DasItMayne]

Cue the people bitching that he has physical copies so why can’t others on ps5…

I honestly couldn't care less. Just want to see some hd gameplay.

 

[ESSENDON INSIDER]

robbo may aswell be employed at this point ross

 

[Nicho50]

 

[new0066]

 

[FearTheBeard13]

Cue the people bitching that he has physical copies so why can’t others on ps5…

I bet someone has already called JB using Robbo having a copy as an excuse for a public release

 

[Tacomix41]

Im gonna be reloading my youtube for ages waiting for a stream from robbo- surely he does im so hyped

 

[Ambrose Burnside]

Imagine if he tweeted a photo holding the Xbox version? This board would have melted down

 

[Dez!]

Checking in to see that I still hate all of you after seeing the same shit over and over.

 

[Nicho50]

I bet someone has already called JB using Robbo having a copy as an excuse for a public release

No doubt they’ve already gone in showing the photo

 

[jdoggdrool]

Checking in to see that I still hate all of you after seeing the same s**t over and over.

How will I recover from such terrible burns.

 

[Nicho50]

Today is not a good day to be working at a video game retailer.

 

[hawk699]

Why can’t they just release it digitally for Xbox though and if you want to buy it on store then you can wait

Cue the people bitching that he has physical copies so why can’t others on ps5…

Agreed cmon Ross

 

[Xc9894]

So yes it was supposed to be today. Unfortunately, they have pushed off their visit until next week which is sad I was really looking forward to them coming in. Had some fun things planned out for them, then I heard late yesterday afternoon they need to push it back. Trying to get work out some other things for this week. No Promises about that. Someone asked if it was Dean, but it is not Dean. I'm more than happy for Dean to come in but he never asked.

But let's get to some questions and requests. Of course, I won't be able to get to everything such as gameplay as I really wanted this personality to give their own take on the gameplay since me saying yeah it's good here is this heavily edited video that has been approved by many people just isn't quite the same as having someone giving their own experience on it with supporting footage.


Well, each stadium is a lot to ask there are lots and we don't have unlimited time at the moment but let's do a few. New ones we like to show not on a schedule. We had lots of fun yesterday getting the ones Ross posted. So drip feed it will be for some others.
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I appreciate the little sunshower I got here in this one.


Oooooh now this I won't touch as much as I would like to.

On a 100% completely unrelated note... What some people missed from the launch event was that the 30-second trailer we showed was not the full trailer and there is more to come for that where we want to show some other parts of the game.


Yes


The banners, I'm excited about the banners and not cause I spent a lot of time on them while doing everything else I do in the studio, haha but no. As a whole, I'm sure each department would like to see how people like their work. It also gives us a good baseline for what we can improve on as well as what we have done well. Personally, I like watching people look at stadiums and have a reaction of "That looks like how I remember it" or "I can notice this straight away". I was fortunate enough to spend some time with an AFLW friend of the studio recently and they brought some family members to have a little play and was great seeing their reactions to it all as well.


So previously I had given a specific % number about how many of the stadiums at that current time were in the game based on the list they had. The math man got the number of stadiums correct. But hey you never know maybe some more can be added in. In terms of the exact specific stadiums and grounds, it's another thing we wanted our visitor to show off.


Ok since this was on display at the launch party but we controlled it as we needed to shuffle through as many people as while keeping the lines short on the play units. We wanted to have a number of options as we want to give those who want to go for a long time the option to play for a "whole match"
while also making sure that those who may not have unlimited time have the option to jump in and play a quick match when they have a time slot. So at this moment, we are working with:
2.5 Minutes
3.5 Minutes
5 Minutes
7.5 Minutes
10 Minutes
Full Length

This is not to say we can't add more later.

I know someone wanted a live reaction of Ross and I as we read the posts on the thread. But I had previously posted what I look like a while ago when reading through it all. I can't speak for Ross but this is another one of me sometimes.

Looks good JNT


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[AnAussieWancker]

Why can’t they just release it digitally for Xbox though and if you want to buy it on store then you can wait

Agreed cmon Ross

because The Retailers who purchased the game to distribute in the first place which was most likley done of the amount of pre orders they got would lose shit tones of money. Which will most likely end in Big Ant Tarnishing a relationship with a retailer and loosing a major of being able to purchase the game.

 

[hawk699]

because The Retailers who purchased the game to distribute in the first place which was most likley done of the amount of pre orders they got would lose s**t tones of money. Which will most likely end in Big Ant Tarnishing a relationship with a retailer and loosing a major of being able to purchase the game.

Yeah but people will buy it from ps4/ps5 from retailers so they should still get some money and bring it out digitally for Xbox do it for the fansss