Hi everyone,

Please find below the changes brought by the 7th Early Access Major Update!

Adjusted Place Kicking Mechanic
The place kick mechanic has been modified to make conversion and penalty goal kicks more challenging. After aiming, Right Stick down increases power, followed by Right Stick up for kick accuracy.

Added Tactics Selection
D-Pad now activates the tactics menu during gameplay. Up/Down on the D-Pad adjusts defensive tactics, Left/Right adjusts attacking tactics.

Added Team Management
Manage Lineup added to the pause menu to enable substitutions with a match.

Added Quick Substitutions
A quick substitution menu has been added to the View button.

Added Tutorials
An initial pass of gameplay tutorials have been added, giving detail on the game mechanics, including Place Kicking, Scrums, Rucks, Mauls and Line Outs.

Improved Gameplay
Gameplay has been polished/improved, including tweaking ruck steal timing and AI decision making.

Improved Performance
The game has been further optimised to improve gameplay framerate, particularly on lower end machines.

Improved Stability
This update features both general and Gameplay stability improvement.

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Hi Everyone,

A new interim update for Rugby 25 has been made! Patch notes are as follows:

Improved Pods Passing
Pod passing out of the ruck have been improved. Includes resolution of incorrect player selection for passes, incorrect players having a button prompt and resolution of accidental box kicks occurring when attempting to pass.

Adjusted Defensive Touchdown Controls
Moved the Defensive touchdown to the Y button, the A button will now allow a punt out of the in-goal area.

Resolved Lineout Throw Issue
Resolved cases of the choice of 3/5/7 player lineouts not being applied correctly.

Corrected Community Club Downloads
Resolved occurrences of downloaded community Teams not having the players on the roster.

Stability Improvements
Game completion and progression issues have been addressed.

Dear Players,

Following Monday’s update, which brought Online to EA5, we’re excited to announce that today’s update takes it to EA6!

You’ll find the detailed patch notes for this update below.

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Added Pods
Introduced the initial implementation of pods where forwards will now form pods at rucks. Use LT/RT for forwards and LB/RB for backs.

Added Stadium Creator
The Rugby Academy now includes The Stadium Creator, custom stadiums can be created, shared and used in Play Now matches.

Added Localisation
Language support has been implemented in the UI for French, Italian, German, Spanish, Korean, and Japanese.

Improved Formations
Teams will line up in better formations during scrums and mauls.

Improved Lineouts
Incorrect lineout sizes should no longer be selected.

Improved Stability
Gameplay stability has been improved, particularly with online play.

We continue to appreciate reports to our support team to help us identify the remaining ones, via https://early.bigant.com/.

For those eager to dive into Early Access, now’s the perfect time—the game is currently available at a special discount during the Steam Sale!

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Hi Rugby Fans,

We thank everyone for your patience while we have worked through some unpredictable issues that have delayed delivery of Online gameplay in the previous EA update.

We are now ready to add the first pass of online into the EA, along with a number of other improvements, with full patch notes below:

Added first pass of Online Quick match
The first pass of EA Online quick match play with 5 minute halves utilising any of the Early Access teams

Added Camera Field of View slider
Adjustment of the field of view for the gameplay camera has been added to the settings menu, this allows the gameplay camera to be zoomed in or out from the default.

Added Offside Line Options
Added a setting to disable the display of the offside line or player indicators.

Improved Lineouts
Removed occurrences of a lineout ending with player tackles instead of a maul being formed

Improved Animation
Further gameplay animation has been added, both for gameplay animation and various cut scenes.

Improved UI
The flow of the UI has improved in some areas and changed to prepare for future features. Resolved issue with missing setting for sock height.

General Stability Improvements
A number of improvements to gameplay stability have been included in this update.

We continue to appreciate reports to our support team to help us identify the remaining ones, via https://early.bigant.com/.

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Dear rugby fans,

Today we’re excited to bring you the #Rugby25 development roadmap for the next two months.

The team continue to tune online play and anticipate release in the next few days.

We continue to appreciate reports to our support team to help us identify the remaining ones, via https://early.bigant.com/.

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Dear players,

We are happy to announce the release of Early Access 5, our Fifth Major Release during Rugby 25 early access period.

Notes for what is included in this update are outlined below.

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Improved Mauls
Mauls have been reworked in this update, improving animation fluidity as well as the gameplay experience.

Improved General Gameplay
Several general gameplay improvements have been made in addition to the ones added during the EA4 Interim Updates, these include improving the passing out of rucks, quick passes, catches, touch line avoidance and more.

Added URC Competition mode
The United Rugby Championship, including the 16 teams and 2024-25 fixtures, is now available in Competition mode. A number of these teams will feature photogrammetry visuals, with additional photogrammetry coming in future updates.

Added Stadiums
Several additional stadiums have been added in this update, including the officially licensed Cardiff Arms Park, Scotstoun, Kingspan Stadium, Swansea.com Stadium and Dexcom Stadium. Further MLR stadiums have also been added.

Added HUD Elements
A meter showing control over the ruck has been added, as well as HUD to identify those offside – both with an offside line shown during rucks and indicators on individual players.

Improved Graphics
Various tweaks have been made to the graphical appearance of the game, including work adjusting the grass, and various aspects of lighting and player detail.

Improved Stability
Several improvements to resolve non-progression issues during gameplay have been implemented in this update.

We continue to appreciate reports to our support team to help us identify the remaining ones, via https://early.bigant.com/.

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Hi Rugby fans,

An additional interim update for Rugby 25 Early Access 4 is now available, it features:

Adjusted Support Runner Passing
Adjusted the pass targetting to prioritise support runners

Improved UI
Addressed the occasional UI unresponsiveness to button inputs, particularly the simulate match option becoming unavailable in competition mode

Improved Stability
Addressed game non-progression states, particularly those during kicks, tackles and penalties.

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Hi everyone,

A new update is now available to Rugby 25! Thanks to everyone for their feedback on the last update!

Improved Support Runners

• Support runners position themselves more aggressively keep up with line breaks

Improved Kicking Systems

• The system for in-play kicks improved, including AI better targeting kicks when attempting a 50-22 kick

General Gameplay Improvements

• Includes resolving a case where players would be invisible during a ruck, improved AI decision making after rucks/mauls, resolved reported case of incorrect offside calls, and minor passing tweaks (still WIP).

Improved Graphics

• Adjusted overall visuals including player marker, replays, camera clipping and further work in progress improvement to overall graphical fidelity.

Improved UI

• General polish to the Player, Team and Logo creators, resolved reported issues, improved UI and cleanup functionality.

Improved Stability

• Resolved reported set piece non-progression issues.

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We are happy to announce the release of Early Access 4, our Fourth Major Release during Rugby 25 early access period.

Notes for what is included in this update are outlined below.

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• Added Gallagher Premiership Rugby
  
  • Gallagher Premiership Rugby has been added as a playable mode, with photogrammetry visuals included for 6 teams - Saracens, Sale Sharks, Newcastle Falcons, Northampton Saints, Harlequins, and Bath.
• Added Stadiums
  
  • Each of the Premiership Rugby teams have a home ground included, with 8 of these being newly added in EA4.
• Added Support Runs
  
  • The positioning system for AI controlled players has been improved so that support runners will now assist line breakers, ensuring you’ll have pass options if you need them as you make line breaks and head for the line.
• Added Logo Creator
  
  • The Logo Creator has been added to the Rugby Academy.
• Added Community Sharing
  
  • Creations made in the Academy are now both shareable and downloadable with the community.
• Balanced AI Tackles
  
  • Changes have been made to tackling, reducing the chance of a tackle being laid by a player that is behind you.
• Improved Breakdowns
  
  • Rucks have been improved so that in the majority of rucks, the scrum half will be the one getting to the breakdown to clear the ball.
• Improved Team Creator
  
  • The Team Creator has been expanded with the integration of the Logo Creator, allowing created logos to be assigned to team kits and set as the team’s emblem.
• Improved Stability
  
  • Several improvements to resolve non-progression issues during gameplay have been implemented in this update. We continue to appreciate reports to our support team to help us identify the remaining ones, via https://early.bigant.com/

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