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.