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.

 

[FearTheBeard13]

Ahh so I have an early night and miss the stream. Logon to see that there’s now a conspiracy that the BigAnt are deliberately deleting/hiding the gameplay and they’ve just gone whack on poor Michaels ? Sounds like communist Russia. This thread man

Do you not know how this thread works by now mate? at least after release date it hopefully winds down

 

[tastiger]

Watched both YouTube videos again... A lot of love and passion has been put into what bits I've seen.

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[Sixpence]

Inside word is ruck contests will be cut from the final game anyway, to be replaced by the two rucks playing rock, paper, scissors.

Chris Scott likes this.

 

[Fizzler]

Only need to add a colour gradient, the logos being cut off is exactly same as the real channel 7 scorebug.

Kind of, the 7 ones are definitely cut off but the main issue with the AFL23 ones is that the bevel used to make the shadowing and highlights is normally overlaid on the logo as well

Management Mode home screen
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Looks classy, I like this a lot

 

[jdoggdrool]

Bigant snipers have seen that thumbnail of a ruck contest and have been dispatched to twisties location.

They've been ordered to take the shot, even if it means civilian casualties.

 

[Ambrose Burnside]

Inside word is ruck contests will be cut from the final game anyway, to be replaced by the two rucks playing rock, paper, scissors.

Exclusive first ruck footage:

Player creator works well too. Alex Kidd is rated 92 like half the players in the game.

 

[A Tiger 4 lyf]

Kangaroos should have a below 80 overall team rating

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[Lesnish]

Inside word is ruck contests will be cut from the final game anyway, to be replaced by the two rucks playing rock, paper, scissors.

Here is an exclusive screen shot.

This just reminded me just cringe AFLX was [emoji1787]

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[Lesnish]

Kangaroos should have a below 80 overall team rating

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Where would that leave Richmond?

Honestly glass house and stones mate [emoji1787]

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[Cubs2Lions]

Where would that leave Richmond?

Honestly glass house and stones mate [emoji1787]View attachment 1673152

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#MakeRichmondLowestRatedTeam

 

[dekani19]

Jesus wept

Okay ? Settle down

Will the scoreboard colours change if a team is wearing a clash jersey? Like Port Adelaide in white on the channel 7 coverage. Would be very nice View attachment 1673014

Reasonable question if it’s North V Bulldogs in the game both teams will be blue on the scoreboard. Not complaining game looks very good, would be a nice small detail if they could alter colours though.

 

[Cubs2Lions]

Okay ? Settle down

Reasonable question if it’s North V Bulldogs in the game both teams will be blue on the scoreboard. Not complaining game looks very good, would be a nice small detail if they could alter colours though.

Maybe there might be an option in club editor to change their secondary colour on the scoreboard (i.e White for North Melbourne / Western Bulldogs / etc) to make it more easier to know which team is what.

 

[dekani19]

Maybe there might be an option in club editor to change their secondary colour on the scoreboard (i.e White for North Melbourne / Western Bulldogs / etc) to make it more easier to know which team is what.

Yeah that would be great if its possible to edit the team scoreboard colours in the game

 

[A Tiger 4 lyf]

Where would that leave Richmond?

Honestly glass house and stones mate [emoji1787]View attachment 1673152

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Probably 83-85


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[sneddo0526]

Hey Ross or JNTBA, just watched Pink Panters video, is there a player career option in the game?

 

[new0066]

Pro bulldog crowd there. Tigers are minnows confirmed.

A very pro Bulldogs crowd for a Richmond home game at the MCG

 

[zac080]

Hey Ross or JNTBA, just watched Pink Panters video, is there a player career option in the game?

They said there is it's just not in the game they were playing it will be there day 1

 

[GOTHELIONS16]

A very pro Bulldogs crowd for a Richmond home game at the MCG

Probably because Richmond are at the bottom of the ladder

 

[Fizzler]

Maybe there might be an option in club editor to change their secondary colour on the scoreboard (i.e White for North Melbourne / Western Bulldogs / etc) to make it more easier to know which team is what.

I think the best method would be for Big Ant to designate a scoreboard colour to each uniform for each team. Maybe a back up as well for this sort of real life match up where Collingwood are at home (black/black) against Carlton (navy/white) and the jumper colours are too close so you’d put their scoreboard graphic in white ideally.
Easily remedied for custom uniforms as well given it’d just mean you have to designate the main uniform colour yourself.
Big Ant if you’re reading this (don’t wanna be the person to ping) I’d suggest this would be a handy addition so that if someone who’s less familiar with the teams would be able to tell who’s winning at a glance, especially if they’re watching a stream. I’m as much a footy tragic as they come yet when I went to Collingwood v Port this year the jumper match up was Collingwood in black v Port in white, yet the scoreboard at the ground had Collingwood as the white team and Port as the real team, got confused earlier on when Port kicked a goal and I didn’t see Collingwood’s tally go up cause I instinctively looked at the white score.

 

[Treehill23]

Dusty had an update

 

[dont argue 04]

Has there been any mention of Cross-Save/Progression Compatibility ?

* If I was to purchase game on ps5 and PC ?

 

[FearTheBeard13]

Has there been any mention of Cross-Save/Progression Compatibility ?

* If I was to purchase game on ps5 and PC ?

I was wondering this also if the game uses say a Big Ant account and not your XB/PSN profile then I dont see why not. EA does this too with crossplay on FIFA etc

 

[dont argue 04]

I was wondering this also if the game uses say a Big Ant account and not your XB/PSN profile then I dont see why not. EA does this too with crossplay on FIFA etc

Yeah hopefully JNT BA or BigAntStudios can confirm, Basically want it for when the missus is on netflix watching her trash tv

 

[GOTHELIONS16]

The team management menu doesn’t look finished yet. It’s presentation seems a bit eh, at the moment.

 

[T2B_]

The team management menu doesn’t look finished yet. It’s presentation seems a bit eh, at the moment.

Still better than Evo 2