Multiplat AFL 26 - Releasing May 8th

[Dannnnnnnnnn]

A reminder before this game's alleged release.

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In the wise, wise words of Jasper Beardsley:

 

[KingNothing]

Games out in less than a month and 0 gameplay footage - good sign that.

Better start dusting off the excuses boys!

"The Xbox copies probably just got lost in a shipping container at sea"
"They probably submitted the patch to Sony 6 months ago but you know, Sony patch approval process takes years per patch"
"Actually even though they advertised the **** out of ProTeam in the lead-up to the game they never legally officially stated it would be in the game at launch "
"Besides the fact you can't tackle, the game crashes every 4 minutes and there's no team tactics I think it's really really promising"

 

[Scallop Industry Thug]

Tackle. Ball squirts out to player who is tackled, ball squirts out to player who is tackled then the ball squirts out…

 

[bone2468]

Still won’t be buying it until it’s out and I see enough reviews, I love my AFL and want the game to work so well but I have PTSD from the last one

 

[carn tigez]

Funny how we all start chiming in with our ideas for improvement when the dev work is all done and the game is finalized. At least in theory haha, guess that's not what happened 2 years ago!

One thing for me that they did a decent job of last time but could improve is punishing the long bomb inside 50. Having a Steven May take the mark 90% of 2 v 1 type thing, to prevent the slow ball movement long bomb which never works in real AFL. And differentiating the teams/players on a related note, should be able to feel a 99 Dustin Martin being completely dominant over a 70 rating. Hopefully they've fixed this as removes any point in trading, drafting etc if players don't play significantly different.

 

[Wettoast11]

Why does the cover actually look good though? Reminds me of AFL Live.

 

[Ambrose Burnside]

Why does the cover actually look good though? Reminds me of AFL Live.

?

 

[mickelboy182]

Isn’t like 90% of this the same as AFL23?

The whole game will be, as is their MO. Reuse everything and add some superficial broken feature and hey presto, more cashflow.

 

[RPCB]

The whole game will be, as is their MO. Reuse everything and add some superficial broken feature and hey presto, more cashflow.

The bigger shock will end up being people paying $100 for this game and then being surprised that it’s as crappy and broken as AFL23.

 

[Treehill23]

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[Treehill23]

The whole game will be, as is their MO. Reuse everything and add some superficial broken feature and hey presto, more cashflow.

I’m a sucker for a new AFL game so I’ll reserve judgement until the game comes out but there’s a big chance I come back to the dark side
Or light side ?

 

[Grechy]

I'll be really shocked if it's polished, they're releasing games unfinished and just developing them after it's out.

I gave them the benefit of the doubt after AFL 23 was released but after the releases of Cricket 24/Tie Break and Rugby it was obvious that BA were rushing out games broken and fixing them on the fly whilst paying customers who paid full price for their games were basically beta testers.

 

[JT_the_Man]

Trophy list is out

https://psnprofiles.com/trophies/33099-afl-26

Underwhelming.

 

[Ambrose Burnside]

I gave them the benefit of the doubt after AFL 23 was released but after the releases of Cricket 24/Tie Break and Rugby it was obvious that BA were rushing out games broken and fixing them on the fly whilst paying customers who paid full price for their games were basically beta testers.

And then releasing gambling modes that break whenever new objectives are added while raking in more money from those with more dollars than sense.

 

[FearTheBeard13]

Trophy list is out

https://psnprofiles.com/trophies/33099-afl-26

Where’s the ‘Beta Tester - play the game on launch day at 30% build’ at? .

On a serious note, really hope this isn't the case again.

 

[SugarShane]

The whole game will be, as is their MO. Reuse everything and add some superficial broken feature and hey presto, more cashflow.

At this point it's probably preferable. Better chance of fixing something that they've been trying to fix for 2 years than starting back at square 1.

 

[Michaels]

for anyone who is interested, did a video unpacking the info provided and spoke about a few things I feel the modes need to contain for the game to land like we all hope / want it to.

 

[GOTHELIONS16]

for anyone who is interested, did a video unpacking the info provided and spoke about a few things I feel the modes need to contain for the game to land like we all hope / want it to.

Nice vid Michaels

 

[GOTHELIONS16]

Apparently an AFL26 trailer is on the opening gather round runsheet

 

[Bianconeri]

Apparently an AFL26 trailer is on the opening gather round runsheet

Irrefutable industry data suggests no actual gameplay will be shown.

 

[SugarShane]

Irrefutable industry data suggests no actual gameplay will be shown.

What's on the bingo card?

Teams running out onto the ground, with the player/team skins rapidly switching between each team

3 speccy animations

Canned animations recreating real world events that will never show up in game (Heeney mark)

A bunch of real world goal celebrations that also don't happen in game

 

[Ambrose Burnside]

What's on the bingo card?

Teams running out onto the ground, with the player/team skins rapidly switching between each team

3 speccy animations

Canned animations recreating real world events that will never show up in game (Heeney mark)

A bunch of real world goal celebrations that also don't happen in game

Perfect

 

[Treehill23]

What's on the bingo card?

Teams running out onto the ground, with the player/team skins rapidly switching between each team

3 speccy animations

Canned animations recreating real world events that will never show up in game (Heeney mark)

A bunch of real world goal celebrations that also don't happen in game

This actually reminds me of the AFL23 trailer how Pendles picks up the ball whilst simultaneously doing a blind turn
Was this ever possible in AFL23 ?
Genuinely never tried it

 

[RPCB]

Where’s the ‘Beta Tester - play the game on launch day at 30% build’ at? .

On a serious note, really hope this isn't the case again.

No one can accuse you of not being serious.

 

[dondolla]

I really hope they fix the player models for the new game. I remember the player sizes were weird too, players were really really thin or really wide, I remember Sicily had the same body shape as Stringer. I realise as I'm writing this that the reason is probably that the devs don't care enough to pay enough attention/put enough detail into this stuff.

Crazy that I'm praying they don't make players look like spongebob, but here we are. My hopes aren't high on this...

 

[Ry009]