AFL Evolution - Launch thread

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Did they not have play testers? Seems a lot of these issues should have been caught early.
- Marking
- Commentary names stuff up
- Stats out of whack
- Random CPU misses from goal square
- Player position resetting after a free
- The whole fatigue/simulate thing

Although the problems are less noticeable when you're shit talking your mates.

Considering every person who has played the game has complained about the broken marking system it makes no sense who WW weren't aware of it, unless it is some sort of cheap CPU trick to increase the difficulty.

 

[Smartys Power]

The game's shithouse.

Career mode fatigue simulation is dumb. Started a competition and commentators got only one players name right out of 44. The marking system is BS. So much wrong with it.

 

[Quivorir]

Yd

Cometti's one liners are giving me the shits

Yeah I lasted two games before turning all the sounds off. This game will only be played with Spotify in the background. Absolutely disgusting audio all round.

 

[Strahany]

My early thoughts

 

[Landgraft]

I found marking pretty straightforward from the get-go, the only thing bothering me is the sheer number of frees that seem to ensue from every single tackle. Almost no ball ups tp speak of, which is just weird.

But my rover of pure physicality that loves running torps has been a lot of fun. I did play around a little with quick matches but mostly I've been enjoying the career mode.

 

[Quivorir]

Also richo constantly calling it a catch, not a mark.

Boundary umpires 5m in the field when making decisions. The 50m penalty for being in the protected zone despite being a cm behind you're opponent. I'm almost certain Wicked witch don't actually wach footy.

 

[Tbonefreo]

If i join the TAC in be a pro, can i get drafted?

 

[LynchysMob]

Requires a big patch for the bugs but the foundation is there and personally I'm really enjoying it.

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[SgtSchulz]

Honest thoughts

Is it as good as AFL Live 1?

 

[Grimoz]

As far as the gameplay goes im enjoying it but my god the animations are bloody terrible, how hard is it to motion capture someone kicking the footy, its the exact same kicking as live 2 and it sucks, but overall the game is good, could use some anti aliasing though to get rid of those jagged edges.

 

[Moist Biscuit]

If i join the TAC in be a pro, can i get drafted?

Nope, You don't get drafted. You can sign with teams. It's like the people that made the game have nfi about the sport.

 

[james Dean]

Quite possibly the worst game I've played on PS4

The marking, what the actual **** how could they make such an important aspect of the game so ****ing difficult. It honestly makes the game unplayable

The commentary is an absolute mess everyone's names are swapped around with other players who start with the same first letter, Richo sounds like he's half asleep

The ****ing music repeating every 5 minutes and I like that city calm down song (even if it is just a ripoff of the cure) but Jesus

The speed of the game is too fast, the AI just strings together passes from one end to the other.

The sound is abysmal, the crowd are dead silent.

There is no logic to the free kick system, it is pure chance and the AI will get 5x as many as you do.

I'm trying to come up with a few positives;

It looks nice when you string together a few handpasses the link up play looks nice.

The cameras are ok I suppose


Overall an absolute bucket of shit and I will return it within 3 days I'm sure

 

[Temploar]

Seriously can't believe I sold FIFA 17 for this shit

 

[raticus_usm]

Hey guys, did a 2016 Grand Final rematch. Used some different camera angles to see which ones were good/not good.

Thanx for that....that crowd noise..arrrrggghhhhh and the commentary is bad too

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[Gibbsy]

My PS4 sounds like it's about to take off and fly it's that loud. Dunno why. I think the foundations are decent and I'm sure I'll enjoy the game more once I get a hang of how to play properly. Wish it wasn't just 1 on 1s all around the ground though. Need more leading targets in the F50 too.

 

[offtherails9]

Is anyone else having big time problems with marking contests? I played the Bombers and they were quite easily just kicking it 20m to one on one contests but comfortably winning every time, before eventually kicking a goal. This was on medium, I put it down to easy but then it was a bit too easy, Breust kicked 9. Apart from that it's okay.

 

[Gibbsy]

Seriously can't believe I sold FIFA 17 for this shit

Do you ever shut up? Got no issues with one or two posts saying it's bad but five or six is just like uh we get it. It's 'like' hunting

 

[Temploar]

My PS4 sounds like it's about to take off and fly it's that loud. Dunno why. I think the foundations are decent and I'm sure I'll enjoy the game more once I get a hang of how to play properly. Wish it wasn't just 1 on 1s all around the ground though. Need more leading targets in the F50 too.

Even if you do manage to get a leading target the ball is likely to fly right through their hands due to this shitty marking system.

 

[Temploar]

Do you ever shut up? Got no issues with one or two posts saying it's bad but five or six is just like uh we get it. It's 'like' hunting

Hi. I think the game is shit. Is this my 7th or 8th now?

 

[Pistol34]

I've had so issues in the career mode it won't let me type my name in it just says censored censored. Any one else had this problem ?

 

[Archer_11]

Sorry haven't read the last few pages but it's up on PSN now.

 

[Moist Biscuit]

Do you ever shut up? Got no issues with one or two posts saying it's bad but five or six is just like uh we get it. It's 'like' hunting

Block him? The game is pretty shit so he's not lying.

 

[aussiedude]

Most of the issues should of been picked up in QA. unless they didnt have any and we are paying BETA testers.

 

[RickSanchez]

Had two games against my mate who never played it (I only played 2-3 games before I played against him).
I owned him but he out marked me so much. I was doing the whole hold and release thing but he would always out mark me all the time, even if I was in the much better position and with a player that had better marking/height. I dunno what he was doing but it was working for him which probably says the system is a bit strange and I am quite bad at marking. I think he might just be spamming triangle but as I am watching him play v AI he seems to get a lot of good timing, although the AI is out marking him now.

It's pretty fun for a muck around game and that's about it so far, but it's been less than a day so I'll revisit what I think of it and what I will do with it in a week.

 

[Biggy_Boy]

Did they not have play testers? Seems a lot of these issues should have been caught early.
- Marking
- Commentary names stuff up
- Stats out of whack
- Random CPU misses from goal square
- Player position resetting after a free
- The whole fatigue/simulate thing

Although the problems are less noticeable when you're shit talking your mates.

There were some clear hints in the lead-up to the game that we would see glaring issues like this which should have been picked up earlier. They are of course consistent with WW's track record, and we should have known what it meant when we saw stuff like absurd player details that didn't get positions right and player models that couldn't even get the skin colour of a player right, let alone other prominent distinguishing features. As much as the discussion focuses on lack of money and resources, it sometimes feels like a lack of care or attention to detail. How hard would it really be to get people to playtest the game to identify these problems?