Various Issues on PS4

Hi! I have some feedback to give on some issues I have run into from playing AFL Evolution 2 on PS4 for a few weeks now, I hope it comes in handy for future updates/patches

CAREER

—-Menu—

Would be good to see the teams total Premiership Points on the ladder shown on this menu

—-Manage Team—

~~Team Management

Setting a player as Captain does not always set them as the captain once I enter a match

~~Training

Setting a training routine does not save permanently, as if I re-enter the training screen it resets to default

~~Injuries/Tribunal

Sometimes players listed as injured or suspended remain available for selection. I also do not receive emails at times for players getting suspended

—-Office—-

~~Inbox

I have players asking for selection whilst being injured and suspended

I receive emails stating my financial position is poor and to change my staff and finances however my financial situation is fine

‘Match Review’ states players who have performed well, and players who have underperformed which are inaccurate to their performance in the previous match

~~Staff

Raising the Defensive, Midfield, Offensive and Rucking coach bars do not apply bonus XP to any players, these staff do not have any benefit to raise. The bonus XP that would be acquired is also very low (450 bonus XP when having one of the coaches at level 9 would not go far when upgrading stats costs thousands of XP points)

Raising the Scouts bar does not show you the loyalty of the players you are trying to acquire through trades

—-Schedule and Statistics—-

~~Stats

Viewing the stats of every team in the competition causes severe lag issues

It would also be good to have a section stating the leaders of certain awards at any time. Would also be good to have more competition in the Coleman medal race, by the end of my season my Full Forward had 20+ more goals than the player in second place

—-Finals—-

The ladder continues to update your game results during the finals

—-Season Results—-

~~End of season awards

It would be nice to see an overall Top 5/Top 10 tally in the Brownlow, Coleman and Rising Star awards, to see how much it was won by and who the other contenders were

The winners of these awards seem to be very random. I have played and simulated through 3 different seasons, and had Jordan Roughead (Ruckman) and Taylor Walker (Forward) win the Brownlow, and Mitch Robinson (primarily more of a midfield player) win the Coleman.

—-Off Season Hub—-

~~General

Upon saving and exiting to the main menu or closing the game while in the off season hub, your Remaining Trades and Trade Offers from other teams reset, which can result in continuous exiting and re-entering to acquire more desirable trades and offers

~~Free Agency

I had signed 2 players on to my team through the Free Agency, however, these players still existed in their original team, and I was able to trade and acquire 2 of the same player in to my team

I believe there are also a few too many available players through Free Agency, it is very easy to acquire some of the top rated players in the league, I think a fix to this would be having the players ask for a much higher salary than their current one

~~Trading

Some players just straight up do not show up in the trading menu, I am unable to trade some players and acquire some from other teams, eg. I was hoping to trade Sicily for Vlastuin and could not find either

~~Inbox

All previous emails received throughout the season still appeared in my inbox, unopened

~~Staff and Finances

These are still accessible in the Off Season Hub. Seems unnecessary

—-Draft—

There are players in the draft with the surname “PLAYER15” “PLAYER16” etc.

Some of the player rating seems a bit high too. There are 18 year old players in the draft that can be picked up around 80 overall, which is much higher than players who have been in the competition for years

—-Entering the second season—-

Players I have acquired through the Free Agency now exist both in my team and the original team I acquired them from. I have Shane Edwards playing for my team and Richmond simultaneously.

Upon viewing players I have acquired through the draft, I have found some with questionable proportions and stats. I picked up a Ruckman at a Rating of 78, with his Rucking stat at 98, whilst his Height at 176cm, and weight at 76kg. Quite baffling for a Ruckman.

~~Fixture

The fixtures seems completely random. There are just Tuesday-Friday games with no weekend games at all. It would also be nice to see teams who placed higher on the ladder the previous season receive prime time game slots

(I have not played through either Rookie Career or Listed Player career yet, however I have been told there are issues with the selection of whether you are playing in AFL or State League being fairly random too)

FANHUB

—-Guernsey Creator—-

It would be good to be able to place more than 1 logo on your guernsey. Would also be fantastic to use existing AFL, VFL, SANFL etc. guensey designs as templates and change the colours/ logos. Would also be great to be able to use Sponsor logos on guernseys for added realism to custom teams

—-Custom Teams—-

Would be a nice touch to have Banners for custom teams to run through during a match, even if it just had the teams logo on it

—-GAMEPLAY—-

(I play on Legend Difficulty)

~~Swapping players seems buggy, when holding R1 and using the right stick to target a desired player to pass to, it never picks the player I’m looking to pass to, so I have defaulted to using the L1 button which swaps to players who aren’t in the best position to get the ball

~~Using the “Brace” option during mark contests seems buggy, as many times I have been bumped out of the contest seconds after using it, or my player doesn’t go for the mark

~~Rucking contests seem to be very easy to win around the ground. However, whenever I win a ruck contest, my players never seem to be able to collect the ball. It almost always ends up hitting the ground or going straight to opposition, which is very frustrating. Having players run on to collect the ball when it’s hit by the winning ruckman would be great

~~Side and Dynamic camera angles need a fix. It would be great to be able to see up the field ahead to see your options for who to kick to but you can only see a small section of what’s ahead. Also, during Kick In’s after a behind is scored, on many grounds the camera will clip to a spot where you are unable to see where you’re kicking to

~~Crowd should be more vocal when goals are scored, crowd should also be favouring the Home side more than Away. When goals are scored, some of the Cheersquad chants are incredibly loud and repetitive. Would also be good to see more of the Home teams supporters in the crowd than the away team, and in Career mode higher/lower attendances based on how the team is doing on the ladder. Example: If Carlton at 17th is versing Gold Coast at 18th at the MCG the stands shouldn’t be packed

~~The commentary sometimes plays the wrong clips at the wrong times, eg. hearing Hudson talking about a deliberate out of bounds when the ball went out on the full. The commentary also cuts out when skipping cutscenes, would be good if it played out for fluency

~~When the other team is under pressure they seem to kick the ball out on the full a lot, and spray easy set shots too much

~~It would be great to be able to access the quick interchange menu through cutscenes as I never find the time in the midst of a match to use it

~~In the last quarter of many games I suffered lag spikes at times

—-WANTS—-

~~Would love to have a Trophy Room section like the original AFL Live game, where you can view the players you have won awards with through Career mode wearing their medals, and have the Premiership Cups you have won with the team name engraved on it

~~Indigenous guernseys are not present which were a great addition in the first game

~~Maybe some preset custom made anthems to pick from to apply to your custom teams so they don’t all play “Last Ones Standing”