May the 4th Update - Full Patch notes

UI

• Removed the team select option from the pause menu in Be A Pro

• The injury slider will hide if injuries are turned off in the options screen

• Failing to create a 7's team will no longer break team linking

• The second half shouldn’t begin with a lineout call in the HUD

• Extra-time will clearly show when it has started

• Text entry areas in multiple screens will not break controllers if they don’t focus correctly

• Some camera options were misnamed or pointing to the wrong option

• Removed the possibility of accidentally making a women’s 15's team

• Created and in-game footedness will match every time

• Starting a tutorial in the pre-game field won’t confuse the loading spinner

• Localisation fixes and translation improvements

• DRM errors

• Desync pop-ups

• Béziers is formatted correctly in multiple screens

• Pro goals will display in the correct language at all times

• Pro goals also use all the correct characters in non-English languages

• Updated credits

• Removed a possible crash in the drafting screen

• The loading screen will now inform you when your saves are being updated

• The career setup screen now makes it clear you can scroll the options

• Newly created players will have their commentary name set correctly, instead of just using [POSITION] by default

• Old sideline camera has been added back into the game as an option

• Trying to enter a custom content screen (Players, Teams, Kits or Comps) while you have no custom content will give you a pop-up, rather than an empty screen

• Those same custom screens as well as the fanhub, will now give you an indication of how many items you’ve downloaded/saved and how much space you have left.

• Fixed an intermittent NMA when being promoted to kicker / captain at the end of a game

Fanhub

• Made it more clear in what category you’re out of space when trying to download new players or teams.

Gameplay

• Stamina changes:

• These came about due to community feedback that substitutions were no longer occurring on the AI teams, as players were no longer getting tired and needing a break

• Tackles use stamina relative to the player strength

• Running causes stamina loss proportionate to the match length

• Increase stamina loss in a sprint

• Reduced stamina regeneration

• Improved stamina usage for your pro player

• Fend is now relative to the difference in strength and break tackle/tackle ability between the offensive and defensive player

• Increase scrum push strength to account for the shortened scrums

• Slightly increase the length of 7's scrums so you can get 2 pushes in

• Made sure you can see the results of the Euro Cup if you play in Premiership, French Div 1 or Elite 14

• Squashed a crash bug at the end of season 2 in career mode

• Set plays and send runner calls will no longer conflict with each other

• Hard and Pro AI will not be quite so godlike in scrums

• Being injured or on international duty will not contribute to your Pro player being fired from their club for poor performance or a lack of attendance

• Ensured that skipped animation frames will not impact controller responsiveness

• The training field will use the vibration settings from the options screen correctly

• Pro stats won’t all tend towards 60 over the course of a career

• Stopped players from cloning themselves in international competitions

• Some loose-ball passes would cause players to not be able to pick up the ball. They have been drilled on correct game-play and this shouldn’t be an issue any longer

• The No. 8 can’t summon the ball back to him after it’s already been passed

• Maximum turn angle and turn speed of mauls has been reduced

• Fullback changes:

• Will move into the correct position when your team loses possession

• Runs more directly at the player with the ball

• The fullback won’t run away from the player if they make a line break

• Wingers are now in support lines with the fullback for extra cover

• Removed random retirement in be a pro mode

Graphics

• Animation rate has been adjusted for players off the ball in order to improve performance

• Updated Eden Park’s daytime lighting

• Fixed up a black line appearing in Toronto Stadium

• Updated back numbers

• Causeway Bay Stadium sponsors updated

• Improved the face rendering to account for memory usage

• Fixed sock colours on several custom teams

• Fixed graphical issue that could happen on some stadiums that made areas darker than they should be

Online

• Major stability improvements

• Inactive players will be warned after 3 minutes in quick matches or 2 minutes in ranked matches.

• Lobbies will unready if the game gender is changed for a 7's match

• Leaving a lobby before it has finished loading will no longer break the training field controls

• Lineout and kicking mini-games have been improved to deal with latency issues on poorer connections

• The lobby will use the correct player models for women's 7's teams

• Teams won’t revert to Aus / NZ when a player joins the lobby

• Reduced the required network traffic for online input

• Dropping out and rejoining a lobby will stop giving you an incorrect colour on the field

• Fixed issue where the game would NMA after the client leaves lobbies multiple times

• Added more textures to be streaming, which improves loading time

Steam

• Controller handling improvements

• Graphics option screen updates and improvements

• Adjusted some Player Creator fields to be more user friendly

• Improvement for Steam online play connections

• Fixed a couple of Steam achievements

• Set-play button is repaired

• The Steam overload won’t affect your chosen team in the lobby

• Improved copy protection

• Resetting the sliders in the options screen works correctly now

• The language select screen will use more of the screen

• The first time start-up will prompt you for your language of choice

• Saves won’t be shared between Steam accounts on the same PC

• Steam-specific VOIP improvements

Switch

• Decreased number of shadow cascades for sun light by half.

• Increased shadow cascade resolution to 1024.

• Reduced minimum object radius for shadow cast to incorporate ball for all shadow quality levels.

• Modified scalability settings to always use a leaner form of circular DOF.

• Fixed blocky players in the main menu

• Fixed issue that was causing end of career crashes

• New custom LOD models

• Trying to go online without an account will show the Nintendo Store correctly

• Adding a second player in online will add them as a guest

• Friendplay icons scale correctly now with the name length

• Downloading Live Data will operate correctly even if you haven’t been into an online area yet

• Adjusted the cut-scenes shown in an online match

• Added some Strip reset code

• Fixed issue where player could be stuck in sin bin after half time

• Greatly improved memory usage

• Fixed issue where a third player could get stuck, joining a 2 player game

• Fixed issue where some players could have wrong team colours applied in tutorials

• Fixed issue where a crash could occur when deleting a team

• A scrum awarded for a knock-on cannot be interrupted by that knock-on rolling over the dead ball line

Xbox

• Fixed issues with bizarre numbers appearing on the leaderboard

• Removed a possible debug text issue

• Fixed issue where the save game information would show up as corrupted text

PS4

• Fixed a crash that could occur at the final result screen in multiplayer

• Issue where if a client rejoined, they were unable to change teams

General

• Improvements to multi-thread handling

• Memory leak hunting and killing

• “Wise Ones” achievement was unlocking in a manner not matching the description

• “Live” is no longer considered a profanity in any languages

• Updated the career analytics process to be more stable

• Auto-save options added to career modes

• “Scrums Won” will track correctly again

• Resetting teams in the Edit Teams screen will not break anymore

• Improved VOIP volume (should be able to hear other players now!)

• Updated VOIP speaker icon so it’s actually a speaker, instead of implying telepathy

• Fixed issue where the player was told they perform poorly for your club, when on international duty or injured

• Improved connection quality, reduced the chance of dropouts, disconnects and desyncs

• Fixed controller disconnect issues that could create crashes or NMAs in some areas

• Added more online error messages, to make it more clear what type of issue actually occurred

• Fixed issue when there are multiple players on one team, in certain scenarios a player could lose control

• Fixed issue with players getting stuck in the wrong animation in the maul tutorial