Congratulations, you are now the marketing department for Rugby 24! You already doing much better than the previous team…

We want nothing more than a genuinely great rugby game. Augustin Pichot highlighted of its importance when he was campaigning to become president of World Rugby and the jobs for the boys lot weren’t interested so long as their mate was still in charge. A great rugby game could be enormous for rugby as a whole and we as a fanbase have been starved, although the bones of a good game were there in Rugby 22

As an Irishman I can't wait to see what life is like after the quarters.

Hit the notification harder than Rugby 24 has let us down

This is so cool to see some actual stuff from behind the scenes. Been following the game since first announcement. Cant wait to get our hands on the final game, and even get to see squidge in the crowd!!!

Jonah Lomu Rugby on PS1 was still the GOAT

Class. So good to see the guy behind it, to see he’s a rugby fan, and that he seems really serious about getting it right. People have waiting over 15 years for a good rugby game, another 6m isn’t the end of the world if it makes it successful.

Rugby 08 vibes with the licensing 👀

so they'll have to change the name in Rugby 25

Imagine Squidge is an unlockable player in Rugby 24!

It sounds like they are trying to make the game too big. Just focus on making the gameplay good and fun, eve if it's a small amount of teams at first. Then add the rest of the teams with updates. I have a feeling we will have all the teams and then terrible, clumsy gameplay.

Great video guys. It's really interesting to see the scanning process. I can't wait to fire it up and look for you both in the crowd. Squidge Vs Bears gamer coming soon 👀

I’m so glad they confirmed they would have Edinburgh in there.

Bring back Rugby 08 style gameplay! That’s all everyone wants!

This is great insight Squidge! I have been covering Rugby 24 for some months now and it is great to see some behind the scenes!

Good luck to them! What a cool job! I wish them all the best - take as much time as needed!!!!!

Gameplay so much more important than teams. You can just patch and update teams and make them DLC etc.

Seen some of the pictures of the grounds they have been going around, honestly I love the effort they are putting into this game.

I’m already traumatised by the disappointment. I hope my gut feeling is wrong.

Rugby 08 is still the best…

Man they’re going to have to come to New Zealand again cos our team has changed a lot since 18 months ago 😭 Hopefully they’re going to scan the Super Rugby teams too 🙏

That is brilliant Tech and a great dream! Glad you may be in the crowd.

Thanks Squidge, most insight we've had since it was announced!

I am excited and supportive. But surely the decision to include 140 nations is not worth the time, effort and money. In realistic terms 50 would be more than enough. Just my opinion. Best of luck to the team completing the game.

Love the update, I love even more that this was filmed at northampton!

It really looks like everything is going to be different this time without it being a repeat of last time. Only issue is we don’t know when the release date is, but you can tell loads of passion and heart is being poured into this! Thanks Squidge! I hope you get payed loads of cash for this!

Ross Symonds has done brilliantly with the cricket games producing the only half-decent thing since 2007. Really pumped for this!

I hope they add the EPCR and the Super Rugby Pacific aswell as licensed national teams

oh how i dream of the day a decent playable rugby game. i do love theyre trying. happy to wait that little bit longer if it means the game has signs of being what us fans expect.

Interesting. Love the behind the scenes.

Having lots of teams, official licensing, good graphics and player likeness are all good but very, very secondary to the gameplay. The last few rugby games I played were horrendous with Clunky mechanics and really didn’t play anything like a real game of rugby. Gameplay is what they need to deliver on. Fingers crossed.

Big Ant studios need to kick rocks man. Need to give it to another studio that will give us a proper fun rugby game.

Nothing would be more iconic than if for the All Blacks you actually had the Haka and for the Boks you had amaGwijo(Xhosa war cry) when they exit the tunnels…rugby is personal and emotional especially in national teams. That’d be an amazing inclusion for as many teams as possible.

They should have moddelled you as the team mascot which players would go up and hug. Im definately going to buy this.

If they add a pro clubs mode this would be a hit 🔥

As an American rugby fan and an avide gamer I can’t wait to see this game come to light. Here I’m the states we have rugby but not at the scale of Europe. Would love love love love to see it become more accessible.

couldnt care less for crowds, ball boys, refs even face scans. i want good gameplay to be first priority

Looks like they're doing a great job with the licences. But I hope there will be big improvements in gameplay too

Hell yeah if rugby 24 people read this excited to play the game and gassed at all the hard work you're doing!

2 instinct reactions: - interesting POV cutscene, I wonder if there is a player career mode (love it in NBA 2k games) - Rugby 22 on my PC things it needs to push the GPU harder than RDR2 or Cyberpunk. I genuinely hope they didn't put too many resources into "ALL the teams" and high-detail player models, at the expense of performance Then there are a few pet peeves I have with Rugby 22, but those are minor overall

Are these guys going to tour South Africa soon ?

hopefully the springboks are actually in the game

my big question is how similar is 24 going to b to 22 in game play ? i hope not 2 diffrent i want to hit the ground running.

I wonder if it would help to have several crews gathering imagery simultaneously - surely the capital burn rate must be significant!

Rugby08 was a great rugby game

I would gladly take a game where the gameplay feels natural and flows well than one that goes all over the world scanning player faces. Rugby's biggest issue in video games is that most of the games have never gotten the mechanics of the sport right, with the exception of maybe Rugby 08 and Jonah Lomu Rugby.

Add 7s mode the Olympics are in France you can get the pics of them soon

Your face in the game looks like the IT guy from The Office who bangs on about Bruce Lee in the Hong Kong Triads

Given we are talking about rugby video games, what do people think of Rugby Nations 24 in smartphone?

Squidge got involved. Bigant has alarm sirens blaring right now.

If I was Big Ant Studio's with such a small team, I would rather make a Rugby game and plan for it to have a lofe cycle of 2 or 3 years with updated kits etc etc, untill they atleast have a team that can complete yearly games

Still no gameplay extract, traditionally for any games the 3Cs and vertical slice is the first thing you show

So Squidge is a tight head prop confirmed?

Surely it would’ve been a better strategy to release a complete world cup game with just RWC, all the teams, solid gameplay & no other modes & then release other comps and modes progressively or as DLC?!

Can’t wait !!

Love this, the last game I bought was rugby challenge 3 and before that rugby 11, i stopped buying them cause there was nothing worse than wanting to play as my favourite players but instead got Joe blogs 😅😂

This may mean Squidge can make his greatest wish come true, Wales finally beat the All Blacks in his lifetime.

Good news I hope and pray it is good

This will be massive for Rugby and I genuinely think it could help turn the tide on the struggles the game is experiencing. FIFA played such a huge part in me getting into football and helped me learn a lot about clubs and players, and I think this has the potential to do the same. The fantasy element certainly can play a part too, and I think any career mode aspect would be a key part in it. Great to see them going out of their way to include obscure rugby nations too. P.S Nice to see the Gloucester merch at 06:38 ;)

What they could do is release a yearly paid roster/kit update like a DLC. Then when they've raised the funds and made enough improvements to the game engine say 3/4 years release a new game. Since they can't feasibly release a yearly or even bi anual full game I think this model could work for them.

I have been playing the mobile version of the game, this is looking fantastic. I hope they please don’t rush this and they take their team.

Hopefully there will be world cup qualifying games with 140 nations

I reallly just want an updated rugby 08. What do I mean by that? A licenced World Cup top 20 teams, licenced clubs from NH URC, Top14, Euro Cup, AND I REALLLY WANT SUPERPACIFIC CUp. If we can get the SH clubs in then this will complete me in life. I also want to be able to edit all teams and for it to save. Having post game stats. Same as league, career etc stats you can see throughout a season. Please can we get this. It’s so annoying in R22 having edit a team every single match. So excited for this game and it’s great to see how much effort they’re putting in. I’ll buy it regardless. Love R22

Any news on super rugby/ super pasifc?

Robbie's brother randomly wearing the Cayman Islands national team jersey 😉🇰🇾

To be fair, in 5 minutes they made you into decent NPCs in a Skyrim game Also, you think we might get Portugal?

I'm not expecting gods work but if they promise to evolve I'll buy a copy just for the hope for the future 😂

It would be nice if rugby can come together and prevent the shitshow that happens with FIFA/ EA Licensing and give the fans a really cool game without gouging the studio for money.

I would love a career mode like the way it is in fifa like youth team or under 20s and you can bring them up to the 1st team or like pro clubs but in rugby if that makes sense

Rugby 24 more like rugby 26. Hopefully, it will become annual or bi anual release. Really want this to be great.

'Not actual gameplay footage' Brilliant!!😂 02:49

I've been waiting for a good rugby game since i first played crash bandicoot on ps1

Class to hear that they are finally including the womens teams into the game, might actually buy this game if it means I can play as Ellie Kildunne

okay, so you're telling me that, for example, my friends Claudia Peña, Nadina Cisa, Claudia Cano from Las Leonas, will be in a videogame... that's awesome, they're people I've played with and against hahaha

This stuff should have been done like a year ago, but excited to play the game at some point.

The springboks better be in the game...

I'm buying this...!

Nice to see you getting some cudos in the rugby world. I hope the game is good, sadly the last few were a bit of a let down.

Very exited that the women's teams will be featuring !!!

I'm still on Rugby 06.

You guys need to run an active promotion on this. Similar to how Skate has been doing it.

They need to be able to manage the introduction of changes better. Great having lofty goals but there should have been a cut off for what was being included in the 2024 game so a 2024 game could be released. The additional improvements come as updates or in the 2026 version

Would it not be easier to pay someone with the equipment in the different countries to go round and do this and send it all back to a central hub. Would save money on the travel and would mean a massive job becomes significantly easier

We just want a fun game with complete campaign seasons and visual accuracy. Doubtful that many are overly obsessed about the womans game. Primary objective is what needs attention.

Are we getting super rugby teams too?

If rugby 24 doesn't add a team of the season 99 overall rated Will Owen card that I can sink a lot of money into micro transactions to get for my fantasy team, then I don't want it installed on my playstation. I'm a simple man that knows a quality player when he sees it

Can't wait to play Latvia Vs Iran in this game!

All I ask is not to spam buttons at each ruck, or time things when pushing in a scrum. I liked the way it was played in Rugby 06/08. - That similar engine with slightly heavier feeling players/ slower players - Much more animations - Robust career system with regens

Wow finally a company that gets it

We just want something on the same level as rugby 08

We already know the cheat code... Just pick Antoine Dupont.

Get the players to come in for the photos on the off-season

This was supposed to be released prior to the World Cup. We had no news for it until the World Cup itself to tell us it’s going to be delayed till the 6 Nations. We then got zero news until the 6 Nations, except for news delaying the early access till March, then zero news until the announcement that there are going to be indefinite delays. I’m not asking for them to push a game out half-made, but we could do with some kind of update or even sign of life. Not a puff piece about how good the fidelity is. I’m disappointed.

Nice you're on the inside now, your content is becoming toothless as a result.

I love how passionate they seem to be but sounds like they might be focusing on the wrong thing. photorealistic players doesn't make a good sports game look at NCAA 14 one of the most popular American football games ever. no real players just really fun gameplay and modes. The marketing and communication with fans has been absolutely shocking so far. Hopefully they are able to get it right from here on out.

Any news if theres gonna be super rugby ? We need new Zealand Ander Australian club's

Is it confirmed that vid won’t be available on the Nintendo Switch?

The “140 separate contracts” must mean they’re doing the EA method, individual contracts with clubs and players, so the game can continue if the governing body decides to pull out in future.

Tom Roebuck mention??

Just want a game as good as Rugby 08