Ashes Cricket 2013 General Discussion

[AsadAbrar]

Well after reading a lot of posts above regarding yorker and sixes, i must say Chief gave the right explanation and many havent understood it atall.
By theory, a yorker is a ball that lands right at your foot or anywhere along that length.
Now considering the power hitting and slogfests you guys have been talking about, will anyone please tell me which of those balls actually 'landed' at foot's length?
They were either low full tosses(Mcullum's scoops) as the batman moves forward or the batsman moves backward and it becomes a half volley(Helicopter shot sixes).
So im of the opinion a yorker is a yorker only with respect to the batsman's position and not a fixed point on the pitch. Hence, when a ball ends up being a yorker its impossible to loft it up into the air...it simply defies physics. I guess this was what Chief tried to say too.
Cheers.

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Meanwhile i have a question, Do different players have different heights?

Yup, that's what chief was trying to say. The fixed point bowl would be called a "yorker-length bowl" or a "fuller length bowl". A yorker should be a bowl which is shot straight at the batsman's feet. Even if he comes down the wicket and the ball comes at his feet, it would be a yorker.

 

[Gone4aDuck]

I've gotta say chief, I hope your editor is good this time around. Big ants thread has a clip of their rugby editor. They claim their cricket one is better. And I've gotta say, the rugby one looks pretty sweet.

 

[SibiNaayagam]

I've gotta say chief, I hope your editor is good this time around. Big ants thread has a clip of their rugby editor. They claim their cricket one is better. And I've gotta say, the rugby one looks pretty sweet.

Yeah and i gotta add, they are trying to create a competition and all determined to win it.

 

[Gurjot95]

Hold your horses mate, you can't decide the winner by seeing two screens. We're yet to see what they offer in gameplay.

 

[zimrahil]

Now considering the power hitting and slogfests you guys have been talking about, will anyone please tell me which of those balls actually 'landed' at foot's length?
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Loads do actually in IC10. At least when you see them on hawkeye at the end of the over

You can bowl a perfect 'yorker' length and if AI decides to play a hook shot, the ball often magically rises to connect with the bat.
If you get hawkeye at end of over, you will see the 'true' directory of the delivery, i.e. landed right at foot's length

 

[jaraarrow]

Online

Dont know if this question has been asked but will we be able to play this new game online or will we get disconnected to server errors and huge lag like we did in ic 2010 and ashes 2009?
Also will quitters be punished online?

 

[coolz_hari]

@Chief
Can we see teams choose bowling according to pitches and country we play ?
Eg: If we play in sri lanka spinners are preferred with new ball in t20s and odis ?

Can low rating teams bowl with decent speed ? Afganistan bowler also touched 140kmph .But,in game low rated team bowlers can't bowl more than 120kmph.


Can we set manually for medium run up...long run up...shot run up according to our wish?

please reply
Thank you

 

[Biggs]

I've gotta say chief, I hope your editor is good this time around. Big ants thread has a clip of their rugby editor. They claim their cricket one is better. And I've gotta say, the rugby one looks pretty sweet.

Um... first, lets not turn this thread into a X Game vs. Y Game thread. This is NOT what this thread is for.

Hold your horses mate, you can't decide the winner by seeing two screens. We're yet to see what they offer in gameplay.

Exactly. There is no "winner". This isn't Twilight, it's not Team Edward and nobody is sparkling in the sunlight. We're the consumer, the customer. We have the right to demand the absolute best, but it's not about picking sides or saying X is good, just because they post a few pretty pictures.

Keep the thread focused guys, and positive about AC13, great questions... and not about who has the biggest..... Donuts.

 

[SibiNaayagam]

Loads do actually in IC10. At least when you see them on hawkeye at the end of the over

You can bowl a perfect 'yorker' length and if AI decides to play a hook shot, the ball often magically rises to connect with the bat.
If you get hawkeye at end of over, you will see the 'true' directory of the delivery, i.e. landed right at foot's length

I was actually talking about real life cricket not about the game.

 

[savvart]

Hi Chief,

Any word on the ability to replay whenever we choose to and save them for viewing later - just like Fifa??? thx

 

[zimrahil]

I was actually talking about real life cricket not about the game.

oh, lol

 

[Chief]

Dont know if this question has been asked but will we be able to play this new game online or will we get disconnected to server errors and huge lag like we did in ic 2010 and ashes 2009?
Also will quitters be punished online?

Obviously we're working on giving you the very best online experience possible!
Each player will have an indicator to tell you what sort of percentage of games they have started have been completed. This is the fairest thing we can think of: happy to entertain other ideas if people can come up with a way to do this!

 

[barmyarmy]

What are you planning on doing about allowing for reconnections to complete a game? If a player wants to reconnect and isn't trying to quit they should be able to. We all have dodgy internet sometimes.

 

[Chief]

Blimey! I pop away for a couple of days, and all of a sudden you're all turning Melbourne into West Side Story up in here!

Much as I'd love to see that dance-off (and I'm researching the rug-cutting abilities of everyone on our team right now), let's not get crazy! I'm a big admirer of Ross's strategy at Big Ant over the past few years, and I can't wait to see their game much like you guys!
The Melbourne dev community is awesome with some great talent there, but it's been seen some tough times and I'm always very chuffed when a game is announced.

I'm sure that I'm right in saying that your wishes/suggestions are hugely important in shaping both games, so please let's focus on those, rather that wasting time with some pretty vague long-range speculation about which game is better at this early stage: Rest assured we'll have plenty of time for that later when the games are actually out!

I wonder whether BarmyArmy was right (somewhere: i can't find the exact post!) about having a separate forum for general "Cricket Game Suggestions and Wishes", probably ideally split up into individual feature-threads ("Career Mode", "Stat Tracking", "Commentary", "Sound FX", "Batting Mechanics", "Bowling Mechanics" etc) as well as the threads dedicated to individual games? Maybe that would work well?

 

[MattW]

I wonder whether BarmyArmy was right (somewhere: i can't find the exact post!) about having a separate forum for general "Cricket Game Suggestions and Wishes", probably ideally split up into individual feature-threads ("Career Mode", "Stat Tracking", "Commentary", "Sound FX", "Batting Mechanics", "Bowling Mechanics" etc) as well as the threads dedicated to individual games? Maybe that would work well?

While it's a bit buried the forum we designate for cross game wishlists are in Other Current/Future Cricket Games - Cricket Games General Chat at PlanetCricket.net - This thread goes back to 2002.

That said, I think the discussion is worth being split in general - because for this game suggestions are mostly built around what IC2010 did right and wrong (even though it's not the base for AC013), and the realities of the features already confirmed or not confirmed for both games.

Obviously there's some overlap, but then again I'm sure the flow of discussions will trend different ways when you start talking in the contexts of the specific games - and both sets of developers can always peek over the shoulder of the others.