Ashes Cricket General Discussion

[DBC14 Rocks]

I hope in Ashes Cricket 17 we get better support for modding field Grass sponsors, Boundary ropes sponsors, Stump sponsors and bill board sponsors for game stadiums and also for created stadiums, Don Bradman Cricket 17 modding is confusing and difficult to understand and not really that good at all compared to DBC14 modding which was fantastic and easy to understand!

 

[Dutch]

I love the arrogant tosser on here

Pancakes, pizza’s, beamers, salads, cabers, coins, Hugh Grant?

 

[wasteyouryouth]

Pancakes, pizza’s, beamers, salads, cabers, coins, Hugh Grant?

Does 1v1 mean he wants to toss your salad?

I'm very confused.

 

[Mitchell]

No waste 1v1 means a cricket game

 

[Langeveldt]

It's been less than a month since the last patch. Take off maybe two weeks for the Christmas holidays. Then take a weekeends off too. So it's basically been a week since the last patch.

Brought to you by watching too many episodes of Seinfeld.

But it's the kind of mentality of "we'll release something and then just patch problems out when we get around to it", that is absolutely ruining gaming at the moment.

I'm here playing a test match at 2.04pm, in the dark, in a stuttery custom stadium, in the third iteration of this game. I can forgive fine AI detail being worked with, but this is basic stuff. Add to that the poor bloke who has played hours of a career only to find his player randomly skills up when he changes level and it's not good. Yes they are a small studio, but they are charging for a triple A title. "Just post your concerns in the bug thread and we will get around to looking at it", isn't good enough. I wish this title had some form of competition.

 

[jabbathehut]

Is it too much to ask that club level cricket is played on club level cricket grounds.This is just simple computer programming as is white pads etc.

 

[wasteyouryouth]

But it's the kind of mentality of "we'll release something and then just patch problems out when we get around to it", that is absolutely ruining gaming at the moment.

I'm here playing a test match at 2.04pm, in the dark, in a stuttery custom stadium, in the third iteration of this game. I can forgive fine AI detail being worked with, but this is basic stuff. Add to that the poor bloke who has played hours of a career only to find his player randomly skills up when he changes level and it's not good. Yes they are a small studio, but they are charging for a triple A title. "Just post your concerns in the bug thread and we will get around to looking at it", isn't good enough. I wish this title had some form of competition.

I know you what mean, but I'd at least say it's nice that all games have been released as proper games and not just sold as 'early access'. Honestly I think they've been a victim of their own success since releasing DBC 14, that had flaws but didn't have the issues the subsequent games had. DBC 17 felt like a case of the ambition to improve and expand resulted in a lot of disappointments in terms of the simple stuff. Then with Ashes aspects of it seem rushed, possibly to do with the license and the desire/need to get the game out at a certain date.

There are things I think with broader, more thorough beta testing would have been picked up. That's not a slight on the testers or BA, but there are things that I can't believe would have been missed (and I can quite accept that they were spotted but not fixed) with more time or more focussed testing. I don't know how focussed it was, if fully testing the game in multiple formats, multiple difficulties was done or if it was just a case of 'here's the game give us your feedback. That AI field settings in limited overs need work can be seen by playing two matches. I can live with bugs being present and being missed but it's things like that which are frustrating.

 

[Dean johnes]

Will love see bigant add a option of shortcuts
Of changing the options while batting in online.
Like
Camera angle
Control standard/classic
Invert batting enabled/disable.
It takes lot of time to change it in a online match.
For example I bat in batting far for spin
And broadcast for pace.
So a short cut will be appreciated which will be really helpfull for online matches.

 

[Dutch]

I know you what mean, but I'd at least say it's nice that all games have been released as proper games and not just sold as 'early access'. Honestly I think they've been a victim of their own success since releasing DBC 14, that had flaws but didn't have the issues the subsequent games had. DBC 17 felt like a case of the ambition to improve and expand resulted in a lot of disappointments in terms of the simple stuff. Then with Ashes aspects of it seem rushed, possibly to do with the license and the desire/need to get the game out at a certain date.

There are things I think with broader, more thorough beta testing would have been picked up. That's not a slight on the testers or BA, but there are things that I can't believe would have been missed (and I can quite accept that they were spotted but not fixed) with more time or more focussed testing. I don't know how focussed it was, if fully testing the game in multiple formats, multiple difficulties was done or if it was just a case of 'here's the game give us your feedback. That AI field settings in limited overs need work can be seen by playing two matches. I can live with bugs being present and being missed but it's things like that which are frustrating.

There are reams and reams and reams of posts in the beta threads dealing with ALL the issues we are coming across. I am not trying to make a statement about BA but I do want to make it clear that there is NOTHING, literally NOTHING that has been mentioned post release that has not be mentioned ad nauseum in beta testing. Whoever wants to see this as a backhanded lob to BA is making something of my words that just isn't there.

Whoever wants to bang on about BA being this or that: have fun. I have the utmost respect for them and realise that I am not privy to all their internal systems and processes. Time and time and time again they have proven to be just as passionate about things as we are. There is the ideal world and then there is life itself.

Yes I would have liked to have seen Ashes coming out in its own timeslot so that there could be three months of intensive after care, heck I would like to have seen the game come out perfect and with no bugs and everything working sublimely: the facts are different and I for one want to try and work with the facts without alienating the developers to the extent that there is no more feedback, no more input, no more cricket games.

 

[wasteyouryouth]

There are reams and reams and reams of posts in the beta threads dealing with ALL the issues we are coming across. I am not trying to make a statement about BA but I do want to make it clear that there is NOTHING, literally NOTHING that has been mentioned post release that has not be mentioned ad nauseum in beta testing. Whoever wants to see this as a backhanded lob to BA is making something of my words that just isn't there.

Whoever wants to bang on about BA being this or that: have fun. I have the utmost respect for them and realise that I am not privy to all their internal systems and processes. Time and time and time again they have proven to be just as passionate about things as we are. There is the ideal world and then there is life itself.

I had expected that to be the case.

I'm definitely in the camp that they are punching above their weight. Problem with that is people start to have ridiculously high expectations.

 

[UnknownSoul]

There are reams and reams and reams of posts in the beta threads dealing with ALL the issues we are coming across. I am not trying to make a statement about BA but I do want to make it clear that there is NOTHING, literally NOTHING that has been mentioned post release that has not be mentioned ad nauseum in beta testing. Whoever wants to see this as a backhanded lob to BA is making something of my words that just isn't there.

Whoever wants to bang on about BA being this or that: have fun. I have the utmost respect for them and realise that I am not privy to all their internal systems and processes. Time and time and time again they have proven to be just as passionate about things as we are. There is the ideal world and then there is life itself.

Yes I would have liked to have seen Ashes coming out in its own timeslot so that there could be three months of intensive after care, heck I would like to have seen the game come out perfect and with no bugs and everything working sublimely: the facts are different and I for one want to try and work with the facts without alienating the developers to the extent that there is no more feedback, no more input, no more cricket games.

Totally agree. Seems the forum turns into utter drivel if there's no posts from BA for a few weeks. I try to stay away from the negativity on here but it grows like a wild fire at times.

 

[Wealey]

I had expected that to be the case.

I'm definitely in the camp that they are punching above their weight. Problem with that is people start to have ridiculously high expectations.

I have always said this, you just have to look at the games that came before Big Ant came onto the scene. Some were 'fun' but in all honesty in my opinion Big Ant have produced cricket titles that are light years ahead of the others

 

[Langeveldt]

And my post was not meant to be an attack on BA. Just a wish that things were better. I sense a frustration among the tiny beta team that they are perhaps not being given the airtime they would want.

 

[jabbathehut]

i think we are all part of the beta team to a greater of lesser extent

 

[Dutch]

And my post was not meant to be an attack on BA. Just a wish that things were better. I sense a frustration among the tiny beta team that they are perhaps not being given the airtime they would want.

We have all the air time imagineable: how much time and recources do BA have to sift through the feedback and implement fixes and patches? Thats the question.....