Batting and Bowling Nets now available in the Cricket Academy

[Gamer Pradosh]

New things noticed:

-Like BRAB said there's a layer to assign flight or Bounce to deliveries. Great addition and works really well too.

-BEST addition is spinners and pace bowlers can change the line of bowling close, middle and wider the crease..FYI pressing left and right button.

-Bowlers hit the pitch really hard now cant wait to bowl some pacy inswinger to batsman hitting his ribs..

-Way too much drift, havent been able to turn the ball yet...Others like top spin works really well..

-And guys there's bounce for spin..So pulling will be possible..[But seeing the stream didnt get to see the bounce even on deliveries with RED reticle]..Will check and tell.

-Theres 4 lengths now...A is good, B is Short, X is very full [yorkers] and Y is full length..

Having awesome fun though..

 

[Rob Stanworth]

@MattW - what are your thoughts on the drift from spinners? Seems far too exaggerated.

Also, are there any 'batsmen getting hit' animations from bouncers? Or are they all as hard as Brian Close?!

 

[Wealey]

You can now pull short deliveries from the spinners:

Could be my eyes but if that's a spinner, it's coming down at 75mph?

 

[cricket_online]

New things noticed:

-Like BRAB said there's a layer to assign flight or Bounce to deliveries. Great addition and works really well too.

-BEST addition is spinners and pace bowlers can change the line of bowling close, middle and wider the crease..FYI pressing left and right button.

-Bowlers hit the pitch really hard now cant wait to bowl some pacy inswinger to batsman hitting his ribs..

-Way too much drift, havent been able to turn the ball yet...Others like top spin works really well..

-And guys there's bounce for spin..So pulling will be possible..[But seeing the stream didnt get to see the bounce even on deliveries with RED reticle]..Will check and tell.

-Theres 4 lengths now...A is good, B is Short, X is very full [yorkers] and Y is full length..

Having awesome fun though..

Can you place the ball anywhere in the 360 degree arc? In DBC 14 you could only hit the ball in certain directions and am hoping the range has expanded.

 

[UnknownSoul]

Can't seem to use my xbox controller. it works up until i get in nets then doesn't

 

[cricket_online]

Could be my eyes but if that's a spinner, it's coming down at 75mph?

Noticed that and it should be 75 Kph, not 75 Mph!

 

[SibiNaayagam]

Move the left stick along that section to the direction of the flight/bounce label - to increase those particular things.

It's for fine tuning your delivery length.

Yep - or a full toss in some cases.

So you can decide against it.

Thanks for the clarification. I hope you noted that i mentioned about the leg break/googly, offbreak/doorsa being inverted?

Speed of delivery - was on LB/RB in DBC14. There's the addition of a spin 'effort ball' on RT as well - which we've nicknamed the fearsome tweak button...

Haha :P I missed that one. Should go check again.

Basically it's kinda what was possible with some really fine balancing of the defensive trigger in DBC14 - but moved to make it something a bit more accessible. Use it to slowly nudge into gaps, pick up twos, etc

Thanks a ton! Was hoping it would be exactly this. So the only remaining power related question is, would be able to chip a shot knowingly with the controls we have?

You should be able to - how's your timing?

Timing was mostly good. I certainly wasn't able to defend. And it went up or on the ground depending on where I met the ball on the bat.
I really really wish that once you toggle the advance down the wicket, then you can use the remaining shot modifiers normally, which would be so awesome and realistic. It will allow me to come down and play a precision shot if I was not comfortable with the length the bowler was bowling. I really hope something like that can be done?

EDIT: OR wait should I press the same toggle button to defend now? What is the control for advancing and defending? I was using the defensive trigger?

 

[SibiNaayagam]

You can now pull short deliveries from the spinners:

It's functional but that animation is fine for a fast bowler's short ball. As for a spinner the right hand batsman would get his right leg towards the far right to create a strong base to pull from.

Can you place the ball anywhere in the 360 degree arc? In DBC 14 you could only hit the ball in certain directions and am hoping the range has expanded.

Yes you can in about 300 deg or so. Except for straight back of the wicket. Those are only for edges currently.

 

[Gamer Pradosh]

New info:

Pressing the R1 and R2 [Precision shot and Defense] gives a push kind of shot..Nice addition..

 

[Allrounder18]

No one has commented about bowling animations , how they are now?

 

[mikeymerren]

Just to confirm, yep, there is a speed issue on the Spin currently and also, the drift is way too much - we had the discussion before the release that it was too much, other changes had a knock on effect. we will rectify early next week.

 

[Gamer Pradosh]

No one has commented about bowling animations , how they are now?

Simple yet new feel..[DOUBLEPOST=1471001070][/DOUBLEPOST]

Thanks for the clarification. I hope you noted that i mentioned about the leg break/googly, offbreak/doorsa being inverted?

Same is with Inswing and outswing as well..

 

[SibiNaayagam]

No one has commented about bowling animations , how they are now?

Here see this...

If my eyes didn't fool me, I think the release of the ball is appropriate to the arm release point and feels smooth aka real. Correct me if I'm wrong.

@MattW or if someone could answer this, it would be great?

Is the precision shot a solo button or can be used as a combination?

 

[Gamer Pradosh]

Thanks and am assuming the chances of edging behind or playing a mistimed shot are reduced when you play a 'Precision' shot.

Actually edged quite a few on legend..[DOUBLEPOST=1471001325][/DOUBLEPOST]

Is the precision shot a solo button or can be used as a combination?

New info:

Pressing the R1 and R2 [Precision shot and Defense] gives a push kind of shot..Nice addition..

 

[LittleBigPlanet]

It's functional but that animation is fine for a fast bowler's short ball. As for a spinner the right hand batsman would get his right leg towards the far right to create a strong base to pull from.

Yep well said!