Batting gameplay & online play

[grkrama]

OK. So you're a smart guy, you've hit the nail on the head with regard to multiplayer

We know at the point of the ball leaving the hand what the delivery will be and where it will land so we can send that to the "batting" side. At that point for the "bowling" side we slow time, during this initial slowdown the bowler sees the ball in slow motion for a few frames as it leaves his hand. It then catches up to real time almost straight away. This means we should not have laggy play.

The key is that the batsman never sees any slowdown and has the delivery at the exact pace it should be, the bowler only sees a slowdown as it leaves their hand (which does not effect gameplay).

The time going across the net has to be accommodated for and the speeds at which we bowl etc require this sort of solution.

The level of attention to detail gone into game seems very high in every area esp for a first game ,seriously more than ross is letting out.
And there are people saying he is hyping the game

 

[BigAntStudios]

You'll still get inundated with complaints about how there is "lag" after every delivery is bowled when they are the bowling side online.

The slow down appears at the start of the ball, the batsman sees none. We will get the normal idiots but it's OK, I know it's all as good as it can be.

 

[Oscar]

I also believe there is a fair bit up Ross' sleave

I mean this online function is brilliant. A wonderful idea to send the batting side a realtime version and slow it for the bowler to ensure the timing is right. Just fantastic.

 

[ChinamanSpin]

The slow down appears at the start of the ball, the batsman sees none. We will get the normal idiots but it's OK, I know it's all as good as it can be.

It sounds like a great idea to me. Was it initially challenging to come up with a way to combat it?

 

[BigAntStudios]

Very challenging, the net also suffers drop out of packets or packets arriving in different order to when they were sent, you don't know if the packets not going to arrive until a certain time has passed, and the resend of packets is a killer.

 

[Meet]

Last thing, when we are on the topic of online play. Will there be auto-saves?

 

[isrararrafi]

Last thing, when we are on the topic of online play. Will there be auto-saves?

Yes