Console Patch 3 Release?

[richowebbo]

The recent England matches got me remembering I owned DBC14. It's a shame that the patch hasn't come out yet. It was almost a great Cricket game.

Hopefully the next edition will be better for bowling, without having to learn what all the skills mean and sort it out ourselves! It'd be great for the game to play like proper cricket out of the box.

 

[Gamer Pradosh]

...does this "friend" need a controller too?

No he can stand besides the one playing and dance to gangnam style...

 

[mrzdt]

Where can I find the notes of what is icluded in patch 3?

 

[Biggs]

...in the Egyptian book of the dead

 

[Acid Burn]

• AI changes fields quicker
• Further improvements to field placement selection.
• Resolved applying fields to all batters/bowlers issue.
• Resolved rare co-op save & resume functionality issues
• Added ability to set a single field for all batsmen and bowlers at once.
• Fielding selections will now carry over between bowlers.
• Reworked AI field placement decisions and field choices.
• Added [P] symbol to score HUD to show power-play.
• Added online co-op difficulty choice.
• Added online versus difficulty choice.
• Added ability to select batsmen before super over.
• Added Lofted sweep and lofted reverse sweep shots - Use LB+LT.
• Added Advance grounded shots - Use RB+LT+RT.
• Added ability to set fields in practice match, for bowler.
• Improved AI run chase pacing.
• AI attempt to run between wickets more aggressively (should be attempting more 1's & 2's where applicable, as well as 3's).
• Changed time limit for looking around field (unlimited in single player - 8 seconds in multiplayer).
• Corrected missing delivery sometimes resulting in the batsman twitching - causing run outs/stumpings.
• Corrected batsman slides back a bit towards default position after moving him.
• Corrected swapping to the wicketkeepers position in the batting lineup made you WK in Career mode.
• Corrected moving a player up the batting order, shuffling the rest of the order down.
• Corrected AI shot choices on a free-hit.
• Corrected super over run chase not being aggressive.
• Resolved a crash when resuming a casual match and selecting the away side.
• Online/offline 2 player vs AI co-op mode.
• Online/offline 2 player vs 2 player co-op mode.
• Improvements to online gameplay connections.
• Ability to change difficulty in career at any point.
• Ability to skip to career player at any point.
• Pause Menu Indicator now says Partner when in co-op.
• Changed score HUD from KPH to KM/H.
• Changed format of Score HUD.
• Removed difficulty notification in Career.
• Running call sound effects in online co-op multiplayer.
• Removed forfeit warnings when playing online co-op multiplayer
• Resolved bowler selection issue in career.
• 2 v AI coop.Improved Online issues.Change of difficulty in career at any stage.
• Add support for Steam Cloud Saves
• Added per-team modding support
• Fixed issues resuming online matches on the opposite machine to the one commencing
• Fixed career crash related to international selection
• Increased shot power on light defensive trigger shots.
• Resolved online co-op save and resume flow issues.
• Resolved camera issues when hitting ball behind batsman in close camera.
• Increased minimum bowling speed for spinners.
• Add more power to lofted sweep shots to allow for sixes when timed perfectly.
• Removed collision from non-striker batsman.

 

[Gone4aDuck]

You typed all that just to answer his question? Jeez you have alot of spare time.
I have some dishes in the kitchen if youre up to it?

 

[MattW]

You typed all that just to answer his question? Jeez you have alot of spare time.
I have some dishes in the kitchen if youre up to it?

You can find that in copy paste form here. Worth noting that the modding stuff and Steam cloud are PC only out of that list.

 

[Acid Burn]

@Gone4aDuck , I copied my own previous compilation post for him .

 

[adikal]

This is all great but the fact that the console patch is still not out, and Ross's quote in jest in a previous thread that "it will definitely be out before Christmas" looking more and more unlikely (starting to make it look like OnLive's iOS patch), it seems there are only two possibilities:
1. Platform holders are screwing BA and BA really needs to re-think its agreement or whatever they have in place so that next time around it doesn't take so long to release a patch
2. This is how it generally is with smaller game companies who don't have a bug budget and established relationships with MS, Sony, and we just never hear of things like this because seldom are companies as transparent to its community as BA.
Hoping it isn't 2 but what do I know.

 

[Biggs]

...I'm just looking forward to Christmas Day where I can sit down around a warm fire, a glistening Christmas tree and bask in the afterglow of a festive dinner and play co-op on console with my brother, @blockerdave.

 

[Oxygen.]

Great patch.

 

[MattW]

Great patch.

What did you like about it?

 

[Markkkkk]

The invaluble conversations and experiences we gained...

 

[Benspursfan]

I'm looking forward to the new patch, but I'm loving the game just as it is. The PS4 version is a lot better than PS3, quicker loading, smoother etc, but there is just so much to enjoy. The amount of thought, complexity and attention to detail compared with every other cricket game ever to have come out is astonishing. It's a shame people get so caught up in the smaller things when there is so much to admire. I imagine the next version of the game will be quite a step up from where we are now in so many ways and it's so exciting! After a lifetime (yes, I'm 40 and have been playing cricket games since Graham Gooch on the C64, still one of the best cricket games ever for playability) of general disappointment to have a game that ticks so many boxes and then to have the commitment of a second installment guaranteed is fantastic. I would love the opportunity to support Big Ant as a beta tester on the next version, any chance of that happening Ross?

 

[Biggs]

Graham Gooch was an obsession for me back in the day, I bought my first computer based on wanting to play that game and, later, Alan Border Cricket.