DBC14 Console Digital Version, Patch#2, Patch#3

[The_Pharoah]

All 5 difficulties will now be available from the start of a new career.

just confirming, does the difficulty increase over time even if you start at Rookie or whatever is the easiest? ie. so you start at Rookie, you will hit Veteran or whatever is the highest by say year 5?

 

[CaptainOZ]

All 5 difficulties will now be available from the start of a new career.

There won't be as much of a gap between Amatuer and Pro now.

Thank you very much!

They are the changes I really needed....

 

[cricket_online]

We've re-balanced the difficulties to make things ramp up a lot more fairly this time around.

There won't be as much of a gap between Amatuer and Pro now.

I hope you haven't watered down "Legend" difficulty level.

 

[HBK619]

just confirming, does the difficulty increase over time even if you start at Rookie or whatever is the easiest? ie. so you start at Rookie, you will hit Veteran or whatever is the highest by say year 5?

It does. The difficulty increases as your skill rises as well as reaching newer levels like International, but the difficulty level rise will only go up by a maximum of two levels, so as to make sure no rookie rises up to Legend.

For example, if you start off at Rookie difficulty level and select one of the new age starting points (let's say 31yo) that puts you at rank 4 for skill, you will go up a difficulty level for reaching International and then another difficulty for reaching rank 5 on skill.

As said, you will only go up in difficulty by a maximum of 2 spots though. So Rookie to a max of Pro, Amateur to a max of Veteran, Pro to a max of Legend, Veteran to a max of Legend and Legend will stay at Legend.

I hope you haven't watered down "Legend" difficulty level.

Legend remains the same.

Pro has been tuned to be more in between Amateur and Veteran like it should've been, giving an easier ramp up. And Veteran has been made similar to what Pro was with a few minor tweaks in there.

 

[Blinder]

Why do you think its up to the game developer to help you with this?

You need to practice. You already got an answer. Its not a bug or a patch or an issue. Its that you havent spent enough time practicing.

this belongs in ... Post your questions about the game here! with no reference made to devs.

Settle down grumpy - why you so angry all the time?

 

[Frostyvegi]

Settle down grumpy - why you so angry all the time?

The point raised is still valid, I'm now having no issue with spin when previously I was suffering badly. With practice I learnt the correct time to play the shot (which, by the way, doesn't matter if it's a flighted or a quick delivery, I just wait until the ball is within about a meter of me before I play the shot) and learnt to not play across the line. There is no issue with the gameplay against spinners, the user concerned needs to watch some replays of his attempts at playing spin and try some of the suggestions.

 

[Blinder]

The point raised is still valid, I'm now having no issue with spin when previously I was suffering badly. With practice I learnt the correct time to play the shot (which, by the way, doesn't matter if it's a flighted or a quick delivery, I just wait until the ball is within about a meter of me before I play the shot) and learnt to not play across the line. There is no issue with the gameplay against spinners, the user concerned needs to watch some replays of his attempts at playing spin and try some of the suggestions.

Yeah but the guy is angry and patronising all the time. He needs to chill. Or get one away. Crack one through the covers - so to speak

 

[The_Pharoah]

lol both points are valid however we should keep these forums civil and helpful, not patronising. I've been guilty of that as well unfortunately. However, with practice comes skill unless there is something totally borked with the game which results in frustration.

 

[Blinder]

lol both points are valid however we should keep these forums civil and helpful, not patronising. I've been guilty of that as well unfortunately. However, with practice comes skill unless there is something totally borked with the game which results in frustration.

Like teleporting catchers :-p

 

[The_Pharoah]

Like teleporting catchers :-p

lol. Unfortunately I'm one of those people who gets heavily engrossed in whatever game they play. So getting stupidly run out on 99 at the non strikers' end because I tried to get my player back in the crease and they refused to ground their bat.....that results in this --->

 

[ellgieff]

lol. Unfortunately I'm one of those people who gets heavily engrossed in whatever game they play. So getting stupidly run out on 99 at the non strikers' end because I tried to get my player back in the crease and they refused to ground their bat.....that results in this --->

Yep. I'm also hoping that the AI batsmen being muppets is sorted out in patch 2.

Just watched the non-striker get run out when I pushed one to short cover. I no longer hit O to get them to return, because of the number of times they get run out trying - this was the first time I saw the non-striker get run out in that situation since I've stopped making them get back.

If rage face continues to be induced by this stuff, I'll have to go buy another controller or two for when I find out that the ones I have don't bounce very well.

*aside* that being said, part of me was kind of happy he got out. A couple of balls before I'd crushed one back past the bowler, which probably would have beaten mid-on as well, if Smith had just gotten out of the damn way of the ball ...

 

[Mr Snrub]

I'm not at all sure whether or not this has been covered, but I've just been doing some player editing. I want fairly accurate skills and attributes for the teams I use and some of the downloadable ones seemed a bit off (for example I was editing Ryan Harris and he had perfect stats in all bar one bowling category, I'll conceed he's good, but not that good surely).

Anyhow, I was working through Australia and had them looking pretty accurate to me. I don't pay a lot of attention to world rankings, but in my opinion, I'd say they are probably the best side in the world right now. I was prepared to find post-editing that they'd be around 4 star batting and four and a half bowling.

That'd probably be appropriate, but I came out of editing and they were three and a half stars for both batting and bowling. I went back in and made a few more generous, but careful changes (focusing on bowling) and it might've been my mind tricking me, but I got the impression that the half star on bowling was somewhat more covered. So, I thought, keep editing and maybe give the odd batsman a few very minor bowling stats (hey everyone can bowl a little) and hoped that this would help too.

When I exited, the bowling stars had gone down to 3. I was very surprised by this, thought "3 - 1/2 stars might be as high as it goes", so I went back in to remove the bowling points given to those batsmen and afterwards exited and it was still on 3 stars for bowling.

So, I'm confused as to whats going on, whether it's an identified bug or not, but I haven't seen any sides rated over 3 1/2 stars in any of the overall ratings.

This is different however when it comes to the ratings out of five for a team's various aspects (Top, middle, lower order, pace, spin attack). These seem to display accurately.

Is there any info on whats going on with this? Apologies if I'm behind on an older issue.

 

[Orangzeb]

4 Days to patch

 

[sami ullah khan]

Does the patch for PS3 also have to go through submission process like Xbox 360 one.

 

[Snowy]

Yes.