Played my first Online Pro20 Match on Legend as allways yesterday evening with the new patch ..... NOT Impressed .
A good bunch of stuff is fixed , but then other stuff were fiddled with , or got broken :
I will just mention what I picked up in this game , and wont repeat known issues that should hopefully get handled later.
Pro`s
- Cover Drive & Square Drive is in.
- Pixelated Logo`s are fixed .
- They introduced a button on the fielding view to set for all batsman , but it doesnt allways work.
- Fielders in the inner ring seems to be slightly more wake up .
- Keeper reacted more naturally whilst fielding balls
- Straight Drive against Spinner is an option again.
- Scoring rate overall felt more realistic vs previous version.
- Spinners can bowl much wider.
- Horrible looking shot to Cover is gone.
Cons
- LegSide Shots now very easily result in your batsman walking over to the Offside Wide Line for some reason... I went to the Practice field and it is a bug . Setting the Ball marker and machine up , keeping the LA in the same position , results in some being hit perfectly , and some having the batsman jump over to offside wide line.
- Some shots results in the batsman hanging around when supposed to set off for a run , resulting in the non striker almost halfway down the pitch when the batsman set off.
- The keeper missed the ball 5 times fielding my throws , all very good on target throws. Two of the Throws actually ended up striking the keepers shoulder , so feel this is a regression from the previous version. When the keeper does actually collect the ball , it feels and looks better though.
- The fielding Preset issue is slightly better , but still not fixed. I had 3 x instances where at the first ball of an over , I tried setting a pre-set field , only to suddenly be "timed out" of the over.The field kept randomly changing after every other ball bowled , without notifying me as the batsman , resulting in myself having to look around after each and every ball to ensure I have the field placing as expected.
- It feels as if the Batting Difficulty has been increased overall , to reign in fast scoring.
It will take a good while to get used to this again...