Is there going to be a patch in the works? I can see a lot of promise in the game but it feels more like a beta release right now to me.
My issues so far
1. If I don't tell the NPC to sprint for runs he runs fast and then slows to a walk before reaching the crease and is run out when all it would take is one step or a grounded bat to stop the run out, why would he run fast until a bats length away from the crease then just stop and start walking slowly?
2. Bowling randomly changes from over/around the wicket after deliveries: it will show the highlight then without me pushing anything I will now have changed sides.
3. A lot of the time the ball doesn't seem to carry to the keep at all, I will bowl a 143kmph delivery and it will just drop once it's past the wicket and roll to a stop.
4. fielders fielding in close seem to drop every catch, fielders who are around mid on/off length away seem to take every catch even if it involves diving like a superhuman
5. The scorecard seems to bug out on me quite abit, I haven't isolated a specific time of when it is happening but often in career mode if I go to check the scorecard during the opponents first innings when my side has already batted it will show my sides innings as blank as if we have not batted yet.
6. Others have mentioned fielders hitting the bails, players who don't bowl opening the bowling (this may be a roster issue) and the various commentary issues (not major imo).
7. Batting collapses seem to happen every game, 50 over run rates are really low.
Batting is hard to the point of not really making any sense, bowling is easy. I'm a batting all rounder and in my first 10 games I have 20 odd wickets at an average of 14 in the shield, I've taken 7 wickets for 20 and I've taken a hattrick already in a 4 wicket maiden over. While I say bowling is easy I am still at a loss to whether or not delivery types actually do anything, the animations and flight of the ball seems the same if i try in/out swingers or cutters etc. It also feels like I can't control what line I bowl, if i move the stick at an angle to get it to go on a different line it seems to give me a poor delivery and it gets put away, right now all I do is bowl full yorkers and mix up pace and I just keep getting bowled or LBW.
Those are the main bugs I have found but I'm also wondering if a patch will overhaul the bowling and batting mechanics. As it stands I rarely seem to even get a front foot animation when playing front foot shots and with no feedback about timing it leaves me confused as to what was wrong with my shots (in the nets I can get "ideal" then "late" seemingly at random by pre empting or leaving it to the last minute to play my shot and still get ideal). It's also annoying not having a HUD of where the fielders are, especially when your the non striker and have to wait for the ball to reach a fielder to even tell where if there was a run or not. The manual also mentions you should hit the ball when it goes white but even on the rookie difficulty I don't seem to ever see the balls circle go white.
As I mentioned above the bowling system seems out of whack and too easy, I can't up the difficulty because of how hard the batting is and I take wickets without even knowing how to actually change my line properly or if my in swing/out swing have any effects.
I'm also wondering is there a way to check stats in a match and out of a match can I see my career players stats for his whole career rather than having to go to the competetion, then filter for my team and then find myself and only see my stats for that year of the comp? I would have thought being a stats driven game it would be showing my stats a lot more and in more places. It's odd the commentary team talks about how amazing my strike rate when bowling is but at no point can I see that in game?
Do I need to push start and then select simulate to my player after every over I bowl or is there a way to make it auto sim when my overs finished? Not a big issue but wondering if I missed something.
Sorry for the long post. I hate to make a negative post because I am aware of how hard it is to make a cricket game and how hard the developers are working and being a part of the community is great but I feel I must try to post my initial impressions of how I feel the state of the game is right now. If a patch can be made that fixes up the batting and at least a few bugs (they wouldn't be so major if the batting and bowling mechanics were improved) than this game could be amazing.
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Firstly thanks to bigant for a wonderful game...im absolutely hooked.
Hokay guys,time for a stupid question
How do i change the "line" of the bowl?..ive toggled the left analog(xbox) to the extremes of both sides but it keeps bowling straight?...when to move the analog... during or before delivery?
the right stick on it's upward motion controls the line, it's a bit difficult to control it properly though so I've just been bowling straight, whenever I try to do it slightly it just bowls wide or gets put away for me.
You also don't need to move the right stick down and hold it down before going up, you can push it down for the jump and release it then push it up again for the delivery. Bowling this way let's me get it perfect almost every time. Not sure if this is intended or not but originally I was trying to move it down then up in one fluid motion.
