Thanks blocker! Hah I cant believe I spent ages friggin round, when it was right there in front of me! Smart phone-dumb driver lol
Anyways this is a vid of the beutiful backfoot drive animation, you'll see it gets even more beautiful when the backfoot goes around a bit more than the front foot, IMO thats how it should look in the first place! The standard animation is nice for a video game, but... batsman don't close themselves off like demonstrated in game. Just a nitpick! More to come
EDIT: You'll propably also noticed in this vid or have noticed through your own playtime, is that the face of the bat actually points towards the cover-extra cover region at the point of impact but the ball only ever travels between mid off and cover, I think this shot goes to illustrate that the ball could/should be hit anywhere from mid off to backward point (just a matter of tweaking where the face of the bat faces) , and also to third man if he was to play the ball later and even further under his eyes!
Edited AGAIN!: the helicopter shot, the dil scoop, the reverse sweep, etc will probably all come in and out of fashion, hyped up!... but no shot in cricket encapsulates the elegance and grace of a good batsman as seeing them play a classic backfoot drive, its the true "money shot". Seeing anyone of these guys on there tippy toes Tendulkar, ponting, kallis, langer, flemming, lara (in all its flurry goodness) playing a classic backfoot drive was just pure class in motion, my favourite exponent of this shot was damian martyn....wow!
So yeah seeing as BA has done such a good job of getting the backfoot drive animation right, it seems such a shame for it to be hidden amongst other "questionable animations" on the off side, in a place thats really not that easy to make much productive use of it... The current animation should have beeen utilised and tweaked in all of the "backfoot, offside" shots. Also a pity that it feels sligtly off to play it, it doesn't exactly encourage you to want to play it, maybe its the sound of ball off bat or how the batsmans hands get really high and weird looking if the balls not at the optimal height, dunno?