- didn't see any marked diff between front foot and back foot shots animation point of view
- moving right stick (xbox 360 controller) just a bit doesn't cause any movement. Need to move it almost all the way. So how do you control shot speed for say a quick single type shot?
- advance down the wicket is almost impossible for fast bowlers, doable easily for spinners. The batsman moves in a diagonal exposing stumps and hitting cross bat like baseball instead of straighter.
- how do you play sweeps?
- left stick back and front foot movement - how does the analog stick moving sideways affect that?
- how do you move batsman before ball is pitched? the guy wasn't moving with left stick
- couldn't do lofted shots with just trigger + right stick. He just kept hitting it like without trigger
- helmet cam looks good but is a bit headache inducing
- shot timing was a mystery to me. Without the feedback I wasn't sure whether it was good contact or not although I seemed to middle most shots.
- saw a bunch of edges but nothing like top edges or 'realistic' ones.
*You have confused Front foot and Backfoot with bent down and upright positions. What do you expect the batsman to do on a backfoot to a full ball? Standup and hit it? This ain't AC09/IC10. Its more like move front, move back, move sideways in front/back.
*This is not the century stick of EA. Power is controlled by the triggers.
*The batsman moves according to your left analog. If you don't choose a direction(which is in line of the ball) then it moves in the default direction. Also the bat is high cause its more of an aggressive shot as I guess drives and defences are not in this iteration.
*Sweep-Press L1/LB and move the right stick to the left side(for right handers), if you do it the other way it will be a reverse sweep.
*The batsman doesn't move much. Its more like a taking guard movement. Once you do, he wont move again until you do so.
*Again, you can't loft because you want to loft. You need to time it but most importantly you must have the elevation. That this down to physics.(Its called an aggressive trigger not a lofted trigger)
*Helmet cam is the best IMO(without HUD).
*The timing meter shows when you hit it. Not how good you hit it. Try hitting early for chips/late for fine cuts.
*All edges are hands down 'REALISTIC'. Period.
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I tried playing flick and leg glance to fine leg, and glides to third man but couldn't pull them off. But cover drives, on & off drives and pull & cut shots were much easier to pull off. Maybe we need to figure out the timing for behind the square shots.
It was hard for me initially. Then I put the marker on the pitch just about a foot or two from where I was standing. It was leg spin and the ball would bounce just above the stumps. I moved away and played a cut late. I kept doing that and finally got hold of it.
It would be nightmare against spin greats who vary speed and even direction of spin OR if the bounce varies.
