Don Bradman Cricket Academy V 1.00 Beta is available (Updated 28/03)

[ChinamanSpin]

Damn. I forgot I already said that. I was running out of jokes to be honest.

I think the Perth test has knocked most of my spirit away.

 

[sobti]

I'm pretty sure the balls being used in dbc14 nets is a white cricket ball with a seam.....no dimples

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Well...it's a totally different ball game when the bowler would be bowling at you and you won't know what line he is bowling at till he releases the ball. Also, I noticed you are plonking your front foot forward most of the time......this technique works fine in the nets, however the bowlers in real life (online gameplay) would sort it out easily. I still feel batting would be difficult when facing proper bowlers, specially in online matches.

This is how I play in real, move forward and then adjust according to the length of the ball but hey, didn't u notice the way I was moving my back foot inside the crease and then hitting the ball of full or good length.

I agree though, it would be different ball game when I have to face on pitches like WACA one.. man that has cracks like we have cracks in roads

 

[Meet]

Has anyone been able to play full length outside off deliveries?

 

[AngryPixel]

Yup.

 

[angad]

Has anyone been able to play full length outside off deliveries?

Yeah...were able to play a few of them, but missed a lot too as the batsman would just play a 'backfoot' square cut even when I pushed LAS diagonally forward towards the right (i.e towards the covers region) and RAS towards the right at an angle of 90 degrees.

 

[SibiNaayagam]

Yeah...were able to play a few of them, but missed a lot too as the batsman would just play a 'backfoot' square cut even when I pushed LAS diagonally forward towards the right (i.e towards the covers region) and RAS towards the right at an angle of 90 degrees.

Its a beautiful shot to get a almost wide yorker and you hammer it to third man. But happens very rarely.

 

[Meet]

Haven't got a chance to play it as my lappy doesn't support it. But on watching vids, I have seen very awkward and weird looking stances of Bradman after playing shot and also seen bat passing through the head many times??
I hope it'll all be rectified in the final version. Either way I am fine though.

Something like this,

I guess such stance is only seen when playing leg side shots behind the wicket. Other shots looks really awesome to watch and the animations looks fluid too.

 

[angad]

Haven't got a chance to play it as my lappy doesn't support it. But on watching vids, I have seen very awkward and weird looking stances of Bradman after playing shot and also seen bat passing through the head many times??
I hope it'll all be rectified in the final version. Either way I am fine though.

Yeah...the batsman does get into some awkward positions (head mainly, as its following the ball) when the ball goes behind the wicket. Dont think it would be rectified in this version, maybe in the future ones !!

 

[AngryPixel]

@Ross! In the next CA update, can you give a option to remove the nets building and play. We dont need any texture or eyecandy. Just a plain empty area so that we can see how far we can hit. Maybe that could be the next competition

P.S: What did the guy won in the streaks competition? @BigAntStudios

 

[Meet]

P.S: What did the guy won in the streaks competition?

Steel box edition of DB14.

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Yeah...the batsman does get into some awkward positions (head mainly, as its following the ball) when the ball goes behind the wicket. Dont think it would be rectified in this version, maybe in the future ones !!

Yeah, its mainly the head which ruins everything. You may also see it goes down when playing a drive.
Alright, anyways, we need to leave something for next iteration.

 

[Pat]

Alright, back from vacation and had some play time with the new CA update. Played in the nets for about an hour and overall it looks fantastic. The control system feels natural and is a major step forward for cricket-gaming. I don't see any new cricket game released now with the older controls, so I would say BigAnt have set the precedent and taken cricket gaming to the next level and I thank them for that. I have had some awesome moments like when, for example, I tried to play a scoop which was mis-timed and the ball went in third-man's direction instead of fine-leg.
If I were to point out one thing that was little disappointing it's the fact that the bumpers and triggers are not related i.e. using triggers with bumpers overrides the triggers. This makes it impossible to play some shots in the game like in case of sweep shot:
a. Slog Sweep (which could have worked with LT+LB)
b. Paddle Sweep (RT+LB)
c. Powerful Sweep along the ground (LT+RT+LB)

Similarly, it is impossible to dance down the wicket and defend or have any control over the shot once you have used the advance bumper (RB). Now I understand that using 5 buttons (as explained in the powerful sweep example above) might be difficult for some (i.e. Left Stick for foot-work + Right Stick for Shot + LT + RT + LB), but I tried using those 5 buttons on my Xbox controller and it should be possible to do that. Implementing this would add the following possibilities which are impossible to execute in this version of DBC:
1. Advance down the wicket and defend
2. Advance down the wicket and play along the ground to long-on/long-off
3. Advance down the wicket and chip over the in-field
4. Slog Sweep
5. Powerful sweep along the ground
6. Paddle sweep (or soft-tapping a ball towards short fine-leg)
7. Reverse sweep in the air
8. Reverse sweep along the ground
9. Paddle reverse sweep (is there a term like that?)
10. Aerial Scoop
11. Attempting a scoop along the ground

Would make the game even more awesome

 

[dhump]

The way things are progressing with batting system and bowling still to come I will not be amazed if we are giving rookies tips on batting and when and where to plant your foot to play specific shot.

 

[AngryPixel]

Those shot may be included in the game. There is no official word on that but i can't see why they wont be possible in the final game. Maybe they are ironing out some issues with them thats why they skipped them in nets. for example, the backfoot shot towards the fineleg is buggy. almost everytime the play would play the late cut towards third man instead. So there's some hope.

you summed up all the missing shots except my fav.
Advancing and getting on the knees to slog sweep. Yuvraj does it frequently and i could do it in BLIC07. LT+RT+LB would have worked for this.
I wish they just leave all the possible combination of shots open in the final game. Allow us to experiment with different combinations of triggers. I would love to try advancing down and scooping a short ball :P

 

[balkeet]

We should press the advance button once in bowler's runup (as its always a premeditated shot) and then play aggresive, defensive or grounded shot with respective buttons. Pressing the advance button should not mean playing an aggresive shot. Option of receiving the input after advance button input should be there.

 

[Guybrush Threep]

I just think it would be great if you could choose your shot type (RAS) after you have started advancing down the pitch.