How are you doing in your career?

[barmyarmy]

It is an interesting theory about AI batting better when simulated. I've never really been in for long enough to find out but the two scores over 50 I've had I've lost my partners very quickly to slogs.

 

[StinkyBoHoon]

this game has given me new found sympathy for ashraful.

what if he's just doing the best he can, guys? we can all relate to that now, surely?

 

[Llewelynf]

I seem to find it isn't always the case.

I have put up quite a few good partnerships with the ai. Opening with Lyth for Yorkshire we put on a 216 opening stand before I holed out in the deep. He went on to make 150 if I remember correctly.

For Western Australia Voges and I bat quite well together more often than not. I really think it comes down to the match situation

 

[Mike 1989]

I seem to find it isn't always the case.

I have put up quite a few good partnerships with the ai. Opening with Lyth for Yorkshire we put on a 216 opening stand before I holed out in the deep. He went on to make 150 if I remember correctly.

For Western Australia Voges and I bat quite well together more often than not. I really think it comes down to the match situation

True... I had couple of 100 runs partnerships and around 4 times 50+.

Funny part is how AI batsmen from my opposition get run out all the time.. Its like they dont see the field change i just made..

 

[Synnical]

Lost my original career save for reasons unknown to me, but have restarted anyway with Yorkshire.

Won the T20 league, into the P40 finals and at Round 16 of the county cup.

I saw my selection rankings and had a small chuckle. Bear in mind I haven't actually played with the Australian domestic league yet

Aus 50 Over Cup - Regular Member
Aus Domestic Shield - Regular Member
Aus T20 League - Expecting Selection
Australia ODI - Getting Attention
Australia T20I - Fair Way Off
Australia Test - Getting Attention
Indian T20 League - Very Close

 

[tandy45]

Talking about the batting ingame, anyone finding it easier or better to turn off all the aids for batting? noticed an improvement of my scores from 3/4 runs an innings to 20 - 30 as a number 5 batsman. Not sure if this is because it's taking the premiditation out of the selection, I.e knowing it's a short ball i'll play off the back foot or if it's a good length i'll play front foot. noticed I'm now watching the ball and blocking and trying to build my innings slowly.

 

[Gamer Pradosh]

Talking about the batting ingame, anyone finding it easier or better to turn off all the aids for batting? noticed an improvement of my scores from 3/4 runs an innings to 20 - 30 as a number 5 batsman. Not sure if this is because it's taking the premiditation out of the selection, I.e knowing it's a short ball i'll play off the back foot or if it's a good length i'll play front foot. noticed I'm now watching the ball and blocking and trying to build my innings slowly.

I switched all assists off from day 1 for both bowling and batting..And use close batting and bowling cam which I find the best to watch the ball...

 

[tandy45]

I switched all assists off from day 1 for both bowling and batting..And use close batting and bowling cam which I find the best to watch the ball...

I've had the bowling assist off, still getting the occassional no balls but getting the hang of it. Decided with batting to try it as I were getting caught cheaply knowing where the ball was going and trying to slog, now I'm blocking more and getting a feel for batting, staying at the crease longer and improving my technique.

 

[Gamer Pradosh]

I've had the bowling assist off, still getting the occassional no balls but getting the hang of it. Decided with batting to try it as I were getting caught cheaply knowing where the ball was going and trying to slog, now I'm blocking more and getting a feel for batting, staying at the crease longer and improving my technique.

Yeah with the assists switched off it makes you to concentrate and earn the runs...Feels good....

 

[francisjery]

Finally I made my first half century in career mode . It was an awesome feeling after a week of struggle with ducks and ones & twos. I got out yesterday for a duck against a spinner . So I decided not to go to the career mode until I play with ease against spinners. I hit the nets for nearly half an hour and played a casual game in pro mode. Even then it was not helping for me. I gave away consecutive three wickets against a finger spinner (six wickets within three overs). I started to play the spinner very late and found myself getting consecutive single & doubles and boundaries occasionally. This was little bit helping. Trust me guys, playing a casual game in pro mode or veteran is way too helpful than practicing in the nets against the bowling machine or match practice. And I went back to the career today and made up my mind not to play any ball very early. I premeditated all the shorts for the quickies with front foot and leg side. Then came my life time enemy with his spin bowling. I played every ball really really late and it worked out for me. I started rotating strikes and boundaries came unexpectedly. Finally I made my first half century (54 of 77 balls). The AI fielder used his own trick to catch me at extra cover where he ran for solid 20 meters from deep mid off and dived like a long jump athlete for nearly five meters (it was annoying anyway) . Anyhow I felt very happy when I scored my first fifty. I literally screamed in my room when I played the cover drive and it went to the boundary when I was at 49 of 74 balls . This has boosted up my confidence and I scored 36 (n.o) of 39 balls in the next match and I played the winning shot . Still I have a long way to go. Thank you so much for all the people who have given a lot of tips in here

 

[srk121]

Finally I made my first half century in career mode . It was an awesome feeling after a week of struggle with ducks and ones & twos. I got out yesterday for a duck against a spinner . So I decided not to go to the career mode until I play with ease against spinners. I hit the nets for nearly half an hour and played a casual game in pro mode. Even then it was not helping for me. I gave away consecutive three wickets against a finger spinner (six wickets within three overs). I started to play the spinner very late and found myself getting consecutive single & doubles and boundaries occasionally. This was little bit helping. Trust me guys, playing a casual game in pro mode or veteran is way too helpful than practicing in the nets against the bowling machine or match practice. And I went back to the career today and made up my mind not to play any ball very early. I premeditated all the shorts for the quickies with front foot and leg side. Then came my life time enemy with his spin bowling. I played every ball really really late and it worked out for me. I started rotating strikes and boundaries came unexpectedly. Finally I made my first half century (54 of 77 balls). The AI fielder used his own trick to catch me at extra cover where he ran for solid 20 meters from deep mid off and dived like a long jump athlete for nearly five meters (it was annoying anyway) . Anyhow I felt very happy when I scored my first fifty. I literally screamed in my room when I played the cover drive and it went to the boundary when I was at 49 of 74 balls . This has boosted up my confidence and I scored 36 (n.o) of 39 balls in the next match and I played the winning shot . Still I have a long way to go. Thank you so much for all the people who have given a lot of tips in here

Welcome to 79cricket club....

 

[acrcmb]

My first career save messed up and I wasn't going to bother starting another one but I decided to because I wanted to play with the nz teams anyway and I screwed my first year of my old save up pretty badly because I wasn't doing the bowling properly, glad I started a new one just played my second match of the first year and had an awesome match, bowled with figures of 15-48 including 10-20 in the first innings, still for some reason the captain barely played me in the second innings. Also smashed 57 of 16 with the bat at a strike rate of around 350. Pretty suprised there's no exp perk for getting 10 in an innings or 15 in a match and it would be cool if you got rewarding for a high strike rate aswell.

My stats are looking really good now but they won't stay like that for long, batting avg is 32.67 with a strike rate of 233.33 and 11 6's, 6 4's. bowling is 24 wickets, AVG 5.7, economy 2.81. strike rate 12.16, 5wi 3,10wm 1 with 17 maidens.

 

[cricket_online]

I have nearly completed my first season as a specialist #3 bat and my stats are as follows...

FC: Average of 31 with 1 100 and 3 50s with a HS of 107.
List A: Average of 28 with 3 50s with a HS of 71.
T20: Average of 22 with 1 50 with a HS of 88*

In most of my long innings I saw the AI batting partners struggle bar a couple of decent partnerships with Marcus North and Bancroft, who are the Western Warrior's openers. Other than the openers, I rarely had a decent partnership with an AI batsman. Once the remaining opener fell, collapse was round the corner unless I got out and rest of the AI batsmen scored due to me simulating rest of the innings.

Edit: AI also called me to bowl once in a FC game and gave me a 4 over spell. I was so taken aback after batting the whole time it took me a few seconds to figure out how to bowl leg spin. Even in that 4 over spell I was able to take a wkt of a well set opposing batsman (he was on 57 IIRC) and had mid on drop a dolly so I would say taking wkts in career mode on Legend shouldn't be that difficult either. Other than that 4 over spell, I haven't been asked to bowl.

I must add DBC 14 comes into its own in the career mode, and especially when you play as a specialist batsman, as there are no cheap runs and getting a decent score feels like an achievement. It's addictive as hell and when you get out, the sense of disapoointment is as real as it can be. Plus the game mirrors the real life struggle of a batsman really well. After a couple of good scores, you may think you have nailed the batting and know a formula to succeed but it comes crashing down with a string of low scores.

Have said it before and have to say it again - well done @BigAntStudios. The game has gotten so many things right that within an iteration or so I can see DBC franchise nailing the cricketing gameplay in all aspects. Once the few known bugs are taken care of (AI batting, realistic field settings, bowling speeds due to fatigue, stable online gameplay), I have no doubt the DBC title can compete with any other sports related title out there, including Madden, MLB, NBA, FIFA etc.

 

[nightprowler10]

The problem I'm facing as a pure batsman is that no matter what I do, or what shots I play, the skills only seem to improve for 'front foot' and 'on side' skills. Could it be due to the fact I chose 'front foot' as my strength when I created my career player? But it does seem odd that two consecutive back foot shots through the off side should result in 'on side' or 'front foot' skill increase.

I've noticed the same in bowling. My strength is in-swing, so there are times I'll use out-swing to beat the bat all over long, and use one in-swing delivery, but I'll get +1 on in-swing skill. This isn't always the case though, so I wonder what the triggers are.

After getting to a certain point on my inswing skill, and my ability to constantly get almost perfect line and length, I'm starting to see some silly AI batting. My previous best in FC was 10/74 (6/35 for an inning) and in OD I had never even gotten more than 3 wickets. I had a total of 8 wickets in Pro40 in 7 matches at an average of 25.

Then in my last OD match, I finally had my "AI being incredibly stupid" moment. We batted in an OD match first against Essex and put up 250 including my 21(8) in the last two overs. They start off chasing aggressively but eventually Chris Jordan and I tie them down and even pick off one of the openers. They're 105/1 in 22 overs when I come back for my second spell.

First over: W2W0WW
Second over : 000WW1

I forget how the other overs went but they were bowled for 112. Which means they lost 9 wickets for 7 runs after being 105/1 at one point. Epic, epic collapse. I ended up with figures of 9/17. Almost all of my wickets were bowled or LBW, with 2 or 3 caught, and the set batsmen were both bowled while missing the line by a mile.

My next FC match was crazy as well. In two innings I went 9/40, all in a total of 13 overs.

Is it possible to change the career mode difficulty or do I choose that only at the beginning?

So the very next Pro40 match I played I got around for 5 overs and wasn't even given the ball again. Maybe I'm looking too much into this, but is it possible that the skill level of the team plays a role in how the batsmen play? The reason I ask is that those ridiculous matches I had were against teams at the bottom of the table and then I follow that up by getting owned against a top level team.

Before anyone jumps on me and says 'duh!', please note I'm talking about set batsmen all of a sudden missing the ball by a foot on the bad teams, and similarly skilled batsmen lofting me for a six on a damn near perfect delivery on a good team.

Again, maybe I'm just looking too much into nothing.

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Also, just started the T20 competition. It's annoying as a bowler since unless do a lot of damage, you walk away from the match with like 10 XP. Just more the reason T20 is garbage in general.

 

[AL_Amin]

this game has given me new found sympathy for ashraful.

what if he's just doing the best he can, guys? we can all relate to that now, surely?

Haha. Spot on.