Maybe someone can try playing these shots with all default teams that ship with the game.
I`ve started yesterday evening playing the game , and have not downloaded anything as I was too shitscared of the crashes happening to me as well .
I played through all of the Tutorials , then the nets , and finally the Practice ground .
The Cover Drive animation is there , but it hits it too straight , into the Mid Off region . I fixed the bowling marker way outside off , and tried as hard as I could to get the shot to the cover region but it was impossible.
What was also concerning is that I could see that whatever I tried , the line the ball was hit into stayed very much the same throughout . The only way I could get it to the extra cover region was through the Aggressive Ground Shot Variation of the Cover Drive .
I dont really understand what Ross means that this is caused by the Fielders and academy issues , as I would guess on the Practice field they are not there .
But lets all keep digging into this anomaly , tonight I`m going to see how it goes after the Patch of today .