Okay, managed to squeeze in my lunch time to get my hands on this patch. Thank You @
BigAntStudios; for having the patch available to US region, if cricket buying in US is a dream, then cricket patch availability in US PSN should be the wildest dream that I am not able to believe it is TRUE! Thanks a lot, Ross for fabulous end user support.
Just played one match, did not restart career and all. Just resumed my career mode as I would be restarting the career after patch 2. I am good to see my opponent bowling with incorrect likeness of players for now.
I was on T20 league already in my career, and so I just happened to play 1 T20 match. Got 51 runs and 3 wickets with MOTM, cricket experience while playing has been enhanced further with this patch, QUALITY!
- Fielders guide is very useful to look for the fielders.
- Super Human fielding of flying & jumping and all - they have been reduced, fielders do their actual fielding now. I need not worry about fielder jumping from north to south to block my strategy of runs. This is the greatest PLUS of this patch. I loved picking singles and rotating strikes when I got those 50+ runs. I got 4 sixes in my innings, but there is nothing that can beat the satisfactory feeling of rotating strikes & getting 60-70+ runs partnership with your partner on other side.
- This tweak in fielding, looks like, it tweaked our bowling also in career? Not sure as it was just a match that I played. I bowled 4 overs giving away 26 runs and 3 wickets where dismissals were - 1) bowled 2) inside edge and bowled 3) wicket keeper catch. So before patch, I would have my superman fielders to fetch additional wickets from my bad deliveries, looks like it is gone now.
- Direct Hit tweak also have reduced the wicket taking opportunities in run outs when we are bowling, it makes us to be alert in collecting the ball behind the stumps otherwise which - ball would be missing the stumps most of the times, preventing the wickets for opponent. I was not alert atleast 2-3 times in my 4 overs where AI got away with cheeky singles.
Overall, it was fantastic first feeling to play with the patch. Will explore more after my work.
For points 1 and 3, do we have to restart the career mode? Because I resumed my career mode and points 1 and 3 are the same for me. Fielders run around like Flash and batsman like Pomersbach open the bowling. If I have to start career mode again, then this would suck bigtime, as I have already spent 3.5 years in career mode.
No, I did not restart my career mode. Fielders were not flying for me. However, You would need to restart the career if you want the roles correct like batsman not to bowl and so on.