The game needs to get it's basics right!

[smth77]

 

[johanna]

I noticed this yesterday, their follow-through animation only starts after the shot is played in a direction that is not towards them. If it is towards them then the follow-through gets skipped, which is very weird.

You can never play a shot straight at the bowler in this game, spinners are expected to stop a lot of straight shots, pace bowlers are supposed to be easier to get through if you get the shot right but this game makes that difficult too. Offside against pace bowlers is already annoying, especially through covers, almost nothing gets through. Sometimes I am stuck with just walking across the stumps to pull and hook everything to the onside.

Also, sometimes the follow-through animation goes in the opposite direction of the bowler's run. The bowler would plant their foot after the delivery, turn about 90-180 degrees and continue follow-through towards the covers. The bowler would be extremely lucky to not twist their ankle with such follow-throughs lol.

 

[smth77]

I noticed this yesterday, their follow-through animation only starts after the shot is played in a direction that is not towards them. If it is towards them then the follow-through gets skipped, which is very weird.

You can never play a shot straight at the bowler in this game, spinners are expected to stop a lot of straight shots, pace bowlers are supposed to be easier to get through if you get the shot right but this game makes that difficult too. Offside against pace bowlers is already annoying, especially through covers, almost nothing gets through. Sometimes I am stuck with just walking across the stumps to pull and hook everything to the onside.

Also, sometimes the follow-through animation goes in the opposite direction of the bowler's run. The bowler would plant their foot after the delivery, turn about 90-180 degrees and continue follow-through towards the covers. The bowler would be extremely lucky to not twist their ankle with such follow-throughs lol.

Yes, you explained it way better than me. It is these types of small details they miss which results in huge gameplay degradation. I wish they actually listened to the community rather than blocking me lol

 

[Loubs]

It would generally help if the actual game stops crashes every five minutes, either trying to load a career save or a competition or in the academy it crashes, utter rubbish.