What Area Of Your Game Online Needs Improvement

[Kabooka]

Thanks for that Kabooka. This sounds like a totaly different game now but more realistic!

So you can bowl at only three spots at any given time and no more? Will this solve the online issue many people have by moving the bowling cursor all around the place?

It appears from your description that they have addressed the spin bowlers being so ineffective with the original release.

You can bowl anywhere you like , but there are 3 Yellow spots on the pitch for every kind of delivery, but there is less time to chose those 3 spots.

As for the spinners , just like in real life , they play well in the sub continent or on pitches that turn later in the match & fare poorly ( like the unpatched version ) in South Africa & certain unresisting pitches in Australia & West Indies.

The Pacers are quick on hard bouncy wickets & slightly less venomous on slower pitches.

All in all the game is getting more realistic & I am enjoying every minute of it.

 

[Dutch]

You can bowl anywhere you like , but there are 3 Yellow spots on the pitch for every kind of delivery, but there is less time to chose those 3 spots.

As for the spinners , just like in real life , they play well in the sub continent or on pitches that turn later in the match & fare poorly ( like the unpatched version ) in South Africa & certain unresisting pitches in Australia & West Indies.

The Pacers are quick on hard bouncy wickets & slightly less venomous on slower pitches.

All in all the game is getting more realistic & I am enjoying every minute of it.

hello kabooka my man. long time no see! Do you find batting too easy online? I know this is the wrong thread but are you up for a game on-line!?

 

[Kabooka]

hello kabooka my man. long time no see! Do you find batting too easy online? I know this is the wrong thread but are you up for a game on-line!?

Hell yeah ! waiting for a game . Im on BETA 2

 

[Bluebagger]

Catching, I seem to be the only person alive who preferred the old catching method.

 

[x Punjabi Killa]

Why you prefer the old method? New method requires you the same logic when you are catching a real cricket ball, that is to keep your eyes on the ball, in the game you keep your eye on the colour to turn green. I love it! This new one is really exciting. It is more rewading to get a wicket by a catch than getting a wicket by bowlings someone or LBW IMO.

 

[Bluebagger]

After playing cricket for 15 years I never realised I had to look up into the sky for a circle to change colour before I made a catch. I prefer the older method because reaction is better.

 

[x Punjabi Killa]

You still have to time it by keeping your eye on the ball. In a computer game this animation is closest thing to realty. How hard is to keep an eye on the color and press the button when it is green? Circle makes a little easier for you than the bar.

 

[lazy_chesnut]

After playing cricket for 15 years I never realised I had to look up into the sky for a circle to change colour before I made a catch. I prefer the older method because reaction is better.

After playing cricket for 14 years I never realised I had to look over my head for a meter to move before I made a catch.

I would prefer if the system was done so that the closer you pressed the button to the time the ball hits your hands, the more likely you are to catch it. At the moment, it goes red before the player actually catches it (may have something to do with animations). If it was dependent on how close the ball was to the hands when you press the button, you wouldn't need a coloured ring, and faster catches would be automatically harder.

 

[papalazarou]

I would prefer if the system was done so that the closer you pressed the button to the time the ball hits your hands, the more likely you are to catch it. At the moment, it goes red before the player actually catches it (may have something to do with animations). If it was dependent on how close the ball was to the hands when you press the button, you wouldn't need a coloured ring, and faster catches would be automatically harder.

I'd second that, makes absolute sense. Could only add to the game which has made strides in the right direction already with the beta patch.

 

[cooks1st100]

That is a fantastic idea lazy, definately the way forward. Added to this the option to have the catching circle or not, then beginners could use it as a catching aid, and the higher standard of gamer would obviously play without it.
The next step would then be to incorporate a dive button for when the ball is just out of reach

 

[javs52]

the fielders need to be in control of the players.

the closest fielder to the ball should be highlighted and you should be able to make him run by pressing RT and slide/dive by say X (i am giving an e.g. on xbox) like Fifa you run after the ball and your stamina should get affected.

the fielding is not the best, many times the ball is in diveable zone, but the AI just lets the ball pass.

 

[Ricco_M]

I definitely struggle batting and trying to time the ball - just that simple principle of batting really .....then again I struggle bowling the ball where I want to....I also struggle to take catch the darn ball too.....come to think about it my life is a struggle...........great word 'struggle'

 

[MasterBlaster76]

Why you prefer the old method? New method requires you the same logic when you are catching a real cricket ball, that is to keep your eyes on the ball, in the game you keep your eye on the colour to turn green. I love it! This new one is really exciting. It is more rewading to get a wicket by a catch than getting a wicket by bowlings someone or LBW IMO.

I agree, I love it - it gives some reward for taking catches while not being really easy at the same time. As to people saying 'they've been playing cricket for x years and never had to watch a ring change colour to catch a ball'? It's a game for God's sake. :sarcasm

For me, TG have nailed catching more than any other cricket game.

MasterBlaster76 added 3 Minutes and 13 Seconds later...

the fielders need to be in control of the players.

the closest fielder to the ball should be highlighted and you should be able to make him run by pressing RT and slide/dive by say X (i am giving an e.g. on xbox) like Fifa you run after the ball and your stamina should get affected.

the fielding is not the best, many times the ball is in diveable zone, but the AI just lets the ball pass.

Yeps, fielding was a big let down compared to what the game was being made to look like, even after the betas. I was expecting far more spectacular fielding, with diving saves on the boundary - not just sliding along the ground, really throwing themselves at the ball, like in real cricket, where they risk injury sometimes to save a few runs! I'll definitely be expecting that in the next game.

Also, I'm bemused by people saying they have to play the shot as soon as the ball has left a fast bowler's hand: if I do that, the batsman wafts at thin air and gets an 'early miss'. If I wait for the time it's actually approaching the bat, I hit it. Depending on how well I timed it, I'll either hit it poorly, good, perfectly, or edge it, but I will hit it (with the occasional play/miss as well, especially when the batsman isn't played in).