There's a few things still bothering me about the game which go alongside some of the very valid concerns raised by others.
Broadcast Fielding Camera View - In particular Fielding 1. Much of the field can be seen beautifully on some of the camera views, except the very bottom of the screen, so straight drives, on-drives and straight cover drives get obscured close to the line, so you can't field them properly.
Fielding (Catching) - On Semi Assisted at least. It used to be in the previous versions that you had to have the stick in the direction that the catch was coming from to successfully affect the catch (which you could forget, or seemingly do too early), but now your player just auto-runs to the circle and 99% of the time, catch taken. All skill gone from it. Does this change on higher difficulties? Reflex catch system is great though.
Weather Delays - Much like in DBC'17, there's no way to see how long these will be, so both sides are aware of how rain shortened the match is.
Selecting Custom Fields - It's so onerous, it almost forces you to believe that the designers do not want you using Custom Fields in the game. First you push up on the D-Pad, then move down to the first batsmans name and press Triangle, this brings up the Field Editor, move to and select 'Preset Fields', then press Triangle again to bring up the filter, then move down to 'Match Type', then cycle through the options until you find 'Any Form'. Move back up and click 'Accept'. Now you're ready to choose your custom field. Seriously?????
Coin Toss - In 2 player, it's a bit like the weather delays. There's no info. Who's tossing? Who's calling? One of the 2 players move the stick up and down, "oh, it's me".
Back Foot Shots - I'm not sure if it's just me and my friends, but is the timing demand for back foot shots much, much higher than front foot on the same difficulty? A lot of the time it's damn near impossible to play them (we play on 'Hard' and front foot is a reasonable difficulty). Could this be looked at?
Weather Enacting When No Rain Selected - Hasn't happened often, but has this happened to anyone else? Almost certain we chose No Rain on the games it happened on.
In a lot of ways this is a much better game than DBC'14, in some ways it sadly isn't. I hope Big Ant and the beta guys are able to get some good results for some of these issues, thanks.
