Then how would you describe the depth of AC13?
The aftermath of a Donald Trump romantic night out?
Seriously though my thoughts:
- Contracts. I tried signing to a new county team, by declining one year, and you could only sign for the same team. Quite silly really. Same said for all AI players really.
- Contracts, furthermore: Rather than signing to every league, team, man and his dog, there should be notifications that if you sign with league A, it will clash with league B, and you can only chose one.
- Ability to change voice, bowling action, batting form during career.
- (This comes down to time and resources), animations for lower, adequate, highly and world class skilled batsman.
- Animations further, if a batsman has a weakness, then perhaps a good indicator would be an uglier than looking shot. Like weakness to short balls, bad at hook shots - the batsman rushes or panics out of the way.
- Stadium creator is showing its age now, hasn't been touched since DBC 17. I wonder if its possible to allow us to use the trees used in licensed venues or created by Big Ant. Just looks silly to have gum trees at a 'sub continent' ground.
- Academy - Uniforms. If I want to download a new uniform, I shouldn't have to download an entirely new team.
- Dynamic grounds. For example Lord's has the slope across the field. WACA has searing pace. MCG is as flat as my romantic life.
- Dynamic pitches, Big Ant - it is time. Visually, pitch degradation resets after loading back into a game (been like that since DB17 so its an engine issue). Would like to see more bowler's marks (like actual particles of dirt on the pitch), puffs of dust exploding from the spinner and pacemen - which affects bounce, seam etc. I get they are trying to have the game run on lower end PCs (consoles are fine, especially for next gen), but its time to pull out the stops I think.
- Skybox. The clouds in Cricket 19 are a massive improvement over previous games, but they still have that PS2 look about them. Might be time to have static clouds, but slowly move, and morph into various weather effects, like rain in the distance, heavier clouds slowing taking over.
- Wind, does wind have an actual effect in-game? Feels like it needs to be more prominent, weather it be (see what I did there) a flag atop the stands swaying, or slight ripples in the player's clothes.
Some of these I think have merit, others are more just wishing for best case scenarios if anything. Marathon post over. Once again cricket is the winner. Back to you in the studio.
