Recent content by Plotinus

Wicket chance should have nothing to do with sliders. If it is down to sliders we may as well just simulate the game as we tweak the sliders. At least that's how I look at it. Once the outcome is driven by slider configuration it stops being a game (i.e. something you can strive to be good at)...

One of the frustrations I have with this (I haven't bought C24 yet because it was the same in C22), is that we end up with a meta-game of slider tweaking to try to find a setting that will then look plausible when the cricket is initiated. We use the game merely as a way of testing our slider...

Didn't that ball turn in the wrong direction?

I don't see any value in a group boycott of the game. Everyone can make their own decision to buy or not to buy and BA will not even notice if the people on this forum don't buy the game. Also, without people here buying the game, it is very difficult for any sensible debate on the merits, or...

I’m not sure that this is the case. I think there is an underlying design issue that will always lead to unsatisfactory outcomes. This is obviously not something I know for certain but there is some evidence to support this in C22 (and C24 shares the same code base). For instance, I would often...

I think this is an area where I would love to see some improvement. There are things that are not uncommon occurences in cricket that don't seem to be possibilities in BA Cricket games...and kind of undermine some tactics that you might want to deploy.

Does C24 allow the batter to be bowled when leaving the ball? Always used to frustrate me with C22 that the batter never made an error when deciding to leave. It made bowling surprise cutters or inswingers on off stump rather pointless.

Well this last 360 pages have been a depressing read. I have previously bought every BAS cricket game on day one from back in the DBC14 days up to Cricket 22. I think Cricket 22 might be my last purchase from BA. I very much doubt I can be convinced to try Cricket 24 based on what I am reading...

Elden Ring?

I took this patch out for a spin. Career mode as English legspin allrounder vs India in a test in England. Just one match, so not an extensive test. Did I take lots of wickets? Yes, 13 in the match including 9 in the second innings at 1.8. Where there any caught off the boot? About 4 out of the...

I remember this call for sliders, back in the DBC14 days. I wonder, if they removed sliders entirely, whether BA could make the game work. The reason for having sliders should be to make minor tweaks to meet user preferences. The default, as you say, should work for most users to produce a...

I think this might be overstating the issue. The wicketkeeper is not making this unplayable as a game.

Career mode has not really been touched by patches. It is deeply flawed as an experience. Playing for England, I've had overlapping series with Australia and India plus playing country cricket all at the same time. It makes no sense and this is not the biggest issue with this mode. There are...

I don't use the HUD and bowl with Pro Cam. I don't think the HUD has much to do with it. I suspect a lot of the wickets I get are not the Ideal-Perfect ones that are thereby increasing the wicket-taking chance (though I can't prove that)...I get a lot of wickets to bad deliveries (which, again...

Would you say that the catches at leg slip and short leg were the result of good bowling or bad shots? A lot of bat-pad dismissals, I have seen, seem to come from bad shots...or at least poorly executed attempts...to balls that could have been left because they were going down legside or could...