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    Cricket 22 General Discussion thread (Use bug report thread for issues/bugs/crashes | Patch notes in first post)

    I wonder if BA are going to monitor that setting to see which commentators get switched off / on the most.
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    Cricket 19 General Discussion

    Definitely. WYY has absolutely smashed it on C19. First name on the teamsheet.
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    Cricket 19 General Discussion

    Against spin, I really miss user and AI batsmen being able to use their feet just to knock the ball around, and the tactical aspect of trying to disturb a spinner's length and induce short deliveries for cuts and pulls. Against off spin particularly, just taking a little bit of a stroll to an...
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    Cricket 19 General Discussion

    It's the sort of thing where I'd love to see footage to see how far it was actually turning, but it'd be painful to see how rubbish I was. I didn't swing and miss at any, but I top edged three successive deliveries over the keeper's head for two runs each - by the time the ball had got to me my...
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    Cricket 19 General Discussion

    You would not believe how far a proper, pro level legger can drift the ball. Just from eyeballing it when you're batting, it feels like it starts just outside off stick, then drifts across to just outside leg, and then turns back to off stick again when it bounces. You also tend to misjudge the...
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    Cricket 19 General Discussion

    Yeah, explaining things concisely is really tricky sometimes. The things that tend to bug me to the extent that I post about it tend to be either i) shots that should be playable but aren't and ii) shots that shouldn't be playable but are.
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    Cricket 19 General Discussion

    I thought the pull shot vs pace felt fantastic in DBC14, but the pull shot and cut shots vs spin were hardly playable at all. The cut shot was initially problematic vs pace but it felt pretty good by the last patch. Most of the time now I seem to get a Steve Smith style controlled pull - which...
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    Cricket 19 General Discussion

    I'm less concerned about animations and more concerned that the outcomes are realistic, given the delivery and the shot played. Similar concern, but not quite the same. For instance, if you've got a delivery which is off stump and thigh or hip high / back of a length, and the batsman is on a...
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    England in the 90s

    One of the reasons I liked DBC14 allowing you to play front foot shots off the back foot is that batsmen really did play like that against them, sat on the back foot the whole time. Steve Waugh got hundreds batting like that. I think there ought to be a penalty for it compared to proper front...
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    Cricket 19 General Discussion

    The thing that I'd like to see is drives with realistic power and elevation. I'm a bit of a bore about this stuff so I'm going to spoiler tag it to keep the thread neat :
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    Suggestions for next Bas Cricket game

    With golf games and snooker / pool games, it just gives you a feel factor that using a button to set your power level doesn't. The massive control improvement of DBC14 was due to the fact that you were making a stroking movement (no sniggering at the back) where previous games had you pressing...
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    England in the 90s

    Marshall was an absolute master by that stage. The perfect model for a late career fast bowler. IIRC Patterson was quickest of those four according to Dujon. A pro at my club played tests against WI a couple of years later, and said Bishop was the scariest of the mid-90s attack. Super quick...
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    England in the 90s

    Whenever I think about that WI attack, I think about the footage of Marshall's skiddy bouncer hitting Andy Lloyd and I think "nope nope nope, don't want".
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    England in the 90s

    Trivia : Gower is right handed. Bowls and throws right handed. He just bats left handed.
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    England in the 90s

    Oh wow, yes. I'd totally forgotten about Greenidge on that tour. What a special player.
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    England in the 90s

    Yeah, it was Texaco unless I'm remembering things very wrong. IIRC, this was Botham's return to the side - he got 4 wickets, with Boycs commenting that he could "get a wicket with an orange", even at old man medium pace. And then he pulled a hammy batting and needed a runner. The first test...
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    Suggestions for next Bas Cricket game

    I think there's a lot of stuff that we're discussing that's got elements already in place. The main thing I'm thinking is that when I see awkward looking fielding in the game, it looks like stuff I've seen real rubbish fielders do, and I'd love to improve the realism of top fielders without...
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    Suggestions for next Bas Cricket game

    One thing - I'd really like to keep some of the awkward / slow fielding mechanics in the game for very low stat fielders, and so there's more of a noticeable contrast between amateur and pro cricket in the game and so that super crap Phil Tufnell style fielding is a genuine thing. That feeling...
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    Suggestions for next Bas Cricket game

    Yeah, that's what I'm thinking too. I really hope this would be possible without BA getting a load of complaints from players who are used to playing the same with every batsman and don't want to have to roleplay - so to speak - their shot selection for each player. Just taking a career...
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    Suggestions for next Bas Cricket game

    Plus, some sort of improved shot selection so AI players rely on their best shots and avoid their weaker shots, more like a real player does. Bowling at Alastair Cook, knowing he'll pull you like a boss if you drop short ... but knowing Mark Waugh is more likely to duck / weave / defend...
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