Any of you guys still using my patch V.10

[crick4life]

After I had couple of games yesterday using !xspeed while batting I thought the batting was a touch hard in particular the yorkers were quite hard to play. I did further tweaks to make batting a touch easier. With the attached patch you should be able to ondrive all the yorkers including the ones bowled on the off stump. Just in case if you find batting too easy drop the
BatWindowIdealSize back to 2.0

 

[brad352]

I've bowled 10 overs against New Zealand with my club side (both opening bowlers ~90 skill) and got absolutely belted- they're 2/76. Admittedly I haven't bowled properly for a while but the patch looks to be playing great. My only problem would be that the CPU tends to want to play everything to the leg side, even balls over a metre outside off stump and hence almost all of the scoring shots are on the leg side. I'm waiting to see how they'll go against spinners, I'll report back later- but for now, great job

EDIT: Normal pitch, sunny conditions

 

[msamina]

Ravi,

I have completed batting using your patch and bowled 5 overs on a Dusty pitch under normal conditions. I am playing as India against Zimbabwe. It is a tri-series featuring India, South Africa and Zimbabwe.

I was able to score 229 all out at the end of my innings. All shots were very reasonable and I certainly will get used to the straight drive. I was able to maintain a fairly reasonable pace. Some overs were very quite, others I was able to score a bit more freely.

Then, I started bowling. I have completed only 5 overs till now. Zimbabwe are 32/0 at the end of it. I am real amazed at how well the Zimbabwe batsmen play their shots. A number of shots are very unique and I have never seen the CPU play such a shot to such a delivery before and they do seem to play different types of shots for similar deliveries. As Brad has pointed out earlier, the CPU does try to place a lot of deliveries on a off-side. But, this is not to say that it never plays shots on the on-side. With your version 10 or 9 patch, I was able to bowl yorkers and keep the batsmen quiet. That no longer seems to be the case; some shots are played using the leg-glance, and others in different directions.

I should say great work. I hope I do not let Zimbabwe win.

 

[Hero]

Hi

I am old fan of Ravi patches although I have not written here a lot .This patch seems to me realy cool.The main ability about Ravi patches and himself is that he presents clear picture that what changes have been made and what can patch offer.I will give it try it then let you know.

Ravi ,can you make some human shots easy as they are very difficult to paly like reverse sweep or pull etc.Take care and have a good time there.

 

[m_vaughan]

Well the fact that Ravi was the first one into AI patch making (I think), and at that time all his patches were big hits. And the only reason why I (and a few others) am not using his patches today is simply because its been a long time since v10 was released, and now you have other patches which are constantly being improved and developed by the patchmakers to enhance the gameplay.

 

[m_vaughan]

Originally posted by crick4life
After I had couple of games yesterday using !xspeed while batting I thought the batting was a touch hard in particular the yorkers were quite hard to play. I did further tweaks to make batting a touch easier. With the attached patch you should be able to ondrive all the yorkers including the ones bowled on the off stump. Just in case if you find batting too easy drop the
BatWindowIdealSize back to 2.0

Will post a review here soon

 

[brad352]

Well the CPU is still pretty crap against spin:

My Fast Bowlers: 16-0-2/107
RPO: 6.69
Spinners: 7-2-1/20
RPO: 2.85

Overall though, New Zealand are 3/135 off 23 overs, just under 6 an over- if you could make them better against spin I'd probably be chasing 300+

 

[crick4life]

Thanks guys its been very good to hear from so many of you when I hardly expected any feed back. I just hope its good enough for few months from now.

Keep going Brad, that will change very soon. You may have brought in the spinners at a time when the batters are designed to play safe. If you continue to use them for longer duration it will change quite easily. I have had this before though, the spinners when introduced post 16-18 overs will give you some tight overs that is because the defensive shots are far more than the aggressive. I would still expect the CPU to set good enough target unless there's a collapse. Just in case you find what I am saying isn't right then tweaking it isn't a problem.

 

[brad352]

You may have brought in the spinners at a time when the batters are designed to play safe.

How come when I brought a med/fast bowler on in the 18th over he went for about 15 off 2 overs but when I replaced him with a leggie 2 overs later they couldn't score? I'll keep using them (both leggies are bowling in tandem right now) and see if it changes

 

[brad352]

NZ are now 7/156 off 26- 2 wickets were LBW trying to sweep short flippers, 1 was bowled trying to backfoot drive the same ball and 1 was LBW to a shortish wrong-un - they seem to be too reliant on sweeps for anything that's a bit short of a length and it rarely works
Apart from that however they're playing the spinners pretty well now

EDIT: All out for 179, they've got major problems with any ball that's on a reasonable length and either fast or slow- other than that I've got no real problems with the way they play

 

[crick4life]

Brad can you please wait till I fix that and then you continue to bowl if you are online. I normally play with !xspeed and with that I am unable to bowl similar balls like you have. Updated is the sweep fix, this will certainly sort out the sweep shot issue.

Sorry about the sweep shot guys. Others may want to use the attached file if they have downloaded the previous version. I will upload two versions, one of them is easy to bat with and the other is a reasonable one.

 

[crick4life]

Here we go the sweep fix one is attached. The ones wanting easier batting download the easier batting sweep fix zip file and the ones wanting the batting harder download the hard batting file.

 

[crick4life]

Easy batting ver 11 patch with sweep shot fix.

 

[brad352]

I've batted for a couple of overs, my first impression is that it's very easy to hit fours and sixes

OK, I've got the new one, I'll just autoplay to 20 overs or so and have a look at the spinners

 

[crick4life]

Not sure about that one Brad, let alone many sixes I find it hard to score even one as and when I wish with the hard batting settings. Most I can do it clear the infield and score a four but not sixes as you have mentioned. Fours may be available but yet again not so easy to hit every other ball.

Originally posted by brad352
I've batted for a couple of overs, my first impression is that it's very easy to hit fours and sixes

OK, I've got the new one, I'll just autoplay to 20 overs or so and have a look at the spinners