Any of you guys still using my patch V.10

[crick4life]

Guys, I have had some additional feedback from Mike(Jonah) on Ver 11 patch and my reply to those issues :

1. the cpu plays many of it's aggressive, lofted strokes off the backfoot, even to balls pitched up. A few more front-foot lofted shots instead of the backfoot ones would be good.

Not a problem with this one, can be sorted out.

2. Also, the cpu tries to play many balls pitched up outside off to sq leg region (leg glance). Maybe encourage the cover drive and straight drive a little more?

This can be fixed as well.

3. Advance shots to spin bowlers (ie against yorkers) often resulted in edges over the keeper/slip region to the boundary, especially with the lower order.

Not sure what we can do about this one Mike although reducing the edges in the stroke file might lessen the chances of this happenning.

4. The 'classical' straight drive (straight bat, elbow high) seems to be missing?

I suppose this can be sorted out.

5. The square cut to spinners I found nigh on impossible to connect with, same with the pull/hook to faster bowlers (but that may just be my batting !).

I suppose I am able to hit the pull and hook shots with the easy batting configs. I will have another go and confirm this one anyways.

6.The sweep to full pitched balls on leg stump was often the paddle sweep, rather than the normal sweep, which meant it was often missed.

Not a problem, I will sort this one out.

7. can you make some human shots easy as they are very difficult to paly like reverse sweep or pull etc?

Hero, I suggest you try the easy batting settings when batting it should not be impossible to play the shots mentioned by you.
I know your using of my patches goes back to the good old C2K2 days, can you send me a PM with your email address. I will
ensure any upgrades or fixes in future will be mailed to you as and when I fix it.

As the users of this patch are fairly less in numbers I will not be continuing this topic after the above fixes. In case you are
one of the users and like to see any changes you may want to write about it now. I many not be able to change much after theses fixes mentioned above are in place.

 

[Hero]

Thanks for detailed review and my email id is

[email protected]

 

[msamina]

Ravi,

I completed playing the match against Zimbabwe that I started. As I had stated earlier, I scored 229 all out during my innings and then bowled on a dusty pitch. Zimbabwe reached the target in 33 overs. They scored 231 for 6. I have not been bowling for quite sometime now because the CPU always gets out before 100 runs. But even then, I think this patch has worked really well. I was unable to keep the batsmen quiet using any type of bowler.

I can certainly live with what you have already given us. It is simply great. Sure, my bowling will improve, but certainly the patch seems to be excellent.

You can maybe modify the issues you mentioned above and release it as patch version 12.

Great job.

 

[crick4life]

Thanks for that Murali, that sound very good. I had similar problems when I first bowled but after few attempts I am able to get a hang of bowling. That said my enthusiasm to bowl hasn't died yet and even know couple of mates who are now more keen on bowling than batting. Apparently they are playing an online game between them bowling 50 overs each.

I am pretty much finished with the changes and am testing it out right now. I am playing a game as NZ against Australia and by the looks of it we may have better patch than what we set out for. Read in the stories section after a while on this one. I think I do have a copy of your email, in any case can you PM me your mail id as after this release I will not be publishing much over here for a while. Any quick fixes I will ensure you will get a copy.

 

[msamina]

Great job Ravi. I will wait for your patch. I have PM'ed you my e-mail address. Thanks for the offer to keep me posted.

 

[crick4life]

Ver 12 AI patch guys, hopefully all the issues from Ver 11 is fixed. If anything let me know.

If you want to make batting harder drop the BatWindowIdealSize from 2.0 to 1.5.

 

[Radaga]

Ravi, i am hoping, with a bit of luck that i will have enough time this weekend to test your version 12 patch!

im looking forward to it, i have been hearing great things about it, especially the bowling side!

 

[Hero]

Yes from the bwoling side it is the best patch ever seen here .Although batting is bit easy but I hope this issue is curified in this version.

 

[brad352]

Great work Ravi, with those fixes the new patch will be great

 

[crick4life]

Cheers guys, very nice of you all. Batting may have gotten a little easier with some more shots being available for us to use but as I said if the batting gets a little too easier drop the batwindowsize to lower value using the config editor.

 

[brad352]

Cheers guys, very nice of you all. Batting may have gotten a little easier with some more shots being available for us to use but as I said if the batting gets a little too easier drop the batwindowsize to lower value using the config editor.

Or just bump up the speed in !xspeed?

 

[crick4life]

Thats an option too, I am currently playing at +1.62 and its quite fast really. The shots come off very well when timed properly though so not bad to try it out.

 

[brad352]

I've got it, I just made 358 on a hard pitch at +1.23, I'm gonna put it up a fair bit higher

 

[Hero]

New patch is excelent as I palyed with it as India vs Pakistan.I played as Pakistan.It was 20 over match and India smacked me all around the park and they were able to manage to score 158.In reply I scored 141 in response and lost the match.Strokes are bit easy to play but it feels nice.

 

[crick4life]

Thanks for that Hero and as you said the batting may be a little easy but it gives chance to catch up with what CPU scores. If you were able to score only 80-100 and CPU score over 7.0 an over then it may get a touch boring. The ideas was to have chances to win but at the same time lose some. Eventually we all like to score freely using some of the batters anyway. Just in case if you reckon it may need minor changes here and there then we can too.