I really had high hopes for this game, i really did... however, as it currently stands, im taking it back tomorrow and getting my money back - it is an absolute trainwreck... I'm sorry, but I paid $100 for this game, I expect a finished product, not a buggy early access game...
Heres a few problems that I've noticed with the game:
- During my first 3 hours of play, it crashed 6 times
- When I downloaded new teams from the academy, most of the names for both the teams and their players showed up as "censored", rendering them unusable, this also caused umpires to become censored, although I didnt download any
- Unless theres some weird setting im missing, the ball can only be hit in 5 specific directions, with about a 10 degree tolerance either side... Every ball i hit goes exactly in one of these 5 directions, no matter where I push the sticks, and refuses to go anywhere else... There are literally 45 degree gaps in the field in which it is impossible to hit the ball, cover drive anyone?
- The game lags horribly during the bowlers runup, on all cameras, 2 players or 1... this is ridiculous!!!
- Diving, everyone dives, ball coming at your chest, DIVE! Ball flying back to the wicket keeper, dont sidestep and catch the ball like a normal person... DIVE DIVE DIVE!!! This also renders runouts completely impossible 90% of the time, and can be taken advantage of when batting by running for 1 extra run every single time the ball goes into the outfield...
- Cricket shots!! What on gods green earth is with the weird cut shot out to deep point??? Never ever ever has any cricketer ever performed this monstrosity out here in reality...
- It is possible to score a single off pace bowling every time the ball is hit, hit it straight to mid on - single, block - single... it is far too easy to score a run a ball or more without even trying!!
- Lots of problems with batting cameras, I played for about an hour pissed off at how far away the batting close camera was, only to realise it was batting far, but bugged and displaying the wrong option in the menu...
- Also, the batting far camera is completely unusable, as the ball is often bowled well below the sight screen and is extremely difficult to see!!
- On same batting far camera angle, playing in career mode, a red ball was used while the umpire sported a happy red shirt - derrrrrr, also the ball is extremely difficult to see in all circumstances, and I want to go on record saying this, silly green rings around the ball telling us exactly where its going is not a fix for this!!!
- The button for sprinting while running between wickets doesnt seem to have any effect...
- All cameras are absolutely god-awful and spaz out all over the place when running between wickets...
- The new field setting system is an absolute joke, why on gods green earth would I want to select a field without actually seeing what it is before choosing it???
- Similarly, why cant I change the preset fields that come with the game, or the preset field tactics??? You have made it very easy to select a bunch of useless fields that I will never use, and in doing so made it take longer for me to select a field that I actually want.... and as I cant remove field tactics from the preset field, I cant use this system to pick my own fields quickly...
- I had a catch dropped at mid-on while I was batting, it bounced about 15 meters out of the fielders hands toward another fielder at mid-off, I ran 4 runs, both fielders commiserated a dropped catch...
- It is entirely likely that every reverse sweep you miss will result in a stumping, with your back foot behind the line...
- The inverted control option for the bowling doesnt work correctly...
- When attempting to throw a ball in from the outfield, the throwing meter is most often interrupted by the game skipping to the next ball to be bowled...
- The crowd and stadiums look awful!!! Probably on the same level as DBC 14, except that was several years ago...
- Why do club tournaments only consist of 8 teams???? Similarly, why is it up to me to pick them?
- Cant properly turn the red circle surrounding the ball when its in the field
- Club bowlers will bowl 2 feet down the leg side, often!!
- You also cant queue more than 1 run at a time it seems, occasionally it works for 2, but never 3..
- Running between the wickets - where on earth did these animations come from, this is SERIOUSLY sub par!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Running between wickets is also buggy as hell, and often 1 runner is left 3/4 of a pitch behind the other as they overran...
- Also, while all the modification sliders are great, why not just make the game as realistic as possible in the first place? Why must I trial and error for hours on end to get the ball to react as it would IRL, when thats what im paying you people to do for me?
- Also, when turning the pace of the ball up on the modifiers, it causes the close batting camera to change to the far batting camera about .2 of a second before hitting the ball... faaaaaaaail...
Seriously, this is unacceptable for a $30 game, let alone $100!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Shame on you people for releasing such an expensive pile of refuse!!
To sum up this happy review, I leave you with the parting words of my wife, who now refuses to play this game with me, because its crap...
"Its like they fixed everything from DBC 14 but broke everything else"
it was marginal and the replay controls could do with being a bit more sensitive, would like a frame by frame skip if possible?
