Definitive Career Mode bugs I have found

[Gert James]

I am going to be as thoughtful as I Can be with as little vitriol spewed as possible.

First off...Big Ant:
I AM enjoying this game. It looks great and at times can be extremely immersive. But there's things you did in this game that rips you out of that immersion very quickly. Here follows a list:

1 - Right at the start of career mode: Zero distinction being made between stats in 3 day, T20 or 50 over cricket. That doesn't happen at club level. Can we please have this fixed? How difficult could this be?
2 - Not having commentary at club level would be more immersive than having commentary. Never heard of commentary at club level. This may just be personal taste and could be fixed with a prompt at the start...to have commentary on during club level games or not.
3 - Michael Atherton's commentary is VERY hit-and-miss at times. "Four all the way" and then ball is stopped on the boundary by fielders. "Great shot...four!"...then the ball flies for 110m six. And let's not get in too deep with all the "well stopped...saved a certain boundary" for all the straight forward fielding efforts. Not every well hit shot straight to a fielder deserves commentary. How about... "straight to a fielder...well timed, but no runs". Much more immersive and engaging than giving fielders credit for doing their jobs.
4 - While batting I can understand a natural delay between showing a coloured ring around the bowlers hand (indicating ball length to be bowled) and pitch marker appearing as late as possible when you are new to the crease. But that delay should progressively disappear the more you get your batsman "in". Right now it seems completely arbitrary how long it takes for pitch marker to appear at lower difficulty levels. sometimes it appears only at ball release. A few times it never even appeared...which I am sure must be a bug.
5 - You have worked on general stability, true...but I have experienced MULTIPLE (probably close to 7) crashes just filtering through created teams and downloading the most popular replacements for my game.
6 - You can NOT have a commentator say, at the end of a match, "DOMINANT win" (or something to that effect) when you have scored 420 runs in 50 overs and the opponents gets to withing 6 runs of it and lose. I have explained this principle to my kids multiple times...there are other settings in human behaviour other than "balls-to-the-wall" and "never even arrived". Can you please create a middle ground please. Not everything is 100% or none-at-all.
7 - On that topic...it is unheard of to score 290 runs in 50 overs and win by less than 10 runs almost all the time...and the one time everything clicked and you post 420 runs the AI still gets to 410 runs. AI accomplishments should not always be "whatever player got less 10".
8 - Coach feedback during career mode could have been SO much better. A couple of voice actors used, different character skins (for different coaches depending on where you play and who you play for), more variety and what the say and how they say it and WAY more stability would have been epic. When the coach talks to me outside the clubhouse his head moves, but he is completely silent. In the dressing room we would have just won the league, but he tells us "at least you gave it your best". This is so eye-rollingly bad, Big Ant. And combine it with being introduced to new teammates for an English club (just after you signed a contract) literally 2 days before playing a 50 game for South Africa on tour in the Windies. None of it makes sense... surely a contract can be signed, but introductions to teammates can be cued for when you are actually shaping to play for said team?
9 - Why must an auto shot (at lower difficulties) result in a well timed cover drive shot when you shaped to play an aggressive pull shot of a short ball? Surely, if the shot was not the right one, you could have the batsman either miss it completely, edge it or play it in an area he didnt expect, but still in the general onside area? It is SO borked to see balls fly with cracking sounds into directions not aimed for!!!!
10 - I am currently a regular in my national team for tests and 50 over cricket as a batsman. Yet...not a single skill upgrade that can be manually applied or earned? No sponsorship I could qualify for? And why is my player earning currency when it cant be spent?
11 - The selection processes are nowhere near as easy to track and follow as it was with Don Bradman 14. How can you, after AT LEAST 7 or 8 years of these games being released, have taken something that worked and made it as ridiculously non-intuitive as you did here?
12 - how can the default bowler in my nets during practice for a game in India, be the same guy that gave me batting practice back when i was playing at club level? Surely bowlers can be replaced based on which squad you are in and/or where you are playing?
13 - I do not see any points tracking in the nets AT ALL.

These are but a few of the things that absolutely KILLS immersion. Please check it out and feel free to make contact.

[Davew78]

I would add -
14 - the box jump with the gym training doesnt track repetitions - no matter how many times you jump it still shows zero and no stats added.
15 - no sponsorship or change bat option for career player
16 - quick session - always reverts to nets session, never gym or anythign

[AshBlaqe]

Speaking of hit or miss commentary -

3 dot balls in a test is NOT putting pressure on the batsman. Just because I refuse to play Cummins outside off as a opener doesn't mean I'm in pressure.

[Farabi]

Really really well put on!! I hope they will come up with the solution. Its fine even if they take some idea from fifa/PES to see how career mode can be more improved. Same thing for the commentary too.

[HBK619]

There's a lot to go through, I can give a few answers to some of your points.

1 - A choice was made with club statistics that it wasn't worth the increase to users save data (remember, we have to save all the data and adding this would increase save data sizes significantly - various platforms have save file size limits) to ensure that we separate the club stats from any others. If we were to combine them, then it would mess with anything domestic/international and that's also not how stats are tracked. We chose that users would still want them in some manner, so we put them in "other" statistics section.

2 - We did discuss this internally and went back and forth. At the end of the day we don't think anything is lost when keeping it on and users have the choice of turning down the commentary sound if they wish.

9 - An 'auto shot' will play out if the system determines that shot is the ideal shot for the situation. It came from a situation where users would be playing a shot and we'd be making the ball go the direction they wanted it to but users didn't like that the "wrong shot" was being played. You can always disable the option for an auto shot to play (SHOT REPLACEMENT).

Davew78 -
14 - I'm not seeing this occur with my latest version. Is this happening every time? Or only a specific difficulty of the box jump? Are you getting the button prompt showing up (this is how a rep is completed).

[Davew78]

Originally posted by HBK619:

There's a lot to go through, I can give a few answers to some of your points.

1 - A choice was made with club statistics that it wasn't worth the increase to users save data (remember, we have to save all the data and adding this would increase save data sizes significantly - various platforms have save file size limits) to ensure that we separate the club stats from any others. If we were to combine them, then it would mess with anything domestic/international and that's also not how stats are tracked. We chose that users would still want them in some manner, so we put them in "other" statistics section.

2 - We did discuss this internally and went back and forth. At the end of the day we don't think anything is lost when keeping it on and users have the choice of turning down the commentary sound if they wish.

9 - An 'auto shot' will play out if the system determines that shot is the ideal shot for the situation. It came from a situation where users would be playing a shot and we'd be making the ball go the direction they wanted it to but users didn't like that the "wrong shot" was being played. You can always disable the option for an auto shot to play (SHOT REPLACEMENT).

Davew78 -
14 - I'm not seeing this occur with my latest version. Is this happening every time? Or only a specific difficulty of the box jump? Are you getting the button prompt showing up (this is how a rep is completed).

Hi
Thank you for replying.
Regards point 14, it happens every time on every difficulty level.
Button prompt comes up, I press it, player gets down and no rep noted.

[Gert James]

Originally posted by HBK619:

There's a lot to go through, I can give a few answers to some of your points.

9 - An 'auto shot' will play out if the system determines that shot is the ideal shot for the situation. It came from a situation where users would be playing a shot and we'd be making the ball go the direction they wanted it to but users didn't like that the "wrong shot" was being played. You can always disable the option for an auto shot to play (SHOT REPLACEMENT).

I'm not entirely sure if we are on the same page here. I do not have an inherent problem with "auto-shot" as a concept. What i do have an issue with is the batter getting the input, from me as the player, to play a pull-shot on a short ball, the pull-shot animation playing but the ball whistles through the covers as if it have 3 jetpacks attached to it. If the animation was a back-foot drive through the covers it would have been a different story. This is a coding issue...where you have the animation and the "if this, then that" scenario is borked.