Cricket Revolution Q&A - Open

[pratik_ps_indian]

is there will be change in commentary after 20-30 overs?

[Rafey]

Originally Posted by ChaMpioN

My question regarding the mod/patches has been already answered

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• We lacked a decent cricket game so far what's one of the highlight of CR which differentiate it from others?

CR is going to be a totally different game altogether. You can consider it to be a third genre in cricket games, besides EA and Codemasters. The reason being, in short, that the design goal of most former cricket games has been to create the perfect cricket simulator, whereas CR's core focus is on driving multi-player competition by adding as much gameplay depth as possible while staying within the cricketing framework.

Therefore the kind of discussions we expect from the community moving forward would be for example: What's the ideal mixture of catching and running specialists on the fielding side and where it's best to place each of them compared to, let's say, whether Muralitharan's bowling action is realistic or not. While the latter is a valid point, CR won't be focusing on such things.

Originally Posted by Stumped

Few questions,

♦ Will there be any difference in the playing style of Tail-enders and top order batsman?( Like playing wrong shots, unable to hit the ball properly etc.)

♦ Will there be any change in the bowler's bowling length/line or confidence after being hit for 2-3 consecutive boundaries by the batsman?

1) Ofcourse there is going to be. Tail-enders have low batting talent points compared to top-order batsmen, which means they are more likely to produce edges and will often time the ball incorrectly etc.

That's how the AI is going to be. Things could be very different in multi-player mode though, where a lot more strategies come into play. For example, someone might prefer sending in low talented batsmen as openers in order to get used to their opponent's bowling style. Similarly, someone else might invest a lot of talent points in their batsmen so that all of them are specialists.

2) You will notice a change in the AI's bowling style along with their field setting if they are hit for consecutive boundaries. As for 'adrenaline' (alternative term for confidence in CR), whether playing against the AI or a human opponent, it's going to drop.

[Stumped]

Ofcourse there is going to be. Tail-enders have low batting talent points compared to top-order batsmen, which means they are more likely to produce edges and will often time the ball incorrectly etc.

I was looking something like this from last many years. I still remember that I was able to score a hundred with Danish Kaneria against England in Cricket 07. That was really weird.

[Oj_RuLeS]

Any progress about release of boxed version ?

[Stumped]

One more question came to my mind,

How fast will be the online server? If playing the game through a 56k connection, will it take really long time?

Is there any special about the sound effects? The crowds, bat strokes, cheers etc?

How will be the crowds? Dull or really exciting?

[A.JJ]

Can cricket revolution be played with controller or just keyboard

[Solehria]

is it only an online game or we can also play offline like we do in Ashes Cricket 2009??
plz tell me this becaus i m totally confused

[Oj_RuLeS]

Originally Posted by Solehria

is it only an online game or we can also play offline like we do in Ashes Cricket 2009??
plz tell me this becaus i m totally confused

You can play offline too

[Rafey]

Originally Posted by Oj_RuLeS

Any progress about release of boxed version ?

You've probably heard about the boxed version for UK, Australia and South Africa by now. You can also pre-order the boxed version and it will be delivered to you for free no matter where you reside.

We have a number of options lined up for Pakistan and India as well. We're working on them at the moment.

Originally Posted by Stumped

One more question came to my mind,

How fast will be the online server? If playing the game through a 56k connection, will it take really long time?

Is there any special about the sound effects? The crowds, bat strokes, cheers etc?

How will be the crowds? Dull or really exciting?

If you have a decent connection, navigating through the online portal will be a smooth experience. This probably won't be possible with a 56K connection, you will need broadband at the very least. The in-game lag depends almost completely on the ping you get to the host. We recommend a 512KB connection, with which you should be able to play against people from your own country without any problems. Playing against users from other countries might require some adjustment in timing so that it syncs with the laggy environment.

The crowd's reaction depends on the situation of the game. You'll definitely notice a more excited crowd when a player hits a 6, gets a wicket and so on. Similarly, you'll hear "oooooh" when a player drops a catch, or when the umpire turns down an LBW appeal.

Originally Posted by A.JJ

Can cricket revolution be played with controller or just keyboard

There is no controller support in CR, you'll have to get comfortable with the keyboard

Originally Posted by Solehria

is it only an online game or we can also play offline like we do in Ashes Cricket 2009??
plz tell me this becaus i m totally confused

As Oj pointed out, there is a single player component as well.

[WJohn]

Some questions:

1. What will be the price of boxed-version here in Pakistan?
2. Will the players have their characteristic faces or all will look like the same?
3. Will the players have their correct names? unlike the Cricket 07 in which players of the most of the teams had not proper names due to licence issues.
4. Will there be commentary?
5. If Yes, who will be commentating (if that is the right word)?
6. Will my 1mb/s dsl suffice for multiplayer with international gamers?

Thats all in my mind right now. Thanks for the game and for your time sir g!