dirt ball challenge is DD imo
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@ikasnu_psn said in dirt ball challenge is DD imo:
A dirt ball is not easy to read IRL when you're sitting on a 97 mph heater lmao. Patience and experience OP, two tools needed to get better at the game, and 100% of swings of balls in the firt should be missed. 100%.
yes but ask yourself this. how many times does a pitcher actually throw a ball in the dirt during a pitch count irl. maybe once, once he has the batter 0-2, 1-2....not throw 5 dirtballs in at bat with a total of a 50 dirtballs in a 9 inning game. thats not baseball
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@vvsharkyvv_xbl said in dirt ball challenge is DD imo:
@ikasnu_psn said in dirt ball challenge is DD imo:
A dirt ball is not easy to read IRL when you're sitting on a 97 mph heater lmao. Patience and experience OP, two tools needed to get better at the game, and 100% of swings of balls in the firt should be missed. 100%.
yes but ask yourself this. how many times does a pitcher actually throw a ball in the dirt during a pitch count irl. maybe once, once he has the batter 0-2, 1-2....not throw 5 dirtballs in at bat with a total of a 50 dirtballs in a 9 inning game. thats not baseball
Because he knows the batter has a professional eye for pitches. If he were facing a guy who swung at everything, he probably would throw nothing but dirt.
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@untchable704_psn said in dirt ball challenge is DD imo:
@vvsharkyvv_xbl said in dirt ball challenge is DD imo:
my point is... all the game turns into is a dirt fest. doesn't matter that i cant lay off of the majority of dirtballs lol..
sds should widen the hit box for contact or make a mode called "strikezone" where all pitches have to be delievered no higher or no wider than a ball's distance any where outside the strikezone box.
I think that’s called homerun derby.
no those are straight pitches right into the wheel house of the batter, thats hr derby
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@vvsharkyvv_xbl said in dirt ball challenge is DD imo:
my point is... all the game turns into is a dirt fest. doesn't matter that i cant lay off of the majority of dirtballs lol..
sds should widen the hit box for contact or make a mode called "strikezone" where all pitches have to be delievered no higher or no wider than a ball's distance any where outside the strikezone box.
you're trolling.
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@ikasnu_psn said in dirt ball challenge is DD imo:
@vvsharkyvv_xbl said in dirt ball challenge is DD imo:
my point is... all the game turns into is a dirt fest. doesn't matter that i cant lay off of the majority of dirtballs lol..
sds should widen the hit box for contact or make a mode called "strikezone" where all pitches have to be delievered no higher or no wider than a ball's distance any where outside the strikezone box.
If you can't lay off the dirt pitches, thats on you. No the SDS shouldn't cater to the crowd who swings at everything. If you want a baseball game where you can swing at everything and think you're good at the game, I recommend Wii Baseball.
Beyond that point, learn patience, gather experience, learn the curve (Hah, pun!). Everyone started where you are, I swung at everything in MLB 15 and 16 until I learned to get better. I didn't ask for the developers to cater to my own disadvantages.
Can you share some tips for HOW you got better? I know people say read the ball out of the hand but I just can't do that in a video game. I've sat and tried in practice mode for 4 years to try and do it and I just can't. I could IRL but it just doesn't translate into a video game for me.
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@raesone_psn said in dirt ball challenge is DD imo:
@untchable704_psn said in dirt ball challenge is DD imo:
It’s the only way to get a strike out and keep people off balance. And even still dudes foul it off 100 times a game. You make those ineffective you’re going to have half the guys hitting .500+
Yup. Might as well go play 20 if that's what you're looking for. Check swings and foull ball galore until the game forces one down the middle for a 3 run homer that will win you a game you had absolutely no business of winning.
disagree, the contact and vision can be altered using a strikezone mode and there is a such thing as being a crafty pitcher.
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@aaronjw76_psn said in dirt ball challenge is DD imo:
@ikasnu_psn said in dirt ball challenge is DD imo:
@vvsharkyvv_xbl said in dirt ball challenge is DD imo:
my point is... all the game turns into is a dirt fest. doesn't matter that i cant lay off of the majority of dirtballs lol..
sds should widen the hit box for contact or make a mode called "strikezone" where all pitches have to be delievered no higher or no wider than a ball's distance any where outside the strikezone box.
If you can't lay off the dirt pitches, thats on you. No the SDS shouldn't cater to the crowd who swings at everything. If you want a baseball game where you can swing at everything and think you're good at the game, I recommend Wii Baseball.
Beyond that point, learn patience, gather experience, learn the curve (Hah, pun!). Everyone started where you are, I swung at everything in MLB 15 and 16 until I learned to get better. I didn't ask for the developers to cater to my own disadvantages.
Can you share some tips for HOW you got better? I know people say read the ball out of the hand but I just can't do that in a video game. I've sat and tried in practice mode for 4 years to try and do it and I just can't. I could IRL but it just doesn't translate into a video game for me.
Experience and patience at the plate. Thats literally all it is, to go in depth is difficult since I've never done a self scouting report, though I should...
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@vvsharkyvv_xbl said in dirt ball challenge is DD imo:
@raesone_psn said in dirt ball challenge is DD imo:
@untchable704_psn said in dirt ball challenge is DD imo:
It’s the only way to get a strike out and keep people off balance. And even still dudes foul it off 100 times a game. You make those ineffective you’re going to have half the guys hitting .500+
Yup. Might as well go play 20 if that's what you're looking for. Check swings and foull ball galore until the game forces one down the middle for a 3 run homer that will win you a game you had absolutely no business of winning.
disagree, the contact and vision can be altered using a strikezone mode and there is a such thing as being a crafty pitcher.
Look man, the thing you're bothered with in this thread is the very same thing people were so fed up with last year. Strikeouts were non existent and terrible players could keep at bats alive until forever. The only people who would be upset with these changes are them, the terrible players.
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@aaronjw76_psn said in dirt ball challenge is DD imo:
@ikasnu_psn said in dirt ball challenge is DD imo:
@vvsharkyvv_xbl said in dirt ball challenge is DD imo:
my point is... all the game turns into is a dirt fest. doesn't matter that i cant lay off of the majority of dirtballs lol..
sds should widen the hit box for contact or make a mode called "strikezone" where all pitches have to be delievered no higher or no wider than a ball's distance any where outside the strikezone box.
If you can't lay off the dirt pitches, thats on you. No the SDS shouldn't cater to the crowd who swings at everything. If you want a baseball game where you can swing at everything and think you're good at the game, I recommend Wii Baseball.
Beyond that point, learn patience, gather experience, learn the curve (Hah, pun!). Everyone started where you are, I swung at everything in MLB 15 and 16 until I learned to get better. I didn't ask for the developers to cater to my own disadvantages.
Can you share some tips for HOW you got better? I know people say read the ball out of the hand but I just can't do that in a video game. I've sat and tried in practice mode for 4 years to try and do it and I just can't. I could IRL but it just doesn't translate into a video game for me.
these goons act like they got it figured out lol....trust they dont.
ive improved by playing probably 50 cpu games so far against veteran and higher difficulty but even then, the amount of dirtballs with anticipation added in is hard to pick up on a video game. your basically reduced to moving your pci to the bottom waiting for one pitch. the really good players dont use the dirt as much. id rather lose facing a good pitcher than someone whose uses dirtballs all the time
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@raesone_psn said in dirt ball challenge is DD imo:
@vvsharkyvv_xbl said in dirt ball challenge is DD imo:
@raesone_psn said in dirt ball challenge is DD imo:
@untchable704_psn said in dirt ball challenge is DD imo:
It’s the only way to get a strike out and keep people off balance. And even still dudes foul it off 100 times a game. You make those ineffective you’re going to have half the guys hitting .500+
Yup. Might as well go play 20 if that's what you're looking for. Check swings and foull ball galore until the game forces one down the middle for a 3 run homer that will win you a game you had absolutely no business of winning.
disagree, the contact and vision can be altered using a strikezone mode and there is a such thing as being a crafty pitcher.
Look man, the thing you're bothered with in this thread is the very same thing people were so fed up with last year. Strikeouts were non existent and terrible players could keep at bats alive until forever. The only people who would be upset with these changes are them, the terrible players.
im not bothered, im just chatting
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@vvsharkyvv_xbl said in dirt ball challenge is DD imo:
@aaronjw76_psn said in dirt ball challenge is DD imo:
@ikasnu_psn said in dirt ball challenge is DD imo:
@vvsharkyvv_xbl said in dirt ball challenge is DD imo:
my point is... all the game turns into is a dirt fest. doesn't matter that i cant lay off of the majority of dirtballs lol..
sds should widen the hit box for contact or make a mode called "strikezone" where all pitches have to be delievered no higher or no wider than a ball's distance any where outside the strikezone box.
If you can't lay off the dirt pitches, thats on you. No the SDS shouldn't cater to the crowd who swings at everything. If you want a baseball game where you can swing at everything and think you're good at the game, I recommend Wii Baseball.
Beyond that point, learn patience, gather experience, learn the curve (Hah, pun!). Everyone started where you are, I swung at everything in MLB 15 and 16 until I learned to get better. I didn't ask for the developers to cater to my own disadvantages.
Can you share some tips for HOW you got better? I know people say read the ball out of the hand but I just can't do that in a video game. I've sat and tried in practice mode for 4 years to try and do it and I just can't. I could IRL but it just doesn't translate into a video game for me.
these goons act like they got it figured out lol....trust they dont.
ive improved by playing probably 50 cpu games so far against veteran and higher difficulty but even then, the amount of dirtballs with anticipation added in is hard to pick up on a video game. your basically reduced to moving your pci to the bottom waiting for one pitch. the really good players dont use the dirt as much. id rather lose facing a good pitcher than someone whose uses dirtballs all the time
Wait wait hold on. You're talking about "CPU games on Veteran and higher"?
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Find a camera that works for you, it isn't impossible to see what pitches are going into the dirt. Will you get fooled? Of course, that's baseball. Learning tendencies, being patient and experience will get you where you need to be. Handicaps and crutches to improve only hurt the game. Last year you could foul off pitches repeatedly even with egregious swings. Just improve your patience and tendencies and you'll be better off. I wish I versed people that threw 50 dirtballs a game, that's a lot of free bases.
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Do you play on a monitor? If not i would guess your problem is not balls in the dirt it’s the fastball. You have to cheat so much to catch up to a fastball that you swing too fast to even see the pitch out of the hand. If you play in a monitor and still have this problem with any pitcher except a select few then you really need to work on that.
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@guccigangchuck said in dirt ball challenge is DD imo:
@vvsharkyvv_xbl said in dirt ball challenge is DD imo:
my point is... all the game turns into is a dirt fest. doesn't matter that i cant lay off of the majority of dirtballs lol..
sds should widen the hit box for contact or make a mode called "strikezone" where all pitches have to be delievered no higher or no wider than a ball's distance any where outside the strikezone box.
you're trolling.
how ? there are modes called events, hr derby, br, showdown etc...i just gave an idea bro
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@raesone_psn said in dirt ball challenge is DD imo:
@vvsharkyvv_xbl said in dirt ball challenge is DD imo:
@aaronjw76_psn said in dirt ball challenge is DD imo:
@ikasnu_psn said in dirt ball challenge is DD imo:
@vvsharkyvv_xbl said in dirt ball challenge is DD imo:
my point is... all the game turns into is a dirt fest. doesn't matter that i cant lay off of the majority of dirtballs lol..
sds should widen the hit box for contact or make a mode called "strikezone" where all pitches have to be delievered no higher or no wider than a ball's distance any where outside the strikezone box.
If you can't lay off the dirt pitches, thats on you. No the SDS shouldn't cater to the crowd who swings at everything. If you want a baseball game where you can swing at everything and think you're good at the game, I recommend Wii Baseball.
Beyond that point, learn patience, gather experience, learn the curve (Hah, pun!). Everyone started where you are, I swung at everything in MLB 15 and 16 until I learned to get better. I didn't ask for the developers to cater to my own disadvantages.
Can you share some tips for HOW you got better? I know people say read the ball out of the hand but I just can't do that in a video game. I've sat and tried in practice mode for 4 years to try and do it and I just can't. I could IRL but it just doesn't translate into a video game for me.
these goons act like they got it figured out lol....trust they dont.
ive improved by playing probably 50 cpu games so far against veteran and higher difficulty but even then, the amount of dirtballs with anticipation added in is hard to pick up on a video game. your basically reduced to moving your pci to the bottom waiting for one pitch. the really good players dont use the dirt as much. id rather lose facing a good pitcher than someone whose uses dirtballs all the time
Wait wait hold on. You're talking about "CPU games on Veteran and higher"?
no im talking about ranked play in dd......the only way i know how to practice is play cpu..? he was asking how to improve....more pitches you see, the better your overall eyes are recognizing pitches
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@untchable704_psn said in dirt ball challenge is DD imo:
Do you play on a monitor? If not i would guess your problem is not balls in the dirt it’s the fastball. You have to cheat so much to catch up to a fastball that you swing too fast to even see the pitch out of the hand. If you play in a monitor and still have this problem with any pitcher except a select few then you really need to work on th
yes i have an asus 1ms monitor and a xbox one x.....
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@thewhitedahlia86_psn said in dirt ball challenge is DD imo:
Find a camera that works for you, it isn't impossible to see what pitches are going into the dirt. Will you get fooled? Of course, that's baseball. Learning tendencies, being patient and experience will get you where you need to be. Handicaps and crutches to improve only hurt the game. Last year you could foul off pitches repeatedly even with egregious swings. Just improve your patience and tendencies and you'll be better off. I wish I versed people that threw 50 dirtballs a game, that's a lot of free bases.
agreed, i use zoom and have to switch to fisheye when i get a dirtballer
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@vvsharkyvv_xbl said in dirt ball challenge is DD imo:
@guccigangchuck said in dirt ball challenge is DD imo:
@vvsharkyvv_xbl said in dirt ball challenge is DD imo:
my point is... all the game turns into is a dirt fest. doesn't matter that i cant lay off of the majority of dirtballs lol..
sds should widen the hit box for contact or make a mode called "strikezone" where all pitches have to be delievered no higher or no wider than a ball's distance any where outside the strikezone box.
you're trolling.
how ? there are modes called events, hr derby, br, showdown etc...i just gave an idea bro
not a very a good one.
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And Chris Sale doesn’t send down 70 inside sliders to RHB and strike 15 of them out.
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@guccigangchuck said in dirt ball challenge is DD imo:
@vvsharkyvv_xbl said in dirt ball challenge is DD imo:
@guccigangchuck said in dirt ball challenge is DD imo:
@vvsharkyvv_xbl said in dirt ball challenge is DD imo:
my point is... all the game turns into is a dirt fest. doesn't matter that i cant lay off of the majority of dirtballs lol..
sds should widen the hit box for contact or make a mode called "strikezone" where all pitches have to be delievered no higher or no wider than a ball's distance any where outside the strikezone box.
you're trolling.
how ? there are modes called events, hr derby, br, showdown etc...i just gave an idea bro
not a very a good one.
to branch off, and not be a complete pos, custom practice mode, you can pick where the pitchers throw the ball, the exact location, theres your strike zone mode.
