This is the patch that will turn people away
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@vagimon_psn said in This is the patch that will turn people away:
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@letsgotopr_xbl said in This is the patch that will turn people away:
It’s way better. I only threw a handful of “perfects” the entire game. I wasn’t cheesed to death by contact swing, and if you don’t know how to pitch sequence, you’re gonna get touched up. This is the way it should be.
I'm referring to the fact that last year the game was horrible due to pitching being so random. Good releases could go down the middle. And now they fixed that issue, and yes pinpoint was very accurate. But if you can hit, you can hit those pitches on the black too. Has nothing to do with sequencing and everything to do with the ability to hit. And now they go I'm reverse to make it more random, because the average hitters cried hard. Again.
How is pitching more random? They just tightened up the thresholds to get perfect or good input. It didn’t increase the perfect radius from what I can see so far. That’s not adding randomness but rather adding skill imo
Just play man you'll see what I mean. A bit off makes pitches sail and go down the middle, very much like last year and even the year before to a certain extent. Missing a perfect is now punished heavier and having a "good" release doesn't mean anything, it can be a meatball if the game decides to do so. Again, just play a few games and you'll see.
I’ve played a few event games but I think I got a perfect release on every pitch so far. Tbh what you’re describing I kind of like. It’s always been so easy to get perfects that I think it should be punishing when you don’t but I’ll wait to play some more outside of the event before forming an opinion I guess. It sounds like a win for ranked games though tbh
Did you l happen to use analogue pitching last year? Sometimes pitches would just randomly go down the middle regardless of input. I hope that’s not what’s happening with pin point now. I also think something happened to timing windows on those pitches as well because those “hangers” almost always ended up being a bomb.
Yep, I always was an analog guy (so I know all about forced hangers from years past) until pin point this year. I haven’t seen any hangers yet that didn’t deserve to be and I’m playing moonshot with all these common pitchers.
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@nash_524_psn said in This is the patch that will turn people away:
@vagimon_psn said in This is the patch that will turn people away:
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@raesone_psn said in This is the patch that will turn people away:
@nash_524_psn said in This is the patch that will turn people away:
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@letsgotopr_xbl said in This is the patch that will turn people away:
It’s way better. I only threw a handful of “perfects” the entire game. I wasn’t cheesed to death by contact swing, and if you don’t know how to pitch sequence, you’re gonna get touched up. This is the way it should be.
I'm referring to the fact that last year the game was horrible due to pitching being so random. Good releases could go down the middle. And now they fixed that issue, and yes pinpoint was very accurate. But if you can hit, you can hit those pitches on the black too. Has nothing to do with sequencing and everything to do with the ability to hit. And now they go I'm reverse to make it more random, because the average hitters cried hard. Again.
How is pitching more random? They just tightened up the thresholds to get perfect or good input. It didn’t increase the perfect radius from what I can see so far. That’s not adding randomness but rather adding skill imo
Just play man you'll see what I mean. A bit off makes pitches sail and go down the middle, very much like last year and even the year before to a certain extent. Missing a perfect is now punished heavier and having a "good" release doesn't mean anything, it can be a meatball if the game decides to do so. Again, just play a few games and you'll see.
I’ve played a few event games but I think I got a perfect release on every pitch so far. Tbh what you’re describing I kind of like. It’s always been so easy to get perfects that I think it should be punishing when you don’t but I’ll wait to play some more outside of the event before forming an opinion I guess. It sounds like a win for ranked games though tbh
Did you l happen to use analogue pitching last year? Sometimes pitches would just randomly go down the middle regardless of input. I hope that’s not what’s happening with pin point now. I also think something happened to timing windows on those pitches as well because those “hangers” almost always ended up being a bomb.
Yep, I always was an analog guy (so I know all about forced hangers from years past) until pin point this year. I haven’t seen any hangers yet that didn’t deserve to be and I’m playing moonshot with all these common pitchers.
Yea, if I fired early before it was a hanger and I knew exactly why. Hopefully, that is still the case.
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@d_e_m_i_s_e_psn said in This is the patch that will turn people away:
@nash_524_psn said in This is the patch that will turn people away:
@vagimon_psn said in This is the patch that will turn people away:
@nash_524_psn said in This is the patch that will turn people away:
@raesone_psn said in This is the patch that will turn people away:
@nash_524_psn said in This is the patch that will turn people away:
@raesone_psn said in This is the patch that will turn people away:
@letsgotopr_xbl said in This is the patch that will turn people away:
It’s way better. I only threw a handful of “perfects” the entire game. I wasn’t cheesed to death by contact swing, and if you don’t know how to pitch sequence, you’re gonna get touched up. This is the way it should be.
I'm referring to the fact that last year the game was horrible due to pitching being so random. Good releases could go down the middle. And now they fixed that issue, and yes pinpoint was very accurate. But if you can hit, you can hit those pitches on the black too. Has nothing to do with sequencing and everything to do with the ability to hit. And now they go I'm reverse to make it more random, because the average hitters cried hard. Again.
How is pitching more random? They just tightened up the thresholds to get perfect or good input. It didn’t increase the perfect radius from what I can see so far. That’s not adding randomness but rather adding skill imo
Just play man you'll see what I mean. A bit off makes pitches sail and go down the middle, very much like last year and even the year before to a certain extent. Missing a perfect is now punished heavier and having a "good" release doesn't mean anything, it can be a meatball if the game decides to do so. Again, just play a few games and you'll see.
I’ve played a few event games but I think I got a perfect release on every pitch so far. Tbh what you’re describing I kind of like. It’s always been so easy to get perfects that I think it should be punishing when you don’t but I’ll wait to play some more outside of the event before forming an opinion I guess. It sounds like a win for ranked games though tbh
Did you l happen to use analogue pitching last year? Sometimes pitches would just randomly go down the middle regardless of input. I hope that’s not what’s happening with pin point now. I also think something happened to timing windows on those pitches as well because those “hangers” almost always ended up being a bomb.
Yep, I always was an analog guy (so I know all about forced hangers from years past) until pin point this year. I haven’t seen any hangers yet that didn’t deserve to be and I’m playing moonshot with all these common pitchers.
Yea, if I fired early before it was a hanger and I knew exactly why. Hopefully, that is still the case.
Unfortunately it seems if you mess up your input it’s completely random where it goes from there. I’ve had some that go right where I asked it to despite not getting a perfect, I’ve had some hang, and I’ve had some go 6 inches out of the zone. There doesn’t seem to be any rhyme or reason for what happens if you don’t get a perfect from what I’ve seen
Which I’m fine with mostly. I’d like it not to be completely random on misses and I definitely don’t think the pitch should go where you want if you can’t get a perfect. But I guess I’m okay with there being a better change of hanging your pitch if you screw up than it was prior to the patch
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Guess I gotta crank up the cronus zen again...just kidding.
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It was noticeably harder to use PP in the event today. I hope pitchers with better bb/9 rating will be a bit easier.
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@vagimon_psn said in This is the patch that will turn people away:
@nash_524_psn said in This is the patch that will turn people away:
@raesone_psn said in This is the patch that will turn people away:
@nash_524_psn said in This is the patch that will turn people away:
@raesone_psn said in This is the patch that will turn people away:
@letsgotopr_xbl said in This is the patch that will turn people away:
It’s way better. I only threw a handful of “perfects” the entire game. I wasn’t cheesed to death by contact swing, and if you don’t know how to pitch sequence, you’re gonna get touched up. This is the way it should be.
I'm referring to the fact that last year the game was horrible due to pitching being so random. Good releases could go down the middle. And now they fixed that issue, and yes pinpoint was very accurate. But if you can hit, you can hit those pitches on the black too. Has nothing to do with sequencing and everything to do with the ability to hit. And now they go I'm reverse to make it more random, because the average hitters cried hard. Again.
How is pitching more random? They just tightened up the thresholds to get perfect or good input. It didn’t increase the perfect radius from what I can see so far. That’s not adding randomness but rather adding skill imo
Just play man you'll see what I mean. A bit off makes pitches sail and go down the middle, very much like last year and even the year before to a certain extent. Missing a perfect is now punished heavier and having a "good" release doesn't mean anything, it can be a meatball if the game decides to do so. Again, just play a few games and you'll see.
I’ve played a few event games but I think I got a perfect release on every pitch so far. Tbh what you’re describing I kind of like. It’s always been so easy to get perfects that I think it should be punishing when you don’t but I’ll wait to play some more outside of the event before forming an opinion I guess. It sounds like a win for ranked games though tbh
Did you l happen to use analogue pitching last year? Sometimes pitches would just randomly go down the middle regardless of input. I hope that’s not what’s happening with pin point now. I also think something happened to timing windows on those pitches as well because those “hangers” almost always ended up being a bomb.
That is exactly what is happening with pin point now. These morons just don’t have anything else in thier bag of tricks.
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@worterror_psn said in This is the patch that will turn people away:
@vagimon_psn said in This is the patch that will turn people away:
@nash_524_psn said in This is the patch that will turn people away:
@raesone_psn said in This is the patch that will turn people away:
@nash_524_psn said in This is the patch that will turn people away:
@raesone_psn said in This is the patch that will turn people away:
@letsgotopr_xbl said in This is the patch that will turn people away:
It’s way better. I only threw a handful of “perfects” the entire game. I wasn’t cheesed to death by contact swing, and if you don’t know how to pitch sequence, you’re gonna get touched up. This is the way it should be.
I'm referring to the fact that last year the game was horrible due to pitching being so random. Good releases could go down the middle. And now they fixed that issue, and yes pinpoint was very accurate. But if you can hit, you can hit those pitches on the black too. Has nothing to do with sequencing and everything to do with the ability to hit. And now they go I'm reverse to make it more random, because the average hitters cried hard. Again.
How is pitching more random? They just tightened up the thresholds to get perfect or good input. It didn’t increase the perfect radius from what I can see so far. That’s not adding randomness but rather adding skill imo
Just play man you'll see what I mean. A bit off makes pitches sail and go down the middle, very much like last year and even the year before to a certain extent. Missing a perfect is now punished heavier and having a "good" release doesn't mean anything, it can be a meatball if the game decides to do so. Again, just play a few games and you'll see.
I’ve played a few event games but I think I got a perfect release on every pitch so far. Tbh what you’re describing I kind of like. It’s always been so easy to get perfects that I think it should be punishing when you don’t but I’ll wait to play some more outside of the event before forming an opinion I guess. It sounds like a win for ranked games though tbh
Did you l happen to use analogue pitching last year? Sometimes pitches would just randomly go down the middle regardless of input. I hope that’s not what’s happening with pin point now. I also think something happened to timing windows on those pitches as well because those “hangers” almost always ended up being a bomb.
That is exactly what is happening with pin point now. These morons just don’t have anything else in thier bag of tricks.
@worterror_psn said in This is the patch that will turn people away:
@vagimon_psn said in This is the patch that will turn people away:
@nash_524_psn said in This is the patch that will turn people away:
@raesone_psn said in This is the patch that will turn people away:
@nash_524_psn said in This is the patch that will turn people away:
@raesone_psn said in This is the patch that will turn people away:
@letsgotopr_xbl said in This is the patch that will turn people away:
It’s way better. I only threw a handful of “perfects” the entire game. I wasn’t cheesed to death by contact swing, and if you don’t know how to pitch sequence, you’re gonna get touched up. This is the way it should be.
I'm referring to the fact that last year the game was horrible due to pitching being so random. Good releases could go down the middle. And now they fixed that issue, and yes pinpoint was very accurate. But if you can hit, you can hit those pitches on the black too. Has nothing to do with sequencing and everything to do with the ability to hit. And now they go I'm reverse to make it more random, because the average hitters cried hard. Again.
How is pitching more random? They just tightened up the thresholds to get perfect or good input. It didn’t increase the perfect radius from what I can see so far. That’s not adding randomness but rather adding skill imo
Just play man you'll see what I mean. A bit off makes pitches sail and go down the middle, very much like last year and even the year before to a certain extent. Missing a perfect is now punished heavier and having a "good" release doesn't mean anything, it can be a meatball if the game decides to do so. Again, just play a few games and you'll see.
I’ve played a few event games but I think I got a perfect release on every pitch so far. Tbh what you’re describing I kind of like. It’s always been so easy to get perfects that I think it should be punishing when you don’t but I’ll wait to play some more outside of the event before forming an opinion I guess. It sounds like a win for ranked games though tbh
Did you l happen to use analogue pitching last year? Sometimes pitches would just randomly go down the middle regardless of input. I hope that’s not what’s happening with pin point now. I also think something happened to timing windows on those pitches as well because those “hangers” almost always ended up being a bomb.
That is exactly what is happening with pin point now. These morons just don’t have anything else in thier bag of tricks.
I kind of wish they wouldn’t have touched pin point and just given a little more wriggle room in the hitting timing windows.
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I pitched with commons today in the event and didn’t threw a single meatball. It’s harder but not impossible, probably with our Diamond regulars people will do better
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I'd love to see some video examples of all these meatballs happening with pin point because majority of people here tend to exaggerate their feedback by about 200%
And if PPP is harder to execute perfect pitches then that's a good thing. The most accurate pitching mechanic SHOULD be the hardest to perfect.
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The patch that broke the camels back
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@aaronjw76_psn said in This is the patch that will turn people away:
I'd love to see some video examples of all these meatballs happening with pin point because majority of people here tend to exaggerate their feedback by about 200%
And if PPP is harder to execute perfect pitches then that's a good thing. The most accurate pitching mechanic SHOULD be the hardest to perfect.
I agree but the problem is not that the execution got harder. That's fine and it's a welcome change. The problem is the result when you do end up missing the perfect. How far will it be off from the mark? Does it depend on how much you miss and with what angle? Or does the game simply punish you for missing by throwing a very hittable pitch belt high?
As you can see it's not as simple as you and others before you are putting it. In my sample size so far, it is more random than it was before. And I don't like the randomness, that was THE issue last year.
Let's say if I miss by 5° on a late release, it will always end up in the same spot if I miss by those numbers. That's something I can work with, because I can calculate the margins and risk of throwing a certain pitch in a certain spot. I felt like that was present before but it isn't now. And that not knowing when the game will force one down the middle, THAT is my issue.
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@raesone_psn said in This is the patch that will turn people away:
@aaronjw76_psn said in This is the patch that will turn people away:
I'd love to see some video examples of all these meatballs happening with pin point because majority of people here tend to exaggerate their feedback by about 200%
And if PPP is harder to execute perfect pitches then that's a good thing. The most accurate pitching mechanic SHOULD be the hardest to perfect.
I agree but the problem is not that the execution got harder. That's fine and it's a welcome change. The problem is the result when you do end up missing the perfect. How far will it be off from the mark? Does it depend on how much you miss and with what angle? Or does the game simply punish you for missing by throwing a very hittable pitch belt high?
As you can see it's not as simple as you and others before you are putting it. In my sample size so far, it is more random than it was before. And I don't like the randomness, that was THE issue last year.
Let's say if I miss by 5° on a late release, it will always end up in the same spot if I miss by those numbers. That's something I can work with, because I can calculate the margins and risk of throwing a certain pitch in a certain spot. I felt like that was present before but it isn't now. And that not knowing when the game will force one down the middle, THAT is my issue.
That makes sense to me. It definitely is completely random when you miss perfect. I really like that there’s a higher probability that you get punished when you mess up but I agree about how it would be nice to know what the risks are if you miss a certain way.
Like IRL if a pitcher is trying to throw a slider away but releases too early you know the risk is a hanger. In this game it could be a hanger, it could hit the black perfectly, or it could be in the dirt. No way of knowing
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Well obviously the patch DID break other things. Freeze offs caused by me doing a mound visit. I guess just don't do a mound visit and you'll be fine.
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SDS does this every year they have never gotten a game of thier s working properly until about 3/4 of the way through the season. Diseased chimps could do a better job than what SDS employs.
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@worterror_psn said in This is the patch that will turn people away:
SDS does this every year they have never gotten a game of thier s working properly until about 3/4 of the way through the season. Diseased chimps could do a better job than what SDS employs.
You had to expect this with cross play and old gen and next gen consoles going against each other. It will smooth out once they phase out the older systems. Yeah, a long time to wait, but it should be better next year. I hope!
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Hopefully an earthquake takes thier headquarters down and causes all employees to be replaced
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Is it me or are exit velos on normal swings way lower now too
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@ny_giants4_life said in This is the patch that will turn people away:
Is it me or are exit velos on normal swings way lower now too
I noticed a similar trend, but my sample size wasn't great. So I figured I'd share and wait what the rest of the community experiences.
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@nash_524_psn said in This is the patch that will turn people away:
@raesone_psn said in This is the patch that will turn people away:
@aaronjw76_psn said in This is the patch that will turn people away:
I'd love to see some video examples of all these meatballs happening with pin point because majority of people here tend to exaggerate their feedback by about 200%
And if PPP is harder to execute perfect pitches then that's a good thing. The most accurate pitching mechanic SHOULD be the hardest to perfect.
I agree but the problem is not that the execution got harder. That's fine and it's a welcome change. The problem is the result when you do end up missing the perfect. How far will it be off from the mark? Does it depend on how much you miss and with what angle? Or does the game simply punish you for missing by throwing a very hittable pitch belt high?
As you can see it's not as simple as you and others before you are putting it. In my sample size so far, it is more random than it was before. And I don't like the randomness, that was THE issue last year.
Let's say if I miss by 5° on a late release, it will always end up in the same spot if I miss by those numbers. That's something I can work with, because I can calculate the margins and risk of throwing a certain pitch in a certain spot. I felt like that was present before but it isn't now. And that not knowing when the game will force one down the middle, THAT is my issue.
That makes sense to me. It definitely is completely random when you miss perfect. I really like that there’s a higher probability that you get punished when you mess up but I agree about how it would be nice to know what the risks are if you miss a certain way.
Like IRL if a pitcher is trying to throw a slider away but releases too early you know the risk is a hanger. In this game it could be a hanger, it could hit the black perfectly, or it could be in the dirt. No way of knowing
Exactly. People assume I have issues with the input being made harder, but that's not the issue at all. It's the output for when you do not get a perfect or good release and how predictable the outcome will be. Throwing a pitch in the dirt or right down the middle on the exact same input where you missed with the same margins in the same location, that is the problem.
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@raesone_psn said in This is the patch that will turn people away:
@nash_524_psn said in This is the patch that will turn people away:
@raesone_psn said in This is the patch that will turn people away:
@letsgotopr_xbl said in This is the patch that will turn people away:
It’s way better. I only threw a handful of “perfects” the entire game. I wasn’t cheesed to death by contact swing, and if you don’t know how to pitch sequence, you’re gonna get touched up. This is the way it should be.
I'm referring to the fact that last year the game was horrible due to pitching being so random. Good releases could go down the middle. And now they fixed that issue, and yes pinpoint was very accurate. But if you can hit, you can hit those pitches on the black too. Has nothing to do with sequencing and everything to do with the ability to hit. And now they go I'm reverse to make it more random, because the average hitters cried hard. Again.
How is pitching more random? They just tightened up the thresholds to get perfect or good input. It didn’t increase the perfect radius from what I can see so far. That’s not adding randomness but rather adding skill imo
Just play man you'll see what I mean. A bit off makes pitches sail and go down the middle, very much like last year and even the year before to a certain extent. Missing a perfect is now punished heavier and having a "good" release doesn't mean anything, it can be a meatball if the game decides to do so. Again, just play a few games and you'll see.
To each their own, but I like the change. You’re basically telling people to get better at hitting pitches on the back while saying pitching needs to remain how easy it was. You still have control over your pitches. Get perfect every time. The strike zone isn’t that big so if you miss there’s a chance it will go back over the plate. Do you just want bad input to miss outside the zone every time for a ball? Completely different than last year because you didn’t have control. As you said good input got hung.
