Matched up with a Directional Hitter
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@dewrock_psn said in Matched up with a Directional Hitter:
@parradox-cam_psn said in Matched up with a Directional Hitter:
@dewrock_psn said in Matched up with a Directional Hitter:
@parradox-cam_psn said in Matched up with a Directional Hitter:
It was my friend and he solely uses Directional and has for years, he only has one hand.
I’ve been curious and suspicious about how the game caters to Directional hitters so we decided to do a test.
I was only going to throw the same pitch in the same spot (a sinker down and in right on the corner) for the length of the game and see what happens.
For the first 2 innings he couldn’t do much but keep fouling them off and eventually striking out. Then like a light switch turned on, he magically starts making hard contact and hitting line drives into the outfield. How is that possible? The PCI does not move with directional, how is he hitting a ball on the bottom corner, let alone sending hard hit line drives into the outfield? At best these hits should be nothing but choppers according to the PCI placement (ball hit on the bottom of the PCI). After I went up a few runs, it got real interesting. Now he’s sending no doubters into the stands and my fielders are letting routine hits go right passed them like they are playing on a T Ball team. The game is trying it’s hardest to keep him in it. In the late innings, with a fresh reliever, my pitches are being forced into a better part of the zone, to make it easier for him. He ties it up with another error from my SS and then on yet another sinker on the bottom corner he walks it off with another no doubter.
That was it, I was suspicious over the years and now it’s confirmed. This game caters to directional hitters and literally rewards them for doing nothing but pushing a single button.
Their claim of “stick skills reign supreme” is a flat out lie and when they say they want to make this game as “realistic” as possible, what they actually mean is, the game is basically scripted and at times there’s nothing you can do, even if your the better player, from the game deciding the winner.
I will not be purchasing next’s year’s game or any future game until they can tone this “simulation” stuff down and let the better player win 100% of the time. Is that really too much to ask for?
This my old alt account btw for those “forum detectives” out there lol.
I’m genuinely curious how your friend plays with one hand. That being said the rest of this post is ridiculous.
Directional hitting has nothing to do with a PCI. It’s strictly timing with the ability to influence the direction of the hit (although who knows how much).
I always love the posts that say “for the first x innings I was untouchable, then he started crushing me, this game is rigged”. As if a pitcher has never started a game out well only to then stink.
I will agree with you about the low sinkers being hit for homers. That defies physics to me. I’m talking a sinking pitch that is a few inches below the zone being crushed for a homer. Makes no sense.
Also, In what world should the “better” team win 100% of the time?
The video game world, otherwise what’s the point of getting better if your still going to lose to inferior players from time to time? Remember, they claim “stick skills reign supreme”…..that really doesn’t seem true all the time.
Okay so the really good players are going to win wayyyyy more often than not. But 100% of the time is clearly an irrational expectation.
Then SDS should really stop claiming “stick skills reign supreme”.
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@parradox-cam_psn said in Matched up with a Directional Hitter:
@dewrock_psn said in Matched up with a Directional Hitter:
@parradox-cam_psn said in Matched up with a Directional Hitter:
@dewrock_psn said in Matched up with a Directional Hitter:
@parradox-cam_psn said in Matched up with a Directional Hitter:
It was my friend and he solely uses Directional and has for years, he only has one hand.
I’ve been curious and suspicious about how the game caters to Directional hitters so we decided to do a test.
I was only going to throw the same pitch in the same spot (a sinker down and in right on the corner) for the length of the game and see what happens.
For the first 2 innings he couldn’t do much but keep fouling them off and eventually striking out. Then like a light switch turned on, he magically starts making hard contact and hitting line drives into the outfield. How is that possible? The PCI does not move with directional, how is he hitting a ball on the bottom corner, let alone sending hard hit line drives into the outfield? At best these hits should be nothing but choppers according to the PCI placement (ball hit on the bottom of the PCI). After I went up a few runs, it got real interesting. Now he’s sending no doubters into the stands and my fielders are letting routine hits go right passed them like they are playing on a T Ball team. The game is trying it’s hardest to keep him in it. In the late innings, with a fresh reliever, my pitches are being forced into a better part of the zone, to make it easier for him. He ties it up with another error from my SS and then on yet another sinker on the bottom corner he walks it off with another no doubter.
That was it, I was suspicious over the years and now it’s confirmed. This game caters to directional hitters and literally rewards them for doing nothing but pushing a single button.
Their claim of “stick skills reign supreme” is a flat out lie and when they say they want to make this game as “realistic” as possible, what they actually mean is, the game is basically scripted and at times there’s nothing you can do, even if your the better player, from the game deciding the winner.
I will not be purchasing next’s year’s game or any future game until they can tone this “simulation” stuff down and let the better player win 100% of the time. Is that really too much to ask for?
This my old alt account btw for those “forum detectives” out there lol.
I’m genuinely curious how your friend plays with one hand. That being said the rest of this post is ridiculous.
Directional hitting has nothing to do with a PCI. It’s strictly timing with the ability to influence the direction of the hit (although who knows how much).
I always love the posts that say “for the first x innings I was untouchable, then he started crushing me, this game is rigged”. As if a pitcher has never started a game out well only to then stink.
I will agree with you about the low sinkers being hit for homers. That defies physics to me. I’m talking a sinking pitch that is a few inches below the zone being crushed for a homer. Makes no sense.
Also, In what world should the “better” team win 100% of the time?
The video game world, otherwise what’s the point of getting better if your still going to lose to inferior players from time to time? Remember, they claim “stick skills reign supreme”…..that really doesn’t seem true all the time.
Okay so the really good players are going to win wayyyyy more often than not. But 100% of the time is clearly an irrational expectation.
Then SDS should really stop claiming “stick skills reign supreme”.
For starters, I think you’re the only one obsessing over that. Second, the only place I’ve seen that phrase was in the description of different mode styles: casual, simulation, competitive. All those options do is pre select different gameplay settings.
Once again, you’re basing your opinion that, “stick skills” don’t “reign supreme” because you ran a super scientific experiment, of one game, against a buddy, where you spammed the same exact pitch the entire game.
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“I threw the same pitch every single time and he finally adjusted to it” doesn’t prove what you think it does.
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@savefarris_psn said in Matched up with a Directional Hitter:
“I threw the same pitch every single time and he finally adjusted to it” doesn’t prove what you think it does.
How could he adjust to it? He’s a directional hitter. What you actually mean is, the game itself adjusted to it and helped him out.
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@parradox-cam_psn said in Matched up with a Directional Hitter:
@savefarris_psn said in Matched up with a Directional Hitter:
“I threw the same pitch every single time and he finally adjusted to it” doesn’t prove what you think it does.
How could he adjust to it? He’s a directional hitter. What you actually mean is, the game itself adjusted to it and helped him out.
Are you being purposefully obtuse?
All he’s controlling is the swing timing. The AI and the batters attributes and ability are controlling the rest. This has been explained repeatedly.
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@dewrock_psn said in Matched up with a Directional Hitter:
@parradox-cam_psn said in Matched up with a Directional Hitter:
@savefarris_psn said in Matched up with a Directional Hitter:
“I threw the same pitch every single time and he finally adjusted to it” doesn’t prove what you think it does.
How could he adjust to it? He’s a directional hitter. What you actually mean is, the game itself adjusted to it and helped him out.
Are you being purposefully obtuse?
All he’s controlling is the swing timing. The AI and the batters attributes and ability are controlling the rest. This has been explained repeatedly.
All he has to do is push a single button and the AI does the rest for him? Wow….that’s actually allowed in competitive online?
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@parradox-cam_psn said in Matched up with a Directional Hitter:
@dewrock_psn said in Matched up with a Directional Hitter:
@parradox-cam_psn said in Matched up with a Directional Hitter:
@savefarris_psn said in Matched up with a Directional Hitter:
“I threw the same pitch every single time and he finally adjusted to it” doesn’t prove what you think it does.
How could he adjust to it? He’s a directional hitter. What you actually mean is, the game itself adjusted to it and helped him out.
Are you being purposefully obtuse?
All he’s controlling is the swing timing. The AI and the batters attributes and ability are controlling the rest. This has been explained repeatedly.
All he has to do is push a single button and the AI does the rest for him? Wow….that’s actually allowed in competitive online?
Yes, but they are penalized for it by having less user impact on the results.
Like it has been stated none of the top players use directional.
Think of it like this, using directional has a higher floor, but a lower ceiling as compared to zone.
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Well, I think it’s pretty obvious whose alt account this is lmao
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@parradox-cam_psn said in Matched up with a Directional Hitter:
@dewrock_psn said in Matched up with a Directional Hitter:
@parradox-cam_psn said in Matched up with a Directional Hitter:
@savefarris_psn said in Matched up with a Directional Hitter:
“I threw the same pitch every single time and he finally adjusted to it” doesn’t prove what you think it does.
How could he adjust to it? He’s a directional hitter. What you actually mean is, the game itself adjusted to it and helped him out.
Are you being purposefully obtuse?
All he’s controlling is the swing timing. The AI and the batters attributes and ability are controlling the rest. This has been explained repeatedly.
All he has to do is push a single button and the AI does the rest for him? Wow….that’s actually allowed in competitive online?
The built in attributes and skill level of the batter being used. Obviously a 99 will produce better results than a common.
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@jogger171717_psn said in Matched up with a Directional Hitter:
Well, I think it’s pretty obvious whose alt account this is lmao
Yep, I just said that on his other Complaint thread.
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FYI, there is no PCI in Directional hitting!!!
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@ericulous1_psn said in Matched up with a Directional Hitter:
@jogger171717_psn said in Matched up with a Directional Hitter:
Well, I think it’s pretty obvious whose alt account this is lmao
Yep, I just said that on his other Complaint thread.
The paragraph structure, content of the post, default profile pic, mysterious absence of the previous accounts, etc., all lines up like always.
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@parradox-cam_psn said in Matched up with a Directional Hitter:
It was my friend and he solely uses Directional and has for years, he only has one hand.
I’ve been curious and suspicious about how the game caters to Directional hitters so we decided to do a test.
I was only going to throw the same pitch in the same spot (a sinker down and in right on the corner) for the length of the game and see what happens.
For the first 2 innings he couldn’t do much but keep fouling them off and eventually striking out. Then like a light switch turned on, he magically starts making hard contact and hitting line drives into the outfield. How is that possible? The PCI does not move with directional, how is he hitting a ball on the bottom corner, let alone sending hard hit line drives into the outfield? At best these hits should be nothing but choppers according to the PCI placement (ball hit on the bottom of the PCI). After I went up a few runs, it got real interesting. Now he’s sending no doubters into the stands and my fielders are letting routine hits go right passed them like they are playing on a T Ball team. The game is trying it’s hardest to keep him in it. In the late innings, with a fresh reliever, my pitches are being forced into a better part of the zone, to make it easier for him. He ties it up with another error from my SS and then on yet another sinker on the bottom corner he walks it off with another no doubter.
That was it, I was suspicious over the years and now it’s confirmed. This game caters to directional hitters and literally rewards them for doing nothing but pushing a single button.
Their claim of “stick skills reign supreme” is a flat out lie and when they say they want to make this game as “realistic” as possible, what they actually mean is, the game is basically scripted and at times there’s nothing you can do, even if your the better player, from the game deciding the winner.
I will not be purchasing next’s year’s game or any future game until they can tone this “simulation” stuff down and let the better player win 100% of the time. Is that really too much to ask for?
This my old alt account btw for those “forum detectives” out there lol.
Guarantee you lose 101 times out of 100 to Weens or Oh Chev or Pitching rebel or Bmac or any of the other great players. Lmfao at this troll post.
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@jogger171717_psn said in Matched up with a Directional Hitter:
Well, I think it’s pretty obvious whose alt account this is lmao
You sound confident in that. How bout we ask the Reps to find out for us and report they’re findings. Sound good?
The fact that I’m attacked by a select group of individuals, to the point of being accused of being someone else, while expressing my opinion about a game on a site dedicated to that game is just wrong and I’m surprised SDS is allowing it.
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@parradox-cam_psn said in Matched up with a Directional Hitter:
@jogger171717_psn said in Matched up with a Directional Hitter:
Well, I think it’s pretty obvious whose alt account this is lmao
You sound confident in that. How bout we ask the Reps to find out for us and report they’re findings. Sound good?
The fact that I’m attacked by a select group of individuals, to the point of being accused of being someone else, while expressing my opinion about a game on a site dedicated to that game is just wrong and I’m surprised SDS is allowing it.
If anything anyone has said is considered an attack to you then let me be the first to say;
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@parradox-cam_psn said in Matched up with a Directional Hitter:
@jogger171717_psn said in Matched up with a Directional Hitter:
Well, I think it’s pretty obvious whose alt account this is lmao
You sound confident in that. How bout we ask the Reps to find out for us and report they’re findings. Sound good?
The fact that I’m attacked by a select group of individuals, to the point of being accused of being someone else, while expressing my opinion about a game on a site dedicated to that game is just wrong and I’m surprised SDS is allowing it.
Nobody is attacking you man. If you post a diatribe like this clearly looking for feedback, you're going to get some...even if it's not positive. You stated at the end of this original post that this was your alt account. If that was a joke, then I'm sorry. I'm really not trying to stir the pot. There's nothing wrong with posting your opinions on a discussion forum, just don't get so angry if people disagree or call you out when you're the one who stated this was your alt account.
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@killerpresence4 said in Matched up with a Directional Hitter:
@parradox-cam_psn said in Matched up with a Directional Hitter:
It was my friend and he solely uses Directional and has for years, he only has one hand.
I’ve been curious and suspicious about how the game caters to Directional hitters so we decided to do a test.
I was only going to throw the same pitch in the same spot (a sinker down and in right on the corner) for the length of the game and see what happens.
For the first 2 innings he couldn’t do much but keep fouling them off and eventually striking out. Then like a light switch turned on, he magically starts making hard contact and hitting line drives into the outfield. How is that possible? The PCI does not move with directional, how is he hitting a ball on the bottom corner, let alone sending hard hit line drives into the outfield? At best these hits should be nothing but choppers according to the PCI placement (ball hit on the bottom of the PCI). After I went up a few runs, it got real interesting. Now he’s sending no doubters into the stands and my fielders are letting routine hits go right passed them like they are playing on a T Ball team. The game is trying it’s hardest to keep him in it. In the late innings, with a fresh reliever, my pitches are being forced into a better part of the zone, to make it easier for him. He ties it up with another error from my SS and then on yet another sinker on the bottom corner he walks it off with another no doubter.
That was it, I was suspicious over the years and now it’s confirmed. This game caters to directional hitters and literally rewards them for doing nothing but pushing a single button.
Their claim of “stick skills reign supreme” is a flat out lie and when they say they want to make this game as “realistic” as possible, what they actually mean is, the game is basically scripted and at times there’s nothing you can do, even if your the better player, from the game deciding the winner.
I will not be purchasing next’s year’s game or any future game until they can tone this “simulation” stuff down and let the better player win 100% of the time. Is that really too much to ask for?
This my old alt account btw for those “forum detectives” out there lol.
Guarantee you lose 101 times out of 100 to Weens or Oh Chev or Pitching rebel or Bmac or any of the other great players. Lmfao at this troll post.
Why wouldn’t they be able to beat me 101 out of 101 times if they’re that superior to me?
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@parradox-cam_psn said in Matched up with a Directional Hitter:
@killerpresence4 said in Matched up with a Directional Hitter:
@parradox-cam_psn said in Matched up with a Directional Hitter:
It was my friend and he solely uses Directional and has for years, he only has one hand.
I’ve been curious and suspicious about how the game caters to Directional hitters so we decided to do a test.
I was only going to throw the same pitch in the same spot (a sinker down and in right on the corner) for the length of the game and see what happens.
For the first 2 innings he couldn’t do much but keep fouling them off and eventually striking out. Then like a light switch turned on, he magically starts making hard contact and hitting line drives into the outfield. How is that possible? The PCI does not move with directional, how is he hitting a ball on the bottom corner, let alone sending hard hit line drives into the outfield? At best these hits should be nothing but choppers according to the PCI placement (ball hit on the bottom of the PCI). After I went up a few runs, it got real interesting. Now he’s sending no doubters into the stands and my fielders are letting routine hits go right passed them like they are playing on a T Ball team. The game is trying it’s hardest to keep him in it. In the late innings, with a fresh reliever, my pitches are being forced into a better part of the zone, to make it easier for him. He ties it up with another error from my SS and then on yet another sinker on the bottom corner he walks it off with another no doubter.
That was it, I was suspicious over the years and now it’s confirmed. This game caters to directional hitters and literally rewards them for doing nothing but pushing a single button.
Their claim of “stick skills reign supreme” is a flat out lie and when they say they want to make this game as “realistic” as possible, what they actually mean is, the game is basically scripted and at times there’s nothing you can do, even if your the better player, from the game deciding the winner.
I will not be purchasing next’s year’s game or any future game until they can tone this “simulation” stuff down and let the better player win 100% of the time. Is that really too much to ask for?
This my old alt account btw for those “forum detectives” out there lol.
Guarantee you lose 101 times out of 100 to Weens or Oh Chev or Pitching rebel or Bmac or any of the other great players. Lmfao at this troll post.
Why wouldn’t they be able to beat me 101 out of 101 times if they’re that superior to me?
Totally missed the point kid, I’m sure one these guys can enlighten you as to what was meant by my comment.
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@parradox-cam_psn said in Matched up with a Directional Hitter:
@painpa_psn said in Matched up with a Directional Hitter:
the first error is thinking there is a pci in directional hitting, there isnt it is swing timing and nothing else.
it displays in the feedback because its part of the base program.in order to not they would have to write code for it, then deal with the repercussions of 2 different feedback systemsThen why do they claim “stick skills reign supreme” when in fact directional hitters aren’t even using the sticks?
Almost none of this game uses the sticks. Don’t get caught up on that. Directional is mostly luck, you can achieve even better by actually being good at the game.
It’s almost like it makes sense, get good be good, have one arm still get to play and have fun.
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@killerpresence4 said in Matched up with a Directional Hitter:
@parradox-cam_psn said in Matched up with a Directional Hitter:
@killerpresence4 said in Matched up with a Directional Hitter:
@parradox-cam_psn said in Matched up with a Directional Hitter:
It was my friend and he solely uses Directional and has for years, he only has one hand.
I’ve been curious and suspicious about how the game caters to Directional hitters so we decided to do a test.
I was only going to throw the same pitch in the same spot (a sinker down and in right on the corner) for the length of the game and see what happens.
For the first 2 innings he couldn’t do much but keep fouling them off and eventually striking out. Then like a light switch turned on, he magically starts making hard contact and hitting line drives into the outfield. How is that possible? The PCI does not move with directional, how is he hitting a ball on the bottom corner, let alone sending hard hit line drives into the outfield? At best these hits should be nothing but choppers according to the PCI placement (ball hit on the bottom of the PCI). After I went up a few runs, it got real interesting. Now he’s sending no doubters into the stands and my fielders are letting routine hits go right passed them like they are playing on a T Ball team. The game is trying it’s hardest to keep him in it. In the late innings, with a fresh reliever, my pitches are being forced into a better part of the zone, to make it easier for him. He ties it up with another error from my SS and then on yet another sinker on the bottom corner he walks it off with another no doubter.
That was it, I was suspicious over the years and now it’s confirmed. This game caters to directional hitters and literally rewards them for doing nothing but pushing a single button.
Their claim of “stick skills reign supreme” is a flat out lie and when they say they want to make this game as “realistic” as possible, what they actually mean is, the game is basically scripted and at times there’s nothing you can do, even if your the better player, from the game deciding the winner.
I will not be purchasing next’s year’s game or any future game until they can tone this “simulation” stuff down and let the better player win 100% of the time. Is that really too much to ask for?
This my old alt account btw for those “forum detectives” out there lol.
Guarantee you lose 101 times out of 100 to Weens or Oh Chev or Pitching rebel or Bmac or any of the other great players. Lmfao at this troll post.
Why wouldn’t they be able to beat me 101 out of 101 times if they’re that superior to me?
Totally missed the point kid, I’m sure one these guys can enlighten you as to what was meant by my comment.
You can’t elaborate on your own comment? You can’t explain why a far superior opponent might lose a game to an inferior opponent?
