Directional Hitting on mini season is a nightmare
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Does anyone have any tips on improving this besides, "use zone"? I'm trying to parallel players and move through my programs and the amount of warning track pop outs and infield flys is getting ridiculous. I try to be a patient hitter and I'd say I'm moderately okay at it, but making contact and watching weak fly balls all over the place is getting old. Barely scraping by 1-0 wins with 2 hits...XP is excruciatingly slow. I have tried to use Zone, but I'm not coordinated enough.
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I haven’t tried it, but did you give the third type of hitting (something like timing based) a chance? I am not too sure how it is different from directional, aside from the fact you don’t have to point the arrow.
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If the wind is blowing in, use more line drive hits. I push down on my left thumb stick and use normal swing with low power hitters. It seems I get more liners into gaps with it.
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@lunar276_psn said in Directional Hitting on mini season is a nightmare:
Does anyone have any tips on improving this besides, "use zone"? I'm trying to parallel players and move through my programs and the amount of warning track pop outs and infield flys is getting ridiculous. I try to be a patient hitter and I'd say I'm moderately okay at it, but making contact and watching weak fly balls all over the place is getting old. Barely scraping by 1-0 wins with 2 hits...XP is excruciatingly slow. I have tried to use Zone, but I'm not coordinated enough.
I have the same issues. I am just happy to win the Mini Seasons games. A few times in a season I bat the ball around pretty good but too many times I will play 1-0 games.
I've come to accept it. I am terrible at the other types of hitting.
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I've completed mini seasons 30 times, so here are my tips.
- Play on rookie no matter what.
- Play home games in a small custom park. They are out there to download. I also never skip my home games, skip some away games that are in pitchers parks.
- Play at night (I see the ball better on my old 11 year TV)
- Use zone hitting but do not move your pci. Focus on timing the pitch. Sometimes I moved my pci a little lower in the zone, but again don't move it.
- Skip the loaded teams. There are usually 2 stacked teams. It was always the Cats and someone else. This time it looks like the Whales are the team to beat with all pitches a 99 or 98. Just take those loses.
- 18 wins is the magic number. 18 wins gets you in the top 4, so that means you can take 4 loses each to the beat teams. 20 to 22 win locks you into the number 1 seed if you really like your home park.
- Do not attempt every objective especially this time around. Cubs/Reds put outs is easy the extra bh with them is not worth your time. AS hits and HRD HRs can be achieved.
- If you want to get really fancy set your lineup based on the other teams pitchers. Some only have lefty starters, some only have righties.
- Use your good players. This seems obvious but if your trying to pxp low diamonds it is not going to work very well. This is why the Cubs/reds xbh is hard because they have some top tier guys but not enough to fill the lineup. Past season teams have had some atrocious overalls, each time they dramatically make the cpu teams better.
- Tin foil hat tip: if hitting is not going your way restart the game and walk away for 5 minutes. Something happens and your hitting gets better.
Good luck and stick with it.
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I would try the new Timing hitting.. could be an improvement over directional without going into Zone
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Amazing tips, @mubby_33_PSN
I've completed it only twice.
Even on Rookie, you'll get challenged. Be careful in a small custom park, because they'll homer as well.
Speed on the bench is vital as well. I never played BR, but I'd do the same there to stay out of DP's.
One thing I don't do is skip games. Maybe I should. -
Directional hitting relies too much on RNG. And playing mini seasons you are going to face God squads, so your God squad is not going to have as much favorable RNG as it would in other vs CPU modes. It's why I switched to zone 5 years ago, I am by no means a good zone hitter, but it is so much better, because when I am not hitting it is because I am sucking and not because the dice roll was against me.
I know you said you didn't want to be told to use zone, and I'm not. I'm just trying to explain why you are having difficulty.
The only reason to use directional is if you want realistic sim results, if you are looking to smack up the computer for PXP. You are going to find directional is going to hinder you.
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@thegoaler_psn said in Directional Hitting on mini season is a nightmare:
Amazing tips, @mubby_33_PSN
I've completed it only twice.
Even on Rookie, you'll get challenged. Be careful in a small custom park, because they'll homer as well.
Speed on the bench is vital as well. I never played BR, but I'd do the same there to stay out of DP's.
One thing I don't do is skip games. Maybe I should.You will give up the occasional HR in those small parks but I feel like pitching vs the CPU is easier than hitting vs the CPU. Even in my custom park the most the CpU has gotten me for is 3 runs otherwise itbis usually a no hitter. The only real reason to skip games is that it gets you to the championship quicker. That is where you get the best reward. But if you can beat up on the CPU and score 10 runs every game than maybe the pxp is worth it.
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I use Directional and won a Mini Seasons game today on All-Star 26-0 (22 runs in the 1st inning).
I'm well-aware the vast majority believes Zone is better, and I'm in no position to disagree.
However, the belief that Directional is worthless and you can't be successful with it, is dead wrong.
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