WTH is wrong with fielding?
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Fielding in this game is so off. I do like the new throwing meter and putting more detail of the importance of first baseman fielding stats. But the rest is god awful.
The animation gets you stuck or throws you off. I had glitches where during bunt plays, my second baseman, for what ever reason, running to first base or plays where the first baseman fields the ball and the pitcher just gave running to cover 1st. My opponent's fielding, on my POV, looks like he teleporting or moonwalking. But there is still no animation where the ball drops in front of you and it goes above your head and now you had to chase it like a little leaguer.
Then off the wall defense, who's idea was it to remove the off the wall ribbon online? Ballparks like Fenway or that new max elevation ballpark that has giant wall in right field, its hard where or not it hits the walls and sometimes, and sometimes for the CPI shows you were about to catch the ball but no it hits the wall. The fielder would stand in the fielding position and allow the ball to bounce twice off the ground
The fielding attributes are so messed up, 90+ fielding players are making errors, not throwing errors but fielding errors like dropping the ball after running to the ball or fumbling it. I know people may say its realistic or now that no one should be perfect, but its a game but attributes matter, it programs whether or not that person should make a error or not.
Sorry for the long post, i do like the game as last year fielding was okay, yes everyone was diving and making plays but that is why we have the new throwing meter or the pitcher would do splits when fielding for some reason. But this year feels more of a downgrade. Tired of SDS marketing new animations, the more animation, the less the player feeling like playing an actual game.
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I just can't figure out the delayed animations. It can be with outfielders with balls off the wall, slow rollers for infielders, groundballs up the middle, etc. I just don't get how an infielder will field a ball cleanly with plenty of time, but then delays and takes three steps before throwing. Then there can be a diving play up the middle, no delay and they throw them out from their knees by four steps.
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Sadly, superdives are still in the game, and yes… who the hell decided to deactivate the ribbon for H2H?
