A little hope for a real strike zone (almost)?
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My apologies if this has been brought up already and I missed it, but I was noticing in the gameplay updates video, when highlighting the pitch challenge feature, that one of the examples called a strike on a ball that just nicked the corner of the zone; that ball was 100% a ball in '25, and one of my biggest gripes with the game (the game was hitter friendly enough without squeezing pitchers as a matter of course).
It may very well be just be a half measure as these on-the-black pitches could just be called about 50% of the time so the pitch challenge feature can be employed, but, hey, at least it's half of the way toward honoring the actual strike zone.
Baby steps?
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I’m praying, praying that in DD H2H modes, they actually have a “perfect” strike zone like they mistakenly claimed we have this year.
If they actually got this right, where a pitch that catches any part of the zone is a strike, I’ll be very happy but keeping expectations low
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I dont want a perfect strike zone, thats too large of an advantage to pitchers, but I do want a consistent one. Can we just have half in its a strike, half out is a ball? It would be a lot easier to code than whatever we have now
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@TheRupster12_XBL, well, that's certainly one way of looking at it.
For those of us who happen to disagree and think hitters have the advantage in this game, maybe SDS can do us a solid and require a ball batted down the line to be half on the inside part of the grass to be considered a fair ball... now that we're changing the rules of baseball, and all.
