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How Do You Overcome the Terrible Pitching?

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    I just scream YEET before every pitch and hope for the best.

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    @flamexJD20 said in How Do You Overcome the Terrible Pitching?:

    @MikeForbes101 said in How Do You Overcome the Terrible Pitching?:

    And sliders are the best off-speed pitch in the game.

    You kidding right? Sliders hang or are forced over the plate more than any other pitch..

    Nope....curve balls hang like nobody's business.....then sliders and then changeups.

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    Just gotta hit.. I go into each game figuring i'm about to give up 6-7 runs

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    What worked best for me is to stop playing.

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    @raesONE said in How Do You Overcome the Terrible Pitching?:

    What worked best for me is to stop playing.

    Really getting close to this point...but so hard for me to walk away given my baseball addiction and addiction to this game

    But the frustration is starting to make me consider if it’s worth my time

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    @STEVO651779652 said in How Do You Overcome the Terrible Pitching?:

    Just gotta hit.. I go into each game figuring i'm about to give up 6-7 runs

    Lol I hear ya man, that’s the point I’m to as well. Just hope I outslug my opponent

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    I don't feel pitching is a big of a problem as people make it out to be. Plus if pitching was 100% user input you would never see a ball anywhere close to center of the strike zone and you would literally be swinging at balls or pitches ON the black the entire game and then people would be bitching about that instead. soo....... It's a necessary RNG unfortunately

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    @Mickdrenalen said in How Do You Overcome the Terrible Pitching?:

    I don't feel pitching is a big of a problem as people make it out to be. Plus if pitching was 100% user input you would never see a ball anywhere close to center of the strike zone and you would literally be swinging at balls or pitches ON the black the entire game and then people would be bitching about that instead. soo....... It's a necessary RNG unfortunately

    I agree to an extent.

    Yes, it should not be easy to pinpoint every single pitch but also, if your pitcher has great control and BB/9 stats, then why should the pitch not hit its spot when you have good input? That makes literally 0 sense.

    They need to completely overhaul pitching and have an interface where if a pitcher has a low control rating, the marks to hit should be difficult to hit....but if you manage to hit your marks on the interface, the pitch should still go where intended

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    @doobiebross66-72 said in How Do You Overcome the Terrible Pitching?:

    @Mickdrenalen said in How Do You Overcome the Terrible Pitching?:

    I don't feel pitching is a big of a problem as people make it out to be. Plus if pitching was 100% user input you would never see a ball anywhere close to center of the strike zone and you would literally be swinging at balls or pitches ON the black the entire game and then people would be bitching about that instead. soo....... It's a necessary RNG unfortunately

    I agree to an extent.

    Yes, it should not be easy to pinpoint every single pitch but also, if your pitcher has great control and BB/9 stats, then why should the pitch not hit its spot when you have good input? That makes literally 0 sense.

    They need to completely overhaul pitching and have an interface where if a pitcher has a low control rating, the marks to hit should be difficult to hit....but if you manage to hit your marks on the interface, the pitch should still go where intended

    I agree that ratings should determine how hard it is to hit the marks but not sure they can implement thus in the current engine.

    Instead we have confidence and energy having random affects on pitch location regardless of input.

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    @abbyspapa said in How Do You Overcome the Terrible Pitching?:

    @doobiebross66-72 said in How Do You Overcome the Terrible Pitching?:

    @Mickdrenalen said in How Do You Overcome the Terrible Pitching?:

    I don't feel pitching is a big of a problem as people make it out to be. Plus if pitching was 100% user input you would never see a ball anywhere close to center of the strike zone and you would literally be swinging at balls or pitches ON the black the entire game and then people would be bitching about that instead. soo....... It's a necessary RNG unfortunately

    I agree to an extent.

    Yes, it should not be easy to pinpoint every single pitch but also, if your pitcher has great control and BB/9 stats, then why should the pitch not hit its spot when you have good input? That makes literally 0 sense.

    They need to completely overhaul pitching and have an interface where if a pitcher has a low control rating, the marks to hit should be difficult to hit....but if you manage to hit your marks on the interface, the pitch should still go where intended

    I agree that ratings should determine how hard it is to hit the marks but not sure they can implement thus in the current engine.

    Instead we have confidence and energy having random affects on pitch location regardless of input.

    Praying that 21 has improved pitching or that they do something to change/improve it...we’ve had the same pitching interfaces for years with no changes to them outside of pitch speeds changing

    This year has highlighted how bad pitching is and they need to tweak pitching for 21

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    By not pitching terribly

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    The only thing missing in this thread is the Dark Souls crowd saying "git gud, bro". OP has a point. Pitch better? GTFO.

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    @ScaryLarito said in How Do You Overcome the Terrible Pitching?:

    The only thing missing in this thread is the Dark Souls crowd saying "git gud, bro". OP has a point. Pitch better? GTFO.

    I pitch just fine in this game, go ahead look it up. I’m sitting at like a 3.25 era in online play with a whip under 1. But I’ve also been playing this game since the mid 2000’s too so maybe it’s an experience thing.

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    The pitching is hard to figure out in RS. I use metered pitching rather than the analog. If you want the ball to catch the inside corner aim all the way outside as far as it goes and you should come close to that inside corner....but be careful, that [censored] will hang if you miss a spot....and no, you won't throw a wild outside pitch that you intended on throwing. Same goes for the changeup. You want that to stay in the bottom of the zone, throw it in the dirt, but most of the time she'll just float her [censored] and hang right in their sweet spot. But the other guy using analog pitching will hit their spot every time. At the end of the day, it's metered pitching that seems to be the most inaccurate and flawed. Pulse also works for better accuracy, but it's hard as heck to follow that shrinking circle.

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    The number one issue is that even if you do get a good pitch to hit your spot its fouled off with early or late timing. On all star level this is the biggest problem in my opinion. Foul ball after foul ball until the game decides to groove your opponent a meatball.

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    @tyrusthebull said in How Do You Overcome the Terrible Pitching?:

    The number one issue is that even if you do get a good pitch to hit your spot its fouled off with early or late timing. On all star level this is the biggest problem in my opinion. Foul ball after foul ball until the game decides to groove your opponent a meatball.

    THIS! even on HOF this is a problem against good competition

    And don’t even get me started on the incessant check swings that prolong at bats which can lead to game deciding hits...

    Idk why I keep playing this game lmao I’m a glutton for misery

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    It may not be how baseball is played in real life but if you throw sinker-cutter-slider repeatedly, most people aren’t good enough to hit them. And stay away from curves and changeups for the most part, as they’re most likely to hang

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    @KILLERPRESENCE4 said in How Do You Overcome the Terrible Pitching?:

    @ScaryLarito said in How Do You Overcome the Terrible Pitching?:

    The only thing missing in this thread is the Dark Souls crowd saying "git gud, bro". OP has a point. Pitch better? GTFO.

    I pitch just fine in this game, go ahead look it up. I’m sitting at like a 3.25 era in online play with a whip under 1. But I’ve also been playing this game since the mid 2000’s too so maybe it’s an experience thing.

    I'll take your word for it. You got game. I had a really good ERA up until a month ago. The randomness of pitch locations even on good input is crazy lately though. I've taken a break because of it. Much needed actually.

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    @Exotic_Combs said in How Do You Overcome the Terrible Pitching?:

    It may not be how baseball is played in real life but if you throw sinker-cutter-slider repeatedly, most people aren’t good enough to hit them. And stay away from curves and changeups for the most part, as they’re most likely to hang

    Please do this to me.

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    @KILLERPRESENCE4 said in How Do You Overcome the Terrible Pitching?:

    @Exotic_Combs said in How Do You Overcome the Terrible Pitching?:

    It may not be how baseball is played in real life but if you throw sinker-cutter-slider repeatedly, most people aren’t good enough to hit them. And stay away from curves and changeups for the most part, as they’re most likely to hang

    Please do this to me.
    Haha like I said, most people, if I see they’re hitting it early then I’ll mix it up. But before the dead ball event, I’d go on 5-6 game winning streaks in the event throwing nothing but sinkers

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