How do you deal with the emotional trauma of sucking it online?
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@InigoMontoya_75 said in How do you deal with the emotional trauma of sucking it online?:
I’m terrible online. I play offline a lot and do okay.
I'm exactly the same. I do play online to try and earn stars, prestige players, etc. I can win an occasional game. I wish I was better... but given my age and declining hand/eye coordination, I'll never be an "A player" online.
I'm guessing there a lot of us out here. And it's ok! There's still a lot to like about DD without having to excel at on-line. So... chin up. Don't stress about it. Of course, I say "don't stress", but I have actually broken 2 controllers earlier in the year due to my online "terribleness".
OR... it could simply be because you're using your controller wrong:
Inigo: You are wonderful.
Westley: Thank you; I've worked hard to become so.
Inigo: I admit it, you are better than I am.
Westley: Then why are you smiling?
Inigo: Because I know something you don't know.
Westley: And what is that?
Inigo: I am not left-handed. -
Another thing that helped me switch from Directional to Zone is that I left me PCI in a set spot each at bat and didn't swing until the ball was in that spot.
Yes I struck out slot looking. But it also helped me to eventually learn how to track the ball.
You also have to try not to '[censored]' the stick that controls the PCI when you do hit the button to swing.
Something that may help you is to try to practice using Zone in Practice Mode.
Try Legend setting and Guess Pitch.
Select the pitchers main pitch and a certain part of the Zone and sit there.
If you guess correctly; then you'll know where the pitch is heading. If you don't guess correctly then you can follow the movement.
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@InigoMontoya_75 said in How do you deal with the emotional trauma of sucking it online?:
Serious question. I’m terrible online. I play offline a lot and do okay. But online... I’ll go event games with no hits. Half my wins are guys quitting or losing connection. I can’t catch up to a good fastball to save my life, and couldn’t recognize a slider vs a cutter until my PS4 tells me what pitch I just missed. Most of my hits feel like I simply “guessed right”. Sometimes just feels so frustrating to even bother with online play...
And, rant over... play ball!
I didn’t read all the other comments, so I’m sure this was mentioned several times before, but who doesn’t need a little overkill. Particularly for this game, you either need a monitor or a tv that can do 1080p at 60fps with an input lag of less than 10ms. The timing windows on the hard stuff are just too tight this year to try to hit them without having as low of an input lag as possible. Beyond that, you might want to consider starting your PCI up and in. I simply cannot hit high fastballs if I keep my PCI in the neutral position. And even with it up and in, I can still get to stuff low and away.
You also need to gear up for fastballs. I’m not saying to swing when the ball is released, but you might have to expect the heater and just pray that you can slow yourself down on anything off speed.
Another thing is I ended up buying a tournament stick from battlebeavercustoms.com. There’s a lot of debate as to whether to use wired vs Bluetooth with the PS4 controller, but the tests I’ve seen gives the controller through Bluetooth about 13ms of input lag and an even greater input lag while wired. The tournament stick touts an input lag of around 4ms. I don’t know what wizardry it uses to accomplish this, but it says it makes it a true wired connection yada yada yada. I don’t know. I will say, though, that since using the tournament stick, my pci feedback more closely represents where I feel I moved the pci. Before using it, I always felt the feedback showed the pci just short of where I thought I moved it.
I just realized how much I’ve just written, so I’m just going to stop. Good luck. -
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