MLB The Checkswing
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10 pitches taken, 10 successful check swings. Too early on each and every one, selling out on the fastball like all the other kids. I almost lost this game too. This is a 100% issue that needs to be fixed next year.
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100% agree.
Check swinging is a total joke in this game. As you mentioned, you’ll run into opponents that are selling out on the fastball and instead of making them look silly, the game bails them out with ridiculous check swings.
Also hope this gets adjusted next year as well
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Not completely unrelated- My brother-in-law was over last weekend, and we played a couple games where I pitched, and he hit. It was very comical the amount of times he accidentally check swung. "You gotta hit the button all the way!" - "What does that even mean?!"
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@raesONE said in MLB The Checkswing:
10 pitches taken, 10 successful check swings. Too early on each and every one, selling out on the fastball like all the other kids. I almost lost this game too. This is a 100% issue that needs to be fixed next year.
Selling out on the fastball? That’s called a skill gap apparently. The earlier you can swing, the better player you are.
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@ComebackLogic said in MLB The Checkswing:
@raesONE said in MLB The Checkswing:
10 pitches taken, 10 successful check swings. Too early on each and every one, selling out on the fastball like all the other kids. I almost lost this game too. This is a 100% issue that needs to be fixed next year.
Selling out on the fastball? That’s called a skill gap apparently. The earlier you can swing, the better player you are.
Oh that's right I forgot, my bad.
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@TubaTim90 said in MLB The Checkswing:
Not completely unrelated- My brother-in-law was over last weekend, and we played a couple games where I pitched, and he hit. It was very comical the amount of times he accidentally check swung. "You gotta hit the button all the way!" - "What does that even mean?!"
Lol that's funny and a good example how dysfunctional this mechanic has become. They should redo the whole thing or just remove it from the game completely. But the way it is now it's not working.
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@ComebackLogic said in MLB The Checkswing:
@raesONE said in MLB The Checkswing:
10 pitches taken, 10 successful check swings. Too early on each and every one, selling out on the fastball like all the other kids. I almost lost this game too. This is a 100% issue that needs to be fixed next year.
Selling out on the fastball? That’s called a skill gap apparently. The earlier you can swing, the better player you are.
I actually played a 12-0 player in ranked yesterday. He was intentionally early on everything, im talking early on 102, early on offspeed. He hit an early home run with Kluber and a very early home run with Trout. I lost obviously.
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@eatyum said in MLB The Checkswing:
@ComebackLogic said in MLB The Checkswing:
@raesONE said in MLB The Checkswing:
10 pitches taken, 10 successful check swings. Too early on each and every one, selling out on the fastball like all the other kids. I almost lost this game too. This is a 100% issue that needs to be fixed next year.
Selling out on the fastball? That’s called a skill gap apparently. The earlier you can swing, the better player you are.
I actually played a 12-0 player in ranked yesterday. He was intentionally early on everything, im talking early on 102, early on offspeed. He hit an early home run with Kluber and a very early home run with Trout. I lost obviously
It's weird that you get really good exit velos that way, but terrible exit velos when you swing on the later side of good. You would expect to hit it oppo field with a similar exit velo, but apparently that's not how it works in this game.
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@raesONE said in MLB The Checkswing:
@eatyum said in MLB The Checkswing:
@ComebackLogic said in MLB The Checkswing:
@raesONE said in MLB The Checkswing:
10 pitches taken, 10 successful check swings. Too early on each and every one, selling out on the fastball like all the other kids. I almost lost this game too. This is a 100% issue that needs to be fixed next year.
Selling out on the fastball? That’s called a skill gap apparently. The earlier you can swing, the better player you are.
I actually played a 12-0 player in ranked yesterday. He was intentionally early on everything, im talking early on 102, early on offspeed. He hit an early home run with Kluber and a very early home run with Trout. I lost obviously
It's weird that you get really good exit velos that way, but terrible exit velos when you swing on the later side of good. You would expect to hit it oppo field with a similar exit velo, but apparently that's not how it works in this game.
I was pretty mad about that game, but i can't blame the player, he obviously knows how the game works and how to get rewarded. I looked afterwords at the swing results, he was late on 4 pitches, couple perfects and everything else was early.
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@eatyum said in MLB The Checkswing:
@raesONE said in MLB The Checkswing:
@eatyum said in MLB The Checkswing:
@ComebackLogic said in MLB The Checkswing:
@raesONE said in MLB The Checkswing:
10 pitches taken, 10 successful check swings. Too early on each and every one, selling out on the fastball like all the other kids. I almost lost this game too. This is a 100% issue that needs to be fixed next year.
Selling out on the fastball? That’s called a skill gap apparently. The earlier you can swing, the better player you are.
I actually played a 12-0 player in ranked yesterday. He was intentionally early on everything, im talking early on 102, early on offspeed. He hit an early home run with Kluber and a very early home run with Trout. I lost obviously
It's weird that you get really good exit velos that way, but terrible exit velos when you swing on the later side of good. You would expect to hit it oppo field with a similar exit velo, but apparently that's not how it works in this game.
I was pretty mad about that game, but i can't blame the player, he obviously knows how the game works and how to get rewarded. I looked afterwords at the swing results, he was late on 4 pitches, couple perfects and everything else was early.
I can definitely relate to how frustrating those games can be. I once hit a 108mph exit velo on a very early swing, changeup low and away, that I pulled to LF with Trout for a homerun. It was in Shippet, but there is no excuse that swing generates a 108mph exit velocity under any circumstances lol.
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@eatyum said in MLB The Checkswing:
@ComebackLogic said in MLB The Checkswing:
@raesONE said in MLB The Checkswing:
10 pitches taken, 10 successful check swings. Too early on each and every one, selling out on the fastball like all the other kids. I almost lost this game too. This is a 100% issue that needs to be fixed next year.
Selling out on the fastball? That’s called a skill gap apparently. The earlier you can swing, the better player you are.
I actually played a 12-0 player in ranked yesterday. He was intentionally early on everything, im talking early on 102, early on offspeed. He hit an early home run with Kluber and a very early home run with Trout. I lost obviously.
Feels horrible to me the way you have to swing crazily out in front and then the feedback says you had good timing. I’ve hit perfect foul balls. It’s so broken
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DUDE CHECK SWINGS ANNOY THE HELL OUT OF ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Can’t blame ‘em. If you aren’t swinging upon release you’re late on the fastball.
However, I agree that check swings and how they’re called are a problem. I especially hate the appeal animation.
But, I think they should slow down pitch speeds just a tad and to compensate for that, make timing windows smaller.
In my opinion, pitch speeds are at the max allowable. With that, we are going to continue to see the check swing abused.
Surely, they can’t remove check swings. That’s an important of the game. But I think we’d get less of them if you didn’t have to swing immediately on release to put a fastball in play.
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@maurice91932 said in MLB The Checkswing:
Can’t blame ‘em. If you aren’t swinging upon release you’re late on the fastball.
However, I agree that check swings and how they’re called are a problem. I especially hate the appeal animation.
But, I think they should slow down pitch speeds just a tad and to compensate for that, make timing windows smaller.
In my opinion, pitch speeds are at the max allowable. With that, we are going to continue to see the check swing abused.
Surely, they can’t remove check swings. That’s an important of the game. But I think we’d get less of them if you didn’t have to swing immediately on release to put a fastball in play.
Check swings have never been an issue in previous years though, or at least not nearly as much as this year. I don't think they have to remove it either, but the way it is programmed now they might as well leave it out because literally nobody likes it.
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Sometimes I mash the button and get a check swing. Usually this is when I have PERFECT pci and would’ve probably hit a bomb with a full swing like I wanted. This often results in a weak pop up to the infield bc contact is made way too frequently on check swings.
Other times, I barely press the button and get a full swing, usually on a pitch I wanted to take bc I didn’t read it well.
There’s just no consistency with it at all. It seems completely random. Needs a revamp for 21 fs
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The game relies on rng and statistics. If you have a balanced hitter you have a higher chance of better exit velo on the late side of good to the opposite field. Or at least in my experience.
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Check swings don’t bother me nearly as much as early >>> late side of good.
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While agree check swings are a huge issue the most of my check swings come while I'm the away team at a mlb Park and the lag is so awful a 92mph sinker looks 130 and my opponent throws high sinkers and high sliders the entire game.
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@ComebackLogic said in MLB The Checkswing:
@eatyum said in MLB The Checkswing:
@ComebackLogic said in MLB The Checkswing:
@raesONE said in MLB The Checkswing:
10 pitches taken, 10 successful check swings. Too early on each and every one, selling out on the fastball like all the other kids. I almost lost this game too. This is a 100% issue that needs to be fixed next year.
Selling out on the fastball? That’s called a skill gap apparently. The earlier you can swing, the better player you are.
I actually played a 12-0 player in ranked yesterday. He was intentionally early on everything, im talking early on 102, early on offspeed. He hit an early home run with Kluber and a very early home run with Trout. I lost obviously.
Feels horrible to me the way you have to swing crazily out in front and then the feedback says you had good timing. I’ve hit perfect foul balls. It’s so broken
Same with pitching too. I had multiple times last night where my pitch was aimed for the strike zone, I had a good release, but it moves a foot or 2 either way and beans the guy. Soooooo bad.
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@ComebackLogic said in MLB The Checkswing:
@eatyum said in MLB The Checkswing:
@ComebackLogic said in MLB The Checkswing:
@raesONE said in MLB The Checkswing:
10 pitches taken, 10 successful check swings. Too early on each and every one, selling out on the fastball like all the other kids. I almost lost this game too. This is a 100% issue that needs to be fixed next year.
Selling out on the fastball? That’s called a skill gap apparently. The earlier you can swing, the better player you are.
I actually played a 12-0 player in ranked yesterday. He was intentionally early on everything, im talking early on 102, early on offspeed. He hit an early home run with Kluber and a very early home run with Trout. I lost obviously.
Feels horrible to me the way you have to swing crazily out in front and then the feedback says you had good timing. I’ve hit perfect foul balls. It’s so broken
Maybe 3 months ago you hit "perfect/perfect" foul balls. They patched that a long time ago. The issue was incorrect feedback, not a perfect swing on your part going foul.
