Unrealistic wildness
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OK, this is the first time I've played MLB the Show, and I like all the small touches, but my main issue is with the subject of how a pitcher misses his spots.
As a former college pitcher, and as a longtime videogame player (especially baseball), and have pitched in semi-pro, I can tell how you determine where a missed pitch in this game is going:
Random number roll.
That's not how wildness works when you're pitching.
You see, a wild pitcher is overcompensating. They never throw in any wild direction unless their name is Steve Blass, Steve Trout or the ball slips from their fingers.
A missed pitch will either be wild outside of the zone or wild INSIDE of the zone.
For example, if I'm aiming for the outside part of the plate on a 4 seamer, very very rarely will my pitch sail for a ball inside. Either it'll go further outside, or it'll drift to the center of the plate where the batter will tee it up. Wild outside, wild inside.
If I'm trying to throw a little in the lower left quadrant of the plate, it will NEVER EVER go high and tight. Ever, unless there's vaseline on the ball and it slips out of my hand. If I'm throwing a fastball to, say, the inside part, if I'm wild inside the zone, it'll drift over the heart of the plate.
Pitching control isn't a computer RPG. No one throws dice for a random result. It's from trying to hard to control a pitch and overcompensating. Fastballs will sail high if the pitcher is throwing too hard. Breaking pitches will either go in the dirt or drift into the hitting zone.
I don't mind if my pitcher is wild, but it drives me nuts if, say, I'm trying to put a change in the dirt and the pitcher throws it high and tight. There's no way if I'm on the mound that'll ever happen in real life. Either I'll throw a WP in the dirt or I'll get too cute and it'll hang in the lower half of the zone to get crushed.
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While I completely understand the frustration with how often the pitches go to a random spot I do see plenty of times in real life where a pitcher sets up inside/outside and the pitcher completely misses their spot to the opposite side of the plate. Not super common and not gonna happen a lot with top tier pitchers but it does happen.
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Depends on the pitching method you use. Pulse is pretty much RNG since you don’t control L/R or late/early (low or high). PPP and analog you have both, while meter has high/low.
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wildness is not random on analog. where you miss determines which way the ball is going to go. it's like a bad release point
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I don't use anything. Just aim and pitch.
Keep in mind, I don't mind wildness. I mind HOW the wildness is implemented.
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I find that using the Pure Analog pitching interface gives me more accuracy than the Classic interface. It takes some getting used to but I feel like I have more accuracy since the release point is under my control. The Pinpoint interface is supposed be the most accurate but I have not played with it too much so far.
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@jonahfalcon_mlbts said in Unrealistic wildness:
I don't use anything. Just aim and pitch.
Keep in mind, I don't mind wildness. I mind HOW the wildness is implemented.
Well that's your problem right there. Why should the easiest way to pitch get rewarded as much as ones that take more skill?
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@eatyum_psn said in Unrealistic wildness:
@jonahfalcon_mlbts said in Unrealistic wildness:
I don't use anything. Just aim and pitch.
Keep in mind, I don't mind wildness. I mind HOW the wildness is implemented.
Well that's your problem right there. Why should the easiest way to pitch get rewarded as much as ones that take more skill?
Well, I could play on Easy but then I get 18-19 strikeouts AND THAT'S NOT WHAT I WANT.
Just so you know, I don't play online multiplayer. At all.
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