Patch 11 BIG W
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@warpedzilla_psn said in Patch 11 BIG W:
@madbatter77_psn said in Patch 11 BIG W:
I wonder if balanced hitters will still be able to whack with contact swing. It reads that itll only affect power guys.
What determines who is a balanced or power hitter?
If the power and contact numbers are close, then they will be balanced. An easy way to check is R2 in the game and the bottom of the card will say power, balanced, or contact.
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This update was made for me... I use pulse pitching and have used contact swing once this year (HR with Dominguez in Polo)... Love this update...
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@dap1234567890 said in Patch 11 BIG W:
@warpedzilla_psn said in Patch 11 BIG W:
@madbatter77_psn said in Patch 11 BIG W:
I wonder if balanced hitters will still be able to whack with contact swing. It reads that itll only affect power guys.
What determines who is a balanced or power hitter?
If the power and contact numbers are close, then they will be balanced. An easy way to check is R2 in the game and the bottom of the card will say power, balanced, or contact.
Correct me if I am wrong but I don't think that is true. If you hold R2 and check that, it actually changes throughout the game. Not sure what the criteria is but I have noticed this b4 and made it a point to check every at-bat. And sure enough one time it will be contact under the card and the next it will say balanced under the same card. Or vice versa.
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So they nerfed pitching to fix hitting. Does that even make sense? I was always terrible at hitting never used contact swing so not a real big deal but they didn't fix hitting on HoF. Now I won't be able to pitch very good so will suck at 2 things in this game.
Cant we just fix HoF timing windows?
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These "fixes" look nice and much needed. Now lets hope whatever it breaks implementing them doesnt offset the good.
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@bearsfan217_xbl said in Patch 11 BIG W:
So they nerfed pitching to fix hitting. Does that even make sense? I was always terrible at hitting never used contact swing so not a real big deal but they didn't fix hitting on HoF. Now I won't be able to pitch very good so will suck at 2 things in this game.
Cant we just fix HoF timing windows?
Pinpoint is too easy to get perfect input. This is needed. People will still paint with pinpoint it just won’t be every pitch now
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You know what this means boys…. More complaining:
- contact swing is broken
- everyone is quick pitching
- PP in unusable
- I can’t get a read of O’Day
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@hikes83_psn said in Patch 11 BIG W:
You know what this means boys…. More complaining:
- contact swing is broken
- everyone is quick pitching
- PP in unusable
- I can’t get a read of O’Day
Did they tweak hitting, I can't Even see the ball today so they must have changed hitting and it is no way my fault. /s
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@warpedzilla_psn said in Patch 11 BIG W:
@dap1234567890 said in Patch 11 BIG W:
@warpedzilla_psn said in Patch 11 BIG W:
@madbatter77_psn said in Patch 11 BIG W:
I wonder if balanced hitters will still be able to whack with contact swing. It reads that itll only affect power guys.
What determines who is a balanced or power hitter?
If the power and contact numbers are close, then they will be balanced. An easy way to check is R2 in the game and the bottom of the card will say power, balanced, or contact.
Correct me if I am wrong but I don't think that is true. If you hold R2 and check that, it actually changes throughout the game. Not sure what the criteria is but I have noticed this b4 and made it a point to check every at-bat. And sure enough one time it will be contact under the card and the next it will say balanced under the same card. Or vice versa.
I'm pretty sure you're thinking of an instance with a switch hitter. Take 42 series Niko Goodrum as an example. I think when he hits against a righty he is considered a power hitter, but when he hits against a lefty he is considered a contact hitter based on his splits.
Otherwise, the label should not be changing throughout the game.
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@ibonafidescrub_ said in Patch 11 BIG W:
@madbatter77_psn said in Patch 11 BIG W:
I wonder if balanced hitters will still be able to whack with contact swing. It reads that itll only affect power guys.
I believe the change is meant to impact high power guys more than the rest of the cards, it will still affect the low power guys but to a lesser extent.
It makes perfect sense because low power guys don’t get crazy exit velos that often, so the nerf is in proportion to what the card attributes bring to the user.
I mean the patch update says this will affect power hitters pretty clearly. Doesnt say anything else. My fear is that guys were loading up lineups with power hitters and using O. Now they can still do it with balanced guys. Some of those guys have better power numbers than some lower ranked "power hitters"
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@warpedzilla_psn said in Patch 11 BIG W:
@dap1234567890 said in Patch 11 BIG W:
@warpedzilla_psn said in Patch 11 BIG W:
@madbatter77_psn said in Patch 11 BIG W:
I wonder if balanced hitters will still be able to whack with contact swing. It reads that itll only affect power guys.
What determines who is a balanced or power hitter?
If the power and contact numbers are close, then they will be balanced. An easy way to check is R2 in the game and the bottom of the card will say power, balanced, or contact.
Correct me if I am wrong but I don't think that is true. If you hold R2 and check that, it actually changes throughout the game. Not sure what the criteria is but I have noticed this b4 and made it a point to check every at-bat. And sure enough one time it will be contact under the card and the next it will say balanced under the same card. Or vice versa.
Against different armed pitchers Ive seen it change. Not against the same arm.
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@bearsfan217_xbl said in Patch 11 BIG W:
So they nerfed pitching to fix hitting. Does that even make sense? I was always terrible at hitting never used contact swing so not a real big deal but they didn't fix hitting on HoF. Now I won't be able to pitch very good so will suck at 2 things in this game.
Cant we just fix HoF timing windows?
They didn’t nerf pitching but just raised the skill level required. Also, there is nothing wrong with HoF timing windows.
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How long is the game down for a patch typically?
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@whiplash0013_psn said in Patch 11 BIG W:
How long is the game down for a patch typically?
Patch is out and I've been playing for an hour and a half. No clue how long it was down for.
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@pennstatefencer said in Patch 11 BIG W:
@whiplash0013_psn said in Patch 11 BIG W:
How long is the game down for a patch typically?
Patch is out and I've been playing for an hour and a half. No clue how long it was down for.
If you have been playing for an hour and a half then simple math tells me it was only down for 15 minutes. Website is still down though
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I never contact swung and don’t use pinpoint, but I’m glad the community is getting what it seems to want. Hope it works.
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@the_dragon1912 said in Patch 11 BIG W:
@pennstatefencer said in Patch 11 BIG W:
@whiplash0013_psn said in Patch 11 BIG W:
How long is the game down for a patch typically?
Patch is out and I've been playing for an hour and a half. No clue how long it was down for.
If you have been playing for an hour and a half then simple math tells me it was only down for 15 minutes. Website is still down though
My PS5 was shut down completely, so the patch didn't auto-download. It took a while for that, so it may have been up and running even sooner. Definitely a quick outage compared to what we've had in the past.
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@the_dragon1912 said in Patch 11 BIG W:
@pennstatefencer said in Patch 11 BIG W:
@whiplash0013_psn said in Patch 11 BIG W:
How long is the game down for a patch typically?
Patch is out and I've been playing for an hour and a half. No clue how long it was down for.
If you have been playing for an hour and a half then simple math tells me it was only down for 15 minutes. Website is still down though
It went down 15 min before the hour. So it went down at 3:45am pacific instead of 4. So probably came up sooner too.
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@madbatter77_psn said in Patch 11 BIG W:
@ibonafidescrub_ said in Patch 11 BIG W:
@madbatter77_psn said in Patch 11 BIG W:
I wonder if balanced hitters will still be able to whack with contact swing. It reads that itll only affect power guys.
I believe the change is meant to impact high power guys more than the rest of the cards, it will still affect the low power guys but to a lesser extent.
It makes perfect sense because low power guys don’t get crazy exit velos that often, so the nerf is in proportion to what the card attributes bring to the user.
I mean the patch update says this will affect power hitters pretty clearly. Doesnt say anything else. My fear is that guys were loading up lineups with power hitters and using O. Now they can still do it with balanced guys. Some of those guys have better power numbers than some lower ranked "power hitters"
They didn’t mean power hitters by type, but power hitters by power attribute. The nerf to contact swing power is to players with high power regardless of how they are labeled in game.
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@genopolanco_psn said in Patch 11 BIG W:
@dolenz_psn said in Patch 11 BIG W:
@lazy_toast_psn said in Patch 11 BIG W:
@ibonafidescrub_ said in Patch 11 BIG W:
Byebye crutches
Gonna be a lot of cry baby complaint threads……. I’ll get the popcorn buddy
And how will they be different from all the cry baby complaint threads we saw about contact hitting before change?
I almost see the complainers after the patch having a more valid excuse. They were allowed to develop their game using contact hitting and more lenient pinpoint pitching. Now they are getting their playstyle nerfed.
No difference to me either way as I use neither contact swings or pinpoint pitching.
It doesn’t sound like contact swing will be unusable, you just won’t hit tanks from using it as often. People who implemented it into their strategy should still be able to use it effectively, just less extra base hits from it (how it should be)
