This is the patch that will turn people away
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@raesone_psn said in This is the patch that will turn people away:
Sorry for being negative, but these devs have a terrible track record when it comes to patches and "fixes". I've played some games this morning and the pitching is indeed nerfed and more random and also the exit velocities are weird. Again. Like every other year they bring a big gameplay patch. I'll give it a week before everyone is complaining.
As long as there is a balance between the two, it shouldn’t be too too bad. Nerfed PP a bit and nerfed contact swinging.
Some will have a major reality check when their contact swings go nowhere. Then there’ll be more crying
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All that was needed to be done was adjust timing windows for hitting, in HoF and up. Im stuck in allstar hell (again). Tired of bouncing back between 600s and 800s
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I played a couple event games and a 9inn game on All Star, for the Billy Williams, and wasnt having any harder of a time throwing high accuracy or perfects, but they weere much more random on where they went when I did. Especially off speed perfects. They seem to "sail" more often kinda like last year.
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@letsgotopr_xbl said in This is the patch that will turn people away:
It’s way better. I only threw a handful of “perfects” the entire game. I wasn’t cheesed to death by contact swing, and if you don’t know how to pitch sequence, you’re gonna get touched up. This is the way it should be.
I'm referring to the fact that last year the game was horrible due to pitching being so random. Good releases could go down the middle. And now they fixed that issue, and yes pinpoint was very accurate. But if you can hit, you can hit those pitches on the black too. Has nothing to do with sequencing and everything to do with the ability to hit. And now they go in reverse to make it more random, because the average hitters cried hard. Again.
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I always assume that any patch that makes a change to gameplay turns people away. But this patch may turn away a few more than normal.
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@bearsfan217_xbl said in This is the patch that will turn people away:
All that was needed to be done was adjust timing windows for hitting, in HoF and up. Im stuck in allstar hell (again). Tired of bouncing back between 600s and 800s
And fix the contact swing. That was a real problem. But I feel it messed with the exit velocities across the board once more.
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@raesone_psn said in This is the patch that will turn people away:
@letsgotopr_xbl said in This is the patch that will turn people away:
It’s way better. I only threw a handful of “perfects” the entire game. I wasn’t cheesed to death by contact swing, and if you don’t know how to pitch sequence, you’re gonna get touched up. This is the way it should be.
I'm referring to the fact that last year the game was horrible due to pitching being so random. Good releases could go down the middle. And now they fixed that issue, and yes pinpoint was very accurate. But if you can hit, you can hit those pitches on the black too. Has nothing to do with sequencing and everything to do with the ability to hit. And now they go I'm reverse to make it more random, because the average hitters cried hard. Again.
How is pitching more random? They just tightened up the thresholds to get perfect or good input. It didn’t increase the perfect radius from what I can see so far. That’s not adding randomness but rather adding skill imo
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@nash_524_psn said in This is the patch that will turn people away:
@raesone_psn said in This is the patch that will turn people away:
@letsgotopr_xbl said in This is the patch that will turn people away:
It’s way better. I only threw a handful of “perfects” the entire game. I wasn’t cheesed to death by contact swing, and if you don’t know how to pitch sequence, you’re gonna get touched up. This is the way it should be.
I'm referring to the fact that last year the game was horrible due to pitching being so random. Good releases could go down the middle. And now they fixed that issue, and yes pinpoint was very accurate. But if you can hit, you can hit those pitches on the black too. Has nothing to do with sequencing and everything to do with the ability to hit. And now they go I'm reverse to make it more random, because the average hitters cried hard. Again.
How is pitching more random? They just tightened up the thresholds to get perfect or good input. It didn’t increase the perfect radius from what I can see so far. That’s not adding randomness but rather adding skill imo
Just play man you'll see what I mean. A bit off makes pitches sail and go down the middle, very much like last year and even the year before to a certain extent. Missing a perfect is now punished heavier and having a "good" release doesn't mean anything, it can be a meatball if the game decides to do so. Again, just play a few games and you'll see.
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My main question after the patch will be
What excuses will players on the forum use now when they lose if they can't claim that everyone they play uses contact swings?
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The problem was mostly in World Series ranked games. Being able to paint corners every single pitch makes the game impossibly difficult, especially with those pitch speeds and small pci.
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@letsgotopr_xbl said in This is the patch that will turn people away:
The problem was mostly in World Series ranked games. Being able to paint corners every single pitch makes the game impossibly difficult, especially with those pitch speeds and small pci.
No it doesn't, plenty of people were still averaging 10+ hits on legend.
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Of course. But against competent players who can paint a sinker anywhere with even low control pitchers, it’s unrealistic. The card shouldn’t turn into a god because someone can twirl an analog stick correctly
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First off, the vast majority of people that play this game probably won't even realize the patch changed anything. People that frequent the forum and talk about this stuff non-stop are the minority. Second, if someone stuck around this long with contact swing, R2 abuse against pinpoint users, etc, I doubt the patch that fixes that stuff is going to drive them away. This patch won't make a dent in the overall player count.
I've played 13 event games this morning and have given up 14 runs, and 6 of them were against one guy who was just crushing everything I threw. That's common pitchers against some pretty [censored] good cards. I think pinpoint is doing just fine post patch.
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@letsgotopr_xbl said in This is the patch that will turn people away:
Of course. But against competent players who can paint a sinker anywhere with even low control pitchers, it’s unrealistic. The card shouldn’t turn into a god because someone can twirl an analog stick correctly
Well I agree with that statement, but now we're talking about 2 different things. All I want is to now give up an easy homerun because the game forces a meatball down the middle just because I slightly missed my perfect release.
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@raesone_psn said in This is the patch that will turn people away:
@nash_524_psn said in This is the patch that will turn people away:
@raesone_psn said in This is the patch that will turn people away:
@letsgotopr_xbl said in This is the patch that will turn people away:
It’s way better. I only threw a handful of “perfects” the entire game. I wasn’t cheesed to death by contact swing, and if you don’t know how to pitch sequence, you’re gonna get touched up. This is the way it should be.
I'm referring to the fact that last year the game was horrible due to pitching being so random. Good releases could go down the middle. And now they fixed that issue, and yes pinpoint was very accurate. But if you can hit, you can hit those pitches on the black too. Has nothing to do with sequencing and everything to do with the ability to hit. And now they go I'm reverse to make it more random, because the average hitters cried hard. Again.
How is pitching more random? They just tightened up the thresholds to get perfect or good input. It didn’t increase the perfect radius from what I can see so far. That’s not adding randomness but rather adding skill imo
Just play man you'll see what I mean. A bit off makes pitches sail and go down the middle, very much like last year and even the year before to a certain extent. Missing a perfect is now punished heavier and having a "good" release doesn't mean anything, it can be a meatball if the game decides to do so. Again, just play a few games and you'll see.
I’ve played a few event games but I think I got a perfect release on every pitch so far. Tbh what you’re describing I kind of like. It’s always been so easy to get perfects that I think it should be punishing when you don’t but I’ll wait to play some more outside of the event before forming an opinion I guess. It sounds like a win for ranked games though tbh
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@pennstatefencer said in This is the patch that will turn people away:
First off, the vast majority of people that play this game probably won't even realize the patch changed anything. People that frequent the forum and talk about this stuff non-stop are the minority. Second, if someone stuck around this long with contact swing, R2 abuse against pinpoint users, etc, I doubt the patch that fixes that stuff is going to drive them away. This patch won't make a dent in the overall player count.
I've played 13 event games this morning and have given up 14 runs, and 6 of them were against one guy who was just crushing everything I threw. That's common pitchers against some pretty [censored] good cards. I think pinpoint is doing just fine post patch.
Events are never a great environment to test this kind of stuff, the sliders are all over the place and the most horrible type of input can get rewarded. But hey I'm happy with the R2 fix and the contact swing fix, unless it breaks other parts of the game. Like exit velocities across the board.
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@nash_524_psn said in This is the patch that will turn people away:
@raesone_psn said in This is the patch that will turn people away:
@nash_524_psn said in This is the patch that will turn people away:
@raesone_psn said in This is the patch that will turn people away:
@letsgotopr_xbl said in This is the patch that will turn people away:
It’s way better. I only threw a handful of “perfects” the entire game. I wasn’t cheesed to death by contact swing, and if you don’t know how to pitch sequence, you’re gonna get touched up. This is the way it should be.
I'm referring to the fact that last year the game was horrible due to pitching being so random. Good releases could go down the middle. And now they fixed that issue, and yes pinpoint was very accurate. But if you can hit, you can hit those pitches on the black too. Has nothing to do with sequencing and everything to do with the ability to hit. And now they go I'm reverse to make it more random, because the average hitters cried hard. Again.
How is pitching more random? They just tightened up the thresholds to get perfect or good input. It didn’t increase the perfect radius from what I can see so far. That’s not adding randomness but rather adding skill imo
Just play man you'll see what I mean. A bit off makes pitches sail and go down the middle, very much like last year and even the year before to a certain extent. Missing a perfect is now punished heavier and having a "good" release doesn't mean anything, it can be a meatball if the game decides to do so. Again, just play a few games and you'll see.
I’ve played a few event games but I think I got a perfect release on every pitch so far. Tbh what you’re describing I kind of like. It’s always been so easy to get perfects that I think it should be punishing when you don’t but I’ll wait to play some more outside of the event before giving forming an opinion I guess. It sounds like a win for ranked games though tbh
Well I mean that's okay, everyone has their own preferences. To me there is nothing more annoying that a forced meatball just because I slightly missed the perfect. That's overkill imo.
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@raesone_psn said in This is the patch that will turn people away:
@pennstatefencer said in This is the patch that will turn people away:
First off, the vast majority of people that play this game probably won't even realize the patch changed anything. People that frequent the forum and talk about this stuff non-stop are the minority. Second, if someone stuck around this long with contact swing, R2 abuse against pinpoint users, etc, I doubt the patch that fixes that stuff is going to drive them away. This patch won't make a dent in the overall player count.
I've played 13 event games this morning and have given up 14 runs, and 6 of them were against one guy who was just crushing everything I threw. That's common pitchers against some pretty [censored] good cards. I think pinpoint is doing just fine post patch.
Events are never a great environment to test this kind of stuff, the sliders are all over the place and the most horrible type of input can get rewarded. But hey I'm happy with the R2 fix and the contact swing fix, unless it breaks other parts of the game. Like exit velocities across the board.
Honestly, I was seeing lower exit velos on good input even pre-patch.
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I think you are exaggerating the consequences of slightly missing a pitch.
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@letsgotopr_xbl said in This is the patch that will turn people away:
I think you are exaggerating the consequences of slightly missing a pitch.
Have you played last year? Because it was most definitely a thing and it was common knowledge. I played a few games this morning where the same thing happened. I don't need your approval or validation for my experiences, so you can think whatever you want. You can also disagree with me, that's perfectly fine. All I'm doing is predicting how this community will react in a week from now based on my own experiences.
