The New Strike Zone Is A Disaster That Needs To Be Immediately Fixed!
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Lol we want more accurate baseball.
"We" didn't want this change. The competitive players, a minority, did.
I am still undecided if its a good or bad change, I am fairly neutral. I do know it makes me less likely to play online because I don't use pinpoint pitching so this just widens the gap that already existed.
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@Teak2112_MLBTS I was heavily against it but I have somewhat adjusted to it, there are still some pitches that are going to be guaranteed outs. But I finally going up in ranks.
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"We" didn't want this change. The competitive players, a minority, did.
I wanted the umpiring to match the "perfect" SDS said it allegedly was for years...not just change the visual size of the box. All that tells me is that they knew it wasn't perfect, and were avoiding making a change that publicly admitted it. Would have been easier to implement the ABS logic from offline...
I am still undecided if its a good or bad change, I am fairly neutral. I do know it makes me less likely to play online because I don't use pinpoint pitching so this just widens the gap that already existed.
For me, I think I'm adjusting to it slowly...gotta learn to live on the outside edges with the PCI now that the meta is to paint the black
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@sbchamps17_NSW nah they need to revert it back and just add the abs system even in real baseball they call balls strikes or strikes balls but they can just challenge this new strike zone is bad ngl
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@xVaughnn_PSN so the real-life actual strike zone is ‘bad’, in your opinion? do you actually like ball?
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Imma be real, if I see anyone still b***hing about the strike zone change in here I’m coming for their baseball fan cred cause what is this
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@On_a_Power_Trip_PSN ok, but the zone in the video game now doesn't feel like real ball...because its perfect. In real ball, lots of balls are called strikes (and vice versa) - and this is only partly corrected by the ABS system. I dont mind this new zone, but I dont think it feels more "real" - they need to allow for ump mistakes and challenges to do that
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Does the new strike zone combat the cheaters in the game?
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@Rubbaneck34_XBL no not at all if anything gives them a bigger advantage as hitting is harder for the average person now.
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@Onix_Savage22_PSN That's crazy!
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@rubicante23_PSN I wouldn’t mind that tbh (though that has nothing to do with what the box looks like)
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Imma be real, if I see anyone still b***hing about the strike zone change in here I’m coming for their baseball fan cred cause what is this
They never should have made the visual box smaller, that's the issue. All they needed to do was take the ABS logic and apply it to DD since they've already claimed for years it's "perfect" umping by default. I personally like it, but I also understand why they should have gone the more logical and easiest way.
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@Sarge1387_PSN counterpoint: it’s a lot harder to challenge when you have to use the location of the center of the ball instead of the entire ball - unless you’re talking removing the box entirely, which is an entirely different conversation
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Question for those who know more than I currently do and in an effort to keep from posting another strike zone thread: Are the umpires in DD supposed to call a perfect strike zone, or will they still miss calls?
I ask because three times last night in events pitching as Clay Bucholtz I threw a sinker middle away to a right handed hitter that was nearly 50/50 split in half on the outside white line that was called a ball. Three times and two were for strike three. It always happened in the same location, just below the midpoint of the y axis and splitting the ball in half on the outside of the x axis. -
@LHUBison58_XBL good to know they’re still not even perfect lmao - guessing there was some glitch
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I’m not sure what happened, but I literally froze and held the trigger staring at the pitch location and checked on the hud to see the same spot. The first time was a strike 3 situation. The second was early count, the third was another strike 3 situation that turned into a hit a few pitches later and led to a run. I think I win that game, but it’s events and I was only grinding to get the program done so it didn’t matter too much. But it’s really hard to strike some folks out. They contact swing you to death and Clay doesn’t have a great change of pace to get swing and miss. So when you dot a pitch and get rawdawged it stuns you.
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@LHUBison58_XBL I’ve had this issue as well I had a strike called atleast a inch off the plate against me and also have thrown pitches clearly touching called balls I don’t think it’s perfect but better then it was…
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@Onix_Savage22_PSN I have had the bee’s [censored] strikes happen both ways. That’s cool to me. But fifty fifty in the line and it’s not called was shocking. I just want to know if others have had this.
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I'm loving the new strike zone so far. It feels like good pitching is actually viable again. I'm actually striking guys out looking which was very rare before. We'll see if people adjust over time, but right now I think its been a great change.
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So I'm seeing a mix of those saying it's broken some saying it's better. As with many sports games, they fix something for online and break something offline and vis-versa. Offline it's definitely screwed up. I'm striking out the CPU on balls outside the zone, not even touching a speck of the box, being called strikes every time. If you look at the pitch analysis that pitch that was fully out of the strike zone is showing half on the line. Pitches half on the line are showing inside the box. It's affecting hit aiming obviously as well. Sonething is screwed up.
