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@pbake12 said in Hey SDS. This is why people hate showdown.:
Just curious, does this pci rating just incorporate the placement? Or does it also include timing?
Placement only. You can have perfect (or "good" since it doesn't show as perfect unless you actually make contact) timing on a pitch that's nowhere near your PCI and get a 0. Easier to pull this off with a Legend difficulty PCI. You can also have the worst possible timing on your swing, have the PCI centered on the ball, and get 15.
I got the impression that when they talked about Swing Type, they were referring to Contact, Normal, and Power - not to a difference in the swing animations actually influencing how a player plays.
One thing that seems like a bit of an oversight - we've lost the ability to see contact result on the 3rd out of an inning. Contact result appears in the slideout window now instead of directly above the swing analysis, which means it doesn't show up at the moment of contact. On the 3rd out we don't get that full slideout due to the inning ending.
I'm a big fan of having launch angle in the analysis window now, and putting the batter's ratings in the analysis is a good move (for reasons I'm about to illustrate in a moment). Overall, does it do enough to separate good contact from okay, and make good hitting feel more rewarding? I'm not sure yet. I did have this fly ball in a Legend vs. CPU game that I think kind of highlights what the problem has been (and perhaps still is):
I want to stress that I have no problem with this outcome - I got under the ball with a 67 power hitter, and did not have perfect timing. Fly out to the deep OF is exactly what I would expect. The issue is with the analysis - why is that good/good? There was little chance of that being a rewarding hit, yet this is supposed to be part of that .600 average they're shooting for for that classification? I think this is where a lot of the frustration comes from. You couldn't consider it "Weak" either with an EV of 93, obviously - but this would probably be a case where Good/Okay is the right classification - it seems to give a more reasonable expectation of the outcome.
I threw out a lineup with Josh Rojas at SS, Jackie Robinson at 2B, Thames at 1B and Schwarber catching to help that hits mission along. All are outfielders with infielder secondaries. FotF Soto and FS Robles in the OF too.
Season just started anyway, not like I can torpedo my rating too badly.
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See guys?, the ones complaining and making silly posts about fielding will never get fixed?.....use this post to apologize
Please ban this hot pocket eating, offline playing wannabe troll.
How is this trolling?, the majority of you guys complained constantly that the game is garbage and made multiple threads screaming from the hilltops wanting refunds and saying SDS is slacking off and don't care bla bla bla. Now what are you gonna complain about now? go head, make something up. Why don't you man up and use this post to apologize for all the doubts and accusations you guys made.
Are you serious? They released a patch last time saying it would fix fielding and they didn’t.
You say what else is there to complain about?
- Inconsistent hitting feedback
- Pitching accuracy issues - serving up meatball homeruns on good input
- High sinkers
- Facing 99 Kluber every friggin game!
- Homerun or Bust feeling
- Perfect/Perfect is a double play/warning track shot but a Good/Okay is a homerun blast into the upper deck
- Base-runners running like they’re on ice
- Changing hitting when it was near perfect in beta / 1st week.
- Lying to us that skill will matter more than ever this year.
There’s more to complain about but I’m tired of it at this point.
- Turn that silly hitting feedback box off, its misleading and triggers noobs, you should feel when you're late or behind on a pitch not look at a box to tell you.
- That's baseball, suck it up.
- Whats wrong with high Sinkers?, lol okay high sinkers shouldn't be a thing
- Stop playing online and start a Franchise like a real man.
- You haven't tested the game enough to find realistic Sliders yet.
- See number 1.
- Whats wrong with that?, that's how Canadians run when they play baseball.
- Cause they realize it would be too easy and online casual noobs would feel too entitled and Sim players wouldn't want to play The Show.
- Skill matters that's why noobs don't like this year's game.
How do you turn that silly little feedback thing off? I can't find it in the gameplay options!
Swing/Pitch Info in the general gameplay settings Advanced tab (press L2 when you're on basic settings). This will turn off the pitch callout as well - the white dot and accompanying info that shows what, where and how fast a pitch was.
I've still seen issues of animations not triggering on catches near walls - both moving and stationary. Even if the ball is going to hit off the wall and not be caught, I'd like to see some kind of miss animation from the player that reflects that - it's better than them not doing anything and having an attempt not even being made.
However, the fielding away from walls seems much better post-patch - I feel like feathering the stick to make catches on line drives is becoming safe again.
That tag in the teaser trailer though....
So far my expectations of capturing our cover boy's flair have not been betrayed. Looking forward to tomorrow!
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