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I play directional with, catcher near, zoom, catcher far, catcher or custom 3 depending on how I'm seeing the ball and it's so much more fun and just better in every possible way for me. I'm 57 and the game resembles what we grew up with and, frankly what I prefer. I don't want all the extra [censored] on my screen and I don't need some extreme form of input to make it more fun. Harder does not always equal more immersion or fun or enhance game play. What it's good for is bragging rights and some form of bravado ...I prefer to chill out, relax, and play a game that resembles a baseball game not a carnival game of swing the funky looking quotation thing with dots in the middle and have that dot hit that dot and squiggly line and that equals a hit! Sweet...not to mention every single "new" method has been done over the last 30 years...pulse, pci, timing, directional etc...none of this is new...it's just been adopted as "meta" because it's sweaty. Enjoy...you're not alone in your thinking.

Who wants to sit through 9 pitch at bats... multiple times to complete a mission or scenario when you want to grind and get things done. I don't have the patience...that's my fault I know, but, honestly when you want to play and you just sit there over and over again experiencing this... eventually I just turn it off and think that was a totally unenjoyable waste of time...so unenjoyable that I quit out of boredom.

I would think someone should have had the foresight to understand that this would aggravate anyone playing an RTTS game, which is fantasy. I doubt, very much, anyone that this happens to, says "Oh wow man...that's was So cool, they replicated real life and ruined the last 30-60 mins of my fun experience by pulling my pitcher with one out left in my no hitter!" I can't wait for that to happen again!

I'm the guy that wrote the first one there and won't retype it but ..BUT ...I was trying to reply to the pack issue in RTTS and my reply was simply....I'm not"receiving" any...went through the whole thing hit enter....looked up and...LOL ...I thought.... someone is going to really have some material for this one!

Considering this is the place to discuss the game I. General there are going to be complaints and suggestions, especially early in release and it is an effective way to get attention drawn to issues and also see if the rest of the community is experiencing these things. Every topic has a header...if you are so sensitive that these things hurt your feelings then don't read them.
There are also tons of positive things brought to light. Maybe you shouldn't be reading these things personally and let the rest of us do what we want .Seems like a personal choice issue you have not one with the rest of us who would like these issues heard and possibly addressed.

@sbchamps17_NSW thank you! My first post and I was trying to reply not start a new thread but, I figured it out finally

I suppose it could be possible to just link the start of the swing with the initial player input... yes, I agree. I see everyone's point...the batter probably shouldn't preload if I'm not swinging yet?...it would annoy me to no end of I was playing online for sure.
I don't, so I haven't experienced this.
Thanks for the feedback.

My first season I got called up to play the majority of the season up to the wild card... pitched a no in the wild card...got sent back down to AAA right after and didn't get to play the league or World Series and I was BLOWN AWAY! ..
what is going on...lol....this was not a good addition SDS...the objective here is for us all to HAVE FUN...not be excluded from the exact content we paid for...get a clue.

Also...just remember depending on your age...this is Exactly how we all used to play sports games...Tempo and timing is all we had and still reigns supreme. This is the way

@Konekogirl_PSN I'm looking a bit because I was like...."whaaaat?"...why in TF am I being pulled... pitching and hitting...what the actual....and so I raised my stamina to 99 ...I don't know if this made any difference. My getting subbed or pinch hit for when I'm the home run champ hitting over 650 etc....why in the world would you pull your best player...outside of any "real life" managerial decisions that might be made...even this seems very unlikely...but definitely in this mode in this game...I don't think many of us think this is a quality additional to our enjoyment.

This seems to concisely sum up a number of issues that we are all facing and are not understanding the thought process behind stealing opportunities from us in a game...a game first of all for fun and enjoyment. I can't understand why any developer would think that we would prefer to have these opportunities taken away from us under the guise of "realism"...total hogwash. What an idiotic idea. Pay for the opportunity to create a fantasy and have it arbitrarily taken away...is just the dumbest decision possible.

When your overall is as high or higher than the position player you will be replacing. Generally this is the benchmark.

Yep, I'm laughing because I didn't know there was an update but, everything was whacky. Even the batting challenge training session was lagging all over the place and the pitching slowed down by ...like half on my timing. I would swing when I normally would at a specific pitch and was so early...missed, whiff swings based on the same ball position I would always swing and...
not even close. I couldn't understand why .. visually and audio ques...place on the screen...ball position everything but the swing was on another planet! My players arm disappeared into his shadow ...a lot of weird little glitchy like things...but, for me it stabilized last night. Haven't tried today.