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I have been trying to avoid swinging at the first pitch. About 80% of the time I do. I also aim upper left. I think if I just pull straight up I get too many popups. At least if I'm trying to pull I get a little more of a chance of doing something. Still, most is either a fly out or even a soft ground out. Game decides what happens regardless of the timing. I also have only hit a "prefect" timing swing maybe twice.

I give up on this game. Dropped it down to veteran and still can't hit above .200. The hitting makes no sense at all. When I'm hitting all my ratings are over 100, contact power and vision. I should be tearing it up. No, half the time I pop it up foul or ground out to the pitcher. I make a good timing swing on a pitch right down the [censored] middle and it's a pop up behind the plate. Sometimes it's even a complete whiff which makes no sense at all. And it seems like the longer you play, the worse you do. Terrible game.

I'm definitely trying to. Are you trying to pull and hit it in the air (up and left if you're hitting righty)? Maybe I'm not doing that right.

I used analog way back when I was playing MLB2k10 or 12, not sure but which it was but I was pretty good at that. That is actually the mode I used first when I got this and I didn't like it much but I may change to it and see how it goes. Couldn't hurt. Question about it, do you still stay away from power swinging for the most part?

I have picked it up a little bit over more games. Up to .208 at the break. 9-25 two more doubles and two more homers. 5 BB and 4 Ks so that's improving.

Think I'll hold off trying analog until I see if I hit a wall again.

I guess I just hit a hot streak there. This game is ridiculous. I was as high as .232 on the season, now mid July and I'm hitting an awesome .187. I don't understand it at all. I just can't get hits frequently. I have 34 hits, four doubles, one triple and 5 homers. I don't strike out a ton but probably more than I should be. 52 times in 182 ABs. I'm working on cutting that down but I walk a fair amount as well, 23 so far. I just don't know what to do about getting more hits. I'm 1 for my last 31 at bats. I have the ratings that should make me a decent hitter. The game is preventing me from doing that. I get "good" timing a ton and most of the time it's right to someone or a popup or whatever else. Driving me insane. Also stopped switch hitting, staying to righty only. I don't want to lower difficulty but I may have to or just say screw it and say it's the game.

All I've done so far is do what Lonne recommended with the guess pitch. I have had a few games where I got a few hits and drove in some runs. My last game I had a 2 HR/5RBI game. Hitting .195 after that game. Finish that and get called up to the bigs.

I was using strike zone 2 for a while then though it too close so I moved to strike zone which I like a bit more. I do use guess pitch with quadrant but I mainly for high fastball but maybe I'll try what you said instead. I have silver slugging sparkplug as my main perk with gold power 7 and gold contact 7 as the two others. Slowly building my way to the gold center one. About half way there.

Is it not possible to hit at a decent clip using directional hitting?

I cannot use zone. I don't have the coordination with the stick to try to tell if a pitch is going to be in the strike zone and at the same time move the pci thingy is the same area to hit it. So I am forced to use directional. I'm playing on all-star. I've only been playing rtts. I initially started being a switch hitter which I think now is a mistake because I think I may be a lot better hitting righty but the majority of my ab's are obviously against righties so I'm hitting lefty most of the time. (Is there a way to change this?) I'm very rarely using power swing. Maybe once every 50 AB's. I'm almost exclusively normal swing. My players ratings are as follows: 83 overall in AAA, second season. With perks and equipment I have Con-89 Pow-64 Vis-88 Disc-55 Clt-60.

When I was in AA, I did pretty well. Not sure how to see previous season stats but I know I was a bit over .300 about half way through the year when I got moved to AAA. I hit a brick wall then. I mingled right around .200 through the rest of that year and my whole first year of AAA. Now in my third minor league season I'm at a hefty .176 (12-68) 17 games in. I have 11 k's which I don't think is terrible but I rarely walk. My biggest problem is just about everything I hit regardless of the timing. So I guess I'm looking for some tips on how to get more hits. Or is it hopeless to be decent using directional hitting and I need to either lower the difficulty (don't want to) or just not play at all? This is driving me nuts cause it feels like I should be doing better but the game is holding me back.

@duc748s_mlbts said in Kinda lost:

You can tune Dynamic Difficulty to update sooner, try that. It probably went that high when you were mashing and it's taking a while to adjust ((tuned to adjust after a full level or something like that) play with it till you find your sweet spot

*Sorry I don't remember the exact option setting, but PS4 is off at the moment

When I was playing that one, I was never really "mashing". I hit like .170 or something all year. Did hit I think 6 homers or so, so maybe those made up for all the K's.

I was wondering that were the side effects of using power over contact swing. Figured it was some computer deciding thing.

I now have three homers on the year, this one using the power button so that's a plus.

Thanks for answering my questions guys.

I actually just hit a second homer so I guess slowly it's getting better. Both were on normal swings as well.

One more thing that was odd that I couldn't understand. This is my second rtts player, first one I set the difficulty to dynamic because I know from playing past games that I usually start too low and I get "video game" numbers and I hate that because I like realism. At the same time in other games if I bump it up one difficulty level, I get creamed. I wanted to avoid that so I saw the dynamic level and see that it's supposed to adjust as you play. I set it to that and I get through pretty much my first season. I was striking out a ton and not getting many hits just due to the fact that I hadn't found the right camera I was good with and the hitting style. I think the first season I hit like .180ish and at least 150 strikeouts with that. At the same time, I noticed the difficulty level was bouncing around between hall of fame and legend! I couldn't believe it was set that high when I was going 0-4 with 2 k's a game. Is that dynamic play setting bugged as well? Sure seemed like it is.

Well I finally hit one so the whole shield theory is out the window. About time.

So what you're saying is when I'm in the clubhouse, look at my player and go to stats and awards and I got that circle in the upper right that says 64 overall and all my individual ratings, that means nothing in rtts play?

I'm not really a console player, mainly just PC games but I do have an XBox One X and I saw there was finally going to be a legit baseball game coming out that I could actually play, I jumped on it. I haven't played the show in years so a lot has changed and I don't understand a lot of it.

Playing on All-Star difficulty. Hitting on directional because I suck with the thumbsticks on controllers which is why I don't play shooters.
First, it seems like the game doesn't want me to hit homers. I'm a left fielder, 64 overall with 68/69 contact and 46/49 power. I don't expect to hit one every few games but I'm about 40% into the first season and I have zero homers. I have hit it to the wall in all fields but it seems like there's a shield that prevents me from actually getting one over. I can't understand it and it's driving me nuts.

Second, I see a lot of pitches that I hit with the timing basically dead center, the pitch is over the plate and I would still just foul it off. This makes no sense to me.

I don't see a real difference in power swing and normal. I have hit balls to the wall on normal swings and I can hit a slow ground out with power. I don't use power unless I'm ahead in the count. Is it just me or what?

Last, I don't get what this whole attribute thing is where after every game it shows you increasing certain skills up and down. Starts at 30 and I think max is 50 but what is it? For example, it says I have 69 contact rating and 46 power but when I finish games, it shows those ratings much lower, contact is I think 42 and power is mid 30s. I'm not sure what all this is. Help?