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Not sure if hitting was nerded as much as pitchers can now place the balls better. Also balls that were called balls earlier on are now strikes so you have to swing at pitches you can’t really hit. Which isn’t bad it’s like baseball is.

This is the result of people complaint that pitching is to hard. It happens to with every sports game, a game comes out plays fine but different then last year.

But rather then learn something new people complain, “it’s to hard” the developer gives in and then as a result something else changes.

More then likely they changed something to make the pitching more forgiving and it had an unforeseen effect on hitting timing screwing it up making it unpredictable.

Thus there are swing and missus on balls down in he middle timed good.

They can try to change it his but it will just screw something else up.

Developers need to just stop tinkering with new games when people start complaining week 1 that it’s to hard rather then putting the work in to learn the new game. But that is not the American way anymore

This actually makes a ton of sense, and explains a lot.

For us casual players who don’t use zone hitting we can not hit any breaking balls unless it’s right down the middle. Matter of fact put this to a test and any breaking pitch not down the middle only makes contact 2 out of 8 times on hof or higher.

That’s just not acceptable, doesn’t need to be a hit but shouldn’t be striking out on this.

As a player who plays offline diamond dynasty, not competitively, this makes me start to shy away from the mode towards fantasy.

Which probably isn’t the best thing for sds as I’m a player who enjoy collecting cards, has a fairly decent job and doesn’t mind spending money to do so since I don’t have time to grind.

Since the patch it seems also that not only did the pitching switch effect user pitching but also ai pitching. So now the ai doesn’t make many mistake pitches and can nail the corner which is an unhittable pitch for us casual players.

Playing a mini season with a team of a record of 12-3 on hall of fame but 90% of the wins are extra innings with a sac fly is just no longer rewarding enough to play

Ran a couple of tests and practice and think the patch screwed up the way the game was supposed to be played. Pitching wasn’t supposed to be this accurate. There were supposed to be error pitches because no pitcher in the mlb can hit the corner every time. If the cpu runs on something similar to timed hitting it means the cpu knows at higher levels it can’t make contact with breaking balls low, or very very rarely. Even human batter don’t make contact on breaking balls low down the middle most of the time when using timing or directional hitting.

I ran a practice using zone, directional, and timing using just sinkers, then just curve balls, then just change ups, bottom part of the strike zone down the middle.

For directional and timing hitting, on all-star a good timed swing made contact 7/8 times. On all-star and legend a good timed swing made contact only 2 out of 8 times.

Now I know hard difficulties should be harder but getting good timing should be harder. The fact that a good timed swing doesn’t even make contact most of the time shows something is off.

CPU ai may know it can’t make contact on these pitches or will only 2 out of 8 times which would explain why there are so many strike outs looking.

This was not the case pre patch on either front and needs to be addressed. Because players who don’t use zone, the game is almost unplayable on legend and hall of fame.

Try the test yourself. Do only breaking pitches in the low in the middle of the zone on those levels using each hitting style and see for yoursef

As one who uses timing hitting, mostly offline on hall of fame all you have to do to get us out is throw the ball low.

The pci is set to the middle we can’t hit low pitches or pitches in the corner. Zone is much more forgiving as you see people using zone able to hit balls in the dirt for home runs.

Timing hitting you need to be much more aware of the strike zone

What skill level are you playing on. This is indeed an issue.

I’ve run tests in practice using all-star, hof, and legend. Had the pitcher throw a series of off speed pitches down to the lower middle portion of the strike zone. I used zone, directional, and timing.

The results were as follows……

On hof: 2 of 8 good timed made contact (not hit just made contact)

On legend: same result two of 8

On allstat 7 of 8 at least made contact

This shows something is screwed up with the hitting on higher levels.

Yes it should be more difficult to hit, but it should be more difficult to time the pitch, not make contact when you time it well.

Hopefully ea fixes this cause it makes playing online for people who play hof and legend almost unplayable if you don’t use zone.

The results were better for zone hitting but far from perfect

Don’t play on rookie then, please don’t ruin other modes because some of you like to play on rookie and just mash hr’s and then brag you are undefeated

I’d imagine we all have these moments in games and you know as soon is it happens that game is a loser. Probably mostly when playing ai. Let’s have a keep it light and fun conversation with a good laugh.

Playing mini seasons on HOF in extra innings man 2nd and 3rd 1 out hit two consecutive pop ups on well timed swings on pitches down the middle to end it.

Next inning get the 1st two batters out, third batter hits a pop up to infield my pitcher runs to first take over the 2nd baseman miles away and batter safe at first. Of course next pitch is walk off hr.

Can only laugh!!! But felt the game was a loser after the two pop ups half inning before

What’s your typical, “this is a loser” scenario?

This is annoying but it’s likely tied into a players fielding rating and if they are at their primary position.

While annoying when it happens it’s a good add cause players fielding ratings actually matter.

Though it would be nice to see the ai abide by the same rules when playing mini seasons or offline on hof and above. The fielding rating seems to have no effect on them as they are able to get to everything. Which is why the game seems so hr or bust now.

you must have field training aids on new prior to the patch it was the old now it’s the new

Does anyone else here play offline diamond dynasty using timed hitting?

Wondering if anyone else is having issues with your hitters missing pitches down the middle even with good timing?

Seems like the patch may have broken timing hitting but might just be me