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Lol people are so quick with the dashboarding. Even if I wanted to there's no way I'd get it turned off before the ball landed. Must really suck if they are that experienced with having to quit out of games they have it down to muscle memory!

@kylejaros88_psn said in Fingers Crossed for a Contact Swing patch today.:

you should know by now as soon as they do anything to adjust the hitting its going to throw off the whole game somehow and the rest of the year everyone will be dying for it to go back to normal.

I actually love how "normal swings" are calibrated this year. The game plays amazing on HOF difficulty IMO. Legend is probably fine too but I'm not a good enough hitter to touch anything on legend consistently. All-Star it's a little too easy to hit IMO but I'm fine with it overall. My only gripe is the contact swing mechanic not functioning as it should and it is overpowered.

There just should be some disadvantage to using contact swings like there always has been. No reason to have bigger PCI's for a contact swing and still have the same exit velos which lead to HR's contact swinging. If there's no penalty to power for a contact swing it will be pretty overpowered and abused once people catch on and trust me they already are. It's going to be 10 pitch AB after 10 pitch AB with people fouling everything off with monster PCI's and no penalty to exit velo.

@mickdrenalen_psn said in Fingers Crossed for a Contact Swing patch today.:

Maybe this is why so many people I play who swing at everything and have no discipline have players averaging in the mid 300s to 400s

Yep its especially bad on all-star difficulty. In the event/BR its dang near impossible to swing and miss at this point. With no real penalty to power for contact swinging there really isn't any downside at the moment.

They have to do something to fix the contact swing exit velo. I should not be able to hit 5 home runs in an inning simply using contact swing. It already makes the PCI bigger and there needs to be some penalty to using it otherwise it is just going to be foul ball city until they eventually piece one up. Fingers crossed this next patch addresses it and and people can stop using it as a crutch.

Contact swing should be useful on guys like lofton, lou brock, dee gordon, etc. and in certain situations when you need a ball in play. Not overpowered and able to consistently go yard with.

Edit: Just read the notes.... F me they didn't touch it. This is going to get dumb in a hurry once everyone catches on.

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Depends on your budget. If its like 30-35k you can get either Jose Ramirez or the 90 Donaldson. If you got around 100k I'm loving Arenado and his defense saves quite a few runs by preventing the rollovers that sneak down the LF.

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I did the same thing and now I'm almost diamond. Its crazy because it list catcher as a secondary on this archetype but if you put him back there he can't even function lol dropping 1 outta every 2 pitches

I just got my bronze program done for "slick fielder" and he started as a catcher and now has switched to a SS primary with the secondary fielding position as a C. Hoping to figure this out as I go. Took me forever just to figure out there was a program to grind to upgrade him. Maybe when you get to be a gold/diamond it'll give you the opportunity to switch positions again I have no idea. It's super confusing right now.

I think you have to grind through the programs with your CAP to make him good. Going to be way tougher than feeding him binder fodder like we used to be able to. I was so confused at first but I think I finally get it.

When you are looking at him I think you press square (x on xbox) to view the program and then do that stuff to upgrade him to a silver. Then you do the silver missions to get him to gold, then diamond. And you have to do it for each archetype. Looks super grindy at the surface.

Honestly the game is too easy to hit right now. I can't get anybody out unless they are awful. Each Ranked Seasons game is a dang home run derby for both teams. Can't wait till I make it to HOF difficulty to actually enjoy playing a good competitive game.

Wonder if they added BR/Events to your records? Just a theory with no basis behind it haha.