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@wildthingwilly_PSN said in Why is the sinker still so janky?:

@Hikes83_PSN said in Why is the sinker still so janky?:

Buddy, it’s been this way since forever and they’ve heard the same sorry every year. Time to just recognize it and adjust like the rest of us because unfortunately, I don’t see it changing anytime soon

If enough people say it loud enough maybe they will change it

They said they've fixed it in years past, but it didn't do anything. I'm with you. I think it makes the game borderline unplayable at times.

The number of miserable games I've played against pitchers who never move the location cursor and throw all of three pitches in the same spots every time: either a thigh-high sinker in that both sinks and moves too unrealistically laterally, fastball down the middle, or cutter/breaking ball away to same-side hitters... And because of the crazy sinker physics, it's just a guessing game.

One of the game's enduring problems that people spam is that sinkers thrown up in the zone should not sink as much as they do in the game. In real life they flatten out considerably and turn into gopher balls. So many guys in righty-on-righty start a sinker up and right in the center of the zone and have it finish inside, mid-thigh high. If they throw really hard and have a slider (e.g. Bob Gibson), it just turns into a guessing game whether it's an unhittable sinker in or an unhittable slider away. It's really boring, but the best way to hit online or vs. cpu on all-star or higher is just wait for the count to get to 2-0 and then try to swing at something actually hittable. Again, it's not realistic because no real pitcher actually wants to go 2-0 to every batter, but here we are.