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Honestly if they’re skill involved keep it. I’d rather have this than 20’s gravity ball down the middle pitches.

I mean is it really skill? Seems kind of gimmicky to me. At least on the old 2K games the gesture corresponds to the wind up and release of the pitch. From what I see in practice you do the gesture and then just watch the pitcher throw dots.

Yes it is a skill, the gesture also corresponds to the release to, you don't just gesture and the pitcher pitches.

I respectfully disagree. Something needs to be tweaked. Shouldn’t be able to put it on the exact corner consistently.

There is skill involved, you need to do 3 things to have a perfect release, and even with a perfect release you can still miss the exact spot. So you aim for the corner, get a perfect release, and still throw a ball just outside the zone.

Especially in an online environment with latency being a factor, its not as easy as it seems. If you master it, it's greatly beneficial for sure. That's no reason to remove it or to tweak it. I prefer this over the meatballs down the middle on good input. I don't care if you paint corners, I'll pick up on your tendencies and punish you for being predictable. That's also how baseball works.

I personally think there isn’t much skill involved and that pin point is easier to get good input on than any other setting.

Yesterday I got a perfect release with a 77% accuracy on the gesture which is just crazy to me. I’d say I get a “perfect” on 80-90% in game but the real issue is where those 10-20% that aren’t perfect end up. My misses all end up in the dirt or so far outside the zone that I never have any fear that when I miss my pitch it’s going to hang. If I see I messed up the gesture enough where I can’t get a perfect, I just make sure I throw it late and to the side and it goes safely in the dirt. Then I’m ready to paint with my next pitch.

In my opinion they need to do 2 things:

Greatly tighten up the ranges for “perfect” input. I’d say no less than 92% accuracy on all pitch types.

Get rid of instant feedback on the gesture that lets you know before you ever start the pitch if you need to purposely throw late or early to make sure the ball sails way out of the zone to avoid hanging pitches.

92% is way too high of a number man. Currently its 85% for a fastball and 75% for everything else. I'd be okay with them upping the 75% to 80%, but 92% is too much of an increase.

Idk, I think I’d just like to see it require more skill. I thought pin point was going to be difficult but it feels just so easy at times.

Granted, I’ve played this game way too much and been using it since day 1 basically so maybe it’s not as easy for others yet. But a few months down the line and I’d imagine people are going to get used to it and never miss.

What makes me say that these numbers you proposed are too high, is because of the speed of the motion that varies per pitcher and also the speed of the release which does make it challenging to throw perfects from one pitcher to the next. Of course if you always use the same guys, you get accustomed to their motions better and you will make less mistakes.

But let's not forget where we came from in previous years, that even a perfect release could result in a meatball. If I would record my gameplay, I think I'd have a few hundred hours of gameplay where the horrendous pitching was the cause of me (almost) blowing games. Like I said before, I don't mind if you paint corners for 9 innings straight. I'll pick up on your tendencies and lurk in that spot where you'll try to beat me and I'll punish you. That's also baseball, it requires some more intelligence and less reactionary play.

Totally agree with you here, you just have to be more patient as a hitter and learn rather than waiting for the AI deciding when your opponent needs a hand.

I still put the odd ball down the middle with pinpoint but the difference now is that I know I’ve [censored] up the input when it happens so deserve to be punished.

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