@jaychvz_XBL said in I would give my first born to have a hitting engine actually determined by input:
@xIAmJumpMan23x said in I would give my first born to have a hitting engine actually determined by input:
Just got done playing a game where in the first 5 innings my opponent had 3 weak ground balls for hits including a late swing weak grounder that hit second base and then led to 3 runs.
But when I have good swing timing and put the ball fully in the PCI, it's "okay" contact for a routine flyout (which, fwiw, I still CANNOT figure out why this happens and what to do different).
I understand it's frustrating, but irl it happens , the other day the angels vs Texas, in the first 4 innings I don't think the rangers hit the ball over 90mph. All excuse me hits , soft singles , they were up 5 -0 , matt thais hit a 103 mph liner for a dp out .
It happens.
I'm an Angels fan , I couldn't tell you how many 2 strike bloopers Angels pitching has given up this year .
I get that "it happens" in real baseball, but you're NEVER going to come even close to representing "real baseball" in a video game. There are WAY too many elements that go into swinging a baseball bat the correct way that you'll never be able to replicate that simply by pressing buttons and moving a stick on a controller.
I get the idea behind the "it happens that way irl sometimes" argument, but the fact of the matter is this is a video game, and input should reign supreme. You can't even come close to replicating what goes into a major league swing so saying the outcome should replicate something when the input doesn't, doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
We HAVE to get past accepting mediocrity because "that's baseball." It's not unrealistic, or even that unordinary, for gamers to want input to reign supreme and be the major deciding factor for outcome. Right now RNG plays WAY too big of a role in outcome to the point where it can literally determine the outcome of a competitive, 9-inning ranked seasons game. A little RNG is fine, but to say it's ok to have it be the biggest determining outcome of a competitive game is, in my mind, ridiculous.