Difficulty settings for power pros

[UMDDogs]

I am looking to start my season and wanted to see if any of you have settled on difficulty settings for fairly realistic gameplay.

[SportGamer24]

Re: Difficulty settings for power pros

Same here, but there's already a thread started with some folks talking about their settings. There's so many different settings that it will probably take awhile to find some good ones. Starting to really dig this game though.

[UMDDogs]

Re: Difficulty settings for power pros

Thanks for the response, I am definetly liking this game. I am willing to help on difficulty settings if that is what people are looking for.

[SportGamer24]

Re: Difficulty settings for power pros

Do you know the differences between "normal" hitting and the "lock" hitting?

Also, do you play with the ball cursor on in the field (so it shows where the ball is going to land?)

One more question, is there an option so there's no ball cursor when batting?

[ComfortablyLomb]

Re: Difficulty settings for power pros

Do you know the differences between "normal" hitting and the "lock" hitting?

Also, do you play with the ball cursor on in the field (so it shows where the ball is going to land?)

One more question, is there an option so there's no ball cursor when batting?

Go into practice mode and experiment with the five levels of lock-on hitting. The higher the number the more the cursor will try to center itself on the ball when you swing and put good wood on it. At five it pretty much gives you very solid contact everywhere in the cursor. At one you get an ever so slight boost on balls in the very middle of the cursor. If you fiddle with it enough in practice mode you'll get a good idea of how much you should be using. Anything more than two and it seems to really cut into hit variety just because everything is hit relatively hard. I'm using "1" right now.

[SportGamer24]

Re: Difficulty settings for power pros

Go into practice mode and experiment with the five levels of lock-on hitting. The higher the number the more the cursor will try to center itself on the ball when you swing and put good wood on it. At five it pretty much gives you very solid contact everywhere in the cursor. At one you get an ever so slight boost on balls in the very middle of the cursor. If you fiddle with it enough in practice mode you'll get a good idea of how much you should be using. Anything more than two and it seems to really cut into hit variety just because everything is hit relatively hard. I'm using "1" right now.

You still hitting balls solid on 1? So does "normal" mean there's no adjustment when you swing?

I know there's the cursor when the ball has been pitched, does everyone play with that on? Is it even an option to turn it off? I know that it would probably be impossible to bat without that little ball icon floating around, but just wondering.

[ComfortablyLomb]

Re: Difficulty settings for power pros

You still hitting balls solid on 1? So does "normal" mean there's no adjustment when you swing?

I know there's the cursor when the ball has been pitched, does everyone play with that on? Is it even an option to turn it off? I know that it would probably be impossible to bat without that little ball icon floating around, but just wondering.

I still hit some balls solidly on 1. I'm probably averaging 4-5 runs per game with lock-on 1 and the AI pitching at All-Star level. I've had some games recently where I've been shut out and others where I've put up 7-8 runs.

There are definitely different ways of approaching hitting in this game and that's just what it working for me. I find the tiny contact boost really comes in handy when I'm trying to fight off harder throwers. Oh, I use digital batting too. The analog was just too wobbly for my liking.

Everything I've seen about batting without the ball cursor on has mentioned just how tough it is to hit because of how sensitive the batting cursor is in terms of contact. I haven't even tried more than a couple of hacks.

[SportGamer24]

Re: Difficulty settings for power pros

I still hit some balls solidly on 1. I'm probably averaging 4-5 runs per game with lock-on 1 and the AI pitching at All-Star level. I've had some games recently where I've been shut out and others where I've put up 7-8 runs.

There are definitely different ways of approaching hitting in this game and that's just what it working for me. I find the tiny contact boost really comes in handy when I'm trying to fight off harder throwers. Oh, I use digital batting too. The analog was just too wobbly for my liking.

Everything I've seen about batting without the ball cursor on has mentioned just how tough it is to hit because of how sensitive the batting cursor is in terms of contact. I haven't even tried more than a couple of hacks.

My hitting did improve when I went to Digital. Easier to start the bat in the general location of the pitch. I'll go ahead and give Lock-1 some tries and CPU pitching at All-Star.

Any other suggestions?

[budsticky]

Re: Difficulty settings for power pros

I still hit some balls solidly on 1. I'm probably averaging 4-5 runs per game with lock-on 1 and the AI pitching at All-Star level. I've had some games recently where I've been shut out and others where I've put up 7-8 runs.

There are definitely different ways of approaching hitting in this game and that's just what it working for me. I find the tiny contact boost really comes in handy when I'm trying to fight off harder throwers. Oh, I use digital batting too. The analog was just too wobbly for my liking.

Everything I've seen about batting without the ball cursor on has mentioned just how tough it is to hit because of how sensitive the batting cursor is in terms of contact. I haven't even tried more than a couple of hacks.

I'll have to experiment with your settings. I had my lock at 1 but only had the cpu pitching set to expert, and I was able to crank out about 20 hits a game. I switched to the "normal" batting(no help at all), same picthing settings and I could only get about 6 hits a game..rarely getting an extra base hit. So there seems to be a definite jump in difficulty from the lowest lock setting to using no lock at all. I'll have to give lock 1 with pitching at All-star a try. I need to realize that Expert is only the middle difficulty setting on this game.

[SportGamer24]

Re: Difficulty settings for power pros

There seems to be somewhat of a consensus on AI pitching at All-Star and Hum batting at Lock-1.

Think that's what I will give a try

[johnny_park]

Re: Difficulty settings for power pros

I use AI pithcing on powerful and Hum batting at Lock-1. I also turn the AI pitcing cursor off. The last 3 games I played were:
Red Sox(me) 7 Yankees(cpu) 6
Red Sox 2 Yankees 3
Red Sox 7 Devil Rays 1
I am currently 10-8 in my season. I suck at fielding.