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Originally Posted by rudyjuly2 |
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I'll disagree with this. I think hitting overall needed quite a bit of work. There was way too much of a difference between the contact and power swing. Unless you had the power cranked up like you did you would never hit a HR with the contact swing. With power that high you should have never permitted yourself to even use the power swing as balls would be leaving the yard all the time. I went the other way and reduced power a lot and forced myself to use the power swing almost exclusively. Either way is flawed and they need to fix it. Futhermore, the cpu used the contact swing too much and even with power at 100 they had too many singles and not enough extra base hits. They need to reduce the difference between the two swings imo. The contact swing was more like a defensive swing last year.
One other big flaw in the hitting was the opposite field power. A guy like Johnny Damon could pull a ball 400 feet but there is no way he should generate that same power going the opposite way. The game did not differentiate between this at all. The only guys that should be hitting an even amount of bombs to all fields are the 35-50 HR guys. The 15-20 HR guy hits most of his when he pulls the ball.
Look at Damon last year - all 6 of his HRs at Comerica were pulled. I should not be able to go the opposite way with him to hit a HR and yet it was routine in MLB 2K10.
http://mlb.mlb.com/stats/individual_...028&statType=1
Same goes for a guy like Granderson with medium power. Every single HR at Yankees stadium was to RF. Same goes for every HR at Comerica in 2009.
http://mlb.mlb.com/stats/individual_...158&statType=1
Only big power guys like Votto who hit 37 HRs, should be hitting HRs anywhere they want.
http://mlb.mlb.com/stats/individual_...015&statType=1
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Well, I used the power swing so little, it rarely was an issue. If it resulted in a ton of HR's for folks that shouldn't hit them, I would have backed off. But using a power swing once in an at-bat, and even the more rare occasions, twice, didn't really result in a ton of HR's, because the hit window was so little, that it also resulted in a lot of strikes, and weak flyballs.
And you are right, the contact swing was too weak. but that's where the increased power slider improved it.
I will have to go back an look at my sliders, but I thought the CPU hitting was pretty decent.
As for opposite field power, that was one of those things I just have to overlook. I'd love them to fix it, but if Damon hits a few of his HR's the opposite way, instead of pulling them, it's just not going to ruin the integrity of the game. It's more like an eye candy glitch.