Hitting in Ranked Seasons Harder Now?

[jake19ny]

I don't know if it's harder but it's still totally messed up. Pitches way out of the strike zone are still being launched over the wall like you floated a beach ball down the middle and I'm still getting good contact with dead on aim of pitches down the middle that I either miss, dribble to the pitcher, or foul off. It's as if the strike zone means nothing. Never experienced this in prior releases

[kac]

Quote: Originally Posted by jake19ny

I don't know if it's harder but it's still totally messed up. Pitches way out of the strike zone are still being launched over the wall like you floated a beach ball down the middle and I'm still getting good contact with dead on aim of pitches down the middle that I either miss, dribble to the pitcher, or foul off. It's as if the strike zone means nothing. Never experienced this in prior releases

It's even worse if your facing a team full of diamond players and you have a team full of silver players. There is no unhittable spot accept the dirt for most of those hitters.

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[jake19ny]

Quote: Originally Posted by kac

It's even worse if your facing a team full of diamond players and you have a team full of silver players. There is no unhittable spot accept the dirt for most of those hitters. Sent from my SM-G920T using Operation Sports mobile app

It's as if they abandoned the use of real physics. I don't care how good a hitter a player is in real life there is no way a right handed hitter leaning or reaching for a pitch low and way outside, even with good contact should be able to launch a ball over the centerfield wall. A bloop single to opposite field or a rare hit up the middle should be the best thing possible

[SigmundFraud]

Quote: Originally Posted by jake19ny

It's as if they abandoned the use of real physics. I don't care how good a hitter a player is in real life there is no way a right handed hitter leaning or reaching for a pitch low and way outside, even with good contact should be able to launch a ball over the centerfield wall. A bloop single to opposite field or a rare hit up the middle should be the best thing possible

Physics and realism go out the window once you start playing people using directional hitting with diamond lineups. If they have any concept of pitch recognition you'll never strike them out.

[videobastard]

Hitting is fine to me. You just have to be gentle with the analog stick, use power on hitters counts, and set up in area pre pitch when you have learned your opponents patterns.

The issue i have as well as others is the momentum swings when you have a lead, that give your opponent a chance to tie or take the lead. I would rather skill decide the outcomes then the forced routine errors, or the 0 2 counts pitches out of the zone able to be smashed as part of a momentum swing.

[BigOscar]

My biggest issue with hitting is the nonsense foul balls on pitches out of the zone when using contact swing. Fine, let them foul it off if they swing in the edge of the zone with the right timing, but you constantly see people fouling off balls a foot out of the zone with very late or very early timing! How is that possible? If you are very late or very early, you should miss the ball completely, regardless of where you swung, yet alone if the ball is miles out of the zone

[TattooedEvil]

i havent seen a difference in hitting. basically the same. i play in a huge park so u really gotta tattoo something to get it out too so the whole HR issue ppl have i just havent had.

[jake19ny]

Quote: Originally Posted by SigmundFraud

Physics and realism go out the window once you start playing people using directional hitting with diamond lineups. If they have any concept of pitch recognition you'll never strike them out.

That's just it...it's like they simply reward you for guessing right even if the pitch would be unhittable or realistically fouled or weakly hit. If your good at pitch recognition that's fine but the game should make you pay not reward you for swinging at anything.....Unless of course you guess right at a pitch down the middle...then somehow you miss it completely.