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Ball Physics or Wind?
So playing a game at Wrigley and wind is blowing out to left at 17mph. I hit a fly ball down the line and it blows back into fair territory for the out. Doesn't make sense as it would've blown out of play. Is this cause of bad ball physics in the game or the fact that wind has nothing to do with the game?Tags: None -
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Well I mean wind can change direction, start and stop irl; I would hope "wind blowing to LF at 17 mph" doesn't mean there's a 17-mph jetstream to left effective on every pitch. That would be ridiculous.
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It's probably a stadium physics problem.
What you experienced is, from what I've read, quite common at Wrigley. The boundaries aren't quite right at Wrigley and foul balls are sometimes "caught" by the CPU. Ramone just addressed it in the recent patch thread and said that they can't fix it because the patch would be too big.
Bcruise would know more about it than I. He has a Cubs franchise.Last edited by sydrogerdavid; 06-13-2015, 12:19 PM.Comment
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Re: Ball Physics or Wind?
It's probably a stadium physics problem.
What you experienced is, from what I've read, quite common at Wrigley. The boundaries aren't quite right at Wrigley and foul balls are sometimes "caught" by the CPU. Ramone just addressed it in the recent patch thread and said that they can't fix it because the patch would be too big.
Bcruise would know more about it than I. He has a Cubs franchise.
I thought he was just talking about a fly ball that blew back onto the field despite a contradictory wind. Because that can happen in any stadium.Comment
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I remember in years past if wind was blowing out it would be a HR contest and wind blowing in it would be very low scoring game. I miss those days! Also if wind is blowing out and you hit a foul ball in that same direction a ball will not blow back into play!Comment
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It's probably a combination of ball physics and wind... (though without a replay I don't know what kind of play you actually saw).
In The Show, if you hit a towering fly ball or pop up, the batted ball tends to have a back spin that makes it drift toward center quite a bit. You can see this in the shadow the ball cast on the field and keeping track of how it moves on the type of hit.Comment
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Re: Ball Physics or Wind?
It's probably a combination of ball physics and wind... (though without a replay I don't know what kind of play you actually saw).
In The Show, if you hit a towering fly ball or pop up, the batted ball tends to have a back spin that makes it drift toward center quite a bit. You can see this in the shadow the ball cast on the field and keeping track of how it moves on the type of hit.Comment
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Personally I feel the spin should probably die down a bit more (due to drag) in The Show and also the direction of spin on the ball should have a little more variety... but on the very basic level I think The Show's ball physics is handling a whole a lot of things properly. It's a matter of tuning which can still improve I feel.Comment
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It's all fields but worst at Wrigley and Ramone said they can't fix it this year so I'm keeping my fingers crossed it will be fixed next year!Comment
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