My only gripe. Too many plays made by the catcher. What's yours?

[Ghost Of The Year]

Re: My only gripe. Too many plays made by the catcher. What's yours?

Make good contact and miss the ball? Doesn't really make sense.

Must;ve been talking about making good contact with air

[KBLover]

Re: My only gripe. Too many plays made by the catcher. What's yours?

Must;ve been talking about making good contact with air

Or the ball making good contact with the catcher's mitt.

That nice pop from a fastball...as you strike out.

[sportsgamer5761]

Re: My only gripe. Too many plays made by the catcher. What's yours?

Double pat throws from the outfielders are infuriating and have cost me two throw outs at home, costing me two conquest games. This doesn't count throw outs at other bases.

Yep. The urgency of the throw has, apparently, nothing to do with game context. In fact, outfielders sometimes seem to take more time to throw on plays where quick reaction is important. Don't get me wrong, I'm enjoying the game, but the legacy issues just seem to keep piling up.

[sportsgamer5761]

Re: My only gripe. Too many plays made by the catcher. What's yours?

Gripe 4: CPU bunt cheese. They try to bunt far too often, with guys who shouldnt be bunting. Or the CPU is down like 6 runs in the bottom of the 9th and try for a bunt base hit. I was playing Cleveland and the CPU bunted Rajai Davis every at bat. It was ridiculous

This one. Almost literally every leadoff hitter with a certain level of speed tries to start the game with a drag bunt.

[sportsgamer5761]

Re: My only gripe. Too many plays made by the catcher. What's yours?

5. Also to echo the OP, I'm really, really sick of weak-*** fouls that from every indication should be unplayable, but instead float around as if the ball is a marshmallow, resulting in the catcher or 1B making the catch.



6. Last but not least: the cuts they've made to broadcast presentation, most notably the "real time" thing from 12 or 13 or whatever it was. Every time I'm made to watch one of those pitcher cutscenes, a ballboy cutscene, a manager cutscene, etc., I'm reminded of all the cool stuff we used to be able to see that they ripped.

You mean baseballs shouldn't behave like they're in a wind tunnel, even when the game log says the wind is blowing at, say, three miles an hour??

Gotta keep the kids happy. Instant gratification is just going to become more of an entitlement. Pretty soon, quick counts will be the default mode. You just watch...

[KBLover]

Re: My only gripe. Too many plays made by the catcher. What's yours?

Gotta keep the kids happy. Instant gratification is just going to become more of an entitlement. Pretty soon, quick counts will be the default mode. You just watch...

As long as it doesn't become the ONLY mode...

[JPCaveman13]

Re: My only gripe. Too many plays made by the catcher. What's yours?

Oh my God, THIS! I'm a 1B and sometimes I actually have to dive after the ball when it's only like 10 feet away. However, I'm starting to get a hang of when to turn around with the left stick but I can't even imagine what it's like for an OF.

It can be a pain sometimes in the outfield....mostly when it's not a routine fly ball. That one I mentioned in the outfield cost my team's pitcher a no-hitter in the 8th because I tracked it to the right-center gap and took off that way, a quick cut sent me the opposite way 2-3 steps. What made it worse was there was no switch on the three other long runs after flyballs.

As far as changing really making a bad difference is behind the plate. The quick changes can mean the difference between dropping the pop-up in foul territory, getting a runner out at first on a sub-10' hit, or a chance to hold a runner on a ball in the dirt.

[Gosens6]

Re: My only gripe. Too many plays made by the catcher. What's yours?

You mean baseballs shouldn't behave like they're in a wind tunnel, even when the game log says the wind is blowing at, say, three miles an hour??

Gotta keep the kids happy. Instant gratification is just going to become more of an entitlement. Pretty soon, quick counts will be the default mode. You just watch...

There's nothing wrong with using quick counts. I'm not a kid nor am I entitled. I just don't have time to play full games and quick counts help me get through full games.

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[basebalfan3000]

Re: My only gripe. Too many plays made by the catcher. What's yours?

Pop ups. I cant go one game without popping a pitch up.
Ai fouling 7 pitches in an ab i would mess with the sliders but i am too lazy
Pitchers getting hit with line drives

[Ghost Of The Year]

Re: My only gripe. Too many plays made by the catcher. What's yours?

You mean baseballs shouldn't behave like they're in a wind tunnel, even when the game log says the wind is blowing at, say, three miles an hour??

Gotta keep the kids happy. Instant gratification is just going to become more of an entitlement. Pretty soon, quick counts will be the default mode. You just watch...

As long as it doesn't become the ONLY mode...

Yeah, I don't care what the default options are, as long as there are options.

[Jolly Roger]

Re: My only gripe. Too many plays made by the catcher. What's yours?

Just FYI, I think the foul frequency slider actually affects the number of fouls that go out of play vs. stay in play, more so than it affects the total number of fouls (though it does affect that too to a degree).

[NEOPARADIGM]

Re: My only gripe. Too many plays made by the catcher. What's yours?

Just FYI, I think the foul frequency slider actually affects the number of fouls that go out of play vs. stay in play, more so than it affects the total number of fouls (though it does affect that too to a degree).

You know I never considered this for whatever reason; thanks. Just played a couple games with that slider maxed and the number of BS floaty fouls was decreased dramatically - like literally one or two instead of six or seven.

[KBLover]

Re: My only gripe. Too many plays made by the catcher. What's yours?

Just FYI, I think the foul frequency slider actually affects the number of fouls that go out of play vs. stay in play, more so than it affects the total number of fouls (though it does affect that too to a degree).

This makes sense too - frequency of fouls in play. I usually keep it on 0 and always see a lot of fouls so I was wondering why. What you mention here might be the missing piece.

[NEOPARADIGM]

Re: My only gripe. Too many plays made by the catcher. What's yours?

Ok so I gave it a fair shake hoping they improved it from last year, but I'm just gonna say it: crowd distribution sucks.

Seriously, this is not hard - just prioritize it in this manner:

1. First two rows, foul pole to foul pole.
2. Dugout to dugout, lower deck.
3. First three rows, dugout to dugout, upper deck.
4. Dugout to dugout, front half of seating, upper deck.

Literally everything else is marginal seating and can be spotty/empty/full depending on game/team circumstance. This game, on the other hand, for like the third year in a row (or however long it's been since they stopped letting us control ticket prices) treats the entire lower deck exactly the same, so you get equal distribution behind home plate, in the outfield, up in the corner from the foul pole, whatever, all the while with a totally empty upper deck. It looks ridiculous. For a game that prides itself on details this is a pretty big oversight if you ask me, and coming on the heels of them claiming to have reworked crowd distribution last year no less.

Thumbs down.

[ryanmc564]

Re: My only gripe. Too many plays made by the catcher. What's yours?

okay my biggest gripe right now is the blank signs the fans hold up at busch stadium. it looks like they are holding up a piece of drywall...