My post patch stats are to my liking. However, the means by which those likeable stats are being produced is a miserable game play experience. I'm being rewarded when I should fail and failing when I should be rewarded.
When I say "rewarded", I do not mean that I should receive a hit for every green center-dotted PCI placement, but rather that every green center-dotted PCI placement should produce a well struck baseball, hit or out. But it does not. Three games in row Asdrubal Cabrera softly flied out to CF on squared up pitches down the middle of the plate. Two games later, he hits an oppo bomb to win the game with late timing on a pitch down and in, which the patch was supposed to fix. I don't want a HR on that crap, it provides no satisfaction and I would rather lose. Likewise, it ruins the game experience when squared up pitches continually result in lazy fly-balls. And my franchise Jon Jay experience is far worse than Cabrera.
Post patch, the ball physics don't align with the input. I'm experiencing excessive top-spin and seemingly squared up balls are resulting in ground balls and lazy fly-balls far more than line drives. The results seem to be completely indeterministic in relation to the input.
2016 introduced "precision hitting", whereby we were supposed to be better rewarded and penalized for our successes and failures. While I felt "precision hitting" mostly amounted to marketing speak and was a fallacy, the changes were a significant improvement over 2015 whereby it was commonplace that green center-dotted PCI placement produced popups. This recent patch has taken us back to 2015.
While even sliders couldn't completely tame the HR/scoring bonanza of the initial release, I would gladly take that experience over the current for which there isn't a slider adjustment.
Other than deciding to swing or not swing, my input doesn't seem to have much impact on the results. Essentially, this patch has produced OOTP with animation and significantly increased time expenditure to get through a game. And that combination sucks.
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