Difficulty vs. Slider question

[RogerDodger]

When the CPU pitcher has me in an 0-2 count I'd expect him to be pitching the corners and avoid anything that could be hit over the plate. Instead I've just had a CPU pitcher throw me three successive pitches down the middle of the plate on an 0-2 count. What is the best way to change this while appreciating that of course different pitchers have different abilities.

Do I make the hitting more difficult? (does that simply make it harder to hit rather than adjust how the pitcher delivers the ball)

Do I adjust the sliders for CPU pitching and if so which one?

[TheWarmWind]

Re: Difficulty vs. Slider question

Yeah CPU pitchers are in the zone way to aggressively at lower difficulty levels, especially Veteran and below.

You can either turn up the difficulty or turn down the CPU Strike Frequency slider.

The CPU strike frequency slider determines how often a pitcher pitches to a corner as opposed to just trying to get a strike. It is tuned way too high on lower difficulty levels.

[RogerDodger]

Re: Difficulty vs. Slider question

Yeah CPU pitchers are in the zone way to aggressively at lower difficulty levels, especially Veteran and below.

You can either turn up the difficulty or turn down the CPU Strike Frequency slider.

The CPU strike frequency slider determines how often a pitcher pitches to a corner as opposed to just trying to get a strike. It is tuned way too high on lower difficulty levels.

Thank You. I will definitely be giving that a try. There are plenty of sliders for which I commend SCEA, sometimes it's just a matter of knowing which one will get you the result.

[Cletus]

Re: Difficulty vs. Slider question

Yeah CPU pitchers are in the zone way to aggressively at lower difficulty levels, especially Veteran and below.

You can either turn up the difficulty or turn down the CPU Strike Frequency slider.

The CPU strike frequency slider determines how often a pitcher pitches to a corner as opposed to just trying to get a strike. It is tuned way too high on lower difficulty levels.

So it controls where a pitcher pitches to instead of how much control pitchers have? Will good control pitchers hit corners and ones with terrible control miss the corners?

[Armor and Sword]

Re: Difficulty vs. Slider question

So it controls where a pitcher pitches to instead of how much control pitchers have? Will good control pitchers hit corners and ones with terrible control miss the corners?

That is correct.

[RogerDodger]

Re: Difficulty vs. Slider question

That is correct.

That's exactly what I want to achieve. I still want to differentiate good pitchers from weaker ones and I didn't want to mess with the overall difficulty in case it had unintended consequences because overall I'm quite happy with how my game is set up.

[Cletus]

Re: Difficulty vs. Slider question

Sorry to hijack the thread. I'm using the adaptive difficulty thing and since i've moved up to veteran all of my hits are line drives, hard ground balls or homeruns. I miss the bloops, ducksnorts and slow rollers. What should I reduce? Power?

[RogerDodger]

Re: Difficulty vs. Slider question

Sorry to hijack the thread. I'm using the adaptive difficulty thing and since i've moved up to veteran all of my hits are line drives, hard ground balls or homeruns. I miss the bloops, ducksnorts and slow rollers. What should I reduce? Power?

The solid hits slider would be my best guess. When you turn that up you get fewer fly balls so reversing that slider should have the opposite effect.

[forme95]

Re: Difficulty vs. Slider question

Sorry to hijack the thread. I'm using the adaptive difficulty thing and since i've moved up to veteran all of my hits are line drives, hard ground balls or homeruns. I miss the bloops, ducksnorts and slow rollers. What should I reduce? Power?

Power is how the ball comes off the bat. Balls will go farther faster (IE bat speed, exit velocity)

Solid hit: is how well the ball is tracked to the bat by the hitter and how much of the bat he can get on the ball.

WarmWind has great explanations of each slider, if you go to the slider thread and see his slider set. They really helped fine tune my set which is Armors set for the most part which is also I great base to start with.

[TheWarmWind]

Re: Difficulty vs. Slider question

So it controls where a pitcher pitches to instead of how much control pitchers have? Will good control pitchers hit corners and ones with terrible control miss the corners?

To add to Armor's answer, yes it will increase pitcher differentiation. Good pitchers (and even some bad ones just having a good day) will give you nothing on the right setting. I'm currently playing on Veteran, with CPU Strike Frequency at 1.

[a bit outside]

Re: Difficulty vs. Slider question

And I have kept my streak going......by learning something new everyday.

[Cletus]

Re: Difficulty vs. Slider question

Power is how the ball comes off the bat. Balls will go farther faster (IE bat speed, exit velocity)

Solid hit: is how well the ball is tracked to the bat by the hitter and how much of the bat he can get on the ball.

WarmWind has great explanations of each slider, if you go to the slider thread and see his slider set. They really helped fine tune my set which is Armors set for the most part which is also I great base to start with.

Thanks that helped a little bit. I will have to dig in and try some things. When I was on rookie+ I would get 6 runs on 20 hits, too many of each but a good variety. I moved up to veteran and got 3 runs on 4 hits with 1 double and 2 home runs and a bunch of atom balls. The double I hit even was a line drive that seemed to carry forever. So it sounds like the solid hits slider, because my power seems ok. The homeruns I hit were realistic (all balls up in the zone, 1 i pulled, 1 I was late on and it went the other way and one was in the right center power alley by a power hitter on an offspeed pitch.) Thanks for the help, guys.

I lowered solid hit to 2 and strike down to 1. I beat the Padres 10-2, leveled up to vet + on batting. Freddie Freeman had 3 homeruns. One was a moonshot, one was a bomb over the stands at Atlanta's park and the third was a shot in right center. I drew two walks, so everything is looking good for me. Still hit 4 homeruns in the game, but all of the pitches were belt high so it felt real.