I will preface this by saying that I have been a baseball gamer all the way back to the Intellivison and I can still remember spending my paper route money to get the first Nintendo just for the original baseball game which was thankfully replaced by RBI and Baseball Stars.
That said I have suffered through the years of out-of-the-box is what you got and you were darn happy to have it, to the no left-handed homer debacle of MVP years back. I mess with sliders and use rosters that are created right here by the dedicated members of OP. I have always wondered if differing rosters could even react differently and perform differently when integrated with the game. That question in my mind has be thoroughly put to test this evening...
For the last month or so I have been playing a Cubs franchise using OSFM 1.5 roster and Armor's sliders, directional hitting and classic pitching. Up to patch 1.10 I was able to hit and score at a reasonable rate with the game having a good "feel." After 1.10 dropped I slowly saw a changes that included my hitters having very little pop and barely ever hitting a ball that even got to the warning track. The cpu hitters started to feel unchallenging to me and they had lost their pop as well. I started adding to the hitting sliders trying to regain that feel. By doing this I saw the cpu regain some of their prowess and I gladly felt challenged pitching again. Still my hitting was meak. During this time I went 1-10 which was believable in my eyes but I scored a paultry 22 runs over that span with one homer. One homer over 11 games in this day and age was tough to swallow.
So feeling disgusted and tired of not hitting I decided to play a game using the 'live rosters' that had recently downloaded and used my normal sliders. What happened opened my eyes. In the first inning I laced the ball around the field scoring four times including a homer with Sano on a 1-2 count, pulling down with a contact swing! In the second inning I hit another homer this time with Kepler. With one out in the 3rd I hit another 1-2 pitch out of the park, this time with Dozier, again pulling down using a contact swing...
I know the post will immediately be met with "small sample size" and "that's baseball" comments, but I sure know the difference I felt in that small sample. After I post this I'm going fire up the Cubs and see how it "feels."
That said I have suffered through the years of out-of-the-box is what you got and you were darn happy to have it, to the no left-handed homer debacle of MVP years back. I mess with sliders and use rosters that are created right here by the dedicated members of OP. I have always wondered if differing rosters could even react differently and perform differently when integrated with the game. That question in my mind has be thoroughly put to test this evening...
For the last month or so I have been playing a Cubs franchise using OSFM 1.5 roster and Armor's sliders, directional hitting and classic pitching. Up to patch 1.10 I was able to hit and score at a reasonable rate with the game having a good "feel." After 1.10 dropped I slowly saw a changes that included my hitters having very little pop and barely ever hitting a ball that even got to the warning track. The cpu hitters started to feel unchallenging to me and they had lost their pop as well. I started adding to the hitting sliders trying to regain that feel. By doing this I saw the cpu regain some of their prowess and I gladly felt challenged pitching again. Still my hitting was meak. During this time I went 1-10 which was believable in my eyes but I scored a paultry 22 runs over that span with one homer. One homer over 11 games in this day and age was tough to swallow.
So feeling disgusted and tired of not hitting I decided to play a game using the 'live rosters' that had recently downloaded and used my normal sliders. What happened opened my eyes. In the first inning I laced the ball around the field scoring four times including a homer with Sano on a 1-2 count, pulling down with a contact swing! In the second inning I hit another homer this time with Kepler. With one out in the 3rd I hit another 1-2 pitch out of the park, this time with Dozier, again pulling down using a contact swing...
I know the post will immediately be met with "small sample size" and "that's baseball" comments, but I sure know the difference I felt in that small sample. After I post this I'm going fire up the Cubs and see how it "feels."
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