Practice makes perfect

[taterskin]

Re: Practice makes perfect

The beauty of the game for me is that I literally slump, streak, etc. like a baseball player. I go through stretches where I can "see" everything - breaking balls, fastballs, pitch location, etc. I also go through stretches where I look like you in the video. (ha). I treat it just like many things when I'm struggling. Back to fundamentals and trying to find what's different. Keeps me coming back to the game year after year.

[Therebelyell626]

Re: Practice makes perfect

The beauty of the game for me is that I literally slump, streak, etc. like a baseball player. I go through stretches where I can "see" everything - breaking balls, fastballs, pitch location, etc. I also go through stretches where I look like you in the video. (ha). I treat it just like many things when I'm struggling. Back to fundamentals and trying to find what's different. Keeps me coming back to the game year after year.

Likewise man. Monday night I was seeing everything and absolutely taking. Tuesday night couldn't pick up any of the pitches and was getting absolutely embarrassed by the pitcher. The ebbs and flow of the show. This year I have found myself needing extended breaks from the game though. This year more than ever it requires so much focus to play the show that it can get a bit exhausting tbh

[taterskin]

Re: Practice makes perfect

Likewise man. Monday night I was seeing everything and absolutely taking. Tuesday night couldn't pick up any of the pitches and was getting absolutely embarrassed by the pitcher. The ebbs and flow of the show. This year I have found myself needing extended breaks from the game though. This year more than ever it requires so much focus to play the show that it can get a bit exhausting tbh

Same here. I've especially noticed it in long stretches where I play more than a couple hours at a time. Have to put it down and come back. Seems to be more of a willingness from pitcher's to pitch around you in modes like RTTS. Much better strike placement as well even in hitter's counts.

[sccavs64]

Re: Practice makes perfect

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx5loHtassk

Well not for me lol. I can't find a fun factor with this game because of hitting deficiencies.

1. I can't make contact with anything but fastballs or something that's thrown basically down the middle. Even when pitches are IN the zone if it's on outer half i'm early. Inside half forget about it. Whiff after whiff. Can't hit a slider or curve if my life depended on it unless it's hung down the middle and even then i still miss a fair amount of those due to freezing up or swinging late.

2.Lefty vs Lefty is basically an automatic out. Not that i'm a silver slugger righty vs righty but it gets real bad when i have to hit with a LH vs a LP.

3. Directional and analog hitting get boring i've tried them in the past. So for the past three versions of this game i've been trying to learn how to Zone hit and it seems the more i play the worst i get. I just don't play the game for days at a time just to avoid the frustration. But at the same time i don't want to. I want to actually enjoy the game. I've tried 'pre-loading" the PCI to a certain spot until two strikes that doesn't work. Leave it centered and try to adjust as pitch approaches...nope. Also have tried to hold PCI to where the pitchers hand is gonna be and "track" the ball and can't get the hang of that either. I know, i know, i can put it on Rookie or Veteran etc and it'll be "easier" but i won't find any challenge or fun by getting a bunch of easy pitches out over the plate which will change my results but not improve skill which is what i'm looking to do. I'm not trying to master the game so to speak i just want to get to a point where whenever i get two strikes that i can protect all quadrants of the strike zone sometimes to extend at-bats, etc and not basically know that the strikeout is inevitable.

4. I wish they would bring back Pitch Recognition in batting practice mode to allow you to work on specific pitches

I posted a video of me in practice mode Corbin vs Freddie Freeman. I wasn't trying for quality at bats as much as i was trying to improve picking up the pitches out of the pitchers hand and making decent contact on pitches that are not pretty much dead middle. I've been practicing this matchup for about 3 days now trying to get the hang of it hoping something will click. I'm probably beyond help at this point cause i'm at my wit's end. Enjoy the video and have a good laugh lol

Couple of suggestions to try:

1) Turn off PCI and the strike zones. I feel like the ball is easier to see and track without any additional "crap" being displayed on the screen.

2) Before each at bat, take a mental note at which parts of the strike zone line up with the backround in center field. I feel like I can determine which part of the strike zone the ball is going to be if I can track it on the centerfield wall/pitcher's eye

3) Turn up the pitch speed for both fastballs and breaking balls or vice versa

[Therebelyell626]

Re: Practice makes perfect

Couple of suggestions to try:

1) Turn off PCI and the strike zones. I feel like the ball is easier to see and track without any additional "crap" being displayed on the screen.

2) Before each at bat, take a mental note at which parts of the strike zone line up with the backround in center field. I feel like I can determine which part of the strike zone the ball is going to be if I can track it on the centerfield wall/pitcher's eye

3) Turn up the pitch speed for both fastballs and breaking balls or vice versa

#2 is actually not a bad piece of advice. I didn't even think about that