Does Directional Hitting Seem Harder/Less Forgiving in '21?

[Gambo]

Basically what the title says.

I like directional as it's the "simulation" style of hitting that relies most on ratings.

This year it just seems to me that directional hitting is a lot less successful, especially in Diamond Dynasty. I'm seeing a lot less good contact, fewer home runs. Granted Diamond Dynasty is more geared towards stick skills but even in rookie level conquest games i'd regularly score 6 or more runs, I think i've only gotten more than 3 once. In mutliplayer games I'm only getting 1 or 2 hits a game, never mind runs.

I switched to Zone, which I never play, and i was only slightly worse. There's no way I should walk into Zone hitting and only see a slight difference after multiple years of directional.

Does anybody else feel the same way?

[Detroit Tigers]

Does Directional Hitting Seem Harder/Less Forgiving in '21?

Ok yes I agree, but ... I also think hitting had gotten extremely easy the past 3-4 years. It was notoriously difficult for the first decade or more of the game’s existence, and those last few iterations were the exception. Now it seems back to normal, so there’s gonna be a fairly big adjustment period for a lot of us. At least that’s how I feel after ~45 games.

[canes21]

Re: Does Directional Hitting Seem Harder/Less Forgiving in '21?

On Legend, to me, yes. I used Legend Directional last year and only needed to bump up contact a couple of ticks to get an accurate whiff rate.

This year with contact at 9 I was still seeing a whiff rate with good timing being 2x or more what it should be around.

I could take Acuna into practice and confirm it, too. Force fastballs down the middle, perfect timing and he would still whiff closer to 50% than not.

That's partially why I switched to Zone this year. I also just wanted to change it up and have more to focus on besides timing.

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[Jeffrey Smith]

Re: Does Directional Hitting Seem Harder/Less Forgiving in '21?

I’m finding directional less forgiving on regular swings this year as well, but I think I’m getting much more success with contact swings than I’ve ever seen in previous years. Very good results with low contact high power guys( I’m looking at you Joey Gallo) using contact swings.


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[Rmiok222]

Re: Does Directional Hitting Seem Harder/Less Forgiving in '21?

It is harder but I like it. This year I’m on all star and I feels great. I’ve never used all star in the past. I was typically a HOF/Legend player. Kind of in between the two. This year all star+ is perfect for me.


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[Qball667]

Re: Does Directional Hitting Seem Harder/Less Forgiving in '21?

It is harder but I like it. This year I’m on all star and I feels great. I’ve never used all star in the past. I was typically a HOF/Legend player. Kind of in between the two. This year all star+ is perfect for me.


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Yep this sounds like me, in the past HOF is where i mostly played, this year it works perfect for me on All-Star.

[Therebelyell626]

Re: Does Directional Hitting Seem Harder/Less Forgiving in '21?

I don’t feel it’s harder. I just feel the sliders need a few tweaks to get it just right. Personally, I wasn’t seeing enough power from me or the CPU in games played so I ticked the power sliders for both of us up just a notch and feel like it’s in a good place.

Also, the problem I feel like is the swing timing in general is just so late this year. You have to swing way later than you would in normal life. Generally in baseball if your not swinging before the pitch breaks you are going to be late on it. This year I feel like perfect perfect happens on swings that are nearly in the catchers mit. It took a while to get adjusted and I was early in everything in the beginning. To me it just doesn’t feel realistic to be swinging that late.

[DarthRambo]

Re: Does Directional Hitting Seem Harder/Less Forgiving in '21?

It is harder but I like it. This year I’m on all star and I feels great. I’ve never used all star in the past. I was typically a HOF/Legend player. Kind of in between the two. This year all star+ is perfect for me.


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My thoughts as well. Allstar+ feels just right for me, hitting and pitching as well. Idk if it's timing or not, but this year on HOF I was whiffing on good timing a lot more than I was used to.

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[baseballguy99]

Re: Does Directional Hitting Seem Harder/Less Forgiving in '21?

Loving the harder hitting personally. How do you guys find pitching ?

[Qball667]

Re: Does Directional Hitting Seem Harder/Less Forgiving in '21?

Loving the harder hitting personally. How do you guys find pitching ?

For me pitching has always come easier then hitting, I always make a pitcher in RTTS, and have always had more success with that then i have with a hitter. I use Classic Pitching & Directional hitting. I have mostly played this game on HOF in the past, but this year, everything just feels great for me on All-Star default sliders.

[Gambo]

Re: Does Directional Hitting Seem Harder/Less Forgiving in '21?

After the commentary on this thread I decided to use ALOT more contact swings. Big difference, first game, 5 run inning and two blasts. Granted the only no doubt shot I got in the game was a 2-0 power swing with Judge to make it 6-0.

But there was a lot more diversity in hits and big increase in perfect swings.

I really think contact is too good power wise and balanced is not tweaked right.

[dubplate]

Re: Does Directional Hitting Seem Harder/Less Forgiving in '21?

Something has definitely changed this year. I am not having as much fun as I do every year because the hitting engine just feels off.

I hope I can figure something out soon.

[dubplate]

Re: Does Directional Hitting Seem Harder/Less Forgiving in '21?

I don’t feel it’s harder. I just feel the sliders need a few tweaks to get it just right. Personally, I wasn’t seeing enough power from me or the CPU in games played so I ticked the power sliders for both of us up just a notch and feel like it’s in a good place.

Also, the problem I feel like is the swing timing in general is just so late this year. You have to swing way later than you would in normal life. Generally in baseball if your not swinging before the pitch breaks you are going to be late on it. This year I feel like perfect perfect happens on swings that are nearly in the catchers mit. It took a while to get adjusted and I was early in everything in the beginning. To me it just doesn’t feel realistic to be swinging that late.

That’s been my problem. The timing doesn’t seem to make any sense this year, and the slider for it doesn’t seem to have much of an impact either.

I guess I’ll try swinging later and also look into using contact swings instead of standard (I never use power).