Hitting in 09 is a tad too difficult

[Pared]

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No complaints on the hitting here.

If it's that much of a problem, use the sliders or drop the difficulty. The series needed a more realistic hitting model and it finally got it. Hooray.

[Rob_NYY]

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I can't hit either, and I'm playing on All Star! I played on HoF last year. I'm early on everything. I'll adjust and go back to HoF soon enough.

[magoo1967]

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I have a somewhat related question. As someone who is new to The Show series (i.e. never played MLB 08, etc.) I definitely need to work on my hitting in MLB 09, even on Veteran. I am thinking about starting a franchise once I find a good set of updated rosters. If I started on All-Star, which is where I eventually think I will settle in, should I be discouraged if I start my season poorly? As we all know, the baseball season is a marathon, not a sprint, so once I get the hang of it, can I expect to "make up for" the poor start later on in the season? Or should I just start on Veteran and move up once I think it's getting too easy?

Well that's a pretty difficult question to answer definitively. One would assume that over time your skills would improve on All-Star and you would be able to make up for a somewhat poor start, but with so many variables who knows? Personally, I think I am going to do the second thing you said about starting on Veteran and then bump it up if I feel things getting too easy on a regular basis. I figure this way, if I slump after increasing the difficulty, it will balance out with any advantage I may have had playing on Veteran (obviously this concept works in reverse also). Like others have said, I don't take any pride or shame in playing at a certain difficulty, I'm just looking for a balanced and realistic challenge.

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i really sucked at hitting on 08 even in veteran and from in 09 demo i´m having a lot more success (veteran only toug).

In 08 i had lots of singles and a few doubles, now i cant get some bombs. i still swing too much and draw almost no walks but i´m finding hitting on the 09 demo a lot more satisfing

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In the vein of this thread....I would love to see a user be able to pick a hitting difficulty and a pitching(maybe different!) difficulty separate.

M.K.
Knight165

i´ve been saying that also. for example in 08 i could pitch very well at All Star but even tough i could get some hits, i didnt score enough runs. Each time i allowed 3+ runs the game was 90% of the time lost!

[N51_rob]

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I'm struggling. I'm early on a lot of pitches. I do have more success against the 3-5 pitchers of the roation. 1-2 is really ugly. I try to take pitches and work the pitch counts. I just played an exibition against the Angels with Weaver pitching. Got a 2 run shot from Huff in the first. Pretty much held in check the rest of the way. In the 7th, I got a HPB, a single and Roberts his a line drive into center to drive in 2 runs. (First runs I've socred that wasn't a HR in about 5 exibition games.) Finished with 5 hits and a 4-2 win. I may up the pitch speed because I am early on about 70% of my contact. I like the hit variety though.

[kilmar1]

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I am in love with the difficulty. My RTTS is struggling to stay over .290 as CF for AA Trenton.

Currently at 57 contact and 26 power and I feel like a scrub. If it wasn't for the default speed of CF so I get points for steals, my contact would be in the 40s.

My one very minor gripe is that you can foul off pitches with perfect timing and thrown to your wheelhouse (according to batter analysis).

[Skyboxer]

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The only really tough thing about it for me is my left stick aiming doesn't seem to be responsive enough, so I'm trying really hard to "move it before I swing," but then that results in too late of a swing.

An awkward dilemma I'm having.

Hey Blzer. I was also having that problem. Basically the swing is so fast that you think you're moving the stick in time but it just isn't the case. What I did in the demo was to pick a spot in the zone and move stick there already. Then if the ball is pitched in that area of close to it it will take lest total movement with the stick.
If the pitch isn't near that area then I don't swing. This method also gets me into some really good hitters counts but also can get ya in the hole as in real life.
I've also lifted my right thumb way off the controller also to give me that extra 1/2second time to move stick before the X button is hit.

[brettryantalley]

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i've only gotten the demo (not for lack of trying)...but i actually found myself way too early on most of the pitches. in each game i played, i put the speed slider almost all the way to the right and i'm getting better results. i'm late on some fastballs and i'm not pulling everything.

it's definitely harder though...but i like it! let's just hope i can get it sometime today!

[CMH]

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Hmm, YP returns game last year because it was too easy to hit.

YP loves game this year because hitting is difficult even on All-Star.

YP loves SCEA.


Adding to this. I was really bad playing the demo. Hit only one homerun in plenty of games and innings. Couldn't figure it out. Frustrated but satisfied. But, I kept practicing and I got better with every game.

Now with the retail version, I'm seeing what I did wrong in the demo and I'm getting smarter. I have no slider changes and I'm loving the results thus far. Good thing is, if I get any better at hitting or pitching, I can still up the difficulty or mess with sliders a bit.

I'm a happy gamer.

[Darkleaf]

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Hmm, YP returns game last year because it was too easy to hit.

YP loves game this year because hitting is difficult even on All-Star.

YP loves SCEA.


Adding to this. I was really bad playing the demo. Hit only one homerun in plenty of games and innings. Couldn't figure it out. Frustrated but satisfied. But, I kept practicing and I got better with every game.

Now with the retail version, I'm seeing what I did wrong in the demo and I'm getting smarter. I have no slider changes and I'm loving the results thus far. Good thing is, if I get any better at hitting or pitching, I can still up the difficulty or mess with sliders a bit.

I'm a happy gamer.

Great post! My thoughts exactly.

[Russell_SCEA]

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The SCEA guys are probably reading this thread and high-fiving each other.

Damn skippy everyone complained that the game was to easy. So seeing this thread is like music to our ears

[burden]

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I blasted two, 2-run homeruns with Xavier Nady, then hit a 3-run homerun with Teixeira, on Legend. I'm actually contemplating adjusting the sliders to make hitting a bit harder.

The moral of this story is practice makes perfect.

[N51_rob]

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Damn skippy everyone complained that the game was to easy. So seeing this thread is like music to our ears

Yeah, this is a lot of fun Russell. You guys have delivered us a beautiful game.

**Off-topic a little bit. How do you guys feel about us gamers getting your game a few days early?**

[miamimarlins1]

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I think the hitting is perfect this year. I play All-star default with pitch speed slider all the way down. The best thing about hitting is you can now use guess pitch without it feeling like your cheating. If you don't guess the right pitch and location it becomes very hard to make good contact on the ball. You almost have to wait to guess the right location and pitch so you can get a solid hit. This, to me, is realism, as many MLBers are looking for a certain pitch in a certain location, if they don't get it, they do the best they can