Community Day Questions, Answers, and Impressions

[Knight165]

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As a White Sox fan, I couldn't be any happier that they are in this year. And you are right... we don't need multiple displays... one will be just fine!

And just to confirm, they shoot off during the day also, correct? What about after wins?

Not sure about it.
Pared was cranking the homers out of all these stadiums to check.

M.K.
Knight165

[PLite14]

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Our strike zone is based on the official mlb rules book definition. Its chest to the bottom of the knee cap. It was tweaked slightly this year.

Just out of curiosity, is the K-zone relative to the players' actual heights or how crouched they are in their stance.

[K_GUN]

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Day games and Night games probably run off of two different lighting cycles.

For example, there is probably 15 (just for an example) different lighting changes for the day games, and when it reaches the 15th "frame" it will stay there till the game is done.

And for Night games the same thing.

Rather than a true system of 24 hour period, like was in Madden 07 and MLB 2K7.

But if their version (which I am assuming how it is) allows for richer more realistic lighting like we see, then I will take it any day of the week over a blander looking 24 hour cycle like in past games. Which lacked HDR, true lighting of individual pixels and lighting off of everything with real shadows. It was just lighter and darker in those games, without the extra realism.

But this is just a guess by me.

yeah...i agree

i have a strange fixation with progressive lighting...just curious to see if you would see the 2 cycles in action during 1 game

[HokieB]

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After the top of the fourth inning of a franchise game I played, a screen appeared which showed six out of town scores of games in progress. After the sixth inning, the screen appeared again which showed more scores.

That is AWESOME!!! I was really hoping for this.

Any other cool, between-inning overlays, cut scenes, etc.?

[Blzer]

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Speaking of time of day transition, for those who played Home Run Derby, what time of day was it and does the time of day progress there as well?

[bhurst99]

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Yes, why do the sounds of the show posts keep getting ignored? Maybe we will get a producer blog, or maybe someone will here will give more information on the music options for MLB 10.

We're not ignoring them it's just a difficult question to answer because we couldn't insert our own custom sounds or mp3 while we there. Without being able to do that we couldn't really determine how they work during the game.

I recall there were several different options where you could insert music. There were three options alone for when a relief pitcher enters the games. There was also options where you had three choices to insert music in innings. I believe you could assign the innings the music was heard. But again this wasn't something we could test.

You could assign specific music to not only your major league team but also your Triple A and Double A teams. It appeared from the menu you could assign music to every team including Triple A and Double A teams.

[HokieB]

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i have a strange fixation with progressive lighting

Man, I'm right there with you. I'm OCD about progressive lighting to the point where it really detracts from my experience when games don't implement it (e.g., Madden 10).

[Eski33]

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I would like to know:

1) If the infielders still pat the ball before making a throw to first base on a routine ground ball? In the past iterations, once you field a ground ball with an infielder, that infielder would hold the ball until the last minute before throwing to first to make the play a lot closer than needed.

2) Are there temperature variances and do the players wear appropriate clothing based on weather?

3) Weather effects (rain)?

4) Anything new with the presentation (opening sequence)?

[JermaineDye05]

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How do injuries work during games? Now, I've heard that there are "no cut scenes". Does this include with injuries on the field? Will we just see the notification after a play up the first baseline that "Alexei Ramirez is injured and needs to be replaced" and then after the game we find out he tore his achilles? Or will we still see the cut scene with them writhing in pain in the dirt? Or will we see in real time the injury take place and perhaps the trainers coming on the field to escort him off?

[Yankee2441]

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in franchise mode, are the historical stats expanded? I know last year when you looked on the back of a player's card it would only show ~5 categories for each past season.

[bhurst99]

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I don't know if its been mentioned in this thread yet, so sorry if I'm beating a dead horse, but is the stat tracking improved this year in franchise and RTTS modes? Last year it seemed kind of lacking. I would love to see something more like High Heat baseball's stat tracking. It was very in depth.

For RTTS pitcher you can see your career stats against each batter. For a batter I believe you can see your career stats against each pitcher.

I can't recall of High Heat's baseball stat tracking (my memory isn't that good). What specific stats were you looking for?

[EnigmaNemesis]

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Man, I'm right there with you. I'm OCD about progressive lighting to the point where it really detracts from my experience when games don't implement it (e.g., Madden 10).

I know exactly what you guys mean. I am the same way.

For Madden to remove cloud shadows and progressive lighting that it had in 07, was very disappointing.

[bp4baseball]

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I would like to know:

1) If the infielders still pat the ball before making a throw to first base on a routine ground ball? In the past iterations, once you field a ground ball with an infielder, that infielder would hold the ball until the last minute before throwing to first to make the play a lot closer than needed.

2) Are there temperature variances and do the players wear appropriate clothing based on weather?

3) Weather effects (rain)?

4) Anything new with the presentation (opening sequence)?

No rain.

It sounds like they improved the introduction of the defense

[Knight165]

re: Community Day Questions, Answers, and Impressions

I would like to know:

1) If the infielders still pat the ball before making a throw to first base on a routine ground ball? In the past iterations, once you field a ground ball with an infielder, that infielder would hold the ball until the last minute before throwing to first to make the play a lot closer than needed.

2) Are there temperature variances and do the players wear appropriate clothing based on weather?

3) Weather effects (rain)?

4) Anything new with the presentation (opening sequence)?

1. There are many different throw sequences now. I'm sure the tap one is still in...but there are some great ones....smooth slow ones...hurry up ones...

2. Yes....the temp and wind are variable...and the players will wear long sleeves and the fans will bundle up accordingly.

3. No rain.

4. Not really...as a matter of fact the lineup screen was pared down. If there was any new scenes in the opening sequence...I don't remember(but I didn't get many games in like the others did)

M.K.
Knight165

[Jdurg]

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Our strike zone is based on the official mlb rules book definition. Its chest to the bottom of the knee cap. It was tweaked slightly this year.

Great! The Official MLB Rulebook defines the strikezone from those points you mentioned while the batter is in his batting stance. So if '10 goes by that official rulebook, someone like Ricky Henderson (Who crouched down VERY low) would have a smaller strikezone than if a batter of the same height had an upright stance.