Community Day Questions, Answers, and Impressions

[Chad Rogers]

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I couldn't disagree more. Pitcher control at 0 would just result in the CPU constantly missing over the heart of the plate, and the slider's description says that. You can definitely tell by lowering User pitcher control, playing on legend, and getting incredibly frustrated by your pitchers constantly missing over the plate (and getting rocked) and pretty much never missing off the plate. I immediately did lower User pitcher control when the game came out with the goal of trying to get my pitchers to be less pinpoint on the mound. I just started playing some RTTS again (at the end of my first season) and I walked in my first AB against Branden Webb during my September call up. Did you test that it in RTTS where pitchers' control ratings are much much lower? Because I remember thinking I had walks pretty realistic until I started a RTTS and noticed AA pitchers throwing far too many strikes. I increased pitcher control and consistency, and AA pitchers are as wild as can be.

These types of conversations are just what I mean regarding balls/strikes. No offense meant to those included in it, but I don't feel like we should have to mess with sliders to get balls/strikes correct. I know it takes patience for sure to draw walks and pitch count by the CPU was never an issue for me, I just didn't see enough walks.
User controlled walks for me at least were non-existent. I know that Bcruise has commented on it and I hope I can find the right balance to make it work for me. Anyone else notice if they had trouble locating?
Thanks for these threads by the way, it's wonderful to be talking baseball.

[yount19]

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Hello fellow baseball junkies!!

I have read through the first 45 pages in this thread and have run out of time, so I will just ask; are we able to play two player Manage Only Mode in franchise games this year? My son and I love to play this way as it is a great way for him to learn strategy.

Thanks in advance and I can't wait for "MLB '10 The Show" day!!!!

[Chef Matt]

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These types of conversations are just what I mean regarding balls/strikes. No offense meant to those included in it, but I don't feel like we should have to mess with sliders to get balls/strikes correct. I know it takes patience for sure to draw walks and pitch count by the CPU was never an issue for me, I just didn't see enough walks.
User controlled walks for me at least were non-existent. I know that Bcruise has commented on it and I hope I can find the right balance to make it work for me. Anyone else notice if they had trouble locating?
Thanks for these threads by the way, it's wonderful to be talking baseball.

For me I'm not much of a slider tweaker, and in '09 the only sliders I adjusted were cpu strike % and control. For my own impatience this helped me stay in the league leaders for walks drawn.

As far as walks thrown I'm always in the league leaders for the least amount thrown.

It seems like a fine line for SCEA to "walk" (lol no pun intended of course).

On one hand you can do as said in '10, and have perfect placed pitches on the meter miss their mark increasing the possibility for more walks but then on the other hand you'll have the "general community" (I don't mean OS'ers but the general public itself) whining and crying about how they "Always hit the mark perfect and my ball still misses the mark! The pitching meter's broken"!

[countryboy]

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For me I'm not much of a slider tweaker, and in '09 the only sliders I adjusted were cpu strike % and control. For my own impatience this helped me stay in the league leaders for walks drawn.

As far as walks thrown I'm always in the league leaders for the least amount thrown.

It seems like a fine line for SCEA to "walk" (lol no pun intended of course).

On one hand you can do as said in '10, and have perfect placed pitches on the meter miss their mark increasing the possibility for more walks but then on the other hand you'll have the "general community" (I don't mean OS'ers but the general public itself) whining and crying about how they "Always hit the mark perfect and my ball still misses the mark! The pitching meter's broken"!

I don't use sliders at all and I found games/pitchers would be erratic at times and certain games, while others I'd be painting corners with a fine brush.

I've "unintentionally" walked my fair share of hitters during my time with '09. I've also pitched around guys, or refused to give in. I never led the league in walks given up, but honestly, with my pitching staff I never expected to be the worst team in the majors at giving up walks.

[countryboy]

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BTW...I don't recall this question being answered.....

Have the Interleague schedules been corrected? Last year, they didn't rotate properly.

[Pared]

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Yes, they rotate.

[Russell_SCEA]

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There is a blog focused on the additions and changes to the sounds of the Show feature. All those questions will be answered then.

[countryboy]

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Yes, they rotate.

thanks Pared.

[countryboy]

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There is a blog focused on the additions and changes to the sounds of the Show feature. All those questions will be answered then.

thanks for the heads up Russell.

[bostonsportsrule]

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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.

Not to mention half of my 4:00 PM games in Madden 10 look like they kicked off at 8:15 PM...

[tessl]

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I saw this from nemesis in the community day thread: As we all know from past versions pitcher confidence was always a problem as pitchers gave up some hits and runs early in the game they became a disaster on the mound.

That is true but it's only half of the problem. The other half is if a pitcher gets through two or three innings without getting scored upon he becomes unhittable until he runs out of gas. Hopefully they have reworked the whole thing because it is such a deep game with loads of different attributes for the individual pitchers and batters but the attributes are overridden by the confidence glitch.

Later,
Al

[idesign2]

Re: Post thoughts here for Community Day Hands-on Impressions

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.

Thanks for answering this bhurst. Would be great if the number of allowable music slots have been expanded to accomodate the increased number of music situations. If not I'm still thrilled to see the number of situations expanded.

[brettryantalley]

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i love hearing about the new color options for accessories. something else i was thinking about though was the option to give guys curved bills or flat bills...havent heard anything, so i'm guessing it's not in...but just wanted to double check.

[ty5oke]

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I saw Bay hit one.
The apple looks as good as the real Shea Apple.(so it's up to you on how good it looks).

For those interested....I'll be posting the second part of my Franchise info tonight.

M.K.
Knight165

Can't wait... I spend 95% of my time in franchise and this year is sounding amazing.

[adh5199]

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Quick Question Guys,


Does the field show wear and tear? For instance, last year towards the end of the season, the Field at the ballpark in Arlington was looking a little crappy. I just hope the field doesnt look like opening day throughout the season.