Guess Pitch-On or Off?

[ODogg]

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How the heck do you even know if you guessed right or wrong though??

And since i'm terrible at this game let me ask you guys this, if I'm wrong does it penalize me or does it only reward me if i'm right? Lord knows I don't need any handicaps at all and if that's the case i'll just turn it off.

[chuckm1961]

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I've used it for the last two years.

But only because it was the only way I could get the results I wanted, given the slider limitations (last year, it was much easier to pitch well than to hit well and you could only make a Global game difficulty adjustment).

I hope to play without it this year. It quickly becomes a crutch, lemme tell you, and takes away from the immersive feel the game can provide.

[NEOPARADIGM]

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Almost every single thing that can be turned off, I turn off. About the only thing I've left on is that dynamic pitching intelligence thing, whatever it's called.

[SA1NT401]

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i find it HURTS me more than it helps me.

With it OFF...I tend to read the pitcher/pitch better and become more selective.

[stealyerface]

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None of that happens with No Feedback this year. All those points should not be valid anymore.

Agreed. With No Feedback.

But most of the guys that are using the Guess Pitch, I would dare say are using the feedback version, and in my opinion, you find yourself guessing more than looking for pitches to drive.

Let me ask you this.

Let's say you guess a Slider Down and away. Let's say you use the Guess Pitch No Feedback. When you put a swing on the ball, and check the Swing Feedback, does that game move the COI to the area that you guessed automatically?

My point is that when you do not use it, and you manually adjust the COI to an area you are "guessing", it is more of a hands-on implementation of adjusting the swing to match the guess than the CPU setting it there for you.

So, while I agree that the No-Feedback version would be considered Michelob Ultra as opposed to a wine cooler, I prefer a Guinness.
syf

[mi26]

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Can someone explain exactly what it is? I usually see it as default online....how do you "guess" a pitch?

[countryboy]

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How the heck do you even know if you guessed right or wrong though??

And since i'm terrible at this game let me ask you guys this, if I'm wrong does it penalize me or does it only reward me if i'm right? Lord knows I don't need any handicaps at all and if that's the case i'll just turn it off.

Guess pitch:

Right = positive hit to contact rating
Wrong = negative hit to contact rating

Guess location:

Right = positive hit to power rating
Wrong = negative hit to power rating

Agreed. With No Feedback.

But most of the guys that are using the Guess Pitch, I would dare say are using the feedback version, and in my opinion, you find yourself guessing more than looking for pitches to drive.

Let me ask you this.

Let's say you guess a Slider Down and away. Let's say you use the Guess Pitch No Feedback. When you put a swing on the ball, and check the Swing Feedback, does that game move the COI to the area that you guessed automatically?

My point is that when you do not use it, and you manually adjust the COI to an area you are "guessing", it is more of a hands-on implementation of adjusting the swing to match the guess than the CPU setting it there for you.

So, while I agree that the No-Feedback version would be considered Michelob Ultra as opposed to a wine cooler, I prefer a Guinness.
syf

if you guess the location right the game does move the PCI to that part of the plate for you. However, it doesn't square up the ball for you. So unless the pitch is in the dead center of the location you selected, then you still must use the left analog stick to adjust to the pitch.

If you guess the location incorrectly, you must move the PCI to the location of the pitch.

[Russell_SCEA]

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I'm a fan of guess pitch on with No Feedback we changed it this year thx to a suggestion Pared made now you never loose the meter and there is no indication on if you guessed right or wrong.

[Big Shmooz]

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Because I play my games against human opponents almost exclusively (on the same console) my friend & I stopped using it. The problem was, when you guess correctly you get that blinking red strike zone but the other person loses the pitching meter function. I felt that was totally unfair to the pitcher to actually lose control of his pitch just because the batter knew what type of pitch was coming.

The problem was that in last years game there was a bug that if you disabled the guess pitch feature, you also lost the pitch analysis feature that you can bring up to see what you did on the last pitch by clicking the L3 analog stick. So we kept the guess feature turned on but we did not actually use it.

This year the bug seems to be fixed & so I am able to bring up the analysis (clicking L3 after the pitch) even when the guess pitch feature is turned off.

[Big Shmooz]

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Can someone explain exactly what it is? I usually see it as default online....how do you "guess" a pitch?

To guess a pitch you have to have the feature turned on in your settings. What you actually do to guess is you press the R2 together with the pitch type you think your opponent will throw. Example, your opponent uses the circle to throw a curve ball. If you want to guess curve ball, before the pitch is made by your opponent, you press the R2 & while holding it down you press the circle. You have now guessed the pitch. If it is a correct guess & you have feedback on, your strike zone area will blink red telling you that yuo guessed correctly.

In addition to guessing the pitch, you can also guess the pitch's location. To do this, while you are holding down the R2 you also move your left analog stick to an area within the strike zone & then press the face button to guess the pitch while holding down the R2 AND the left analog stick in the area you choose to guess it for.

I hope this explains things well. I believe the manual that comes with the game explains how to do this, but I did not look at it so I am not sure.

[The-BigGeorge]

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OFF

I hate it when people use guess pitch on EVERY single pitch online...it would be less annoying if they use it wisely.

Plus, Guess Pitch IMO are for people who aren't familiar with SCEA's MLB series and it's hitting mechanics.

[chuckm1961]

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Plus, Guess Pitch IMO are for people who aren't familiar with SCEA's MLB series and it's hitting mechanics.

No, no, no, no, no. I'm extremely familiar.

Again, as I posted on last page, I NEEDED it last year because 1) I suck at hitting (slow reflexes) and wanted realistic stats; and 2) there were limits to how far you could adjust the sliders to get realistic results, so the only choice I had left was to cheat a bit with Guess Pitch.

[mi26]

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Guess Pitch on or off doesn't really bother me. It's somewhat realistic in the fact that a lot of professional baseball IS guessing pitches. You think they can see that 101 MPH coming? No, they guess it's a fastball and start their swings early.

[countryboy]

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No, no, no, no, no. I'm extremely familiar.

Again, as I posted on last page, I NEEDED it last year because 1) I suck at hitting (slow reflexes) and wanted realistic stats; and 2) there were limits to how far you could adjust the sliders to get realistic results, so the only choice I had left was to cheat a bit with Guess Pitch.

You use it..no biggie. There's no reason for you to feel as though you need to defend your choice. You use guess pitch and enjoy the game. Thats all that matters.

[econoodle]

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Nope. Artificial stat inflation or deflation.

I do not use any feature that assist me and forgoes actual stats.

Guess Pitch Off
AI pitch suggestions Off
Confidence Off

thats me.