Giving up on Manual/Assisted Fielding

[bfindeisen]

Re: Giving up on Manual/Assisted Fielding

I am sorry and apologize if I came off as a "know it all" or anything of the sort. That was not my intention.

To each their own, everyone should play the game like they want to, that is why the options exist. I didnt mean to say that because I prefer manual fielding that everyone who uses auto sucks or cant field. Once again I am sorry if I came off like that.

Sorry guys, my bad. I do see some of the issues regarding fielding but with fielder reaction at 10, I am not seeing it a whole lot. This is from Psychos Perfect Slider set BTW.

I found that if the ball is hit to the outfield and you slow up a tad before retrieving the ball that the "run into the wall" animation is not as prevalent. The thing I do hate and am seeing more of though is the "slow motion in quick sand" round the ball animation from both me and the CPU... I dont know how to fix that it just seems thats the way it is and is gonna be.

But once again, sorry guys for coming across as a smart as$ that was not my intention whatsoever.

No worries.

[bfindeisen]

Re: Giving up on Manual/Assisted Fielding

I've always played using manual fielding, but after following this thread for a few days, I thought I would give auto a try, just to see what differences there were.

After two games, I have seen just as many instances of the "outfielder into the wall" animation as I did on manual fielding. I've also seen several overly-aggressive outfielders dive for balls well out of their reach resulting in triples to the wall on what should have been singles. Infield fielding seems very smooth (much better than I normally do), but the outfield issues are making me think that manual is the way to go.

I know two games is a small sample size, so I'm curious about what other people's results have been.

There are definitely some issues with outfielder decicion-making with Auto-Fielding, but on the whole, its much better an overall experience, IMO, than Manual/Assisted Fielding. As for the 'suction in the wall glitch', I have yet to it once while using Auto-Fielding. That may just be chance, but I think if it does happen, it will happen far less as often.

[stealyerface]

Re: Giving up on Manual/Assisted Fielding

I play with manual fielding, and so far, I have not had too many issues other than those i have conceded as my own fault, or a ball that was just hit too hard, and "ought" to have been a hit anyway.

I guess the way that I have justified it is by telling myself that I would much rather have the fielder miss a ball, have a ball go under (through) the glove, or just have a graphical misplay, whereby the ball got through or was missed.

The flip side to this issue would hark back to the days of the NHL 2k series and the "Suction-Puck" days of the puck somehow defying physics and jumping up into the goalie's glove or morphing impossibly though wide open shot animations only to be saved by the goalie waaaaay out of position...

Imagine the posts if the glitch was the other way and the ball always made it into the glove. "This game is so unrealistic..... The super-fielders killed the game for me.... Why do the infielders catch EVERYTHING??....."

I'll take a few pass-throughs and balls that get by the fielders as opposed to the other way.

syf

[cardsleadtheway]

Re: Giving up on Manual/Assisted Fielding

Cards...are you pressing the analog stick towards the wall when playing the ball off the wall, or are you letting the ball come to you?

Also...here lately, I've been right as my fielder goes into the animation of fielding the ball, when running towards the wall..I'll press the l-stick away from the wall and its seemed to have reduced the amount of times that I get stuck in the run into the wall animation.

No I am definitely not pressing the stick towards the wall. I may have at first, but since I started noticing the suction, I completely let go of the stick just to see what my fielders will do since I lose complete control of them once the tractor beam has them. It has cost me a few runs on the season, which means a few games with my low scoring A's team. The defense is very frustrating, but still so much better than last year. In fact, if it weren't for the defense, I might still be playing 2009. I will try and pull the opposite direction once the tractor beam takes hold and see if I notice any less wall suction.