MLB 11 The Show Demo Q&A, discussion thread

[Golds]

Re: MLB 11 The Show Demo Q&A, discussion thread

There are two meters in this system. The one directly under the player determines strength and the outer one indicates accuracy. As soon as you move the right stick towards the intended throwing target both are being calculated. The strength will fill up first and then the accuracy will. Excessive strength can contribute to errors in the yellow to red accuracy range.

Accuracy is determined by how far you are off the North, South, East and West points on the controller. Depending on the fielder, their accuracy range may be wider or skinnier based on their ratings. As you increase in fielding difficulty these areas shrink and require you to be more on point. Rookie to veteran is the most generous and really have to work at not making it green. All-Star is actually pretty easy as well but some may see some variability in the system. HOF and Legend will offer the most challenge. Legend only has a 1 or 2% variance for being off point so you need to be practically dead on.

What difficulty level you on? It sounds like you are on the lower levels.

Whatever settings the demo has set. With my comments, I'm assuming ppl who are having trouble are on the demo defaults, since if they were having such trouble on say HOF, why would they complain rather than just lower the difficulty.

[jtott]

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It's an error, as Russell said in a prevoius post it's R2+RS ^v<>.

If you're using "Timed" hitting, like I do.... What's the purpose of having to press R2 in addition of pushing up on the right stick. In previous years it was just pushing the stick up.... I'm not complaining about this .. I'm just wanting to understand why the extra button press.

[nemesis04]

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Whatever settings the demo has set. With my comments, I'm assuming ppl who are having trouble are on the demo defaults, since if they are having such trouble with HOF, why would they complain rather than just lower the difficulty.

You would be surprised! Anyway you should move up a level to get some challenge out of fielding. Just a suggestion!

[dkrause1971]

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I'm pretty sure the color indicators aren't regarding the power of the throw as much as it indicates what the accuracy of the throw will be based on the direction, power, and the player's positioning/situation. I haven't had a single error using analog fielding and I guess it's just been because of how I have controlled my stick "push." I've gotten "green" on every throw I've made and I haven't done the same "push" on the stick every time. During one game, I did hold the stick far too long on purpose on a cut-off man throw from the outfield and the ball went wild. So I assume the people who are havng trouble with this aren't realizing how much of a pre-load or hard push they are performing on the stick.

I didn't mention anything about the colors at all. The green, red, yellow have to do with the accuracy of the throw. My post was about how i had alot of errors on day 1 because i wasn't hitting true east on the controller and the user might want to check that he is indeed pointing the RS in the correct direction.

[nemesis04]

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If you're using "Timed" hitting, like I do.... What's the purpose of having to press R2 in addition of pushing up on the right stick. In previous years it was just pushing the stick up.... I'm not complaining about this .. I'm just wanting to understand why the extra button press.

Probably to keep it constant throughout all the modes. Instead of having it one way for analog and another way for the other hitting modes.

[jtott]

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Probably to keep it constant throughout all the modes. Instead of having it one way for analog and another way for the other hitting modes.

Ok.. I can understand that for the most part.... so now follow me here ... classic base running.. to lead off it's LB and to steal it's L2.... now back to hitting.. If I push up on the RS and press R2 to influence a fly ball, wouldn't my pressing R2 cancel out my steal attempt, if I am indeed trying to do a hit and run?

[woodjer]

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For those that have played the demo using both classic and analog hitting...other than the obvious control aspect, do you notice a difference? When I had my 360, I noticed that analog hitting was almost a requirement on 2k. There was an option to use buttons but the variety of hits was significantly different between the two. Just wondering if this same type of thing is present in The Show.

[nemesis04]

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Ok.. I can understand that for the most part.... so now follow me here ... classic base running.. to lead off it's LB and to steal it's L2.... now back to hitting.. If I push up on the RS and press R2 to influence a fly ball, wouldn't my pressing R2 cancel out my steal attempt, if I am indeed trying to do a hit and run?

R2 does not cancel a steal. R2 stops a runner while he is running the base-path. You would be fine!

[Skyboxer]

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Yeah I was hoping we'd have an option to totally hide the meter. I want to use analog but just go off of the pitchers motions. I'm just going to move the meter as far away as I can and make it as small as I can and try that.

I tried this, but I'm not good enough with analog yet to go blind. While we can't put it in the corner of the TV screen, we can make it small enough and far enough away from the pitcher/batter line of sight that it can be ignored. But it's quite the challenge to pitch without it, at least at this point.

Well what I am going to do is use the warm up pitches as the means of getting down the pitchers movements in relation to the meter. Might be sort of geek-a-fied but that will make warm up pitches even more important for me.

Something I would like added during warmup pitches now though is the ability to go back and from stretch - windup during warmups.

Something for wish list....

[ryan36]

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So is the r-stick during pitching, timed to release? It seems to be , because the yellow bar for the forward stick motion changes during the stretch

[DJ]

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How do you throw to the cutoff man with analog controls?

[nemesis04]

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How do you throw to the cutoff man with analog controls?

L1 and the right stick.

[DJ]

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L1 and the right stick.

Thanks, Nem. I was trying different buttons last night and Ross was diving all over the outfield, lol.

[sydrogerdavid]

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Is it possible to influence a ground ball or a fly ball without the batter taking a step or bunting?

I have influenced the flight of the ball a couple of time without him moving, but it seems as though that is not supposed to happen.

[deucepoppi17]

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Why is the fielding glitch still in the game??!?!?!?!?! Will they ever fix the throws to home plate?