Official MLB 11 The Show - Q&A Thread

[nemesis04]

Re: question about online play

Do any of you guys know if you are able to change the hitting to "timing" when you play online? I find the analog hitting to be very difficult.

I believe timing only hitting is disabled for online play. Your options would be analog and zone.

[Rules]

Re: Official MLB 11 The Show - Q&A Thread

Weather:

1) Do players slip and fall in the rain?
2) Do you actually see the rain fall or is the field just wet? If it does rain during the game is it variable such as heavy to light, stop, start?
3) Do you see more errors from the ball being wet?

Injuries:

1) Anyone have a player get hurt then continues only to get hurt again?
2) Any season ending injuries?
3) Do they have career ending injuries?

Presentation:

1) Do the scores from other teams during your franchise show progress and how often do they update?
2) Anyone check out the playoff atmosphere and if so, is there any difference from a regular game?
3) Any overlays for upcoming milestones, records?


Thanks,

Rules (Chuck)

[Giants4Natic]

Re: Official MLB 11 The Show - Q&A Thread

Guys, you cannot give up on analog after a couple of weeks from a demo.

Analog is the biggest thing this year and it is very well done. Buttons feel like you are just commanding the dude to hit or pitch.

Analog feels like you have to do work. Makes you feel great when you throw that nasty CC Sabathia slider. The slider with buttons is just a command

Hitting feels very smooth and you can direct hits by swinging inside and out or pulling a bit early or late.

Analog allows you to have total control of what you do.

If you do not just quit because it is hard for the first week then you are not given it a fair shot

It is the main reason I bough this game. It was about time they made analog an option

[ACENEWYORK]

Re: Official MLB 11 The Show - Q&A Thread

the options for fielding are assist and auto.

Thanks countryboy. It really sucks that they took out the manual option for fielding this year. Oh well what can you do.

[Giants4Natic]

Re: Official MLB 11 The Show - Q&A Thread

Thanks countryboy. It really sucks that they took out the manual option for fielding this year. Oh well what can you do.

The show has never had a manual fielding. Assist is just like last year or auto which it does it for you

You never have full control fielding in the show

[Heroesandvillains]

Re: Official MLB 11 The Show - Q&A Thread

Speaking of fielding, I just saw my brother and he wanted me to ask you guys about diving in the outfield. Have any of you successfully dove for and caught a ball in the outfield so far?

I'm an Auto field guy, myself, but I could be swayed...it was tough tough tough for me last year.

[Giants4Natic]

Re: Official MLB 11 The Show - Q&A Thread

Speaking of fielding, I just saw my brother and he wanted me to ask you guys about diving in the outfield. Have any of you successfully dove for and caught a ball in the outfield so far.

I'm an Auto field guy, myself, but I could be swayed...it was tough tough tough for me last year.

I dove and caught a ball and also robbed a hr.

I use Assist which is the closes I can get to manual which SCEA does not allow for some reason.

Press the right trigger to dive

[Heroesandvillains]

Re: Official MLB 11 The Show - Q&A Thread

HOF full analog and I've struk out 15,12,12 & 13 with Volquez in the games i have played with him. Too many and too regular to be just a small sample size. These were all 7 innings or less.

Real problem for me is that in 2 of those games i got hit hard and gave up runs so the results were either a rocket for a hit/hr/k not much contact just putting the ball in play.

Wow. How about with guys not rated one of the highest in K/9? There's no way you're doing that with Arroyo...or are you?

What team are you playing against? Perhaps that could explain it.

Maybe you should jump into Franchise and see if your numbers mellow out. I'd assume if this was a major issue amongst all users, some others would post it.

[Chef Matt]

Re: Official MLB 11 The Show - Q&A Thread

Speaking of fielding, I just saw my brother and he wanted me to ask you guys about diving in the outfield. Have any of you successfully dove for and caught a ball in the outfield so far?

I'm an Auto field guy, myself, but I could be swayed...it was tough tough tough for me last year.

I dove and caught a ball and also robbed a hr.

I use Assist which is the closes I can get to manual which SCEA does not allow for some reason.

Press the right trigger to dive

That's good to read. I probably only caught two balls in the outfield in the 100 or so games I played last year (including spring training). By far the hardest year for diving plays in the outfield for me.

[CWood2]

Re: Official MLB 11 The Show - Q&A Thread

I have been in contact with someone that has the game and he says that Buchholz now looks more like himself and that SCEA has given him Guthries pitch delivery. So I guess no is the answer for having his own delivery. Bummer, I know. Later

That's great on the face upgrade. I cringed everytime his spot in the rotation was up last year!

[Heroesandvillains]

Re: Official MLB 11 The Show - Q&A Thread

That's good to read. I probably only caught two balls in the outfield in the 100 or so games I played last year (including spring training). By far the hardest year for diving plays in the outfield for me.

Agreed. I may give it a shake Tuesday than too. Thank you.

Is their a fielding practice (non-RTTS style)?

[EnigmaNemesis]

Thanks countryboy. It really sucks that they took out the manual option for fielding this year. Oh well what can you do.

They never had full manual. They just renamed it to what it is, since they now have full manual in RttS.

Full manual in franchise/exhibition was not working out too well with all the changes to fielding and momentum, etc. You barely made plays due to your jumps being so late.

[Skyboxer]

Re: Official MLB 11 The Show - Q&A Thread

They never had full manual. They just renamed it to what it is, since they now have full manual in RttS.

Full manual in franchise/exhibition was not working out too well with all the changes to fielding and momentum, etc. You barely made plays due to your jumps being so late.

I'll be using Analog fielding/pitching and ZONE hitting. It's not that I don't like analog batting but I've been asking for true zone for a good while and I'm all over it. I will use analog for RTTS mode though.

Anyways what's the general concensus on power number at default. From some of the posts it seems high but it's still a small pool of dtat. Just curious what those with the game think how it plays at default. (For all things not just poewer I guess)

[emath]

Re: Official MLB 11 The Show - Q&A Thread

Guys, you cannot give up on analog after a couple of weeks from a demo.

Analog is the biggest thing this year and it is very well done. Buttons feel like you are just commanding the dude to hit or pitch.

That's what I prefer to do.

If I wanted to feel like I was doing the swinging, I would go out an play. lol

[idesign2]

Re: Official MLB 11 The Show - Q&A Thread

can anyone please post the full list of this year sounds of the show?

This was provided by Ramone about a month ago:

- Pregame
- Team Wins
- Team Losses
- Team Wins Pennant
- Team Wins Division
- Team Wins World Series
- Base Hit 1
- Base Hit 2
- Base Hit 3
- Run Scores
- Home Run Music
- Strike Out Music
- Drawing A Walk
- Stolen Base
- Caught Stealing
- Away Team Error
- Away Pitcher Pulled
- Clutch Out Recorded
- Relief Pitcher Entrance 1
- Relief Pitcher Entrance 2
- Relief Pitcher Entrance 3
- Inning 1 Mid
- Inning 2 Mid
- Inning 3 Mid
- Inning 4 Mid
- Inning 5 Mid
- Inning 6 Mid
- Inning 7 Mid
- Inning 8 Mid
- Inning 9 Mid
- Inning 1 End
- Inning 2 End
- Inning 3 End
- Inning 4 End
- Inning 5 End
- Inning 6 End
- Inning 7 End
- Inning 8 End
- Inning 9 End
- Team Cheer Chant 1
- Team Cheer Chant 2
- Team Cheer Chant 3
- Team Jeer Chant 1
- Team Jeer Chant 2
- Team Jeer Chant 3
- Team Cheer Yell 1
- Team Cheer Yell 2
- Team Cheer Yell 3
- Team Jeer Yell 1
- Team Jeer Yell 2
- Team Jeer Yell 3