MLB 12 The Show Preview - Pulse Pitching, Zone Analog Batting, Collision Awareness

[JustOpinions]

Re: MLB 12 The Show Preview - Pulse Pitching, Zone Analog Batting, Collision Awarenes

all-new free-agent signing process

Woohoo!, I actually started to miss the old school offseason "game" if you will, but the way it was in MLB 11 is a tad too annoying, while true to life it wasnt fun. Hopefully there is options on how complicated you want the offseason to be, sometimes you just want it to be simple like heres the Free Agents, heres your money available, see what you can do

[Knight165]

Re: MLB 12 The Show Preview - Pulse Pitching, Zone Analog Batting, Collision Awarenes

I love everything I see so far seems to be another great year for MLB The Show fans but if I may ask has anyone heard anything new about stats being more into this game than in years past? like an update on the players card that has more than just 4-5 stats and has more like what Madden and other games have where there are 10-15 stats lines and not just (BAA,HITS,HRS,RBIS,SB)

Also I hope the new Trade Logic works out well....I got another game that said they fixed it and wow was it still a mess.

Toughest part of programming in the franchise section from what I hear from the devs....
I see it from their tweaks....push too much one way(say towards valuing prospects)....and too many vets just get moved/ignored...and vice versa.
I know they want to just rip the entire guts out of it and redo everything with no legacy code(ENTIRE FRANCHISE)....I just don't see that for this year, but I know they are tweaking the hell out of things we've complained about and it looks like even adding some things! Which I find very encouraging.


They definitely hear us on stats........I think we will get a lot of the things we've asked for....but I know that year to year ....full stat saves is a huge memory problem. Fingers crossed.

M.K.
Knight165

[K_GUN]

Re: MLB 12 The Show Preview - Pulse Pitching, Zone Analog Batting, Collision Awarenes

some good stuff there.....any chance a *playoff mode* gets in there this year?

[wrigleyville33]

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I'm thrilled that they brought in analog zone hitting. I know I'll love the challenge of it. As many as you know usually I'm pessimistic around this time, but I'm loving the information flowing right now.

[econoodle]

Re: ESPN MLB 12: The Show' hands-on preview

I'm actually doing that right now :-)

check to make sure Pujols doesn't get traded twice in the same season like he did in my10 franchise

[Russell_SCEA]

Re: MLB 12 The Show Preview - Pulse Pitching, Zone Analog Batting, Collision Awarenes

stunned he didn't mention anything about the presentation or commentary or the game having a new overall look in terms of menus/franchise mode interface.
those are the things that wil get me to pick it up.
all 3 need to be improved for me.

so far it looks like two have been touched upon.
i don't think i can dive into that franchise mode with the menus as is, and without any sort of headline or news section.
i feel like i am playing in a vacuum.

The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence

[knich]

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Toughest part of programming in the franchise section from what I hear from the devs....
I see it from their tweaks....push too much one way(say towards valuing prospects)....and too many vets just get moved/ignored...and vice versa.
I know they want to just rip the entire guts out of it and redo everything with no legacy code(ENTIRE FRANCHISE)....I just don't see that for this year, but I know they are tweaking the hell out of things we've complained about and it looks like even adding some things! Which I find very encouraging.


They definitely hear us on stats........I think we will get a lot of the things we've asked for....but I know that year to year ....full stat saves is a huge memory problem. Fingers crossed.

M.K.
Knight165

The other game has an unbelievable amount of stats. There is no reason the other game can have so many stats..not only ones that can be called up but also are on display when batter walks up and I believe for pitchers pitching too...and SCEA not be able to do that. The announcers also discuss a lot of stats. The other game also has a lot more options for editing a player than in The Show. Let's hope they can at least duplicate the other game's stats. The one stat I don't think either game has is day/night stats. Be great to have them if there is a difference when playing the game.

[Russell_SCEA]

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I'm thrilled that they brought in analog zone hitting. I know I'll love the challenge of it. As many as you know usually I'm pessimistic around this time, but I'm loving the information flowing right now.

The stride timing window has been opened up a bit to help compensate for the added difficulty. Also the games default pitch speed is a little slower than it has been in the past.

[Ghoste]

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I too am interested in Pulse Pitching being a Classic pitching guy. The ball physics sound like a really nice addition. Now I haven't read every single post on this site but I was under the impression that it would be difficult to include collision detection. I guess this has changed over the past year?

-ghoste

[Russell_SCEA]

Re: MLB 12 The Show Preview - Pulse Pitching, Zone Analog Batting, Collision Awarenes

some good stuff there.....any chance a *playoff mode* gets in there this year?

Not this year

[tiptop00]

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Russell all i want to know is can you use regular zone hitting when playing online?

[DJ]

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The stride timing window has been opened up a bit to help compensate for the added difficulty. Also the games default pitch speed is a little slower than it has been in the past.

That's good to hear on the pitch speed. Is there a Timing-Analog option, where we just stride and swing, and the player rating determines the PCI placement?

[mjsonoma01]

"Add to that the addition of Season and Franchise mode in co-op, new pitcher confidence logic, and franchise improvements that include new contract logic, improved trade logic and an all-new free-agent signing process, and you have the baseball game "Show" fans have been waiting for."

I cried when I read this. So happy.

Thank you.

[Black59Razr]

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I have never seen a design team work so close with the public as SCEA! I only play sports games though. I can't wait to trade in Madden and get TheShow!

SCEA should make an unlicensed football game as close to the NFL as possible, and let the community create the rosters! I would love to see this type of a team put together a football game!

[Russell_SCEA]

Re: MLB 12 The Show Preview - Pulse Pitching, Zone Analog Batting, Collision Awarenes

Russell all i want to know is can you use regular zone hitting when playing online?

You can play however you want online.