Community Day - GAMEPLAY question and answer

[cbrown119]

Re: Community Day - GAMEPLAY questions/concerns/inquiries

Hello,

I am more curious about pitching this year.

Has analog pitching changed with respect to the actual stick movements and display?

And...

pulse pitching. Is it possible to exlain how it works with a possible screen shot?

Thank you.

[Pared]

Re: Community Day - GAMEPLAY questions/concerns/inquiries

If you're looking for motion based pitching with analog (in respect to pitches), I would suggest you look elsewhere.

[Dice]

Re: Community Day - GAMEPLAY questions/concerns/inquiries

Will us Manage Only Mode folks finally get a 2-player option? Back me up Knight!

[WAZ]

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Has fielding been improved to allow for more "manual" input? i.e. has the auto-suction "molasses pit" been removed (or made an Option -- Auto/Assist/Manual Fielding)?

This has been one of my biggest issues for years, especially in the outfield. There's just too much automation on "Assist" mode. Many times you can literally not touch anything and the fielder will auto-suction into the catch region and make the catch with little to no user input. It's basically impossible to overrun the ball or miss a catch as you are automatically suctioned into position. Would be GREAT to see this addressed with a much less assisted "Manual" option. Thanks!

[WAZ]

Re: Community Day - Gameplay questions/concerns/inquiries

To piggyback on the fielding, any chance the giant spinning baseball has been replaced by (or perhaps an option for) something a little more subtle? i.e. a plain circle where the ball will land?

A simple circle that starts large and shrinks as the ball gets closer (with size/accuracy of the landing spot determined by player ratings) would be awesome. But right now I'd be happy with a plain circle that's less distracting than the spinning baseball. Would also "update" the game's appearance and change things up, since it's been the same for the past 5-6 years.

[Tyler4]

Re: Community Day - GAMEPLAY questions/concerns/inquiries

1. Can you give us a list of players (let's say like 10 or so) who have updated batting stances and pitching styles?

2. Can we also get a list of the top 10 players at every position including the pitchers?

3. Does the 14 different umpire personalities mean there are 14 DIFFERENT umpires? Or the same crew WITH different personalities? It always bugs me playing with the same umpiring crew game after game.

I apologize in advance if either one of these have already been asked, but those are my major questions.

[tnixen]

Re: Community Day - Gameplay questions/concerns/inquiries

To piggyback on the fielding, any chance the giant spinning baseball has been replaced by (or perhaps an option for) something a little more subtle? i.e. a plain circle where the ball will land?

A simple circle that starts large and shrinks as the ball gets closer (with size/accuracy of the landing spot determined by player ratings) would be awesome. But right now I'd be happy with a plain circle that's less distracting than the spinning baseball. Would also "update" the game's appearance and change things up, since it's been the same for the past 5-6 years.

Great idea!!

[Pared]

Re: Community Day - Gameplay questions/concerns/inquiries

To piggyback on the fielding, any chance the giant spinning baseball has been replaced by (or perhaps an option for) something a little more subtle? i.e. a plain circle where the ball will land?

A simple circle that starts large and shrinks as the ball gets closer (with size/accuracy of the landing spot determined by player ratings) would be awesome. But right now I'd be happy with a plain circle that's less distracting than the spinning baseball. Would also "update" the game's appearance and change things up, since it's been the same for the past 5-6 years.

Why not just turn off the baseball?

That's what I do. It actually presents a nominal increase in challenge as well as some gaffes randomly throughout a season.

There is one bug with it however and that's something I've asked them to address and have my eye on... but I understand the point and see what options there are. It's part of the reason I turn it off anyway.

[LastActionHero]

Why not just turn off the baseball?

That's what I do. It actually presents a nominal increase in challenge as well as some gaffes randomly throughout a season.

There is one bug with it however and that's something I've asked them to address and have my eye on... but I understand the point and see what options there are. It's part of the reason I turn it off anyway.

So you play with just the region indicator or both off?
I've tried this for a while but made to many errors in the end.
I always play with catch indicator (the spinning ball) on but region indicator off and could also use a different icon for it.

What is the bug with the baseball turned off?

[Blzer]

Re: Community Day - Gameplay questions/concerns/inquiries

There is one bug with it however and that's something I've asked them to address and have my eye on...

You mean for the landing region? Is it those low liners where I have absolutely no clue where it's supposed to land, yet somehow I still luckily come up with the right spot about 90% of the time?

[MetsFan16]

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Can you keep an eye out for the CPU Bullpen logic. Last year the CPU Bullpen Logic was not the best. I remember several times that the CPU would bring in a left-handed pitcher to pitch against David Wright or Jason Bay and then bring in a righty for Ike Davis. Maybe the decision should be based on ratings vs. LHP/RHP because that would make more realistic matchups.

[Ripner]

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My main 2 questions are as follows:

When you have used up all your bench players in a game are you still able to swap positions with players in the game. Example: Used a back-up catcher to pinch hit for a low hitting shortstop because my 1b (a utility infielder) could also play short and the catch could play 1st. He was the last player on my bench though and the game would not allow me to swap him with the 1b and I was stuck with a C at short for the remainder of the game.

Is the glitch where it locks up showing your opponents bullpen without any means of leaving the screen still in the game?

[nomo17k]

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Related to the post of Ripner above.

Is there any improvement in how we do player substitutions?

For example, in MLB11 when we pinch hit for a batter, that player will substitute at the position played by the player he just replaced. (and the box score reflects it.) So if I mean to only pitch hit and use a different player to play the fielding position, the game thinks the pitch hitter actually played the position when in fact he was immediately replaced by somebody else.

Another example... at times, when I'm not sure about whether to double switch or not, I choose double switch option anyways, just to see what kind of move I can make. Then, I decide to cancel the double switch in hope of considering another move, but immediately upon the cancel the transaction get done and I'm not given a chance to do something else. In effect, cancel is not really a cancel, but "don't do double switch, just replace the position player who pinch hit for the previous pitcher", which is not what I want to do.

These are the kind of inconvenience I'm talking about... Have these been changed?

[Bobhead]

Re: Community Day - GAMEPLAY questions/concerns/inquiries

Also going off these other guys, can we pinch hit with a pitcher this year? Carlos Zambrano etc...

[Ripner]

Re: Community Day - GAMEPLAY questions/concerns/inquiries

Also going off these other guys, can we pinch hit with a pitcher this year? Carlos Zambrano etc...

I'm pretty sure you could pinch hit with pitchers already. I'm almost certain I've done it in extra inning games when my bench was used up and used starters to pinch hit for relievers.

[EDIT] Actually you can until you use up that last bench non-pitcher, after that point the substitution option is grayed out from all menus.