Community Day 2013 - Gameplay - Questions/Concerns/Inquiries

[poster]

Re: Community Day 2013 - Gameplay - Questions/Concerns/Inquiries

- Is CPU smarter in handling relievers and player substitutions late in the game?

- Is there more lefty/lefty match-up's, will the CPU manager use multiple picthers in an inning to combat the handiness of the batter. Emphasizing for importance. Thanks Nem!

[Nooooovak]

Re: Community Day 2013 - Gameplay - Questions/Concerns/Inquiries

-Has the CPU stopped playing every bounce off the wall perfectly? Would love to see some scenarios where the ball kicks around or bounces over their head because they overplay/misjudge it

-Is there a bigger variety of basehits? I want to see more texas leaguers, balls falling in the bermuda triangle, etc...

[DieHardYankee26]

Is there still the weird thing with right handed hitters where they swing with two hands no matter what there stance is? It was just awkward seeing guys like A-Rod and Pujols using both hands.

[Bobhead]

Re: Community Day 2013 - Gameplay - Questions/Concerns/Inquiries

-- For Zone hitters, has the PCI window been extended at all? In previous years, the instant the swing button is pressed, you lose control of the PCI and can no longer move it. That meant we had to determine pitch location way before we swung, which is awkward, quite difficult, and quite unrealistic.

-- Has the Batting AI been improved? Is the CPU more prone to chase pitches and stuff like that?

-- Can you bring to them the issue of errant pickoffs? I don't really have an issue with the number of errant pickoffs, but too many of them go in the stands. In real life, most of them do not. I'd like to see a higher proportion of pickoffs that are off to either side of the receiving fielder, or short... like a short hop or just a completely messed up throw. I'd also like to see an occasional errant throw that is still caught, be it off the intended base (eg the fielder runs or dives or jumps and catches it).

Just to make up a number here, if pickoffs in real life have a 25% chance of being errant, it seems like in The Show, all of those errant pickoffs end up in the stands, costing me 2 bases. That's a 25% chance of giving 2 free bases to a runner every time I attempt a pickoff, so it's a bigger issue than it seems, imo. I don't know what the actual percentage is but you get what I'm saying.

[JLL84]

Re: Community Day 2013 - Gameplay - Questions/Concerns/Inquiries

Is there still the weird thing with right handed hitters where they swing with two hands no matter what there stance is? It was just awkward seeing guys like A-Rod and Pujols using both hands.

I second this. It would be ideal (if possible) that we were able to edit whether a hitter uses a 1 handed, 2 handed, or random follow through (seems like a game had this option, but can't remember which).

[LastActionHero]

-Is there a reason why we still can't fully 100% manually slide?
Maybe because it's an animation driven game? It's just one part of the game that makes it feel the controls are taken out of your hands where it shouldn't.

-Letting the ball pass the cutoff man.
I still think my idea that I pitched last year could work.
Holding the L1 button while throwing gets the ball to the cutoff but if you release L1 before it gets to the cutoff he lets it pass. Any word on how the devs stand in this subject is welcome

-Pressing R2 while batting shows you the pitch history that has been thrown to that specific batter.
Could we have the same option for when your pitching against the CPU?
This would help alot and saves one more select press during innings!

-Strike 3 foult tip in glove out?

-Will there (ever) be some sort of full manual option for pickoffs so that it's not completely based on ratings but more on your own reaction time if you get back on time or not.

Thanks guys!

[nemesis04]

Re: Community Day 2013 - Gameplay - Questions/Concerns/Inquiries

-Strike 3 foult tip in glove out?

I am pretty sure we finally get to see this in 13!

[ebarws6]

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Will we see more unique swings this year? Uppercuts, level swings, etc.?

[NAFBUC]

Re: Community Day 2013 - Gameplay - Questions/Concerns/Inquiries

- Can we do in-game save and resume fully? ... meaning no confidence reset, no lost game log, no lost replays, etc.

- Is swing timing faster especially with the Analog interface?

- Is CPU smarter in handling relievers and player substitutions late in the game?

- In that sportscast-type game screen (see the post by nemesis04 below), is the game engine the one used for simming or one used in the regular gameplay?

More to come...

Just to addon to the etc. from nomo......pitch counts are lost after save along with pitcher/batter analysis.

[jr86]

Re: Community Day 2013 - Gameplay - Questions/Concerns/Inquiries

Judging by that screen we saw in the reveal trailer, it looks like you can do this as everything plays out in front of you in a Game-cast type view.

Posted by rudyjuly:

OMG....did they finally get tired of me(and others) complaining about the CPU replacing my pitchers in the fast sim to inning?

M.K.
Knight165

Oh My..
If 1 of you guys can confirm 100% that this is in when you get to CD...It would be much appreciated...

[DieHardYankee26]

Just to addon to the etc. from nomo......pitch counts are lost after save along with pitcher/batter analysis.

I'm pretty sure all of that is saved in RAM, like temporary files for the game. I wouldn't think there's anything they can do about that with the amount of RAM the PS3 has.

[queman11]

Re: Community Day 2013 - Gameplay - Questions/Concerns/Inquiries

The number of times an OF robs me of an XBH is
TOO DAMN HIGHHHH!!!

[sydrogerdavid]

Re: Community Day 2013 - Gameplay - Questions/Concerns/Inquiries

I am pretty sure we finally get to see this in 13!

Just make sure it's not so frequent. It seems like when a new feature like this gets added, it happens way too much afterwards. (i.e. Pitchers getting hit by shots up the middle or the new pick off system when they first came out.) Then people get angry and it has to wait until the next game to be toned down a little. I know they try to get in right on the first try, but be wary.

[Knight165]

Re: Community Day 2013 - Gameplay - Questions/Concerns/Inquiries

Oh My..
If 1 of you guys can confirm 100% that this is in when you get to CD...It would be much appreciated...

Did I forget to put one of these in my previous post...?

...or


M.K.
Knight165

[slickkill77]

Re: Community Day 2013 - Gameplay - Questions/Concerns/Inquiries

1. Is getting caught in a run down still completely pointless? It doesn't matter how good your baserunner is. Getting caught in a run down always ends in 2-3 throws or less. And your baserunner always acts like he's been running a marathon after one turn

2. Has the pitcher AI been updated at all in regards to people being on base? Nothing is more annoying than a pitcher throwing over to third base 6 times in one at bat when there are two outs. This happens so much in RTTS when you have a fast player and it's just dumb.