MLB 13 The Show Video and Blog - Hitting Enhancements: Beginner Mode & More

[Qb]

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Looking good! While I was able to hit well enough on All-Star with mostly default settings, I always had a nagging feeling there was a slight disconnect between input and the resulting ball path/trajectory. I have high hopes hitting will be more rewarding with these changes and perhaps I can hang on HOF this year... that was my ".220 level" in the past.

[ty5oke]

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The way SCEA set up beginner mode sounds like a really good teaching tool to new players of the Show. Hopefully this will help new players not get so frustrated when playing the game.

[bp4baseball]

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Great blog and everything sounds good. Also, that lighting in Boston
Games looks like it will play great and hopefully it does to reward the hard work put into it

[Flaxseed Oil]

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Harper's eye black is a thing of beauty.

Does anyone else find it weird that some of the players have pictures and others have virtual heads? I understand it changing after a trade, but it would be cool if to start out everyone had their own pictures.

[NAFBUC]

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I love The Show and all the new enhancements. I do hope that it is not harder to K the cpu with the increased timing window.

[Lorne_SCEA]

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Harper's eye black is a thing of beauty.

Does anyone else find it weird that some of the players have pictures and others have virtual heads? I understand it changing after a trade, but it would be cool if to start out everyone had their own pictures.

This is video footage from an old build. Most players will have real pics as their mugshots.

[csura999]

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The new hitting system with the pull, push, and balanced looks really nicely implemented. The new ball physics system looks terrific.

I've noticed many new batting stances as well! Braun's new stance isn't finally open, but now closed. Longoria as previously noted is changed now. Carlos Gonzalez, Bautista, and Ortiz were among others whom I noticed have new, updated batting stances this year.

Game looks great, and I can't wait until March 5th!

[Baseballking888]

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This is video footage from an old build. Most players will have real pics as their mugshots.

This might be a stupid question to ask, but did most players receive new mugshots this year or is it only for players who switched teams during the offseason and rookies and such? Just curious.

[MrOldboy]

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I really hope the push pull system pans, out it could really give each player a different feel when batting and pitching.

Opinions on any of the new stances shown? That's always the first thing I look at with these videos that get released even if the builds might be old and the stances could have been updated, i.e. Kemp in a previous video.

Glad Longoria got a fixed stance, looks alright. Ortiz's stance looks, odd, I get what they were going for though. Glad they made Braun's stance more closed.

I really hope when the next console is upon us the batters in the game wont all grip the bat the same, so tightly and sometimes overly-rotated around the bad. I think it could change a lot about how the batters look in the game, even it was only like 3 options. Loose, normal, tight for batting grip it could make all the difference.

[tonadom]

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I really hope the push pull system pans, out it could really give each player a different feel when batting and pitching.

Opinions on any of the new stances shown? That's always the first thing I look at with these videos that get released even if the builds might be old and the stances could have been updated, i.e. Kemp in a previous video.

Glad Longoria got a fixed stance, looks alright. Ortiz's stance looks, odd, I get what they were going for though. Glad they made Braun's stance more closed.

I really hope when the next console is upon us the batters in the game wont all grip the bat the same, so tightly and sometimes overly-rotated around the bad. I think it could change a lot about how the batters look in the game, even it was only like 3 options. Loose, normal, tight for batting grip it could make all the difference.

You will never be happy. I've observed your posts lately. You always have something to gripe about. I could understand to a point if all you do was watch a video game, but most people play it as well.

[sbmnky]

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Really excited at the implementation of push/pull. I hope it gives a completely different feeling of hitting with different types of hitters. Just curious if the L, C and R display colors are static or dynamic based on hitter tendency? They appear to be static in the video - the highest number doesn't always correlate to the red zone. It's probably because it's an older build, but wasn't sure if this was by design or not. I'm at work, otherwise I'd post a pic - you can see what I'm talking about during the 1:34-1:43 mark.

[Lorne_SCEA]

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This might be a stupid question to ask, but did most players receive new mugshots this year or is it only for players who switched teams during the offseason and rookies and such? Just curious.

If we were provided with their mugshot by MLB, they are in the game.

[Baseballking888]

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If we were provided with their mugshot by MLB, they are in the game.

Oh okay. Thank you!

[MrOldboy]

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You will never be happy. I've observed your posts lately. You always have something to gripe about. I could understand to a point if all you do was watch a video game, but most people play it as well.

If I just pointed out the things that are great all the time where would that get us? I complain about things because I love the game and I see things that I think, my opinion, could be improved. Its a message board about a MLB video game, if this isn't the place to post opinions about the game then where is.

I haven't even seen the push/pull system yet, how can I say anything about it except that I hope it pans out? I never said it looks bad, or it looks great. It has potential and I can't wait to actual see it in action.

I don't just say, "That looks bad!" I explain why I feel that way, which I feel is completely valid.

I also said I liked Longoria's new stance and that they fixed Braun's open stance. You overlooked that.

Go back and look at this thread and see what happened. Where complaining about a gripe got us. post #41 on
http://www.operationsports.com/forum...post2044663340

[Factzzz]

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Some of those stances look great, and Bryce's eye black looks awesome.

The way hitting works now is beautiful, and can add a lot to the gameplay and the strategy used while playing.

This game is going to be spectacular, I WANT MORE BLOGS!!