Hit variety slider

[mlblover15]

just a fancy new name for "contact slider"? i think so and over the course of the few games ive played with it a (-10) ive seen a great better variety of hit types. ive seen dinks over the third baseman that dropped in for a hit, a blooper to med center that dropped... etc... much improved over last year... if you havent turned this slider down for both computer and user do it and see what you think...

[bcruise]

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just a fancy new name for "contact slider"? i think so and over the course of the few games ive played with it a (-10) ive seen a great better variety of hit types. ive seen dinks over the third baseman that dropped in for a hit, a blooper to med center that dropped... etc... much improved over last year... if you havent turned this slider down for both computer and user do it and see what you think...

Yeah - hit quality = contact. Same description and everything. They probably changed it to avoid confusion with the new timing window slider (which should affect strikeouts).

[nemesis04]

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Yeah - hit quality = contact. Same description and everything. They probably changed it to avoid confusion with the new timing window slider (which should affect strikeouts).

That and it was not a contact slider. A true contact slider would affect your ability to hit the ball which that slider did not do.

[cowboype2000]

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just a fancy new name for "contact slider"? i think so and over the course of the few games ive played with it a (-10) ive seen a great better variety of hit types. ive seen dinks over the third baseman that dropped in for a hit, a blooper to med center that dropped... etc... much improved over last year... if you havent turned this slider down for both computer and user do it and see what you think...

Yeah, it pretty much is a "contact" slider. I agree with nemesis04 that it's probably not a true contact slider but it definitely affects how much contact the batters receive when they do indeed make contact. I've got my hit quality slider set to 8 (-2), and there's a huge difference compared to the default setting of 10 (everything was hit too hard).

[nemesis04]

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Yeah, it's pretty much is a "contact" slider. I agree with nemesis04 that it's probably not a true contact slider but it definitely affects how much contact the batters receive when they do indeed make contact. I've got my hit quality slider set to 8 (-2), and there's a huge difference compared to the default setting of 10 (everything was hit too hard).

It is basically bat on ball quality.

[NoSkillz50]

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thats awesome, the lack of "doink hits" were becomming one of the biggest problems with this game

[nemesis04]

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thats awesome, the lack of "doink hits" were becomming one of the biggest problems with this game

Bring it down to the range of -10 to -7 (default as 0) and you will see plenty of doinking as you put it.

[sask3m]

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does lowering then cause a drop in power though?

[serialmike]

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The slider contact and power work just as they did in HH.

Contact was the "thickness" of the bat
Power was the length of the sweet spot.

So contact was not how much contact as much as it was solid or good contact. Lowering the contact slider will result in less hits but not more misses. It results in less hits because solid contact is harder to make. This is also why hit variety becomes larger as you have a smaller area for solid contact and more proabability to hit the ball on strange trajectories. I explained this long ago. But I an certainly see changing the name but not the functionality of the slider Iitself.

[jmik58]

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The slider contact and power work just as they did in HH.

Contact was the "thickness" of the bat
Power was the length of the sweet spot.

So contact was not how much contact as much as it was solid or good contact. Lowering the contact slider will result in less hits but not more misses. It results in less hits because solid contact is harder to make. This is also why hit variety becomes larger as you have a smaller area for solid contact and more proabability to hit the ball on strange trajectories. I explained this long ago. But I an certainly see changing the name but not the functionality of the slider Iitself.

Very good explanation and thanks. That puts a realistic twist on the functionality of the slider.