TNK - 2012 Realism Sliders Thread

[rickymets1975]

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I just lost four straight to the Astros.

At home.

Wait....what?

Okay. this was a real eye-opener for me. I have been thinking a lot about some of the posts on here about how most of the games are low scoring and it is hard to put up runs. Granted, hitting in this game is much harder than in the past couple of years, but I really started paying attention to WHY I feel that the opposing pitchers seem to be keeping us all in check this time around.

I am a pretty patient hitter. Sometimes my vision goes wonky and I chase nasty sliders or curves, but for the most part I know to hold off for the one or two good pitches per batter.

I started watching the opposing pitcher confidence during the game. What I started to realize is that it seems that the computer pitcher gets its confidence jacked up really quickly. I noticed that after just a couple innings, even if I had a smattering of hits or even a run or so, the computer is unflappable and the confidence goes up fast.

Along with that, the proficiency of the CPU pitches elevates quickly as well. I noticed in each of the four games that early on the pitcher nearly had full blue bars in either three or all four of the primary pitches.

The result is that even a number four of five starter is suddenly on fire and really painting the black at will. Even if you make perfect contact occasionally, since the pitch is blue-barred, it rarely has a positive effect and often is a groundout or pop up.

Does anybody else see this? When is the last time you remember getting a big inning of more that 3 runs or so? It's as if the computer just regains composure too quickly.

Dude you took the words outta my mouth...this is the same thing with me. im getting great results with the sliders except it just feels like every game i play is 3-2 or 5-3 id love to get a blowout or get blown out once in a while. Just feels like every game is close and although thats not a bad thing its very repetitive.

[rickymets1975]

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Hey TNK,

Loving the sliders but im still having trouble catching the 4sfb and im seeing alot of low scoring games going either way. Trying to break out of the repetiveness. I see you guys talking about camera view and i was wondering about that and what effects human solid hits and human timing have. whats the difference between solid hits on 5, 4 and 3. just trying to see more variety on the scores. i know you have to be patient at bat and im really quite patient but it seems im just off on pitches by a hair that i should be rocking. i dont mind it at all but it seems every game is low scoring.

[PhilliesFan13]

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Dude you took the words outta my mouth...this is the same thing with me. im getting great results with the sliders except it just feels like every game i play is 3-2 or 5-3 id love to get a blowout or get blown out once in a while. Just feels like every game is close and although thats not a bad thing its very repetitive.

Try the custom camera that TNK suggested. It does work!

[rockhopper]

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I highly suggest messing around with the CUSTOM CAMERA and batting from the view I am using......I started with the CATCHER CLASSIC camera and moved it around to get this view which helps you see the pitch coming in and identify balls and strikes better than the default view

Thanks for the GREAT TIP! I changed my camera view to look very similar to yours and it's helped a ton. It's made it so much easier on pitch recognition and location. I'm spraying the ball all over the field now, where prior to this change I was really struggling to hit.

Keep up the great work!!! We all appreciate it!

[JayD]

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Has anyone used classic pitching with these sliders?

Has anyone tried it?

[FenwayMac]

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Try the custom camera that TNK suggested. It does work!

I will give this a try. So when custom pulls up, do you adjust it down lower to the plate? What general adjustments are you making to it?

[FenwayMac]

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Still waiting for examples of those of you who have had a big inning...

[PhilliesFan13]

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Has anyone tried it?

I don't use anything except classic for pitching. It works fine with these. Just my opinion, but after using classic pitching for every Show game I've played, I feel like it gives you the most realistic results.

[PhilliesFan13]

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Still waiting for examples of those of you who have had a big inning...

Game I played earlier I had a 4 run 1st inning and a 5 run 6th inning.

[FenwayMac]

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Game I played earlier I had a 4 run 1st inning and a 5 run 6th inning.

Using the sliders on page one?

[PhilliesFan13]

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Using the sliders on page one?

Yes with the exception of a few. I had human solid hits at 5, CPU foul frequency at 3, and human timing at 7. I'm playing another game later with the sliders listed as they are on page one.

[mctribbs88]

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Just got the game going to give these a shot.

[JayD]

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Just had a perfect game thrown against me, lol. I'm not to sure about timing on all star this year. I will admit that I was beyond patient for this game being that I couldn't hit a damn thing. I am trying out a new hitting camera so I'll get a few more games in with your set.

[rickymets1975]

Re: TNK - 2012 Realism Sliders Thread

Hey TNK,

Loving the sliders but im still having trouble catching the 4sfb and im seeing alot of low scoring games going either way. Trying to break out of the repetiveness. I see you guys talking about camera view and i was wondering about that and what effects human solid hits and human timing have. whats the difference between solid hits on 5, 4 and 3. just trying to see more variety on the scores. i know you have to be patient at bat and im really quite patient but it seems im just off on pitches by a hair that i should be rocking. i dont mind it at all but it seems every game is low scoring.

Hey TNK I think i may have found my own solution for everybody that feels their swinging late on everything. I changed around with the batter view but i felt i really was still missing something. So i went back to default batting camera catcher instead of classic catcher and lowered pitch speed to 3 and WHAM everything is perfect im seeing a variety in scoring, batter timing i think they sped up the pitch speed from last year at least visually so im gonna use your sliders with just pitch speed at 3 i definately recommend that for anyone who felt like they were definately ON the ball last year but a little behind this year.

[ChernoTheInferno]

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Using the sliders on page one?

Team used is also an important factor. I've scored double digits on All-Star difficulty even with the default sliders where all fielders are supermen...but I play with the Yankees so half my line-up can go deep at any point and Andruw Jones (as in real life) massacres lefties when I face one of those. That dirties the results a bit.