Mike Lowe MLB The Show 20 Sliders

[DLion]

Re: Mike Lowe MLB The Show 20 Sliders

Using this sliders with classic pitching and directional hitting and it feels good, realistic outcomes.

[Mdunc31]

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Mike love the sliders and your passion for the game. I’m curious to what you were seeing too much/little of that prompted you to tweak the sliders for this game? Thanks

[Mdunc31]

Re: Mike Lowe MLB The Show 20 Sliders

As in tweaked from the 1.0 version

[Frost33]

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Ok, I don't know what my deal is. Maybe I just suck at hitting, well at least hitting for any power. I'm playing as the Brewers, I've been playing franchise and I'm 28 games in. My team batting avg is .294, which isn't terrible and is somewhat realistic. My issue is I've hit a grand total of 9 homers in 28 games.

I see people saying this game has too many homers, but I'm struggling to get 1 every 3 or 4 games. After 28 games I'm 12-16 and the 12 games I've won have been nail biters in which I won by 1 or 2 runs I had to really fight to get. So the games have been fun, but it's frustrating that I never see a ball fly out of the stadium.

Pitching took some getting used to because I enjoy the control a meter gives me, but I've come to really like the classic style now and it adds a little bit of unknown to the pitch.

Can I get any suggestions how to adjust the sliders so batting will remain similar, but get a power increase?


**EDIT*** I forgot to add, I use X pretty much exclusively for hitting. If this isn't correct, let me know.

[Mike Lowe]

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Mike love the sliders and your passion for the game. I’m curious to what you were seeing too much/little of that prompted you to tweak the sliders for this game? Thanks

Like from the very start? Geez. I would say the biggest things that stood out to me were:

1) Too easy to make contact. This is by far the biggest issue out of the box, but I get it too--14 year olds don't want 7 pitch ABs where they are swinging and missing. You see this in the way SDS built DD.

2) Everyone is just too damn fast, whether it's fielders, baserunners, etc. Speed impacts a lot of things in video games.

3) Then we get into the finer issues, such as "WHY are we making too much contact, and how do we fix that?" "Why aren't there any injuries?" "Which hitting view helps produce the output we're looking for?" etc.

That all adds up over time; I definitely didn't wake up one day and do it all in one day. The community feedback has helped tremendously as well, and none of this would be possible (or worth the hassle) if the game wasn't already pretty darn solid out of the box.

[Mike Lowe]

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Ok, I don't know what my deal is. Maybe I just suck at hitting, well at least hitting for any power. I'm playing as the Brewers, I've been playing franchise and I'm 28 games in. My team batting avg is .294, which isn't terrible and is somewhat realistic. My issue is I've hit a grand total of 9 homers in 28 games.

I see people saying this game has too many homers, but I'm struggling to get 1 every 3 or 4 games. After 28 games I'm 12-16 and the 12 games I've won have been nail biters in which I won by 1 or 2 runs I had to really fight to get. So the games have been fun, but it's frustrating that I never see a ball fly out of the stadium.

Pitching took some getting used to because I enjoy the control a meter gives me, but I've come to really like the classic style now and it adds a little bit of unknown to the pitch.

Can I get any suggestions how to adjust the sliders so batting will remain similar, but get a power increase?


**EDIT*** I forgot to add, I use X pretty much exclusively for hitting. If this isn't correct, let me know.

I can diagnosis this with 100% confidence. I'm betting on two things:

1) You have user power at 3 (v1.0, pre-patch)
2) You played most of your games before last week's patch.

Put user power to 4. You might even consider putting it at 5 and take a few games to just mash some HRs to get caught up a bit. You should be pretty close to 30 HRs by now, probably anywhere between 20-30.

[TeejMoore]

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Putting User Power up to 4 for me has worked really well, even with using the Tigers, who don't have a bunch of big power threats lol. And pitching is ROUGH

[Wolves F C]

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Working on 15 game stat report for op with March 29 adjustments ._.Will post as soon as I can...Using classic pitching and directional hitting (always have). Game play is great

[adamj2281]

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Using adjustments, still playing well. I think the CPU may need a boost on Power, definitely left a few out over the plate that should have went out. Great sliders as always, I'll post some stats once I get a few more games in.

Using QC, everything else set as you have it.

[Mike Lowe]

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First post updated for v1.1. I'll wait on a potential v1.5 before uploading anything to the Vault.

The only issue I'm trying to work on at the moment is more user Ks when batting. I'm swinging and missing at a good rate as well as foul balls, but still too low on Ks. A bit early still, but I'm even considering tweaking Legend hitting because of the shrunken PCI which will definitely give us more Ks.

[knucklecutter]

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Play on max pitch speeds, which is as close to realistic as you can get and I promise you will strike out more often.

[cubby blue]

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I'm using your modifications to sliders that was posted yesterday. I started using meter pitching instead of classic. I got to say using meter you hit your spots better.

It seems to me the opposing team needs a little more offense. I played 3 games last night with the Brewers. Their average was .212. My average was .250. I think Yelich had 2 homers in the series. I had like 5 homers. I will have to confirm those homerun stats tonight. I use directional hitting by the way.

I will play some more tonight. I think your getting close. The only other thing is there was a lot of doubles hit by me. I don't have the totals. I will try to post tonight.

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[Mike Lowe]

Re: Mike Lowe MLB The Show 20 Sliders

Play on max pitch speeds, which is as close to realistic as you can get and I promise you will strike out more often.

I respect however it is others may want to play, but I find maxed pitch speeds not to be realistic whatsoever.

To each their own. Glad it's working for you.

[tuckermaine]

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Mike I have been reading this thread.

From a Cpu Cpu standpoint, first issue SPEED: I like visually what I’m seeing at fielding I’m currently using
Speed 4 reaction 3...I may jump it to 4 -4 as suggested. I’m not seeing as many close plays at bases with runners..aggression is good however...I’m also not seeing any of the elite outfielders getting back to the wall and making plays. This may get these flyhawks moving in the outfield.

SOLID HITS: I see you moved it up one (2) ...Feel I’ll follow that may help with said probable issues above.
Been seeing a lot of weak choppers fielded by catchers and pitcher , which I like but may be too many.

I’m four games in with my Franhcise...I’ve had top level pitchers with some 10 k games and I’ve had a couple of em hammered and drummed out early before the 4th inning so I’m not touching your sliders in any of those
Pitching slots...

POWER: MLB stats last year top power teams Minnesota and Yankees averaged 1.88 a game ...
Power slider at 4 has worked for me ..I haven’t seen a anything far Fetched in that area but again only a four game sample..

Love the game this year..yes there are issues , but also many subtleties in animation and sound that are a joy.
Now if they could only get rid of the ridiculous “slide step” animation and put in a few more animations when a batter gets a 97 mph fastball inches from him hitting him....more subtleties please.

[bryanm1982]

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Mike,

I have a stat question. They say you want about 40-45% of runs scored via home run. I keep track of all my stats on an excel sheet and I keep track of all the scoring. But do they count each run scored or each scoring play? For example, if I hit a grand slam, do I count that has 4 for the runs scored or just 1?