S & B’s Directional/Classic MLB 23 Sliders

[reyes the roof]

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I just played my first game with the sliders, it has a really nice feel so far. A nice variety of hits and the pitching feels a lot less random. I’m not pin pointing pitches but with a good pitcher the ball usually ends up in the general area I want it and if it doesn’t then the cpu is all over it

[bryanm1982]

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I just played my first game with the sliders, it has a really nice feel so far. A nice variety of hits and the pitching feels a lot less random. I’m not pin pointing pitches but with a good pitcher the ball usually ends up in the general area I want it and if it doesn’t then the cpu is all over it

Glad you enjoyed them. Let us know if you have any questions.

[bryanm1982]

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So after 5 games with version 3 of the sliders I’ve hit 0 hrs. I’m scoring runs. But I’m hitting for no power at all. I’m mainly hitting all singles.
Is anyone else experiencing this?
I hit plenty of hrs with Version 2.

That is weird cause we left power and solid hits alone. We just lowered contact. You can try raising solid hits to 5 or if contact at 7 felt better you can go go back to 7.

[Skippy85410]

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This set has been playing awesome for me so far 1 month into my Orioles franchise on AS difficulty. I only made a few minor tweaks to my liking.

[VanillaSoda]

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Since I do not play Franchise and I play RTTS as a Pitcher, I just want to point out that I stuck to the original sliders with 9 contact and everything, I find that in RTTS with such a high H/9 that you cannot avoid when being a velocity break pitcher the other ones seem to work better.

I lowered it to the new one and just felt way too good for a 76 OVR Pitcher.

The mixed results is amazing feeling for RTTS this year, I love it.

[VanillaSoda]

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Question for you guys.

Since I obviously prefer these sliders and want to base my RTTS around them, now that I am a 78 I am noticing a lack of power hitting even when I turned up solid hits, its nothing compared to when I was a 71 and felt like the Majors was a real tough adjustment.

The biggest questions I have is that with the feeling of lack of power/ability to string together hits, it seems to boil down to the possibility of a few things.

1: The ability to actually power hit the ball seems low as mentioned above, a lot of weak contact, pop ups/fly outs or just hard hit balls that don't travel far enough, is this more a Power slider issue? I jacked up the solid hits and it did not fix the issue.

2: The other part to this is that my pitcher either misses horrifically or hits crazy pitches that are so hard for a batter to actually hit, I can go from a 3-0 count to a 3-2 with 2 perfect corner pitches to inducing a ground out/fly out/strike out with 3 straight corner pitches as a Velocity/Break pitcher.

Do you think the issue could be that on 3-2 Control/Consistency that the ball is just not in a good enough spot for a batter to hit as when I miss my spots I am missing either way out of zone or right on the corners?

I am kind of experimenting with different things here as when I was a 71-72 the game felt incredible with mixed results but the higher up I go in OVR, the lesser the mixed results are becoming.

Curious of your guys thoughts on this

[bryanm1982]

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Question for you guys.

Since I obviously prefer these sliders and want to base my RTTS around them, now that I am a 78 I am noticing a lack of power hitting even when I turned up solid hits, its nothing compared to when I was a 71 and felt like the Majors was a real tough adjustment.

The biggest questions I have is that with the feeling of lack of power/ability to string together hits, it seems to boil down to the possibility of a few things.

1: The ability to actually power hit the ball seems low as mentioned above, a lot of weak contact, pop ups/fly outs or just hard hit balls that don't travel far enough, is this more a Power slider issue? I jacked up the solid hits and it did not fix the issue.

2: The other part to this is that my pitcher either misses horrifically or hits crazy pitches that are so hard for a batter to actually hit, I can go from a 3-0 count to a 3-2 with 2 perfect corner pitches to inducing a ground out/fly out/strike out with 3 straight corner pitches as a Velocity/Break pitcher.

Do you think the issue could be that on 3-2 Control/Consistency that the ball is just not in a good enough spot for a batter to hit as when I miss my spots I am missing either way out of zone or right on the corners?

I am kind of experimenting with different things here as when I was a 71-72 the game felt incredible with mixed results but the higher up I go in OVR, the lesser the mixed results are becoming.

Curious of your guys thoughts on this

Thanks for the questions. We are in a little uncharted territory cause we haven't played RTTS. But it is good to know these do work. Well, I guess kind of lol.

You could try raising user timing to 1. We have tried that and we can feel a big difference and can get quite a few perfect/perfect swings. So that could be an option for you. Personally, it felt too easy for us. But RTTS could be different with your hitter and we are hitting with teams and star players with higher ratings than your hitter is at right now.

If you don't see a noticeable difference, you can raise power to 7. That should get the ball to be hit farther.

For the pitching, that is a good question. You could try control/consistency at 2/2. The missing location by a lot is from the low consistency and the dotting the corners is from the higher control. You could swap them and do 2/3. But you run the risk of not throwing enough hangers for the CPU to crush.

Try those and let us know.

[VanillaSoda]

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Oops, I should have stated I only do pitching

The power problem is on the CPU side, I leave things hanging/over the plate and they just pop them up or hit this hard thud only for it to be a crushed fly out, I did manage to work myself out of a lot of clutch situations which is where I think maybe 2/2 could solve a lot of these problems but I do feel the CPU's power just isn't quite there but again that could be due to where these pitches are going making them very hard to get a hit on.

[bryanm1982]

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Oops, I should have stated I only do pitching

The power problem is on the CPU side, I leave things hanging/over the plate and they just pop them up or hit this hard thud only for it to be a crushed fly out, I did manage to work myself out of a lot of clutch situations which is where I think maybe 2/2 could solve a lot of these problems but I do feel the CPU's power just isn't quite there but again that could be due to where these pitches are going making them very hard to get a hit on.

You could try 2/2 and raise CPU timing to 8 or 9. I been trying 8 myself cause Alvarez should have crushed a hanger but he was way too early and fouled it off.

[VanillaSoda]

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Seeing the same thing, a lot of fouled off pitches when I miss and a lot of fly outs and what not when they are forced to swing at corner pitches, although keeping in mind my results are with 1 pitcher all the time.

Will give that a shot and see!

[MadKingCraig]

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I'll go games without a HR and then have some games where I hit like 3+. My suggestion for people I'd say is to give it a good amount of games to judge if HR power or even hitting in general is off and try to determine how much of it has to do with your hitting. Think about all the times you mistimed a hanger or if you're not in a groove. I'll have days where I feel locked in and others where I'm all over the place timing wise.

[HeadCoach2.0]

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I have 6/6 as my pitch speed but I am having a hard time getting around on fastballs where I can pull them.

I am going to bump the user timing up by one to try to give myself a bigger window to pull fast pitches.

I am in full agreement that 5/5 is too slow this year.
You have to increase the speed and just live with it until you get better.

[jake44np]

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So are you guys using timing or directional hitting?

[bryanm1982]

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So are you guys using timing or directional hitting?

I’m using timing. But it doesn’t matter.

[PhlliesPhan6]

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So are you guys using timing or directional hitting?

Aren't they basically the same except directional you can influence the direction?