Bottom Line: Still too many HRs

[Deadeye15]

Re: Bottom Line: Still too many HRs

I tried to play a game early after a day of letting it be because of the homers. It was me(Nationals) vs. the Braves. Kelly Johnson I believe was the leadoff hitter, I throw a fastball away and low out of the zone to check out the strike zone like I normally would. He decides differently and takes it out to right center 375 feet. I just turned it right back off and went out to dinner. I play on default All Star.

I really love this game it just gets frustrating at times the way the homers are hit. I dont mind if its like, I make a mistake and they take it out but I hate when they take a ball that normally should be grounded or a pop up out of the yard is annoying. All of this should and is easily fixable with sliders but then at least in my experience you cant get wild cards. So Ill just hope it gets patched and tough it out. I'd rather not have to disable the newest most hyped feature just to get it playable to my standards but it may come to that. Oh well ill deal with it and just try to get better at pitching.

[Kramer5150]

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at least in my experience you cant get wild cards.

Yes...you can still get wild cards with adjusted sliders.
I'm using adjusted sliders and have gotten wild cards.

[Deadeye15]

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Yes...you can still get wild cards with adjusted sliders.
I'm using adjusted sliders and have gotten wild cards.

I guess I have to give them another chance then. I played about 16 or so games with adjusted sliders and got none and then got 4 on my first game on default.

[JBH3]

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What is your step influence slider at?

5

[davewins]

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Unfortunatley I am starting to see this as a trend now too. What's good is I am not getting 10+ hits a game but what's bad is I am getting too many long balls and possibly too many extra base hits. Basically not enough singles. I'd rather see majority of my hits singles and then some HR's here and there because that's what it should be like more so. I almost wish there was a HR slider. Forget about power and everything else, just a HR slider plain and simple.

Has anyone tried messing with human skill?? I'm not sure exactly what this does. I know it says that it affects hit quality but will it affect power or just types of hits that we get and make HR's harder (timing has to be even more crucial and everything that takes part in the game deciding if it's a HR).

If I could just walk a few more batters on the mound (next year 2k make a slider for human meat pitches resulting in balls) and not give up just the long ball to the CPU then pitching would be perfect. Then if I could get the hitting right so I am not scoring runs just off of HR's and extra base hits then this game would be AWESOME.

I know it's only year 2 of the 3 year plan so that definetley gives me HIGH hopes for next year's game. Meanwhile I will try to tweak to lower the HR totals. I haven't touched that many sliders so I can still get this game to play pretty damn good if I have a little patience. Good luck guys if I find anything to help this I will be right here posting it!

[baa7]

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Has anyone tried messing with human skill??

From the testing I've done since MLB 2K5, I would suggest the Skill slider is essentially a cheat slider. It seems to increase the probability that the ball will magically find that gap between the 3rd baseman and SS, or the LF and CF. When the CPU is hitting, it makes IF/OF shifts redundant seeing the CPU will find the gap between them, regardless of where they're positioned.

I always drop the Skill slider down to 0 or as low as it can go without affecting the CPU's ability to make contact. And I raise the Contact slider as high as it needs to go to compensate and balance that out.

[truckie16]

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I guess I have to give them another chance then. I played about 16 or so games with adjusted sliders and got none and then got 4 on my first game on default.

I don't know, I've played about 30 or so games and have no wildcards. I hate it when you have play a game forever to unlock stuff.


So I'm not totally off topic.
I honestly have more of issue with the CPU hit quality in general. All thier hits are to the gap or in the hole, perfecty placed. Since I toned down CPU batting skill things have evened out a bit. I will say even with CPU skillturned down a good 10 clicks from All-star they still get a ridiculous amount of quality hits.
HRs though seem to come in bunches. I've had games where between myself and the CPU we hit 6-7 hrs and others where none are hit. Seems to even out for me in the long run but there are times where i think it's out of wack.
I guess what I'm saying is hit quality in general is more of an issue than HRs with me.

[therizing02]

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After thinking about it, I'm having a bigger problem with HRs this year than I did last year. The "Perfect Slider" set last year fixed the issue for me. I'm still not giving up though. I think it can be fixed.

[truckie16]

Re: Bottom Line: Still too many HRs

After thinking about it, I'm having a bigger problem with HRs this year than I did last year. The "Perfect Slider" set last year fixed the issue for me. I'm still not giving up though. I think it can be fixed.

Like a couple guys above my other post said, it's about the CPU skill slider more thatn any other,IMO.

[catcatch22]

Re: Bottom Line: Still too many HRs

From the testing I've done since MLB 2K5, I would suggest the Skill slider is essentially a cheat slider. It seems to increase the probability that the ball will magically find that gap between the 3rd baseman and SS, or the LF and CF. When the CPU is hitting, it makes IF/OF shifts redundant seeing the CPU will find the gap between them, regardless of where they're positioned.

I always drop the Skill slider down to 0 or as low as it can go without affecting the CPU's ability to make contact. And I raise the Contact slider as high as it needs to go to compensate and balance that out.

I did something similar. I got this from playing 2k5 as well. I have...

Contact - 70 - both human and cpu
Skill - 15 - both
Power - 5 - both
Foul Ball - 100 - both
Pitch Speed - 65 - both
IF/OF Reaction Speed - 30 - both
IF/OF Speed - 30 - both

This will make the game not a homerun fest.

[sportyguyfl31]

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I'm not sure what it is, but I am giving up fewer homers as I play more games playing on default all star(shrugs)...what I do hate, is the obligatory CPU "I'm getting on the board now, and that is that" Homerun.

The HR on a pitch perfectly placed on the high outside corner of the strike zone. A pitch that will saw off a bat more often then actually be put in play fair. Those HR's drive me up the wall.

I can honestly say that the majority of the shots hit against me now are when I miss location, but even then, every time I miss location shouldnt result in a rocket shot..that part I agree with.
A MLB Batter doesnt turn on a mistake pitch EVERY time, like they seem to do in this game.

The only player I have hit an eyebrow raising amount of homers with is delgado. Through 15 games he has 8 homeruns , but David Wright has 2 and Beltran has 3, so maybe I'm just zoned in with the guy right now..who knows.

[therizing02]

Re: Bottom Line: Still too many HRs

I did something similar. I got this from playing 2k5 as well. I have...

Contact - 70 - both human and cpu
Skill - 15 - both
Power - 5 - both
Foul Ball - 100 - both
Pitch Speed - 65 - both
IF/OF Reaction Speed - 30 - both
IF/OF Speed - 30 - both

This will make the game not a homerun fest.

Are you still seeing extra base hits with these numbers? That has been the challenge. No matter what slider setting I was using, I was still seeing HRs. With Power and Skill low, I wasn't seeing anything other than soft singles and HR's. With Power and skill higher, I was seeing more extra base hits and generally harder hit balls, but the same amount of HRs.

[catcatch22]

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Are you still seeing extra base hits with these numbers? That has been the challenge. No matter what slider setting I was using, I was still seeing HRs. With Power and Skill low, I wasn't seeing anything other than soft singles and HR's. With Power and skill higher, I was seeing more extra base hits and generally harder hit balls, but the same amount of HRs.

To get extra base hits you have to lower the speed and reaction speed of the outfielders and infielders.

[rmcguire]

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what do you have set for step influence?

[catcatch22]

Re: Bottom Line: Still too many HRs

what do you have set for step influence?

25