MLB 2K9 Post-Patch Impressions (360 & PS3 merged)

[BigL]

Re: Major League Baseball 2K9 Official Patch 2 Available, Impressions Here (PS3 Only)

For those still having trouble with the OF glitch. To aleviate this let your AI do the work for you. Do not touch the controls. On high fly balls the AI will either completely settle under it and make the catch, or sometimes they run close to the landing spot and stop short of it, in this instance you have to finish the rest and move the OFer under the fly ballto finish the play. It takes practice but this has worked very well for me. I have not had balls go over my head or hit me in the head or anything silly like that.

On balls you have to come in to charge, again, let the AI go after it for you.

The problem is still on line drives where you have to go to your left or right, in these cases youj ust have to hope for the best and hope your OFer either makes the catch or if he doesnt let, hope the ball does not get behind him.

Letting the AI do the work for me has helped this problem a great deal, unfortunately there are still going to be instances where a ball taht should be caught will drop in and it will potentially wreck your game. i guess that is something you have to decide if you want to put up with. Maybe with some more complaining 2K will release another patch for this :wink:

Post Patch im really starting to like this game. I found a good set of sliders to tone down the AI hitting. Im getting called 3 strike outs and what I like most is i am getting TONS of foul balls by both myself and teh AI. I had a pretty cool pitching duel with Bengie Molina, with 2 strikes he fouled off 5 pitches.

mY OTHER minor gripe with the game is the pitchers hit the ball a little too much. But I guess i have tos tart paying more attention when they are up

This game is SO CLOSE to being awesome you can smell it. Hopefully next year.

[lgkeeper]

Re: Major League Baseball 2K9 Official Patch 2 Available, Impressions Here (360 Only)

I've noticed the general gameplay appears a lot smoother, especially the flyball issues we all had.

Can someone please confirm that the flyball issue (not the slowdown, but where the ball would just go over the players' heads) has been completely or partially resolved? This was the game-killer for me.

I had a John Maine no-hitter (in the 6th) broken up by one of these things.

Thanks...can't wait to get home and load it up!

[bigfnjoe96]

Re: Major League Baseball 2K9 Official Patch 2 Available, Impressions Here (360 Only)

Though the game is playing much better, I am still disappointed that didn't add descriptions of the Sliders for this game. It is getting frustrating trying to create sliders for the community but having no idea WTF the sliders really due & how they interact with each other.

[~Guru~]

Re: Major League Baseball 2K9 Official Patch 2 Available, Impressions Here (360 Only)

Though the game is playing much better, I am still disappointed that didn't add descriptions of the Sliders for this game. It is getting frustrating trying to create sliders for the community but having no idea WTF the sliders really due & how they interact with each other.

what is hard to figure out about the sliders...they are simple...

which one dont you know what it relates to?

[GTR34]

Re: Major League Baseball 2K9 Official Patch 2 Available, Impressions Here (360 Only)

So has everyone decided to start fresh regarding their sliders?

Is default All-Star difficulty (for example) actually playable now? Or should we still use the sliders that everyone has been tweeking for the past month or so?

[bigfnjoe96]

Re: Major League Baseball 2K9 Official Patch 2 Available, Impressions Here (360 Only)

what is hard to figure out about the sliders...they are simple...

which one dont you know what it relates to?

All the NEW Sliders interact with each other & not knowing how they effect each other is what's frustrating:

Inside Edge Influence
Pitcher Handedness
Batter Success

[ExtremeGamer]

Re: Major League Baseball 2K9 Official Patch 2 Available, Impressions Here (360 Only)

Game plays much smoother. On default sliders, I had the CPU take a bunch of strikes, had 2 called 3rd strikeouts.

Seems to be little if no slowdown on flyball outs.

Game just feels much better overall, and I had fun playing it pre-patch. Now to start my franchise.

[brendanrfoley]

Re: Major League Baseball 2K9 Official Patch 2 Available, Impressions Here (360 Only)

I've played two games with the patch. I was disappointed after my first, but feel much better about my second.

There a two big changes on the pitching side. First, the gesture is far more sensitive. User-thrown pitches can end up all over the place. There is a catch, though. The computer is more likely to swing at what it things is a poorly thrown pitch. When you do nail the motion, though, the computer will take. I've seen some terrific at-bats and have a real fear of screwing up against opposing hitters. User-issued walks are entirely possible, especially if you want to avoid grooving one to a great hitter.

Fielding is definitely smoother, in both the infield and outfield.

And, this cannot be understated -- the smooth transitions into batting stances (no more "snap") us beautiful and allows Signature Styles to shine through.

With the patch, MLB 2K9 is head and shoulders above 2K8. It's a solid B+ game in my opinion, and will carry me through the baseball season (easily). It also excites me for the prospects of the series.

Visual Concepts is taking the MLB 2K franchise seriously, and it shows.

[~Guru~]

Re: Major League Baseball 2K9 Official Patch 2 Available, Impressions Here (360 Only)

All the NEW Sliders interact with each other & not knowing how they effect each other is what's frustrating:

Inside Edge Influence
Pitcher Handedness
Batter Success

Inside Edge Influence just relates to how much of the edge tendencies do you want the outcome to have...

Pitcher Hand relates to how a hitter performace vs a lefty or righty pitcher

Batter Success relates to the outcome of an at bat...the higher it is the higher percentage you get of the hitter hitting successfully...

[JHedges2]

Re: Major League Baseball 2K9 Official Patch 2 Available, Impressions Here (360 Only)

Can someone please confirm that the flyball issue (not the slowdown, but where the ball would just go over the players' heads) has been completely or partially resolved? This was the game-killer for me.

I had a John Maine no-hitter (in the 6th) broken up by one of these things.

Thanks...can't wait to get home and load it up!

Confirmed. lol, haven't had the issue once, OR the 1B issue.

Just competed my first ACTUAL FULL game (10 innings actually).

Yankees 2 vs Twins 0 (cpu)

Took me until the 10th to score any runs (PLAYING ON DEFAULT LEGEND SLIDERS). Things I noticed, there was hardly ANY offense throughout the entire game, I had 10 hits (in 10 inn) and ALL of them were singles. They had 5 hits, all were singles.

Players in the field were far too fast, and it is still too hard to get any K's.

Here are my pitchers stats (lol)...

A.J. Burnett: 9 IP, 2 H, 1 BB, 5 K (89 pitches between the 2)
M. Rivera: 1 IP, 3 H

S. Baker: 10 IP, 10 H, 2 ER, 1 K (59 pitches in 10 innings lol)

[DrUrsus]

Re: Major League Baseball 2K9 Official Patch 2 Available, Impressions Here (360 Only)

Guys. Please start with default sliders on whatever level you are playing on to get a feel for the game "out of the box" now, post your impressions, then start tweaking sliders. The old sliders you were using aren't going to work the same (I would imagine). It doesn't make sense to me to give impressions based on sliders that will need to be changed most likely.

I really think this would be more beneficial, but just my opinion. I am really trying to decide if I want to buy this game as a second baseball game since I have The Show. I liked some things I saw on the demo, but just couldn't get over the CPU batting aggressiveness problem. Is it better?

How does MLB 2K9 now compare to MLB 2K8? Is it definitely better?

[~Guru~]

Re: Major League Baseball 2K9 Official Patch 2 Available, Impressions Here (360 Only)

Guys. Please start with default sliders on whatever level you are playing on to get a feel for the game "out of the box" now, post your impressions, then start tweaking sliders. The old sliders you were using aren't going to work the same (I would imagine). It doesn't make sense to me to give impressions based on sliders that will need to be changed most likely.

I really think this would be more beneficial, but just my opinion. I am really trying to decide if I want to buy this game as a second baseball game since I have The Show. I liked some things I saw on the demo, but just couldn't get over the CPU batting aggressiveness problem. Is it better?

How does MLB 2K9 now compare to MLB 2K8? Is it definitely better?

i started with my old pre patch sliders and have tweak a few things around and i am getting good results right now..

getting a feel for the gameplay as it feels more organic now

also 2k9 pre patch was a million times better then the garbage that was 2k8

[crazylegs]

Re: Major League Baseball 2K9 Official Patch 2 Available, Impressions Here (360 Only)

For what it's worth, here are my impressions.

I played a full 9 inning game with the Sox vs. the Rays. (Finally got my franchise started.) Beckett lasted 7 innings, and I struck out 7 and walked 3. The most important part of this? I took out Beckett because has was at pitch 98 and started getting tired. Yup... I threw 98 pitches in 7 innings. Awesome.

I threw out ~10 batters at first and never had the glitch.

I caught the other 11 outs in the outfield and never had any problems with the outfielders.

At the plate I got 6 hits and drove in a run off a single + steal with Jacoby and a follow-up single from Dustin.

All in all, I ended up losing the game 2-1 off a string of hits by the Rays off Saito and Okajima.

This is all with on the All-Star setting, so no custom sliders. I would definitely say the patch has worked wonders for me. The last game I played I won 15-1 with no strikeouts and 7 homeruns on the All-Star settings (same teams involved). I'm a very happy camper.

[JHedges2]

Re: Major League Baseball 2K9 Official Patch 2 Available, Impressions Here (360 Only)

i started with my old pre patch sliders and have tweak a few things around and i am getting good results right now..

getting a feel for the gameplay as it feels more organic now

also 2k9 pre patch was a million times better then the garbage that was 2k8

On the sliders page, the first post, is that your most current set? Wanna give your NEWEST set a try bro.

[panthers_freak]

Re: Major League Baseball 2K9 Official Patch 2 Available, Impressions Here (360 Only)

ok i downloaded the patch this morning. works great. the outfielders and infielders were fluid,and had no problems with fly balls. ai was still a bit aggressive,but i think it was because i wasnt doing the motion correctly. the only thing that sucks is that it froze, and when i triedto turn it back on i found that i had the red ring of death. now it will take 3 weeks to get it back. ugh,i just waited a month to startmy franchise, and now i have to wait more weeks.