Misplaying Routine Fly Outs in the Outfield

[elfdutch]

Re: Misplaying Routine Fly Outs in the Outfield

In about 20 games i have not had a situation where i misplayed a routine fly out. There were cases where i had to take a quick step backwards but the player still caught the ball.

What i do see is (as somebody else mentioned as well) that sometimes the cpu tends to select the wrong player to field the ball. That's when things go wrong.
Besides that i feel that outfielders often get a late jump on the ball, causing me to be too late and giving up a single. Perhaps this also has something to do with the ratings?

Perhaps a little offtopic, but one question : did anybody see one of those sliding basket catches in the outfield? I saw them in the trailers but have not seen them in the game.
I wonder if that goes automatically (the infielders sometimes auto dive) or if you have to push the same button as you would do for a dive.

[JayhawkerStL]

Re: Misplaying Routine Fly Outs in the Outfield

What i do see is (as somebody else mentioned as well) that sometimes the cpu tends to select the wrong player to field the ball. That's when things go wrong.

Besides that i feel that outfielders often get a late jump on the ball, causing me to be too late and giving up a single. Perhaps this also has something to do with the ratings?

This is a good point. The plus side is that this happens at seems to be an appropriate rate. I'd say the number of triples this results in feels very fair.

[lord_strategery]

Re: Misplaying Routine Fly Outs in the Outfield

It really doesn't matter if the yellow circle appears earlier or not. There's an arrow on your player icon that is always pointing exactly where you need to go. If you hold the direction of that arrow, you will always make it to the spot to be. Personally, in my opinion, it make the white sphere mechanic pointless.

[rudyjuly2]

Re: Misplaying Routine Fly Outs in the Outfield

It really doesn't matter if the yellow circle appears earlier or not. There's an arrow on your player icon that is always pointing exactly where you need to go. If you hold the direction of that arrow, you will always make it to the spot to be. Personally, in my opinion, it make the white sphere mechanic pointless.

I can't see that arrow at all with my camera angle (zoomed out 2K9).

[lnin0]

Re: Misplaying Routine Fly Outs in the Outfield

I would like to see this next year.

One marker instead of two for catching and it looks like shadow. When ball is hit, up trajectory, the shadow will grow to large, generalized area. The better the fielder the smaller and tighter shadow stays.

As the ball comes down the target circle start to shrink into a small shadow right where ball will land. The time it takes to shrink down to the exact landing area is somewhat consistant, so the higher a ball is hit the sooner you will know right where it will land. Thus, nobody should have issue with high pop.

Inversely, a low arching drive will be traveling faster giving the target will have less time to shrink, meaning you have less time to see exact landing location. Because better fielders start with smaller target they will have advantage to see landing spot before others and make catching drives easier for them.