360 degree batting. According to FP in an earlier post, "We've had certain aspects of MVP's hitting system in for the last couple years...if you pull an outside pitch, for example, you don't hit the ball as hard. This year, we've put in a cursorless system that does a couple things for us. First, we could speed up the pitches to real-life speeds because aiming your swing at the pitch is instant (as opposed to the batting cursor moving, took some time to get where you wanted to go with it) and because the aiming is more intuitive and therefore easier. Second, we got the cursor out of the way. I dislike anything that draws your attention away from the action, and I hated having to keep track of the cursor's location and watch the ball coming in at the same time. Plus the cursor would cover up the pitcher, which is silly. I also dislike having the strike zone on the screen, and I recommend turning it off when you get the game. So anyway, back to the hitting system and how it works. Pretend your left thumbstick, when centered, is in the middle of the strike zone. You aim the stick at the ball where it is relative to the center of the strike zone. So if it's up and in on a righty, you aim up and left with your stick. Wait! you say. That's just zone hitting! Not exactly. Let's say the pitch was more up than in. You'd need to aim more up than in to make the best possible contact. So it's still "point the stick at the ball" but instead of 9 possible directions to aim, you have 360 degrees to work with. I prefer this system over the 9-zone system because it relies on your skill instead of us rolling dice to determine if you got a good hit or not. It's too easy to aim "perfectly" when you only have nine zones to choose from, so games with this system have to force you to gets outs even when you did everything right.) This system doesn't have that weakness--chances are, you aren't going to get it just right, so if you do, you'll be rewarded with solid contact."
So there you have it. It's not 9 zones. It is 360 degrees, and whether or not you aim by pushing hard or soft makes a difference. Just so you'd know.
So there you have it. It's not 9 zones. It is 360 degrees, and whether or not you aim by pushing hard or soft makes a difference. Just so you'd know.
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