Maybe my biggest complaint with the game is the Power swing is pointless. It’s too hard to make contact in relationship to the ease with which one is able to make contact using the Contact swing. Plus one can easily hit HR’s using the Contact swing, so what’s the point of Power swing? None really. The risk / reward simply isn’t worth it.
Anyway, I ran some tests last night. In one test, I lowered individual player Contact ratings to 40 and all other ratings (Doubles, Triples, HR’s) to 10. In the second test, I raised HR’s up to 40.
In both tests there may have been a slight drop in my ability to put the ball into play (assuming lower Contact ratings = more whiffs). Much more noticeable and noteworthy however were the types of hits I was getting.
In test one, I had difficulty getting the ball out of the infield using the Contact swing. Using the Power swing, I was able to get a few bloops and even line drives to the outfield.
In test two, my Contact swings had more thump – a lot of hot shots through the infield, and some line drives to the outfield – but generally all for base hits and not much more. My Power swings on the other hand were reaching the deeper parts of the outfield, and some hit the gaps for doubles and even triples (nothing really close to a HR though).
What was really interesting and exciting to see were the foul balls. I saw at least two foul ball plays / cut scenes I haven’t seen in all the time I’ve had the game. This was because my foul balls were looping up and into mid-field foul ball territory – places I’ve never seen fouls balls head. Most foul balls I’ve seen have that low angle cut scene where you see the ball blasting towards the foul pole. With these settings, a lot of my foul balls were catchable fly balls in foul territory. In fact, in one instance my RF came speeding in and made a lunging grab in foul territory – maybe 250 feet down the line.
I’ll be working some more on this in the next few days, but what’s exciting is there appears to be levels and textures of game play in this game that might be coaxed out with the proper tweaks. In test two, I found I was really relying on the Power swing a lot, knowing that if I needed and wanted more than a groundball or possible single, that I needed to take the chance and go after the pitch using the Power swing... which is exactly what I was hoping to achieve when I started this test.
Anyway, I ran some tests last night. In one test, I lowered individual player Contact ratings to 40 and all other ratings (Doubles, Triples, HR’s) to 10. In the second test, I raised HR’s up to 40.
In both tests there may have been a slight drop in my ability to put the ball into play (assuming lower Contact ratings = more whiffs). Much more noticeable and noteworthy however were the types of hits I was getting.
In test one, I had difficulty getting the ball out of the infield using the Contact swing. Using the Power swing, I was able to get a few bloops and even line drives to the outfield.
In test two, my Contact swings had more thump – a lot of hot shots through the infield, and some line drives to the outfield – but generally all for base hits and not much more. My Power swings on the other hand were reaching the deeper parts of the outfield, and some hit the gaps for doubles and even triples (nothing really close to a HR though).
What was really interesting and exciting to see were the foul balls. I saw at least two foul ball plays / cut scenes I haven’t seen in all the time I’ve had the game. This was because my foul balls were looping up and into mid-field foul ball territory – places I’ve never seen fouls balls head. Most foul balls I’ve seen have that low angle cut scene where you see the ball blasting towards the foul pole. With these settings, a lot of my foul balls were catchable fly balls in foul territory. In fact, in one instance my RF came speeding in and made a lunging grab in foul territory – maybe 250 feet down the line.
I’ll be working some more on this in the next few days, but what’s exciting is there appears to be levels and textures of game play in this game that might be coaxed out with the proper tweaks. In test two, I found I was really relying on the Power swing a lot, knowing that if I needed and wanted more than a groundball or possible single, that I needed to take the chance and go after the pitch using the Power swing... which is exactly what I was hoping to achieve when I started this test.
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