"OS & BFJ" Present MLB 2K9 Spring Training Sliders

[lantzbg]

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Good job Joe and everyone making this game enjoyable. Regarding the AI aggressiveness issue and using IE when pitching. Are you going to the IE report (D-pad) or using the pitch zone overlay that appears briefly at the beginning of the CPU's at bat? Often times, they don't give you the same hot and cold zones. Just curious on your thoughts. Thanks

[Qb]

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JBH3 I think the only way to make pitching more "random" in the placements and not so pin point. Would be to turn on the 3 stage pitching. It has the time release which juges your accuracy. Then jack up the pitch meter sliders. Make the meter alot quicker should bring more random pitches.

Just a thought. I have not tried that pitching method yet. But it might work.

I finally got a chance to play the retail version of the game last night, well 3 innings anyways... I used the 3-step pitching as I didn't like the 2-step pitching used in the demo. If you miss your release point, you will be wild. Catcatch22 has a thread (Pitching too easy!) concerning never completely missing your spot -- well I did this on several occasions yesterday. I'm talking aiming inside and missing up & away...

Now once you get the timing down misses like that would be less frequent, but it would probably be worth investigating if 3-step pitching with high settings for meter speed & release timing influence may indeed make us at least a little less accurate. I don't have much time to do real testing, so I'm hoping the OS faithful can take up the initiative!

[bigfnjoe96]

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Good job Joe and everyone making this game enjoyable. Regarding the AI aggressiveness issue and using IE when pitching. Are you going to the IE report (D-pad) or using the pitch zone overlay that appears briefly at the beginning of the CPU's at bat? Often times, they don't give you the same hot and cold zones. Just curious on your thoughts. Thanks

lantzbg, you may be on to something here. I personally haven't notice this I've used both @ the same time.

Isn't the IE Info from the D-PAD more about career tendencies, compared to the IE K-ZONE which is what the batter's tendency may be for that AB?

If you have some insight on this I would love to hear-it

[JBH3]

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I finally got a chance to play the retail version of the game last night, well 3 innings anyways... I used the 3-step pitching as I didn't like the 2-step pitching used in the demo. If you miss your release point, you will be wild. Catcatch22 has a thread (Pitching too easy!) concerning never completely missing your spot -- well I did this on several occasions yesterday. I'm talking aiming inside and missing up & away...

Now once you get the timing down misses like that would be less frequent, but it would probably be worth investigating if 3-step pitching with high settings for meter speed & release timing influence may indeed make us at least a little less accurate. I don't have much time to do real testing, so I'm hoping the OS faithful can take up the initiative!

I've been thinking about going back to the 3-step process, but not knowing where my gesture rated is a big detractor for switching...

I guess maybe I should go back though, because I haven't gotten a good shallacking yet, and I haven't even been able to get Brad Lidge into a save situation. Every game I've won has been by more than 5 runs, and my only loss came on opening in a 2-0 shutout by Derek Lowe.

I'm 4-1 right now using the Phillies.

[lgkeeper]

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I apologize if this is covered somwhere in here, but is there a way to get IE all the time? I keep reading about how great it is to use IE, but I thought you had to purchase it in your 'chise and I don't necessarily want to do that for every team. Maybe I'm missing something, sorry.

[BadKermit]

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- Not really a slider issue, but does anyone else get the feeling the CPU scripts what kind of inning it's going to have? Because I pitched a gem until the 6th when they opened the floodgates on me and they weren't even legit hits, I threw WAAAAAAY out of the strikezone and they were getting base knocks...

I was hoping someone else was going to say this. This is infuriating. I played a game last night where I cruised along for the first 4 innings, and then in the 5th, I got the first two batters out and proceeded to give up 7 straight hits. They were hitting balls a foot outside, sliders on the hands, everything. I can't keep the CPU under a hit an inning, and I don't think I'm bad at pitching by any stretch of the imagination. It's really frustrating.

[BigL]

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I was hoping someone else was going to say this. This is infuriating. I played a game last night where I cruised along for the first 4 innings, and then in the 5th, I got the first two batters out and proceeded to give up 7 straight hits. They were hitting balls a foot outside, sliders on the hands, everything. I can't keep the CPU under a hit an inning, and I don't think I'm bad at pitching by any stretch of the imagination. It's really frustrating.

I am a bit worried that there is a AI comeback code in this game. A few times I was shutting them down only for them to start hammering away in the last two innings.

[kGinGreen]

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great sliders man. Another great game.

Royals(me) vs the Rangers. Won 8-6 in the 10th inning

Royals
14 hits(9 singles, 2 doubles, 1 triple, 2 hrs)
3 walks
11 k's
1 error
77 strikes
23 balls

Rangers
9 hits(3 singles, 4 doubles, 2 hrs)
0 walks
5 k's
1 error
76 strikes
25 balls

This game plays really smooth with these.

[lantzbg]

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lantzbg, you may be on to something here. I personally haven't notice this I've used both @ the same time.

Isn't the IE Info from the D-PAD more about career tendencies, compared to the IE K-ZONE which is what the batter's tendency may be for that AB?

If you have some insight on this I would love to hear-it

I've noticed several screens of info from the D-Pad (career tendencies, miss %, in play %, averages vs. pitch type, etc.). I've never noticed if any of the changes during an at bat. I've been mainly using the d-Pad IE because I was under the impression that the IE K-Zone was what the catcher suggested. Do you mainly use the IE K-Zone overlay? I need to do some experimenting with both strategies.

[bigfnjoe96]

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I've noticed several screens of info from the D-Pad (career tendencies, miss %, in play %, averages vs. pitch type, etc.). I've never noticed if any of the changes during an at bat. I've been mainly using the d-Pad IE because I was under the impression that the IE K-Zone was what the catcher suggested. Do you mainly use the IE K-Zone overlay? I need to do some experimenting with both strategies.

lantzbg, I created a thread so we can have a broader discussion about this with the community here:

http://www.operationsports.com/forum...zone-info.html

lets take our discussion there.

[bigfnjoe96]

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great sliders man. Another great game.

Royals(me) vs the Rangers. Won 8-6 in the 10th inning

Royals
14 hits(9 singles, 2 doubles, 1 triple, 2 hrs)
3 walks
11 k's
1 error
77 strikes
23 balls

Rangers
9 hits(3 singles, 4 doubles, 2 hrs)
0 walks
5 k's
1 error
76 strikes
25 balls

This game plays really smooth with these.

Did you up the AI Success Slider to 75, or did you leave it @ 50 for this game?

[kGinGreen]

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I was still using your old ones. Version 3. I might up the success now that you mention it lol. These are slightly easy for me to hit. Upping the success rate might do the trick.

[bigfnjoe96]

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I was still using your old ones. Version 3. I might up the success now that you mention it lol. These are slightly easy for me to hit. Upping the success rate might do the trick.

If your finding it easy to hit, drop Human Hitting Success 1 click. & continue to drop by 1 until you get the results you want

[BadKermit]

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I am a bit worried that there is a AI comeback code in this game. A few times I was shutting them down only for them to start hammering away in the last two innings.

Same here. Why, oh, why would sports games do this? If I'm clobbering the CPU, I'm clobbering the CPU. Deal with it.

[belljr]

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Ok So I have played about 8 games with these settings. I upped CPU power to 70 and CPU Success to 40 (maybe it is at 40 already).

I have been very please with the offense from my team. Hitting maybe a little too many HR's.

I'm worried about the CPU, I don't feel like I'm ever in trouble. I do work the count a lot and have had guys with horrible late swings for K's on fastballs which is cool.

I need a little more O out of the CPU I think.

Up the success rating?

Having a great time though. Howard is now getting intentionally walked