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

[bwiggy33]

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Alright so I played a couple games and it doesn't seem like I'm seeing enough balls from the CPU. If they did throw a ball however it would just miss and it would hit the same location over and over. BFJ any suggestions on how I could get the CPU to throw a few more balls? Also I'd like to see a couple mistake pitches once in a while and not just pitches that nail the outside or inside corner all the time. Hopefully this will give me a few more walks and some doubles, triples, etc. Any help would be great.

[FenwayMac]

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Sounds like it is turning into "Fat" Wednesday around here

It sounds like general consensus is that offense is lacking and we want the home run trot occasionally. The last page in particular has several good suggestions that I am going to try tonight and will post results tomorrow.

I too would like to see fat pitch over the plate occasionally. Pretty hypocritical considering that I always want to paint the corners!

[bigfnjoe96]

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Alright so I played a couple games and it doesn't seem like I'm seeing enough balls from the CPU. If they did throw a ball however it would just miss and it would hit the same location over and over. BFJ any suggestions on how I could get the CPU to throw a few more balls? Also I'd like to see a couple mistake pitches once in a while and not just pitches that nail the outside or inside corner all the time. Hopefully this will give me a few more walks and some doubles, triples, etc. Any help would be great.

For more balls from the AI, lower the Strike Zone Tendencies. For more balls in the Zone up the AI Pitch Zone Slider

[bwiggy33]

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For more balls from the AI, lower the Strike Zone Tendencies. For more balls in the Zone up the AI Pitch Zone Slider

Alright thanks! I really appreciate all of your help. In the games yesterday that I played it seemed like my offense was ok with hard hit balls they were just all singles.

[BigL]

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

Sounds like it is turning into "Fat" Wednesday around here

It sounds like general consensus is that offense is lacking and we want the home run trot occasionally. The last page in particular has several good suggestions that I am going to try tonight and will post results tomorrow.

I too would like to see fat pitch over the plate occasionally. Pretty hypocritical considering that I always want to paint the corners!

I moved the human success to 65, contact at 20 and power to 100 and am now hitting for power. I may be getting a few too many hits so I am going to maybe knock the success down a bit.

The thing I like about this year's 2K is that in order to hit a home run you REALLY have to time your swing correctly and also use the left analog swing in the correct direction in relation to the pitch location. Everything has to go "just right" in order to hit a homer. Sort of like real life. In year's past it was too easy to jack out homers.

I use classic hitting, by the way.

[CALZONE JONES]

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Well i finally got a full game in with the opening day sliders, here is how it went,

I was colorado, jimenez pitching against the dogers and kurodo, jimenez went 6 1/3 giving up 5 hits 4 k's no walks and 1 er, 87 pitch count, I managed 13 hits with 5 runs, 9 singles, two solo HR's (by atkins) and two triples (that did not score), I ended up winning 5-2, stupid throwing error in the 9th by me,


Overall i am extremely satisfied with these sliders, now i just need the updated rosters to come out so i can get my franchise going, oh yeah i also threw out the CPU twice

[JHedges2]

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Joe, may've finally found the perfect combo, thanks to your WONDERFUL suggestions to everyone's problems, which I found to experience also.

Just played game 2 of my season (NYY) vs. Baltimore, after a 2-0 game 1 win, I needed more hitting.

I scored 10 runs on 15 hits (high, I know): 7 singles, 5 doubles, 3 HR (my CAP, Cano, and Tex hit the HR).

AJ Burnett: 9IP, 8H, 2ER (2 solo HR), 9 K's!!! (89 pitches)
Baltimore threw 86 pitches to me.

USER HITTING SLIDERS: Success 60, Contact 50, Power 70
CPU HITTING SLIDERS: Success 65, Contact 15, Power 80

I also used the Gesture recognition/Hold timing at 60/40 like you suggested. Perhaps A BIT too easy to pinpoint pitches, but I found the original set (70/30) was slightly more difficult than I'd like (ESP. with Sabathia pitching...).

The final score was 10-2, but that's a bit misleading, for it was 3-2 going into the 7th, I scored 5 in the 8th, and 1 in the 9th.

Things that may be suspect: Perhaps a bit too many hits, but I do have the Yankees, so a great lineup, and I was playing Baltimore, with bad pitching.

Also I've thrown 2 CG's with Burnett and C.C., perhaps because of the low pitch count, or should I maybe go down to 40 on fatigue?
Thoughts?

[FenwayMac]

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Joe, may've finally found the perfect combo, thanks to your WONDERFUL suggestions to everyone's problems, which I found to experience also.

Just played game 2 of my season (NYY) vs. Baltimore, after a 2-0 game 1 win, I needed more hitting.

I scored 10 runs on 15 hits (high, I know): 7 singles, 5 doubles, 3 HR (my CAP, Cano, and Tex hit the HR).

AJ Burnett: 9IP, 8H, 2ER (2 solo HR), 9 K's!!! (89 pitches)
Baltimore threw 86 pitches to me.

USER HITTING SLIDERS: Success 60, Contact 50, Power 70
CPU HITTING SLIDERS: Success 65, Contact 15, Power 80

I also used the Gesture recognition/Hold timing at 60/40 like you suggested. Perhaps A BIT too easy to pinpoint pitches, but I found the original set (70/30) was slightly more difficult than I'd like (ESP. with Sabathia pitching...).

The final score was 10-2, but that's a bit misleading, for it was 3-2 going into the 7th, I scored 5 in the 8th, and 1 in the 9th.

Things that may be suspect: Perhaps a bit too many hits, but I do have the Yankees, so a great lineup, and I was playing Baltimore, with bad pitching.

Also I've thrown 2 CG's with Burnett and C.C., perhaps because of the low pitch count, or should I maybe go down to 40 on fatigue?
Thoughts?

Hey, just curious what your user batting pitching influence is at for these results? My guess is maybe lower the success a bit for less hits?

Also, I am thinking about lowering the fatigue to 40 as well. I went CG with Santana with 10k's and 7 hits so he probably should have been more worn out.

[The Kid 24]

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

Joe, may've finally found the perfect combo, thanks to your WONDERFUL suggestions to everyone's problems, which I found to experience also.

Just played game 2 of my season (NYY) vs. Baltimore, after a 2-0 game 1 win, I needed more hitting.

I scored 10 runs on 15 hits (high, I know): 7 singles, 5 doubles, 3 HR (my CAP, Cano, and Tex hit the HR).

AJ Burnett: 9IP, 8H, 2ER (2 solo HR), 9 K's!!! (89 pitches)
Baltimore threw 86 pitches to me.

USER HITTING SLIDERS: Success 60, Contact 50, Power 70
CPU HITTING SLIDERS: Success 65, Contact 15, Power 80

I also used the Gesture recognition/Hold timing at 60/40 like you suggested. Perhaps A BIT too easy to pinpoint pitches, but I found the original set (70/30) was slightly more difficult than I'd like (ESP. with Sabathia pitching...).

The final score was 10-2, but that's a bit misleading, for it was 3-2 going into the 7th, I scored 5 in the 8th, and 1 in the 9th.

Things that may be suspect: Perhaps a bit too many hits, but I do have the Yankees, so a great lineup, and I was playing Baltimore, with bad pitching.

Also I've thrown 2 CG's with Burnett and C.C., perhaps because of the low pitch count, or should I maybe go down to 40 on fatigue?
Thoughts?

Hey JMan, could you post the complete set of Joe's sliders your using? And what type of hitting do you use, swing stick or classic? I wanna try these out tonite!!!!

[BigL]

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Hey, just curious what your user batting pitching influence is at for these results? My guess is maybe lower the success a bit for less hits?

Also, I am thinking about lowering the fatigue to 40 as well. I went CG with Santana with 10k's and 7 hits so he probably should have been more worn out.

Lowering the fatigue slider will make your pitcher last longer.

[FenwayMac]

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Lowering the fatigue slider will make your pitcher last longer.

is that correct? I have always thought lowering it fatigued him quicker? Anybody confirm that lowering this number increases stamina?

[JHedges2]

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Hey JMan, could you post the complete set of Joe's sliders your using? And what type of hitting do you use, swing stick or classic? I wanna try these out tonite!!!!

Sure thing:

USER HITTING:
Batting Success 60
Batting Contact 50
Batting Power 70
Pitcher Hand. Inf 100
IE Batting Zone Inf 100
Batting Pitch Inf 75
Batter's Eye Inf 75
Hit Direction Inf 90
Zone Hitting Inf 0
Bunt Contact/Success 50/50

CPU Batting
AI Success 65
AI Contact 15
AI Power 80
AI Pitcher Hand. Inf 100
AI IE Batting zone Inf 100
AI Batting Pitch Inf 85
AI Bunt Contact/Success 75/50

USER Pitching
Pitch Meter Speed 100
Pitch Speed 75
Gesture Recognition 60
Hold Timing Inf 40
Release Timing Inf 75
Pitch Rating Inf 80
Pitch Break Inf 50
Pitcher Composure Inf 90

CPU Pitching
AI Pitch Success 55
AI Pitch Selection Tend 100
AI Strike Zone Tend 5
AI Pitch Zone Tend 25
AI Pitcher Composure Inf 65

USER Fielding
0 75 50

CPU Fielding
20 45

USER Running
65 25 70

CPU Running (AS LISTED IN ORDER)
85
75
50
70
65
55

NOTES: MAY lower USER Batting Contact 5-10 pts. And MAY switch the USER Gesture/Hold Timing from 70/40 to 65/35.

Will play final game of my series vs. Baltimore before deciding on any changes.

[The Kid 24]

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Sure thing:

USER HITTING:
Batting Success 60
Batting Contact 50
Batting Power 70
Pitcher Hand. Inf 100
IE Batting Zone Inf 100
Batting Pitch Inf 75
Batter's Eye Inf 75
Hit Direction Inf 90
Zone Hitting Inf 0
Bunt Contact/Success 50/50

CPU Batting
AI Success 65
AI Contact 15
AI Power 80
AI Pitcher Hand. Inf 100
AI IE Batting zone Inf 100
AI Batting Pitch Inf 85
AI Bunt Contact/Success 75/50

USER Pitching
Pitch Meter Speed 100
Pitch Speed 75
Gesture Recognition 60
Hold Timing Inf 40
Release Timing Inf 75
Pitch Rating Inf 80
Pitch Break Inf 50
Pitcher Composure Inf 90

CPU Pitching
AI Pitch Success 55
AI Pitch Selection Tend 100
AI Strike Zone Tend 5
AI Pitch Zone Tend 25
AI Pitcher Composure Inf 65

USER Fielding
0 75 50

CPU Fielding
20 45

USER Running
65 25 70

CPU Running (AS LISTED IN ORDER)
85
75
50
70
65
55

NOTES: MAY lower USER Batting Contact 5-10 pts. And MAY switch the USER Gesture/Hold Timing from 70/40 to 65/35.

Will play final game of my series vs. Baltimore before deciding on any changes.

What hitting type do you use? Swing stick or classic

[JHedges2]

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Swing stick, and I very rarely use the L (directional) stick, unless sitting on a FB trying to hit a HR or sac fly to the OF.

[jbrown]

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is that correct? I have always thought lowering it fatigued him quicker? Anybody confirm that lowering this number increases stamina?

Yes. I had my stamina at 50 and lasted about 70-75 pitches with Beckett. I lowered it to 45 and lasted about 90-95 pitches with Beckett.