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

[Azkael]

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the contact and power are veryyyy touchy, I'm going to try upping the CPU batting success by 10 and see if it'll be a catch-all.

[C-Bus]

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Try lowering the pitcher handedness influence slider and the inside edge zone influence slider for the cpu. You could also lower the batter pitch influence slider. Lowering these will give the cpu more offense.

[CALZONE JONES]

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*CJ, reaction to CPU stealing home*

DEAD ON

[teambayern]

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Things have been getting a little better with the scoring from the CPU as I play better teams.

Has anyone had success lowering the fielders speed for the human and CPU settings? I think this might be the actual culprit, as it seems many gappers and deep shots get easily caught, whereas maybe they should be falling more often. This is particularly true of hits over the OF's head, as they almost never seem to result in hits unless they hit the wall.

[JHedges2]

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I think I'm still getting too much offense, esp. with gappers in the OF.

Just beat the Indians 11-0, had 17 hits (12 singles, 3 doubles, 2 hr)

Led off the bottom of the first inning in game 2 of my series (vs Cliff Lee) with a double and a single...

[bigfnjoe96]

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OK I have been testing some of the theories about Batting. I have been using a tweaked version of my settings for the last 5 games & have seeing some really good games. It's based on lower batting success & higher contact & power. Combined with tweaks to the Pitcher Handedness Influence, Inside Edge Batting Zone Influence & Batting Pitch Influence.


Here are the Hitting Sliders if anyone wants to test them-out:

USER- Success 40, Contact 25, Power 100
CPU- Success 50, Contact 50, Power 100

Then in the User Pitching Sliders do this:

Gesture Recognition 50, Hold Timing Influence 50

I'm still working on these sliders:

Pitcher Handedness Influence, Inside Edge Batting Zone Influence & Batting Pitch Influence.

I dropped them down to 65 across the board for the User & 75 across the board for the cpu & ended-up with a slugfest & a ton of HR's for 1 game (Indians & Yankees)

It seems like those sliders are very sensitive. Especially BPI Slider
which is already @ 75.

[teambayern]

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really appreciate your work on this. Every time I see you make an update like this, I get excited that we're only a few tweaks from optimizing everything.

You are basically a developer at this point. They should have you to the studio like the Madden team just did for the OSer's in the football section of the site.

[MasterX1918]

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those look better BFJ. I noticed that in my last few games my hitters have raking and hitting isn't much of a challenge anymore.

[sjj2xs]

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well put team......that's how i feel too everytime Joe puts out a update......

really appreciate your work on this. Every time I see you make an update like this, I get excited that we're only a few tweaks from optimizing everything.

You are basically a developer at this point. They should have you to the studio like the Madden team just did for the OSer's in the football section of the site.

[sirk]

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hey can someone please tell me which sliders you are using from joe. are the ones on 2k share that say Patch # 2 different from the sliders on the first page? and by that i mean which are the most updated sliders meaning which are the better ones, you kno ? can someone please help me out?

[bigfnjoe96]

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hey can someone please tell me which sliders you are using from joe. are the ones on 2k share that say Patch # 2 different from the sliders on the first page? and by that i mean which are the most updated sliders meaning which are the better ones, you kno ? can someone please help me out?

Use the 1's on the 1st page sirk.

OK, I played game 3 of my 4 game set with the Indians using the updated sliders from my last post. Had Contact @ 40 for the CPU. Lost 4-0. CPU had 2 HR's (Pronk hit a BLAST into the RCF Bleachers & Fransisico hit a shot into the 2nd deck in RF) all together the Indians had 12 hits. Fausto was a beast taking a no-hitter into the 9th only to be broken-up by Ransom with a lead-off single.Carmona's sinker was filthy, not to mention him mixing his pitches up very nicely. Especially his change-up.

Pitcher Hanndedness for the User was 75 & for the AI 85. Inside Edge Zone was set to 100 for both. Bat Pitch Influence was 75 for both also.

[sirk]

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ok thanks... oh and Joe! on the front page u left out User - Zone Hitting Influence, or should it be 0 !? also what should Batters Eye Influence really be at besides User Preference what do you use it at?

so are you saying we should set the Pitcher Hanndedness for the User at 75 and AI at 85, and Inside Edge Zone at 100 for both and Bat Pitch Influence at 75 for both ?

[dmac.16]

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hey, just wondering if anyone else cant hit HRs without the Lstick. i like the game play without it and am playin good games. but 0 HRs in 6 games playedd. HRs is the only problem.
any help would be great!

[teambayern]

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hey, just wondering if anyone else cant hit HRs without the Lstick. i like the game play without it and am playin good games. but 0 HRs in 6 games playedd. HRs is the only problem.
any help would be great!

I use these and have cranked over half of my HR's without touching the stick. It's all about timing.

[cubsfan203]

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I use these and have cranked over half of my HR's without touching the stick. It's all about timing.

What do you mean by timing? I'm hitting fastballs, curveballs, anything possible up in the zone dead on and it's either a pop-up right to an outfielder or a weak line drive.