Padgoi's Post-Patch Cursor Hitting Sliders

[JayBruce32]

re: Padgoi's Post-Patch Cursor Hitting Sliders

I have been using these for several games and must say it greatly improves the game over the default settings. However, my biggest complaint is that there is too much offense. My games are close (within a run or two at the end), but with very bloated scores (i.e. 11-10, 8-6, and although not close, 20-10). I am playing with the Tigers who have great offensive potential and poor pitching but still. Cabrera and Ordonez each have 8 HRs through 5 games. I have tried dropping power, batting success, and contact 10-15 pts, and I upped the pitch speed, but still not much luck.

What can I do to get more pitchers duels and lower scores? Some of the sliders don't even make sense to me as to what they are for. I am sure there is a post about this already which I will be seeking out.

EDIT: One other thing thats allowing me big time offense is that the AI pitchers always throw outside. I basically sit on an outside pitch (guess high or low) and if its there, smack it. How can I force the CPU to use more variety in pitch location?

Keep playing you will see that there can be pitchers duels. I have them and I'm a pretty good hitter. Granted i'm using Cincinnati

[Padgoi]

re: Padgoi's Post-Patch Cursor Hitting Sliders

I wanna say I plugged these in and have been using them for 35 games..... These are by far the best sliders I have EVER used. They are very sim. I have homered with nearly every guy in the lineup (except Wily Taveras) and they homer totals are realistic.

The scores are just as likely to be 2-0 or 4-0 as they are an 11-8 slugout.

Great job on these, and saving my purchase of this game. Great work. I have tested all the sliders on this site and these are BY FAR the finest

Thanks dude, appreciate the kind words, I'm glad you're getting the same great results I'm getting. I think these sliders are rendering very good scores and I'm glad a few of you have tried them and agreed.

[Padgoi]

re: Padgoi's Post-Patch Cursor Hitting Sliders

I have been using these for several games and must say it greatly improves the game over the default settings. However, my biggest complaint is that there is too much offense. My games are close (within a run or two at the end), but with very bloated scores (i.e. 11-10, 8-6, and although not close, 20-10). I am playing with the Tigers who have great offensive potential and poor pitching but still. Cabrera and Ordonez each have 8 HRs through 5 games. I have tried dropping power, batting success, and contact 10-15 pts, and I upped the pitch speed, but still not much luck.

What can I do to get more pitchers duels and lower scores? Some of the sliders don't even make sense to me as to what they are for. I am sure there is a post about this already which I will be seeking out.

EDIT: One other thing thats allowing me big time offense is that the AI pitchers always throw outside. I basically sit on an outside pitch (guess high or low) and if its there, smack it. How can I force the CPU to use more variety in pitch location?

I'm glad you're enjoying the sliders. If you want to make offense a little more difficult and increasing the pitch speed isn't working, try this:

AI Pitch Success- raise to 60

This should completely alleviate the offense being too strong. If it doesn't, continue increasing it, but with pitch speed at 65 and AI Pitch Success at 60, offense should be much more difficult to generate.

Reply back and let me know if these revisions work.

[JayBruce32]

re: Padgoi's Post-Patch Cursor Hitting Sliders

Yah these sliders are legit. For the first time in 2 years this game is playable and you saved my purchase of not only this game but from possibly buying a PS3.

Every hitter in the lineup can homer. The lesser power hitters do it more often. The stats work out to be very realistic. I'm 42 games in and my HR totals are like this:

Votto 13
Bruce 12
Phillips 11
Encarnacion 7
Ramon Hernandez 6
Chris Dickerson 5
Chris Davis 7
Jerry Hairston 2
Jeff Keppinger 6
Willy Taveras 0

[Padgoi]

re: Padgoi's Post-Patch Cursor Hitting Sliders

Glad you're getting good results, I hope more people check these out and realize cursor hitting is the better representation of true hitting.

[Chitown1211]

re: Padgoi's Post-Patch Cursor Hitting Sliders

Glad you're getting good results, I hope more people check these out and realize cursor hitting is the better representation of true hitting.

I have always felt this way. I just wish we could get an old school 2k4 cursor. This bat icon is bothering me bigtime.

[jake44np]

re: Padgoi's Post-Patch Cursor Hitting Sliders

Yah these sliders are legit. For the first time in 2 years this game is playable and you saved my purchase of not only this game but from possibly buying a PS3.

Every hitter in the lineup can homer. The lesser power hitters do it more often. The stats work out to be very realistic. I'm 42 games in and my HR totals are like this:

Votto 13
Bruce 12
Phillips 11
Encarnacion 7
Ramon Hernandez 6
Chris Dickerson 5
Chris Davis 7
Jerry Hairston 2
Jeff Keppinger 6
Willy Taveras 0

Honestly those #'s are not very realistic at all.
You are on pace to hit way too many HRS.
Votto is on pace to hit 52 hrs?? Bruce to hit 48 and Phillips to hit 44??
You are on pace to hit over 20 hrs with all 8 of your postition players, again not realistic.

[Padgoi]

re: Padgoi's Post-Patch Cursor Hitting Sliders

Honestly those #'s are not very realistic at all.
You are on pace to hit way too many HRS.
Votto is on pace to hit 52 hrs?? Bruce to hit 48 and Phillips to hit 44??
You are on pace to hit over 20 hrs with all 8 of your postition players, again not realistic.

This is why I raised the AI Pitch Success from 40 to 50 and possibly higher. I noticed it was too low on 40, on 50 it seems more realistic.

[shishka55]

re: Padgoi's Post-Patch Cursor Hitting Sliders

Anyone tried these with the new patch? I am wondering if there needs to be changes.

[Padgoi]

re: Padgoi's Post-Patch Cursor Hitting Sliders

shish, there needs to be changes. So far, the changes I'm considering post-patch:

Inside Edge K-Zone: Off
User Batting Success: 55
User Batting Power: 70
Zone Hitting: 55
AI Batting Power: 70
Pitch Speed: 65-70
AI Strike Zone Tendency: 25
User Fielder Speed: 50
CPU Fielder Speed: 50
User Catcher Throw-Out Success: 55

These changes are preliminary, as in a testing phase after only 2 games post-patch. I'll post complete changes after a little more time with the game.

[Padgoi]

re: Padgoi's Post-Patch Cursor Hitting Sliders

Changes made to first post in topic to make post-patch results a bit more realistic. I'm having a lot of fun with the post-patch version of the sliders, let me know what you guys think!!!

[silverandblack]

re: Padgoi's Post-Patch Cursor Hitting Sliders

thanks padgoi!!

[Padgoi]

re: Padgoi's Post-Patch Cursor Hitting Sliders

No problem.
I just made a few more changes, make sure you get 'em all. These last few changes tweaked a few things, made AI Offense a bit more potent, added a little power to User, a little better AI Pitching, a little less focus on pitcher composure and rating, etc.

[Kane182]

re: Padgoi's Post-Patch Cursor Hitting Sliders

Changes made to first post in topic to make post-patch results a bit more realistic. I'm having a lot of fun with the post-patch version of the sliders, let me know what you guys think!!!

Going to give these a shot tonight or tomorrow. Couple things, are you getting a lot of hits with contact at 100? My last game I had contact at 65 and had like 8 or 9 hits off of Peavy using the Mets.

My other question is can you still unlock cards with your sliders? It's not the end of the world, but it would be nice.

Thanks

[Padgoi]

re: Padgoi's Post-Patch Cursor Hitting Sliders

Going to give these a shot tonight or tomorrow. Couple things, are you getting a lot of hits with contact at 100? My last game I had contact at 65 and had like 8 or 9 hits off of Peavy using the Mets.

My other question is can you still unlock cards with your sliders? It's not the end of the world, but it would be nice.

Thanks

Contact has nothing to do with how many hits you get. Contact has to do with how close your cursor has to be near the ball in order to make contact. Contact at 100 will cause more foul balls and less strikeouts . . . and trust me, with pitch speed at 60-65 and AI Pitch Success at 60, you're gonna be K'ing plenty.

A lot of other factors go into quality of contact. Those factors are:

- pitch speed
- AI Pitch success
- User Batting Success
- User Batting Power

My sliders are yielding realistic hit numbers right now for me. I continue to tweak, but I think we're kinda close to a final base to start out franchises.