Too far behind the plate,zooming in and playing with the height just made it worst for the most part with bad angles. Can't tell the difference between a ball on the edge and one that's going way out of the zone. These are skateboarding cameras not baseball cameras. I tried hitting from the pitcher cam and while it made it easy to get walks and tell where balls are going I couldn't hit a fastball over the middle of the plate from that view. The best view I could get there was fouling off 95% of the pitches.
I finally got a decent one though with batter 2,zoom 2 and height 7. It seems to make it impossible to tell where a slider is going but one pitch is better than all of them.
Yes. There's a whole mode dedicated to your created player.
Just had a masterful pitching performance with Zambrano against the A's. 4 hit CG shutout with 7 strikeouts. He was also 2/4 at the plate. Player of the game went to Derek Lee who was 2/4 with 2 RBI and a HR.
Ben Sheets was removed by the A's in the 3rd giving up 8 hits,a HR and 4 runs.
Tomko pitched the remaining 6 innings giving up 5 hits,2 runs and a HR.
So yes classic hitting does work once you fix the batting camera.
Team stats (A's first):
AB's 29 - 36
AVG .137 - .361
Singles 4 - 10
Doubles 0 - 1
Triples 0 - 0
HR 0 - 2
Steals 0 - 0
CS 0 - 0
SB % 0 - 0
Errors 0 - 0
Pitch count 100 - 87
Walks 1 - 0 (that's walks given up not how many walks the team got)
Strikeouts 6 - 7 (that's how many the pitcher got not how many times the team did)
Balls Pitched 25 - 20
Strikes Pitched 75 - 67
Strike % .750 - .770
A glitch did occur,a ball was hit to first in the 9th and I pressed B expecting the ball to go to Zambrano covering but it ended up going to 3rd somehow.
The 2 full games I've played have been by far better than anything from 2K9. (Red Sox/Yanks that I won 3-2 and this)
Still need some slider tweaks and more sliders to tweak to fix a bit of this stuff but I'm going to be missing the PoS3 a whole lot less.
Probably goes without saying but at least now The BIGS 2 is no longer the most realistic baseball game with 2K's name on it.