MLB 12 The Show Preview - Pulse Pitching, Zone Analog Batting, Collision Awareness

[econoodle]

Quote: Originally Posted by Russell_SCEA

I'm actually doing that right now :-)

check to make sure Pujols doesn't get traded twice in the same season like he did in my10 franchise

[Russell_SCEA]

Quote: Originally Posted by econoodle

stunned he didn't mention anything about the presentation or commentary or the game having a new overall look in terms of menus/franchise mode interface. those are the things that wil get me to pick it up. all 3 need to be improved for me. so far it looks like two have been touched upon. i don't think i can dive into that franchise mode with the menus as is, and without any sort of headline or news section. i feel like i am playing in a vacuum.

The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence

[knich]

Quote: Originally Posted by Knight165

Toughest part of programming in the franchise section from what I hear from the devs.... I see it from their tweaks....push too much one way(say towards valuing prospects)....and too many vets just get moved/ignored...and vice versa. I know they want to just rip the entire guts out of it and redo everything with no legacy code(ENTIRE FRANCHISE)....I just don't see that for this year, but I know they are tweaking the hell out of things we've complained about and it looks like even adding some things! Which I find very encouraging. They definitely hear us on stats........I think we will get a lot of the things we've asked for....but I know that year to year ....full stat saves is a huge memory problem. Fingers crossed. M.K. Knight165

The other game has an unbelievable amount of stats. There is no reason the other game can have so many stats..not only ones that can be called up but also are on display when batter walks up and I believe for pitchers pitching too...and SCEA not be able to do that. The announcers also discuss a lot of stats. The other game also has a lot more options for editing a player than in The Show. Let's hope they can at least duplicate the other game's stats. The one stat I don't think either game has is day/night stats. Be great to have them if there is a difference when playing the game.

[Russell_SCEA]

Quote: Originally Posted by wrigleyville33

I'm thrilled that they brought in analog zone hitting. I know I'll love the challenge of it. As many as you know usually I'm pessimistic around this time, but I'm loving the information flowing right now.

The stride timing window has been opened up a bit to help compensate for the added difficulty. Also the games default pitch speed is a little slower than it has been in the past.

[Ghoste]

I too am interested in Pulse Pitching being a Classic pitching guy. The ball physics sound like a really nice addition. Now I haven't read every single post on this site but I was under the impression that it would be difficult to include collision detection. I guess this has changed over the past year?

-ghoste

[Russell_SCEA]

Quote: Originally Posted by K_GUN

some good stuff there.....any chance a *playoff mode* gets in there this year?

Not this year

[tiptop00]

Russell all i want to know is can you use regular zone hitting when playing online?

[DJ]

Quote: Originally Posted by Russell_SCEA

The stride timing window has been opened up a bit to help compensate for the added difficulty. Also the games default pitch speed is a little slower than it has been in the past.

That's good to hear on the pitch speed. Is there a Timing-Analog option, where we just stride and swing, and the player rating determines the PCI placement?