Just popped in 11 pre-patch and...!!!

[Black59Razr]

Wow, I forgot all about passed balls & wild pitches! There is a ton of them in MLB 11 The Show before any updates. I remember they patched it, not because of the high amount of passed balls and wild pitches, rather, the lack of CPU pitcher's AI on when to throw balls in the dirt. They would throw anything and everything in all situations; even with a runner on 3B. The user, on the other hand, lost the ability to throw breaking pitches in the dirt, during certain situations.

Instead of short-cutting this problem and severely reducing wild pitches/passed balls in 12, I hope the issue was corrected properly; CPU AI. Forgot how much I missed this piece of strategy.

[nomo17k]

I thought they patched so that the catchers handles the pitches in the dirt more cleanly, whereas pre-patch the pitch often deflected off catcher enough that it became an almost guaranteed extra base for the runner(r) on base.

[Black59Razr]

Pre-patch, there was 3-6 balls that got by per game; maybe more. Post patch, less than 1 per game. Whatever reason that was given, making catchers better or whatever, put it back to how it was!

[nomo17k]

I think the consensus (at least among those who kept stats) was that it was too much pre-patch. Then it was fixed with the patch, but maybe was over-corrected. Personally in 12 I want to see something in between... pre- and post-patches.

[dbacks_Nation]

Quote: Originally Posted by nomo17k

I thought they patched so that the catchers handles the pitches in the dirt more cleanly, whereas pre-patch the pitch often deflected off catcher enough that it became an almost guaranteed extra base for the runner(r) on base.

The catcher would always stand up and take a step forward which led him to kicking the ball

[NYJin2009tm]

That's 1 reason why I've been playing 10 lately. The lack of WP and PB on 11 was bothering me. At least in 10 there are some.

[LastActionHero]

I had the CPU throw a wild pitch on me yesterday...patched and well.

[Yankees2009Champs]

Quote: Originally Posted by Black59Razr

Wow, I forgot all about passed balls & wild pitches! There is a ton of them in MLB 11 The Show before any updates. I remember they patched it, not because of the high amount of passed balls and wild pitches, rather, the lack of CPU pitcher's AI on when to throw balls in the dirt. They would throw anything and everything in all situations; even with a runner on 3B. The user, on the other hand, lost the ability to throw breaking pitches in the dirt, during certain situations. Instead of short-cutting this problem and severely reducing wild pitches/passed balls in 12, I hope the issue was corrected properly; CPU AI. Forgot how much I missed this piece of strategy.

the game was far better pre-patch, including having the CAP trick to get the digital face. It's why I never got the patch