MLB 14 Wishlist: General Gameplay?

[dingleberryfinn]

MLB 14 Wishlist: General Gameplay if you could have any feature, addition, tweak what would it be? Remember you can only choose two.

1. Pitching- Bring back the Palm Ball.
I understand the reason behind dropping it in the first place, (too similar to a straight change) but some would say a sinker is as similar to a 2-seamer.
Just make the Palm Ball harder to control but more movement than a Straight
change. Then if one chooses, he can have a pitcher throw both types.

2. Hitting- Aluminum bats! Just kidding, don't change hitting too much as it's fine as is.

[UK0wnag3]

MLB 14 Wishlist: General Gameplay if you could have any feature, addition, tweak what would it be? Remember you can only choose two.

1. Pitchers to hold the ball in their hand behind their back when pitching out of the stretch.

2. Being able to argue calls and get ejected if we fly off the handle.

[BrianU]

MLB 14 Wishlist: General Gameplay if you could have any feature, addition, tweak what would it be? Remember you can only choose two.

1. Specifically with pitching I wish there was more ability to tune the way the different pitching control methods work under the hood. I'm talking about the penaltys you get for hitting the 'sweet spot' of the meter method for example. I use Classic pitching because I feel it best represents the ratings of the player compared to the other methods, but I would prefer a funner option than just a button press. If I could use Pulse or Meter or Analog but the ability to tune how much of a 'bonus' I get for hitting the perfect release and make it not so prominent that would be perfect.

At the same time not as big a penalty for missing my spot. I'm not sure exactly what the bonus to control/movement of the ensuing pitch is, but if say a perfect release on meter gives you a 10% bonus to accuracy I would like to be able to choose the bonus myself with a slider, so maybe its only a 3% or 5% bonus. Make the ratings between pitchers matter more but still have that slight bonus to hitting the meter perfectly. I know this was improved this year but ultimately the best option would be for us to have complete control over tuning things to suit our own skill level. Hitting I feel gives you more options to tune things with the PCI size, stride difficulty etc. A slider for meter speed would be helpful also, but really a slider to tweak the boost from a perfect release and the penalty fjrom missing it is what I'd love to have

My feeling is classic pitching is the one method that you cannot 'master' and get the truest to life results pitch to pitch, I would like that feeling with meter or pulse which is more 'fun' but not as true to life, if that make sense....

2. While we certainly have a lot of sliders already, I would like more gameplay sliders. Separate CPU/Human sliders for 'Global' as well as separate sliders for infield vs outfield in terms of arm strength/fielder speed. The more options the better. Maybe a hit n run slider.

[slickkill77]

1. Improve fielder responsiveness. This goes for both infielders and outfielders. Infielders too often will just stand around looking stupid if they make an error or misplay a ball. Then it takes them way too long to get started again. For instance: If you throw a ball to first and it pulls the 1b off the bag. He will catch it, slow down, stop, then have to speed back up to get back to the bag but it looks like he is running in quick sand. Same thing goes when receiving balls at first. They look like robots. Making spectacular plays in the OF is ruined because of how robotic and slow fielders play. There's almost too much momentum.

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2. Bunting needs to be worked on. The biggest thing that is missing with bunting is the ability to pull bunts back. It is nearly impossible to determine if you need to pull a bunt back or not. The bunting ability should make it easier or harder to determine if something is going to be in the zone or not. Guiding your bunts should be easier or harder as well based on ratings.

[Tomba]

Russel... TOMBA here!


Ok that outta the way

	MLB 14 Wishlist: General Gameplay if you could have any feature, addition, tweak what would it be? Remember you can only choose two. 1. 2.

SO for number 1.


1)Have the pulse pitching have a slider attached to it that controls the speed of the pulse...THAT in itself would make the pulse pitching standout for ALL difficulty groups and would REALLY make it so that you would grow with the system of pitching with pulse pitching


2)Though imitation is the best form of flattery i would make it so that when you bat you're able to have a mirrored image of the bat within the strike zone so that you know where you'll hit it...

um...kinda like this?

[Maverick32093209]

MLB 14 Wishlist: General Gameplay if you could have any feature, addition, tweak what would it be? Remember you can only choose two.

1. The ability to move the PCI while the ball is in flight. I feel like the PCI needs to be pre-set. With that you could actually reduce the size of the PCI

2. Give the pitcher the ability to look over at a runner. I think this was in MLB2k3 back in the day...you could actually turn the pitchers head to the various base. Very cool especially in player v player games. Allows you to freeze the runner at times.

[ThrowBack]

1. I would like to see the player rating system changed up a bit. There should be a difference between gap power and homerun power. I think guys like Jose Altuve and Ichrio Suzuki hit way too many homeruns in this game. A diving play rating would be great too. I just played a game where Aramis Ramirez made 3-4 acrobatic defensive plays. I would like to see types of plays pulled off by only the best defenders.



2. Add some more little things. This game has bobbles, bad hops and now foul tip strikes but it is still missing a few things. In almost every game I watch I see a play where the first baseman jumps for a high throw and then swipe tags the runner while in the air. What I also see a lot are plays where 2 or 3 defenders are running after the same flyball one of them catches it but they nearly collide. Or they all nearly collide and the ball just drops in front of them. Please add some more quirky baseball plays like this.

[FreezeTime]

MLB 14 Wishlist: General Gameplay if you could have any feature, addition, tweak what would it be? Remember you can only choose two.

1. I mentioned this to you at CES but I will post it here just to remind you: Have the ability to check your pitchers stamina when you are batting.

2. Not being able to call time out whenever you want. The umpire does not always have to grant your time out request and it wold be cool if this made it into 14.