Too many HR's?

[Will I Am]

Quote: Originally Posted by Blzer

What happens when the wind is blowing in, though? Wouldn't that reduce your number of homers?

Think he's talking more about the distance than the number of hrs., wind blowing out could be the cause of extremely long hrs.

[Pigpen44]

I will begin this by saying that I enjoy this game and all they are trying to do with ball physics but power just has to be toned down. I use zone hitting and I play on legend hitting with default sliders. I pitch on hall of fame with consistency bumped up one notch. I carried my franchise over and have now played 20 games of my franchise on Mlb 17. Since the carryover my Cardinals have hit 72 homers in 20 games and have scored 124 out of 143 runs via the home run. I have added power hitters Pujols, Schwarber and Trumbo to my team (we aren't too good defensively) over the past 2 seasons. I was 12-1 initially after carrying over and after hitting 9 in a game I dropped power and contact one click ( my team batting average raised 8 points in 8 games lol). For a couple of games this seemed to work but last night I hit 7 in a game while the Astros hit 5. Out of the 12 homers 9 were over 450 feet with Luis Valbuena hitting one 486. I don't mind giving up homers on hof and I like hitting homers but dang this game is hot this year. I don't like messing with sliders much but I guess I'll have to bump everything down considerably.
I have hit check swing type home runs with Trumbo and Matt Adams but this may be a kind of glitch. Another example is that Aledmys Diaz has 9 homers through about 95 games and had 8 in my first 13 after carrying over.
Like I said I really enjoy all of the show games and I'd say I'm a decent hitter but dad gum not that good.

[El_MaYiMbE]

Quote: Originally Posted by Pigpen44

I will begin this by saying that I enjoy this game and all they are trying to do with ball physics but power just has to be toned down. I use zone hitting and I play on legend hitting with default sliders. I pitch on hall of fame with consistency bumped up one notch. I carried my franchise over and have now played 20 games of my franchise on Mlb 17. Since the carryover my Cardinals have hit 72 homers in 20 games and have scored 124 out of 143 runs via the home run. I have added power hitters Pujols, Schwarber and Trumbo to my team (we aren't too good defensively) over the past 2 seasons. I was 12-1 initially after carrying over and after hitting 9 in a game I dropped power and contact one click ( my team batting average raised 8 points in 8 games lol). For a couple of games this seemed to work but last night I hit 7 in a game while the Astros hit 5. Out of the 12 homers 9 were over 450 feet with Luis Valbuena hitting one 486. I don't mind giving up homers on hof and I like hitting homers but dang this game is hot this year. I don't like messing with sliders much but I guess I'll have to bump everything down considerably. I have hit check swing type home runs with Trumbo and Matt Adams but this may be a kind of glitch. Another example is that Aledmys Diaz has 9 homers through about 95 games and had 8 in my first 13 after carrying over. Like I said I really enjoy all of the show games and I'd say I'm a decent hitter but dad gum not that good.

What hitting level are you playing on?

[Pigpen44]

Quote: Originally Posted by El_MaYiMbE

What hitting level are you playing on?

I hit on legend with zone. Used to be default sliders now I've bumped power and contact down one.

[El_MaYiMbE]

Quote: Originally Posted by Pigpen44

I hit on legend with zone. Used to be default sliders now I've bumped power and contact down one.

I'd say you are better than decent lol. I am Directional Hitting and hit less than 1 HR per game and my highest was 3.

I score runs and hit a ton of doubles, but I don't hit or give up an alarming amount of HRs. So odd to not see what everyone else is even on lower difficulty.

[countryboy]

Quote: Originally Posted by El_MaYiMbE

I'd say you are better than decent lol. I am Directional Hitting and hit less than 1 HR per game and my highest was 3. I score runs and hit a ton of doubles, but I don't hit or give up an alarming amount of HRs. So odd to not see what everyone else is even on lower difficulty.

My feeling as well. I'm on HOF with Zone Hitting. I looked at my profile stats last night and myself and the computer both avg 1 homerun per game. And this was coming off a game where we combined for 5 homeruns in one game!

Like you said, its odd not seeing the issue that many others are experiencing.

[DudleyDoWright]

Playing online, I've had way too many home runs hit against me when in reality they shouldn't have. For example, I was playing a Play Now game vs some dude who used the Cubs and I threw him a well timed, low and away corner 2 seam fastball with Jacob deGrom and him using Anthony Rizzo, BLASTED it 400 feet over the RF wall, and this is what the PCI showed:



MEANWHILE, I've encountered numerous times where I've had "Good" and "Fly Ball" along with the ball in the middle of the PCI and the colour of said PCI is green and I've either hit only measly fly balls or ground outs. Whenever I do hit home runs, I'm either late or Just Late.

I use Pure Analog hitting btw. The amount of HR's is a tad bit much, especially when I put my pitches in an area where I more than likely would get a grounder or a pop up; not a 400 foot bomb over Jay Bruce.

[WhiteBunny]

Guys, try Challenge of the Week with Justin Turner. You play without wind and it feels hard to hit a HR even on Rookie. There are probably other factors involved, but it seems wind is a big one.