Directional hitting on critical situations has to be predetermined

[Nolove626]

Too many times have I popped into the 9th inning and had swings with good timing on pitches right down the middle, hanging breaking balls, fastballs right down the pipe, doesn't matter, even hitters with good contact and vision are just completely wiffing on balls that major leaguers kill regularly. It's almost like if the opponents closer is in the game the engine decides you are not hitting anything.

I don't care what anyone says. I understand that ratings matter in directional hitting more than any other style of hitting, but come on! A guy with 82 contact and 76 power with 79 vision should at the minimum get wood on a 3-0 pith right down the middle with good timing.

Loved directional hitting last year but is year it just feels terrible and scripted. Switching to zone + timing this year. I am tired of the game deciding the outcomes of games for me.

[dalger21]

Re: Directional hitting on critical situations has to be predetermined

Doesn't sound like anything pre-determined. Just sounds like directional hitting. I haven't used directional/timing hitting since '12. It's way too random for my liking.

[underdog13]

Re: Directional hitting on critical situations has to be predetermined

They aren't going to code it any differently for critical situations. It's just the randomness of directional hitting.

My advice would to be switch to zone

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[BA2929]

Re: Directional hitting on critical situations has to be predetermined

Loved directional hitting last year but is year it just feels terrible and scripted. Switching to zone + timing this year. I am tired of the game deciding the outcomes of games for me.

It's not. It's baseball. It doesn't work out how you want it every time.

[Mav3rek7]

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I've grown a little frustrated with it this year as well. I've had at least 3 hits that should have been crushed homers, all end up as harmless fly outs. Or at least in my mind they should have been crushed.

Twice with Adam Duvall (power hitter) I've had 3-0 or 3-1 counts. I sit dead red and time up the pitch down the middle perfectly with a power swing, and the thing dies on the warning track. Votto was similar, 3-1 down the middle, good timing, power swing, medium fly ball to left.

I thought for sure both of Duvall's were going upper deck. I timed it up perfect and used a power swing, yet both ended up as just simple outs.

Granted it's baseball, it's random, not every power hitter is going to crush it every time, etc... but when I time up a pitch perfectly like that, I almost feel cheated a bit.

[Nolove626]

Re: Directional hitting on critical situations has to be predetermined

It's not. It's baseball. It doesn't work out how you want it every time.

Come on man, that's not what I'm saying at all!

[Nolove626]

Re: Directional hitting on critical situations has to be predetermined

I've grown a little frustrated with it this year as well. I've had at least 3 hits that should have been crushed homers, all end up as harmless fly outs. Or at least in my mind they should have been crushed.

Twice with Adam Duvall (power hitter) I've had 3-0 or 3-1 counts. I sit dead red and time up the pitch down the middle perfectly with a power swing, and the thing dies on the warning track. Votto was similar, 3-1 down the middle, good timing, power swing, medium fly ball to left.

I thought for sure both of Duvall's were going upper deck. I timed it up perfect and used a power swing, yet both ended up as just simple outs.

Granted it's baseball, it's random, not every power hitter is going to crush it every time, etc... but when I time up a pitch perfectly like that, I almost feel cheated a bit.

Yeah I agree. I'm not saying I should it every time but good major leaguers make pitchers pay for going down in the count like that. THe problem is it doesn't feel like the cpu is missing those ones.

[mikeq672]

Re: Directional hitting on critical situations has to be predetermined

Then switch to a hitting control scheme that requires some user skill and input.

[BA2929]

Re: Directional hitting on critical situations has to be predetermined

Come on man, that's not what I'm saying at all!

That's what I gathered from reading your post.

Sorry if I misinterpreted what you meant.

I've watched the Royals hit .210 as a team so far this year with a MLB worst OBP (), so hearing you say you've missed pitches right down the middle sounds very realistic to me.

But yea, switch to another hitting mechanic like others have suggested if you aren't satisfied with what's going on.

[Nolove626]

Re: Directional hitting on critical situations has to be predetermined

That's what I gathered from reading your post.

Sorry if I misinterpreted what you meant.

I've watched the Royals hit .210 as a team so far this year with a MLB worst OBP (), so hearing you say you've missed pitches right down the middle sounds very realistic to me.

But yea, switch to another hitting mechanic like others have suggested if you aren't satisfied with what's going on.

Yeah I think that's what I'm going to have to do. Does anyone have any recommendations? I want to be challenged but I also don't want to be robbed when I'm working counts

[Nolove626]

Re: Directional hitting on critical situations has to be predetermined

The problem is that when you get up to the higher skill levels all star plus and up, you might only get one pitch to hit. So I don't want to wife on that one pitch when I do everything right lol

[jr86]

Re: Directional hitting on critical situations has to be predetermined

Use Zone.
If you time it right on a pitch down the middle you will make solid contact more times than not imo.

[BegBy]

Re: Directional hitting on critical situations has to be predetermined

I've ben saying it for a long time now. Directional (assuming you don't flat out miss) is arbitrary and feels very crappy. It's just foul tips, pop flys and harmless hits. When you're seeing BP fastballs and you know that if it's the first pitch of an AB you can't swing because it's an auto out, it gets frustrating. When you see another right down the pipe and you know you'd be lucky to make it over the mound - frustrating. The only way I hit well using directional is seriously inflating user sliders and honestly, swing late on stuff. Swinging late results in so many opposite field hits. If those swings were good, perfect or early they would be foul, pop ups or outs at least 70% of the time.

Sadly I use zone now. I just don't have the PCI on and I never move it. My batting average went up around 100, but now, sadly I am seeing homeruns like crazy. Probably around 3-4 a game...which really isn't fun either.

I truly hope they make directional a much better form of hitting next year. They need to make all forms of hitting and pitching in line with each other as far as effectiveness and not have one be so much more advantageous than the others.

[G3no_11]

Re: Directional hitting on critical situations has to be predetermined

The problem is that when you get up to the higher skill levels all star plus and up, you might only get one pitch to hit. So I don't want to wife on that one pitch when I do everything right lol

That's what happens, often, in real life though. Just saying.

[HypeRNT]

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I cant take ts seriously when he is stating that directional hitting is weaker then last years... its pretty widely known that this year directional hitting is broken and OP and pretty much the only hitting option in the game, if you are whiffing thats good, if you want to base hitting on your skill use zone and you wont whiff on balls down the middle.