MLB 2K11 Developer Diary #3 - Pitching and Hitting

[Fiddy]

Check out the latest MLB 2K11 Developer Diary #3. Designer, Shawn Bailey covers pitching and hitting.

"Through the Pitcher Control slider, you can change the concept of control to be more or less challenging. This new slider will allow you to customize the pitching experience to your liking. This is a sensitive slider that will make it noticeably easier or harder to throw strikes. And don’t worry,we are not disabling achievements this year if you change the sliders. It’s your game and it should be played however you want to play it."

[brendanrfoley]

Re: MLB 2K11 Developer Diary #3 - Pitching and Hitting

There are a lot of things to get excited about in there; expanded hit types (choppers, slicing/fading line drives) and improved distribution will go a long way to providing a much more realistic experience.

[jeffy777]

Re: MLB 2K11 Developer Diary #3 - Pitching and Hitting

A “Pitcher Control” slider is one of several new difficulty sliders that we added to the game this year. Through the Pitcher Control slider you can change the concept of control to be more or less challenging. This new slider will allow you to customize the pitching experience to your liking. This is a sensitive slider that will make it noticeably easier or harder to throw strikes. And don’t worry,we are not disabling achievements this year if you change the sliders. It’s your game and it should be played however you want to play it.

YES!!! HALLELUJAH! !

[I_Love_Piazza]

Re: MLB 2K11 Developer Diary #3 - Pitching and Hitting

Sounds very good! I might have to buy both baseball games at release. Who knows how I'll decide to play which.

[JayhawkerStL]

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And don’t worry,we are not disabling achievements this year if you change the sliders. It’s your game and it should be played however you want to play it.

Finally!!!

[bigfnjoe96]

Re: MLB 2K11 Developer Diary #3 - Pitching and Hitting

wooooooooo hooooooooo

A “Pitcher Control” slider is one of several new difficulty sliders that we added to the game this year. Through the Pitcher Control slider, you can change the concept of control to be more or less challenging. This new slider will allow you to customize the pitching experience to your liking. This is a sensitive slider that will make it noticeably easier or harder to throw strikes. And don’t worry,we are not disabling achievements this year if you change the sliders. It’s your game and it should be played however you want to play it.

[JayhawkerStL]

Re: MLB 2K11 Developer Diary #3 - Pitching and Hitting

In MLB 2K11, when you customize the cameras in-game, we allow you to save them to your profile.

They are getting the little things dead right!

[NINJAK2]

Re: MLB 2K11 Developer Diary #3 - Pitching and Hitting

Great read! That blog would have been a perfect opportunity to show videos to go along with what was being described. Screenshots don't really show off pitching, hitting, running, and ball physics very well.

[bigfnjoe96]

Re: MLB 2K11 Developer Diary #3 - Pitching and Hitting

In MLB 2K11, when you customize the cameras in-game, we allow you to save them to your profile.

They are getting the little things dead right!

This is getting better by the section

[bulls23]

Re: MLB 2K11 Developer Diary #3 - Pitching and Hitting

Could someone please post the article here? Can't get facebook at work. Whatever happened to 2K posting them on their website?

[jeffy777]

Re: MLB 2K11 Developer Diary #3 - Pitching and Hitting

Man, so many good things in that article. It finally feels like they're listening to us and adding the things we've wanted and addressing the issues we've complained about. It's a good feeling.

[Blitzburgh]

Re: MLB 2K11 Developer Diary #3 - Pitching and Hitting

looking and sounding good this year! I may be back! lol

[bigfnjoe96]

Re: MLB 2K11 Developer Diary #3 - Pitching and Hitting

OP updated.

[JayhawkerStL]

Re: MLB 2K11 Developer Diary #3 - Pitching and Hitting

Finishing this Dev Diary really has me believing that this game may actually hit it out of the park. I'm completely comfortable now that the team gets baseball in a way that I was not nearly as sure of the last two releases.

I love, almost universally, the upgrades they have made to how the game should play. Proper penalties for contact and power swings, lack of control in pitching, ratings that actually differentiate fielders are all things that enhance the experience regardless of the look of the game.

But the little stuff they seem to have heard to. In addition to achievements being enable regardless of sliders and being able to sac camera settings to your profile, they other stuff that I might have not been worried about, but were definitely present in the forums. No HR tells unless they are bombs, cut down on the opposite field HR's, and from the look of the leaked video, real time presentation is back.

Factor in DPRS and MLB Today and the new fielding mechanics and animations, and they have done far more work on this game than I thought they would. They have described a game I really want to play right now. I can't wait to see it in motion and then test drive it.

[jeffy777]

Re: MLB 2K11 Developer Diary #3 - Pitching and Hitting

In addition to new hit types, we also re-worked our bal physics to behave according to the surface with which the ball is interacting. The ball will have different physics depending on whether the surface is grass, turf, dirt or brick. Part of the ball physics improvements also includes hits that slice or fade. Hitting a ball that slices down the first base line, barely foul, gives you that “oh so close” feeling when combined with the new hitting cameras from the plate perspective

Sounds great.