Need help with hitting difficulty settings

[jeffy777]

Hey guys, I'm hoping you can help me out. I'm trying to find the best hitting difficulty settings for my situation:

It seems the only way I can turn on a fastball is to have the pitch speed turned all the way down and with the Rookie setting (I don't have he best eyes and reflexes). However, it is getting a bit too easy because the AI doesn't throw hardly anything out of the zone on Rookie....but when I turn it up to Veteran or All Star, it seems like the pitch speed goes up too ......is there anyway I can get the pitcher to throw less meatballs and pitch more realistically without increasing the pitch speed? I notice there's the slider for that makes the AI throw less strikes, but it says it's only early in the count, so that doesn't sound like it would be the best solution.....

Any and all advice is greatly appreciated

[jr86]

Re: Need help with hitting difficulty settings

Pretty good discussion in here

http://www.operationsports.com/forum...d.php?t=541113

[jeffy777]

Re: Need help with hitting difficulty settings

Pretty good discussion in here

http://www.operationsports.com/forum...d.php?t=541113

Thanks, and any chance you could give me a quick summary?

[jr86]

Re: Need help with hitting difficulty settings

At rookie or veteran the cpu seems programmed to throw a lot of meatballs to make it easier for you to hit.
My advice- Go to All Star and lower cpu control and consistency to 3

[Heroesandvillains]

Re: Need help with hitting difficulty settings

If you can only turn on FB's on Rookie with a zeroed out pitch speed, I'd be willing to wager you are suffering from HD TV input lag.

By chance are you playing in HD?

If so, does your TV have a Game Mode??? If it doesn't, manually go into the settings on your television and turn off all of the processing stuff (Noise Reduction, Smoothing, etc).

[jeffy777]

Re: Need help with hitting difficulty settings

At rookie or veteran the cpu seems programmed to throw a lot of meatballs to make it easier for you to hit.
My advice- Go to All Star and lower cpu control and consistency to 3

That's what I figured.....I just wish the pitch speed didn't increase when I bump it up to All Star.

Maybe I'll try Veteran for now with the CPU control turned way down.

If you can only turn on FB's on Rookie with a zeroed out pitch speed, I'd be willing to wager you are suffering from HD TV input lag.

By chance are you playing in HD?

If so, does your TV have a Game Mode??? If it doesn't, manually go into the settings on your television and turn off all of the processing stuff (Noise Reduction, Smoothing, etc).

Yeah, HD with Game Mode and all the processing off. There may be a bit of lag, but I think most of it is just that my eyes suck and I'm not that great at reading pitches. I should clarify though that I can hit some fastballs on All Star, but I'm usually late on the 95+ mph stuff unless I use the Guess Pitch.

[SoxFan01605]

Re: Need help with hitting difficulty settings

I fear I'll be in your position soon, Jeff. I've had to bump speed down a bit each year.

In terms of balance between realistic counts and difficulty, you're best best is to bump to AS, turn down pitch speed and then probably bump up timing (this will widen your window and should account for the speed difference).

[jeffy777]

Re: Need help with hitting difficulty settings

I fear I'll be in your position soon, Jeff. I've had to bump speed down a bit each year.

In terms of balance between realistic counts and difficulty, you're best best is to bump to AS, turn down pitch speed and then probably bump up timing (this will widen your window and should account for the speed difference).

Ha, yeah and the sad part is I'm only 31

Thanks man, I'll give that a shot. I think I'll get a little better over time too. Coming from the slower pitch speed in 2K proabably made me lazier, but I'm definitely better now than when I first got this last month (I had to crank the Solid Hits slider way up, but now I have it back down).

[supersonic1414]

Re: Need help with hitting difficulty settings

Put tv on gm mode. I would bet you have input lag as well I couldn't turn on a fb either and after this I have pitch speed on 5

[jr86]

Re: Need help with hitting difficulty settings

One more thing to consider is changing up your camera angle.
Give the Wide angle a go and lower and zoom so that it looks like the ball is coming straight at you when it is in the middle of the strike zone...it definitely makes those ones easier to hit.

[DickDalewood]

Re: Need help with hitting difficulty settings

One more thing to consider is changing up your camera angle.
Give the Wide angle a go and lower and zoom so that it looks like the ball is coming straight at you when it is in the middle of the strike zone...it definitely makes those ones easier to hit.

Finding the right camera angle is huge. I did something similar with Catcher, and lowered the camera down. Now I'm drawing 2-3 walks a games and hitting SOuch better.

Also, Jeffy, which hitting controls are you using? I would STRONGLY recommend Timing if you're not already using that option.

[jeffy777]

Re: Need help with hitting difficulty settings

Thanks for all the replies and tips, guys.....

I am using Timing hitting, and a custom camera that is basically the default camera lowered a bit and zoomed in some, so it's pretty good for reading pitches.

I'm happy to report that my hitting skills are already improving and I bumped the difficulty up to Veteran, and then I lowered CPU Control and CPU Strike Frequency down a few notches each and this seems about perfect for me right now. I'm getting realistic counts, and even working a walk here and there.

[BegBy]

One thing I've noticed, because I'm suffering from dramatic hitting woes, is pitcher confidence. If a pitcher, any pitcher, gets around 80% or more confidence - you're basically gonna see a lot of 'timing perfect' 'contact weak'. It's kinda cool, but I find it a bit much. Bad to average pitchers really get good all of a sudden because they have confidence and the only thing that'll really help is a lucky dice roll or an error. That said, working counts really helps you at this point, but it's still an uphill battle to say the very least.

I've also removed the patch and had success hitting, but while it was great at first it did normalize a bit and I'm not ruling out placebo effect at all. For the record I've installed the patch again and I'm leaving it because I'm forcing myself to assume it was nothing more than a small amount of games without it vs a much larger with it.

Pay attention to confidence though, and you'll see that you're actually hitting properly...you're just on the bad end of dice rolls.

[DJ]

Re: Need help with hitting difficulty settings

Check out Armor & Sword's hybrid set in the slider sub-forum. I think that will help you out.

[HechticSooner]

Re: Need help with hitting difficulty settings

This is my forth year with the Show and my hitting has gotten better every year. So my biggest suggestion for hitting, see A LOT of pitches! The greatest part of this game is that it really does replicate the experience of playing baseball because just doing it over and over makes you better.