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Quote: Originally Posted by Manny_Shevitz

You will occasionally see foul balls by the CPU, but they are much rarer than they should be. I'm hoping Vern isn't saying that this is even worse in 2014, but just that Konami still haven't properly addressed it. It really is the PYS series' biggest weakness, as far as I'm concerned. Getting hit by a pitch isn't completely missing from '13, but it happens so rarely that it might as well be. In my full Tigers season, in which I have played every single game, I think I have been hit by pitches a whopping 2 times. And I know some people claim to have never been hit by a pitch in '13.

Question for ya : what was the last PYS game where getting hit by a pitch and CPU foul balls were more frequent?

I haven't seen a hit by pitch in PYS 2013 at all, and I've thrown to the maximum inside to test this, curving inside, etc and the ball would just go through the player as the player would do his "getting out of the way" animation. That's interesting that you said you got hit by a twice, I didn't even realize that was possible in PYS 13. Maybe you can get hit by a pitch by the CPU pitcher but you can't hit CPU batters? (is that possible?)

The CPU foul balls are something I never really thought about to be honest, but now that he mentioned it, it's definitely another thing on the short list of things that can be improved about PYS. That should happen more, but at the same time we might not be testing every single CPU hitting difficulty level and all options, where maybe that could happen more. I can't help but think in older versions of PYS the CPU fouled more balls off and hit by pitches were more possible. I'll have to go back and test this.

Back when I played PYS on the PS2, you know, I didn't notice a single bug because the game was so immersive and it seemed such a perfect simulation of baseball. But then again I wasn't really studying the game as extensively as we do now.