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Old 03-20-2014, 05:35 PM   #6
Manny_Shevitz
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Re: Pro Yakyuu Spirits 2014 Impressions

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Originally Posted by simgamer0005
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.
As far as I can remember, the foul ball issue has been consistently the same at least since I started playing PYS, which was the 2010 version. I haven't noticed any kind of steady improvement or decline in the number of foul balls hit by the CPU.

The last version I remember where getting hit by a pitch was fairly common was 2011. It seemed to get toned down a bit in 2012, and has virtually disappeared from 2013. But like I said, I've seen it happen in 2013, so it is definitely possible. I don't recall ever being able to hit a CPU batter in 2013, so that might not be possible. I'm not sure.
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