Re: First News on MLB 15 The Show Coming on December 6th - 7th
Most of those things are directly tied to one problem: the exit velocity on batted balls is too low. If you jack the power slider up, you get quite a few more choppers and hard grounders... you get balls flying down the line, etc.. You also get 4000 home runs and other nonsense that makes it unideal for playing baseball, but my point is the potential is already there. It's not that the ground isn't bouncy enough, it's that the ball doesn't travel with enough energy to accommodate a good bounce.
Increasing the exit-velocity on batted balls would be a great boost to the ball physics. An increase to this velocity and a more complex collision system that you alluded to (ball to wall vs ball to brick vs ball to human all have the same result, currently), and I think no other improvements or changes to ball physics would ever be necessary.
I'm also hoping for retooled physics, specifically with how the ball reacts to different surfaces. The hit variety in 14 is easily the best in the series, but I still haven't seen any choppers off the plate or hard smashes down the line making it all the way to the wall. Said walls are also way too hard, a ball hitting off the padding should not bounce 10 feet in the air afterwards.
The fielding animations will probably need to be tweaked to adjust to the incoming speed of the ball. More conservative routes to the baseball should lead to more extra base opportunities for slower players (I find it pretty much impossible to go 1st to 3rd on a groundball to right field with anyone under 70 speed).
And of course, improvements to the usual stuff everyone else has brought up already
The fielding animations will probably need to be tweaked to adjust to the incoming speed of the ball. More conservative routes to the baseball should lead to more extra base opportunities for slower players (I find it pretty much impossible to go 1st to 3rd on a groundball to right field with anyone under 70 speed).
And of course, improvements to the usual stuff everyone else has brought up already
Increasing the exit-velocity on batted balls would be a great boost to the ball physics. An increase to this velocity and a more complex collision system that you alluded to (ball to wall vs ball to brick vs ball to human all have the same result, currently), and I think no other improvements or changes to ball physics would ever be necessary.
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