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Originally Posted by Neolithic |
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Not exactly. If you hold left on the stick and the pitcher throws an inside pitch, all the other factors aside ( timing being the big one, but the pitch itself, batters ratings, etc. ) it would simply mean the batter would attempt an "inside-out" style swing, to attempt to push the ball to the left side. I suspect your power levels drop in this case, but overall contact? not so much. Again though, even directional hitting input, seems to me to be overshadowed by overall swing timing. I've had plenty of times now that I've wanted to pull a ball, even gotten an inside pitch, but because I was late, ended up hitting a grounder, or a blooper to the right side, even a few line drives to the gap.
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I see what you guys are saying and I agree. They should call the mode Influence Hitting...
Played 7 innings of an exhibition game (switching the team select to bat for both sides) and I held the left stick up on every pitch. NO MATTER where the ball was pitched I got a lot more balls hit in the air. I'd say it was about 75% balls where hit as if the batter was trying to put loft on the ball. Some low pitches I hit line drives, some bloopers right over the outfield, some traditional fly balls, and two when for bomb home runs. But I still did hit some ground balls and fouled off pitches in the dirt.
So the mechanism seems to work just as the developers intended. Directional hitting will INFLUENCE the type of swing. However all the normal factors that timing involves are still in play (ratings, pitcher ratings, hitters tendencies, and of course timing)
The camera movement option is there just to serve as a way to see the ball easier for the type of pitch you WANT to hit. Move the camera inside and an inside pitch feels down the middle more and will increase that chance your timing on the swing will be better.
Directional hitting might just be the most sim way to to hit this year.