CPU Outfielder Routes

[mattm7x]

I didn't notice it until that last few weeks, but has anyone noticed how bad of angles the CPU team outfielders will take? They will run horizontally until they reach the path of the ball and then run backwards to play the distance. It looks so unnatural.. Sometimes I feel like I need to draw them a map.

[underdog13]

FWIW, I in the competitive wiffleball tournaments I play in ( Yes you read that right lol) the most common type of bad route path to a ball is when the go too much horizontal and then have to get deeper at the last second.

Personally I like how below average fielders take bad routes in the show now, unlike previous years.

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[Blzer]

I love the bad routes. When I met Ramone back in 2011 he had explained at the time that they didn't have the CPU ever intentionally take bad routes, but that some would have slower reaction times than others. It's great that they have programmed some sense of randomization into it (based on their attributes, of course).

I do however hate how they know when the ball is going to carom off the wall, though. I don't mean in a "maybe they could have caught it" kind of way (because they have sometimes tried to catch it and flubbed it), I mean in a "darn it, I know my ball isn't going to go out" kind of way. If they ever do that and it's a home run, then I could live with that 100%.

[AUTiger1]

Quote: Originally Posted by Blzer

I love the bad routes. When I met Ramone back in 2011 he had explained at the time that they didn't have the CPU ever intentionally take bad routes, but that some would have slower reaction times than others. It's great that they have programmed some sense of randomization into it (based on their attributes, of course). I do however hate how they know when the ball is going to carom off the wall, though. I don't mean in a "maybe they could have caught it" kind of way (because they have sometimes tried to catch it and flubbed it), I mean in a "darn it, I know my ball isn't going to go out" kind of way. If they ever do that and it's a home run, then I could live with that 100%.

I love the bad routes. Adds realism to the game. Also, for outfields the hardest ball to judge is a liner hit straight at you. I know from personal experience of having played the outfield growing up. But anyway, saw something really cool playing the Reds in my last game. Liner right at CF and Ezequiel Carrera and he just absolutely froze. Had no read on it at all. By the time he realized it was going over his head it was too late to adjust and it got over his head for a double. That's realism.

[ASG82]

I see the exact opposite. The CPU frequently makes all star defensive plays, even on Rookie and is the only one who knows exactly how the ball will bounce off the wall or the pitcher.

[mattm7x]

I understand bad routes being taken from time to time. I played outfield all the way thru junior college. Took some bad routes myself. I will post a video soon and try to show what I am talking about. Its more the angles that are taken for a ball that may be to their left or right.

[mattm7x]

Bad Route
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr0TNSoP9aM


Good route (even though he missed lol)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIO4GsIOq8E

[ASG82]

It might be a bad route but he caught the ball. That's I guess more what I meant, no CPU routes are bad that cause them to not catch the ball.