Ego setting

[crusader]

Can you still split the ego settings between hitting, pitching and fielding? I can 't seem to find it.

[bcruise]

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Can you still split the ego settings between hitting, pitching and fielding? I can 't seem to find it.

On the main menu press Y / Square to highlight the bottom menu, press right on the dpad to select your profile and you should see an option to "Toggle Ego Mode". Do that and you'll see the ego level change to 4 seperate ones, then select "Change Ego" right below it to set each one individually.

[nemesis04]

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The pictures representing the the different egos are so small I had to walk up to the tv to see what they were, lol.

[crusader]

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Thank you guys!

[temaat89]

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Understanding how to change egos, I'm curious as to everyone's methodology as to when/how much they adjust their ego? For example, what criteria has to happen before you adjust hitting up or down? Baserunning? Pitching? Hitting?

[face2face]

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Understanding how to change egos, I'm curious as to everyone's methodology as to when/how much they adjust their ego? For example, what criteria has to happen before you adjust hitting up or down? Baserunning? Pitching? Hitting?

it depends which type of game your looking for:
I prefer tight game ending up 3-2, 4-3.

So, If i'm at batting Ego 60 and always score 6-7-8 runs, I bump the batting ego to 65. If it's still too easy, move it to 70, etc.
Same for pitching.

For baserunning: If I'm always safe even with medium speed runners, I make the ego harder.

And for defence, if it's too tough and miss a lot of pop fly, I move the ego down.

[Dolenz]

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Understanding how to change egos, I'm curious as to everyone's methodology as to when/how much they adjust their ego? For example, what criteria has to happen before you adjust hitting up or down? Baserunning? Pitching? Hitting?

I have not adjusted things individually yet. I started an elimination mode on 40 and was crushing the CPU by 15 or 20 runs. So I bumped it to 45, then 50 and and I am now at 55. I still won but only by 6 runs and that was due to a lucky Grand Slam so I think I am getting close to where i need to be.

[KBLover]

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Understanding how to change egos, I'm curious as to everyone's methodology as to when/how much they adjust their ego? For example, what criteria has to happen before you adjust hitting up or down? Baserunning? Pitching? Hitting?

For hitting and pitching - I felt I needed more offense on both sides in my games (a lot of 2-1, 1-0 games) so I lowered my hitting Ego a couple notches and raised pitching Ego some.

Baserunning/Fielding I'm leaving low since I have a hard time reading the ball right now. Sometimes I think it's going in the gap and it's caught and vice versa. Though, with Fielding if I feel I'm getting to too much given my team's ratings, I might start raising it a little, though I could just leave it and not touch anything since the players run slower when you don't move them yourself.

[Amazin]

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If I have one complaint it is the outfield fielding especially at the higher Ego levels. There needs to be better audio and/or visual cues similar to how it was handled in older baseball games of this style with different audio pitches that allowed the player to know the trajectory of the ball or a shadow on the field that became larger/smaller for the same effect.

[sethisthegoat]

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I did my first exhibition game at 40, then did a season mode game at 40. Won it 6-1, and decided to jump up to 60. Lost that game 2-0.

Played an online Pennant game at 60, lost 3-2.

And I've only played those 4 games so far. I think 60 will be good...maybe could bump my hitting down a little and pitching up, but want to just see how 60 works for a bit.

[Fiddy]

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Can someone explain at what point the ego stops doing things automatically for you?

I play MLB The Show with auto field and baserunning. I would love to do that here and enjoy the game as I do the show.

Any detailed descriptions of the ego anywhere?

[KBLover]

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Can someone explain at what point the ego stops doing things automatically for you?

I play MLB The Show with auto field and baserunning. I would love to do that here and enjoy the game as I do the show.

Any detailed descriptions of the ego anywhere?

I'm the same way. I'm at 30 for base running and fielding and the game seems to do a lot for me in those aspects, though the tougher calls/plays go better with some intervention from you.

I haven't tried lower in a while and there was some reason I settled at 30 in SMB1 but I don't remember now.

Pretty much all my setting are "The Show-izing" the game in regards to hitting being mostly about timing and pitching having some "randomness" (though you control the actual accuracy) while still being effective.

[bcruise]

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Can someone explain at what point the ego stops doing things automatically for you?

I play MLB The Show with auto field and baserunning. I would love to do that here and enjoy the game as I do the show.

Any detailed descriptions of the ego anywhere?

There's no fully auto fielding or running in this game. For fielding you can set ego to something really low and it will probably go full speed after the ball at least, but I doubt you'll ever see it jump or dive on its own even on 0. You also have to do your own throwing.

Baserunning will do the basics like going halfway on a less than 2 out fly ball, and advancing forced runners, but it won't take extra bases even at ego 0.

The game's just meant for you to fully control, and there's not much getting around that. Just the way it's made.

[sethisthegoat]

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There's no fully auto fielding or running in this game. For fielding you can set ego to something really low and it will probably go full speed after the ball at least, but I doubt you'll ever see it jump or dive on its own even on 0. You also have to do your own throwing.

Baserunning will do the basics like going halfway on a less than 2 out fly ball, and advancing forced runners, but it won't take extra bases even at ego 0.

The game's just meant for you to fully control, and there's not much getting around that. Just the way it's made.

That said...I think SMB has some of the easiest-to-understand base-running in a baseball game. I hate messing around with it in The Show because I always mess something up. SMB explains it really well, and it's pretty easy to wrap your head around.

I do think steals might be a bit too automatic right now. Basically, every time my runner's speed is higher than the catcher's arm, I can steal 2nd. I haven't tried 3rd yet...usually because I am not getting many baserunners right now, and don't want to mess it up with a steal try to 3rd.

[stevostl]

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The game's just meant for you to fully control, and there's not much getting around that. Just the way it's made.
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I kind of like that about this game as I'm like Fiddy in in the show as far as baserunning goes... but since this games make you do it yourself. and you can play so many games so quickly. i noticed i am starting to enjoy doing the base running myself now getting use to it. i wont say i have perfected it or anything yet but i'm much better and not so overwhelmed by it like at first.

if it wasn't for that.. I would never started to figure it out. I'm kind of glad it forced me to do it myself some. it has a good mix of that as it does help you a little in everything