ChaseB's MLB 2K10 Thread (Updates in First Post)

[ChaseB]

FIRST POST UPDATED AS OF 2/26

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Yes, I am claiming this as my territory. My first matchup was obviously a Dan McCutchen versus Sean Gallagher showdown at Petco -- was there any other logical choice?

Anyway, going to bed, but I shall leave you all with a Garrett "The Legend" Jones Grand Slam (hopefully the video works by morning, or maybe 2K isn't letting videos be shown on their server yet?). I mauled the CPU Padres on Pro -- all was calm until the Pirates' explosive 10-run 7th inning. Ended up winning 10-0. Guess I'll move up the difficulty in the morning. A couple pictures of Lil' LaRoche and Blastings Milledge.

EDIT -- I removed the video from this post because it was terrible (it only captured The Legend walking around the bases and a disgruntled Edward Mujica).

Quote: Originally Posted by keats624

Let's Go Bucs...Yes, I'm a Pirates fan. Chase, when you were playing with the Pirates, did you happen to take a look at the minor league teams? I just wanted to know if they had a Pedro Alvarez and Jose Tabata clone. I know the previous games had a Tabata clone (Juan Tavarez), but last year's game did not have Alvarez in it. Alvarez's clone would be a 3B with the initials PA and about 6-3 235 lbs. Thanks, and once again I thought it was cool that you played with the Pirates.

As a fellow Pirates fan, it would have been wrong not to play with them first. I'll check out your question pretty soon.

Quote: Originally Posted by Blzer

Does anyone know when the videos will be available? Tuesday probably? I wouldn't worry too much about him. He's the same guy that thought Jason Elam's field goal record was a conspiracy because he forgot about the seventeen yards added from the end zone and ball placement.

I sent a PS3 copy to Steve via express mail. Hopefully he gets it by tomorrow (if he does then I'm sure he'd start posting videos).

Quote: Originally Posted by jeffy777

Dude....Chase works for OS....I think he can have his own thread

To be fair, I would have posted in that thread if it wasn't locked. But now I get to be egocentric in this thread.

Quote: Originally Posted by Pared

Actually, they have yet to turn on any of the highlights for MLB 2k10. Here is the direct link: http://community.2ksports.com/commun...ediaid=1348433

Yeah I said in my original comment I figured that might be what's up. Thanks for confirming for me though.

Quote: Originally Posted by KingFelix

Nice... One question for you, Chase... Is everything customizable? For instance, if the game has Ryan Howard too skinny, can we edit body dimensions like we could in 2K8? Could you tell us what's not editable? I'd appreciate it. Enjoy the game!

I'll get to that soon.

Quote: Originally Posted by HK-47

The video ain't working for me. Do you know if 2k8's pitching controls are in 2k10?

The two options are Total Control and Classic. In classic you just select a pitch and hold the button to time the effectiveness of the pitch. Does not look like there are any other options. Not sure if that's 2K8 style or not.

Quote: Originally Posted by KingFelix

Nice... One question for you, Chase... Is everything customizable? For instance, if the game has Ryan Howard too skinny, can we edit body dimensions like we could in 2K8? Could you tell us what's not editable? I'd appreciate it. Enjoy the game!

I won't tell you everything that's editable. Instead I'll tell you what's not. Does that work?

Throwing arm and position are not editable. Everything else (including weight) is editable. It's weird though, when I edit the weight it doesn't look like the player is changing in the edit screen, but when I edit height you can clearly see him getting taller or shorter.

Quote: Originally Posted by bonannogiovanni

here. By the way Chase have you experienced jaggedness in graphics?

I don't see any extra stuff in a sub menu beyond Batter's Eye and Pitch Aim. Pressing B doesn't give me any other options. So I don't see any zone hitting options.

And yeah I experience jaggedness in graphics, just like in every other baseball game. That said, I don't think the jaggies are as bad as they are in the demo -- though I haven't played in Yankee Stadium yet, so maybe I should play there to see (I will).

Quote: Originally Posted by bigfnjoe96

Chase can you confirm for us that Zone Hitting is available via the Classic Batting Option Sub-Menu.. Thanks

See above.

Quote: Originally Posted by Wavebird99

Chase, do you find that the gameplay moves a bit to fast? Specifically infielders throwing the ball too fast?

Have to play a bit more before saying overall, but I do think the throws are too zippy though, yes.

Quote: Originally Posted by keats624

Let's Go Bucs...Yes, I'm a Pirates fan. Chase, when you were playing with the Pirates, did you happen to take a look at the minor league teams? I just wanted to know if they had a Pedro Alvarez and Jose Tabata clone. I know the previous games had a Tabata clone (Juan Tavarez), but last year's game did not have Alvarez in it. Alvarez's clone would be a 3B with the initials PA and about 6-3 235 lbs. Thanks, and once again I thought it was cool that you played with the Pirates.

I would say there is no one that fits the Pedro or Tabata mold in the minors.

Quote: Originally Posted by Tmacattack

WOOOHOOO! That means I can edit picthes! Nothing pisses me off more than Verlander and Halladay who have side cutting curves be given 12-6 curves. I don't know why I'm so anal about that but I am!

Quote: Originally Posted by bigfnjoe96

Thanks for that answer Chase..

Yep, sorry to disappoint I guess?

Quote: Originally Posted by cmdterps44

Hey Chase, I was just curious. Is Stephen Strasburg on one of the minor league teams for the Nationals? Id just like to know his rating / pitches If thats possible!!

There's a guy who is a 70 overall on the High-A Potomac Nationals who is named Randall Sanders. I'd say he's the closest thing to Strasburg since he throws gas and is better than any other pitcher in High-A in the game. He has got a fastball, splitter, slider, 12-6 curve and a changeup

Quote: Originally Posted by AmazingMets

Chase, any idea if the minor league names in the game are anywhere close to the names in real life?

They pretty much are not. I know the minors pretty well for most of the organizations and the names are not similar -- it's hard to really find many comps even for most of the top prospects on each squad.

Quote: Originally Posted by ExtremeGamer

Chase, can you play in Progressive Field, does it have stadium specific sounds, like the drummer drumming in CF. Also curious on the lighting and shadowing throughout a game. Do they move, does it look good, etc.

There was a pretty spirited Ayyyyy-Ohhhh chant in the 9th when I was down 1-0 -- the PA guy was like screaming on the last one, not sure if that's a Cleveland thing or not. As for the drums, I heard a drum in the 6th inning, but I wouldn't really sum it up as the classic drumming you hear in Cleveland.

What types of things you looking for in the lighting? Day to night transition or what?



http://community.2ksports.com/commun...ediaid=1354317

The lone run today in the Indians (me) vs. Mariners (cpu) matchup in the top of the 6th. King Felix dominated my face for 7 innings.

And here is Chone taking a header:



Krukker is rather impressive for a first-year analyst in a game. He had scouting reports for guys like Michael Brantley, Brandon League, David Aardsma -- I didn't agree with the Brantley one since I don't think too many Indians fans see the offense being built around him, but nevertheless. Gary Thorne also threw some questions at him -- one being a question/comment about Choo's strikeout numbers being kind of high considering how good of a contact hitter he is. Kruk responded by talking about Choo's strikeouts needing to come down unless the power goes up.

I also think the "Pepsi Clutch Performer of the Game" (basically player of the game I guess) might be broken. In my Pirates game last night it gave it to Milledge, which didn't make sense since GJones hit a grand slam and DCutch went 7 scoreless innings. Then in this game Jack Wilson got the player of the game for going 0-4.

Quote: Originally Posted by Tmacattack

How is it disappointing? You said we can edit everything except throwing arm and position, which means I CAN edit pitches, and give those pitchers the appropriate pitches!

It was in response to another poster, not you slugger.

Quote: Originally Posted by duke776

Okay, I see position is not editable. Is it just that the primary position can't be changed, or can secondary positions not be changed either?

I don't see any place to give a player a secondary position.

Quote: Originally Posted by Blzer

Does it change every batter, or every inning like last year (where there would instead be huge jumps)? In April, will night games start out darker than in July? Does it become a pitch black at its darkest time? I really love progressive lighting in baseball games, and it actually looks like they did very well with it this year.

Just to clarify, I'll look into the lighting changing between at-bats and innings, not July vs. April.

Quote: Originally Posted by Checmate101

Need this game in my hands ASAP...Like what I'm hearing.. Chase..At the end of the game, do the winning team line up and give each other high fives?

They did not in the game I just played. Insted KRod just gave some love to his catcher and the camera also panned to Jeff Franc-O running in from the OF (he ended up being Pepsi Clutch Performer of the game for his game-winning RBI -- so the game actually picked a suitable candidate this game).

Quote: Originally Posted by dougdeuce

do the umpires still chill in their stances when the game is over? for some reason that really bothers me that the guys calling the game don't realize it's over.. haha

The camera cut away from the plate after the final out so I didn't see where the ump was at.

Quote: Originally Posted by Blzer

Does it change every batter, or every inning like last year (where there would instead be huge jumps)? In April, will night games start out darker than in July? Does it become a pitch black at its darkest time? I really love progressive lighting in baseball games, and it actually looks like they did very well with it this year.

So in the Afternoon game I just played it was pitch black by the bottom of the 3rd -- so it might be interesting to see what a July game maybe bring about since I did it on MLB Today time, which would be April. I noticed the lighting changing mostly after half innings rather than between batters.

Quote: Originally Posted by Tmacattack

This is probably way too detailed of a question, so feel free to ignore it, but I was wondering what pitches are available when creating a player.

Fastball, changeup, screwball, knuckleball, splitter, cut fastball, 2-seam fastball, forkball, power curve, circle change, palmball, knuckle curve, slurve, eephus.

I just went to edit player and cycled through the pitches rather than creating a new player, but I assume they are the same.

Quote: Originally Posted by drterb

Are there position specific attributes for each position. For example, does Pujols have a defensive rating for 1B?? If that rating does exist, can you edit the 1B attribute and set it to 0 and then set his 2B attribute to 100. Does that change his primary position?? How is the crowd noise?? Are they loud/quiet when appropriate?? Do they boo/cheer when appropriate?? I guess the real question is, how is the stadium ambiance during pivotal situations??

Yes there is a fielding ability position attribute for each position. I changed it and it still left the player as his original position even when I zero out the original fielding ability and make another position attribute 100.

Crowd noise is all right. I feel like it's a little on the quiet side, but they do get more hot and bothered in the bottom of the 9th etc.

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Just played a Mets (me) vs. Nationals (cpu) game at Citi Field. I actually am still playing on Pro and won 1-0, so the 10-0 whooping of the Padres maybe not a sign of things to come (but obviously I have given up 1 run in three games, so it's my offense lagging behind not my pitching). I will bump it up to All-Star next game.

-John Lannan went CG 8 innings. Rigglebiddybottom probably should have pinch-hit hit for him in the 8th, but chose not to with one out and no one on. Riggleman also let Lannan swing away with a man on first and no outs in the 3rd -- he hit into a double play rather than bunting.

-A peculiar thing happened in I believe the beginning of the 7th inning. During the game you can press pause and see how much energy each pitcher has left. For whatever reason, both pitchers had energy levels that went back to 99 (both were down in the 30s around the 7th originally). Now, the pitch count still was normal and the pitches didn't get a jump in effectiveness, but it perhaps lead to Riggleman keeping Lannan in for that 8th inning at bat rather than pinch hitting for him. The energy level stayed at 99 for Lannan in the pause screen even though he was clearly laboring on the field until there was one out in the 9th (I kept checking after every out) -- he was at about 110 pitches when he finished his last inning. Santana's stayed at 99 until I pulled him when Dunn hit a two-out double in the bottom of the 9th. Santana was laboring and at 100 pitches as well on the field. Basically, it's not a big deal if the CPU doesn't go by that screen to decide when to pull a pitcher who is tiring. But, either way, something to keep an eye on.

-The slides into home crack me up. Seems like every hitter does this big slide into home base on their gut, and then it looks like they stick their head down and just eat dirt as a dirt smoke screen comes up around them.

-Citi Field had a lot of stadium-specific stuff. The airplanes were flying overhead throughout, they had a Jose chant, they had a let's go dave chant, and I heard some cowbell at one point (they do that at Citi Field?).

Here's a funny video of Santana taking a ball off his iron skull:

http://community.2ksports.com/commun...ediaid=1355179

Then just a regular picture of Santana on the mound:

Quote: Originally Posted by Scooter3

Thanks Chase for "Being There" for us! Please tell us a little more about the "face tool". scooter... ps. was "Chase" Peter Sellers name in "Being There"?

The face tool is like the one in NBA 2K10. So there are presets and then also an ability to go in and fine tune the face with the left and right analog sticks.

His name was Chance, not Chase. (If that was a play on words, then I get it, but in case you were being serious, then the more you know, GI Joe etc. etc.)

I'll answer more questions tomorrow, but just wanted to say this before going to bed:

I played an online game tonight against local douche and forum admin Millennium. First, let's get this out of the way, I trounced him. As the White Sox I struck him and his lowly Orioles out 23 times with Jake Peavy.

Pathetic.

I also mauled Brian Matusz, which clearly shows he's a bust-o prospect in the making (fight me Orioles fans). I hit four home runs (all with the power swing) and won 7-0 -- a 3-run HR and a solo HR in the first being the big reasons why. I don't think anyone should jump to conclusions and think OMG there is a home-run problem or anything -- Millennium was just that bad, and I sat fastball a couple times and he paid for me guessing right.

Anyway, the performance was solid besides a slight button lag when swinging. It's small but definitely noticeable when compared to playing offline. So, you will definitely have to adjust for that, which is unfortunate. Beyond that there was no lag and the frame rate held up well. The only other thing is the presentation seems to be turned off when it comes to the introductions before the game and the batter walk-ups etc. So it pretty much just goes from pitch to pitch and cuts out all the in between stuff. I hope there is an option to change it to have full presentation, but I'll have to look into that another time.

PS, OFer throwing speeds are insane in this game. In one inning Juan Pierre was on second and had a good lead. After a bloop hit into CF I thought Pierre would score easily, but instead Adam Jones ran onto the ball -- not even from a great angle or anything -- and gunned Pierre easily at the plate.

Quote: Originally Posted by malky

Chase 1. Can you edit jerseys/uniforms this year? 2. Have you dived into franchise yet? Like to see if they have something called League History like NBA2K10? Where it records the championship winners and MVPs of your franchise. Thanks!

1. Edit them how? You can change sweatbands etc. but you can't change the Cardinals uniform so it is blue and teal.

2. I won't do too much in franchise mode, but this is easy enough to check: There is not a "League History" tab but they do keep track of MLB records and team records. But I don't see anything where they detail all the World Series champs etc. so it's not as in depth it doesn't look like.

Quote: Originally Posted by Regnirps

Sorry if this has been discussed, but there's a High-A?? What other minor league affiliations are there? Only AA and AAA can be played, correct? Are the other leagues just there or are there statistics of their games? Can you discuss the minor leagues and how they work? Thank you!

There is Triple A, Double A, and then an A-ball squad -- it just looks like most of them are the High-A affiliates by just eying the squads (so I'm assuming all of the A-ball teams are the High-A ones).

In fact, funny enough, Pittsburgh moved their High-A affiliate from Lynchburg to Bradenton and vice versa for the Reds. In the game this is reflected, but I guess they forgot to change the team's hats, so everyone on the High-A team for Pitt has a Reds cap on in their picture on the roster screen and vice versa for the Reds.

On the team-select screen for "Play Now" I can only choose from the Double-A and Triple-A affiliates. In a franchise I can not play as the A-ball affiliate either. However, yes there are stats for those games even though you can't play them.

What would you like to know about how the minors work? Not sure what you're looking for when you say "how do they work?".

Quote: Originally Posted by Tmacattack

Thanks a lot for your reply! I'm assuming that's excluding curve and 12-6 curve since we already mentioned them, thanks!

Yeah, 12-6 curve, power curve, standard curveball and knuckle curve are there.

Quote: Originally Posted by Kane182

Seen any injuries yet? I'm surprised Santana wasn't injured after taking one off the head.

I have not, but it's a small sample -- but yes Santana I don't think is feeling too well after that ball to the head in real life. It could be that injuries only happen in franchise mode as well, but I'm just speculating there.

Quote: Originally Posted by strawberryshortcake

ChaseB, Just three (3) general things. Answer these in a general sense. Being overly detailed would be too time consuming. But certainly be my guest if you want to be extra detailed oriented. (Side Note: Did you use "classic hitting" or "total control hitting"?) (1) All-Star vs. Hall of Fame/Legend Stastistics In addition to "All-Star"level difficulty, it would be greatly appreciative if you could also boost it up to the next (final?) level of difficulty (Hall-of-Fame/Legend?) and report back with barebones general statistics or simply the overall experience. (2) Pitcher vs. Batter duel on All-Star vs. Hall-of-Fame -No need really for specific numbers (that would be too time consuming). But what's the sense of CPU batters simply taking balls and strikes without swinging. -CPU's tendency to take strikes -CPU's tendency to take balls -CPU's tendency to swing at balls outside the strike zone. -CPU's batter tendency on a 3-0 count; 3-1 count. 0-2 count (general sense). -CPU's tendency to hit foul balls (i.e. defensive swings when they are down in the count). -Bottom line: Just a general sense of how the CPU's batter reacts at the plate on higher difficulty settings. (3) Homeruns (Contact vs. Power Swing) at All-Star/Hall-of-Fame/Legend Mode) Additional thoughts on the number of homerun balls at higher difficulty levels. General sense would work well (high, medium, low, etc.) Be detailed if you want though. -Approximate No. ____ of homeruns with contact swing -Approximate No. ____ of homeruns with power swing. -Bottom line: Is it much, much more difficult to hit homeruns at higher settings with power swing/contact swing? Asking because it was a little too easy on PRO mode (demo) using the power swing. From my understanding, PRO mode is considered easy for beginners in 2k's eyes. Much appreciative. Thanks. SIDE NOTE: From reading a users post on 2k's forum. Apparently using "Classic Hitting" vs "Total Control Hitting" makes a difference. With "Classic Hitting," there are more variations in ball placement on the field. More "doubles'' as well were noted in the demo using "Classic Hitting." Apparently, actually "timing" your swing is important in classic hitting. This is based from a user's experience. This is interesting.

I get that this is important for many folks, but I just won't be able to get to this in any detail because my sample sizes would be far too small -- especially considering the fact that all of you will have a chance to test this in a few short days and be able to come to better conclusions in a few hours (since there's kind of a lot of you) than I would be able to do if I was playing a ton of games over the next couple of days (and I just won't be playing THAT many games).

Quote: Originally Posted by Steve_OS

Hey Chase, make sure you get that no-hitter, so you can buy the site off of me.

I saw you were trying to sell it for $47 dollars on Craigslist. But the ad did have the caveat that "you must be under 18 and meet me in person in the back of my '87 station wagon so I can give you the proper paperwork."

Quote: Originally Posted by gdavis2570

Chase can you save the camera settings so you don't have to keep resting them

Well, I turned on a game, changed the camera, left the game, started a new one, and then the camera was still changed. It never asked me to save or anything and I can't change the camera outside of a game, but it stayed change in that scenario at least.

If the camera saves in NBA 2K10 my guess is it will save here, but I never change the camera in NBA 2K so I wouldn't know if it saves or not.

Quote: Originally Posted by Scooter3

Chase, Happy to see the Legends are in! My question is will we be able to play with them in Franchise? thank you. scooter...

If I had any unlocked I could perhaps tell you, but none are unlocked trading cards yet.

Quote: Originally Posted by BA2929

I just have two simple questions, answered by basically doing one thing: Is there an option to turn assisted fielding off? and if not, If you up the difficulty to AS or (whatever the highest is) does it seem like you have more control over your fielders than it does on the demo? Thanks! BA

Yeah I was looking for a way to turn it off or down and could not find one. I will get back to you on your other question, since I am about to play on All-Star soon.

Quote: Originally Posted by Djwlfpack

Thanks for confirming in-game saves; big selling point for me. How's the CPU's selection at the plate? Are they hacking away at every first pitch strike or do they work they count better this year?

They definitely are not hacking every time -- when I used Santana I had over 100 pitches in the 9th and they worked more than a couple full counts. But it does depend on the batter a good amount so some do hack early and often.

Quote: Originally Posted by slyian89

can your manager argue a call? and can your charge the mound?

I don't think so on either account.

Quote: Originally Posted by dorismary

Hi Chase , Its safe to say your enjoying the game so my question is what are you most impressed with gameplay wise Thanks

Is that a safe thing to say? I don't feel like I've been leaning too much one way or the other -- I've only played like 4-5 games so I tend to not champion or bash something that early on.

But what I'm most impressed by on the field is probably the pitching if we're separating the game into hitting, fielding, pitching and running.

Quote: Originally Posted by pjv31

One question for you Chase, and its even multiple choice. How much better is 2k10 than 2k9: A. Marginal B. Somewhat improved C. Significantly improved D. Night and day. Couldn't have been improved more. Don't read to much into the question. Just go with your first instinct.

I would give the game 10 coconuts out of 18.5 mangoes at this point. What, that doesn't answer your question?

Quote: Originally Posted by tsp120

I have a feeling this is not in the game, but is there anyway to play the game on player/position lock? I ask because I think it'd be fun to play through a season/franchise as one of your favorite players...so essentially the in-game gameplay would work like it does in My Player, but would be done with a real player instead of a created one.

Yeah, I don't see a Player Lock option, but there's nothing stopping you from re-creating Yuniesky Betancourt and going back through his fantastic career to this point. Just need a little imagination.

Quote: Originally Posted by BigBlue

Chase: This is a bit worrisome. Do you have a direct contact at 2K? Perhaps you can bring this to their attention quickly so that it can be incorporated in the patch currently being worked on? We need realistic throwing speeds / Outfielder throwing strength. Pierre should have scored EASILY on a bloop single to Center. Are YOU concerned by this or did Pierre stumble? BigBlue

If Pierre stumbled I would not have seen it since the ball was near Jones. I don't believe there is a global editing option either to downplay the arms. How big of a concern is it at this point? Not sure.

Quote: Originally Posted by huntt26

Do the scores for other teams playing around the league update in real-time? Last year the scoreboard at Wrigley was completely green, NO information. It looked horrible. Is that fixed this year? Thanks for all of the info you are providing!

I saw numbers on the wall at Progressive Field, but I don't see what would be there to update in real time since the season has not started. I don't believe the scores will update in real time either way this year -- I admit to not having read every line of the Franchise Insights, but I don't think it was mentioned. Someone can correct me if I'm wrong.

Quote: Originally Posted by WTF

Hey Chase, quick question if you could oblige. Can you turn off the fielding auto assist? Have you seen fielders run through one another, or are there collision animations? Thanks If you start taking requests for pictures... maybe a Griffey Jr at bat, or just face shot would be nice.

I answered the fielding auto assist question a few questions up in this post. I have not seen any collision or ghosting yet -- I do know they redid the animations at 2B to minimize ghosting and promote collisions and the same goes for home plate. I'll have to be on the lookout and see if two OFers smash into each other or not if I get a chance to see it.

I am not taking requests, but that might be easy enough to upload to my 2K Sports profile. I'll post again if I do it.

Quote: Originally Posted by adamj2281

Chase, This is more a franchise question, and I"m not sure how much you have delved into on it, but here goes. Can you give a general summary on the free agent and trade logic in the game, maybe try some trades and see if they make sense? Also, can you check the team budgets to see if they are in line with real life or at least require you to use some logic in who you sign, etc. That's my main problem with franchise in other sports games is it's too easy to just buy and trade whoever you want.

Before you start a franchise most of the MLB teams look in line with what you would expect -- the Rays are not at 100 million etc.

When making a trade there is something on the screen telling you how much budget room you have.

As for the logic. I put Garrett Jones (86 overall, and small contract) into the Trade Finder, and could have gotten Kazmir, A. Hill, Jurrjens, Yunel Escobar, Carlos Zambrano, Dempster, BWebb, KRod, Heath Bell, Mike Adams, Nellie Cruz, Elvis Andrus, Matt Garza, Victor Martinez, Billy Butler, Justin Morneau, Scott Baker or Mark Buehrle.

When I put Milledge (83 overall) in I could get Kazmir, Zambrano, Dempster, Webb, Adams, Nellie Cruz, Morneau, Buehrle.

There were no takers for McCutchen in the Trade Finder.

For Doumit (82 overall): Jered Weaver, Oswalt, Wandy Rod, Ricky Romero, Casey McGehee, Mat Gamel, Stephen Drew, Nolasco, Niemann, Helton, Gavin Floyd, A.J. Burnett, and a few others

For Iwamura (82 overall): Gamel, Stephen Drew, Happ, Holland, Cuddyer, Blackburn, Joba, Konerko

etc...

When I put GJones and McCutchen (87 overall) into Trade Finder together a couple of the potential deals included: Andrus, KRod, Garza, Rollins and Werth, Hamels and Rollins, Adrian Gonzalez and Heath Bell, Garza and Bartlett, Lester and Pedroia.

Clearly the game is taking more than overall into consideration during these deals but you can be the judge.

I won't get into offseason/free agency stuff right now, maybe later.

Quote: Originally Posted by notasenator

I'm trying to imagine where the ball had to be hit to allow Adam to run all the way around to second.

Quote: Originally Posted by kpkpkp

Chase can you look into these bugs from last year? And see if they have been fixed? I was going to do a home "test" by renting the game before I buy it. (I have a thread about bugs from 2K9 going over at 2K forums) A lot of people are concerned about bugs Here is my test I was going to do; -I'm going to intentionally hit batters and see if my pitchers gets booted or warned. Last year you could beam the entire team if you wanted. -Last year if you traded someone they turned into a generic bald white appearence on field, even if they were Hispanic, Black or Asian or whatever. I'm going to trade some guys and see if that still happens. -I'm going to sim through an off day and see if players properly recover fatigue. -I'm going to see if contract negotiations are even possibe mid season, since last year you could not. -I'm going to see if every generated rookie in the draft is 5'6" like last year. (That was a funny one.) -I'm going to get a player injured, then sim till he has 1 days left on his injury, and see if he gets stuck as injured forever like last year. -Im going to promote some AAA to the majors mid-season and see if their AAA stats come with them, last year AA AAA and MLB stats would all mix together as you promoted/demoted guys. Stats for each league should be seperate! -I'm going to sim to year 2 in a franchise. Last year CPU teams only bothered to fill 22 rosters spots after the first season. I have no idea why this happened last year, but Im going to check for that too. If you can try any of these it would be much appreciated. Here is the complete bug list from 2K9 http://www.2ksports.com/forums/showthread.php?t=256712

I won't look into them right now, but perhaps later.

Quote: Originally Posted by rebray10

I don't have time to shift through 10 pgs of posts...so sorry if this has already been asked. Besides the tests kp mentioned in the post above...my big concern is Sim logic in franchise/season mode. Are the results and stats fairly true to real life? For example, did any players have ridiculous amounts of HRs,RBIs, SBs etc...and were the team's records realistic? Last year (in my season at least), there were too many teams floating at .500, there weren't any really good teams (I think the best record in baseball was like 91-71) or really bad teams ( no one really came close to 100 Ls). Thanks in advance!

I'll look into this when/if I do an offseason/free agency.

Quote: Originally Posted by reyes the roof

Does the game still indicate when the cpu throws a mistake pitch, and if so, does the cpu still purposely throw pitches like high changeups and high sinkers that aren't mistake pitches

No, or at least I have not seen an indicator for when a mistake is being thrown. I have seen some high sinkers -- I get told to throw high sinkers from time to time as well, but when I used Santana I was told to keep the changeup down if I remember correctly.

Quote: Originally Posted by Millennium

Sorry. Chase won't be giving any more impressions as I am banning him. On my phone but I will give the impressions from the losing side when I get home tonight.

Losers don't get a say, haven't you ever read a history book?

PS, Millennium was so distraught after his embarrassing defeat that he left me and the rest of his NHL 10 OTP squad out to try and did not play in any EASHL games with them. Luckily, we play better without him. Either way, he's a poor sport.

Quote: Originally Posted by laker8la

Chase, I just have one important question.... How is the hit variety? Are there dribblers, bloopers, high choppers, texas leaguers, etc.? In the demo everything seems to be a hard hit ball. Are there some balls hit off the end of the bat...basically is there variety?

I have not seen high choppers or texas leaguers. I have seen bloopers and dribblers. And yes, some balls are hit off the end of the bat. The variety seems OK at this point -- not everything is a laser like you seem to be worried about.

Quote: Originally Posted by drterb

When he says you can't edit throwing arm, I think he means whether a player throws left or right, not their throwing strength (or whatever the attribute is called).

Yes, you are correct that is what I meant.

[HK-47]

The video ain't working for me.

Do you know if 2k8's pitching controls are in 2k10?

[12]

Nice...

One question for you, Chase... Is everything customizable? For instance, if the game has Ryan Howard too skinny, can we edit body dimensions like we could in 2K8?

Could you tell us what's not editable? I'd appreciate it.

Enjoy the game!

[JayhawkerStL]

I'd just like t o make a formal request for screenshots of the sliders, if you could.

[bonannogiovanni]

Quote: Originally Posted by jayhawker

I'd just like t o make a formal request for screenshots of the sliders, if you could.

here.


By the way Chase have you experienced jaggedness in graphics?

[Craigsca]

Regarding pic #1: I see the Jones septuplets got great seats to the Padres game!

[Pared]

You can't embed videos from 2k's highlights, Chase. I've told them about it and they have yet to fix it.

[Pared]

Actually, they have yet to turn on any of the highlights for MLB 2k10. Here is the direct link:

http://community.2ksports.com/commun...ediaid=1348433