A good game ruined by rubberband AI.

[therizing02]

I've never felt like that with any 2K baseball game.

[Ordeal47]

Quote: Originally Posted by daltros

Unless there were some blatant glitches

That brings me to THREE instances.

There were two times in the 9 games in my Tiger franchise I've played where there was a ground ball to Peralta, and it WOULD NOT LET ME throw it to first base. The meter would not show up. Run scored.

There was a time where there was a guy on second and a dude hit a single. It wasn't a deep hit, and I tried throwing home. Hunter fake threw the ball home. Uhm? The guy was JUST rounding third base, but he didn't let go of the ball. Run scored.

THIS happened twice -- a fly ball at Comerica Park was crushed to the warning track at Castellanos (I made him). Castellanos turns his back to the diamond and looks up like he's expecting it to go over the wall or hit it -- nope. It plops down in front of him. One time it resulted in an inside the parker, and the other was a base clearing triple.

User error? I think not. As for the blown saves, I don't know how it isn't at all rubberband related. I throw the ball the same way as the rest of the game. I generally get the first pitch strike, and at least half the time get guys 0-2. Regardless, they'll get a string of 5+ hits, and I'll lose the game.

[oreo92]

Beat the D-backs 10-5 with St Louis in my first game. No rubberband AI here.

[daltros]

Hmmm...that is interesting.

I have not experienced those issues...yet, but if I do, I will make sure to let people know.

Anyways, watever you or I want to call it (rubberbanding or glitching), it seems like those are definite glitches. In MLB2k12, in my first few games with the Royals franchise, I lost a string of games in the bottom of the 9th due to errors. These errors looked like glitches, but it seems like they are just bad 'clutch' mechanics by the devs. After my first few weeks of the season, and as my players ratings got better, they hardly made errors like those. I think there is some consistency trait that we don't know about which effects the players.

[rock85]

I have played 2 full games and i have not seen this yet. The first game i was

the Yanks and went 12 innings against the Braves and won on a walk off

homer by Cano. The 2nd game i was the Tigers against the Angels i was losing

2 zip through 8 then i scored 4 in the bottom of the 8th and won 4-2 both

game were alot of fun and the AI seemed fine to me, however last years

game i felt that the AI late in the game would always seem to make a run

no matter what, now i have only played 2 games so far so hopefully i dont

see this to much but so far so good

[Ordeal47]

It just happened again. I was losing 1-0 until the 6th inning. Being no hit. I hit a two run home run, then added on to make it 3-1.

Bottom of the ninth. Two outs. Brian Wilson pitching. Two hits, and a three run homerun by a guy with 51c/57p ... I lose. That's 6 blown saves total in 12 games.

Gonna tell me that's not rubberband?

[goh]

I've only had the opposite happen. It'll be close/tied then it starts rolling down hill. Walk,hit,next thing you know HR and the lead goes up by 3. 14 pitch at bat after hardly any hits then 5 runs in the next inning.

[stcardinal]

Nope. Game's legit for me.