MLB 11 The Show Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here

[davewins]

Finally won my first game on legend although I have only been really playing with one team for about 7 or 8 games. Got together 8 hits and 4 runs with the Rangers (that's a high for me in runs and hits).

Question though: Why is the CPU's PCI so big? It takes up the entire strike zone some times. I don't get it. I can never get my PCI that big no matter how good my timing. Even using contact swing.

[bcruise]

Quote: Originally Posted by davewins

Finally won my first game on legend although I have only been really playing with one team for about 7 or 8 games. Got together 8 hits and 4 runs with the Rangers (that's a high for me in runs and hits). Question though: Why is the CPU's PCI so big? It takes up the entire strike zone some times. I don't get it. I can never get my PCI that big no matter how good my timing. Even using contact swing.

That's a difficulty level difference - the User's PCI is much smaller than normal on Legend. I think it's around the same size as the AI's on All-Star, and gets bigger the lower you go. I don't think the AI's PCI changes on any (pitching) difficulty level.

Part of the challenge of playing the highest difficulty level, I'd say.

[nemesis04]

Quote: Originally Posted by davewins

Finally won my first game on legend although I have only been really playing with one team for about 7 or 8 games. Got together 8 hits and 4 runs with the Rangers (that's a high for me in runs and hits). Question though: Why is the CPU's PCI so big? It takes up the entire strike zone some times. I don't get it. I can never get my PCI that big no matter how good my timing. Even using contact swing.

What is your pitching difficulty? That would determine The CPU's hitting difficulty.

[davewins]

Thank you bcruise and nemesis. That explains it!! I thought it had to do with me miss-timing. I had it on Legend for both pitching and hitting. Fielding NO WAY lol.

[Armor and Sword]

Just played my last game on the demo and deleted it.

I can't wait for Tuesday!!! I am just blown away how much better this is going to be than 2009 from a visual stand point. Plus at some point I may go for it in learning the analog controls for hitting and batting. Plus they revamped RTTS which I found tedious on 2009.

Reading all the official retail impressions has me hungry for The Show for the next 8-9 months to go along with my love affair with NBA2K11. Looks like I am skipping video football gaming altogether this year. No doubt in my mind in fact.

[jcern23]

What scares me about the demo is that Ive played four games today and Im not hitting all that well and while I won 3 of the 4 games it was always a one run game with great pitcher duos. I love the low scoring games dont get me wrong but I worry that this version will be like the rest in which the CPU will hit way better only when you do in most games. I just see it way to much with this series that the games stay close regardless of your skill level majority of the time. Aces dealing is one thing but when I have an ace getting beat up just cuz Im hitting a number 4 or 5 starter thats when I get upset. It hasnt happened yet but obviously Im gonna be worried about it. Vets go ahead and elaberate on my thoughts...

[Heroesandvillains]

Check out some of the boxscores in the other threads. I've seen guys with 7-0 scores and something like a 12-5...don't worry about that my man.

[jcern23]

never gonna stop me from playin the show anyway I love it way too much just an observation that's all. And I know there will be blowouts but Im talking about majority thats all. Baseball in general most the time is decided by two runs or less lol i originally posted 1 run, so I could be contradicting myself but I program for apple and I know how touchy the code can be thats all Im saying.