Lack of walks still an issue

[caseyj622]

I walk a ton. Walked 7x last game. I play HOF with cpu strike frequency at 4. Gotta be patient. Take the 3-0 meatball unless you got your 3 or 4 hitter at the plate. I almost always get a walk if the count gets to 3-0. I will take 2 pitches sometimes if I need base runners and am down a few runs.

[MLB14]

Quote: Originally Posted by loganmorrison1

I was really hoping this would be solved this year, but unfortunately it seems worse. Playing 3 different times against McGowen pitching (walks are about 35 rating for him), he threw 77% stirkes, 78% strikes, 73% strikes. Needless to say, I didn't walk a single time. I am extremely patient and actually try to get walks, but it is so difficult. In about 15 games, I'm averaging around 1.5 a game. It seems as though everytime the CPU is down 2-0 or 3-0, they start throwing meatballs right down the middle. Very dissapointing. On the otherside, I rarely walk anyone either, as locating pitches is so simple. ANyone have any advice, or are we stuck with another year of lack of walks.

I get 2-5 walks a game after I became more patient.

[Mitchrapp]

Need to foul those tough pitches until he throws it out of the zone. That's how I get walks..you won't see me with 4-pitch or 5-pitch walks. More like 9-pitch or 12-pitch walks. At least that's my way..

[loganmorrison1]

Ok seems like a lot people are getting walks. I'm playing on All-Star default sliders (I don't like messing with the sliders b/c I'm afraid it will impact other things like making it easier to beat the CPU if I turn their pitching sliders down. Is anyone seeing a large amount on default sliders Allstar?

[Zac]

I've never been walked. But that is because I swing at everything.

[ZOMB13AUTOPILOT]

I just played an exhibition game as Seattle vs Houston and I walked 4 times, and I gave up 2 walks with Felix Hernandez. I use TNK's sliders and walks do not seem to be an issue for me.

[Billy...a_kid]

I thought, for once, that this was going to be about what I have felt is the ONE lacking thing in video baseball game history: THE LACK OF WALKS YOU GIVE UP PITCHING!

It is the one thing no game has ever done right. I have played seasons with SCEA rosters, Legends rosters, I've been playing since 1988 with Earl Weaver Baseball.

My team has the fewest walks in the league (yes, I am talking about ME playing all 162 games, every inning, every pitch) in any game I have ever played.

It is the ONE THING no one has ever done right.

In this game, human/cpu pitching control/consistency/early strikes are all lowered almost to nothing. Helps, but in my last full season with a legends Yankee team, we had about the 25th ERA, but had the lowest walks allowed total in the league.

AGAIN!!!

Here, I thought this thread was about that, and it is about the reverse, which, to be honest, is the player's fault. Be more selective, play the count and the pitcher, foul off close ones. I often am at the top with individuals or teams I use with walks because I "work the count/GRIND out at-bats" virtually every time (and considering 9 players at 500, that's 4500 AB's in a season, which is low for the real total...lot's of grinding).

NO GAME HAS EVER (ever, ever, ever) SUCCESSFULLY MASTERED humans GIVING UP WALKS TO CPU. It is too easy to get a strike when needed over a season.

If a game gets it right, it could be this one eventually, but it astounds me no one ever talks about it. It is the ONE single glaring problem this game, and everyone before it, have suffered from unanimously!

[TheBleedingRed21]

Quote: Originally Posted by Shaffer26

Have you adjusted the sliders at all?

Yup, use TNK sliders