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Old 06-18-2015, 07:32 PM   #201
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So odd because I have not seen one instance of any of this. What rosters? What sliders?


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Old 06-18-2015, 07:34 PM   #202
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How do you figure? What do you base that on?
On the video that I posted, where was the fielding mistake? On the pickoff throw into the stands, where was my mistake? My SS reading the label on the ball and taking his time before throwing to first? My outfielder getting glued to the track allowing for extra bases. ......
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except that in this game, fielding mistakes aren't really fielding mistakes a good majority of the time. They are animation and glitch mistakes.

There are weak animations in the outfield at the least (the lazy "get off the wall" one really, just...), and I don't doubt the glitches and evidence has been given.

However, I don't believe they happen "to make it harder on the user" or "to make a team win/lose late in the game" or "only on higher difficulty levels".

I have seen actual poor fielding. Bad routes (looking at you Stanton and Ozuna), terrible throws (Solano), etc.
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On the video that I posted, where was the fielding mistake? On the pickoff throw into the stands, where was my mistake? My SS reading the label on the ball and taking his time before throwing to first? My outfielder getting glued to the track allowing for extra bases. ......
The thing is though, outside the pickoff attempts, I've seen everything else you mentioned happen to the CPU. So it seems to balance itself out.
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Old 06-19-2015, 08:07 AM   #205
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Once I switched to auto-fielding and auto-baserunning, the game has been nothing short of amazing to me.

I don't feel like it's scripted at all, unless by scripted you mean completely random......

Just last night, I had 2nd and 3rd with two outs, I'm trying to work the count, fouling off pitches (left handed batter, right handed pitcher) and then he throws me a cutter that I commit to, it runs in on my hands and jams me, my swing is "late", and the ball flairs out into short left field - "no mans land" - runners from 2nd and 3rd score on a bloop single that had no business being a two run single. Amazing.
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Old 06-19-2015, 10:08 AM   #206
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At this point, there's no reason we should be relegated to having to use auto fielding in order to simulate a realistic defensive experience. Comeback or no comeback, fielding is abhorrent.
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At this point, there's no reason we should be relegated to having to use auto fielding in order to simulate a realistic defensive experience. Comeback or no comeback, fielding is abhorrent.

No, but it always gets difficult when the user can control every aspect of the player and to still have the player be limited by his ratings.

It's the same thing as in Madden - if a player is good with the sticks, how do you still represent that the player being controlled is bad at whatever it is?

With auto-fielding, a player with poor fielding ratings will actually take bad routes to the ball. A user won't necessarily do the same thing, so how does the game represent the player's inability to read the ball off the bat without hindering user input?

What stops a guy with 10 range and 10 fielding from being Willie Mays or Brooks Robinson under user control?
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At this point, there's no reason we should be relegated to having to use auto fielding in order to simulate a realistic defensive experience. Comeback or no comeback, fielding is abhorrent.
You're not. I do manual defense and have a realistic defensive experience.
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