Why do people say hitting is broken?

[matthewk]

I just started playing '18, which will be my baseball game for this year. I keep reading posts here and other places about hitting being broken. Why is that? In my limited time so far the hitting feels just like the last few years.

IMO zone has always been broken for me because the PCI locks as soon as you begin your swing. Because of that I just can't use zone. I still can't seem to decide between directional and whatever the other option is called where you swing with the right analog and swing out or in to get to pitches outside or inside. None of these options feels as good as the 2K series did with the zone hitting that flowed as you swung. I don't like how directional is an influence on how you want to hit the ball and not where you want your swing to be. If I want to push a ball to the opposite side, let me control that by swinging later. If I want to get air under a ball, let me choose to swing under it.

I'm just trying to find a hitting option that satisfies me, and I'm a little concerned about posts saying hitting in '18 is messed up. Maybe I should go back to '17 if '18 wrecked things.

[Caulfield]

This is my theory: 1) they dont have sliders tuned right 2) they're playing on the wrong difficulty level 3) they're playing with the padres phillies or mets

[bacon96]

Quote: Originally Posted by Caulfield

This is my theory: 1) they dont have sliders tuned right 2) they're playing on the wrong difficulty level 3) they're playing with the padres phillies or mets

Yeap. Very correct. Sliders and difficulty make a big difference in perception of the game. You just gotta find a happy medium where it's a little difficult and a little fun.

[Armor and Sword]

Quote: Originally Posted by bacon96

Yeap. Very correct. Sliders and difficulty make a big difference in perception of the game. You just gotta find a happy medium where it's a little difficult and a little fun.

Exactly. Today.....played a franchise game with my Fantasy Cardinals team. Hit two gap triples with Ender Inciarte (contact hitter)....not one...two.

Most know my play style and sliders and settings. Hitting for me has never been better than it was on 18.




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[Syce]

hitting was essentially broken in the Online portion of the Game. Because Power hitters were the META. which means, if any player that has low power and high contact(for example Robby Alomar Jr.) were crap. And even SDS devs Admitted they were not working correctly, which is why they added some back end power to contact hitters(im talking in the Coding of the game not what we the players see in game)

[KBLover]

Quote: Originally Posted by Armor and Sword

Exactly. Today.....played a franchise game with my Fantasy Cardinals team. Hit two gap triples with Ender Inciarte (contact hitter)....not one...two.

Yep - I love these kinds of hitters.

I'm over here building the Rockies for gap power + Joey Gallo lol

[BigOscar]

It's all well and good saying it's all about getting the right sliders, but you can't change them in DD, so if the default sliders aren't up to scratch then a lot of people are going to say hitting is broken.

[JayhawkerStL]

One of the things that really soured me on sim sports was the realization that we create the exact challenge we want. As we adjust sliders, we get numbers we want, but never really learn to play better. It’s paint by numbers.

Sports is about competing, whether against yourself or others. Tweaking sliders is antithetical to that. If I dial in my sliders do that my players hit and pitch realistically, I’m not competing. I’m coloring.

If I tweak sliders and throw a no-hitter, so what? If you do that in DD, you are operating under the same sliders. At the end of a game, I’m looking at how I can improve, not how I can tweak sliders.

Honestly, this is why the loss of online franchise modes suck. Regardless of how you might tweak sliders, everyone is operating on the same system.

I’ve gone to playing sports games with as few changes to default sliders as much as possible, even solo. I’m quit worrying about every sim stat, and just started playing and competing. Once I stopped playing sports games to find what’s wrong, I enjoyed them so much more.