Major League Baseball 2K10: MLB Developer Insights - Pitchers vs. Hitters Part I & II

[Trevytrev11]

Quote: Originally Posted by Kane182

Video is looking pretty good. What concerns me and this may have been answered, but I hope you can hit homeruns on occasion with the contact swing.

It was answered and you definitely can. You just have to be much more exact with the timing of your swing, etc.

[AceTitan]

One of the developers said you could hit a homerum with a contact swing. Just your timing would have to be perfect.

I don't know where the exact quote where this was said, but i'm sure someone here can agree with me here that this was said.

[Blzer]

Quote: Originally Posted by Kane182

Video is looking pretty good. What concerns me and this may have been answered, but I hope you can hit homeruns on occasion with the contact swing.

This one still concerns me, and I almost forgot to point it out with everything that I loved to hear about the positives. Not once did the developer or the trailer voice-over mention the ease of hitting a home run this way.

There's a good chance that, if defensive swing is available with the power swing, I'm going to do everything vested in me to have a "power swing only" slider set, so that I can have everything even out correctly using said swing (more than likely we start with lowering overall power and raising overall contact). Let's just hope it works that way and not so much that people with low power ability just botch their power swings overall.

Again (and I explained this in that video), I don't like deciding who hits with power and who hits with contact. When I do this in games, this always results in power hitters hitting way too many home runs and contact hitters hitting way too few.

I say we have one standard swing and let the ratings decide everything. Or if necessary, maybe have a 95% standard swing (95% of power rating and 95% of contact), and then holding the right trigger will increase the power ability just by a small bit (100% power and 90% contact) and holding onto the left trigger will increase contact ability (90% power and 100% contact). This makes for a tiny threshold where the standard swing doesn't impact the power ability very much at all. This would probably be most ideal and favored if we didn't already use the left trigger for stealing bases.

[Kane182]

Quote: Originally Posted by Trevytrev11

It was answered and you definitely can. You just have to be much more exact with the timing of your swing, etc.

That is very exciting to hear. Thanks

[mwjr]

Quote: Originally Posted by bigfnjoe96

This was the BIG Problem last year on WHY the AI was swinging @ everything b-4 the PATCH. Oh boy...

Yeah, I remember that being a big issue. And I remember it still being an issue after the patch.

Hopefully this is remedied before the release.

[Padgoi]

I wonder if the cursor hitting is the same as last year? And the button-based hitting? They didn't mention these at all and some of us really dislike the swing stick.

[NINJAK2]

i'm not a huge baseball fan but I was definitely impressed with that video. looks great.

[Sting]

Quote: Originally Posted by Padgoi

I wonder if the cursor hitting is the same as last year? And the button-based hitting? They didn't mention these at all and some of us really dislike the swing stick.

I would like to know as well. I'm a button guy myself, I hate the analogs.