MLB The Show 16 Has Officially Arrived, Post Your Impressions Here

[sdatkins]

Quote: Originally Posted by Bunselpower32

So I changed to zone hitting, and instantly, the hit variety is better. I’m actually catching on pretty quickly, it took me a long time to start turning positive batting practice scores when learning directional last year, but I’m already getting into bronze territory with zone after a few hours. I’ve already had several pokes through the hole with Piscotty (the best!), and he’s peppered the gap a few times, and has shaken it up with several different looking weak pop ups and grounders (something I didn’t see at all before), and hey, I even got a few flare hits, something I hadn’t seen. Amazing improvement. So yeah, long story short, directional hitting has the worst hit variety apparently. I also agree with doubles to the corner guy. Prince fielder cannot get a double on those, and a good runner like Piscotty gets thrown out quite a bit. It’s like some element of the the game speed doesn’t fit. Fielder speed, arm strength, something isn’t adding up quite right. You don’t care where I sent this from.

I agree. Last year was my first year after switching from XBone to PS4 and I loved directional hitting. This year directional hitting did not work for me at all and I just switched to zone hitting last night and immediately saw more hit variety and had much more hard contact. To me directional hitting seems off compared to last year. Last year I crushed fastballs in the upper half of the zone and this year they all seemed to be pop ups and flyballs once I got past rookie difficulty on dynamic difficulty. Zone hitting allows me to hit the ball where it is pitched this year.

[Bunselpower32]

Quote: Originally Posted by sdatkins

I agree. Last year was my first year after switching from XBone to PS4 and I loved directional hitting. This year directional hitting did not work for me at all and I just switched to zone hitting last night and immediately saw more hit variety and had much more hard contact. To me directional hitting seems off compared to last year. Last year I crushed fastballs in the upper half of the zone and this year they all seemed to be pop ups and flyballs once I got past rookie difficulty on dynamic difficulty. Zone hitting allows me to hit the ball where it is pitched this year.

It’s funny, aside from your bit about the pop ups, which is absolutely true, the reason I like zone so much is because it produces less hard contact. Or should I say, hard contact seems to matter more. Before, over an out an inning was coming on screaming liners. I was blistering almost everything. but the variation of zone has really loosened that, and the hard ones I hit now seem to find the holes more.

You don’t care where I sent this from.

[sdatkins]

Quote: Originally Posted by Bunselpower32

It’s funny, aside from your bit about the pop ups, which is absolutely true, the reason I like zone so much is because it produces less hard contact. Or should I say, hard contact seems to matter more. Before, over an out an inning was coming on screaming liners. I was blistering almost everything. but the variation of zone has really loosened that, and the hard ones I hit now seem to find the holes more. You don’t care where I sent this from.

Maybe it's because it is so different from last year that it just seems directional hitting doesn't seem to be giving me the results that I got last year and that is why I feel zone hitting is better this year. I do agree I hit a lot of line outs and deepish fly outs with directional. With zone I have hit a lot more line drives in front of outfielders and hard ground balls through the infield, which probably gives me the allusion that I am hitting better when maybe really I am not, but the results are a lot better!

[MythicalGnome]

Quote: Originally Posted by CMH

Usually the best way to continue pleasing the group you've pleased is by not removing the things they are pleased with. I understand there is a lot that goes into these things. And I don't mean to be argumentive as a way to shower disappointment. It's just that you all already had this niche group very happy. And you had the press button group happy too. Not sure I understand how creating a feature meant to show everything could warrant needing changes to please those that don't want to see everything when they already have a separate feature for that. If what you're saying is, "we didn't have the resources to make the content to fill the space we normally skip through" then I definitely understand. Sucks but I understand. I imagine creating content most will skip through is not easy to have.

I agree. I want immersion back not taken away from me. Give us options. The Show was doing so well with the sim options. I skipped them sometimes, but I also watched them a lot.

[Stolm]

Quote: Originally Posted by MythicalGnome

I agree. I want immersion back not taken away from me. Give us options. The Show was doing so well with the sim options. I skipped them sometimes, but I also watched them a lot.

Honestly they should just bring back that Real-Time Presentation option. For those that want to experience all apsects of a game, they are able to, and I am sure a lot of the devs would be happy their work is actually being seen.

[spitoon]

Quote: Originally Posted by MythicalGnome

I agree. I want immersion back not taken away from me. Give us options. The Show was doing so well with the sim options. I skipped them sometimes, but I also watched them a lot.

I agree with leaving the options in...they had always done that in the past. I guess they must be running into "space limitations"?

How about they remove the silly little sequences that occur when you leave the game alone for a while? I don't really care if the center fielder wants to do pushups or the umpire strums the bat like a guitar...save the space for something that matters.

[geisterhome]

Quote: Originally Posted by spitoon

I agree with leaving the options in...they had always done that in the past. I guess they must be running into "space limitations"? How about they remove the silly little sequences that occur when you leave the game alone for a while? I don't really care if the center fielder wants to do pushups or the umpire strums the bat like a guitar...save the space for something that matters.

Really think space isn't an issue, I have no idea where this idea that there a space limitations coming from.

Agree on that sequences though, I even find them slightly annoying, like then don't fit into a serious sim and take me out of the immersion even sometimes.
Other thing is the need of the devs to present themselves in game all the time, don't mind having them as spectators but why do they need to be shown so often and only them...

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[Stolm]

Most of these scenes and animations are still in the game, they just have it programmed to skip through them.

I have heard the devs bring up space limitations before. One example was brought up when talking about the size of the jerseys and how they are unable to have players wear their owns jerseys in the All-Star game because of how gigantic the jersey files are.

Honestly that sounds like some extreme inefficiency.