Flame me if you want but...

[outten04]

I am thoroughly disgusted at this point with the hitting in this game.I want to love this game because it is so great in many areas but holy crap the hitting is beyond frustrating. I have been playing this series for 5 yrs now. I play on veteran with the red sox. I have upped my timing all the way up, contact up 1, cpu pitching down almost all the way, lowered the pitch speed all the way. Still horrible. Oh I am getting hits, about 8-10 /game. A walk or two /game as well. I have a good batters eye, striking out around 7-8 times /game. Strike to ball ratio is around 60/40%.I am thumping the ball hard, line drives, a ton of them, usually right at somebody. I just finished up the 5th game today with Boston and no HR's at all even though I am wacking the hell out of the ball. I don't know what else to do but it shouldnt be this freaking hard to score runs.In those 5 games I have scored a total of 1 run in each game. Any help would be appreciated.I have tried everything.I am patient at the plate taking alot of pitches.I am hitting the ball fine, but not a homer in 5 games , come on. Ok Im done with the rant.

[pokerlife]

lol same here im 2 and 2 with the rangers and ZERO homeruns so far!

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Quote: Originally Posted by outten04

I am thoroughly disgusted at this point with the hitting in this game.I want to love this game because it is so great in many areas but holy crap the hitting is beyond frustrating. I have been playing this series for 5 yrs now. I play on veteran with the red sox. I have upped my timing all the way up, contact up 1, cpu pitching down almost all the way, lowered the pitch speed all the way. Still horrible. Oh I am getting hits, about 8-10 /game. A walk or two /game as well. I have a good batters eye, striking out around 7-8 times /game. Strike to ball ratio is around 60/40%.I am thumping the ball hard, line drives, a ton of them, usually right at somebody. I just finished up the 5th game today with Boston and no HR's at all even though I am wacking the hell out of the ball. I don't know what else to do but it shouldnt be this freaking hard to score runs.In those 5 games I have scored a total of 1 run in each game. Any help would be appreciated.I have tried everything.I am patient at the plate taking alot of pitches.I am hitting the ball fine, but not a homer in 5 games , come on. Ok Im done with the rant.

I'm on the third year with this game and play on almost the same exact settings as you and while I have stretches of games where I don't hit well, I have a team batting average of .268 with the Mariners. Smoak and Montero both have 7 HR through 29 games and Ackley has 4. Overall, I have 27 HR as a team and that is about right.

Don't know what to tell you... I think the hitting is fine. Maybe you need to play on rookie for a bit and up the power slider? If you're getting more realistic results that way, it can't hurt and will leave you less frustrated.

[LastActionHero]

I'm having great results on All-Star with TNK's slider set.

[HighCmpPct]

Not gonna flame you or anything man, just gonna say wait it out a bit. 5 games is absolutly nothing for a sample size, if you had went say 3-4 weeks of a franchise without one it might be a big flag then. But just keep with it man, and don't forget play small ball you don't have to jack em over the fence to score man.

[Kiboshed]

No problems hitting bombs with the Jays.
Kelly Johnson, Brett Lawrie, Arencibia, Encarnacion, and Adam Lind all hit jacks outta control!!

[Cpre5]

I went 1-12 in 13 games with one HR around game 9. With default sliders on all star I was getting around 6-8 hits a game and 0-1 runs. I finally jumped into the slider forum and started making adjustments and now have had 4-3, 5-2 wins and 1-4, 2-3 drops.

Don't be afraid to drop pitching speed down, and bump up user sliders.
The slider forum is the best place you can go.

[Russell_SCEA]

http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/70...two-decade-low


I play and work on this game for 12 months straight and can only muster a .240 to .265 avg. Hitting a round ball with a round bat is the hardest thing to do in sports. The franchise is meant to reflect this.

The median hits per game last year was between 8.56 and 8.76 a game.