PCI question... Might be a problem

[JT30]

I'm not sure if the PCI is working as intended. I just recently went from timing to zone hitting, and before the cpu pitches, if you press square or circle once, the size of the receptacle changes accordingly... Bigger for contact and smaller for power. However when I contact or power swing, the PCI changes back to its normal size.

I then swung at the pitch with either contact or power and I noticed that the receptacle never changes (bigger or smaller)

Is this a bug?

[nomo17k]

I believe the PCI size changes depending on your timing against each pitch. Each swing type has the base size, but it grows/shrinks depending on how you timed against each pitch. For example, against an offspeed pitch, PCI size tends to grow presumably to simulate the more extended time for a hitter to judge its location.

[JT30]

Ok that's good to know. So pressing contact or power before the pitcher throws the ball just shows you the difference in size of the receptacle size? But when I swing using contact or power, there might be a variation in that size?

The reason why I ask is because whether I swing with power or contact, the size of the receptacle never changes.

I know with analog and zone hitting, you are supposed to select the type of swing first, then use the stick to swing.

This isn't the same for just zone hitting right? Meaning I select contact, normal or power before the pitch and then swing with the X button?

[nomo17k]

You are doing it wrong I think...

For Analog-based hitting, you preload the type of swing before you swing with the R3.

For button-based hitting (i.e., Zone), you swing with pressing one of [], X, or O.

[mike65]

I am experincing this too. What he's trying to say I think is that he will select power or contact and the PCI changes before the pitch. However, during the pitch the PCI always reverts back to the contact PCI. It's very annoying because you have to remember exactly what the power PCI looked like.

[NelsonBis]

"For Analog-based hitting, you preload the type of swing before you swing with the R3."

This is incorrect, pre pitch press square, X or O for whatever type of hit you want to achieve then the right stick is used for the stride and hit as the ball is delivered.

[nomo17k]

Quote: Originally Posted by NelsonBis

"For Analog-based hitting, you preload the type of swing before you swing with the R3." This is incorrect, pre pitch press square, X or O for whatever type of hit you want to achieve then the right stick is used for the stride and hit as the ball is delivered.

Sorry I was just unclear. What I meant was:

For Analog-based hitting, you preload the type of swing by pressing one of [] (power), X (regular), and O (contact), before you stride and swing with R3.

[jmik58]

I use zone hitting exclusively and the PCI doesn't revert back to anything from my experience. The change in size pre-pitch is just a visual cue as to what you're working with. If your placement of the PCI and timing are perfect then the PCI can actually look rather large when you swing which might give you the false impression that the game thought you used a contact or normal swing. Just keep doing what you're doing.