When To Stride ??

[xSubzer0x]

I'm having A LOT of difficulty with Stride Timing for some reason.It seems like no matter when I stride I can never get good or perfect.So can you guys may e give me some tips and help me ? ☺


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[bcruise]

Quote: Originally Posted by xSubzer0x

I'm having A LOT of difficulty with Stride Timing for some reason.It seems like no matter when I stride I can never get good or perfect.So can you guys may e give me some tips and help me ? ☺ Sent from my iPod touch using Tapatalk

First, practice. Go into batting practice mode and just kind of trial and error it - see when you're late, when you're early, and when you're good or perfect. After enough tries you'll have a pretty good feel for the point in the pitcher's delivery that you should be starting the stride.

But if you're looking for a good reference point, the time to stride is generally when the pitcher has his arm cocked back as far as it will go, with the ball in hand, ready to bring it forward and deliver the pitch. Hit that point and you'll get at least "Good" stride timing most of the time. It does vary a bit by different pitchers though.

Hope that helps! It is different timing than last year - the ideal stride was much later in 13, almost when the pitcher was releasing the ball IIRC.

[HouseKeepinItReal]

When you are in a game start off with zone batting interface and look when the computer strides then go back to your preferred hitting interface and repeat it as the computer has. It is different for each pitcher and batter but you can count on a lot more consistency for each pitcher throughout the game and it's not likely you need to swtich back n forth between each of your hitters. If you are using your RTTS player I would watch your own CPU teammates bat for a bit until you can recoqnize when they stride.

[Senator Palmer]

I saw a post here a while back saying you should stride when the pitcher's arm is pointing a center field. I generally get pretty good timing results from this and generally in line with bcruise's suggestion. This was also echoed in the iQ&A the developers did a few months back.

They also expounded a bit on timing results. Don't get too caught up in "perfect", etc. "Just Early" for example is also a good result if you're batting with a power hitter.

[nomo17k]

http://www.operationsports.com/forum...66&postcount=1

Quote: Originally Posted by Brian SCEA

Just FYI: Analog Hitting There is a contact and power bonus/penalty for your stride timing (when you pull back). To practice, you can turn the PCI on. When you stride perfectly (about when the ball is released), the PCI grows slightly to reflect the bonus. When your stride is off it'll shrink, and if you simply stride before the windup the maximum penalty applies. Your swing timing (when you push forward) is still the most important, but having both timings matter makes it harder to time your swing and may also change your swing strategy. If your stride timing is bad enough (and high enough priority to mention), the swing analysis will show it. Analog Pitching As always, pitcher ability and pitch type affect the difficulty of locating pitches. The perfect release timing varies for each pitcher and between the windup and stretch deliveries. As detailed in the strategy guide, you can always see your release timing in the pitcher/batter analysis tool (press select and then L1/R1). Switch to the 'Meter Timing' filter and each pitch will be labeled with its release timing. In online games, your opponent doesn't see your meter. In local 2P games on one machine, the meter doesn't show the left/right result. Heading out of town now, have fun! Update The perfect stride timing is based on time to plate, so for example knuckleballs and changeups have different stride timing. The PCI's bonus/penalty size change is not immediate but stretched over time. Analog hitting has the power/contact/normal swing functionality. The in-game strategy guide goes into detail on the differences between these three. When the batter doesn't swing, you get pitch info instead of swing analysis. The release timing text is for the pitcher's pitch release and not the batter. So in single player, it's telling you the CPU's timing on the meter. It works in 2P as well.

[nomo17k]

Having quoted that, I think it would be more enjoyable to stride on your natural timing. If you really don't like the hard-coded stride timing, I would just lower the Stride Timing slider all the way down to reduce the penalty, and just find the way you feel most comfortable.

IRL, I was a hitter with a longer stride timing (than what the game imposes, which is right after the pitch release, adjusted by the speed of the particular pitch), so with Analog I also wanted to have a rather long stride.

[Battman]

I never had a problem with my stride in the past. This year I was always "Just late". It was not until the day before yesterday that I found the reason and now I am adjusting my routine. The results are already there: I had my best franchise game in MLB 14 yesterday, when I beat San Diego with my Giants with 14:1.
That's what caused my problem with the stride:
In the past I was always late on fastballs. Thats why I changed my routine with MLB 12 so that I did not fully pull the analog stick back, but just enough so that my player made his backswing. This had the advantage that my reaction time was shorter to pull the stick up. This routine has never impacted negatively on the stride in former iterations of The Show. I could easily get good or perfect strides. But they definitely changed something in 14. So I had to adjust my routine.
I changed that now so that I start a very slow but full pullback of the stick just before the pitchers arm is fully stretched. As SCEA fractionally slowered the ball speed with 2013 (or is it that my reactions get better with age? No!) I still have enough time to hit even a fastball in the high 90s.(playing All-star with ball speed slider at 7) With this change my stride is getting better and better and I even get some "perfect" strides. So in short my advice is a slower backswing.

[jeterboy12]

ANOLOG HITTING ONLY!

If the batter has a high leg kick, start right after the pitcher breaks his hands, short leg kick start at the release point, it might take practice but after a while it becomes easy