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jackofarcades posted:Don't take a lead, just hold R1 to lean. I've got like a 90% steal rate on a 70 speed guy with just leaning. Yeah, if your player is fast enough you don't need to lead just lean. Just watch when the catcher starts to settle down and go.
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What about in singleplayer/online? Don't you hold L2 to get a jump? I don't really steal a lot but I love the hit and run.
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No seriously guys, why the gently caress won't my pitcher attempt to field anything that is hit at him? He just stands like a doofus watching balls go right up the middle
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Jun 26, 2014 23:31
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jackofarcades posted:Don't take a lead, just hold R1 to lean. I've got like a 90% steal rate on a 70 speed guy with just leaning. Yeah that's what I do in RTTS, I'm talking about in regular play.
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I took my 18 year old CF from hitting .410 in AA until a week after the All Star break, to raking .340 in MLB with 21 dingers until end of season on the Twins, because Aaron Hicks isn't a high bar. Purely on my Vita on the bus to work. Twins missed the Central by 6 games  looking forward to this season!E: holy moley RTTS owns.
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Ramadu posted:No seriously guys, why the gently caress won't my pitcher attempt to field anything that is hit at him? He just stands like a doofus watching balls go right up the middle Have you leveled your fielding stats at all? Mine are in the 40s-50s and my guy often fields the ball before I can even see where it went because of the camera switch.
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I've been playing my best game of RTTS for the last three weeks, as a decent-all-around second baseman. Hitting pretty well, fielding great, even getting a bunch of dingers. .....except I'm stuck with the Yankees. They were bottom of their division by MILES in 2014 (they sent Ichiro down to AA  ) and 2015. They refuse to trade me and no matter how well I play, everyone else is an idiot. Last night we lost 16-0 to the Orioles and I think that's the last straw. I'm starting the gently caress over.
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Jun 27, 2014 17:42
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Demand a trade.
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davecrazy posted:Demand a trade. Yeah, I don't seem to be getting that option. Weird.
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You could always try to sim most days, playing just enough to keep your stats or slightly increase them. You won't develop as fast but maybe you'll get some decent players or hit FA soon enough. I re-started my guys a couple of times, usually because I get called up and stashed on the bench.
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jackofarcades posted:You could always try to sim most days, playing just enough to keep your stats or slightly increase them. You won't develop as fast but maybe you'll get some decent players or hit FA soon enough. That is usually what happens to me, first year I do well enough to make the 40-man roster the next year and get to soak it up on the Bench, with minimal playing time my stats go to poo poo and eventually I get sent back down and have to recover. Also, what settings are you guys playing on? Everyone talking about tearing it up in the majors their first/second season is crazy to me. I can hit fine in the minors but the moment I am up against the pro's I can't hit for poo poo. Everything is a little dribbler, an easy pop-up, if I do manage to make solid contact by some grace of god it is a liner right to short or second, or a long fly easy out for the OF. I am on dynamic difficulty and seem to swing between Veteran and Veteran+ difficulties with Timing hitting. Of course, I am more than willing to accept that I just suck at hitting but I just don't see how you guys are pulling that off.
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Don't swing at stuff so much. Especially in the majors, you need to take more balls or else you'll never get good pitches to hit.
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GB_Sign posted:That is usually what happens to me, first year I do well enough to make the 40-man roster the next year and get to soak it up on the Bench, with minimal playing time my stats go to poo poo and eventually I get sent back down and have to recover. All-Star, Zone hitting, with lowest pitch speed. Honestly my reflexes suck and I still can't hit a high 95+ mph fastball with any consistency. Still, I'm the best hitter in the league (but not Ruth / Williams / Bonds ridiculous). I didn't even lead the league in homers last year and I have 95 power.
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I play on AS and actually really enjoy my time in the minors, so I try to build up my fielding/speed/dura/etc on par with my hitting stats so I develop slower. You get to see some crazy team names, cool-rear end ballparks and the errors are usually of the hilarious type.
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SilvergunSuperman posted:I play on AS and actually really enjoy my time in the minors, so I try to build up my fielding/speed/dura/etc on par with my hitting stats so I develop slower. I basically try to get as much contact as possible early on because of the chance I might get called up with like 55 contact and not be able to hit.
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Plate vision is also super important when you get called up to. It's compared against the pitcher's stats to see how big your PCI is, which affects how solid your hits are.
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Lockback posted:Plate vision is also super important when you get called up to. It's compared against the pitcher's stats to see how big your PCI is, which affects how solid your hits are. Right, I max that out before I do anything else
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Lockback posted:Plate vision is also super important when you get called up to. It's compared against the pitcher's stats to see how big your PCI is, which affects how solid your hits are. Is this documented somewhere?
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Drunk Badger posted:Is this documented somewhere? It's not documented in the game, but the way it works is the PCI of a player increases as the plate vision attribute goes up but is countered and made smaller by the H/9 of the opposing pitcher.
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Your Contact stat also increases your PCI. I think plate vision also makes it more likely you'll foul off a pitch even if you miss, and that effect is lowered by the pitcher's K/9
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Alan Trammell posted:Have you leveled your fielding stats at all? Mine are in the 40s-50s and my guy often fields the ball before I can even see where it went because of the camera switch. Yeah....I just looked now that the forums are back and the fielding and reaction stats are 41 each. It's beyond frustrating though. ALso the curve ball is terrible and I guess I'll just get another fastball instead of that.
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Lockback posted:Don't swing at stuff so much. Especially in the majors, you need to take more balls or else you'll never get good pitches to hit. Especially since the game penalizes you for swinging too early, unless you happen to get at least on base. Seriously, what do they expect me to do? Waste a good pitch right down the middle just so I don't add to the stupid pitch count?
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Yeah, a 10 pitch walk will give you more than a first pitch solo HR. I don't mind it too much because you can grind out points with a high plate vision by fouling off borderline pitches. Even if you end up weakly grounding out an 8 pitch at-bat will give you some good points.
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Ramadu posted:Yeah....I just looked now that the forums are back and the fielding and reaction stats are 41 each. It's beyond frustrating though. ALso the curve ball is terrible and I guess I'll just get another fastball instead of that. Circle change or knuckleball be my advice
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The knuckleball is just so goddamn fun, everyone should have it.
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Pleads posted:The knuckleball is just so goddamn fun, everyone should have it. Did they change that one pitching lesson to not request a knuckleball in a specific location? God was that a frustrating waste of possible pitcher development...
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oldskool posted:Did they change that one pitching lesson to not request a knuckleball in a specific location? God was that a frustrating waste of possible pitcher development... Does the knuckleball still have a control stat? Unless I'm actually able to control where the thing ends up that seems kind of pointless.
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oldskool posted:Did they change that one pitching lesson to not request a knuckleball in a specific location? God was that a frustrating waste of possible pitcher development... My RTTS pitcher is a knuckleballer. When I get that training session, it tells me to throw the fastball, despite it being the secondary pitch. Also that was a problem because I didn't have the fastball leveled up, so it took me ages and ages to beat it. I did finally beat level 1, and now it's added my terrible 64 MPH curveball to the mix. Hooray.
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I'm on the Isotopes on RTTS. We had a 11-2 lead at one point, due in no small part to my single homer, 1 RBI and consistently getting on base, but these shitlords manage to let the other team have a 5 run inning to make the final score 11-10.  Good thing I don't even have to give a poo poo if my team wins or not in RTTS, particularly in the minors, but it's still dumb.
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'Topes....lose?! 'Topes lose... 
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Neodoomium posted:'Topes....lose?! Exactly my thoughts when I realized they're a Dodgers feeder team.
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With contact swinging, is it easier to check your swing? Unrelated, but snagging unused talented in the rule 5 draft and developing them with occasional play and heavy training is super fun for me.
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Contact swinging is easier to check, power swinging is harder
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Is bat speed any different between the 3 types? I find myself using contact swing more often when facing a 95+ 4sfb but I don't know if that is just confirmation bias or if contact is actually able to get around faster.
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I loving hate citi field.
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Eifert Posting posted:I loving hate citi field. I love Citi Field.
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Eifert Posting posted:I loving hate citi field. It owns.
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It's a million times better than Shea Stadium was.
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I have problems hitting certain places because of glare. Safeco mostly, but also O.co
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I'm pretty new to baseball, never having really been all that interested in it before, but I've become addicted to this game. Like I usually do when I learn a new sports game, I just loaded up my team with all 99 OVR monsters just so I could get the mechanics down. The hardest thing for me to grasp as someone who wasn't a baseball fan before learning this game is that it's basically the only sport where "perfection" isn't always doing something 100%. In Madden or NBA 2k or FIFA, if I have a squad of all 99 players, the only limiting factor is me, as the player, but in MLB my 99 pitcher putting the suggested pitch right where the glove icon of the 99 catcher says still gives away hits sometimes. I want to throw a perfect game, damnit! Haha So I've started wondering if I understand the pitching stuff correctly. Am I supposed to put the ball icon in the glove icon? What does it mean when the controller rumbles when I put it in some spots in the strike zone? When there are arrows for a curve or something, do I put the ball icon in the glove or the arrows pointing at the glove?
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