Major League Baseball 2K9 Video: Giants @ D-Backs "Zone Hitting"

[Steve_OS]

Quote: Originally Posted by Skyboxer

Steve, Any way I could get a shot (vid or screen) of the lowest availbe adjusted cam when batting? No biggie, just if you can.

I'm pretty sure that screenshot has been posted Sky, please confirm. I got them all, or so I thought.

[Steve_OS]

Quote: Originally Posted by ShowTyme15

can you have it with the swing stick off too? Example would be instead of the swing stick just be able to hit using the buttons on the controller?

Ya, just change it to "Classic" in the controller setup.

[ShowTyme15]

Quote: Originally Posted by Steve_OS

Ya, just change it to "Classic" in the controller setup.

Oh Okay Thanks Steve I appreciate it.

[Blzer]

Okay, just watched the video. That's cursor hitting, plain and simple. I don't know why people are saying "zone."

[Skyboxer]

Quote: Originally Posted by Steve_OS

I'm pretty sure that screenshot has been posted Sky, please confirm. I got them all, or so I thought.

Good deal I'll check em out again....
The lower the better for my eyes....

[lived]

Quote: Originally Posted by Blzer

Okay, just watched the video. That's cursor hitting, plain and simple. I don't know why people are saying "zone."

That is definitely Cursor Hitting. VC just labelled it wrong. I must say it looked pretty good on the video as the ball did hit the bottom of the bat resulting in a grounder.

[jeffy777]

Quote: Originally Posted by Blzer

Okay, just watched the video. That's cursor hitting, plain and simple. I don't know why people are saying "zone."

People are saying "zone" because that's what 2K is calling it. But yes, it is cursor hitting.

[RedLine]

Quote: Originally Posted by Bwnarrow3

I have a question about user hitting. It was mentioned in some of the early previews that there would be a color indicator for each pitch thrown by the opposing pitcher. It seems as if there is a such thing from the videos that I have been watching, but the color only appears after the pitch has reached the catchers glove. I have noticed that a cutter is blue, a fastball is green, and a curve is red. However, I would like to know if there is a way to turn on the color indicator while the pitch is being delivered and not waiting until after it is grabbed by the catcher. Does that make sense?

I remember reading this too and the only video where I saw this happening is the Hitting practice here: http://gamecinemahd.com/video/major_...eball_2k9/3863

It looks like the pitch color shows if you use the Guess Pitch feature and guess the location of the pitch, which is how it worked last year. The problem with last year is that the color showed up very late leaving very little time to react.

Notice in the video how the guess pitch dark gray circle is right in the middle of the strike zone, and the pitcher is grooving fast balls down the middle, and each time you see the Green ball icon pretty early.

I was hoping it was more like the MVP hitter's eye where you could track the color out of the pitcher's hand. But if it's an improvement over last year's guess pitch/color tipoff then I'll be ok with that too.