Do Sliders Matter?

[CurtisC925]

I am one of many having great trouble playing this game. I have it on easy with htting sliders on max and still can not get good hits I am not that bad. I have zone targeting on and have hit the ball on target with perfect timing many times only to have it grounded or caught in air. With the sliders I have set to max I should be getting home runs every time yet have not noticed a difference at all.

This is discouraging and I want to like this game enough to play through franchise and after buy the next game as well.

 

[Jeff_is_2Xtreme]

The game is certainly not an easy one. It's far more weighted to the realistic sim than gaudy arcade. The sliders will make a difference but probably not to the extent that you are thinking. Just because power and contact are maxed out, that doesn't mean you'll be hitting a homerun every at bat. That should however mean that you could be getting into double digits in the hit column fairly regularly.

A side note though, I'm speaking from past games - which should still hold true for '13, but I can't imagine it being drastically different.

 

[CurtisC925]

I would not want to hit a home run with the sliders every bat if I could. I just want to see an improvement. I like that it is realistic but there are many casual gamers who are going to struggle with this. It seems they did not keep that in mind. I have them maxed and I feel it has not changed anything.

 

[CrazyMatt88]

Sliders can only do so much, could just be your timing and choice of swing (contact, normal & power), when I first started I set the sliders up, not to maximum, but up to give me a bit of help to learn the game, just keep at it and work on your timing, you'll get better trust me.

 

[roaddogg7575]

Patience..... that's all I can say, is patience.

 

[ratedrkorules]

it works fine for me

 

[Kanejr00]

The only slider you need to adjust when having trouble hitting is the pitch speed slider. I was lucky to get 2 runs a game with the default sliders, so I went to YouTube.com for visual hitting tips and came across a video suggesting to increase the pitch speed slider 2 or 3 clicks. I tried doing so and it did wonders. I'm hitting the ball a lot better, but and I'm having games where I'm scoring 5+ runs, but due to the great baseball simulation that The Show is, although I'm still hitting the ball, I'm not able to score 5+ runs every game.