MLB 2K9 Patch #2 Announced

That's interesting. I have the fielders (CPU and my own) set to 65. I may lower it to 35 and see how that plays.

Originally posted by TedSGN I don't have the skill to use cursor batting.

Yes it's tricky... I have the pitch speed to 50 while I'm playing around with it, which looks rather slow but because you've got a make a real judgment about placement, I'm still behind on lots of pitches.  But then again I've got this theory that 2K baseball is always "designed" with everything at 50 as a baseline, and then they start moving sliders around in order to create difficulty levels, and a bit haphazardly at that.  So I've got everything set to 50 except for things like pitch meter, gesture recognition, and throw meter influence and a couple others (all set to 100, to emphasize user influence over those aspects) and CPU throw strikes tendency all the way down to 0.

What I like about the strangely named 'zone' hitting is that it doesn't feel canned.  Granted, I haven't had a ton of time with it, but the results in replays look totally convincing with regards to timing, contact, and where the ball ends up.  It's just nice and cut and dried as opposed to The Show, where the mysterious Plate Coverage Indicator lords over contact like a fickle monarch.  My hope is that they're doing a straight up physics drill in 2K9's batting, and that it continues to be an option.

As for fielders, mine are set to 50, of course, which is fine except I see a ton of shallow knocks dropping in for hits in the outfield, which would be fine except my fielders look like they're moving at half speed when going for them.  But the real problem seems to be that they're playing WAY too deep.  I know I can rectify that manually during at-bats, but is there a command to have them play in for the entire game?  I'd rather be going back on balls then coming in on them in this game.

Ted, what number did you finally settle on for fielder speed? I'm at 35 and having much higher scoring games because more shots are falling in the outfield (which I'm happy about).