Tomba Sports Roster

[MalibuKiller]

To all PC MLB 2K10 Modders:

Is someone willing to convert the MLB 2K10 Tomba Sports Roster project to the PC ?

Guess it's alot of work but sure worth it.

Take a look:

http://www.tombasports.com/

http://www.tombasports.com/edits/ros_MLB2K10.html

http://www.operationsports.com/forums/2k-sports-major-league-baseball-rosters/407693-tombasports-proudly-presents-mlb-2k10-roster-360-now-available-2kshare.html

Overview

MLB 2K10

•**NEW**Up-to-date line-ups and starting pitcher rotations as of April 11.

•**NEW**Created and brought up players to make the line-ups and rotations accurate. Over 10 key players made in create a player included pitchers

•**NEW**Fixed hitting and pitching sliders

•**New**Re did the entire MLB 's star players tendencies for fielding, hitting, pitching and base running (Over 200 players stats edited)

•Fielding "patch" tweaked to play even smoother...

•**Batting Stances, pitcher wind-up all done.

•**NEW**Catcher "patch making catcher play more realistically

First things first. We saw a lot of good in this game from the start. The look the feel of the pitching and hitting were all light years more playable than 2k8 and 2k9. The first time we started up the retail version we literally played the game something like 6 hrs straight without even going into the slider settings...YES we were that happy with it. But with time as we played and read some of your guys problems with it we started to see what needed to be done.

From a slider standpoint only certain things could have been improved upon. While almost everything else needed to have roster work put into it. We saw one major area needing considerable time to manage out and that was the fielding. So let's start there.

Fielding

"I got it! I got it!"...um no you don't...You see baseball is a game of chance a game of skill and one that PLAYS ITSELF OUT. the developers wanted to create this "balance " between arcade and sim and it just wasn't happening. 2k's engine works better as a sim and in order to do that we had to get in here on this engine deep...

The first mission we had was to slow this game down. Never mind the rocket arms, players got to the ball to quickly. The fielding attributes we saw that contributed to this were:

Glove

Anticipation

Using these two to determine what to do was kinda difficult because unlike a basketball game were you can mimic a play to simulate the same result a baseball game is a game of chance and those chances that we saw examples of what ended up working as good values for glove and anticipation were few and therefore took awhile to get right. what we found out was that in general the numbers values for when certain things were triggered as animations or more importantly as slow or faster transitions into these animations were 3 fold. below are the specific numbers used for both:

Glove - 25,50

Anticipation - 25,50,60

OK, this is going to get kind of hard to follow, but remember two things here when I start to explain this.

1)Player position

2)Player Ability(based on how good the player is)

For example a catcher will have:

Glove - 25

Anticipation - 25

Now, why would they have these low numbers/ well. there two reasons for this.

1)There are only 3 values for these attributes that actually trigger either slow,fast and faster animation play outs. those are 25,50 and 99. anything in between like 88 65 is mute and doesn't do anything for these attributes apparently.

2)catcher felt like they get and throw way too fast. it was even mentioned here in the patch impressions that the catchers should have more time between there getting up and in between trying to throw out base runners as well.

Continuing...

There is also other attributes needing to complete an edit of a catcher and those are:

Throwing Accuracy

Arm Strength

Range

A catchers throwing accuracy is not error proof and not as exact from maybe throwing from the knees etc. So because the game already had a unnatural 'perfect feel' to it with how little errors occurred we felt it was now necessary to trigger the accuracy in some way. throwing accuracy has values of 25,40 and 60.

Then you have the Arm Strength(the cause of the rocket arms)which to us ONLY have good values at 60,65 and 70 for some weird reason(we told you we're just mind boggled by some of this)

Not to side track but arm strength can not be fixed alone. it has to be coupled with something and that something is Range..

Range is simply the area in which a player can cover.

So knowing all this catcher would now be universally edited in the fielding ability attributes to be:

Glove -25

Throwing accuracy - 25

Arm strength - 60

Range - 40

Anticipation -25

We're going to skip any more logic stuff now and hope that that kind of sunk in...probably not hasn't for us yet either...So let's just quickly go through what we did for every player in the game universally. Of course the better players will have these number values heightened were needed as pertaining to their triggered from the slow to fast to faster number.

Before going any further it is important to note that star players have ALL been given special treatment. We researched this years best and projected all stars in advance and have fixed them accordingly so that in-game these guys stand out nicely and realistically.

First Baseman

Glove - 25

Throwing accuracy - 40

Arm strength - 60

Range - 40

Anticipation - 40

2nd Baseman

Glove - 50 (50 values allow very smooth ball pick-ups)

Throwing accuracy - 40

Arm strength - 60

Range - 40

Anticipation - 40

3rd Baseman

Glove - 25 (But guys like A-Rod etc are upped)

Throwing accuracy - 40

Arm strength - 60

Range - 40

Anticipation - 40

Short Stop

Glove - 50

Throwing accuracy - 40

Arm strength - 65

Range - 40

Anticipation - 40

All Outfielders (Really good outfielders have been upped)Glove -50

Throwing accuracy - 40

Arm strength - 60

Range - 40

Anticipation - 40

Yup, so in a nutshell we think we fixed the fielding. We no longer see guys on the field running around like robots to a ball. We no longer see rocket balls flying from base to base. And more importantly we see a realistic looking pacing on the field when the ball is in play.

This now leads us into the next BIG problem with the game. Base running. Shall we?

Base Running

"You're already turning third?" OK, anybody as shocked as we were sometimes? We'd give up hit have it go to the right fielder mess up on getting on the ball for only a sec and then see that the base runner was already turning third. Nope had to stop that non sense...so we did. Here's the formula:

Depending on player of course. obvious differences between Big Papi and say B.J Upton so...

Speed - 25,50,75,99

Aggressiveness - 25,50

Awareness - 50 (locked)the game engine just wants to RUN

Acceleration - 25,50

Used and adjusted accordingly by player you'll get everybody doing what they should. As a result games now have much more realistic scores on average as well.

And that's about it, well not really. It's individuality that will stick out while playing because even though things seem to very universally edited across the board about 100 players have been changed in certain areas to reflect their star prowess.

The difference though IS astounding. Between these attribute adjustments,the slider set and even new camera angles it's arguably a different game altogether now.

Disclaimer:

Due to the way that 2k has

implemented many of it's

animation triggers we at

TombaSports had to literally

"break' the conventional

values that attributes had

in order to properly make

the game run as smooth

as it could. Because of this

you will see VERY low

attribute numbers.

Even though these newly

made values will seem

odd we assure you they

are not...

[Yankee4Life]

Maybe I am reading this wrong -and it is entirely possible- but there are already some up to date rosters for the PC version of MLB 2k10 right here on this website.

[MalibuKiller]

Maybe I am reading this wrong -and it is entirely possible- but there are already some up to date rosters for the PC version of MLB 2k10 right here on this website.

Yes the are up to date , but tomba sport is changing the whole gameplay to a more sim like one.

[DJEagles]

I feel like a total noob, and feel free to flame away, but how the hell do you download something off that site?

[MarkB]

tl;dr.

[MalibuKiller]

I feel like a total noob, and feel free to flame away, but how the hell do you download something off that site?

It is not aviable for pc , it is aviable for xbox user.

Thats why I wonder if some PC MLB2K10 modder will be able to convert this roster to the pc version.

tl;dr.

?

[Zach]

After reading all about it on that site, I will attempt to apply these "universal" updates to the roster set I am working on for the PC.

[MalibuKiller]

After reading all about it on that site, I will attempt to apply these "universal" updates to the roster set I am working on for the PC.

If you need help with it or just another hand , don't hesitate to contact me.

Ready and willing to help.