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@erik316wttn_PSN said in Any news on the RTTS bug?:

Where would we fill out a bug report?

Just go to Support in the top right corner. Click on MLB The Show 23 and there's a box that should pop up to report an issue or report a bug

Same place and same procedure as when you changed your archetype from bronze to silver.

@dap1234567890 said in Can’t see my individual pitch’s control stat:

@crispyg29_PSN said in Can’t see my individual pitch’s control stat:

I go to my pitches like four-seam fastball and I can’t see the control stat for it. When I go to change the pitches it shows me stats but all the stats are just my normal control stat. Am I just missing something because when I play it shows that I am earning do for each pitches stats.

You can see them after the game before you go back to the clubhouse. You have to tab over using the R1 or L1 button to the far right tab.

For a two-way, this only works after a game you pitched.

And "being technical", you also can see them during a bullpen session if the game's going to let you train in that stat.

Yet neither of them helps when you just want to see what your individual pitch stats are like you could back in '22...

@dap1234567890 said in Missions not tracking:

You have to open the pack you got at the end to get the silver archetypes.

Not just open the pack, but actively equip it on the ballplayer in the "my ballplayer" screen.

You do so via the "change skill set" button. This button is in the box that is headed with your current skillset

@erik316wttn_PSN said in Attribute "earnings" broken (observations):

Almost every game I'll have a category that says "progressed" but there's no increase whatsoever on the attribute bar

Are you sure about the "no increase" thing?

Remember that as your stat gets higher, it's going to take more and more "plusses" to fill a bar...

So for example, durability. When I have a 40+ durability, and I only get a couple of plusses from being in the game, the increase will be a "tiny sliver" that barely moves the bar, but after a month of getting these tiny slivers the bar will have moved.

I get this same "tiny sliver" effect (on beginner difficulty hitting, so every pitch is going to be a strike I swing at) with VIS - if I only foul off 1 pitch, the gain is so minisule that I barely see the blinking red-yellow "gain" marker.

The "progress shown but no actual gains ever seen" issue so far has affected only pitch stats and I see a "normal" progression that "repeats" from about the same poiont every game...

(Theory for now) ...until I do an act that "crests" the stat from the "stuck" value to the next point better in one go, like a gold-medal training session during a double-gain period

@zestydaddy69203_XBL said in Why will it not let me get traded:

Why will it not let me get traded

How did this desire to be traded come about?

Typically, when I "roll up" a character, I attempt to match up his eventual positions with a "need" on the team (typically BOS or STL) that I'm picking during the draft.
Have a 100% success rate (ie, stay on the team) this way.

Once on 22, I "rolled" a closer, for BOS. During my AAA time on the team (so late July of '22) he got a call into the office and "we're sticking with Rich Hill as our closer - even though he wasn't closing - so we traded you". Shipped me to WAS. Immediately went into "trade me again" mode.
Was stuck on WAS for all of '23 season, and after re-signing with them (rookie deal), they traded me (most likely during winter meetings) to TEX.

Mind you, while I was a save machine for WAS, the rest of the team wasn't - so we missed playoffs etc. Probably part of why WAS offloaded me, I "earned" them more "talent" in the trade than I would have provided them by saving another 46-ish games with the chumps they had in their employ...

Which is funny, because 47 saves later, TEX was a WS team...

And to close out my "reasons" I gave earlier, the couple of times I've rolled up a character with the intent of going to "whichever team wants me", the odds of being traded in that situation are extremely slim, because you were drafted by said team to "fill a serious need", and therefore they aren't looking to offload you - except maybe in a "deadline deal" or offseason trade in which you net a lot more talented prospects than you'd provide the team in raw stats...

Guys, the solution to this is to search for your “My ballplayer” from the main lobby screen BEFORE you load the right rtts file. You can choose from all the ballplayers you created from there, then it will let you load the rtts if it matches. Kinda stupid this has to be done, but now I can switch between my two-way player to my position player only. Hope everyone figures this out cause I was frustrated too!

@lastingimpact_PSN said in "Skill Sets" need to go:

I've been playing MLB The Show since the PS2 days. I've always loved building my character and grinding out his career. A theme I've been noticing over the last few years, though, is that I keep stopping and creating new careers after a year or two because I'm never quite happy with how the character turns out. I can never get the nuance of what I want to build quite right; there's always some kind of sacrifice or "well I guess I just can't do that" that didn't used to exist back in the days of being able to spend training hours on whatever stats you wanted. I guess I'm just failing to see any advantages of the current system over a less restrictive, more customizable attributes system.

The main problem I have is that players I want to create require a spread of attributes to excel that simply isn't attainable within the game. For example, in my head I want a center fielder that is range-y with a professional glove and a rocket arm, and I'm happy to accept being relatively average at the plate as a tradeoff. So to translate this into the game I want high speed, high fielding, high arm strength, medium hitting attributes to be the "end goal" of my build. Speed is locked away behind a secondary archetype by itself so I have to get that from there. Fielding can be the primary archetype, but then my arm strength is abysmal because it's tied to power. Not only that, but all of my hitting attributes are banished to the 40's before gear and require an astronomical amount of training to make serviceable, which also requires me to ignore training the attributes I actually want to excel at.

This dilemma is much worse for two-way players who can only pick one of each attribute group to excel in on each side. The last two-way player I created reached his Diamond skillset at a towering 67 overall. There's also just zero room for customization since all you can do is pick one thing to be good at so your options to make something unique and fun are nonexistent.

A system from another sports franchise I'm reminded of is NBA 2K. Granted 2K's VC and monetization efforts are oppressive and compromise a lot of the gameplay experience, but I've really enjoyed their design philosophy on character customization. I'm imagining a similar world where I can set "caps" on each attribute, and I can keep increasing the caps up to the point where maxing out every single attribute to its set cap would get me to 99 overall. These caps also determine what kind of perks you can acquire (think active perk cards in the current system) and even labels you cosmetically with an archetype name based on the spread you created. I think I'd really enjoy the ability to specify exactly what I'd like the end goal to be for my player, and then spend my time working towards that through something like training points earned from games/practices (that can be granted bonuses through the current in-game goals, even) instead of trying to finagle one of the handful of preset spreads to fake what I want.

I agree completely. Would love to see this

Create a new player. Make him a reliever. You can keep him as Joe Random. Get drafted by whoever you want. Then back out, load your starter, then go back into your new save. You're now able to use your starter as a reliever.

I don't know how you can do it within your current save that you already have, but I've used this trick if I want to use my already created player at another position.

@jc62584_XBL said in Baserunning:

The ability to stop or freeze, especially on deep line drives would be nice. I don’t know how many times a deep ball I should go half way on ends up an out because the running mechanics takes half a base length to stop and turn around.

agreed. theres just no immersion or control over your player. it also drives me crazy that it forces me to slide some times. yes i can influence how i slide but why they force me to slide if i dont want to is just dumb. these are things that have been like this for years now and havenot been touched. we should start calling this game Madden MLB 23: The Same Show. either that or just call it Diamond Dynasty