The ranked seasons relapse
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I've barely played around 120 ranked games this year due to the horrid gameplay, but I find myself wanting to face live competition after periods of mundane CPU games\grinding. I'll periodically cave in and have fun winning a couple of games until that game arrives. The classic "scripted" match where it's lineout galore and diamond fielding errors for you... all while the opponent safely checks too early on every pitch, rinky dinks hits left and right with atrociously timed chased swings, and is given every break imaginable by the game. Even overcoming the blatant bias and beating those opponents comes with a sense of unsatisfying frustration, and I remember why I quit ranked in the first place even with a winning record.
If only 16\17's gameplay was combined with this year's content
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This is a very bold take.
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It’s not about winning. I’m 619-491 this year and I’m not particularly satisfied with the gameplay in anyway. If I was 491-619 I’d feel the same way.
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This right here is why I consider quitting for good:
"Even overcoming the blatant bias and beating those opponents comes with a sense of unsatisfying frustration"
If it's not even fun to win, what are we even doing here anymore? Out slugging some bs occurrence is tiring, giving up runs on very late hits/dribblers and then getting the shaft the next time you're up on lined out squareds would suck the life out of anyone. You gotta ask yourself, how much more patience do you have to keep experiencing that? Is it even worth it to you anymore? Do you love this game?
In RS, every single time you match up with someone and you're picking your stadium you have to accept that anything can happen and that things can go immediately south for you in the game. If you can't tolerate that thought any longer it's better to just move on. In fact, it's much healthier for you to just move on. Good luck.
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@esmlb_rop said in The ranked seasons relapse:
I've barely played around 120 ranked games this year due to the horrid gameplay, but I find myself wanting to face live competition after periods of mundane CPU games\grinding. I'll periodically cave in and have fun winning a couple of games until that game arrives. The classic "scripted" match where it's lineout galore and diamond fielding errors for you... all while the opponent safely checks too early on every pitch, rinky dinks hits left and right with atrociously timed chased swings, and is given every break imaginable by the game. Even overcoming the blatant bias and beating those opponents comes with a sense of unsatisfying frustration, and I remember why I quit ranked in the first place even with a winning record.
If only 16\17's gameplay was combined with this year's content
While I agree with the take that ranked is generally not fun, I played hundreds of games previously and only just above 200 this year
I do find your description a bit..... off. It's fun while you win, but when you lose it's fixed? How do you know it's not fixing it for you when you win?
If it's rigged when you lose, it's rigged when you win, it's that simple.
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@DUBZ760 said in The ranked seasons relapse:
Won 3 consecutive games against some good opponents. At mid 700, then I ran into a 500 who couldn’t hit for 4 innings then bam. I couldn’t throw a pitch anywhere by him. He proceeded to score 14.
That happens to me almost every game. Especially if i play sub 500 players with low averages. They hit like world series guys against me
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@eatyum said in The ranked seasons relapse:
@esmlb_rop said in The ranked seasons relapse:
I've barely played around 120 ranked games this year due to the horrid gameplay, but I find myself wanting to face live competition after periods of mundane CPU games\grinding. I'll periodically cave in and have fun winning a couple of games until that game arrives. The classic "scripted" match where it's lineout galore and diamond fielding errors for you... all while the opponent safely checks too early on every pitch, rinky dinks hits left and right with atrociously timed chased swings, and is given every break imaginable by the game. Even overcoming the blatant bias and beating those opponents comes with a sense of unsatisfying frustration, and I remember why I quit ranked in the first place even with a winning record.
If only 16\17's gameplay was combined with this year's content
While I agree with the take that ranked is generally not fun, I played hundreds of games previously and only just above 200 this year
I do find your description a bit..... off. It's fun while you win, but when you lose it's fixed? How do you know it's not fixing it for you when you win?
If it's rigged when you lose, it's rigged when you win, it's that simple.
I never said any of my losses were rigged, I'm highlighting the inconsistent gameplay especially versus noticeably inferior competition (constantly chasing and swinging too early, etc) that I've lost and won against. Some of my most memorable and enjoyable games are actually losses that featured very little RNG, I was simply beat by extremely skilled players. Likewise I've won games that I shouldn't have, and that further exacerbates the gameplay issues dating back to 18
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I took a few days off from The Show because of how frustrating it is. My first ranked seasons game back, I lose after giving up a two run homer in the 9th. A loss is a loss but those are tough. In fact, 4 out of my last 6 ranked seasons losses came in either the 9th, 10th, or 11th.
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@vagimon said in The ranked seasons relapse:
I took a few days off from The Show because of how frustrating it is. My first ranked seasons game back, I lose after giving up a two run homer in the 9th. A loss is a loss but those are tough. In fact, 4 out of my last 6 ranked seasons losses came in either the 9th, 10th, or 11th.
Same, worst feeling. Especially when you see it coming.
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@Jeviduty said in The ranked seasons relapse:
@vagimon said in The ranked seasons relapse:
I took a few days off from The Show because of how frustrating it is. My first ranked seasons game back, I lose after giving up a two run homer in the 9th. A loss is a loss but those are tough. In fact, 4 out of my last 6 ranked seasons losses came in either the 9th, 10th, or 11th.
Same, worst feeling. Especially when you see it coming.
It’s really disheartening. You play a 45 minute game only to have it go down like that. And you’re right, you really do know it’s coming. This is not a self fulfilling prophesy. Things just get weird in the later innings. Timing windows seem to change, pitchers can no longer hit spots, and hits that otherwise wouldn’t, start to fall. And I’ve come back in the last inning too. Obviously, not as many times as I’ve had it done to me, but i swear it feels different. All of the sudden Chapman’s slider is easy to sit back on, Gange’s sinker doesn’t quite sink like it normally does, and then bam, you’ve won. There’s always conspiracy theories as to why you lose, but we have all played this game enough to know when things feel off.
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I get that in real life, sometimes you just have bad days as a team. I think trying to program things like that into a game is difficult to impossible to make random, so I've tried to look a things that can affect it that I also have control over.
One thing I've noticed is the pitcher confidence is HUGE. If you can get some early strikeouts you can cruise through the next few innings. I just discovered mound visits and that helps boost confidence and stamina a bit.
I just played a game against a guy in the 800's (I'm in the 600's). He beat me 2-0 and those 2 were good pitches he just hit. I had 2 hits but lots and lots of contact that, I feel like should have been hits but weren't, and, we were playing at Shippet so balls should have been flying.
The contact-results I had in the 1st inning told me I wasn't winning this game. And I hit wiffleballs, or lazers right to their fielders all game. It was a good game, but I feel like I ddn't have much of a chance from the get go. On the other hand some games I know I'm gonna win, I can't miss and it's just a matter of how long it takes my opponent to quit. Once in awhile there's a good game that seems relatively free of manipulation that keeps me coming back to the game.
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