Online mode is just not fun.
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@d_e_m_i_s_e_psn said in Online mode is just not fun.:
@twisted-_-tea-_psn said in Online mode is just not fun.:
@tekkendolphin_psn said in Online mode is just not fun.:
@ministro787_psn said in Online mode is just not fun.:
Guess Pitch???? Yeah... No. Go practice and get better friend.
Practice what? I'm not a pro ball player and neither are any of us. PCI is not sufficient for such a wide array of possibilities. It's a guessing game. Just not fun at all.
If people can score 15+ runs on legend I’m sure anybody that plays the game a moderate amount can hit the ball hard on hall of fame. It’s like everything else in life. You have to put the time in to get better at the game. If you don’t like the idea of that or you’re not willing to do that, you can always do something else.
LOL. From what I can see, everyone that can hit on legend is pretty close to an alleged server location. If so, that is not a coincidence.
I mean I played for a few months at home in AZ with no issue and have been playing for a few months in North Dakota with no issue
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@twisted-_-tea-_psn said in Online mode is just not fun.:
@tekkendolphin_psn said in Online mode is just not fun.:
@ministro787_psn said in Online mode is just not fun.:
Guess Pitch???? Yeah... No. Go practice and get better friend.
Practice what? I'm not a pro ball player and neither are any of us. PCI is not sufficient for such a wide array of possibilities. It's a guessing game. Just not fun at all.
If people can score 15+ runs on legend I’m sure anybody that plays the game a moderate amount can hit the ball hard on hall of fame. It’s like everything else in life. You have to put the time in to get better at the game. If you don’t like the idea of that or you’re not willing to do that, you can always do something else.
I seriously doubt many people can score 15 on legend. In my and my friends(pretty much all World Series players) experience people quit after about 3 runs. I see streamers/youtubers mercy people and am not discounting their skill but it does make me wonder. I heard a relatively big streamer say the other day he messages people before the game starts that it’s for a video, he very well could have been joking but that would explain some of the scores
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@dewrock_psn said in Online mode is just not fun.:
@tekkendolphin_psn said in Online mode is just not fun.:
@go4stros25_psn said in Online mode is just not fun.:
@tekkendolphin_psn said in Online mode is just not fun.:
@go4stros25_psn said in Online mode is just not fun.:
It is what it is at this point. Allstar is a foul ball fest and hall of fame/legend is boring. I just ignore ranked and play events/BR
You're playing against people... how does difficult come into play?
Pitch speeds, pci size, pitch accuracy, sliders....
Are you new?
Yes, actually. You can adjust difficulty in online mode??
No. It's set by the game mode and ranked is dynamic. I'm not sure how it adjusts. Events will tell you what the difficulty is when you enter. I don't necessarily believe it's really the difficulty it says though. I can hit way better AS vs the CPU then AS in the events.
The game just plays different online than it does offline. Connections play a factor and you’re usually facing a better pitcher online than offline
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@jacksonvance35 said in Online mode is just not fun.:
@dewrock_psn said in Online mode is just not fun.:
@tekkendolphin_psn said in Online mode is just not fun.:
@go4stros25_psn said in Online mode is just not fun.:
@tekkendolphin_psn said in Online mode is just not fun.:
@go4stros25_psn said in Online mode is just not fun.:
It is what it is at this point. Allstar is a foul ball fest and hall of fame/legend is boring. I just ignore ranked and play events/BR
You're playing against people... how does difficult come into play?
Pitch speeds, pci size, pitch accuracy, sliders....
Are you new?
Yes, actually. You can adjust difficulty in online mode??
No. It's set by the game mode and ranked is dynamic. I'm not sure how it adjusts. Events will tell you what the difficulty is when you enter. I don't necessarily believe it's really the difficulty it says though. I can hit way better AS vs the CPU then AS in the events.
The game just plays different online than it does offline. Connections play a factor and you’re usually facing a better pitcher online than offline
Oh I get it. I'm just saying that even on AS vs CPU, I never feel overmatched by the pitcher like I do in an online game.
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@dewrock_psn said in Online mode is just not fun.:
Not to mention that for every 10 games, you're pretty much guaranteed to face AS DeGrom about half the time.
I wish it was only 50%, more like 7 out of 10 games lol
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@twisted-_-tea-_psn said in Online mode is just not fun.:
@tekkendolphin_psn said in Online mode is just not fun.:
@ministro787_psn said in Online mode is just not fun.:
Guess Pitch???? Yeah... No. Go practice and get better friend.
Practice what? I'm not a pro ball player and neither are any of us. PCI is not sufficient for such a wide array of possibilities. It's a guessing game. Just not fun at all.
If people can score 15+ runs on legend I’m sure anybody that plays the game a moderate amount can hit the ball hard on hall of fame. It’s like everything else in life. You have to put the time in to get better at the game. If you don’t like the idea of that or you’re not willing to do that, you can always do something else.
Guys who score 15+ runs on legend don't touch grass, lack vitamin D and have never had a date
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@dewrock_psn said in Online mode is just not fun.:
@jacksonvance35 said in Online mode is just not fun.:
@dewrock_psn said in Online mode is just not fun.:
@tekkendolphin_psn said in Online mode is just not fun.:
@go4stros25_psn said in Online mode is just not fun.:
@tekkendolphin_psn said in Online mode is just not fun.:
@go4stros25_psn said in Online mode is just not fun.:
It is what it is at this point. Allstar is a foul ball fest and hall of fame/legend is boring. I just ignore ranked and play events/BR
You're playing against people... how does difficult come into play?
Pitch speeds, pci size, pitch accuracy, sliders....
Are you new?
Yes, actually. You can adjust difficulty in online mode??
No. It's set by the game mode and ranked is dynamic. I'm not sure how it adjusts. Events will tell you what the difficulty is when you enter. I don't necessarily believe it's really the difficulty it says though. I can hit way better AS vs the CPU then AS in the events.
The game just plays different online than it does offline. Connections play a factor and you’re usually facing a better pitcher online than offline
Oh I get it. I'm just saying that even on AS vs CPU, I never feel overmatched by the pitcher like I do in an online game.
Who are you facing on All Star vs CPU though? Chances are, you're facing a Live Series pitcher and not the 97-99 OVR type of pitchers you routinely see online. That makes a major difference - the pitch speeds and PCI sizes are drastically different even though both are on All Star, as well as decision making of which pitches to throw and where they're thrown at. And then mix in connection speed/lag, and online/offline are two very different experiences, even on the same difficulty level.
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@twisted-_-tea-_psn said in Online mode is just not fun.:
@tekkendolphin_psn said in Online mode is just not fun.:
@ministro787_psn said in Online mode is just not fun.:
Guess Pitch???? Yeah... No. Go practice and get better friend.
Practice what? I'm not a pro ball player and neither are any of us. PCI is not sufficient for such a wide array of possibilities. It's a guessing game. Just not fun at all.
If people can score 15+ runs on legend I’m sure anybody that plays the game a moderate amount can hit the ball hard on hall of fame. It’s like everything else in life. You have to put the time in to get better at the game. If you don’t like the idea of that or you’re not willing to do that, you can always do something else.
The way I look at it some people are just superhuman. Doesn't make the game any less flawed.
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honestly i hate all star...give me HOF all day
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There are so many factors that go into hitting online, but it's unfair to simply call it a guessing game as you did in the first post. It is anything but a guessing game, but if you are treating it as a guessing game, you are destined for failure immediately. You have to go into online at-bats with a plan of how to attack. Look for pitches/zones to attack early in the count, and if it's not there, take the pitch and work the count - you'll draw some balls and maybe be more likely to get that fastball in your preferred location later in the count.
The thing you absolutely cannot do is go up there guessing at a pitch before it's even thrown. When I pitch online and see someone swinging very early at every pitch because they are guessing to hit a fastball, I'm literally throwing offspeed every single pitch until they show me they can get on an offspeed pitch of some kind.. You need to be able to react to pitches thrown and not be guessing at them ahead of time.
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@udvikings_xbl said in Online mode is just not fun.:
There are so many factors that go into hitting online, but it's unfair to simply call it a guessing game as you did in the first post. It is anything but a guessing game, but if you are treating it as a guessing game, you are destined for failure immediately. You have to go into online at-bats with a plan of how to attack. Look for pitches/zones to attack early in the count, and if it's not there, take the pitch and work the count - you'll draw some balls and maybe be more likely to get that fastball in your preferred location later in the count.
The thing you absolutely cannot do is go up there guessing at a pitch before it's even thrown. When I pitch online and see someone swinging very early at every pitch because they are guessing to hit a fastball, I'm literally throwing offspeed every single pitch until they show me they can get on an offspeed pitch of some kind.. You need to be able to react to pitches thrown and not be guessing at them ahead of time.
I think guessing is fine if you’re only swinging at that pitch. Not guessing fastball and flailing at offspeed like a [censored]
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@dewrock_psn said in Online mode is just not fun.:
I literally just brought in a reliever in an event game. His energy showed green. The opponent paused the game. When he unpaused, the reliever's energy was yellow. WTF.
hahaha this is a very underrated comment here
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@udvikings_xbl said in Online mode is just not fun.:
There are so many factors that go into hitting online, but it's unfair to simply call it a guessing game as you did in the first post. It is anything but a guessing game, but if you are treating it as a guessing game, you are destined for failure immediately. You have to go into online at-bats with a plan of how to attack. Look for pitches/zones to attack early in the count, and if it's not there, take the pitch and work the count - you'll draw some balls and maybe be more likely to get that fastball in your preferred location later in the count.
The thing you absolutely cannot do is go up there guessing at a pitch before it's even thrown. When I pitch online and see someone swinging very early at every pitch because they are guessing to hit a fastball, I'm literally throwing offspeed every single pitch until they show me they can get on an offspeed pitch of some kind.. You need to be able to react to pitches thrown and not be guessing at them ahead of time.
It's extremely easy to put pitches in places that are close to unhittable or have them trail out of the zone. It' just too easy, even for a scrub like me. But hitting those pitches? It's absolutely a guessing game and with no ability to eliminate anything from a guess the PCI just really doesn't help much.
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@tekkendolphin_psn said in Online mode is just not fun.:
@udvikings_xbl said in Online mode is just not fun.:
There are so many factors that go into hitting online, but it's unfair to simply call it a guessing game as you did in the first post. It is anything but a guessing game, but if you are treating it as a guessing game, you are destined for failure immediately. You have to go into online at-bats with a plan of how to attack. Look for pitches/zones to attack early in the count, and if it's not there, take the pitch and work the count - you'll draw some balls and maybe be more likely to get that fastball in your preferred location later in the count.
The thing you absolutely cannot do is go up there guessing at a pitch before it's even thrown. When I pitch online and see someone swinging very early at every pitch because they are guessing to hit a fastball, I'm literally throwing offspeed every single pitch until they show me they can get on an offspeed pitch of some kind.. You need to be able to react to pitches thrown and not be guessing at them ahead of time.
It's extremely easy to put pitches in places that are close to unhittable or have them trail out of the zone. It' just too easy, even for a scrub like me. But hitting those pitches? It's absolutely a guessing game and with no ability to eliminate anything from a guess the PCI just really doesn't help much.
Hitting online is definitely not easy, per se. But it sounds like you just need to keep getting repetitions online and getting used to online hitting. Keep at it and work on recognizing pitches and getting the PCI to the ball. There are absolutely some pitch locations that are nearly impossible to make good contact, but those are the pitches you either have to learn to lay off or even foul off (if it's 2 strikes).
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@udvikings_xbl said in Online mode is just not fun.:
There are so many factors that go into hitting online, but it's unfair to simply call it a guessing game as you did in the first post. It is anything but a guessing game, but if you are treating it as a guessing game, you are destined for failure immediately. You have to go into online at-bats with a plan of how to attack. Look for pitches/zones to attack early in the count, and if it's not there, take the pitch and work the count - you'll draw some balls and maybe be more likely to get that fastball in your preferred location later in the count.
The thing you absolutely cannot do is go up there guessing at a pitch before it's even thrown. When I pitch online and see someone swinging very early at every pitch because they are guessing to hit a fastball, I'm literally throwing offspeed every single pitch until they show me they can get on an offspeed pitch of some kind.. You need to be able to react to pitches thrown and not be guessing at them ahead of time.
You have to guess when you are trying to hit 110 mph wiffle balls. You can play your way when the connection is good. I get to play about 40% of the games like you said. These games rarely go past 5 innings. If I can read and react the game is basically over. 60% of my games are laggy, warping pitches where I can't read or react and I have wired fiber with a very good router. Asus is a very good router.
I would disagree that you are destined for failure. Made WS every season, beat a ton of ws and 12-0 banner people and lost by 1 run to a top 50 player guessing on every pitch because of the warping lag. It does make the game not fun but I wouldn't say destined for failure.
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@tattooeddude84 said in Online mode is just not fun.:
@twisted-_-tea-_psn said in Online mode is just not fun.:
@tekkendolphin_psn said in Online mode is just not fun.:
@ministro787_psn said in Online mode is just not fun.:
Guess Pitch???? Yeah... No. Go practice and get better friend.
Practice what? I'm not a pro ball player and neither are any of us. PCI is not sufficient for such a wide array of possibilities. It's a guessing game. Just not fun at all.
If people can score 15+ runs on legend I’m sure anybody that plays the game a moderate amount can hit the ball hard on hall of fame. It’s like everything else in life. You have to put the time in to get better at the game. If you don’t like the idea of that or you’re not willing to do that, you can always do something else.
Guys who score 15+ runs on legend don't touch grass, lack vitamin D and have never had a date
Very true I would hate to be one of those guys I’m just saying they exist
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@tekkendolphin_psn said in Online mode is just not fun.:
@twisted-_-tea-_psn said in Online mode is just not fun.:
@tekkendolphin_psn said in Online mode is just not fun.:
@ministro787_psn said in Online mode is just not fun.:
Guess Pitch???? Yeah... No. Go practice and get better friend.
Practice what? I'm not a pro ball player and neither are any of us. PCI is not sufficient for such a wide array of possibilities. It's a guessing game. Just not fun at all.
If people can score 15+ runs on legend I’m sure anybody that plays the game a moderate amount can hit the ball hard on hall of fame. It’s like everything else in life. You have to put the time in to get better at the game. If you don’t like the idea of that or you’re not willing to do that, you can always do something else.
The way I look at it some people are just superhuman. Doesn't make the game any less flawed.
I don’t think it’s superhuman it’s just the time and effort they put in to being good at a game. I would never do it myself there’s a lot more to life than that but I play the game a moderate amount just like most regulars at this game and I can score on legend and even easier on HOF.
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@tekkendolphin_psn said in Online mode is just not fun.:
Call it a rant but this mode needs an overhaul. What I think it needs is a way to help out hitters. Maybe guess pitch option should be a thing? It is just too easy to pitch good and too hard to hit. Every game is just a complete guessing game grind fest that ends in bitterness when one player gets lucky enough to eke out a couple of garbage slap-hit seeing-eye hits or somehow hits a towering home run off a pitch nowhere near the zone. It comes down to whoever is luckier. Competitiveness is fine but we aren't pro baseball players and it is just too much of a grind. It's just not fun by its very design. And therefore ends up being a huge waste of time.
Also, to make things worse, why do I lose 8 straight yet have the same rating and still get mismatched over and over? I mean, come on.
Am I alone here? Or missing something that can actually make this anything other than an infuriating experience?
Didnt you quit last week? Get better scrub
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I think my frustration comes down to timing windows when hitting. I started playing a lot in 19 and would keep going past worlds series and made top 50 once that year. It seemed like at some point last year they started messing with timing windows and its continued this year. I still play well and make ws but its not really fun. Im 17-1 this ranked season so Im winning but every game seems like its 2-1 or 1-0. Over the past week ive gone back and played 19 a decent amount and you can clearly tell the difference. In 19 i know when i got fooled and Im late or im way out in front. In 21 ill swing at a pitch that I think im crushing and Im a mile early. Then the next pitch I think Im making an adjustment and Im a mile late. Its not that the pitch speeds seem faster, its just something where the timing doesnt make much sense. I am playing on ps4 so maybe people arent seeing this on ps5.
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@lord-oimak_xbl said in Online mode is just not fun.:
@tekkendolphin_psn said in Online mode is just not fun.:
Call it a rant but this mode needs an overhaul. What I think it needs is a way to help out hitters. Maybe guess pitch option should be a thing? It is just too easy to pitch good and too hard to hit. Every game is just a complete guessing game grind fest that ends in bitterness when one player gets lucky enough to eke out a couple of garbage slap-hit seeing-eye hits or somehow hits a towering home run off a pitch nowhere near the zone. It comes down to whoever is luckier. Competitiveness is fine but we aren't pro baseball players and it is just too much of a grind. It's just not fun by its very design. And therefore ends up being a huge waste of time.
Also, to make things worse, why do I lose 8 straight yet have the same rating and still get mismatched over and over? I mean, come on.
Am I alone here? Or missing something that can actually make this anything other than an infuriating experience?
Didnt you quit last week? Get better scrub
Nice to weed out the degenerate, toxic people. Ignored
And yeah, I probably did. Because eventually you get to a point that going further is waste of time.
