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  • Twisted-_-Tea-_PSNT Offline
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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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  • pfcorporate_PSNP Offline
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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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  • TekkenDolphin_PSNT Offline
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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.

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  • misfits138_MLBTSM Offline
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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?

    Totally agree, and I'm coming off a good season (13-4).
    When a video game starts causing you more stress than the real world, it's time to pull back.
    I'm gonna take a week or so off.

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    I played 2 ABs in an events game today. The pitches went from the hand to the catcher's mitt with no graphic depiction in between. Essentially invisible pitches. I don't know if my opponent would have experienced the same because I decided to bail on the experience early, but honestly I've experienced far too much like this in online play. It's rubbish. I do enjoy playing the game, but the online experience is not always as much fun as it could be and I hope some attention is directed that way, eventually.

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    Ranked Seasons is basically the endgame for people who dabble in PvP. The rewards are not worth the grind of having to play 9 inning games versus other players end game squads to reach WS or 40 wins. It's a sweat fest on AS and HoF so I can't imagine what it's like on Legendary.

    I want to like RS but I just can't, it's not worth the hassle trying to get that single card reward.

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    @cbpm72_psn said in Online mode is just not fun.:

    I played 2 ABs in an events game today. The pitches went from the hand to the catcher's mitt with no graphic depiction in between. Essentially invisible pitches. I don't know if my opponent would have experienced the same because I decided to bail on the experience early, but honestly I've experienced far too much like this in online play. It's rubbish. I do enjoy playing the game, but the online experience is not always as much fun as it could be and I hope some attention is directed that way, eventually.

    I think I forgot to add how much stress is added by lag issues.

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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?

    It's reading stuff like this is the reason I do not play RS.

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  • ScottD_3Ds_PSNS Offline
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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.

    Dude, your so wrong. This is not like "everything else in life," this is a video game. In life, you practice and you should become better at just about anything, but this game is in control of every pitch and hit location, not fate or physics. You can hit the ball perfect and be out. You can miss the ball and get a hit. You can throw a perfect pitch and hit a batter (usually followed by a home run) Yea, yea, just like real life, but real life isn't controlled by preset ratings (accurate or not), animation glitches and DDA. Your either good at this, or your not.

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  • Twisted-_-Tea-_PSNT Offline
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    @scottd_3ds_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.

    Dude, your so wrong. This is not like "everything else in life," this is a video game. In life, you practice and you should become better at just about anything, but this game is in control of every pitch and hit location, not fate or physics. You can hit the ball perfect and be out. You can miss the ball and get a hit. You can throw a perfect pitch and hit a batter (usually followed by a home run) Yea, yea, just like real life, but real life isn't controlled by preset ratings (accurate or not), animation glitches and DDA. Your either good at this, or your not.

    I mean the ratings just represent how well a player does something and it is pretty accurate at how often they do it well compared to worse cards. There is a gap between good and bad players at this game but that doesn’t mean someone can make a jump and make themselves better

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    @misfits138_mlbts 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?

    Totally agree, and I'm coming off a good season (13-4).
    When a video game starts causing you more stress than the real world, it's time to pull back.
    I'm gonna take a week or so off.

    I did that and when it was time to come back I just kept thinking about extending my break, here I am… two months later debating if I should buy Ghost of Tsushima or come back to play RS…

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    The best thing is wasting 50 minutes of your life. Beating Nolan Ryan 1-0 and at the end of the game.

    You show connection has been lost. 😑

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