Remember how I made comparisons to MLB The Show 18?
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After this sequence, I gave up 2 run shot. It's impossible to strike people out. Note that almost all of these pitches were changeup and sliders and the timing of my opponent was "very early" on almost all of them. This is just one example, you'll experience them yourselves I'm sure.
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It is true. Once they decide they are contact swinging, you can put the ball a foot out of the zone inside or outside or absolutely in the dirt, and it is a foul ball.
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@raesone_psn said in Remember how I made comparisons to MLB The Show 18?:
After this sequence, I gave up 2 run shot. It's impossible to strike people out. Note that almost all of these pitches were changeup and sliders and the timing of my opponent was "very early" on almost all of them. This is just one example, you'll experience them yourselves I'm sure.
This is why I tend to hold off on online play until about June/July. The game is always unbalanced early on, at least from my experience. Can’t we just get a carbon copy of ‘17?
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@jeezy-e_psn said in Remember how I made comparisons to MLB The Show 18?:
@raesone_psn said in Remember how I made comparisons to MLB The Show 18?:
After this sequence, I gave up 2 run shot. It's impossible to strike people out. Note that almost all of these pitches were changeup and sliders and the timing of my opponent was "very early" on almost all of them. This is just one example, you'll experience them yourselves I'm sure.
This is why I tend to hold off on online play until about June/July. The game is always unbalanced early on, at least from my experience. Can’t we just get a carbon copy of ‘17?
Oh man is miss that game, despite its flaws. That was the last game that was actually good imo.
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@raesone_psn said in Remember how I made comparisons to MLB The Show 18?:
@jeezy-e_psn said in Remember how I made comparisons to MLB The Show 18?:
@raesone_psn said in Remember how I made comparisons to MLB The Show 18?:
After this sequence, I gave up 2 run shot. It's impossible to strike people out. Note that almost all of these pitches were changeup and sliders and the timing of my opponent was "very early" on almost all of them. This is just one example, you'll experience them yourselves I'm sure.
This is why I tend to hold off on online play until about June/July. The game is always unbalanced early on, at least from my experience. Can’t we just get a carbon copy of ‘17?
Oh man is miss that game, despite its flaws. That was the last game that was actually good imo.
That is oh so true. I would even take 16 if they took out the bunt cheese. Stick skills mattered in 16 & 17.
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From my own feedback, I’m convinced Contact swing combined with having the outer PCI is the cause. Hitting feels very cheesy this year.
Played a few games with Timing….it’s going to plague this game this year. Try it out if anyone is curious.
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@parradox-cam_psn said in Remember how I made comparisons to MLB The Show 18?:
From my own feedback, I’m convinced Contact swing combined with having the outer PCI is the cause. Hitting feels very cheesy this year.
Played a few games with Timing….it’s going to plague this game this year. Try it out if anyone is curious.
Whichever the underlying problem(s) might be, the game in it's current state is just not gonna cut it. I came to realize that after 1 day of playing, other people did too. I am 100% convinced that if things stay this way, a lot of people who are still optimistic will come around in a few months from now.
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@raesone_psn said in Remember how I made comparisons to MLB The Show 18?:
@parradox-cam_psn said in Remember how I made comparisons to MLB The Show 18?:
From my own feedback, I’m convinced Contact swing combined with having the outer PCI is the cause. Hitting feels very cheesy this year.
Played a few games with Timing….it’s going to plague this game this year. Try it out if anyone is curious.
Whichever the underlying problem(s) might be, the game in it's current state is just not gonna cut it. I came to realize that after 1 day of playing, other people did too. I am 100% convinced that if things stay this way, a lot of people who are still optimistic will come around in a few months from now.
I agree with everything you have said so far. I’ve brought forward some of the same issues but don’t have your demeanor so I get blasted. At the end of all the debating…the hitting simply needs a major overhaul one of these years. I have my suspicions on why they insist on leaving it this way.
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@parradox-cam_psn said in Remember how I made comparisons to MLB The Show 18?:
@raesone_psn said in Remember how I made comparisons to MLB The Show 18?:
@parradox-cam_psn said in Remember how I made comparisons to MLB The Show 18?:
From my own feedback, I’m convinced Contact swing combined with having the outer PCI is the cause. Hitting feels very cheesy this year.
Played a few games with Timing….it’s going to plague this game this year. Try it out if anyone is curious.
Whichever the underlying problem(s) might be, the game in it's current state is just not gonna cut it. I came to realize that after 1 day of playing, other people did too. I am 100% convinced that if things stay this way, a lot of people who are still optimistic will come around in a few months from now.
I agree with everything you have said so far. I’ve brought forward some of the same issues but don’t have your demeanor so I get blasted. At the end of all the debating…the hitting simply needs a major overhaul one of these years. I have my suspicions on why they insist on leaving it this way.
I don't think anyone should be blasted for voicing their opinions, since there is no right or wrong. That's what opinions are about. Either way, I do this every year and there are always a handful of people who disagree or try and undermine certain aspects of whatever it is I did or said. I'm not too bothered by it. The best part is that in most occasions, the same people echo the very same complaints months later. Always make me chuckle.
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@parradox-cam_psn said in Remember how I made comparisons to MLB The Show 18?:
@raesone_psn said in Remember how I made comparisons to MLB The Show 18?:
@parradox-cam_psn said in Remember how I made comparisons to MLB The Show 18?:
From my own feedback, I’m convinced Contact swing combined with having the outer PCI is the cause. Hitting feels very cheesy this year.
Played a few games with Timing….it’s going to plague this game this year. Try it out if anyone is curious.
Whichever the underlying problem(s) might be, the game in it's current state is just not gonna cut it. I came to realize that after 1 day of playing, other people did too. I am 100% convinced that if things stay this way, a lot of people who are still optimistic will come around in a few months from now.
I agree with everything you have said so far. I’ve brought forward some of the same issues but don’t have your demeanor so I get blasted. At the end of all the debating…the hitting simply needs a major overhaul one of these years. I have my suspicions on why they insist on leaving it this way.
Its called Player Retention. I think you know the rest.
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@texas10pt_psn said in Remember how I made comparisons to MLB The Show 18?:
@parradox-cam_psn said in Remember how I made comparisons to MLB The Show 18?:
@raesone_psn said in Remember how I made comparisons to MLB The Show 18?:
@parradox-cam_psn said in Remember how I made comparisons to MLB The Show 18?:
From my own feedback, I’m convinced Contact swing combined with having the outer PCI is the cause. Hitting feels very cheesy this year.
Played a few games with Timing….it’s going to plague this game this year. Try it out if anyone is curious.
Whichever the underlying problem(s) might be, the game in it's current state is just not gonna cut it. I came to realize that after 1 day of playing, other people did too. I am 100% convinced that if things stay this way, a lot of people who are still optimistic will come around in a few months from now.
I agree with everything you have said so far. I’ve brought forward some of the same issues but don’t have your demeanor so I get blasted. At the end of all the debating…the hitting simply needs a major overhaul one of these years. I have my suspicions on why they insist on leaving it this way.
Its called Player Retention. I think you know the rest.
Yep and everyone claiming not purchasing 22 are here daily
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@parradox-cam_psn said in Remember how I made comparisons to MLB The Show 18?:
@raesone_psn said in Remember how I made comparisons to MLB The Show 18?:
@parradox-cam_psn said in Remember how I made comparisons to MLB The Show 18?:
From my own feedback, I’m convinced Contact swing combined with having the outer PCI is the cause. Hitting feels very cheesy this year.
Played a few games with Timing….it’s going to plague this game this year. Try it out if anyone is curious.
Whichever the underlying problem(s) might be, the game in it's current state is just not gonna cut it. I came to realize that after 1 day of playing, other people did too. I am 100% convinced that if things stay this way, a lot of people who are still optimistic will come around in a few months from now.
I agree with everything you have said so far. I’ve brought forward some of the same issues but don’t have your demeanor so I get blasted. At the end of all the debating…the hitting simply needs a major overhaul one of these years. I have my suspicions on why they insist on leaving it this way.
You didn't get blasted for your opinions themselves. You got blasted because you failed to respect anyone else's opinions. There is a difference
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The democratization of online competitive play. Period.
I still strike out a ton, though...lol.
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@hustlinowl_psn said in Remember how I made comparisons to MLB The Show 18?:
@texas10pt_psn said in Remember how I made comparisons to MLB The Show 18?:
@parradox-cam_psn said in Remember how I made comparisons to MLB The Show 18?:
@raesone_psn said in Remember how I made comparisons to MLB The Show 18?:
@parradox-cam_psn said in Remember how I made comparisons to MLB The Show 18?:
From my own feedback, I’m convinced Contact swing combined with having the outer PCI is the cause. Hitting feels very cheesy this year.
Played a few games with Timing….it’s going to plague this game this year. Try it out if anyone is curious.
Whichever the underlying problem(s) might be, the game in it's current state is just not gonna cut it. I came to realize that after 1 day of playing, other people did too. I am 100% convinced that if things stay this way, a lot of people who are still optimistic will come around in a few months from now.
I agree with everything you have said so far. I’ve brought forward some of the same issues but don’t have your demeanor so I get blasted. At the end of all the debating…the hitting simply needs a major overhaul one of these years. I have my suspicions on why they insist on leaving it this way.
Its called Player Retention. I think you know the rest.
Yep and everyone claiming not purchasing 22 are here daily
That's not what it means
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@suntlacrimae50_mlbts said in Remember how I made comparisons to MLB The Show 18?:
The democratization of online competitive play. Period.
I still strike out a ton, though...lol.
You do? Mind me asking you what hitting interface you use? Because I'm a pretty decent pitcher and my K/9 is just non-existent. Anybody, literally people who swing at pitches that are IN the dirt, can keep at bats alive.
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I feel you...too many fouls, too much good contact (regardless of feedback) on pitches way out the zone. I also give up at least 5-10 weak contact singles a game, those happen but not at that rate....
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@texas10pt_psn said in Remember how I made comparisons to MLB The Show 18?:
@hustlinowl_psn said in Remember how I made comparisons to MLB The Show 18?:
@texas10pt_psn said in Remember how I made comparisons to MLB The Show 18?:
@parradox-cam_psn said in Remember how I made comparisons to MLB The Show 18?:
@raesone_psn said in Remember how I made comparisons to MLB The Show 18?:
@parradox-cam_psn said in Remember how I made comparisons to MLB The Show 18?:
From my own feedback, I’m convinced Contact swing combined with having the outer PCI is the cause. Hitting feels very cheesy this year.
Played a few games with Timing….it’s going to plague this game this year. Try it out if anyone is curious.
Whichever the underlying problem(s) might be, the game in it's current state is just not gonna cut it. I came to realize that after 1 day of playing, other people did too. I am 100% convinced that if things stay this way, a lot of people who are still optimistic will come around in a few months from now.
I agree with everything you have said so far. I’ve brought forward some of the same issues but don’t have your demeanor so I get blasted. At the end of all the debating…the hitting simply needs a major overhaul one of these years. I have my suspicions on why they insist on leaving it this way.
Its called Player Retention. I think you know the rest.
Yep and everyone claiming not purchasing 22 are here daily
That's not what it means
Kept them playing after saying they wouldn’t and 22 keeping players playing thanks though
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@crimson_monk_psn said in Remember how I made comparisons to MLB The Show 18?:
I feel you...too many fouls, too much good contact (regardless of feedback) on pitches way out the zone. I also give up at least 5-10 weak contact singles a game, those happen but not at that rate....
Yeah I posted this the other day: https://ibb.co/DrZPLHs
The pitch that was in the zone was a grand slam.
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@raesone_psn said in Remember how I made comparisons to MLB The Show 18?:
@suntlacrimae50_mlbts said in Remember how I made comparisons to MLB The Show 18?:
The democratization of online competitive play. Period.
I still strike out a ton, though...lol.
You do? Mind me asking you what hitting interface you use? Because I'm a pretty decent pitcher and my K/9 is just non-existent. Anybody, literally people who swing at pitches that are IN the dirt, can keep at bats alive.
I'm 47 and don't practice, so not surprising. It's high velo and sinkers inside. Even when I sit on it, sometimes it's just a no-go.
Truth told, I haven't played a lot of RS (4-4), and in events okay. But it is true that I have fouled off a ton of dirtballs that should have been misses, and so have my opponents. They need to nerf the outer PCI big-time, and maybe get rid of outlier to compensate.
Zone, of course.
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@parradox-cam_psn said in Remember how I made comparisons to MLB The Show 18?:
@raesone_psn said in Remember how I made comparisons to MLB The Show 18?:
@parradox-cam_psn said in Remember how I made comparisons to MLB The Show 18?:
From my own feedback, I’m convinced Contact swing combined with having the outer PCI is the cause. Hitting feels very cheesy this year.
Played a few games with Timing….it’s going to plague this game this year. Try it out if anyone is curious.
Whichever the underlying problem(s) might be, the game in it's current state is just not gonna cut it. I came to realize that after 1 day of playing, other people did too. I am 100% convinced that if things stay this way, a lot of people who are still optimistic will come around in a few months from now.
I agree with everything you have said so far. I’ve brought forward some of the same issues but don’t have your demeanor so I get blasted. At the end of all the debating…the hitting simply needs a major overhaul one of these years. I have my suspicions on why they insist on leaving it this way.
I think it's a lot more complicated than that, and here is my THEORY:
Everything they do is on a 4-year cycle (this much is fact stated by the devs), so if they work on a new mechanic, it's planned long in advance. I've noticed a lot of turnovers from the people they introduce us to every year on their team. Most of the "veterans" we see every year are on the content side (Luis) or mode-specific teams (Nick). There's also the guy that works on defence (forget his name, former college player who's the oldest). We never hear about the hitting team.
Add to that that they added two console brands the last 2 years, stadium creation on next gen last year, re-did RTTS from the ground up (and missed the mark spectacularly), and that is a lot of overhaul for a yearly release. To undertake what is the core of your gameplay mechanic (since pitching is timing, but pre-set and not real time like hitting is) would be a massive, sensitive project.
Lastly, online used to be, not that long ago, a fringe of the fan base. Now with DD, it's the main thing. It's a lot safer to tweak than risk a massive failure that would ruin an entire year of the franchise.
I don't see an evil agenda here, just a company being risk-averse. While it's sad, I can understand their hesitation. Who knows, maybe the hitting is in the 4 year cycle as we speak. Let's hope.
