CHEATING IN DIAMOND DYNASTY
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It’s not cheating they reward shitters in this game. Period. Directional hitting below average players. That’s their target.
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How do you freeze a game?
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@SupaSwaggGangsta so there are a lot of trolls that would say that and the ones saying the other player got used to you are likely the ones you play that use this.
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@arvcpa https://youtu.be/YEThvDs7dhw?si=-RnfaJland2WCCgg
This is available for 2021-24 MLB The Show. It’s rampant dude -
@SupaSwaggGangsta https://youtu.be/45m7-eM40Tc?si=WEL6KZrp9Gvj4JNV
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I faced a dude Friday that wacked everything on the corners painted lines a bit below zone and top of the zone but hit on everything but mostly homers and didn’t chase a single thing outside no matter how close it was out the zone. Mf already had lighting Bobby Witt Jr and the card just came out Thursday but for sure mans was cheating or on the limitless pill.
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People finished the program within minutes on Thursday just by buying all the cards and locking them in so it's not cheating on that part
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@AmalikYapusi said in CHEATING IN DIAMOND DYNASTY:
I faced a dude Friday that wacked everything on the corners painted lines a bit below zone and top of the zone but hit on everything but mostly homers and didn’t chase a single thing outside no matter how close it was out the zone. Mf already had lighting Bobby Witt Jr and the card just came out Thursday but for sure mans was cheating or on the limitless pill.
Lightning Bobby Witt took like an hour by completing the missions. Tops.
People could buy it in a matter of minutes.
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@AmalikYapusi Bibby Watt from the Crown team?
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LOUD NOISES!!! ARGHHHHH!!!
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Here's one for the toxic play hall of fame, and I can really only call it cheating in the end because it's likely going to result in me taking a loss for a game I'm winning, as well as ending my BR run when I should be living to fight another day.
I put up a run in the top of the 1st (I'm on 2 wins and 1 loss), and after the run scored my opponent started disconnecting his controller over and over, usually 2-3 times between pitches (yeah -- each pitch). This went on for the rest of the game. In between all of the whatever he was doing, I managed to get into the pause menu and report it. If you've never experienced an opponent doing this, I want to express clearly how difficult it is to do anything gameplay-wise, including just basically selecting a pitch, when the opponent is disconnecting the controller this often. It really interferes with being able to play the game properly and select any buttons. I noticed it was also making it hard for me to get into the quick menu. I decided to try to get through the game, although I considered just quitting out because it's no fun to play under these conditions.
In the bottom of the 3rd I'm still up 1-0. I hit the mound visit button at the same time my opponent's controller disconnects again, but this time the game freezes with the controller disconnect warning on top of the mound visit menu. The timer inside the controller disconnect warning is also frozen, on :31 remaining, but I can still hit the circle button to forfeit -- it's the only button that works, other than the dashboard.
Fundamentally I don't understand the design of this particular mechanic... why do I care if my opponent disconnects his controller? Shouldn't that just happen in the background and I can still throw my pitch / get into the quick menu? Further, if the mechanic is being abused to throw off my accuracy or potentially cause a freeze, like I'm experiencing right now, I can't quite figure out why it can happen this many times in a game without some kind of griefing code coming into play. It can't just come down to an in-game report when it was as relentless as this. I really feel abuse of this mechanic should be detected by the game and dealt with.
Anyway, the cherry on top is that the 7 AM routine maintenance just kicked in to end the debacle. I won't know until after the maintenance if I took a loss or not, but I guess I'm grateful for the maintenance for once, because it meant while I was writing all this I didn't have to decide on pressing circle to accept a loss, or dashboarding! Hopefully it's a 50/50 on whether my BR run is over or not.
Because the game ended on a network disconnect for the maintenance, I have no idea if my in-game reports for cheating and toxic play will register, but I'll try to report again if the game shows up in my history when I get back in.
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@cbpm72 that is brutal toxicity and I’m very sorry to hear it happened to you. I truly hope you got the win from the disconnect.
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@BJDUBBYAH said in CHEATING IN DIAMOND DYNASTY:
@cbpm72 that is brutal toxicity and I’m very sorry to hear it happened to you. I truly hope you got the win from the disconnect.
Turns out I did!! Thanks!
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@cbpm72 hell yes you did.
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Faced an opponent I couldn’t touch, and then when said opponent came up to the plate, NO strikes were called strikes. If that’s not enough to understand, I put all my pitches down the middle only to be called as balls. Catcher was Jason V. And not catching anything following a small lag before hitting the strike zone.
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@RJharryman_PSN said in CHEATING IN DIAMOND DYNASTY:
Faced an opponent I couldn’t touch, and then when said opponent came up to the plate, NO strikes were called strikes. If that’s not enough to understand, I put all my pitches down the middle only to be called as balls. Catcher was Jason V. And not catching anything following a small lag before hitting the strike zone.
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Another note, the commentators were saying things like “don’t know where that missed” and “I don’t know how you take a pitch like that.”
The opponent swung at the first few pitches for a Foul ball or two and a dropped third strike (because the catcher wasn’t catching anything), so I was able to get the first out from that. He didn’t swing at anything else. I don’t know what was happening. After the game (obviously I lost in the first due to forfeit) I saw that their PSN name was changed from rrxbby (yeah you SOB I hope you see this [censored] [censored] you) to a freaking Xbox username which I don’t remember. Turning off cross play I guess if I can. Have had multiple instances of possible cheating like no matter where I put the ball the opponent gets perfect timing and contact on everything (mostly homers roughly 450 every time). -
I found a great read...
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Every year we see the same lament, and while there is a large degree of cheating taking place, the complaints always fail to mention the real cause -- flawed human nature.
The reason leagues form with rules and umpires is due to the persistent role of cheating to win.
This has led SDS to adopt a myriad of means to prevent cheating, usually leading to nothing but further avenues for cheating. Online gaming is simply a platform for people who like to cheat to cheat like the wind. It will always be that way. It's a rat's game built for rats!
Online gaming allows someone to evade the consequences for getting caught. When you have underground operations selling what they euphemistically label "mods" then you know there are enough people out there looking to cheat to make any online gaming a lottery. Your odds of encountering one of the sad sacks who like to win by cheating is quite high.
Look, even in real MLB baseball we still have cheaters -- paging Jurickson Profar, paging Jurickson Profar! This despite all the very real risk of getting caught, like he did, and having to suffer a lifetime of shame. Now, in online cheating, there is no lifetime of shame because the stakes are so low that society doesn't care.
What's the solution?
Well, confine your online games to people you know and trust, friends, family, etc ... Accept that if you dip your little toe in the online gaming against total strangers then you're going to run into someone who thinks the little meaningless trinkets handed down for "wins" is worth all the cheating one can conjure up.
If you're not willing to just quit the game when you encounter such people and move on, then this is where the real problem comes in. This is where the illusion of "online competition" and "ranked competition" reveals its ugly truth. It isn't fair and it never will be. When companies like SDS started creating illusions that online gaming was more than it really is, then the platform for this frustration was developed. The real ugly reality is that mailing out baseballs, bats, and other stuff based on online gaming results just encourages the worst in the sad sacks who cheat to win.
The problem isn't that SDS cannot possibly rein in the cheaters, which is true they cannot. The problem is that SDS set up false expectations, and hand out false rewards, because they were willfully blind to the very real notion that for every 90 people out there looking for an honest fair and square online game, there are ten who are dedicated to cheating their "rear ends" off because the empty results are their goals.
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Yes the cheating has been out of control for years now and I don’t buy this game I just wait until it’s and will continue to do so until they fix the cheating
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No way anybody can guess all my pitch locations and timing and yet they do with perfect precision SMH
