Competitive difficulty question
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This may turn out to be a lengthy post. My questions are at the bottom as a TLDR.
I was playing a VS CPU in DD tonight on rookie in the show 25, and was irritated that the CPU was throwing mainly balls and pitches on the black. I've played for a long time, and this is not how the CPU has always pitched. I commented to myself that it was pitching like someone would online. It got me curious if the difficulty was correct. I paused the game, went into settings under general, and saw that one of the difficulty settings was set and locked to competitive. I thought I remembered that only Online was forced to competitive setting (am I wrong). So I loaded up 24, then 23, and they were the same. Now I've struggled a lot since 23 and could never figure out what changed. So then I loaded up 22, and there was no such setting to be found in the in-game VS CPU settings.
Since 23, there has been a setting that locks all DD content to competitive difficulty, not just Online. Which means, since 23, all DD content has been an online simulator. I have been the caretaker for my mother for years as she battled cancer until she found peace just in late February. I don't want stress or competition. I want to play casually in DD and intentionally stay away from online.
TLDR
So my questions are as follows.- Didn't competitive difficulty used to be in online play only?
- Did SDS announce this change, and I miss it?
- What are the real differences between Causal, simulation, and competitive difficulty?
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All DD is an online mode as you can't play any of it without Internet, what you mean is vs CPU or vs ppl, a distinction SDS finally recognizes as they call it single player and multiplayer this year.all DD is competitive mode.
SDS did announce this in a pre release
stream when they introduced casual,simulation and competitive modes.
I've only done competitive so I'm not to sure of the differences, but I think it's - simulation the attributes matter more and competitive your inputs matter more.
