Game is Awful
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@Ledfoot_19_PSN IMO all of the issues with this game can be summed up by 3 things: connections, servers and DDA. I highly doubt the coding in the game is that big of an issue. When those 3 things are good, the game plays great. Problem is 99% of the time, one of those are affecting the game.
Have you ever noticed that streamers rarely run into these issues? Have you noticed that most of the top players in this game are close to server cities with notoriously bad internet? Have you noticed when you are up by 4 your players run slower, get thrown out more? This is why you don't try to get extra bases or steal when you are up. That is the DDA kicking in. How about when you are up and all the sudden all your good swings are outs?
If you truly analyze everything you see without worrying about wins and losses, these issues are blaring and very noticeable. I have no intention or never will be a top 50 player in this game. I am almost 56. The game play is very bad due to those things. SDS could really make the game a much more enjoyable experience with better connections and servers.
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@DemIsE4_XBL said in Game is Awful:
@Ledfoot_19_PSN IMO all of the issues with this game can be summed up by 3 things: connections, servers and DDA. I highly doubt the coding in the game is that big of an issue. When those 3 things are good, the game plays great. Problem is 99% of the time, one of those are affecting the game.
Have you ever noticed that streamers rarely run into these issues? Have you noticed that most of the top players in this game are close to server cities with notoriously bad internet? Have you noticed when you are up by 4 your players run slower, get thrown out more? This is why you don't try to get extra bases or steal when you are up. That is the DDA kicking in. How about when you are up and all the sudden all your good swings are outs?
If you truly analyze everything you see without worrying about wins and losses, these issues are blaring and very noticeable. I have no intention or never will be a top 50 player in this game. I am almost 56. The game play is very bad due to those things. SDS could really make the game a much more enjoyable experience with better connections and servers.
While everything you say is valid and accurate that covers the online aspect. The offline game has become bad arcade like rather than sim. In a real MLB game you won't see the following;
I don't care how good an arm a guy has nobody is catching a ball on the right center field warning track and gunning out a guy with decent speed tagging from 2nd to 3rd by 2 feet.
You won't see a ball hit for a line drive a few feet over the pitchers head with 108 EV and 9 degree launch angle stay in the air until it reaches the centerfielders glove in mid center field.
You won't see 6 to 8 amazing highlight reel diving and jumping catches in one game.
You won't see a wild pitch per game.
You won't see pitchers throw 3 to 5 pitches 2 feet off the plate but also dot the edges of the strike zone 3 to 5 times all in the same at bat, every at bat.
You won't see players blast fat pitches right at someone 95% of the time but then blast a HR on a just late swing at a ball across their belt buckle.
Add in that for some magic reason Rookie and Veteran, maybe all difficulties are different depending on what you play. If a I play Rookie on vs CPU I've put up 30 runs a game. Play Rookie on Conquest and 7 out 10 games end 1-0. I can still strike out 7 to 8 batters every game but you won't blast the ball around like vs CPU.
DDA or RNG, whatever we want to call exists in all games and I understand it's need in sports but all to often it replaces skill and knowledge of the sport in which we are playing. Sports games inevitably take the turn down the arcade road because you can't offer much change to a sim sport and developers end up losing any care for what hardcore sports guys want. They just try and keep the kiddos and the streamers happy while finding new ways to milk wallets.
Just my opinion
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Well said
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Very true on everything stated here. Call it out though and the SDS defenders come at you like you kicked their puppy.
