Let’s be honest
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@PriorFir4383355_XBL it’s latency, mostly. Not much can be done. I don’t have the answer to that, but removing outliers will make games batting practice and strike outs near impossible.
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I would like to see a change back to giving it to players who actually threw over 100.
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@PriorFir4383355_XBL I kid you not. Especially on inside fast balls or sinkers. I have to swing as soon as I see the ball leave the pitchers hand! On all star! I have to literally guess where the pitch is going to hit it. I see it leave the pitchers hand and its instantly across the plate most games. Online game is basically unplayable for me. I beat my head against a wall almost every game. Ive been playing this game for 4 years straight. And all of a sudden I cant hit an inside fast ball to save my life with same side batters. Maybe they knew something was up? Why did they give us so many switch hitters this year to start. The game plays to fast and is too [censored] hard to have game play and server issues.
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@Ditka06_MLBTS Do you play on a TV or monitor and what is your upload download rates?
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@GoozeFn_PSN I play on a monitor. 144hz monitor 1ms. When I check my upload speeds in the xbox settings they are usually over 600. Is there a way to check the monitor speeds? Im also finding lately my pci does not move sometimes when I feel like im clearly moving it and the timing/pci indicator after the swing shows the pci in the middle on my swings didnt move at all. I have a power A wired controller. And ive tested the analog sticks and it works great on the tests.
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@Ditka06_MLBTS Tbh I think you should be rewarded for good pitching and that’s something I’d like to see continue in the future. I’m sorry but if I’m very clearly better than a player and then I get a ball put in the seats that a guy was late and the ball a foot out of the zone then why even pitch. Just put pitching machines on the mound and mark where you throw it bc it apparently doesn’t matter. I’m good on that.
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@Talkingben9558_XBL I agree. No PCI tampering.
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@Ditka06_MLBTS Very strange. Your setup seems every bit as good as mine and I do not experience that ever. Is your internet wired?
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@GoozeFn_PSN said in Let’s be honest:
@Ditka06_MLBTS Very strange. Your setup seems every bit as good as mine and I do not experience that ever. Is your internet wired?
I don’t have an issue catching up to outlier fastballs, for the most part. Also play on a monitor, wired internet. Etc. I really don’t have a problem with hitting in general. I’m probably a better pitcher than I am a hitter to be honest, but I’m pretty decent all around. Better than average for sure. So I find it to be strange what Ditka06 is saying here too.
If that was my experience, I would be beyond frustrated if I finally squared up a ball and it did nothing. This year, IMHO, pitchers have been WAY better than hitters up until this point which probably exacerbates not having high elevation stadiums and whatever happened to the RNG this year.
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@creeder21_MLBTS I find it hard to believe someone who has made World Series is experiencing that.
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@GoozeFn_PSN yes wired fiber 2 gigs. I know its very strange. It may just be mlb the shows servers in my geographical location. I dont know. But years prior on a regular TV I never had these issues. Im very frustrated. I promise im a level headed guy. Not making this stuff up. I also made ws. Yes. But off the back of my pitching not hitting.
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@creeder21_MLBTS said in Let’s be honest:
@YOSHI24_XBL and we can disagree, BUT why do you think people played there? Do you think maybe people enjoyed it?
Yes, agree on that
I am pretty sure people enjoyed it and starting from me I am pretty sure there were ppl who thought those stadiums were a disgrace to this beautiful baseball game. And I am pretty sure, SDS thought it was a little to much slugfest, because they nerfed exit Velo … to make the game play … different. Imo it was a change for the better
@creeder21_MLBTS said in Let’s be honest:
@YOSHI24_XBL last year was not slugfest. IMHO, this game has typically been incredible about balancing good to “perfect” user input and rewarding it. This year, not so much. It had a really excellent balance between sim and arcade, but it has been pushed more towards sim. I like the middle, in what I like to call baseball video game. Not cartoonish arcade or total baseball sim, but just an enjoyable video game where the user gets rewarded for their input.
I do not want to get into that too much bc we disagree heavily in nearly every sentence … But … last sentence. Input is more than hitting the ball. The game was not rewarding, bc it drained from my pitching input giving away 80 mph HR on a routine basis. This is not what rewarding means (at least in my view).
And it was a cartoon and it changed for the better (if you regard the game as a reflection of MLB)
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@creeder21_MLBTS I think the cpu strike rate is the single worst change they made...at all levels the cpu is throwing less than 50% in the strike zone...I get it, so do mlb pitchers but this is a video game...it's supposed to be fun offline especially at lower difficulties...if this was the first year I ever played this game, I probably wouldn't have made it to mid April.
And I don't want to hear "it's a sim"...if it was a sim the cpu wouldn't have ungodly reaction times and nake a diving outfield catch at least once every three inning game.
You can tell they know how bad they botched this year's game by how they are just giving away stubs since the draft...they tried to get too cute too fast and it's backfired in a lot of different ways.
The last.4 years I didn't take a significant break from this game until at least November and I already took several weeks away in mid June into mid july.
They made one fantastic addition to the game. Double PxP.
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@Teak2112_MLBTS I actually really liked how TA was set up this year til they just handed us half the TA points to get to the Finest card. But I get that for most players, the original TA grind set up was just waaaaayyyy too much.
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@YOSHI24_XBL so you want a baseball sim and not a baseball video game. Got it. Let’s just eliminate difficulty levels and we can all play on legend too. That’ll really give the baseball experience because in real life, it’s a game of failure.
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@YOSHI24_XBL - Baseball sim based on today's baseball? No thanks. There are 8 MLB players hitting .300 or better this year. In the late 80's-90's, there were 40-45ish. Even 70's, 60's, 15-25ish. Baseball right now blows and they need to make the game somewhat fun. No one wants to basically play catch with the pitcher and catcher for 9 innings with a couple homers sprinkled in. BOOOOORING!
Not to mention all the draft picks who somehow are better than the Aaron Judges and Tarik Skubals of the league. Next everyone will have a 99. How about that slow Lou Brock with power and no speed (albeit only warning track power)...what a stupid collection. Does that sound like a sim?
If you want a sim, go play OOP.
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They made one fantastic addition to the game. Double PxP.
To SDS credit, I would add being able to restart a Moment without having it finish was a fantastic addition as well this year.
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@dinkus_MLBTS said in Let’s be honest:
If you want a sim, go play OOP.
I've been saying that for years.
In my opinion, as soon as you pick up a controller and your skill with the controller becomes more important than the players stats or attributes then calling it a sim becomes a questionable statement. That goes for any sports game, at least in my opinion.
That said, people want to play. They want to be swinging the bat and making the pitches and there is nothing wrong with that. They want fancy graphics not the antiquated graphics of OOTP, which are fine for a sim based game where the players stats and ratings are 100 responsible for the gameplay.
Don't get me started on OOTP's version of DD though. Perfect Team is okay, and I have not played it in a couple of years but that mode truly did seem like Pay To Win to me.
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I’m not sure anyone here is advocating for a perfect sim. I would like a game where it’s possible to draw a walk against the CPU though, especially now that it’s a my legacy mission. I don’t understand the complaint. I go through most games against the CPU on rookie without ever drawing a walk unless I’m trying to. I’d also like a game that plays somewhat realistic and isn’t a HR derby. I think balance is key. Maybe you should go find an arcade style game for people that don’t actually want to play baseball. There’s also a HR derby mode if that’s what you’re looking for.
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@GoozeFn_PSN yesterday I was playing the prime DQ stadium against the summer series stadium on All Star. I was walked and HBP 3 batters in a row. I had never experienced that in my entire time playing this game since 2020.
I think folks on my side of the aisle are pretty clear, we don’t like the direction game play has gone in. Online, last year’s game play was fantastic and we would like it brought back to that. A return to form per se. Offline on lower level difficulties, there should be WAY more meatballs. Lastly, totally scrap PCI shrinkage.
Last year, I didn’t speak up when I saw comments I disagreed with about nerfing max elevation stadiums because I never thought they would do it as so many players enjoyed them. With the changes this year, I realized if you don’t speak up they are only getting that feedback so this is me speaking up.
