Why Are You Forcing Your Players to Pitch From the Stretch in 26?
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I see it’s been confirmed that all H2H modes within DD will literally FORCE the user to pitch from the stretch.
This decision comes from the same company that promoted “Play your way!”. Now, they’re forcing us to literally play their way
What an awful, awful decision. I pray they remove this feature and let users choose how they want to pitch in H2H modes
They promoted this change to up the pace of play in H2H modes. Of all the things this community had pleaded for, they decide to try and reduce the length of H2H games
Literally one of the dumbest decisions I’ve seen from SDS since 2017 when I began playing DD
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@doobiebross66-72_PSN It’s a wonderful decision for online play. Some of these starters have painfully slow windups. I’m glad they are speeding up play. No more R2 is also a positive change. Limiting toxic players should be a high priority.
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I agree with you that some windups are long. So, give the players a choice!
Why let us choose in offline DD modes but force it on H2H DD modes? Literally easy to just let us toggle in H2H modes
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@doobiebross66-72_PSN Because some toxic players use these pitchers intentionally.
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Hideo Nomo incoming?
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I actually get both sides. Now i play DD, i want games to go as quick as possible. But if i'm offline i should be able to do the full wind up. So i get it. But they make this game for you.
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@LIONED-33_XBL You can still have windups on offline. Waste your own time all you want offline. No more wasting other people’s time online. Great move.
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@GoozeFn_PSN I understand where you’re coming from and appreciate the responses. But long windups have always been in the game…and only now it’s “toxic”?
Look, I agree that long windups can be annoying. I literally would intentionally walk the first batter in some offline modes so I could get to the stretch with certain pitchers. I do think that being able to now choose stretch only in those scenarios is a great QOL addition.
But you have to consider: what about pitchers who actually have a good, smooth, efficient windup animation? We don’t get to choose to pitch from the windup in H2H mode even for non-toxic players? Why? To shave off a few minutes of play time?
I just don’t agree with that part of forcing us to pitch from the stretch
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@GoozeFn_PSN I misunderstood i thought they shut them off all across the game.
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@doobiebross66-72_PSN I don’t think it’s inherently toxic. I’m saying that there are toxic players that intentionally use them to be toxic. Let’s be honest, there’s a lot of toxic people in this community. In a perfect world, you would just make the pitchers who have a long windup pitch out of the stretch. SDS is lazy, so they just do it for everyone. I just don’t agree that windups are a necessary component for online play. Sure, most games you’re just shaving off a couple minutes. If you’re playing a 9 inning game against Detmers, CC, Paige or any of these guys with really slow deliveries, it’s more than a couple minutes. Even a couple minutes a game adds up.
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@LIONED-33_XBL I’m not even sure it’s confirmed that online is. I heard them say it’s the default. I have not seen any confirmation it’s the only way online. I hope it is. You can definitely still pitch from the stretch offline.
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@GoozeFn_PSN agree.
I believe this is just going to lead to more toxicity when you have a ton of people slide stepping and quick pitching.
Don’t agree with the move. Let your players choose.
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@doobiebross66-72_PSN They said there’s a pause between pitches, so quick pitching won’t be a thing either.
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@GoozeFn_PSN said in Why Are You Forcing Your Players to Pitch From the Stretch Next Year?:
@LIONED-33_XBL I’m not even sure it’s confirmed that online is. I heard them say it’s the default. I have not seen any confirmation it’s the only way online. I hope it is. You can definitely still pitch from the stretch offline.
It’s been confirmed that all H2H modes in DD, we are forced to pitch from the stretch
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@doobiebross66-72_PSN Where was this confirmed?
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Also, this decision, pretty big middle finger to players out there who simply don’t prefer pitching from the stretch
Not very “play your way” of SDS
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@doobiebross66-72_PSN Thank you for that.
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@doobiebross66-72_PSN Play your way ends when you’re playing with other people. I could make the same argument that I don’t get to play my way if you force windups. I wish we could matchup based on settings, but again SDS is lazy. We can’t even get meaningful updates every year. I’d bet the vast majority of online players would prefer to play without windups.
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@GoozeFn_PSN good points
I can see the arguments for it but I don’t agree with it
I hope they simply give the player the option to choose in H2H modes
