Mad respect for the survey and followups
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@rubicante23_PSN yeah I’d rather have “the real abs” give everybody 2 challenges. 100% umpire accuracy just isn’t realistic.
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@Onix_Savage22_PSN I just don’t think anything should cause shrinkage inside the strike zone on good timing. I’ve never had strong opinions about shrinkage, but they absolutely said one thing and did another.
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@rubicante23_PSN Because we literally see in real time whether or not it clipped the strike zone. ABS would be a complete waste of time. Players in real life don’t see a box.
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@GoozeFn_PSN yeah I think that is more aless why people are so upset.
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SDS certainly suffered a blow to their credibility. Their marketing department went to great effort to say that due to customer feedback that PCI shrinkage was being eliminated. Their update #7 text says that was not the case and went on to state that on certain pitches, deemed by SDS to be difficult, the PCI will still shrink, and on other pitches it will expand if that pitch is deemed to be in a bad location.
Here is the basic problem with this approach. It applies a double effect. It ignores that there is a human being using a controller to make inputs to play the game. A "hanger" will be easier to hit because there will be less movement of the controller stick to place the PCI on the ball square. Yet, there will be a second parallel running effect where the PCI expands.
So, what is SDS doing here? Is it trying to create a realistic baseball simulation game, or is it trying to influence the outcome through artificial means that have nothing to do with the skill of the human playing the game? Frankly, SDS does not seem able to make a decision on which strategic vision to follow.
My view is that the state of technology today means we should be well past sports video games relying upon RNG-based factors to determine outcomes, but instead implement actual physics to analyze what the human player is directing through his control pad and how those inputs combine with the objects in the game (baseball, weather, bat, etc ...) to produce an outcome.
Of all the sports out there, baseball is one of the easiest to base things on physics vice RNG. Baseball is a very simple concept. A ball is thrown, a bat is used to strike the ball, and the physics of that contact can be measured very precisely within any game code, and the outcome then very accurately determined upon ball-to-bat impact and then played out realistically in the video.
Then, a group of fielders react to the hit to make a fielding play.
This really shouldn't be all that difficult to achieve.
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New strike zone is so weird just visual or not I’m not a fan.
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Well, yes of course - if you give players ABS challenges, you need to have the box disappear when the pitcher starts windup...that's obvious.
A big part of real baseball is seeing a pitch that looks like a ball, but its called a strike by ump. Seems silly to me for there to be a "perfect zone" where nothing is called different from game to game. Seems very un-baseball-ish...
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Yes and for those of us that have opened thousands of earnable packs and gotten no sniff of judge or Ohtani or many of the other big diamonds only to see duplicates of the same cards in the same packs. Then finally pull a diamond and have it be the same 85/86 for the 100th time on top of all the other issues in this game including gameplay, carried over glitches and pathetic xp progress. [censored] gets old real fast and just isn’t fun. Wouldn’t take much to make all those things a touch better and more rewarding to drastically improve the player satisfaction.
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Yup. If SDS is smart, when they drop the massive content tomorrow, “high LS cards “ packs odds will go up dramatically. Don’t have to announce it, just a “behind the scenes” update.
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@Onix_Savage22_PSN I think it will be harder as a hitter which to me is a good thing. At least at first. It’s going to take some getting used to, but I think it’s a good change. The game should reflect real life baseball.
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@GoozeFn_PSN it seems to be easier for everybody but me.
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@rubicante23_PSN Id be ok with removing the box and adding ABS.
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@GoozeFn_PSN the box is making this new change terrible got shut out first game only 2 runs second. Game gave up 7 and 5 to players rated lower then myself.
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Box will take some getting used to. Your eyes say ball out of hand, and its strike
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@rubicante23_PSN this what I’m struggling with nobody else tho apparently considering people I’m playing who are lower ranked then me and raking.
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Yes, this would go a long way, and be a solid first step in repairing goodwill with the community they have largely crapped on. I’m not counting on it though. Fingers crossed.
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I talked about the lack of offline content a lot when I took the survey, so I'm waiting to see if they do anything about that. Only then will I believe they are listening.
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Yeah no after going 0-2 with the new strike zone I’m trying what I would like to call the scum squad all the scummiest cards on the team willi Castro Carlos Santana all the scummy switch hitters and if u take offence to me calling u scum for using all switch hitters sorry not sorry that’s just my opinion. I’m also just mad that im losing to the same lineup everytime. Willi Santana biz ketel etc…
