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It makes being a patient hitter much more difficult. It's far too easy for nearly every pitch to dot. And the frustration level is through the roof when the laces of the ball touch the zone and it's called a strike, every single time, without fail. And, there is no option in '26 (at least, I couldn't find it) like there was in '25 to remove the strike zone box. I'd rather not see how a perfectly literal interpretation of the strike zone has turned a pitch that has been a ball for decades into a strike. SDS, can you please add that option back into the game?

After playing with it for a while now, I think ABS is a complete disaster for the game of baseball… having a strike zone that is enforced where even if it’s just the laces of the ball that touch it is infuriating… the strike zone has been redefined. I think this is a travesty to the game of baseball. I don’t think the strike zone was ever meant to be interpreted so literally. I’m so glad I got to live through the glory days of baseball in the 80’s, before the game turned so corporate and stupid (like the players have become actors, with their contrived HR dances with props, or foolish looking hand and arm motions that look like they could be flashing gang signs after getting a hit). They’ve managed to strip away so much of the authenticity from the game.

I did… that fixed it… it seems like it gets corrupted so easily… and freezes in the menu system… I don’t know if it’s me or everyone, but this game seems far less reliable in the menu system than previous seasons.

I match, and then the game won’t open and it just says disconnected.

It has been going on for at least last 5 minutes… anyone else dealing with this?

@On_a_Power_Trip_PSN said:

@a761506_MLBTS the strike zone did not get bigger. they shrank the box.

The box sure doesn’t look a full baseball width narrower and shorter.

The strike zone got a lot bigger… I think it’s going to favor pitchers immensely and force batters to swing at far more pitches. I can’t imagine how difficult this is for big league hitters. If the seams of the ball touch the zone, like just over the low outside corner, it’s a strike… on a virtually unhittable pitch. I think it’s going to be catastrophic for this game.

I thought I was going insane, like it was only me and somehow my PS was corrupted… I get freezes every day. And lag (fortunately, not in games), more than I can remember in forever from this franchise.

I get freezes in the menu screens every day, I have to close the game and restart. Fortunately it has never affected game play. I have to believe this is happening to others?

Finally passed Correa, took over 100 tries, probably hit the most empty .350 you can possibly hit for those 100 AB’s with zero power. Makes me never want to use the card.

@Ditka06-_MLBTS said:

@Weshill627_PSN you are preaching to quire

It’s spelled choir, not quire, for future reference.

You seem jaded. Everyone lives a much different life, and while my boy will surely learn many more things about life as he gets older, I think it’s unnecessary for him to be exposed to songs about dying in fear at this point in his life… from playing a baseball video game… like the most wholesome sport there is, and he’s exposed to that… you get what I’m saying here?

@Doppelganger39_PSN said:

Go into options, then jukebox, and click on the song. I won't play any more.

I understand I can do that, but only after the fact. My son was disturbed by it, asked me why people die scared, no exactly a conversation I was planning on having with my pre-teen boy who should have never been exposed to such lyrics to begin with in an E-rated game.

My child is playing an E rated game and I hear a song with lyrics “one day you will die scared, but not to worry, for all people die scared or just die nervous”.

Does anyone honestly think these are appropriate lyrics for children to be hearing in a baseball video game?

@Dookie-Possum_XBL said in Losing:

Can’t wait to rage quit mid homerun against you.

Loser wimp

It’s an unavoidable part of the game. There’s two ways to lose in this game. You can lose gracefully like a real man, recognize you were beat, tip your hat, and move on to the next game… this is rare in this game.

The other way is like a 5 year old child, have a tantrum, do obnoxious things like put the controller down or disconnect mid flight on a home run or anything else that involves toxic play, including throwing fastballs at the hitters head. And I gotta say, this game brings out the very worst in so many people that it’s downright pathetic, like a completely flawed human who thinks winning a video game is somehow important and takes it all way too seriously, and cannot accept defeat. And what you can see on here is truly a microcosm of society, how young men are largely a bunch of absolute wimps who can’t handle the adversity of taking a loss.

If I just described you, first of all, shame on you, you know better or at least you should. I think of everyone I play on here as if they were my friend sitting beside me on the couch and we have a friendly competition. I know I’m not going to win every game, heck, winning more than half the games is an achievement if you’re playing against someone of similar skill level. I don’t care about my record or stats, I just like playing baseball. Obviously, there are times where the matchups are wildly uneven and I quickly get trounced by someone who is far more skilled at the game, but even against them, I’ll never stoop to any childish behavior. Quitting an uneven game is fine, but everyone needs to learn to lose gracefully.

If you’re one of those poor losers, you owe it to yourself as a human to overcome this gaping flaw in your human condition. It’ll make you a better person at the end of the day. You must recognize none of this matters in any way in life. Winning a video game is not everything, it’s nothing. It’s absolutely positively meaningless. If you’re playing this game and constantly frustrated when you lose and only enjoy the game when you win, you’re doing it all wrong. Time to rethink everything, especially who you are as a person.

I take comfort in the fact that they're a pathetic person who needs to cheat in order to feel better about themselves for exploiting a video game... those wins and losses clearly mean a lot more to them than they do to me.

@x814xmafia The throw came to the plate thrown by the CF way after my tagging runner had scored from 3rd making it 2-0, but the score didn't change, the runner just stood there frozen as seen in the video, and then a message popped up that opponent disconnected but never exited me out of the game and gave me the loss.

I can't believe how incredibly bad it is...

Starting with the most obvious thing that impacts every single game, every single play... the new font. The new font makes nearly every number in the game illegible. I never know what speed any runner has, it looks like a blur, and that's on a 4k gaming monitor. This is the most egregious design screw up in the game, like how did something this careless and dumb happen???

Sounds effects are horrendous as well. I'm no longer able to completely mute the game with the exception of game sounds. If I do that now, I get a annoying white noise, and then I hear nothing but a ton of footsteps.

Last season finally got me to stop grinding because there was just no way I was going to do every program and mission and team affinity instead of play the game for competition and enjoyment.

Even though I bought '24, I've decided I'm going to stick with '23. The moonshot event is so much fun and I don't have to deal with facing 99 pitchers. I've got an incredible team built, the game play is excellent, I'm not grinding '24 at all.

@X-FREEZE-OFF-X I'm saying, user skill always being a constant, the coding for each player does ultimately make a difference over a large sample size.

I just took my controller apart to flip the left stick upside down because of wear. I have done this before. Disassembly and reassembly went fine, controller seems to work perfectly, pitching with meter using the buttons, no problem. But hitting using button inputs and there is crazy lag and sometimes won't swing at all, and other times, works perfectly, and this is online and offline. No changes to any other settings or the network or anything, I'm plugged into a high speed cable modem.

Where did it all go wrong?