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This game is based on random luck it’s completely random on inputs and as random as baseball can be this is a video game and it really takes away from the competitiveness of it imo.

My biggest issue is not really lineouts. It’s more the player that swings at everything and can foul off a 100 pitches because it brings the pitch count up and now if you combine that with line outs. It makes for very “everyone gets a trophy” gameplay. If the ball is in the dirt nd a player swings. It’s a strike out.

Take away my cheap hits

Seems like a constant money grab. People just want a good competitive game. The game is only competitive for the very top level player that can completely outmatch the constant nonsense. Countless games where you are consistently outplaying your opponent that gets late weak dump shots to the outfield for doubles. And then the famous foul the ball off 7000 times until I get a ball directly down the middle.

Just make the game competitive. Just make it better inputs = more success. I know it’s not that simple but for godsake. Give the people that aren’t good something to work toward and allow the people that practice to succeed.

Nice try Ramone

The shell that you keep adding to is broken. 15 years we’ve been dealing with freeze offs. How do you have that little consideration to your fan base that you don’t address freeze offs? It’s been over a DECADE. It’s our fault because we keep dumping money into your game thinking that you all would actually utilize that extraordinary amount of money to reinvest into your product. But the same silly issues happen year in and year out. And we just eat it.

Unplayable because of pulls? Psh I wish that was the issue I had with this game. Your cards aren’t gonna matter when you perfect perfect line out with the best cards in the game to silver pitchers brah.

There is so much wrong with this game. I’ve never used pulse but meter is broken too.

Imanga is just bugged. As are a lot of pitchers. Jake arrieta I realize no matter what input I have. It’s an out for me.

Yes that is correct. Not because I tanked on purpose. Because I just started losing regardless of my inputs

@Dinger_Dan19_PSN when I dive for a ball. I never get the ball off in time. It refuses to allow my meter to even come up. It’s really frustrating. And that was with Lindor. I had him in my line up for defense because I thought it was the card. He was doing the same thing. He gets to balls better but the delay on throws is not good. And that’s the part that drives me insane. It’s like it’s pausing to give the runner the exact amount of time he needs to get on base. And by the time the meter actually comes up a 45 speed is already safe. I thought the defense was better last year. I think they kinda broke the defense in search of realism that they did not accomplish. They just now make errors even when the play was made for no reason.

For the record I’m not the best. I’ll take my losses but when I’m in a game tearing the cover off the ball nonstop for outs and my opponent is just striking out and swinging at everything that’s not the level I lose. The level I lose is to guys 800+ I’m like a low level World Series player. I get there but I don’t compete there. But I’m losing to guys in the 3, 4 and 500s that I absolutely played better than. More patient. More consistent at bats better. Etc. I don’t get why. Why do they want this game to play this way?

@Beaterrr_XBL this happened before I think it was 18 and that’s why they made the perfect perfect they were responding to ppl saying they weren’t getting rewarded for good gameplay. But this? I don’t know what this is the gameplay is bad in every way I wish there were an alternative baseball game at this point

This games been out for 20 years and we still have guys with 0-2 counts that you cannot strike out because they [censored] swing at every pitch and foul off balls until they get a pitch they can late bloop and now my pitcher is at 40 pitches and by the third I’ve lined out 9 balls and his pitcher is at 19 pitches which changes the entire game

This game was made for the scrub

It’s not only BR it’s the game. The game is bad

I will tell you imo this is the worst version of this game I’ve ever played. The game is just bad in so many ways. The game play is atrocious. You guys really need to step your game up. This game is stale and bad and just regurgitated trash. Here are some of the terrible game play problems

1. The hitting is inconsistent and makes no sense. Exit velocities are just the beginning. The pci placed perfect with good timing sometimes is a swing through? Why. Why should that ever be the case? One player can continuously line out hard while the other player can late weak tap balls in play on 0-2 counts and it’s ALWAYS when they need it most. Go figure.

2. The defense is so bad. Ketel marte suddenly gets a small meter all the way right on a routine ground ball because there is a runner on 3rd? Why? Why do players that are diamond defenders have so much trouble getting off a routine play when the opposing team NEEDS a mistake? Ok Soto gets hit in the face with a pop fly. Fine. Could happen. But why is it after 2 late weak hits when my opponent has struck out 17 times already?

3. The pitching is garbage too. Perfect meters perfect releases just meatballs down the middle for no reason. Or scherzer the other day just cannnot through strikes no matter how you execute the input.

Inputs in this game literally have the least impact on the game that I’ve ever seen. You might as well pick a team and put no inputs in and let the AI play the game out and see what happens….because that’s not far from what is already happening

This game sucks. Honestly. It’s so disgustingly bad in comparison to other versions of this game including even 18 which wasn’t good. This is worse.

@x-814-x-MAFIA-x_PSN there should be 1000s of threads just like this one. So they fix what he’s saying. Everything he said is 100% true

The hitting is bad this year I’ve had a “good” timing with perfect pci placement be a swing and miss several times the exit velocity is completely broken. And it’s not the cards. A diamond Santander shouldn’t perfect perfect and out to the defense off a silver pitcher after 4 innings of work. The game is totally random.

Can a silver reliever go 4 innings and continuously make a diamond team line out hard on hall of fame? Please fix this game.

The game is completely random I just had 22 hits in a 9 inning game and 9 runs and lost by 9 because all my other outs were hard hit for the most part to someone and everything my opponent touched was gone. The game decided randomly based on too many algorithms what result is going to happen. And that leaves the game to mostly chance.

@Blind_Bleeder_PSN that is true but as a life long fan of both. This particular game. When all those things are equal. Is better on Xbox. And I’ve played the PlayStation version from day one since 05/06. The game is just more fluid. I don’t think they make a controller capable on ps5 of what is capable on Xbox … whatever they did with thier controller it’s instant - i play on the best setup 0.03 ms 260 hz plugged to fios top controller etc and the ps version game me choppy stuttering issues with cross play off. Now the only time I have an issues is with cross play ON. And that’s only when I’m playing someone on ps5 — the ps5 was better than the Xbox series S — I don’t think it’s better than the series x. Xbox takes it and that’s hard to admit for me because I’ve always leaned toward PlayStation.

Just my two cents