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Where is Josh Bell and why is he not in the pack ? Richie Ashburn was the last event card and he's in the pack so SDS updated the pack and managed to leave Bell out.

@SDS_Jax @Victor_SDS

They should do a 3rd RiB. The game is literally 70% through a "12 month cycle" assuming that 21 somehow comes out in April. I'd hope that 21 comes out later to hopefully avoid game breaking bugs tbh. Look at how awful Cyberpunk was with it's rushed release.

@Boneman05 said in Am I in the wrong here ?:

@AftershockFx said in Am I in the wrong here ?:

@Hikes83 said in Am I in the wrong here ?:

Well in that case, I don’t know why you’d expect every single thing from a prior game to be in the new game. That would be a poor strategy for the company. What would be the incentive to buy the new game and stubs just to get the exact same cards?

To be fair the cards are already in the game offline and they still have the players rights. Not to mention they've released plenty of content from years past. There's zero benefit to not releasing them. Not asking for 99's by any means either. What's even more mind boggling is how the content team goes out of their way to make cards historically inaccurate for literally no reason at all making them even more unusable in some cases. Look at Ralph Kiner and Honus offline and compare them to their DD counterparts. Interestingly enough Honus forgot how to play 3 positions for some reason that are on his other diamond that's in the same game ... Oh well.

Parker has a 97 card in the game it was a BR reward. Honus is interesting because his rookie card he is a CF but I think SDS said only the Sig cards are the ones that will have every position they played. Thus the reason people were excited to see the Babe and Foxx have 1st and C postions as secondarys

Parker's 97 is criminally underrated and a poor representation of his entire career compared to his SS card last year. Also, Ruth and Foxx are awards cards, not SS cards. It makes zero sense why Foxx has C and 1B secondary considering that year he played 149 games at 3B and 1 at SS ... If the award card is specific to that card year it should be historically accurate. If they want Foxx to have those positions than cards like Honus and Kiner should have all of their positions too.

@Hikes83 said in Am I in the wrong here ?:

Well in that case, I don’t know why you’d expect every single thing from a prior game to be in the new game. That would be a poor strategy for the company. What would be the incentive to buy the new game and stubs just to get the exact same cards?

To be fair the cards are already in the game offline and they still have the players rights. Not to mention they've released plenty of content from years past. There's zero benefit to not releasing them. Not asking for 99's by any means either. What's even more mind boggling is how the content team goes out of their way to make cards historically inaccurate for literally no reason at all making them even more unusable in some cases. Look at Ralph Kiner and Honus offline and compare them to their DD counterparts. Interestingly enough Honus forgot how to play 3 positions for some reason that are on his other diamond that's in the same game ... Oh well.

The post specified SS Stargell, Parker and Maz. Technically they're in the game but, not useable at all. They arguably never were useable all year if we're being honest.

Was chatting with a few MLB buddies online and was wondering if I was reasonably in the wrong for purchasing MLB 20 with the expectation to use cards that were in MLB 19 that SDS retained the rights to ? As a Pirates fan this list includes SS Willie Stargell, SS Bill Mazeroski and SS Dave Parker. Other cards on this list include 85 AS Mark Melancon, 81 AS Tony Watson and 81 Oliver Perez. People can argue Dave Parker received a prime 97 card but, the reality is it's much worse than the SS 99 he had last year which was a more accurate representation of his career in Pittsburgh. To this point Willie Stargell and Bill Mazeroski are still missing with no explanation as to why ?

This issue can apply to almost every team that was under respresented, not just the Pirates. Thoughts ?

Here's an idea. Award more RS/MMR rating points to the away team if they win and make them lose less if they lose. It wouldn't have to be substantial but, maybe 5-7 points ? I bet it would help those weird moments when you win a CS game at 885 and end up at 898 ....

My favorite is playing an event game, they come in from the bullpen after warming up for one inning and they're tired. Can we get an animation where they are maybe driven in from the pen by golf cart to conserve the precious RP/CP stamina ?

Allowing guess pitch in online play would be an awful idea. They actually did it for an event in 18 and it was the worst gaming experience ever. If anything they should completely remove directional hitting from online play and actually fix the timing windows.

Yes, this needs to be addressed.

@doomtrain69 said in Prestige card grinding:

@DarthKDog09 said in Prestige card grinding:

@AftershockFx said in Prestige card grinding:

@DarthKDog09 said in Prestige card grinding:

@AftershockFx said in Prestige card grinding:

To be fair this online fiasco wouldn't be a problem if SDS didn't prevent offline only players from having the chance to prestige players offline. They could have easily made an offline grind with 3x the amount of stats requiring AS difficulty or something. Poor planning on their part.

Nah offline "grinding"is for the 90's. Play online or beat it!

No way. This community is incredibly toxic. If I didn't have to play online I probably wouldn't honestly.

What fun is playing the cpu? Where's the gratification? Its like playing checkers vs yourself.

No, it's like playing checkers vs a CPU programmed to play checkers. People feel different ways about what they want from the game and work long weeks where they aren't always down to spend 45 min playing against Kluber at Shippett for the 100th time and worrying about an RS score.

This. 100% this. One of 18's best features was the combined online/offline stat grinding. This year they completely screwed over offline players.

@DarthKDog09 said in Prestige card grinding:

@AftershockFx said in Prestige card grinding:

To be fair this online fiasco wouldn't be a problem if SDS didn't prevent offline only players from having the chance to prestige players offline. They could have easily made an offline grind with 3x the amount of stats requiring AS difficulty or something. Poor planning on their part.

Nah offline "grinding"is for the 90's. Play online or beat it!

No way. This community is incredibly toxic. If I didn't have to play online I probably wouldn't honestly.

To be fair this online fiasco wouldn't be a problem if SDS didn't prevent offline only players from having the chance to prestige players offline. They could have easily made an offline grind with 3x the amount of stats requiring AS difficulty or something. Poor planning on their part.

@Jeviduty said in Update 1.13 Discussion:

@Ricky_Bobby11806 said in Update 1.13 Discussion:

I think hitting engine was not touched, feedback windows show more information so we can understand the physics in why we suck lol

Lmao. Patch notes kinda reads like "here's a second screen to show you why you should STFU and accept the good/okay good sir" hey I'm down for all the transparency in the world so I applaud them for this

I totally support more feedback. It's hard to improve when the feedback leads to both good and awful outcomes lol.

I'm cautiously optimistic but, I am glad to see SDS attempting to fix this game.

So there's no link anywhere ?

Honestly, I most likely wont be purchasing a PS5 either. I'm not interested in being a beta tester anymore when they don't even address the complaints brought to them in civil fashion. There's been QoL suggestions that have been made that would literally benefit EVERY player who plays this game online such as saving event lineups and they refuse to implement it for whatever reason. Last year was pretty good and at least the devs interacted with the community. This year that has all went by the wayside and before anyone lets them use the corona virus as their scape goat I ask you to keep in mind how many [censored] cpu vs cpu quick count streams we watched where they could have had one of the developers talking about issues, how they're trying to work around them and hyping new content. Instead we get stale head liners that aren't very good in any capacity.

@TlmEleSs_Jsaac said in Dashboarding:

@Studman7 said in Dashboarding:

If one player disconnects, the in-progress play should count. PROBLEM SOLVED. Seems like one guy at SDS could fix that in an hour or two.

key word SEEMS. Have you seen the circus running the show this year? They’re all driving around in a clown car laughing at the community

This years game is a classic example of inmates running the asylum. They've given up and all but, abandoned the community and will use the virus shutdown as their scape goat which everyone will buy into. Almost none of the issues that have surfaced have been fixed and in some cases gotten much, much worse. At the bare minimum SDS could impliment QoL features to offset some of this frustration but, they cannot even be bothered to do that.

Well, SDS could allow offline stat grinding which would put a huge dent in this problem. It wouldn't completely solve the issue but, it would help.

The servers are awful and some of the worst online I've ever seen if we're being honest. The "tips" on port opening are completely worthless too. Until SDS actually upgrades their servers then we will continue to suffer from second rate servers with little to no maintenance.