@BxnnyMxn_ said in Third Strike, for suspicious behavior?:
Heck you’ve taught me something at least. I had no clue you could sim MTO at all. Every time I’ve played the mode it gave you the option to save your in game progress and return to it later I thought. I’m sorry man that stinks.
No, you can’t sim MTO, but I mean that the CPU will sim in between playable game “moments” (and sim the draft as well).
@EzMack said in Third Strike, for suspicious behavior?:
What? How can you get in trouble playing the computer?
You can lose any benefits if you rage quit a game, and they’ll usually warn you once when you log back in, since the same thing can happen if your game freezes or you lose power. But this was odd, happening mid-sim. Just mentioning it here in case anyone else experienced this or has an idea what happened. The most annoying thing was losing my progress, and now having to build up a decent bullpen again from the start of the year. Sigh.
I was in the middle of an MTO season, paused a game to walk the dog, held on to my win for an 8-7 win, ended the game, it simmed a game or two and went to the draft (which I skipped and set on auto), and then once the draft was done it said I got a third strike for suspicious behavior. That I could key playing but would get no team affinity for the rest of the campaign.
I stared at the TV in disbelief, and then puzzlement. I mean, in past seasons (of 12 years playing this game), sure, I have rage quit an MTO game or two and gotten warned, especially in the postseason, but not in this season. I didn’t even have one warning, and my record was 65-28. Especially after simming some games and the draft. What gives?
Dev team, come on, this is at least the third year in a row where the post-game Momentum rewards/penalties are bugged. The post-game screen routinely says you will get three hot rewards or cold penalties, but then once it’s applied you only get two. This is also happening to Player Boosts.
This was pointed out two years ago and still no fix, which is frankly absurd. Please do something about it.
I thought you were going to share some new feature or aspect of the game which might convince me to buy it. So your favorite aspect of the game this year is a lucky pack pull? OK. Congrats.
There’s a massive difference between the old missions and new missions. New missions — you skip to your guy coming up to bat, it takes 5 minutes tops. Old missions — you had to do them over the course of a full 9-inning game, so it took forever. Didn’t get it done? Intentionally walk the CPU until the game is tied in the final inning and then pray you get the third out so that you can go to extras. Painful.
I think he gets it. If I’m playing against the Cardinals and my team is out of the race, I would definitely be leaving a few fastballs down the middle for him.
I blew through all the setup matches to Wagner and then he tied me up in knots. Fortunately I ram him out of energy and won with two outs remaining, but I didn’t enjoy facing him.
It has happened several times in MLB games in similar situations and is considered a heads-up play. There’s no rule that says you have to catch the ball.
I fare a lot better with pulse than with meter, personally. I’m never going to master pinpoint, but with pulse I hit my target more often than not.
I like the idea of some interesting cards beyond the classic baseball card layout or a player with lightning bolts (ooh, scary), but the Takashi cards are a little too far, too fast for me. I don’t even recognize some of the players at first glance. It’s like going from the Sims right to anime tentacle porn.
As an Orioles fan, I’ll make you a deal: never mention his name again, and I won’t bring up the Tatis-for-James Shields trade, OK?
@pbauler_mlbts said in Most annoying moment ever:
I think you're right it was a player mission you had to get in a single gm. I thought it was like get 4 Hits in one gm
& his card was absolutely
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Yeah, it was in a full game. The worst is when you had already finished Conquest and your other missions, so you were really only playing the game to get one guy up to the plate. That was torturous. Like trying to get two XBH in a game with 2018 J.P. Crawford. He pops up for an out, and now you’re staring down three meaningless innings, including having to pitch, until he’s back up again. No bueno.
I had some Internet issues where it went down, and I was still able to play MTO. (I didn’t try RTTS)
And yes, you got the rewards once your Internet connection was back.
@pbauler_mlbts said in Most annoying moment ever:
I do believe the Daniel Nava moment from 18 is the all time worst. it was just brutal
Those old “moments” were absolutely brutal because it wasn’t a moment — you had to accomplish them in a full 9-inning game. So many games I had to walk the CPU with the bases loaded to even the score and (hopefully) artificially extend the game. I remember a few people rage quitting because they got three hits with Nava (which wasn’t easy), managed to get him up to bat again in the 9th, and the CPU pitcher hit him with the first pitch. Ha ha ha.
This is my 10th year or so, as a 1000+ hour-per-year player, and I’ve never packed Trout. I bought one 50-pack this year and got nothing, but my luck in earned packs from programs and XP has been quite good this year by my standards. LS Judge (2x), Hader, Betts, Tim Anderson (x2), Sale (x2), Buehler, and a Peguero FS, and from a Headliners pack a 2nd Half Marte. But because of all that, I’m not dumb enough to try buying more packs. I know when I’ve gotten lucky.
@kelloggs19_psn said in Really disappointed:
And definitely give us option of who we pick for playoff roster. I played with the Yankees. I had speed in Tim Locastro during the season, they got rid of him and called up Jaason Dominguez, a 3rd C, and Peralta from Triple A. I would rather have had Locastro who had better stealing aggression than Dominguez. And no need for a 3rd C. Some moves don’t make sense.
I had this happen to me as well with the Orioles, and it nearly cost me. Rather than taking the utility infielder who was the only guy on my team who could reliably steal a base (Jorge Mateo), they left him off and took a third catcher that I never needed/used. I was pissed.