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PCI shrinkage is ludicrous. MAYBE for a pull hitter I could understand it somewhat, but for a push/balanced hitter it’s just a miserable addition to the game.

@Talkingben9558_XBL I understand what you’re saying, but I also feel OP’s frustrations. There are games where the winner is already decided before the first pitch of the game. This coming from a 38 year old dad who could care less about a win or loss in a virtual baseball game.

I’ll play a game where my opponent is swinging out of his shoes at everything, and I mean EVERYTHING. You could throw the ball into the concession stands and my opponent would still try and yeet it 476 feet dead center.

Then here I am with an above average eye at the plate, with a sound approach, and literally every ball squared up is a line out, deep fly to the warning track, a perfect perfect missile to an infielder, or that insane animation where a line drive hovers 4 feet off the ground for 376 feet just to find the center fielders glove.

Only for the inevitable to happen; 9th inning, my diamond defense second baseman boots a routine grounder just for him to walk it off next at bat with a bloop hit on a cutter 4 feet out of the zone.

Again, at the end of the day I could care less. But come on guys, you cant deny that it doesn’t happen, and that it also happens way too often…?

I’ve been an avid DD player for 5+ years. I’m usually a .290-.320ish World Series player. Can pretty much hold my own with anyone, minus the 1000 rated goons who hit .450+ with everyone on the team.

I don’t know what’s wrong this year, but I absolutely can’t hit. I’m hitting .190-.225 overall. My timing windows seem nonexistent, my PCI is always late to the pitch, I can’t track pitches from the release point, and they just seem to teleport to the plate. I play on a monitor w/ 120hz and 1ms response time, have high speed internet (not fiber unfortunately), I’m hard wired with an Ethernet cord and use a Power A/Gamesir G7 both wired.

Anyone else having issues? The only thing I can think of is I did recently move from Georgia to Maine. My latency has been running 65-85ms the last few weeks, could that be an issue?

It’s so frustrating because I genuinely love this game, but not being able to hit a beach ball is infuriating.

I’m by no means a 1000 rated goon, but I’m a competitive WS player who can pretty much hang with anyone 900s rated and below. As much as I enjoy playing this game (diehard baseball fan), there’s nothing more frustrating than playing a game and just KNOWING it’s going to end in a loss no matter what. You can just tell after only a few outs at the plate.

I’m talking about the game where your opponent is swinging at everything, and I mean EVERYTHING. They have no approach or eye at the plate. You could literally throw the ball 6 rows in the stands behind the home team dugout and they’re swinging at it. Yet here I am with an above average eye at the plate, not chasing, and any pitch I square up is a line out, deep fly to the warning track, or a perfect perfect out.

Those are the games I’m talking about. After a few innings you just know a loss is certain no matter user input. Then the inevitable happens, it’s the 9th inning and your opponent gets on base because your diamond defense 2nd baseman boots a routine grounder, and the very next at bat is a walk off bloop hit on a cutter 4 feet off the plate. Is it RNG, built in code, or is it just a fluke? IDK, but those are the games that over the years have made me take online play a lot less serious. Those are the games I think about when Ohchev, YFK, Major Mangoes, etc go in depth on why this game can’t be played competitively for monetary gains.

Im a 38 year old dad who works full time, so winning and losing in a video game isn’t that big of a deal anymore these days. With that said, someone pls tell me Im not the only one where this happens to them?

Touché

George Brett, always has been and always will be for me. I don’t know if it’s stance, swing, distance he stands from the plate, or all the above, BUT that’s the one card I have all the confidence in the world with when going to the plate. It could be bottom of the 9th, 2 outs, GOAT difficulty, John Don on the mound, tying runner on second, and I JUST know I’m going to get a hit.