Re: Quality of Life Improvements and Other Things I’d Like to See
I wanted to bring this back up to show areas still in need of improvement and areas that have been improved upon by SDS in the last year. I believe this post (link above) captures most of the major grievances players had for the ranked co-op mode in mlb the show 22.
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We still cannot pick more than 6 fielders and 6 pitchers in both 2v2 and 3v3. I feel this should be remedied and people should be able to control their teams. We don’t need to pick every player on the team, but our starting 9/10 is the least we should be able to do. I think the extra player in 2v2 (if each picks 4 hitters/fielders) could be a “wild” card designation to go with this year’s theme and anyone from either player can go here. For a 3v3 this is even easier - 3 players for each person (which is already players do in 2v2 matches).
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I agree with this sentiment and it is not changed. Just today a group quit on a 2v2 game before we even started because we took too long changing the automatically set lineup.
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I don’t disagree with this statement, but I do think part of the fun of co-op is playing with players that each individual has earned. This has not been changed in 23.
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I believe that there is something akin to this via the rating system this year. I’m not sure how it would work otherwise as you’d have to lock players out of playing with each other if the rank discrepancy is too high like other competitive games. It would prevent friends from being able to play with each other and that’s not fun.
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This was in the tech test, not in actual release. This should be in the game. I don’t see any reasons it’s not. Pxp is earned on players regardless on if you own them or not in every other game mode except for moments. You do get rank up rewards in the competitive area if you win enough, but that’s about it. It’s still fun, but rewards would make it even more fun.
Past here I think we get into co-op adjacent modes not necessarily directly related to ranked co-op modes so I’ve separated them.
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Agree with the sentiment, not sure if this is in the game for offline mode. I could have sworn I did this last year, but it may only be available via couch-co-op. Would be cool to have this though since all the capability is there.
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Not in the game, not only for DD, but franchise mode as well. The way it might work in DD is just mini-seasons, but player populated. In franchise this could work like it used to in mlb 2k12, where you can start with players or do a full draft of you wanted to. Would be even better now that they’ve added the specialty modes (like lefty only)
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This is in the game. Really cool feature, glad it has been implemented.
Some great improvements have been made, pat on the back to SDS for beginning to bring the mode in line with other ranked games, but I think there is still more to be done. Biggest ones to be remedied (imho) are 1 & 5. 2 would be a great QOL change.