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@el-fiama-bianca_xbl said in Outfielders defense vs infielders need adjusted:

They need to tinkering around with the sliders and patch defensive abilities for outfielders and infielders.

OF have insane range and closing speed. Whereas infielders have basically no range or closing speed. You very rarely see a ball in the air go over the OF head. When the ball is hit behind the OF it's either a homerun or the OF catches up pretty much every time. I

I agree with the OF having range. I have diamond Trent Grisham and Byron Buxton who have really good reaction and fielding, combine that with great speed and you have it so if the ball is hit in their direction it either has to go over their head for a HR or has to be a bloop hit.

The issue will probably be noticable later on in the year where almost every new card of players will have diamond fielding and reaction. This will turn the game into, either hit a homerun or it's a lineout everytime.

@pdoss3_psn said in Monthly Player Collections?:

Yes, last year was for a 99 overall Trout. There were like 15 collections tied to him and you had to finish 12-13 of them.

ok nice, definitely gonna be doing the monthly collections then.

For people that played mlb the show 20, later on in the year did they have a collection where the monthly diamond players were required for a really good card?

I don't need buxton but he seems like a great card and I pretty much have all the required cards for the collections from doing the topps moments and the packs I got along the way through the april program.
I probably will do the collection if this buxton would be required for a collection later on in the year.

@x814xmafia_psn said in TA Showdown Question:

I went lefty heavy in my initial draft and ended up pulling Luzardo as the final boss.

Right now the main players that I took were 42 Graham, 42 Muncy, and BO Shawn Green.

If I have the opportunity, should I wasn't a pick in a right-handed batter to replace their positions?

Or do you think they be fine?

In the bottom left of the corner it tells you what team you are playing against for final boss right of the bat. I usually just look at who the team is and draft based on that given information.

For example if in the bottom left of the screen it shows the twins then I know that I'm facing jose for final boss so I draft all lefties etc.

I am assuming roster updates at 12 pm pacific time, since that is when they drop other content in game.

@mlbts_mlbts said in New legend in player program today:

@the_dragon1912 said in New legend in player program today:

Any guesses? Mike Hampton pretty much came out of nowhere so pretty much anybody is on the table other than big names IMO so just throw some out there. I'll go first. The mad Hungarian Al Hrabosky. I want to hear some off the wall guesses

I highly doubt this would be the card but maybe RA Dickey? Everyone would hate it since he is a knuckleballer.

Seems too early to throw a knuckleballer into diamond dynasty, probably later on in the year.

@shawnzinator13 said in Does anyone else not get an Equipment Buff In-game?:

It’s not showing the buff increase for me either and also rtts program stats aren’t being counted either. I’m done with leveling up my ballplayer till this gets fixed

Play any single moment in diamond dynasty and then go back into road to the show and the stats should start counting, at least that's what I do and it works for me.

@roll-humps_xbl said in Content schedule?:

@mlbts_mlbts said in Content schedule?:

@roll-humps_xbl said in Content schedule?:

Is there anywhere the lists times of the content entering the game?

Yeah it is to the left of what content they are releasing. It will say something like 4.27.

That’s the date. I meant the time. Like “12:00 PM ET”

Usually like 3pm eastern time zone

@x814xmafia_psn said in Double Plays for Everybody:

@osimp8_psn said in Double Plays for Everybody:

@blueiron15_mlbts said in Double Plays for Everybody:

@osimp8_psn said in Double Plays for Everybody:

Doesn’t matter who I play, who is hitting for me, where the pitch is located, or how good my timing is, anytime I get a runner on first i ground into a double play. I seriously had 6 (SIX) freaking double plays turned on me against the Fernanado Valenzuela Showdown boss... on Veteran. I think when Mike Piazza, Jeff Bagwell, Yordan Alvarez, Max Muncy, and Jose Abreu square up pitches with good timing they hit liners or home runs. NOT ground balls right to infielders for easy double plays. The hit timing logic is so bad. Hitting .200 with perfect timing and .125 with good timing probably.

If you are below 8 runs, you can steal 1st and 2nd base and the cather won't throw the ball no matter who you are trying to the steal the bag with.

As for double plays, if you have runner on first the ai will always throw 2 pitches either below in the strike zone or outside strike zone. Usually just wait below the strike zone with your pci for a hit or take the first two pitches.

Thanks for the advice, I’ll have to try it out!

I'm pretty sure that only works in the TA Showdowns.

I tried in the 1st Inning Showdown and got picked off multiple times.

What was the score for when you got picked off in those games? Usually when the cpu team has more than 5 runs they just allow you to steal bags.

@osimp8_psn said in Double Plays for Everybody:

Doesn’t matter who I play, who is hitting for me, where the pitch is located, or how good my timing is, anytime I get a runner on first i ground into a double play. I seriously had 6 (SIX) freaking double plays turned on me against the Fernanado Valenzuela Showdown boss... on Veteran. I think when Mike Piazza, Jeff Bagwell, Yordan Alvarez, Max Muncy, and Jose Abreu square up pitches with good timing they hit liners or home runs. NOT ground balls right to infielders for easy double plays. The hit timing logic is so bad. Hitting .200 with perfect timing and .125 with good timing probably.

If you are below 8 runs, you can steal 1st and 2nd base and the cather won't throw the ball no matter who you are trying to the steal the bag with.

As for double plays, if you have runner on first the ai will always throw 2 pitches either below in the strike zone or outside strike zone. Usually just wait below the strike zone with your pci for a hit or take the first two pitches.

@shfdmedic_psn said in Refunds?:

but they gave us double xp indefinitely so we no darn well they wont refund us,

The double XP is SDS's way of refunding us.

In previous years they would just give us packs and stubs for the trouble but this years problem are way worse

@squishiesgirl said in Refunds?:

@meatloaf-guy_xbl said in Refunds?:

@squishiesgirl said in Refunds?:

@tadow9_psn said in Refunds?:

It’s time for it, this isn’t a launch night issue at this point. The game is broken and should not have been released.

The servers are broken not the game

Wrong.. frame rate on Xbox one is [censored] poor.. progression not working in rtts.. menus are laggy.. so yes as of now the game is broken

Isn't that all related to server issues?

If returns are allowed, people returning their game would fix the servers for the users that stay lol

@jeezy-e_psn said in Live - Server Status:

@blueiron15_mlbts said in Live - Server Status:

@jeezy-e_psn said in Live - Server Status:

@allmustfall16 said in Live - Server Status:

You think if they take this game off Xbox game pass at least we could play it without issues?

I don’t think that is as much an issue as all the data thats being moved through the server every game, I love the parallels, but the more I think about it, the more I believe they are causing some of these problems. Having your RTTS character linked to DD and online play isn’t helping either and of course like every other game thats launched with cross play, cross play has probably been an issue. Thats what I think, but I am not in IT.

It's mainly cross play, I'm pretty sure SDS was not expecting to release the game on xbox let alone be a free game on xbox. This is obvious because in the early access servers were great, the problem began with xbox users.

Xbox users could get into the early access as well if I am not mistaken. I have no issue with them releasing the game for xbox, I am just not a fan of cross play in any game, it causes more problems than its worth IMO.

They kinda of had no choice, last I heard SDS had to release the game on xbox because the major league wanted them to, correct me if I'm wrong tho.
On top of that the show has been on playstation so most players know what to expect, cross play was more necessary for the Xbox users rather than ps users since it's basically the first baseball title on Xbox from SDS

@jeezy-e_psn said in Live - Server Status:

@allmustfall16 said in Live - Server Status:

You think if they take this game off Xbox game pass at least we could play it without issues?

I don’t think that is as much an issue as all the data thats being moved through the server every game, I love the parallels, but the more I think about it, the more I believe they are causing some of these problems. Having your RTTS character linked to DD and online play isn’t helping either and of course like every other game thats launched with cross play, cross play has probably been an issue. Thats what I think, but I am not in IT.

It's mainly cross play, I'm pretty sure SDS was not expecting to release the game on xbox let alone be a free game on xbox. This is obvious because in the early access servers were great, the problem began with xbox users.

What am I reading?

@stiebfan37_psn said in Why directional is trash for online...:

So if directional is such trash, and zone hitting so perfect, explain the pci user who pulled a slider that was 2 feet outside, pretty much in the other batters box, and a again I say PULLED, for a 500ft homerun with a 50 power guy against me...yup directional is trash and unrealistic and zone is perfect and realistic....lmao

What difficulty was hitting in? (Rookie, Veteran, HOF?)

@wingspan1985_psn said in A.M.S. team:

@jeezy-e_psn said in A.M.S. team:

@wingspan1985_psn said in A.M.S. team:

$150, plus pulling and selling Trout and a couple of other diamonds.

C Piazza
1B Freeman
2B Lindor
SS TA Swanson
3B PS Donaldson
LF Aaron
CF 91 Andruw Jones
RF Acuna
Bench 84 Dee Strange-Gordon, 84 Reggie Jackson, TA McCutchen, 87 JD Martinez and Eric Davis

SP Felix
SP Pedro
SP Hampton
SP Bieber
SP Scherzer
Pen LHP Billy Wagner, Will Smith, and Dan Plesac. RHP Kerry Wood, Smoltz, Percival, 87 Jansen, and 90 Familia

Not the greatest team, but I'm happy with it. Plus I've been grinding conquest, Pedre is a stage III parallel, and most of my starting lineup is stage II.

Thats really why I haven’t spent any money, I’m having a lot of fun grinding out the parallels

Same here. A couple of cards like Wagner and Hampton caught my eye, so I ended up buying them but most of this team came from Trout and grinding. Actually am getting Pedro close to the IV parallel, I think he'll be a 92 then.

Parallel has been one of the best additions to the game in a long time.

Holding off on the parallel and just waiting for the right players.
One thing I would want is for the parallels to be linked to a players name rather than a specific card.

So for example if I got to parallel 5 for JD martinez gold card then his other cards instead of starting at parallel zero when I get them, they would start at like parallel 2 or 3. I understand why they didn't do this tho, probably would be to overpowered.

@bjd10048842_psn said in Card Reviews - Team Collection Rewards:

@blueiron15_mlbts said in Card Reviews - Team Collection Rewards:

Dee Gordon (Marlins) - Love to have on your team but hate to face him. All he hits is bloopers that fall and then he beats you with his speed.

10/10 would recommend to make your opponents rage quit

That’s good to hear, hopefully it means contact hitters will be a bit more useful this year.

If anyone has 99 Jackie, I’d love a good review on him too. I couldn’t use the one last year, it was just constant fly outs cuz his max power was just warning track distance.....

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From what I've played against the cpu, contact hitters need to have either high power or minimum power like 30-50 in order for them to be effective.

Any contact hitter I've used that has like 60 power ends up hitting line drives straight to the outfielder anytime you get under the ball with your pci.
What ends up happening with contact hitters with 30-50 power is that there power isn't high enough to reach outfield so they end up dropping for bloop hits which plays out in your favor if you get under the ball a bit.

@thinkbluedgr_psn said in A.M.S. team:

@squishiesgirl said in A.M.S. team:

@thinkbluedgr_psn said in A.M.S. team:

Anybody have an all money spent team? If so, how much did you spend? Just curious, not knocking it.

$700

It must be nice to just log in and play with a good team and not have to grind and work the market. I'm going to do a combination of spend and grind since I have limited playing time.

I've been super lucky with packs from conquest and the rewards from the first inning packs. Im sitting on 650k stubs with no money spent other than just buying the game. I've probably used up all my luck for this year in mlb.

I have yet to play online tho, just grinding the game out and waiting for the right players for the team.

Dee Gordon (Marlins) - Love to have on your team but hate to face him. All he hits is bloopers that fall and then he beats you with his speed.

10/10 would recommend to make your opponents rage quit