@BJDUBBYAH said in CHEATING IN DIAMOND DYNASTY:
@cbpm72 that is brutal toxicity and I’m very sorry to hear it happened to you. I truly hope you got the win from the disconnect.
Turns out I did!! Thanks!
@BJDUBBYAH said in CHEATING IN DIAMOND DYNASTY:
@cbpm72 that is brutal toxicity and I’m very sorry to hear it happened to you. I truly hope you got the win from the disconnect.
Turns out I did!! Thanks!
Here's one for the toxic play hall of fame, and I can really only call it cheating in the end because it's likely going to result in me taking a loss for a game I'm winning, as well as ending my BR run when I should be living to fight another day.
I put up a run in the top of the 1st (I'm on 2 wins and 1 loss), and after the run scored my opponent started disconnecting his controller over and over, usually 2-3 times between pitches (yeah -- each pitch). This went on for the rest of the game. In between all of the whatever he was doing, I managed to get into the pause menu and report it. If you've never experienced an opponent doing this, I want to express clearly how difficult it is to do anything gameplay-wise, including just basically selecting a pitch, when the opponent is disconnecting the controller this often. It really interferes with being able to play the game properly and select any buttons. I noticed it was also making it hard for me to get into the quick menu. I decided to try to get through the game, although I considered just quitting out because it's no fun to play under these conditions.
In the bottom of the 3rd I'm still up 1-0. I hit the mound visit button at the same time my opponent's controller disconnects again, but this time the game freezes with the controller disconnect warning on top of the mound visit menu. The timer inside the controller disconnect warning is also frozen, on :31 remaining, but I can still hit the circle button to forfeit -- it's the only button that works, other than the dashboard.
Fundamentally I don't understand the design of this particular mechanic... why do I care if my opponent disconnects his controller? Shouldn't that just happen in the background and I can still throw my pitch / get into the quick menu? Further, if the mechanic is being abused to throw off my accuracy or potentially cause a freeze, like I'm experiencing right now, I can't quite figure out why it can happen this many times in a game without some kind of griefing code coming into play. It can't just come down to an in-game report when it was as relentless as this. I really feel abuse of this mechanic should be detected by the game and dealt with.
Anyway, the cherry on top is that the 7 AM routine maintenance just kicked in to end the debacle. I won't know until after the maintenance if I took a loss or not, but I guess I'm grateful for the maintenance for once, because it meant while I was writing all this I didn't have to decide on pressing circle to accept a loss, or dashboarding! Hopefully it's a 50/50 on whether my BR run is over or not.
Because the game ended on a network disconnect for the maintenance, I have no idea if my in-game reports for cheating and toxic play will register, but I'll try to report again if the game shows up in my history when I get back in.
@Warpedzilla said in Are there any normal players left:
I'm barely an average player, but I could still manage 6 or 7 wins each BR or event run. But lately I'm lucky if I can win 2 games before getting eliminated. Every pitch I throw is either meat or an obvious ball. The rare occasions I do get a PP it's a lineout or it's caught at the wall. I am slumping big time. lol Everything I do is wrong and everything my opponent does just works. Got crushed yesterday in BR where opponents record was 4-23 or so in RS. Wow!
Did I write this?
Every card in BR. I love BR, it's been my favourite mode for 3 years, and this year I've been no hit about 10 times. I'm bad but I've never been this bad.
Cards that rake? My opponent's.
Look fastball and jump on it, or wait back for the slower stuff. One good smack at a fastball can actually win some games for you. Good luck!
Anyone using a Real 99 card not belonging to them should be ashamed of themselves. Whether or not it's cheating, it's an egregiously classless move.
I generally don't hit that well so in BR I'll draft defense. I can't score many runs but I also don't give that many away. I'm not going flawless anyway so I just want to get through the program as quickly as possible and that means squeaking out a middling run each time I spend that 1500. I'm thrilled with 4 or 5 wins if I can get them, and not having as many of those defensive miscues really helps.
It's a really bad look for those Real 99 players to have their personal cards just floating around like this.
Yeah I got the bobblehead dude in my uniform screen and I just turned the game off, hope it's fixed when I try again later.
Dave Parker, man I loved his silver BR card last year. Totally dependable, picked him every draft.
I won't quote any particular comment above, but just wish to respond in general: she has a terminal disease and speech issues are just a part of her limited time left with us. Perhaps it's best to consider that she has more wisdom and knowledge to share with us than her considerable obstacles demand from us in return.
good lord some of you are lucky. I'd be thrilled to have opened just one pack tonight
@Dolenz said in Maintenance:
@cbpm72
I am looking just at the thumbnails and I See Yourfriendkyle with a Account Error, DaddyDimmu at the menu screen, Koogs doesn't even have the game on screen, Littleman is sitting at the menu.
Are you sure the ones you see playing are not just playing a Play Now Game?
Yeah sorry you're right, the account I'm viewing looks like HR Derby mode now (thuuuuney), but he was inside DD menus a short time ago when I first posted -- I haven't been able to get inside anything at all yet. Some players here are reporting packs they've been able to open, etc. Again, zero joy on that.
The game isn't in maintenance, check twitch, there are some users playing. It's just overloading I would guess.
I'm pretty sure you'll still have the card, my Trout pull in 21 was disrupted by servers but 10 minutes later I got back in and the card was there
Someone is on ripping all those diamonds
same here
At my level, I approach DD each year as a challenge to finish with a ranked record above .500. That keeps things interesting because I'm a terrible hitter and I don't spam bunt cheese.
Just a placeholder -- I might not have an actual post for several weeks