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I know this is video game….. I grew up playing sports, I feel like a little sportsmanship ( if you call it that in video games) goes a long way in this game.

Just my opinion

Im gonna be the "get off my lawn" guy here and say Jesus i miss the days of people relying on their own reflexes and skill in online games. People so afraid to take an L to a nameless, faceless stranger online.

@codywolfgang_xbl said in Just grabbed a Cronus Zen for Pickup at my Local GameStop:

Very curious to see what it does. If it is easy and obvious people are using it I might be done gaming.

I read it is not banned in competition and is considered part of controller setup….

Wait a minute.... Isn't that cheating? ToS? Hmmm 🤔🤔

@codywolfgang_xbl said in Late swings that are perfectly square in the green zone of the swing path.:

@tonythetiger2k16 said in Late swings that are perfectly square in the green zone of the swing path.:

A perfect timed swing does not guarantee perfect contact made or any contact at all. Only using Zone hitting with the PCI is how you can get feedback on the type of contact made. If you were on the sweet spot or over the ball or under the ball, if you barrel ended tipped or was jammed in on lower barrel towards the hands. With Directional you get no such feedback & impossible to know what kind of contact you made. All you can go by is the outcome. a pop up would suggest you was under the pitch & a grounder would suggest you were over the pitch. Timed perfect & it going to towards 3B line (fair or foul) will suggest you barrel ended tips it. Timed perfect & going toward 1B line (fair or foul) will suggest you were jammed in in the hands.

Yes…the ball is centered in the pci in the scenario.

The visual feedback shows the ball meeting the bat in the center of the green window and the pci feedback shows the ball is inside the pci, yet the result says late and it is hit weakly.

I understand how the game works man…I was just curious if anyone else was getting this feedback error/glitch similar to when the feedback switches from good to late prior to the next pitch.

I wasn’t asking for you to write four paragraphs like I’m an idiot and you are vastly superior to me intellectually.

Look Bro. I did NOT "QUOTE" YOU like I am doing right now. What I said was in general for everyone in here & more so for the newbies who may not understand or realize certain things. If I did "Quote" you, then you would have maybe some reason to take offense to what I said. BUT I DID NOT "QUOTE" YOU!!!!!! I am "quoting" you now ONLY because you are calling me out for offending you in some way, which I never did or even intended to do.

@codywolfgang_xbl said in Why did they downgrade Turner and Soto so fast?:

@ncstatehokie_psn said in Why did they downgrade Turner and Soto so fast?:

@tonythetiger2k16 said in Why did they downgrade Turner and Soto so fast?:

Dante Bichette was a huge HR & RBI Machine Monster when he played. But he hit very low for average, strike out more then the league average & his fielding was horrible & his base running was a nightmare. I'm not saying Soto & Turner are like him. All I am saying that there is a lot of different things that goes into how & why a card goes up or down in overall rank & with attributes.

Go to YouTube & see these MLBTS streamers talking about Gold to Diamond or Sliver to Gold upgrades. They get it right about 50% of the time with thier picks However how & why they say a player will be upgraded or downgraded is what you need to hear. They break it down with the players real MLB stats within certian catagories that will effect & influence their upgrade/downgrade. This is what you need to hear & see to get better insight on this.

Getting advice from a streamer on upgrades? And they have a 50% success rate? Lololololol. It's not rocket science when it comes to upgrades and downgrades.

Yeah I’m sure guys that have been watching/playing baseball since they were eight years old need to hear some dipshit streamer’s opinion.

Most of the kids streaming probably can’t even bench press the bar.

Depends, how many beers are on this bar???

@codywolfgang_xbl said in Inner PCI:

How inconsistent are the inner PCI results this year? One game it’s fine and the next game if it’s not Perfect/Perfect it’s a weak grounder or an infield fly.

So I’m not trying to complain….my question is what can be done to counter? Would contact swinging or power swinging get better results? Contact swing maybe opens up the sweet spot while sacrificing power? Or would power swing help? Get it in the power swing pci and get rewarded? I normal swing every time…maybe there is a strategy to it? Is it a matter of tiring out a hot pitcher?

I’d also love some clarity but we won’t get it

I’m obviously pessimistic towards this game but I think it’s just the luck of the roll this year. Yeah, attributes matter for both the hitter and pitcher…pitch type in a certain location…yada yada yada

I’ve played enough this year to have come to the conclusion that “good” timing with good inner PCI placement is just a luck of the draw. Some games those swings fall and find gaps, other games they’re at fielders or get caught at the wall over and over

If there’s one main thing this game lacks online, it’s consistency and I think that’s due to P2P connection issues

@codywolfgang_xbl said in Shove your friendly quit request up your !$!:

I’m not going to sit through the Fn game search process again so you can cherry pick your opponents. Man up and play the fn game morons.

hahah mate the alpha move is just SMASH that cancel button no latency

i used to let their timer run out in game but its better to just alpha dog them - they usually quit right away after that !!!!

i love how they always request a FQ when they are DOWN in the game too - clownin around !!!!

@jr3318_psn said in The next step to all the posts about the foul tips, bad gameplay, 120 hz BS:

@raesone_psn said in The next step to all the posts about the foul tips, bad gameplay, 120 hz BS:

@limitlessrage__psn said in The next step to all the posts about the foul tips, bad gameplay, 120 hz BS:

@raesone_psn said in The next step to all the posts about the foul tips, bad gameplay, 120 hz BS:

@limitlessrage__psn said in The next step to all the posts about the foul tips, bad gameplay, 120 hz BS:

Hows the condition on the c1? When did you buy it? Is it full of fingerprints on the screen? Also the series x hows the condition and when did you buy it

It has 3.246775 nanograms of dust on it, will that suffice?

Funnily enough i had that question typed but decided against it. "Does it have dust on it?" I keep all my hardware dusted and never put a finger on my screens. Very [censored] about that.

Me too. I just moved and my C1 was all covered in dust and fingerprints. Took a microfiber cloth, sprinkled a few drops of water on it and then wiped down the screen with the moist side, then turned the cloth around to finish with the dry side. Brand new. Try it and thank me later.

Will any microfiber cloth do, or is there a particular brand you sought after?? So scared to clean my screen because I don’t want to mess it up lol

I use Mr. Siga. Fold them twice and thenthe trick is to not use too much water, literally just put a few drops and you're good to go. That way one side will be moist and the other will remain dry. Works perfectly.

the grinding aspect, they dont just give out handouts like they did last year, they are making you earn you rewards this year and I love it.

That's a profaound statement

This should be a little scary for SDS… just because the hitting AND pitching on SMB feels good. The engine probably is workable for a AAA baseball title.

Along with that, they make the EGO rating system (sliders/difficulty/balance) work to where it doesn’t feel too scripted or random. That is that games way to adjust difficulty and balance the competition online, but it doesn’t feel cheap or like you get cheated by RNG. The gameplay still feels realistic even though there is obvious slider tuning represented by the ego rating.

@KOTANK1334_PSN said in Anyone on Xbox Mess Around With Elite Controller Settings?:

So wait..... Xbox users are capable of tweaking their controllers to be able to move to locations faster and more accurate ?

Not trying to be controversy guy here because I'm sure in the end it probably isn't as big of deal as I am thinking, but still.....

I have an Elite controller and refuse to use it because I still find the cheap $20 Power A controller to be better, but this really isn’t a XBOX users have an advantage thing. It is more that Sony has yet to release higher end controllers where XBOX has been for years.

@oreorockstar_psn said in So I hit a sharp single in BR, my runners froze for a triple play?:

@codywolfgang_xbl said in So I hit a sharp single in BR, my runners froze for a triple play?:

My runners have froze on me a few times. Am I hitting R2 when I swing or something?

I made a post about this a few days ago. Have had the base runners not run on forced ground balls as well as not return to the bag on fly balls. Not often, but many times. More SDS glitches that need fixed.

Yeah I it felt like a glitch to me. Thinking back on it I don’t think they were even responding when I realized what was going on and tried to advance them.

Still won the game in the bottom of the 3rd somehow, probably would have been pretty annoyed had I lost.

I just got a Series X. I’m gonna preorder the deluxe edition because the show is all I play other than some CoD.

@opus18642_xbl said in Kovz88 Bauer not charged with a crime.:

I'm dying to know what the safe word was.

Spider-tack

I am a first year player so I'm sure in a few seasons I'll completely understand the frustration of collections not carrying over. I enjoyed that aspect the most, but if I didn't have to start from scratch in 22 and started with all my cards, I'm not sure I'd have any interest in playing the whole season. The fun for me is in the pursuit of things. Once it's all complete, I'm ready to move to something else.

I wish there was some type of token you could carry over, maybe a handful of players or a few collection rewards to demonstrate what you achieved the previous season.

Yall need jesus

@tomivory23_psn said in 100 percent physics based hitting.:

@og_sweedy_psn said in 100 percent physics based hitting.:

As someone who didn’t buy this years game primarily because I was so put off by the progressively more unrealistic batted ball outcomes in previous editions, I had to log in and post. I totally get the gist of what some people are saying about top players being bot like and able to hit anything if there’s no randomness, but that’s kind of the point here. If my pitches go where I want them to go with good input and an opponent is skilled enough to make good contact regardless of difficulty settings then he’s done his job. He deserves to get that hit. However - And this is what drove me away from this franchise in the end, despite the fact it was my only game for years - it has to cut both ways. If I locate a perfect two strike slider down and away to a same handed batter, there’s absolutely no chance on this planet that with accurate ball physics, I give up a pulled home run or a floating moon shot over the opposite field wall at Shippet. That is not “RNG” or balancing, that’s just absolute garbage and totally unrealistic. Give him a sliced XBH down the line, have it loop over my 1B for a single, have a selection of batted ball outcomes that are selected from randomly, in order to keep the game fresh and unpredictable for sure…… But at least make them realistic options FFS. Spotting a pitch as described only to see it yanked over the wall pull side at some crazy exit velo after I’ve been lining out on perfect/perfect fastballs all game? Yeah, I just stopped buying the game entirely. The fact they now release multiple diamond versions of the same player is a huge turn off for me as well, as is the market cap on items that allows SDS to dictate stub flow. Overall, the game regressed in a lot of areas and remained static in others, but I’ve seen very little improvement in my time and I grew sick of it. Not getting my $$$$ on the back of another low effort, recycled, unrealistic product.

I would say 85% of the show players and developers have never played baseball long enough to understand how ball physics work.

That’s quite a claim to be making off the cuff!!!!