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@hoffsdrawlar_psn said in Perfect with 125 power should be a HR no matter the ballpark...:

That looks like it was affected by pitcher confidence. The pitch was 97 mph and the exit velocity was probably less than that. Pitcher confidence should not affect exit velocity in my opinion. The pci size should be reduced instead.

Pitcher confidence should have about 1% of the current impact it does in this game. A guy shouldn’t give up one hit and suddenly pitch like he is a little leaguer who has never stepped on the mound before and a strikeout should not mean he turns into Kerry Wood in his 20k game.

@thehungryhole said in Please punish people who cannot take a pitch:

@letsgotopr_xbl said in Please punish people who cannot take a pitch:

I go entire games without throwing a strike and still manage to give up 10+ hits over 9 innings. This is inexcusable. If you swing at every single pitch, you should not be rewarded consistently. It’s absurd that if you get the timing down of a repetitive video game, you are excused from actually playing baseball.

id love to play you mate - ill walk all day, get my runs that way, and when your guy throws the odd strike - i'll crush it to the moon and make you watch the replay

You are not the player he describes. You describe yourself having plate discipline, which is not what he is talking about.

Last year was my first year to play and I realize cards were super easy to obtain and the market functioned like a stub making atm, but I think there were some things that were definitely better in 21…

-commentary was a million times better
-daily moments reward path
-team affinity was a lot of fun
-player and evolution programs
-there were missions but not everything was tied to pxp

Things I feel are better in 22…

-slower rollout of high nineties
-mini seasons is a great idea
-earlier rewind packs are making cards easier to obtain for the masses
-Topps Now and MA moments are not as time consuming
-dedicated BR mission rounds are great and the mission players have been top notch

Gameplay is pretty bad on both, but overall I think 21 was a touch better. Pinpoint was a bit too overpowering in 21 but it is too inconsistent in 22. My batting averages are higher in 22 but so many hits are just weird.

This felt like the most random experience I have had with this game in two years. I honestly couldn’t tell what was going on most of the time. I quit playing it after five wins and decided I wouldn’t touch online again until after the weekend was over. I felt like I needed a reset and I absolutely loved Moonshot last year.

My kid felt similar. He is a better player than I am and he came in my room on Saturday night and said, “Dad, what did you think of Moonshot?” I had intentionally not said anything to him, because I wanted his genuine opinion. He goes, “I don’t get it….I can’t hit at all and I can’t get anyone out. I have never had this problem. I can’t do this…I will just buy Salmon.”

I’ll throw Bo into the mix here.

@skippractice_psn said in ELECTRONIC ARTS confirms MVP Baseball franchise is back 2024!:

@crash447_xbl said in ELECTRONIC ARTS confirms MVP Baseball franchise is back 2024!:

@skippractice_psn said in ELECTRONIC ARTS confirms MVP Baseball franchise is back 2024!:

@crash447_xbl said in ELECTRONIC ARTS confirms MVP Baseball franchise is back 2024!:

I know this has been rumored for a long time, but where was it confirmed?

Search on Google and find it yourself. It is there.

Thanks…appreciate the help. Did that before I posted. Searched there and Twitter. Saw nothing other than “reports”, “possible”, “release of Tap Sports”. The way people were talking, it sounded like EA had released something and was just asking for a touch of help.

I can tell you are not employed as a paralegal. Your research techniques are not sufficient.

You are correct about that. I am not employed as a paralegal. So you post on a public forum saying something is confirmed, but are unwilling to provide the source? Again, thank you for being so helpful.

I can’t believe you guys forgot that “this guy has turned into a beast”.

About ten different threads that have been talking about it for hours.

I'm all about this fix...add Vladito to my group of Papi and Schwarber who are trying to run to Tokyo. I think they are scared they are going to miss the start of the marathon!!!

@joeythebigboss said in PSA Ranked Rewind Pack at 25 Wins:

@crash447_xbl said in PSA Ranked Rewind Pack at 25 Wins:

@joeythebigboss said in PSA Ranked Rewind Pack at 25 Wins:

200k is already a huge bargain IMO for those on PlayStation .

Don't really know what Playstation has to do with it. There have just been a handful of people on here the past few days trying to decide to buy or not...just trying to help them out. I've had him for two months, so it makes no difference to me.

I said PlayStation because that’s how much his going for on there funny man . another guy taking things too seriously on this forum this place never changes lol .

Not being a funny guy...price is the same on Playstation and XBOX.

@ericulous1_psn said in You Guys are Beasts:

@codywolfgang_xbl said in You Guys are Beasts:

Slow pitch softball with a kiddie pool size pci.

Wish I could play even remotely this well. It's my first season and I get lucky to score 2 runs on a ranked season game in the low 300s. Kinda makes online unattractive to just get smoked by much better players. I'd love to play events, BR or RS but don't really see the point if I'm playing playing against people who think the difficulty feels like slow pitch softball.

This is my first year to play. I started the year playing mostly offline. Would play a ranked game here and there. Finally started playing events and BR and it helped more than anything. Personally, I think they are the best way to get better at the game. One thing about them is that a loss in Events and BR really isn't a big deal. With ranked you don't want want to see that ranking drop, but with the others it just isn't a big deal...especially with events which are free entry. Also, with Events and BR you get a wide variety of competition. You get to play some worse than you, some at your level and when you put together a few wins, you will play someone significantly better.

@theblindrhino said in Stealing sucks:

Rickey Henderson was thrown out 335 times.

This is the correct answer and it really shouldn’t have to be more complicated than that. Stealing bags is not something that is successful 100% of the time…no matter who is running or who is behind the dish. If that were the case, baseball would be a very, very different game.

@the_joneser_psn said in What Is The Story With Hitting?:

Or, maybe, people just can't get past thinking that the PCI represents the bat. It doesn't. It's where the batter is looking (think eyeballs, not barrel), so what you're seeing on the screen is where you want your bat to go. Basically, it's an odds generator; if you're just below the ball, you won't always get just under it, but your odds of doing so are greater than if you weren't. Lots of things factor into that, be they the hitter's contact, power, vision, or even clutch attributes, balanced against the pitchers attributes and confidence levels...

If it wasn't that way, attributes wouldn't matter at all. And to the argument that your "stick skills don't matter," that's nonsense; they absolutely do, because someone who isn't good with placement has decreased odds, and someone like me who chooses a different mode of input, relying on attribute-based placement, will never get the high success rates that you would successfully placing the PCI with Zone (but I'm okay with hitting .280 - .300 with my best players... you know, like baseball).

In short, the PCI isn't a bat, so don't expect it to behave like one.

So I know that SDS has expressed what you have said about the PCI. It is where you are looking in the zone…where you want the bat to go. However, I am seeing this argument more and more, which seems to be trying no to justify the gameplay and hitting engine that gets worse each year. If your “odds generator” scenario worked properly, the scenarios that the OP is describing would not happen as often as they do this year. I am basically saying that knowing how the PCI is supposed to work, it still doesn’t work correct and works worse than it did.

A Negro League Program is long overdue. Each year we can get five John Smoltz, three Matt Carpenter’s, shark logos and more diamond uniforms than anyone knows what to do with….yet constantly ignore some of the greatest to ever play the game.

@DoIHearBossMusic_MLBTS said in Conquest, can we choose between home and away in 23?:

Be nice to use some of these fields and home unis, I'm a purist so I hate wearing white on the road.

Just a small suggestion, maybe I'll get next's years game with some improvements

I would gladly take a game where conquest was gone and replaced by Mini Seasons next year. Even though it is faster now, I will never understand the point of simulating hexagons in a baseball game.

@chuckclc_MLBTS said in 2nd Half Mantle:

They were probably gonna make it a 99 then saw how everyone would freak out thinking it was the end card for him and knocked it down to 98.

Mantle and Griffey have had nothing higher than an 88 since launch. I would have gladly taken something like a 93-96 two months ago and then their best 99 later on.

Pitchers have to pitch a complete inning. So if you used multiple in the 8th then you didn’t get credit for it. It makes no sense and SDS has not addressed it.

@the_dragon1912 said in 22 worse than 21?:

@texas10pt_psn said in 22 worse than 21?:

@the_dragon1912 said in 22 worse than 21?:

@kwikpoppa_psn said in 22 worse than 21?:

I just did

Mini seasons at minimum is 10x better than Extra innings was. It's easily the most enjoyable offline mode by a longshot

It would be nice if you had a choice between mini and extra innings. I like Mini Seasons but only because I've never experienced the problems a lot of people have posted about. I liked Extra Innings when you could go in and choose anyone at any level to play.

Don't get me wrong mini seasons could have a few things added to improve it, but last year's extra inning missions were the first time 99% of players looked at the mode since the yetis. There definitely was little to no downside to removing the mode

I know I am the minority, but I will add in that I wish Extra Innings had been left in. It was the only way to play nine inning games against DD teams in an offline setting. Now the only option for that is playing ranked. Perfect world for me would be having both Mini Seasons and Extra Innings or being able to choose three or nine innings with Mini Seasons. I think with a little tweaking Mini Seasons can be really good, but I don’t see why there was a need to remove Extra Innings….outside of needing to use the tab because they didn’t want to take the time to develop a new menu page.

Same for me…I’m on iOS.

@bearsfan217_xbl said in Servers down for anyone else?:

@crash447_xbl said in Servers down for anyone else?:

About ten different threads that have been talking about it for hours.

Helpful. Contribute or gtfo the forums. Tired of these toxic fooks

Apologies...I hate these kinds of things as well and had poor judgement in my post. I had read multiple threads talking about the servers, although probably only about 10 percent actually used the word server in the title. I did think my reply answered the question as I was trying to express that it is for many people as it has been the talk in the forum all morning. However, the way I said it was poor and I apologize.