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I really don’t get it. Do these people pick with their eyes closed?
Yep and and real problem is the lack of control by the pitcher and the 20 pitch ABs because the hitter fouls everything off.
That's kind of dumb. He didn't have to give you 2 runs to create the save opportunity. He just needed you to have the tying run on deck.
@EvylShaun said in 7 xbh and 7 RBI's in 7 games?:
I've always hated multi game moments, but this..... this will take the cake. Prepare for the diving catches and runners not advancing 1st to 3rd.
I've always hated multi game moments, but this..... this will take the cake.
Prepare for the diving catches and runners not advancing 1st to 3rd.
It took me a couple of tries but that was with a 2 year old jumping and flopping all over me. I swear the kid thinks I'm a trampoline.
@charterbus_psn said in There is not enough XP rewarded across the board in this game:
@xentys_psn said in There is not enough XP rewarded across the board in this game: 23+ hours of game played and I have 123k xp... 113 games played ( most offline ) grinding atm to get a decent team ( no money spent ) However I haven't finished the 1st inning collection 50k xp ( 8 x 42 series card ) im at 4 right now ( sold P. Martinez and H. Aaron for stubs for Live collection ) or I would be at 6 total but the Live collection is my priority And.. I havent finish the 1st inning conquest map These 2 will give me 65k and maybe take another +/- 7 hours of gameplay So quick calculation after 30 hours of gameplay I should be around 200k Counting that I wont be able to get much after all these are completed because moments and conquest maps will be done I will counting on playing games, daily missions ( roughly 1000 xp/day ) for xp The 200k and over xp progress will take much longer to process.... OMG this is nonsense. Im not complaining just stating the facts So your about half way after a day and half but don’t think you’ll be able to finish even though you haven’t really got any of the first inning stuff done? And they actually haven’t even released most of it like showdown, the first player program and so on? You’ll be there in like 2 days
@xentys_psn said in There is not enough XP rewarded across the board in this game:
23+ hours of game played and I have 123k xp... 113 games played ( most offline ) grinding atm to get a decent team ( no money spent ) However I haven't finished the 1st inning collection 50k xp ( 8 x 42 series card ) im at 4 right now ( sold P. Martinez and H. Aaron for stubs for Live collection ) or I would be at 6 total but the Live collection is my priority And.. I havent finish the 1st inning conquest map These 2 will give me 65k and maybe take another +/- 7 hours of gameplay So quick calculation after 30 hours of gameplay I should be around 200k Counting that I wont be able to get much after all these are completed because moments and conquest maps will be done I will counting on playing games, daily missions ( roughly 1000 xp/day ) for xp The 200k and over xp progress will take much longer to process.... OMG this is nonsense. Im not complaining just stating the facts
So your about half way after a day and half but don’t think you’ll be able to finish even though you haven’t really got any of the first inning stuff done? And they actually haven’t even released most of it like showdown, the first player program and so on?
You’ll be there in like 2 days
You don’t think it says something that he’s played for 23 hours in 2 days and isn’t even half way to the 300k xp to unlock an inning boss?
@nanthrax_1_psn said in Derek Jeter Concept Art:
Offensively, he was everything you could ask for from a middle infielder, and was an absolute nightmare to cheer for the team against him.... Defensively? He was extremely overrated and justified in that everyone has come around to believe that. His metrics are very bad, and had virtually no range. The fact he won gold gloves at all shows how broken that whole thing is, which is well known mostly because of him
The very fact that he won more gold gloves than Cal Ripken Jr still annoys me. Jeter has no business being in the same room as a gold glove award.
@killerpresence4 said in Ohtani's "Greatest Season Ever":
@dewrock_psn said in Ohtani's "Greatest Season Ever": @killerpresence4 said in Ohtani's "Greatest Season Ever": @kdclemson_psn said in Ohtani's "Greatest Season Ever": @killerpresence4 said in Ohtani's "Greatest Season Ever": It doesn’t matter because the OP is making comparisons where comparisons can’t be made. Ruth came up during the dead ball era and Ohtani plays in the modern era. You cannot make a comparison between the two. So anything that is said can only be subjective. The OP’s opinion is that Ohtani is not having one of the greatest seasons ever. That’s all it is, an opinion. Please stop acting as if it’s not an opinion because it is. There is no factual basis to make the argument that he’s not having one of the greatest seasons ever because your stats are being pulled from different eras of baseball history. We literally developed a stat to compare the greatest seasons from all eras and comparatively, Ohtani is having the 130th best season ever, you then call it an opinion simply because it doesn’t match your take, it doesn’t work like that This answer here is why you have zero credibility. And I will not lower myself to your level to argue with you when your argument is trying to make a comparison to an era which MLB has deemed to be the dead ball era to the era in which we currently play also known as the modern era. It’s apples and oranges. No stat you can provide changes that. So have fun convincing people of your point of view You do understand that Ruth played for 22 seasons, only 6 of which were in the dead ball era. The rest of your post boils down "You're wrong. I'm right. And I don't have to prove why". Yeah that’s the way to get someone to come around to your point of view. Let me ask you a few questions regarding both eras: Are the balls the same? Are the bats the same? Are the fielding tools the same? Was the level of competition the same? Is there empirical evidence to support stats such as batting avg, fielding percentage (what defines an error or not), pitching stats (velocity, pitch types etc)? And many other questions that separate those two eras in the game!! There is no stat that can quantify those questions. Not WAR, not UZR, not ops, not obp, not DRS!!! None of our so called advanced metrics can do this to make a quantifiable argument. Everything you have said is complete conjecture. It’s an opinion it’s that simple. So if you want to continue making an a s s of yourself go ahead. It doesn’t change the actual facts of the argument regardless of how loud you yell or how much you try to bully the forum participants who disagree with you.
@dewrock_psn said in Ohtani's "Greatest Season Ever":
@killerpresence4 said in Ohtani's "Greatest Season Ever": @kdclemson_psn said in Ohtani's "Greatest Season Ever": @killerpresence4 said in Ohtani's "Greatest Season Ever": It doesn’t matter because the OP is making comparisons where comparisons can’t be made. Ruth came up during the dead ball era and Ohtani plays in the modern era. You cannot make a comparison between the two. So anything that is said can only be subjective. The OP’s opinion is that Ohtani is not having one of the greatest seasons ever. That’s all it is, an opinion. Please stop acting as if it’s not an opinion because it is. There is no factual basis to make the argument that he’s not having one of the greatest seasons ever because your stats are being pulled from different eras of baseball history. We literally developed a stat to compare the greatest seasons from all eras and comparatively, Ohtani is having the 130th best season ever, you then call it an opinion simply because it doesn’t match your take, it doesn’t work like that This answer here is why you have zero credibility. And I will not lower myself to your level to argue with you when your argument is trying to make a comparison to an era which MLB has deemed to be the dead ball era to the era in which we currently play also known as the modern era. It’s apples and oranges. No stat you can provide changes that. So have fun convincing people of your point of view You do understand that Ruth played for 22 seasons, only 6 of which were in the dead ball era. The rest of your post boils down "You're wrong. I'm right. And I don't have to prove why".
@kdclemson_psn said in Ohtani's "Greatest Season Ever": @killerpresence4 said in Ohtani's "Greatest Season Ever": It doesn’t matter because the OP is making comparisons where comparisons can’t be made. Ruth came up during the dead ball era and Ohtani plays in the modern era. You cannot make a comparison between the two. So anything that is said can only be subjective. The OP’s opinion is that Ohtani is not having one of the greatest seasons ever. That’s all it is, an opinion. Please stop acting as if it’s not an opinion because it is. There is no factual basis to make the argument that he’s not having one of the greatest seasons ever because your stats are being pulled from different eras of baseball history. We literally developed a stat to compare the greatest seasons from all eras and comparatively, Ohtani is having the 130th best season ever, you then call it an opinion simply because it doesn’t match your take, it doesn’t work like that This answer here is why you have zero credibility. And I will not lower myself to your level to argue with you when your argument is trying to make a comparison to an era which MLB has deemed to be the dead ball era to the era in which we currently play also known as the modern era. It’s apples and oranges. No stat you can provide changes that. So have fun convincing people of your point of view
@kdclemson_psn said in Ohtani's "Greatest Season Ever":
@killerpresence4 said in Ohtani's "Greatest Season Ever": It doesn’t matter because the OP is making comparisons where comparisons can’t be made. Ruth came up during the dead ball era and Ohtani plays in the modern era. You cannot make a comparison between the two. So anything that is said can only be subjective. The OP’s opinion is that Ohtani is not having one of the greatest seasons ever. That’s all it is, an opinion. Please stop acting as if it’s not an opinion because it is. There is no factual basis to make the argument that he’s not having one of the greatest seasons ever because your stats are being pulled from different eras of baseball history. We literally developed a stat to compare the greatest seasons from all eras and comparatively, Ohtani is having the 130th best season ever, you then call it an opinion simply because it doesn’t match your take, it doesn’t work like that
It doesn’t matter because the OP is making comparisons where comparisons can’t be made. Ruth came up during the dead ball era and Ohtani plays in the modern era. You cannot make a comparison between the two. So anything that is said can only be subjective. The OP’s opinion is that Ohtani is not having one of the greatest seasons ever. That’s all it is, an opinion. Please stop acting as if it’s not an opinion because it is. There is no factual basis to make the argument that he’s not having one of the greatest seasons ever because your stats are being pulled from different eras of baseball history.
We literally developed a stat to compare the greatest seasons from all eras and comparatively, Ohtani is having the 130th best season ever, you then call it an opinion simply because it doesn’t match your take, it doesn’t work like that
This answer here is why you have zero credibility. And I will not lower myself to your level to argue with you when your argument is trying to make a comparison to an era which MLB has deemed to be the dead ball era to the era in which we currently play also known as the modern era. It’s apples and oranges. No stat you can provide changes that. So have fun convincing people of your point of view
You do understand that Ruth played for 22 seasons, only 6 of which were in the dead ball era. The rest of your post boils down "You're wrong. I'm right. And I don't have to prove why".
Yeah that’s the way to get someone to come around to your point of view. Let me ask you a few questions regarding both eras: Are the balls the same? Are the bats the same? Are the fielding tools the same? Was the level of competition the same? Is there empirical evidence to support stats such as batting avg, fielding percentage (what defines an error or not), pitching stats (velocity, pitch types etc)? And many other questions that separate those two eras in the game!! There is no stat that can quantify those questions. Not WAR, not UZR, not ops, not obp, not DRS!!! None of our so called advanced metrics can do this to make a quantifiable argument. Everything you have said is complete conjecture. It’s an opinion it’s that simple. So if you want to continue making an a s s of yourself go ahead. It doesn’t change the actual facts of the argument regardless of how loud you yell or how much you try to bully the forum participants who disagree with you.
The rule changes that turned the dead ball era into the live ball era were adapted when Ruth was playing. He still excelled far and above the rest of his peers. Let's agree that everything I said was conjecture. Perhaps but my conjecture is based on the stats available to us. Yours is based on your feelings and perception of how different the two eras must have been.
Who's bullying who? You came on here to simply troll the OP based on some past history between you two. You resorted to numerous ad hominems. You replied that he was wrong but basically said he wasn't worth your time to explain why. I pointed that out. I guess that's bullying you.
@tekkendolphin_psn said in Online mode is just not fun.:
Call it a rant but this mode needs an overhaul. What I think it needs is a way to help out hitters. Maybe guess pitch option should be a thing? It is just too easy to pitch good and too hard to hit. Every game is just a complete guessing game grind fest that ends in bitterness when one player gets lucky enough to eke out a couple of garbage slap-hit seeing-eye hits or somehow hits a towering home run off a pitch nowhere near the zone. It comes down to whoever is luckier. Competitiveness is fine but we aren't pro baseball players and it is just too much of a grind. It's just not fun by its very design. And therefore ends up being a huge waste of time. Also, to make things worse, why do I lose 8 straight yet have the same rating and still get mismatched over and over? I mean, come on. Am I alone here? Or missing something that can actually make this anything other than an infuriating experience?
Call it a rant but this mode needs an overhaul. What I think it needs is a way to help out hitters. Maybe guess pitch option should be a thing? It is just too easy to pitch good and too hard to hit. Every game is just a complete guessing game grind fest that ends in bitterness when one player gets lucky enough to eke out a couple of garbage slap-hit seeing-eye hits or somehow hits a towering home run off a pitch nowhere near the zone. It comes down to whoever is luckier. Competitiveness is fine but we aren't pro baseball players and it is just too much of a grind. It's just not fun by its very design. And therefore ends up being a huge waste of time.
Also, to make things worse, why do I lose 8 straight yet have the same rating and still get mismatched over and over? I mean, come on.
Am I alone here? Or missing something that can actually make this anything other than an infuriating experience?
Yeah I don't pretend to know what the fix is. But it really seems to be two offensive camps in online. Those people who hit any and everything, no matter where it's thrown and how good of a pitch it is, very very hard. Then the others just struggle to scrape together a few hits and hope for the seemingly lucky homer here and there. There doesn't seem to be any middle ground.
Not to mention that for every 10 games, you're pretty much guaranteed to face AS DeGrom about half the time.
I haven’t pulled a Diamond yet.
@Sasquatchy99 said in Opponent Pausing ?:
Is it just me I don’t play online very much against other opponents. Bur what the [censored] literally every at bat why do you have to pause the game during pitch count ? Is this a glitch a Cheat ?
Haven't figured it out either. It annoys the hell out of me.
I think it's the main logo in your logo editor. Sometimes it won't show any of your logos when you go into conquest or online play. Usually, I just go to logo editor and back out and it fixes it.
@the_dragon1912 said in Patch Notes Wrong?:
@grizzbear55_psn said in Patch Notes Wrong?: This is a good thing! People can press it long enough to set thier PCI Lock without disrupting the game. While still alleviating the quick pitch. Well done SDS PCI lock doesn't have the same effect as R2 and wasn't why this change was made. Also quick pitching is a nonsense excuse used by R2 users to justify being toxic 98% of the time
@grizzbear55_psn said in Patch Notes Wrong?:
This is a good thing! People can press it long enough to set thier PCI Lock without disrupting the game. While still alleviating the quick pitch. Well done SDS
PCI lock doesn't have the same effect as R2 and wasn't why this change was made. Also quick pitching is a nonsense excuse used by R2 users to justify being toxic 98% of the time
Exactly. It’s a video game, there’s no such thing as quick pitching. It’s impossible to do.
@ccarr77_psn said in Timing Hitting is an albatross:
@jkooch66_xbl said in Timing Hitting is an albatross: @ccarr77_psn said in Timing Hitting is an albatross: @allday9128_psn said in Timing Hitting is an albatross: This method of hitting has been in the game for years. I still don't understand why it's become an issue only this year. Directional is different than timing. With directional you need to be aware of what kind of hitter is at the plate. Push, pull, extreme pull, etc. The type of hitter at the plate would determine what you wanted to do with the sticks. Inside/outside/up/down depending on push/pull/etc. Timing is simply pressing the button at the right time. I used directional before moving to zone and have used zone for years, but I too have tried the new timing option online and I hit everything hard and couldn't strike out. It's definitely here as a crutch for the new player base just like all the foul balls. You're wrong. When they added directional 2 or 3 years ago it replaced timing even for offline play and they said it's the exact same thing as timing if you don't aim. You never had to aim with directional and you can even turn the arrows and camera shift off completely. And there have been tons of people playing like that online. You were supposed to aim with the sticks. It's what the whole moving camera inside and outside was for.
@jkooch66_xbl said in Timing Hitting is an albatross:
@ccarr77_psn said in Timing Hitting is an albatross: @allday9128_psn said in Timing Hitting is an albatross: This method of hitting has been in the game for years. I still don't understand why it's become an issue only this year. Directional is different than timing. With directional you need to be aware of what kind of hitter is at the plate. Push, pull, extreme pull, etc. The type of hitter at the plate would determine what you wanted to do with the sticks. Inside/outside/up/down depending on push/pull/etc. Timing is simply pressing the button at the right time. I used directional before moving to zone and have used zone for years, but I too have tried the new timing option online and I hit everything hard and couldn't strike out. It's definitely here as a crutch for the new player base just like all the foul balls. You're wrong. When they added directional 2 or 3 years ago it replaced timing even for offline play and they said it's the exact same thing as timing if you don't aim. You never had to aim with directional and you can even turn the arrows and camera shift off completely. And there have been tons of people playing like that online.
@allday9128_psn said in Timing Hitting is an albatross: This method of hitting has been in the game for years. I still don't understand why it's become an issue only this year. Directional is different than timing. With directional you need to be aware of what kind of hitter is at the plate. Push, pull, extreme pull, etc. The type of hitter at the plate would determine what you wanted to do with the sticks. Inside/outside/up/down depending on push/pull/etc. Timing is simply pressing the button at the right time. I used directional before moving to zone and have used zone for years, but I too have tried the new timing option online and I hit everything hard and couldn't strike out. It's definitely here as a crutch for the new player base just like all the foul balls.
@allday9128_psn said in Timing Hitting is an albatross:
This method of hitting has been in the game for years. I still don't understand why it's become an issue only this year.
Directional is different than timing. With directional you need to be aware of what kind of hitter is at the plate. Push, pull, extreme pull, etc.
The type of hitter at the plate would determine what you wanted to do with the sticks. Inside/outside/up/down depending on push/pull/etc.
Timing is simply pressing the button at the right time. I used directional before moving to zone and have used zone for years, but I too have tried the new timing option online and I hit everything hard and couldn't strike out. It's definitely here as a crutch for the new player base just like all the foul balls.
You're wrong. When they added directional 2 or 3 years ago it replaced timing even for offline play and they said it's the exact same thing as timing if you don't aim. You never had to aim with directional and you can even turn the arrows and camera shift off completely. And there have been tons of people playing like that online.
You were supposed to aim with the sticks. It's what the whole moving camera inside and outside was for.
Supposed to, implies that you had to. You don't have to move the sticks using directional. It's just a way to try and influence how or where the ball is hit.
@luvmyxbox_xbl said in April Topps Now - can't complete missions back for stage 2?:
@dewrock_psn said in April Topps Now - can't complete missions back for stage 2?: @luvmyxbox_xbl said in April Topps Now - can't complete missions back for stage 2?: So I am almost done w/ the April Topps now program. I got Rizzo and doing the STAGE 3 . But got some players from the post Rizzo packs. But when I play them, I get no credit from Stage 2 to complete their missions. So i can't complete stage 2 player missions if I'm in stage 3? If you got Rizzo, why would you need to complete stage 2 missions? there are more cards after Rizzo to complete the program.
@dewrock_psn said in April Topps Now - can't complete missions back for stage 2?:
@luvmyxbox_xbl said in April Topps Now - can't complete missions back for stage 2?: So I am almost done w/ the April Topps now program. I got Rizzo and doing the STAGE 3 . But got some players from the post Rizzo packs. But when I play them, I get no credit from Stage 2 to complete their missions. So i can't complete stage 2 player missions if I'm in stage 3? If you got Rizzo, why would you need to complete stage 2 missions?
So I am almost done w/ the April Topps now program. I got Rizzo and doing the STAGE 3 . But got some players from the post Rizzo packs. But when I play them, I get no credit from Stage 2 to complete their missions. So i can't complete stage 2 player missions if I'm in stage 3?
So I am almost done w/ the April Topps now program.
I got Rizzo and doing the STAGE 3 . But got some players from the post Rizzo packs. But when I play them, I get no credit from Stage 2 to complete their missions.
So i can't complete stage 2 player missions if I'm in stage 3?
If you got Rizzo, why would you need to complete stage 2 missions?
there are more cards after Rizzo to complete the program.
Yes but there’s nothing else for you to do but play with Rizzo and Dawson and the rest of the monthly awards cards to unlock the last packs.
You don’t think a pitcher might lose his confidence in real life, thus affecting his performance in said game?
@arvcpa_psn said in I hate showdown...still:
So... I agree with everyone here about "patience". My big thing? Perks. I load up on the "Vision" and "Contact", which I'm guessing I'll get lambasted for. I don't have any issues hitting HR's in Showdown, so contact and vision are the big ones for me. Plus, I typically play on AS difficulty offline, and the slower speeds in Showdown throw me off. Also... I LOVE the "Rattled" perk, which makes the CPU more prone to errors. I love it when the CPU starts flinging the ball all over the place.
So... I agree with everyone here about "patience".
My big thing? Perks. I load up on the "Vision" and "Contact", which I'm guessing I'll get lambasted for. I don't have any issues hitting HR's in Showdown, so contact and vision are the big ones for me. Plus, I typically play on AS difficulty offline, and the slower speeds in Showdown throw me off.
Also... I LOVE the "Rattled" perk, which makes the CPU more prone to errors. I love it when the CPU starts flinging the ball all over the place.
Yep I always try to get the ones with 2 strikes. And I always try to load up on switch hitters.
The ones this year haven’t been that bad. Just keep trying till you figure it out. I will say that I despise that the majority of the moments in showdowns this year have been to hit a homer. That’s lame. Because it always seems like if you don’t need to hit a HR, then you hit like two. When you need one, we’ll you know the rest.
@go4stros25_psn said in Respect button:
We need somthing. Somthing to show our opponent that we respect their play. In a game full of r2 holding, bunt dancing, and pausing it would be nice to have the ability to tip the cap or atleast have some emotes to let them know, hey good pitch, or nice hit, or just gg thanks for making this experience go smoothly. Most people have their messages set to private and I don't blame them. It could only make the community less hostile.
Yeah I agree. I always want to give a shout-out or say something about a weird animation yada yada yada. But it’s like, I have to grab my phone and start a chat with them in the app. A couple of options in the quick menu would be nice. The Hold ‘em apps have the ability to do this. Surely they could implement this in this game.
@cdnmoneymaker93_xbl said in 14 Moments, 5,250 PXP and a Showdown for 88 Tony Perez?:
Pretty sure there was also 14 packs 3 choice packs 10k in stubs 15k xp Thus program took no time to complete and gave a great payoff. This was a player program with WAY better reward then we have gotten in the past. The amount of effort need for this programs for the rewards you got was really kind of a joke in my view. Clearly SDS is caving to the "I don't want to have to actually play this game to get rewarded crowd"
Pretty sure there was also
14 packs 3 choice packs 10k in stubs 15k xp
Thus program took no time to complete and gave a great payoff. This was a player program with WAY better reward then we have gotten in the past. The amount of effort need for this programs for the rewards you got was really kind of a joke in my view. Clearly SDS is caving to the "I don't want to have to actually play this game to get rewarded crowd"
Exactly. At least you weren’t forced to do an exchange or beat the reds on AS.