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Rewarded far more than skill

Do good (or even Perfect) inputs while hitting matter? I mean really.. other than the occasional homerun, it feels like good/good and perfect/perfect are lineouts and groundouts more often than not. It's especially prevalent on HOF difficulty more than any other difficulty it seems. I get dinked and dunked to death by my opponent with JE,JL, E & L inputs while my Perfect and good inputs are just outs. It's not every game but it's more often than not.

I'd like to see perfect and good inputs result in more balls in the gap and off the walls instead of cheap outs. No clue what to make of hitting this year because it's so inconsistent with frame drops, servers and elevation issues.

Also, i'm sick of seeing Coors and laughing mountain every other game online because my opponent wants to get rewarded for cheap hits. Elevation shouldn't effect online gameplay anyway since it's supposed to be "competitive" environments. Offline seems mostly fine but online is a whole other story it seems.

I keep drinking the SDS Kool Aid every year and I know it's my own fault, but what other options do we have for MLB..? Man if only Konami made an MLB game... But til then, oh well , theres always College Football....

SDS ... please turn off elevation in online competitive modes. Keep that stuff offline please. We don't need more fluke trash than we already see online. This should urge your team to actually fix the hitting engine. THANK YOU

For the 4th straight year… fix them!

I saw the Shohei face scan and I’m assuming he’ll be available in game, which would be massive

How many of you would be down to play the upcoming Konami Professional Baseball Spirits 2024-2025 if there’s a mod for English speakers?

The Show this year has taken massive leaps backward this year with flukey gameplay and micro transactions I’m curious to see how many people would jump ship.

Also on another note, come July, College Football is back!
Don’t even know if I’ll touch ultimate team. Dynasty and Road to glory are the main attractions there.

Bunting needs to have some skill based aspect to it. Why is there no pci for bunting? If anything, add a pci for bunting. It would be cool to have a function for bunting online that isn’t just cheese and rng. I can imagine a fix, just like catcher throws, the pitches could be slowed down out of the pitchers hand when the bunt button is pressed. The higher the bunt rating, the slower the pitch speed. The higher the vision, the bigger the bunt PCI. Maybe not exactly like that but Something to that effect.

I have multiple thoughts about the online aspects. So in my opinion, We need a universal PCI size OR universal pitch speed. One OR the other will do fine. From an online competitive standpoint, it is more of a nuisance to have to adjust stick movement AND timing when changing difficulties in game modes. Jumping from BR to events to Ranked. If I had to choose one, I’d choose universal pitch speeds across all online game modes.
To me, it makes 0 sense to have the PCI size expand with slower pitch speeds and shrink with higher pitch speeds, Especially when rng dictates the outcomes regardless of timing and PCI placement. it becomes less competitive and more simulation in lower difficulties like All-Star and below under the current settings. I enjoy realistic baseball simulation at times. However I’m only interested in realistic simulation gameplay OFFLINE ONLY. Online, we should see 100% hit rate for Perfect Perfect. Perfect hits don’t have to be Homeruns all the [censored] time, I mean we’d like to see smoked gap shots and liners through the hole. Just let us feel rewarded with our good input. It’s a VIDEO GAME! NOT real life baseball. If the amount of “good” and lesser hit types resulting in hits needs to be reduced in order for that to happen, then I’m all for it.

I know some of you fellas might disagree, but also lots of you fellas feel the same way. I just want SDS to create a great baseball game. I haven’t seen greatness since the MVP Baseball era. It’s come close, but always seems to fall a little short.

Nice observation! Perfect perfect fly ball off of a power swing didn’t catch your attention at all I guess.

What the F is this moment? I power swing with home run derby, Adolis Garcia, and hit a perfect perfect flyball, off of a bronze pitcher, to centerfield and it’s an out! This game is [censored] and makes no sense. What is the point of power swing?

Do any of you actually like or watch baseball? Do any of you actually like video games? Playing your video game makes me think none of you do at all. It’s sad. People love the cosmetic changes to the game because they’re not smart enough to realize it’s still a game with, at best, questionable gameplay. Clean it up

MLB the Keep Terrible players in the game with bloop hits and foul balls 23

@X-FREEZE-OFF-X_PSN said in Monthly Award/Lightning card:

@Dome_1316_PSN said in Monthly Award/Lightning card:

The POTM Lightning Card should be a Core captain card and able to boost The Monthly Award players, Topps Now players and other POTM Lighting cards. Change my mind

Awesome Idea. But how do you choose between a pitcher or a hitter?

And I assume you mean for that particular month. So every month a new Captain card.

Boost both hitting and pitching stats like shohei captain does

The POTM Lightning Card should be a Core captain card and able to boost The Monthly Award players, Topps Now players and other POTM Lighting cards. Change my mind

@BJDUBBYAH_PSN said in Live Series collection suggestion:

@Dome_1316_PSN said in Live Series collection suggestion:

For each team there should be a tiered reward structure. So, on top of giving stubs, there should be non-sellable cards given specific to each team collection.

Example:

Collect 10 live series cards: 500 stubs

Collect 15 live series cards: Bronze legend/flashback card

Collect 20 Live Series Cards: 1000 Stubs

Collect 25 live series cards: Silver legend/flashback card

Collect 30 live series cards: 5000 stubs

Collect 35 live series cards: Gold legend/flashback card

Collect 40 live series cards: Diamond legend/flashback card

P.s. Aside from set collection cards, American League (McGwire) National League (Sosa) and Major League (Jeter) collection cards should be the best cards in the game all year hands down! McGwire is basically unusable and it’s tragic.

For how expensive this collection is, there really is no incentive to drop stubs and complete this collection anymore.

Jeter and Sosa ARE two of the best cards we will see, are Core and can be used all year. The collection is worth it.

So 2 out of 3

Like I said, McGwire is basically unusable

@SaveFarris_PSN said in Live Series collection suggestion:

How do you differentiate between good and bad team collections?

You should get better rewards for completing the Angels and Mets than you do for collecting the Tigers or Athletics.

Higher rated Diamond rewards

Give an Angels reward maybe a 95-99

Tigers or athletics maybe 85-89

For each team there should be a tiered reward structure. So, on top of giving stubs, there should be non-sellable cards given specific to each team collection.

Example:

Collect 10 live series cards: 500 stubs

Collect 15 live series cards: Bronze legend/flashback card

Collect 20 Live Series Cards: 1000 Stubs

Collect 25 live series cards: Silver legend/flashback card

Collect 30 live series cards: 5000 stubs

Collect 35 live series cards: Gold legend/flashback card

Collect 40 live series cards: Diamond legend/flashback card

P.s. Aside from set collection cards, American League (McGwire) National League (Sosa) and Major League (Jeter) collection cards should be the best cards in the game all year hands down! McGwire is basically unusable and it’s tragic.

For how expensive this collection is, there really is no incentive to drop stubs and complete this collection anymore.

It sucks because, live series collection rewards should be the best cards in the game. So all 3 of these cards should be at the tier level of the set collection cards. 2 out of the 3 are great cards. However, The AL Collection Big Mac Card is buns. Pretty much unusable in competitive online play. The live series is so expensive and unless you’re a streamer or want to spend hundreds of dollars on the game, it’ll take some time and stub hoarding to complete it.

Perfect-perfect Should be a hit 100% off the time. The rest of the inputs should be a drastic drop-off. Maybe SDS could tinker around with hit rate. Maybe something like: Good 30%, just early/late 20%, early/late 15%, very early/late 3% (dinkers&dribblers).

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