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Bonus points for labeling me a cheater and making me ineligible for program xp in March to October because the game has crashed to a blue screen three times on my PS4.

@pbake12 said in Must watch! Mickey Mantle has the Alcoholic Perk:

@CCARR77 said in Must watch! Mickey Mantle has the Alcoholic Perk:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K73-uzvWH3w

One and done. That's a wrap for today. See you in the Warzone!

Been there, and gave up the same way! Thinking, gonna give RS another shot today, then nope, not worth it. Such a shame, because I enjoyed RS last year.

Same here. It's not fun to invest 30-60 minutes in a RS game and have sloppy programming be the deciding factor. Doesn't matter if it's the first inning or ninth, or whether I win or lose. Garbage gameplay makes it a waste of time and there's nothing competitive about it when things you can't control decide who wins.

I turned off the game three weeks ago and haven't turned it back on since. I'll check in here now and then to see if there's a fix yet, but until there is, I have better things to do.

I appreciate posts like this that tell me what I need to know.

@oldgamingdad727 said in Is SDS practicing ageism?:

Can anybody beat 53? Am I the elder?

Sorry man. I claim two more years of experience than you.

The good about fielding: The outfielders seem to be better.
The bad about fielding: Infielders don't have much of a clue.

Since 1.09 I've had Jimmy Rollins at SS lock into place and put his glove down between his legs while the ball rolled past him three feet to the side (and let my opponent walk it off). And three times I've had Brooks Robinson let the ball go under his glove when it was hit within one step of him... Just olé'd them.

BROOKS FREAKIN' ROBINSON!

I've played Diamond Dynasty since it was made up of fake players that you trained up until their contracts ran out, whatever years that was, and this is still by FAR the worst this game has played. Pitching's a dice roll. Hitting's just guesswork when I'm early on 98 mph 4-seamers, then late on breaking balls, then just the opposite an inning or two later.

(sigh) Could we maybe just skip right on to patch 1.24 now?

Agreed that day one hitting wasn't perfect. Seemed to me the average score in my early games was probably 12-10, with 5-7 homers per game.

This year's game has been messed up from the start. It's only the ways it's been messed up that have been updated a couple of times.

@tylerslikewhoa said in i quit:

This is more of a skilled base game and isn't for the weak.

Yeah, you can really tell it's "skilled base" when you throw a pitch aimed outside the strike zone, get a perfect release because you have skill, and have it go over the middle third of the plate and get hit 400+ feet.

Even better question:

Why is good input when pitching punished in The Show?

The only number I'm monitoring right now is 1.08. The game won't likely get turned back on until I see it.

No. I've abandoned it until the next gameplay patch.

But I'm halfway through my first OOTP 21 season because of this, so it's not all bad.

@doobiebross66-72 said in Pitching is still god awful:

They need to design a new pitching interface where the control attribute effects how hard it is to hit marks on whatever interface you use. If you hit your marks, your pitch should hit EXACTLY where you aimed it. No questions.

This! This!

A thousand times THIS!

Maybe the dumbest decision ever made in any game was deciding to make your pitcher's ratings (supposedly) override your input and create seemingly random results instead of using the ratings to create the degree of difficulty in getting the best input.

This game will never what it should be until the current pitching system is blown up and fixed this way.

Hitting is mostly skill based. Pitching is largely randomized because somebody decided the input interfaces should just sync up with the pitcher's motion instead of being determined by ratings.

Fundamentally bad system.

This game is so FUBARed right now I can't even stay interested for more than a couple of innings, whether I'm winning or losing. The clear problem (IMO) is that anytime a pitcher allows just a hit or two he completely loses his ability to hit his spots. It's like his confidence immediately goes to zero no matter what the graphs show.

I noticed the more I aimed, the worse it was, even with a perfect release (meter pitching, in my case). So I got an idea and tried not aiming, just leaving the target right in the middle of the plate every time. I figured if he was gonna miss randomly anyway, I might as well just forget moving the target.

Damned if that doesn't seem to improve results.

It's like once you give up a hit or two, even with perfect releases, the game makes you wild, then gives a big edge to the hitters and penalizes you extra for missing your spot. But when you don't move the target to aim, it doesn't recognize you've missed your spot since you didn't aim. The pitches still go everywhere, but there aren't automatic hits.

I go back to aiming, and even "jammed/late" results end up being line drives to the gap when the pitcher's lost it.

Anybody else ever try just leaving the target alone? Is there something to this or am I imagining things?