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Anyone find a fix? Can't play either.

I think the haters on this topic don't play other sports ultimate team modes. Because if they did they would know this is the least pay to win model by far. The season long power creep is a nonstop pay to win carousel until the last months of a game. This model is much more consumer friendly.

Sinker is easier to hit than its been in years. Prime edward cabrera was the breaking point for the devs on that one

1. Foul balls
2. Ease of defense ( would like for them to make it valid skill and a consequential part of the game like hitting and pitching)
3. Wiffle ball stadiums

@rageincage007 said in 8 pitches and out:

@FRUITYPEBBLETS Would the players in the video game even play if they could only hit around a .300 average? Probably not because they would not have the patience to play. This is an instant gratification world and I don't feel the game would be played if people were forced to only hit close to 300 and didn't hit home runs every other at bat. There has to be a middle ground between being a simulation and a video game. That being said, I enjoy playing the game and I would guess I average just over the Mendoza line for the most part, lol.

And almost everyone agrees that middle ground should include striking out at balls in the dirt or 2 feet inside from time to time instead of fouling it off 10 times in a row

@rageincage007 said in 8 pitches and out:

Baseball is a game of patience and strategy and foul balls are part of it. If you want a game where you constantly need instantaneous gratification try another game.

Baseball is actually a game of failure. The best players in the world only bat 300.

Most games I play in the 700-900 rating include lineups where every hitter sports a batting average of 400-550.

Clearly something has gone wrong and it doesn't take a genius to see what.

@iBonafideScrub_ said in Games are too long:

@FRUITYPEBBLETS said in Games are too long:

The ease of offense this year has really been a drag in the fact that games are taking way too long this year. Years prior no problem cranking out 2 or 3 ranked games in a row, now I feel its a stretch to want to play two in a row after a 10-8 slugfest every game that drags on far too long. Its been great but its time to put it down sadly.

You want them to nerf offense? Lmao, no.

Lmao, yes. It's too easy right now. On hof myself and my opponents are mostly in the 400-550 batting averages with every player in the lineup. It needs balancing.

The ease of offense this year has really been a drag in the fact that games are taking way too long this year. Years prior no problem cranking out 2 or 3 ranked games in a row, now I feel its a stretch to want to play two in a row after a 10-8 slugfest every game that drags on far too long. Its been great but its time to put it down sadly.

@Xfoufoufou_PSN said in How to fix this game is real simple. Make RS appealing to the masses.:

@doobiebross66-72 said in How to fix this game is real simple. Make RS appealing to the masses.:

@Xfoufoufou_PSN said in How to fix this game is real simple. Make RS appealing to the masses.:

@The_Joneser_PSN said in How to fix this game is real simple. Make RS appealing to the masses.:

@Xfoufoufou_PSN said in How to fix this game is real simple. Make RS appealing to the masses.:

1. Tone down the velocity to the real pitchers velocity .Why you give them a extra 3-5 MPH of velo ? The amount of pitchers that sit 101 are a handful in history ... Here that's all you face all game . Is this a Arcade or realistic baseball game . Makes a bunch of pitchers useless.

2. Reduce cutter / sinker breaks to a realistic amount . Cutter don't move much in real life here they break 20" .

3. Make it harder to throw offspeed exacly where you want . No MLB pitchers can dot offspeed over and over again. Thats why a 3-0 or 3-1
   is a fastball count.

4. Make every pitching interphase the same difficulty to use . There no reason should be easier to dot with analog than pinpoint .

5. Make a better program , weekly rewards , random rewards. BR is much more rewarding.

People like to hit that's the fun of the game. for alot of people they do not enjoy playing RS because it's just too many dominant pitchers playing matchups

The game is always at it's best at the beginning of the year.

Oh, man. Absolutely no disrespect, but what you're describing is a recipe for HR derby (more so than now), and I don't think that's what the masses want at all. That's assuming, of course, that you're talking about playing on All Star, because that's where we in the masses tend to live in RS...

Baseball is hard. It shouldn't be easy to hit, so less zip on good fastballs is no bueno, for me. And I, like others, I'm sure, like to play defense, so I think the answer is two-fold: more hit variety, and tighten up the timing windows. If you don't have "good" timing, you shouldn't get anything more than an occasional bloop hit or grounder with eyes. No early swing HRs, no late swing HRs (opposite field shots and pulled long balls should be good timing on inside or outside pitches, driven from whence they came, not early or late with questionable placement), and, for the love of god, please do away with the ability of zone hitters to pull down-and-away sliders for HRs.

I'm with you on #4, though.

No Im talking about HOF. 102 on HOF is too
much you are late almost everytime . Just way too hard

Practice. Pitch speeds are fine

Shouldn't have to practice to play RS ... you don't practice in NHL you don't practice in NBA , you don't practice in Madden . Why should this be something where you have to go in custom practice everyday just to play a mode ? I just faced Degrom and he is almost unhittable when you are the road team. Connection wasnt great couldn't be on time no matter what

Dumbest thing I've heard in awhile it's ranked series. The mode specifically made to determine your max skill level on a competitive scale and play people within a similar skill gap. The mode is not made to cater to a casual approach to the game which is what br and events are more suited to mostly. Trust me there are alot of players who have no problem catching up too 100+ mph fastballs and 98 mph sinkers inside on hof that's what's called a skill gap which again is the point of the ranked series mode.

I feel like a ranked series salary cap mode could go a long way to making these captains more viable. If you had to build a team and could only use a few 97+ at most it would really encourage more creative team building allowing the captains to be able to shine somewhere... currently they are very niche because there aren't enough viable players to fill their requirements with if you want to have a competitve team. Thoughts?

In my opinion coming out with so many 99s day 1 really undermined alot of the gameplay improvements sds implemented this year. The biggest one the claimed was defense now matters because you really feel it when guys have lower rated fielding. The problem is almost all the players on everyones teams have gold or diamond fielding day 1 so we never really got to expreience that trade off in 9 inning games.

Second was how much more varied the hitting engine is this year. Again, how many cards day 1 had pretty much max power both ways which has kept it homerun derby.

It just seems like they screwed up what could have been seen as a real great launch with this baffling content decision imo.

If 500k + stubs ain't enough for you, which between the main reward path and 2 br programs is a conservative estimate to say the least. I don't know what to tell you, stop wasting stubs on packs.

There's multiple 99s on the main reward paths from set 1 and 2 at least 500k+ stubs you can make from the reward paths and the br program which can make you 200k alone! This to go along with plenty of useable 99s under 40k on the market. All in all theres alot of people who just feel entitled to all the best cards in the game when in reality you can build a great team for free if you put some time in.

No its shameful that its gone on this long and hasn't been fixed. If this were a franchise like madden or fifa they would have been eviscerated by the gaming media long ago.

It is true the standard series x controller is no bueno for pinpoint i use a powerA controller for the show

I highly recommend the oled c1 or c2 a lot of people dont know they actually have faster response times than any monitor. Im in world series and play on the 55 inch so I can def vouch for it. It will take a while to get used to but worth it

With the surplus of 99s at every position pitching is very important so i went with pedro a while back and dont regret it. Gives me a better than normal chance of winning when hes on the mound.

Has this been adressed by sds and if not how do you get this problem reported?

Comparing real life baseball to a programmed video game is a pretty bad attempt buddy

Again assuming champ