So I’ve been a huge Show fan since the first one came out. 95% of the time I’m playing “Road to the show”. I don’t understand what the thought process is behind this years game but there is a lot that I’m discovering about it that is disappointing.
From the first start up I went to road to the show and I’m not even able to create my character. I’m drafted as “Joe Random”. I find out I’m forced into playing as a 2 way player. It’s already a tough grind to level up a character when you focus on pitching or hitting. I don’t like the idea of doing both at once.
But at least those 2 irritations have workarounds.
Next problem is any time I go to my players load out I need to edit my uniform equipment displayed on my player. If I want to go from painter to cheese, after making the switch I got to open my equipment and switch on using batting gloves from 1 to both hands for example.
Switching between my pitcher and separate hitter is the same deal. It carries over. I have wristbands and compression sleeves on my hitter shown and so they show up next time I load my pitcher.
Pitches: I only have 3 pitches this year as a RTTS pitcher. I want to learn my 4th and 5th pitch types. This is hugely disappointing.
Sliders: I’ll be honest. I like to adjust the RTTS sliders to give me a bit of an advantage. Cant do it this year though or you forfeit XP.
Create-a-stadium: after 3 or 4 times of getting disconnected from the Show servers I was able to push through a finished stadium. Though I have no idea how to assign it to my Diamond Dynasty team. It’ll probably reveal itself to me sooner or later but it shouldn’t be a mystery.
The fact that I had to pay $10 more this year for the PS5 and with all these bugs and takeaways is really a black mark on a game I look forward to playing every year.
It’s another rush-to-market, patch-it-later mess along the lines of Cyberpunk. Wasn’t enough testing it feels like. Just really disappointing.