@flanderburger_xbl said in RTTS Player Position Changed by Manager - Blocking Promotion to Majors:
Literally exact same thing happened to me over a week ago. How do they miss something like this and how is it not fixed yet?
Sadly, it was faster to just create a new RTTS player/campaign than to wait on SDS.
For those in it for the achievement/trophy only, I'd recommend going LF for the Orioles. You should be able to make it to the majors in under a season in the minors.
I was hitting over .600 with an OPS over 1.400, with more extra base hits and RBIs than the entire team combined... and my manager never hit me higher than 7th for an entire season.
Needless to say, the manager AI is terrible.
I got tired of waiting, and just created a new build and started over.
I was able to Make it to the Show in about 85 games as an Orioles LF (68 OVR, Sparkplug, Bronze Contact 2, Gold Speed I). It was about 55 games at AA, and 30 games at AAA. It took about five hours of gameplay.
Thanks for wasting my time, SDS!
I believe there is a major issue with positions switching, where once you are switched, you can be "stuck" in that position.
My favorite is in AAA when I am hitting nearly .600, with an OPS of nearly 1.3, and leading the offense in every single major category, and I am stuck batting 8th or 9th... causing me to lose out on 100+ at bats per season.
Manager sends you in a terrible count, with slow speed... and you get caught, and it is your fault. This irks me beyond end. Like it sends me at the worst freaking times, and the catchers never make bad throws. I've stolen or tried to steal 60+ bases at this point, and the throw has never been offline - not once. Yet, when I throw to second, they are all over the place.
@moosealbany_psn said in RTTS Player Position Changed by Manager - Blocking Promotion to Majors:
With regards @Groux_XBL - is the archetype you were using at the time of the trade one which is appropriate to RF but not to 1B? I'm wondering because theoretically if the archetype determines what positions you are eligible for, then the manager should have only changed you to one of those.
In any case, sounds like a really nasty bug. Sorry you guys are experiencing this. I would recommend going back and playing a previous version of the game (which is what I'm doing for the forseeable future) but given that you are Xbox users guess you really don't have that option.
It isn't just Xbox users having the issue, there are some PS players on Reddit with it as well. I'm fine with changing positions, but the bug was that I was traded out of my position to a team that already had that position filled.
It is very weird, because when I view the archetype outside of Road to the show, I show up as a first baseman. When I am in the locker room, in RTTS I am labeled RF. Then when I load into a game, I am a 1B in the lineup. So, it is all over the place.
@kashikis130_xbl said in RTTS Player Position Changed by Manager - Blocking Promotion to Majors:
Yeah Moose I honestly don't care about changing position. I just want to not get pulled right away lol.
Yeah, I don't care either. I literally only want to get called to the majors for the achievement. Once I get called to the majors, I'm done with RTTS - outside of when I need to play to complete quests.
I read on True Achievements that the fastest way to the majors is to play LF for the Orioles, or SP for the Pirates, so I may just reroll and get it over with... because it doesn't seem like SSD is quick with fixing game breaking bugs. I'm just irked I lost over eight hours of gameplay progress.
Still an issue and no response from bug reports.
Sony Interactive Entertainment has always been terrible with customer service and community engagement. The problem goes back 20+ years at this point.
@kashikis130_xbl said in RTTS Player Position Changed by Manager - Blocking Promotion to Majors:
Just as a note, I started as a two way player but I am a fielder only now. Didn't want to play as a pitcher in rtts.
Same for me. I pitched one game and then saw how long it took and decided to tell the manager that I didn't want to pitch.
63 overall is actually really high for AA. I think I made it to AAA in about 3/4 of the first AA season at about 56. I have over a season in AAA and I am only 62. In AA I was a RF who hit about .460 though.
Upton shouldn't hurt your progress until you get to AAA, so that isn't the reason you aren't in AAA. He will hurt your promotion to the majors though, but by that time you should be traded.
@jc62584_xbl said in Walks in RTTS:
Im on my first RTTS on MLB 21, played every game up until the first all star break and then al of a sudden the CPU stopped throwing balls. Every single pitch since the break has been a strike. I sat the controller down for two full games, 8 at-bats, all were three pitch strikeouts. I had 7 walks through close to 40 games and then something change. It even seems harder to foul pitches off. I tried messing with the sliders but they didn’t seem to make a difference. I played a ton of MLB 17 and never had a problem. Played MLB 19 and this was the case from the start. Now 21 seems to have the same bug.
Anyone else seeing this?
You must raise the batting difficulty, I found this out myself. On beginner difficulty, every pitch is a strike.
@sgmrock_xbl said in RTTS Player Position Changed by Manager - Killing Promotion Ability:
Like if my primary is CF but my MLB team is good at CF, I should be able to play LF or RF if the team needs one but you can’t have secondary position as OF because you are stuck with SP from the storyline. It’s short sighted on devs part.
100% this. In what world are outfielders not interchangeable? Especially LF and RF? It is like they don't even watch baseball. They shouldn't even make you pick LF, CF, and RF - they should just have OF, and then your stats and/or preference dictates where you can play. If you have more speed, then you can play center, if you have a better arm, right, etc.
Here is another thread I found - https://forums.theshow.com/topic/30496/stuck-in-rtts-keep-getting-pulled
It looks like @puppychili_PSN and @FlanderBurger_XBL also have the issue.
@kashikis130_xbl said in RTTS Player Position Changed Before Being Traded - Killing Promotion Ability:
This is happening to me as well playing for the Mets. They switched me from 2nd to 3rd. Everything you wrote is spot on except I was not traded. I am still on the Mets. Sometime i get one at bat before I field and they replace me. Literally at a stand still. I also put in a ticket for this
It happened to me for one game with the Mets, but I just thought it was because I had been traded - as once the game finished, is when the trade occurred. So, I do agree that this likely would have happened had I been traded or not.
@sgmrock_xbl said in RTTS Player Position Changed Before Being Traded - Killing Promotion Ability:
I think this is a bigger problem because you can’t have a secondary position because of the whole 2 way player thing.
I did start out as a two-way player, but as I was really only playing RTTS for the achievements, I knew pitching every five games would take way too long to progress to the majors.
This happened to me last night after 8+ hours in RTTS. I made an in depth post about it here. Be sure to submit a support request.
@thebootman88_psn said in Stuck in RTTS Keep getting pulled:
It is yet another broken aspect of this mode. Honestly I don't know why SOny hasn't pulled this game from the store like they did with Cyberpunk.
Because it is okay for them to release broken games, just not anyone else.
@fish1479_xbl said in Should I Stay Or Should I Go?:
Thank you! Not sure how I missed this in the tutorial.
You are not alone.
@moosealbany_psn said in Reinstalling MLBTS 2019...:
Second, removing or severely nerfing aspects of the game of baseball for the purpose of online play and forcing players of all other modes to "take the hit" is unfair at the very least. Two examples which I know of: the Knuckleball and the check swing. In the 2021 version of the game, the Knuckleball simply doesn't exist and the ability to check swings when initially fooled by a ball has been nerfed to be nearly obsolete. That's NOT baseball.
The funny thing is, I've faced an NPC with a Knuckleball and Knucklecurve in RTTS. I know, because he absolutely dominates me every time. It is really strange that they wouldn't give players the option to throw those pitches when the game mechanic is already there.
Myself, and at least several other users have a weird issue completely stalling our RTTS player promotion progression, and as it currently sits we'll never make it to the majors.
My RTTS player played a single position for 200+ AA and AAA games (Right Field) in the Met's organization, and during my AAA time the manager comes to me and tells me that at the majors, that position is filled in the organization, but he'll see what he can do about getting me my shot.
Afterwards, my manager changes my player's position in the lineup to First Base (for whatever reason) and immediately after he did so, my player was traded to the Rays organization as a Right Fielder.
After being traded, this new/wrong position sticks - and the new manager always pencils my player in the lineup in that position (First Base). However, before the first inning in the field, my player is immediately subbed out for a defensive replacement by the real first baseman. Regardless of what changes I make to my player's settings, he is always penciled in at first base.
Looking at the roster for the Ray's AAA affiliate, and I am listed as the only right fielder, and there is already a first baseman. When I view my player details outside of RTTS, it is listed as a first baseman now. The only time I get an at bat is if we are the visiting team, and if we make it to my spot in the order within the top of the first inning.
Because of this bug, even if I sim the entire season, I get at most about 20 ABs for an entire season - thus insuring that I never make it to the majors. I've posted to the subreddit, tweeted, and submitted a bug report. Just thought I'd post here for others who may have the same issue and to see if others have been able to get out of this loop. I have more than 8.5 hours in RTTS on this save, so this sucks.
TL;DR - A bug happens that swaps my player's position, and during that swap I am traded to a team that already has that position filled, so I never get to play. I am substituted out in the first inning of every game, and because of this the most ABs I get for an entire season is about 20, and I never get to play defense.