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The worst is when idiots get multiple dinky hits and then when bases are juiced, the blast some pitch on the edge of the plate. Sick of losing to bad players.

@bjd10048842_psn said in Online Gameplay is Soul-Sucking:

Just played 4 straight event games that went into extra innings because no one can score.

80% of “good” contact is resulting in lazy fly [censored].

There is no point in playing this game online right now. I wanted to go for some of the reward but playing online feels like you’re a hamster in a wheel - tons of effort but making 0 progress.

I could post the PCI screenshots etc, but we’ve all seen plenty of those and know how bad hitting is.

Thank god we get content on Friday so my offline XP can actually go towards something. I can’t blame anyone who wants to boycott online gameplay until there’s a patch. Otherwise you’re wasting your time w this slot machine / dead ball hitting system.

edit: 5th straight game went into extras. Took 6 innings but I finally won 1 of the 5 games. We need more line drives in this game. IDK why its so hard to implement.

It’s ridiculous. Game is an absolute joke. I get a majority good PCI placement and timing only for it to be a pop up while my opponent doesn’t do [censored] until extra innings and then gets contact base hits to load the bases until my pitchers confidence is reduced enough where he hits a lucky gap shot for the win.

@t-rox_09_mlbts said in This event is brutal…:

@deetch_30_psn said in This event is brutal…:

I’m not gonna complain about the gameplay. But I am gonna complain about this event.

I wish that they would just skip to extra innings because all my games go to them anyways. It’s full of 0-0 games with 2 hits combined.

Once you get into extra innings you get a combination of Chapman, Dibble or Clase or whoever else has 100+ pitch speed. Just when hitting was already hard enough in this event it’s flamethrowers with 99 break 99 velo.

Not to mention if you make good time Inc and contact they are fly out because this stadium is complete the amount of [censored] that I have hit 430 to center just to be fly outs. The home runs that are hit in this event are just early or just late.

This event is terrible and should never be added back to the game ever.

This event is a blast and the field is great for gap hitters and speed guys. The only bad part I found was the difficulty seeing the ball out of the pitchers hand during the day. Other than that I didn't feel like exit velocities we're low and I felt the ball traveled well.

Once you said exit velocities were fine, I knew you were lying. No way you actually having the ball travel well.

@daddydingerz_psn said in Is online gameplay really that awful?:

I’ve been playing The Show for years and I’m not usually one to complain, but online gameplay feels more inconsistent than ever to me. Overall the game has just been yucky so far.

Have y’all liked online gameplay so far or are y’all having similar experiences?

Yes. It is that awful. I’m tired of losing to idiots who get lucky hits.

@theonlyyetti_psn said in RS server disconnect:

This game is frustrating. Playing a ranked game up 2-0 top 3. Server disconnect u get a loss. Loose like 50 points in ranked wtf. Has to stop happening.

Just had that happen to me. Up 2-0 in the 4th and BOOM I’ve been disconnected from the servers and given the loss. What an absolute joke.

Couldn’t agree more. Outer PCI is terrible and needs to be removed.

@tmichae10_psn said in This is the worst game ever made.:

@balsamicarrow88 said in This is the worst game ever made.:

It’s an embarrassment to the gaming industry. SDS are as shady as they come, they stole our money. Contact swing is all everybody does. They should be embarrassed by this so called game. Give us our money back!

Then just go do something else?

I don’t do it often here, but can’t imagine any posts from you being valuable with this type of commentary….adding to the block list.

It’s actually very valuable, but I’m sure a sheep like you wouldn’t understand. Please add me to your blocked list. I promise I won’t lose sleep over it.

@gixxerryder750 said in Mlb the line out 22:

I know all the complainers will say no cause it's all the games fault, but is the ball in the center of the PCI at least? Is it occurring with guys that have the center dot in the PCI the largest? What's your swing plane look like?

Nice straw man. Nobody is saying it’s 100% the games fault in every situation. People are complaining about the consistent instances where patient hitters with good input are not rewarded and bad swings are rewarded. In BR games, even if it happens once in 12 games, that’s once too many as it can ruin a run.

@codywolfgang_xbl said in SDS Ruined Pinpoint Pitching:

@doobiebross66-72 said in SDS Ruined Pinpoint Pitching:

@aaronjw76_psn said in SDS Ruined Pinpoint Pitching:

Can you show me your complaints last year about non-perfect inputs (all 3 of them) resulting in perfect dots?

We all know you got perfect results from less than perfect inputs so if you didn't complain last year then don't complain this year.

I doubt I complained about PPP last year because the results of your input were actually consistent…

I praised PPP last year because it actually made pitching a more viable skill to lean on

This year? They obviously nerfed how accurate you can be with it even with highly rated control pitchers

Have no idea what point you’re trying to make

I don’t think you can really use the word skill to describe using PPP.

In my opinion you are wrong on this a little. It still goes in the right spot 9/10 times. If you are facing a great hitter, just like in real life you have to aim a little further from the zone to make sure it doesn’t leak back over the plate.

I enjoy hitting, not making circle gestures with my right stick. I welcome this change personally. Hopefully they can find a balance one day. If you want to see skill in pitching force everyone to use meter.

Doesn’t matter if it’s 9/10 times. In a 3 inning BR game, that one time can make or break a run. Perfect input with a pitch outside the zone should never be near the zone 10/10 times.

@doobiebross66-72 said in SDS Ruined Pinpoint Pitching:

Again and again I start a pitch on the edge of the zone, perfect input with pitchers that have good control ratings and what happens time and time again? The pitch leaks over the plate

My god, PPP was one of the improvements they made last year and they’ve gone and COMPLETELY butchered it this year

Yet again, let’s force more randomness into H2H play and force pitches over the plate

The more I play this game the worse and worse it gets, and I have 0 faith in their patches to get this right

I know it’s early, but 22 is already looking like a complete failure for H2H play

You think that’s bad? I’ve pointed a slider low and away out of the zone with perfect input and the ball just breaks right in the bottom middle of the zone resulting in a smashed home run.

@jordan23win_psn said in Best version of The Show yet:

@d_e_m_i_s_e_psn said in Best version of The Show yet:

@jordan23win_psn said in Best version of The Show yet:

@d_e_m_i_s_e_psn said in Best version of The Show yet:

@toast2thegodz_psn said in Best version of The Show yet:

@parradox-cam_psn said in Best version of The Show yet:

Your right, I don’t understand how non PCI nukes are possible.

I also don’t understand why they keep feedback in the game if it’s inaccurate.

Since your implying that you understand the game, please explain.

Bc not every HR irl is squared up- and then depending on the batter and his power yes [censored] can go out of the park not being totally squared up

You are correct. Pete Alonzo can mishit a ball out of the park where someone like Whit Merrifield can't. However, During my laggy rs game last night, my cap with 99 power hit an almost center pci good swing to left field at Laughing Mountain. Either the laggy servers were giving me the wrong information (even though that is where my pci was) or the game did not reward my good swing. Either is not correct. I highly doubt if we were in the studio testing and I did this that this would be the outcome.

Timing of your swing is just as important if not more important that PCI placement.

Are you saying the only outcome possible for your swing should be a hit bc of your PCI placement? That is an unrealistic expectation if so

Good timing swing almost center of pci should be a hard hit ball EVERY time. Yes, some will be right at someone but I shouldn't consistently have good timing almost middle of the pci swings be a routine fly ball.

If a pitch is on the inside half and you’re even slightly late you have a much higher chance for result to be a pop up. Same for outside half and slightly early

Nobody is disagreeing with that. Nice straw man. People are complaining about things like sliders so far in that it is impossible to hit homers the way a lot of people do. There are thousands of examples but you chose to focus on one situation where someone is slightly late and then act like those kinds of things are what people take issue with.

@jordan23win_psn said in Best version of The Show yet:

Stop the complaining and learn the game. We’ve come a long way from center pci Good/Good timing weak groundouts. Not every pitch is going to go exactly where you want it. Not every perfect/perfect is going to be a HR. This is baseball simulation at it finest.

This is the best gameplay yet and this is coming from a year in year out full game grinder. Tired of all the bellyaching going on around here. Learning to hit is not easy. Go into batting practice on Legend against Randy and don’t leave until you can see time the fastball and lay off the breaking pitches.

Sorry this is not a well thought out rant after mindless grinding of events all night but all the “issues” I’m seeing posted are mostly lack of understanding of this game. Sure there’s always going for be something slightly wrong, nothing’s perfect, but c’mon guys this game is FIRE!

Please come at me with all you’re problems that are the games fault and have “nothing” to do with your user input.

Bold of you to assume that only people who are bad at the game are complaining. These issues are not about people complaining they get bad input. People are having good input and not getting rewarded consistently while they face people who swing at everything off the plate and getting bloop hits or homers. If you can’t even admit there are some glaring issues that need to be fixed then you have gone full sheep and are a lost cause.

It’s called RNG and is designed to give a player an opportunity to hit if the game feels they haven’t gotten much success. Player input sometimes matter. The game has to keep crappy players from quitting which would cause them to lose revenue.

They’ve left it like this for years, why would they magically do something useful now?

@doobiebross66-72 said in Online Hitting Can't be Fixed:

@mrwonderful95 said in Online Hitting Can't be Fixed:

I have to imagine it’s a P2P issue with timing windows. I’ve played some MTO on HOF and the game plays beautifully. Online the timing is definitely different.

It’s 100% a P2P issue

I’ve harped on this last year: this is a game that milliseconds can decide the difference between a good hit or an out

WHY does SDS not invest in dedicated servers or at minimum, improve what we’re working with today.

The quality of H2H play is highly dictated by the quality of your connection with some random person somewhere in the country

How [censored] asinine is that?! This game H2H still has 0 consistency game to game.

One game, pitches look normal, swing timing makes sense and H2H play is actually good

The next? Nothing makes sense, you’re suddenly late on slower fastballs, exit velocities make 0 sense, and you’re left wondering wtf happened

Until SDS invests into dedicated servers, H2H play will be inconsistent at best.

I need to remember this next year. I guarantee 23 will not be any better

Didn’t you know? According to the sheep in another thread. All these problems are YOUR fault and you need to take accountability for them. Never mind the fact that SDS has taken zero accountability themselves and instead just lie and make excuses.

@lucas8181_mlbts said in Please somebody defend this BS!:

@gundamhufflepuff_psn said in Please somebody defend this BS!:

SDS can lie all they want, but there is definitely a comeback mechanic. I was up in a BR game 7-2 with this dude hitting nothing all game then magically scores 5 runs in the bottom of the third off of B[censored]s then winds up winning cause I can’t be perfect every [censored] inning. Game is an absolute joke. Pitching, fielding, hitting. It’s all a pile of [censored].

In general, when I fail, I find it's easier to blame magical and mythical imaginary people. Then, I don't have to take responsibility for my actions, or attempt to improve.

Glad to see you take the same path. F self accountability, totally over rated.

It’s amazing to me how blinded you are to the truth. Continue being the good little sheep that you are. People like you are part of the problem. You can’t justify that BS, so it must just be the player’s fault right. The irony of telling a player to take accountability when SDS takes ZERO themselves

@vbald_xbl said in New car smell:

Wow I’ve never seen so many cry babies in my life. Just play the game and stop crying. It’s baseball, great contact will sometimes be an out and weak contact will sometimes find some grass.

Such a false equivalency, it’s amazing that you have your head so far up your [censored] just like SDS. This isn’t just random hits here and there. In games like BR, it only takes 1-2 shitty hits to screw a 12-0 run. Grow a pair and stop being a sheep.

@kotank1334_psn said in New car smell:

@jeezy-e_psn said in New car smell:

@kotank1334_psn said in New car smell:

Kinda starting to wear off and the more I play ( especially online) the more I realize nothing has changed at all and I bought a lemon.

This is why I wait until mid life cycle to jump online.

Well given the track record.... it's not gonna be much better then either LOL. But I get it. let em "fix" things.

Was REALLY optimistic when it first dropped. felt like playing a baseball game again... that faded quickly.

They will never fix anything. They’ll just lie and ignore the problems cause that’s what they do best.

SDS can lie all they want, but there is definitely a comeback mechanic. I was up in a BR game 7-2 with this dude hitting nothing all game then magically scores 5 runs in the bottom of the third off of B[censored]s then winds up winning cause I can’t be perfect every fucking inning. Game is an absolute joke. Pitching, fielding, hitting. It’s all a pile of [censored].

@dap1234567890 said in It's not a new topic but:

@parradox-cam_psn said in It's not a new topic but:

They want them to win, they want them to keep playing. Every UT game I’ve played, the gameplay feels manipulated. Only the players who can battle through the bs consistently will come out on top.

You may want to loosen up the straps on your tin foil hat!

Except that’s literally what’s happening. Quit being an SDS sheep