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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 balls.

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 balls 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 balls 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?

@lucas8181_mlbts said in The Show 22 Little Billy Collectors Edition:

@gundamhufflepuff_psn said in The Show 22 Little Billy Collectors Edition:

@lucas8181_mlbts said in The Show 22 Little Billy Collectors Edition:

@parradox-cam_psn said in The Show 22 Little Billy Collectors Edition:

@lucas8181_mlbts said in The Show 22 Little Billy Collectors Edition:

@parradox-cam_psn said in The Show 22 Little Billy Collectors Edition:

@lucas8181_mlbts said in The Show 22 Little Billy Collectors Edition:

@parradox-cam_psn said in The Show 22 Little Billy Collectors Edition:

@chuckclc_psn said in The Show 22 Little Billy Collectors Edition:

@parradox-cam_psn said in The Show 22 Little Billy Collectors Edition:

@lucas8181_mlbts said in The Show 22 Little Billy Collectors Edition:

@parradox-cam_psn said in The Show 22 Little Billy Collectors Edition:

@lucas8181_mlbts said in The Show 22 Little Billy Collectors Edition:

@parradox-cam_psn said in The Show 22 Little Billy Collectors Edition:

@lucas8181_mlbts said in The Show 22 Little Billy Collectors Edition:

@parradox-cam_psn said in The Show 22 Little Billy Collectors Edition:

Little Billy playing 22 on his new Switch….gotta dumb down the hitting and crank the RNG up to a level never been to before.

Don’t worry Billy, SDS removed the opponent feedback so your opponent can’t call you out on your non PCI nukes or make you feel bad for using Timing.

One of my favorite parts of a new edition of this game coming out are all the conspiracy theories.

This is the same game as it has been every other year. They reskin it, update rosters, and change a few programs. They could care less about specific modifications to cater to the 30 switch players on their servers.

@lucas8181_mlbts said in The Show 22 Little Billy Collectors Edition:

@parradox-cam_psn said in The Show 22 Little Billy Collectors Edition:

Little Billy playing 22 on his new Switch….gotta dumb down the hitting and crank the RNG up to a level never been to before.

Don’t worry Billy, SDS removed the opponent feedback so your opponent can’t call you out on your non PCI nukes or make you feel bad for using Timing.

One of my favorite parts of a new edition of this game coming out are all the conspiracy theories.

This is the same game as it has been every other year. They reskin it, update rosters, and change a few programs. They could care less about specific modifications to cater to the 30 switch players on their servers.

All it would take is for SDS to explain why feedback was removed, they have that answer. Why so quiet about it?

They've answered it the last 3 years, maybe you are new or don't pay attention?

Opponent feedback was not accurate. As you might imagine, it's very difficult to accurately send data from one system to another in a split second with all the other programing and bandwidth variables. It's never been correct.

They removed it because people on this forum constantly cried about non-PCI homeruns, when in reality, they were just seeing the wrong information. It was intended to be an estimate of what your opponent did, not a black and white representation. People struggled to comprehend that, so they did the only logical thing, they stopped telling you the approximate location of your opponents PCI.

I’d like to see where they said that.

Btw…feedback must be inaccurate on both ends cause I’m cheesing with non PCI nukes myself, that I clearly see on my own feedback.

So if feedback is inaccurate all together… a perfect isn’t a perfect.

Watch any of the streams from last year or leading up to this year. Just because you didn't see it doesn't mean it didn't happen bud.

There's a whole world out there beyond your tiny existence.

Ok, say I take your word for it and feedback isn’t accurate. Then why is our own feedback in the game still if it’s not accurate?

Opponents feedback man. We been saying this for days. Syncing that info in real time isnt always gonna be accurate. Just like where a player is on the field, sometimes it looks like they are in a spot then they warp to another. To them it looks normal.

And what I’ve been saying for days is that it must be broke on both ends cause I’m balling with more non PCI hits than last year. If that’s happening for me, I’m sure it’s happening to others, I know it is cause I’ve seen others post they’re feedback….so non PCI hits are still cancer in this game.

The “inaccurate feedback” is not an excuse for bs hits.

I'm just curious, what do you believe the PCI represents? What is PCI specifically? That might be the root of your frustrations.

The PCI is a magic circle and if you get the ball anywhere near it….magic happens.

So you don't know? That might explain your frustration and incorrect expectations.

Good luck bud, enjoy the game.

No I don’t know, it’s never been explained. Do you know?

Do you know why they haven’t removed our own inaccurate feedback yet?

My man, it's been explained for years. The PCI represents your players eyes. Eyes and bats are not the same thing.

How can you come here and complain, yet be so uninformed? It's the same as someone complaining about a political stance because they read something on social media, but did absolutely zero research on the subject.

My dude. Are you such a sheep that you believe that BS answer. They made that excuse years ago on a livestream cause it’s better than admitting your entire engine is [censored]. Stop being a sheep for SDS.

Sheep, the go to attack for a certain group of folks. Sorry man, I can't help ya there.

good luck though!

Spoken like a true sheep

@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 BS hits 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

@lucas8181_mlbts said in The Show 22 Little Billy Collectors Edition:

@parradox-cam_psn said in The Show 22 Little Billy Collectors Edition:

@lucas8181_mlbts said in The Show 22 Little Billy Collectors Edition:

@parradox-cam_psn said in The Show 22 Little Billy Collectors Edition:

@lucas8181_mlbts said in The Show 22 Little Billy Collectors Edition:

@parradox-cam_psn said in The Show 22 Little Billy Collectors Edition:

@chuckclc_psn said in The Show 22 Little Billy Collectors Edition:

@parradox-cam_psn said in The Show 22 Little Billy Collectors Edition:

@lucas8181_mlbts said in The Show 22 Little Billy Collectors Edition:

@parradox-cam_psn said in The Show 22 Little Billy Collectors Edition:

@lucas8181_mlbts said in The Show 22 Little Billy Collectors Edition:

@parradox-cam_psn said in The Show 22 Little Billy Collectors Edition:

@lucas8181_mlbts said in The Show 22 Little Billy Collectors Edition:

@parradox-cam_psn said in The Show 22 Little Billy Collectors Edition:

Little Billy playing 22 on his new Switch….gotta dumb down the hitting and crank the RNG up to a level never been to before.

Don’t worry Billy, SDS removed the opponent feedback so your opponent can’t call you out on your non PCI nukes or make you feel bad for using Timing.

One of my favorite parts of a new edition of this game coming out are all the conspiracy theories.

This is the same game as it has been every other year. They reskin it, update rosters, and change a few programs. They could care less about specific modifications to cater to the 30 switch players on their servers.

@lucas8181_mlbts said in The Show 22 Little Billy Collectors Edition:

@parradox-cam_psn said in The Show 22 Little Billy Collectors Edition:

Little Billy playing 22 on his new Switch….gotta dumb down the hitting and crank the RNG up to a level never been to before.

Don’t worry Billy, SDS removed the opponent feedback so your opponent can’t call you out on your non PCI nukes or make you feel bad for using Timing.

One of my favorite parts of a new edition of this game coming out are all the conspiracy theories.

This is the same game as it has been every other year. They reskin it, update rosters, and change a few programs. They could care less about specific modifications to cater to the 30 switch players on their servers.

All it would take is for SDS to explain why feedback was removed, they have that answer. Why so quiet about it?

They've answered it the last 3 years, maybe you are new or don't pay attention?

Opponent feedback was not accurate. As you might imagine, it's very difficult to accurately send data from one system to another in a split second with all the other programing and bandwidth variables. It's never been correct.

They removed it because people on this forum constantly cried about non-PCI homeruns, when in reality, they were just seeing the wrong information. It was intended to be an estimate of what your opponent did, not a black and white representation. People struggled to comprehend that, so they did the only logical thing, they stopped telling you the approximate location of your opponents PCI.

I’d like to see where they said that.

Btw…feedback must be inaccurate on both ends cause I’m cheesing with non PCI nukes myself, that I clearly see on my own feedback.

So if feedback is inaccurate all together… a perfect isn’t a perfect.

Watch any of the streams from last year or leading up to this year. Just because you didn't see it doesn't mean it didn't happen bud.

There's a whole world out there beyond your tiny existence.

Ok, say I take your word for it and feedback isn’t accurate. Then why is our own feedback in the game still if it’s not accurate?

Opponents feedback man. We been saying this for days. Syncing that info in real time isnt always gonna be accurate. Just like where a player is on the field, sometimes it looks like they are in a spot then they warp to another. To them it looks normal.

And what I’ve been saying for days is that it must be broke on both ends cause I’m balling with more non PCI hits than last year. If that’s happening for me, I’m sure it’s happening to others, I know it is cause I’ve seen others post they’re feedback….so non PCI hits are still cancer in this game.

The “inaccurate feedback” is not an excuse for bs hits.

I'm just curious, what do you believe the PCI represents? What is PCI specifically? That might be the root of your frustrations.

The PCI is a magic circle and if you get the ball anywhere near it….magic happens.

So you don't know? That might explain your frustration and incorrect expectations.

Good luck bud, enjoy the game.

No I don’t know, it’s never been explained. Do you know?

Do you know why they haven’t removed our own inaccurate feedback yet?

My man, it's been explained for years. The PCI represents your players eyes. Eyes and bats are not the same thing.

How can you come here and complain, yet be so uninformed? It's the same as someone complaining about a political stance because they read something on social media, but did absolutely zero research on the subject.

My dude. Are you such a sheep that you believe that BS answer. They made that excuse years ago on a livestream cause it’s better than admitting your entire engine is [censored]. Stop being a sheep for SDS.

@stinkysman77_mlbts said in The Show 22 Little Billy Collectors Edition:

People who say little billy sound so weak and immature

People who comment on people making little billy comments need to be quiet ‍️

@bjd10048842_psn said in The Show 22 Little Billy Collectors Edition:

@parradox-cam_psn said in The Show 22 Little Billy Collectors Edition:

Little Billy playing 22 on his new Switch….gotta dumb down the hitting and crank the RNG up to a level never been to before.

Don’t worry Billy, SDS removed the opponent feedback so your opponent can’t call you out on your non PCI nukes or make you feel bad for using Timing.

MLB 22 The Roulette Edition️

Every time you swing, SDS spins the wheel to randomly determine your hit outcome!!!

Don’t forget that when you’re up going into the last inning, SDS cranks that RNG in favor of the losing team so little Billy feels some success.