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I like this year as it rewards those who keep they topps now cards and not sell them back to the market. I’m all for rewarding the grind

Absolutely hate how The game makes pitches in the dirty hit table. And also the inside fastball is ridiculous. I’m sick of how this game gets worse the higher ranked u climb. Guys hitting bombs on pci that not even on the ball and early early but my perfect pci just garbage or when I do make contract is weak. Crazy part is usually end of game some fluke happen as wel

@ny_giants4_life said in Ranked at HOF is not really that fun…:

@mrwonderful95 said in Ranked at HOF is not really that fun…:

@genopolanco_psn said in Ranked at HOF is not really that fun…:

@mrwonderful95 said in Ranked at HOF is not really that fun…:

Edit to this post..I’m not sure but is CS legend ir HOF?

Depends on your opponents rating. Whoever is highest. 700-899 is HOF but if you play someone ranked 900+ it’s legend.

Gotcha. Thanks for clarifying. All RS should be one difficulty. Switching between different pitch speeds is inane.

its been a major complaint over the years and they thought that the new system would fix it but it definitely doesn't. Bouncing between all star/ HOF or HOF/legend game after game is beyond stupid

I hate how when I’m grinding my way up RS I can’t play any other modes because it kills my timing and wouldn’t hit a [censored] thing until 1-2 games to adjust

I’ve never done pinpoint pitching but I’ve heard all the best players do it. I see why. Meter pitching is the worse. Perfect input and still meatballs. Good inputs and balls thrown nowhere near i located. I’ve lost plenty of games because pitches I wanted as balls been thrown over the plate and strike locations seems to miss the plate. Why have perfect input and still miss when guys on precision pinpoint can locate pitches to the dot no matter what type of pitch. Just because I don’t wanna use pinpoint doesn’t mean I should be punished but at this point I see I may just have to make the switch

K/9 adjusts the timing window. Meaning need better timing.
H/9 adjust on how many good placements find themselves as hits. IE good placement from batter might draw more line drives or hits into ground than someone with low h/9

@doobiebross66-72 said in Hello, here I am complaining again…:

@hfxebo_psn said in Hello, here I am complaining again…:

@ibonafidescrub_ said in Hello, here I am complaining again…:

@doobiebross66-72 said in Hello, here I am complaining again…:

@ibonafidescrub_ said in Hello, here I am complaining again…:

@doobiebross66-72 said in Hello, here I am complaining again…:

Yup that’s brutal

Man, stick skills do not matter, I’ve been cheated in so many differnet ways in my last 4 or 5 games.

I’m with you. I’m 49-5 in ranked and my last few games on HOF have just been disgusting

Last game my opponent was closing in on his 10th K but was beating me 1-0, and had 5-6 hits to my 2

I had 0 strikeouts at that point. None of my good contact would go for a hit. Just lineout after lineout

His first run came off a leadoff double when he swung very late on an inside sinker that he blooper the other way against the shift. The game decides to reward that swing/input while simultaneously screwing me over when I’d swing with good timing and pci placement

He then went up 3-0 off a 2 run shot that was a good swing. But funny how right when he went up 3, I hit a 2 run shot with Brett on a swing where my PCI barely scraped the ball…the game decided the reward that swing?? It felt disgusting

I ended up winning 4-3 in extras but it was the most frustrating and unenjoyable experience. Feels like you’re battling a terribly programmed game as well as your opponent

Yes, they need to let bad hitters do bad and good hitters do good.

I’m 41-14 and I can guarantee that least in half of my 14 lost games I’ve been screwed over by the game.

There is absolutely nothing to complain about when u 45-14

Just because you have a good record in a game doesn’t mean you can’t voice your opinion or frustration with the game

I’m 49-5 and have had garbage experiences time and time again in this game when playing H2H. Do I choose to still play the game knowing this? Yeah cause I love baseball

But gameplay this year is just bad, doesn’t matter if you’re great at the game or average, the game plays terribly online

What am I saying is ur prolly got lucky more than often than your opponent as well. A lot of us play a lot of games and very much so we fall on the bad side of thing more than the good side. I understand ur complaining but also realize that the baseball gods are on your side more than not. A lot of us are stuck around the same level because of the constant BS game after game. But gameplay absolutely sucks. I just played a game where I had 25 good contacts and only 4 hits while my opponent had 20 good contacts and 15 of them went for hits and even 2 homers

Every time I come back to playing this game I say the same thing. I mean if it isn’t a defender not being urgent to throw the ball with men on base or homer runs on balls clearly outside the zone or being able to foul off balls off the screen. I mean everything about this game is flawed at this point. You make good contact and poor results while your opponent punishes balls out side the zone and below his knees or inside of his elbows. The list goes on and on. Every year is new hope but by time the summer comes it’s just wayyyy too trash. I mean I have guys not turning double plays because they sit in the ball and not reach to what’s going on. My biggest issue is just the extra ordinary amount of times I make good contact and hammer balls only to end up into gloves while my opponent hammers balls outside the zone and off the plate. I can’t punish meatballs even tho when I make contact balls flying 110+ off the bat. This is my last year buying this game after 5+ years of dedication. At this stage of seasons there are so many OP cards that it just isn’t even worth playing. Guys swing at every pitch and foul balls off while I wait for good pitches and when I do hammer them nothing.

The name of the game is pitching. As you climb ranks or difficultly the game gets hard to locate pitches on the black. If your opponent has a low control rating and/or bb/9 making him pitch a lot will help get walks and more hit table pitches since he cannot for the corners as well as those with higher control numbers. Personally I play with no PCI indicator so I can get a full view of the pitch. I would suggest always sit inside since those pitches require a quick input. Also look for 1 or 2 pitches the whole game. Personally I like to sit high and inside since that is one of the tougher pitches to get to and if you show your opponent they can’t keep throwing that pitch most likely your gonna get a lot of meatballs. I wanna finally say sit your pitch. I can’t stress it enough. Note the pattern of ur opponent and if you find yourself striking out slot it prolly means ur chasing .the pitcher will throw you balls in ur area you just gotta sit and wait for them. The best time to practice this is with no one on and nobody out. Getting 1 player on base creates a lot of stress for most pitchers and players.GOOD LUCK TO ALL

Yesterday I watched a game where about 5-6 pitches was smacked pretty much perfect perfect all for it to end up str8 to an outfielder or line drive to second base

@khain24_psn said in All-star DD is the worst:

@hfxebo_psn said in All-star DD is the worst:

ng on the pitch and location in general you always wanna be just early on the fast ball and sit back in the off speed. When you perfect/perfect a off speed pitch it’s almost always a extra base hit unless it’s super low in the zone. Hitting p/p center is just hitting to center fields, slightly early or late hits the gaps. Anything early on outside pitches is a pull which is not what you want. Anything inside of you late ur dead.

That is literally not how Perfect/Perfect works at all. Perfect Perfect means basically hitting the sweet spot of the bat with perfect swing timing for that location. It SHOULD result in higher exit velos and more often than not hits. P/P swings can go to any field...people (including myself) have even managed to pull some pitches foul on P/P swings.

The top diamond is flyball (means your getting it up in the air), middle is line drive and bottom diamond is grounder (or sometimes low line drive). There would be zero purpose for having P/P results if being early or late was supposed to be the better result.

Game continues to prove my point regarding timing though...in RS last night had several balls center PCI good timing that just lazy fly outs.....guy had early side of good timing on a fairly off center PCI placement and hit a HR. There is some weird dead zone middle-upper PCI. Every time I get good timing with that placement its basically a routine fly out which makes zero sense.

Game ended with me getting a 2-1 win. We both had 4 hits. My 2 runs came off P/P HRs.

I had guys swing early not just early but early on outside sliders in the zone and go yard numerous times, let’s not talk about the times just early or good timing with PCI placement on sliders just got them to hit the warning track or hang in the air for outfielders to get under. Then the inside fastballs are ridiculous how I can get around to them but for my PCI to be slightly off and it’s a pop up even with good timing. I’m over the inconsistency. Literally every game I lose is because I give up 1-2 HR solos just for me to all game make contact and get line outs or warning track shots with over 90+ even 110+ power while my opponent plays with gold or low diamonds with not even comparable power but they launching shots over the wall with bad pci placement and upper Diamond pitcher. I just want consistency

So u want hitting to be random but pitching to be absolute???? Whatever. Point is not one pitcher in this world can dot up pitches all game long no matter who they are. Pin point pitching is much easier than pin point hitting. I hit sliders on the nail all the time and I get liners and balls right to players. I ask for a low change up, hit the meter perfect snd still the ball hangs. Well that happens sometimes but don’t make it where when I do throw ball into the dirt and the guy swings and fouls off when his bat isn’t even close to the dirt in the ground. If ur gonna make one absolute u gotta make the other. And yes if I have a 90+ overall team I would expect a higher scoring game than if I had 80+ team just because I expect to have better outcomes because better attributes. Guys have terrible pitchers who pitch like Nolan ryan

@xfoufoufou_psn said in PINPOINT pitching ruined this game:

Im not saying pitches should be meat ball but have some of them miss a little... and have some offspeed pitches have less break sometimes..... Man in real life some can struggle to even find the zone ... Here everybody is Greg Maddux on steroid... draw walks ? thats out of the game almost completely lol... fastball count ? here comes the offspeed on the corner lol

Like i said it all started with people crying that they wanted perfect output which is the complete opposite of baseball... same thing people crying when they hit HR with ball slightly off the PCI....or perfect perfect into Outs

THATS BASEBALL ... some randomness

Yea and power swing is completely useless. I’ve hit some balls with good pci placement and the ball got chopped right into a ground ball. There is no way guys are fouling off balls in the dirt and dropping into the dirt but guys actually get more base hits and home runs on balls below the zone than balls in the zone

Lmk if link doesn’t work

I love the game because it’s the closest game to real baseball available but if we are going to be real we can’t let guys who come in and play just waltz they way thru the game. Literally last 4 games I have had i only have up 3-5 hits all game just for 1-3 of them leave the yard because of random hitting. 1 is always going to leave the yard when the pci placement wasn’t even good. I’ll take a hit but not a home run. Also fastballs are more effective this year I feel like but what’s really cheese for me is when I do get hit table pitches that I wait for a work the count and run up the count they do nothing. I hammer usually 8-12 hits a game but maybe 1 would leave the yard and majority of my outs come from good PCI placement but run right into a ground ball.

@fender-1829_psn said in Balls way out zone getting contact:

I'm grinding other things for now. Will not play against other users on here. The contact swing thing. People losing and letting the clock run down to 1 sec. Just to let it build back up. And do it again. And guys making videos on YouTube about this don't help nothing last ten games contact swingers every pitch.

If they just would make one event give away a 90+ live player it wouldn’t really kill them. If they gonna do live events then have this even for a best live player. If you miss the event oh well but it is rewarding to those playing still early in the season

My last 6 homers given up have all been out of the strike zones. Cutters inside off the plate a lot, sliders in off the plate, sinkers diving in the dirt. I mean for all these to be homers and not just maybe hits is atrocious. Anyone else having same thing happen to them?

@bobbyromano24 said in Ranked at HOF is not really that fun…:

After facing Edward Cabrera on HOF…ugh

Lol I pitched a no hitter with him first time
Up.

All I do is conquest games for the program and by time im done those bam enough

Yea bro I have so many games like this and the guy hits like 4 balls for homers with 12ks or more but I can’t hit nothing I put bat on