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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.

@CookieMonster64_NSW said in Outside strike zone homers:

@hfxebo_PSN said in Outside strike zone homers:

This game is just full of BS. I play against guys who are absolutely trash but because they can hit balls 6inches below the strike zone they get rewarded. I have had more home runs and XBH against me on balls under the strike zone than in the strike zone. Guys in the big leagues are not even swinging at balls n the dirt let alone getting solid contact. How am I suppose to expand the strike zone when balls outside the plate are getting smacked. This game also doesn’t reward you for the same efforts. Pitchers I have are all 95+ in the HR/9 department but give up 2-3 homers on balls outside the zone. This game is just full of arcade madness and it sucks no other games out there to compete and make content better

Couldn't agree more. The game is trying to make it easier for worse players to win.

With all these high level players they need to nerf the pci .

Yea it’s bad . PCI shouldn’t even be allowed to go 6inches to the inside and 6inches to the bottom of zones. I have guys fouling balls off that doesn’t even make any sense. About to hit the batter and getting fouls and balls hitting the plate getting fouled off

Guys throwing 100 when they have half energy or no energy wtf. This game is just all arcade no skill

This game is just full of BS. I play against guys who are absolutely trash but because they can hit balls 6inches below the strike zone they get rewarded. I have had more home runs and XBH against me on balls under the strike zone than in the strike zone. Guys in the big leagues are not even swinging at balls n the dirt let alone getting solid contact. How am I suppose to expand the strike zone when balls outside the plate are getting smacked. This game also doesn’t reward you for the same efforts. Pitchers I have are all 95+ in the HR/9 department but give up 2-3 homers on balls outside the zone. This game is just full of arcade madness and it sucks no other games out there to compete and make content better

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?

@dlgltal-athlete_psn said in Cross play:

@hfxebo_psn said in Cross play:

How do I turn it off. Every game I play against an XBOX player is complete ******ery. Every time I get good contact on balls they go nowhere but my opponent could get balls anywhere they wanted with so so contact. I’ve literally played games where I no hit my opponent and have 10 plus hits but still lose because meter pitching decides to meatball

Select your The Show profile icon through your console and tab over to where it shows Cross Play and select to turn it off

When I tried it is stuck in ON. I can’t change it

@ibonafidescrub_ 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

There is man, this is a videogame. There has to be some type of consistency in what determines the outcomes, players should be rewarded and punished in accordance to their input and it has to go both ways.

I expect consistency, I want to be punished when I don’t do good, just the same way I expect to be rewarded when I do. Baseball is not like soke other sports, so of course I know not every squared up ball will find grass or leave the ballpark, I just want the game to be the same to both players

And I completely agree especially when someone uses pinpoint and it doesn’t matter what they control is they can pinpoint every pitch. I also expect for certain pitchers to not be overly opp and play above they rating. This game has so many flaws and there is so many times I lose just because by time inning 5 comes around I’m completely outdone by the lack of consistency. Every year I usually at least hit championship this year I can’t even touch it despite good inputs. The worse part is pitchers with great control and bb/9 are missing terribly and then my opponent with terrible contact gets hits and homers

@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

@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

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

How do I turn it off. Every game I play against an XBOX player is complete ******ery. Every time I get good contact on balls they go nowhere but my opponent could get balls anywhere they wanted with so so contact. I’ve literally played games where I no hit my opponent and have 10 plus hits but still lose because meter pitching decides to meatball

I’m a white Sox fan and I absolutely hate hitting against this guy. He can locate everything and every pitch comes out looking the same. Even when I’m on the location and pitch somehow I’m too early or completely misses. Then if the opponent picks a sunny park I can’t even see the spin because of the arm angles. It’s just as worse as 99 randy Johnson because the inside sinker slider combo is absolutely insane.

Yea pinpoint is overpowering because even the best can’t paint the corners like how they portray it.

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

@drg179_psn said in Pisssed with these servers:

@hfxebo_psn said in Pisssed with these servers:

Earlier I couldn’t find a game because it told me I wasn’t a PlayStation plus member then when I finally almost get to championship series the servers drop me in a 1-1 game ranked 770+ and I lose the game. That’s three more games in a row I gotta win but I completely cracked my controller in half afterward out of pure fustration with this game. If it isn’t a p/p with men on that goes to infielders it’s a blop single that the opponent hits for the game after I pitched a perfect game. I’m just so sick of these [censored] servers killing my momentum. Welp I gotta go order another controller but at this point I’m sick of the servers disconnecting me

Yeah I had that ps plus glitch.

It’s just a complete nut job. How can I grind to WS when as soon as I get close to championships I get killed with a server issue. Then I get matched up with a 99 RANDY JOHNSON and that’s just about another L. Most of my games up in this ranking are 1-2 score games so it’s nerve racking

Earlier I couldn’t find a game because it told me I wasn’t a PlayStation plus member then when I finally almost get to championship series the servers drop me in a 1-1 game ranked 770+ and I lose the game. That’s three more games in a row I gotta win but I completely cracked my controller in half afterward out of pure fustration with this game. If it isn’t a p/p with men on that goes to infielders it’s a blop single that the opponent hits for the game after I pitched a perfect game. I’m just so sick of these [censored] servers killing my momentum. Welp I gotta go order another controller but at this point I’m sick of the servers disconnecting me

Everytime I play someone on XBOX I get the worse hit feedback and always some glitchy playing. I crushed two pitches perfectly and got line outs while my opponent didn’t get a single hit or walk until the 12th and it was a homer to win the game. Cross play for me is a no go and I can’t figure out how to turn it off

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

Never in the history of playing Mlb the show have I had a harder time completing a [censored] mission. 5 XBH within 3 games. I’m totally frustrated and I hate playing on rookie because it kills my timing when I play ranked season. I’m just totally ready to throw this game out the window over one [censored] moment. It’s unbelievable how I get good contact and everything is warning shots that the outfields catch