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By golly, it’s almost like you play one team and the next time you play a completely different team and the results aren’t the same...

Seems this patch brought back the worst of pitching and fielding... too big a gap between FBs and off speed plus swing input lag. Just terribly frustrating plate experience. Need to play franchise again to see if CPU has been adjusted. So many tools online, not worth the aggravation.

It can't just be me. Playing franchise on dynamic difficulty, HOF+ pitching, Legend+ hitting, and winning 13-3 with 4-5 HR? 20 games in, 16-4, 7.3 runs per game and 63 HR's. 2nd place team has 35 HR's. I've never had this problem. Played on HOF/HOF last year and won more than I lost, but was still a good challenge day in day out. Many more close, low scoring games where you had to sweat them out and felt rewarded for a late clutch hit or pitch. Feels like I've clinched the division in April this year, which is not at all exciting. Be one thing if I was on All-Star, but there's really nowhere left to go on difficulty unless I want 13-10 games. Really hope there's some difficulty patching in the works. CPU throws so many balls the pitch counts are in the 50-60's by the 3rd inning. Strike zone needs serious work too.

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@T-Rox_09 said in Why is CPU so easy?:

@boogiewithstu2 said in Why is CPU so easy?:

@T-Rox_09 said in Why is CPU so easy?:

I mean you're playing a computer program. If you want a real challenge try competing against another human.

WRONG ... the Show has always offered a good challenge with it's AI ... I get more of a challenge through that than most competition out there... Plus I don't always play online because the quality isn't that great... So you're acting like that's the normal which is BS, I've been playing the Show since the PS2 day's and it's offered a VERY good challenge with it's AI especially on the harder levels... Don't believe me then accept a challenge, go back to the Show 19 and put it on Legend difficulty pitching and hitting, good luck with the easy AI ....

If I wanted to play AI then I would charge up my Nintendo 64 again. I find zero fun in playing a computer. I must just be a little more competitive than you. Good luck though bro to each their own.

Yeah the variety in online is just riveting. Opponent starts Kluber, if he gets tired or is pinch hit for in a close game in comes Wood or Garrett. And the comment about being more competitive because you play a virtual version or a real sport online has me dying!

The devs don’t put a whole of time and effort into the franchise mode... trust me even the CPU is more challenging in all the DD content.

Not for nothing, I just find DD to be kind of lame. People complaining about realistic results when you have 9 v 9 diamond legends playing against each other and every guy with 80+ power... it’s like HR or die.

Just me or anyone else wondering how/why Corey Kluber became the best pitcher in the game? I don’t really get why you’d make a version of a player that’s significantly better than any individual year they’ve had. Maybe they have to mix it up year over year, but a 99 Kluber has never existed in the real world. I guess I’d like to see more “normal” ratings for players across the board. It’s stupid to have these diamond future stars that are better than regular gold guys who are all-stars. It would play a better game of baseball if you could only use 2 or 3 diamonds in your starting lineup vs. having all diamond teams playing each other in HR derby.

Same here, must have been broken in one of the updates. Started a game on all star and hit 8 home runs to get up to HOF, next game started on all star. Needs a fix in the next patch. I think it’s just hitting that’s affected but could be wrong.

@sunjah_psn said in You let cheaters run rampant.:

Use it as a baseball video game, and you'll enjoy it more. People whine saying they have to have multi-player, it is the only thing that matters.

Then, all they do is complain about cheaters.

Play baseball for baseball as a video game...use Franchise and I SWEAR to you, there will be no freeze glitches or "bunt cheese". Multiplayer sucks and is stupid. Single player Franchise would be beyond belief if these past 7 years had been spent improving it and the game itself instead of this idiotic multiplayer BS.

Isn’t this every multi-player game? People online aren’t playing the sport, they’re playing to win. Used to be you’d get together with friends who played sports and have head to head tourneys for hours. Now all these “pro gamers” who’ve never played a sport just look for bugs and exploits so they can feel good about themselves. It’s all about cards or coins and getting as many 99 players as possible. I don’t really get the draw of having squads of HOFers playing against each other, but to each their own. I’ve played DD some, but never played Madden Ultimate Team, NBA 2k park, etc. Madden online, even just regular teams, is the worst. Bares no resemblance to football.

Something definitely changed because I went from a HOF+/Legend hitter all the way down to all star recently. Also, dynamic difficulty progression is broken for hitting right now. Just hit 8 HR with the Dodgers in a game to get dynamic back up to HOF, next game it started back at all star. I had the same thing going on. Perfect-perfect to CF with Nelson Cruz didn’t even get to the warning track in a recent game. Expect it will be addressed.