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@joshjays44 said in PCI Means Nothing:

Its cause you're playing online dude, you don't have any of these problems offline.

Imagine playing against AI bots in 2020.

@SMASHED_THAT said in Good...okay:

I just had 2 perfect perfect liners in an 8 inning event game that went for flyouts

iT hApPeNs iN rEaL bAsEbAlL.

They need to fully take out RNG from the game and only based it on user input. perfect perfect shoots be hits 100% of the time imo.

nah ima guess its some watered down league where you play one season and have to restart. they wont bring back online franchise bc they need to herd all the online players into their lootbox/pack micro transactions mode that is DD. i havent bought the game since the show 17 bc they took out online franchise....got it for free this year with psn sub and litreally played like 4-5 games of DD and got bored of it facing every team with the exact same 99 rated players.

how is this [censored] not regulated or not 18+? just from the posts on the forums about these packs you can tell people are addicted to this just like gambling. online poker is banned in america btw....but opening virtual packs with irl money like pulling the lever on slots like these arent regulated eventho its gambling.

@mikehousecb said in MAKE RANKED SEASONS ONE DIFFICULTY:

@Harrisville318 said in MAKE RANKED SEASONS ONE DIFFICULTY:

It would be great if they made it for zone hitting only or just matched you up against an opponent using the same hitting style as you.

Whats the best way to tell someone is using directional?

They hit the ball on the ground on every pitch low in the zone, and hit it for fly outs high in the zone and get actual hits when you put it middle of zone. If someone his the ball in the air when you put it low in the zone then it means they are not using directional for sure.

bring back balks. its so annoying having to face quick pitching when guys are on base.

in before "iT hApPeNs iN bAsEbAlL"

they need to fix it so high sinkers get 0 break, it should be same as a fastball if u throw a sinker high.

use buttons+meter and only time u will commit throwing errors is when u mess up the input, otherwise u will never commit a throwing error ever. im glad auto throws has more errors, or doing it manual wont be balanced.

@sean_87_ said in Pitching in online:

@Namtrah22 said in Pitching in online:

@sean_87_ said in Pitching in online:

@Namtrah22 said in Pitching in online:

@sean_87_ said in Pitching in online:

@XxSupercena54xX said in Pitching in online:

@sean_87_ said in Pitching in online:

The pitching doesn’t seem bad to me. Your not going to hit your spots just bc you have good input. Very few players in real life have pin point accuracy and even they miss frequently. As far as the strike zone goes, it’s going to be even tighter when the computer umps start calling balls and strikes.

Except you are using real life baseball logic and this is a video game where top players can mash anything that isn't a dot on the outside parts of the strike zone. There has to be a better way to locate pitches accurately or else why do we even have pitchers? Let's just make DD a softball game and home run derby each game.

Get rid of zone hitting, been saying it for years.

Why would they get rid of the only input based hitting mechanic in the game? That’s insane. I’m not playing a game where all the outcomes are completely randomized and all based on if the CPU wants to let me get a hit or not. Bad take.

Swing at pitches the player you are controlling is good at hitting.

I’m playing a video game though I want to be in control of where they’re swinging... I don’t just want to mindlessly hit one button when the ball is close to the strike zone and pray to god the cpu decides this is the one that I finally barrel up. Why wouldn’t you want to control where your players are going to swing the bat? You know just like in real baseball, players have to decide where the pitch is going and put the barrel of the bat on the ball. PCI is our barrel.

Because I’m not hitting the ball, the player I am controlling is. The game is representing the mlb players, not you or me.

ok boomer. why even play the game then? just start a cpu v cpu game and just watch them play it out instead?

@mikehousecb said in MAKE RANKED SEASONS ONE DIFFICULTY:

@iCallSoWht55 said in MAKE RANKED SEASONS ONE DIFFICULTY:

@mikehousecb said in MAKE RANKED SEASONS ONE DIFFICULTY:

@Harrisville318 said in MAKE RANKED SEASONS ONE DIFFICULTY:

It would be great if they made it for zone hitting only or just matched you up against an opponent using the same hitting style as you.

Whats the best way to tell someone is using directional?

They hit the ball on the ground on every pitch low in the zone, and hit it for fly outs high in the zone and get actual hits when you put it middle of zone. If someone his the ball in the air when you put it low in the zone then it means they are not using directional for sure.

So the best strategy for pitching them would be to keep pitches down in the zone?

Ya if you keep it down or high they will 100% either ground out or fly out every single time even if u tell them where you gonna throw, that's why directional is useless its same as center swinging at every pitch using zone. But this game sometimes throws meatballs right down the middle even if you miss by a little, guess they do that to keep directional hitters happy.

cpu fielders are on god mode.

So sick of facing 99 Kluber every other game. At least make it where if you start a pitcher you cant start him again for the next 3-4 games. Everyone just running 3 starters and using the other 2 as relievers now. Turn down pitcher stamina recovery by double what it is now, especially in games where others quit, every pitchers stamina recovers so much if other player quits mid game.

^ game has way too much rng instead of making it all based on user input nothing else, its a video game not irl baseball. but people with no clue will defend all the scripted [censored] by saying "iT hApPeNs iN rEaL bAsEbAll".

manually control the routes with him and take a route that will make him face the ball before catching it. if u go straight to where the ball is gonna land it will hit off his head and drop. i realized that after my first game with him lol

also noticed if u you put outfielders in their secondary position they tend to do that a lot as well.

Every online mode should be forced to play only in minor league stadiums. Every major league stadium has crazy lag/input delay online. Will feel like you swinging the bat under water with drag when you play in major league stadiums.

So sick of facing him literally every other game. People prob just running a 3 man rotation since stamina regens so fast.