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Game is pretty good this year, but there are definitely a couple things that need some fixing.

Hitting

• Stop punishing good timing, good timing and missing with the middle PCI should be a foul ball, not a pop up.
• Speaking of foul balls, less frequency. It's starting to feel like 18 all over again. If they're just late or just early, and miss, fine. But very late and very early and miss it, shouldn't ever be a foul ball.
• REWARD GOOD CONTACT. I feel like most of my hits are late and barley touching the ball, and then when I square it up and have good timing it's an out. It shouldn't ALWAYS be a hit, but I think we can all agree that 6 out of 10 times it's a hit.
• Also contact swing, but y'all already know that needs a nerf, and lets be honest maybe that fixes some of my issues with foul balls.

Fielding

• I'm kind of tired of my fielders slowing down for an animation, when they would clearly make the play otherwise. Maybe this is just an issue with the engine, but speeding up some of those animations or something so the game feels smoother.
• Sometimes it feels like there are "planned errors", where you get there and they either wiff on the ball or, i've experienced this, the ball goes through the glove.

Pitching

• I've got one issue and one issue only, if I have good pitch release, the ball should go where I want it. It shouldn't gravitate to the zone, if anything just make it miss.

That's all I got, I know making games is hard but I wanted to give my two cents. also fixing the win rewards for RS would be GREAT

@halfbutt_psn said in Soooo this game isn't broken yet?:

I don’t think a pci of 7 or 9 should ever be a hit, really. It’s bad enough that you can have a 15 that makes the perfect sound but goes foul.

I mean it's still baseball. that's just how it works sometimes. if you say a 7 shouldn't be a hit, you eliminating a ton of the randomness that is baseball. Not all hits are great contact.

@ibonafidescrub_ said in Soooo this game isn't broken yet?:

It’s broken, I keep jamming people for basehits, sometimes extra bases

yeah that's not really "broken" more just unlucky. there should be a slight tune to jamshots.

@eatyum_psn said in Soooo this game isn't broken yet?:

In the livestream they said they are happy with how the game is playing right now and that they are only looking at potentially changing things like contact swings, R2 and stuff

Well that sounds like they learned from 20. In 20, hitting just fun. I get it was a little broken, but it was awful after that first big update. and yeah contact swing probably should be nerfed, a bit.

So I'm at 830 in RS, this is the highest I've been since 19, and I'm starting to realize, there hasn't been a "game breaking" update this year, yet.

We all know what I'm talking about. In 19 when they broke hitting early on, same with 20 (personally hitting in 20 was the worst). Maybe all the server issues are stopping them from adding some game breaking update? Just started thinking of that, hopefully I didn't just jinx something.

@mjfc_363_psn said in Arenado:

Not sure why Arenado got downgraded a couple weeks ago. He’s second in the league in hits at 48. I call BS.

because he's nolan arenado and he's only batting .300. Good? Yes. Arenado level good? No.

@tstro_psn said in Wins not tracking in Ranked:

Pretty much everyone. SDS doesn’t know the meaning of Customer Service. They won’t improve until it hits them where it hurts, or god forbid they be held accountable for releasing an unacceptable product.

sigh figured it would be a full on glitch. thought maybe it was just visual. oh well

So my ranked record shows I have 30 wins, but under the win rewards thing, it says I only have 26. Is this a problem for anyone else? It's a little annoying since the season ends in a few days and want to get that 40 win reward.

@nanthrax_1_psn said in Fred McGriff Moments....:

Could be your controller. Not the case for me. Flew through these actually. I use McGriff cards every year so lots of practice

definitely not the controller, I'm only seeing this issue with these moments. Maybe I'm checking and not noticing it.

Does anyone else have an issue with just swinging in these moments? Seems like everytime my timing is good and I'm on it he checks his swing. If it happened once or twice I wouldn't think it's the game, but every single moment I've done it's happened at least once. Anyone else seeing that?

@gohardgrandpa said in Does user input matter?:

I’d be pissed no matter who hit that out. That’s what happens on lower difficulty tho

I mean it's All-Star .__. not really a low difficulty but ok

@the_dragon1912 said in Does user input matter?:

While yea, that should not be a homerun, the opponents feedback has never once worked correctly so I wouldn't put too much into it

I figured, just weird how if someone gets a perfect perfect it shows right, but other times its just off. Oh well

@hikes83_psn said in Does user input matter?:

Yeah that’s a brutal one man. Who was the batter?

Buxton, so I mean I can kinda understand how that gets out, but at the same time if we're being honest he completely missed that ball lol

Tied game in the 9th, guy I'm facing really isn't working hard at the plate. I throw a slurve that maybe caught a little too much of the plate. This was his PCI placement. Ball is launched over the wall.

Is it just me or should that have been a pop up

I mean personally, exploits like xp farming in exhibition or account linking, it shouldn't be bannable. fixed? yes. but it's not out of map glitches on cod where you are directly preventing someone from enjoying the game. Am I wrong? It just seems like you shouldn't ban people that using methods that are in the game, and they aren't cracking or hacking to get it.