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Never had this problem before and now loading screens are slow as hell, even in offline modes?

Fed up of people online saying “You need to hold the button down”, well how comes some days I get no check swings and other days I get them constantly, typically when I’ve lined up the PCI perfectly to get a hit.

There’s no difference in the way I press the button day to day, it’s just the game trying to keep my stats down so it can justify what difficulty I’m playing on.

MAKE AN OPTION TO TURN OFF CHECK SWINGS SDS.

BUT YOU WONT DO IT BECAUSE ITS ONE LESS WAY YOU CAN PREDETERMINE AB OUTCOMES.

Trash game.

I don’t mind the little symbol being next your name to show you’re either on a good or bad run but please stop making it affect hitting stats.

Getting my game to a good balance of difficulty has been a long and painful process but I finally get there and then the game either puts me on a hot streak which makes hitting too easy or a cold streak where I can’t hit a thing.

Please get rid of it, it’s annoying as hell and ruins my enjoyment of the game.

I have a theory that when you play on the higher difficulties as a batter, the game has a certain strikeout quota it has to fill in order to quantify the step up in difficulty so that even if players are generally doing well, they can’t claim that it’s too easy.

I do well at hitting but no matter what I do I average 1 strikeout per game on ‘Legend’ difficulty.

And if I do manage to go one game without getting one, I’ll end up with 2 strikeouts the next game so the game can keep filling out that quota.

The amount of times I’ve had 4 ABs and no strikeouts and then the game ends up going to extra innings and, low and behold, there’s that strikeout the game needed to keep the numbers up.

It’s happened to me so many times now it’s getting beyond a coincidence and I really think there’s something going on. Ridiculous that no matter what I do, no matter how focused and disciplined I am, the game still finds a way to get that strikeout.

I got on the game this morning, played for a couple of hours and got into a good rhythm.

I was hitting really well, feeling like I was reading the pitches out of the hand, tracking the ball comfortably, lining up the PCI and enjoying my time.

I stop for 15 minutes to run over to the shop to grab some lunch and when I come back, all hitting ability is gone.

Can’t read the ball out of the pitchers hand, can’t time my swing, slamming the PCI, chasing pitches that are nowhere near the zone, 3 strikeouts a game and all pitches look like fastballs right down the middle until I swing and then I find out they’re not.

And that’s me done for the day, because if I keep playing I’ll get frustrated and then I end up launching my controller across the room.

This happens. EVERY. DAY.

Honestly, I’ve never played a video game before as inconsistent as this.

It’s like some kind of rare eclipse where all the conditions have to be right and the stars have to align and the baseball gods all have to be facing the sun on the spring equinox in order for me to be able to have a good game.

And then I take a 2 minute break to have a dump and that’s it.

That’s your lot for the day bro, come back tomorrow to see if you’ll be granted some hitting ability.

Game’s a [censored] joke.

Swing timing on this game honestly makes zero sense.

Always late or early even though I can physically see with my own two eyes that I swung on time and lined up the PCI perfectly.

And yet every AB the game palms me off with some lame excuse about poor timing or weak contact.

It’s absolute BS and I’m convinced that this game scripts ABs. You only get hits when the game allows you to get hits when it doesn’t want you to have success, skill and practice have no relevance because it’s gonna give whatever pitcher you’re facing god like ability to ensure you can’t get a hit.

Also the amount of times where I line everything up spot on and the game check swings me for no reason is further proof of controlled outcomes imo.

Absolute joke, what a trash game.

@genopolanco_PSN

As much as I would love to stay on G.O.A.T. I just can’t make it work.

Fair play to the people who can have success on that difficulty, I don’t think I’ll be one of them haha!

@genopolanco_PSN

I think I’ve decided I’m just going back to Legend.

I’ve gone back down and done -1 solid hits to try and get more flyouts etc.

It seems to be working so far, if it gets too easy I’ll just keep lowering the solid hits slider and hope it balances it out somewhere.

I’m still striking out but much more sporadically rather than every single game.

@genopolanco_PSN

On G.O.A.T. the problem is striking out way too much.

I can get hits and generally have an AVG of around .250 which is fine but then I strikeout so much its like every AB is either a hit or a strikeout and there’s nothing inbetween.

No ground balls, no flyouts, no pop ups just success or embarrassment.

My last season I almost broke the record for most strikeouts in a season and that was only on half a year of G.O.A.T. difficulty after moving it up because I was finding it too easy on Legend.

If I do a full season on G.O.A.T. I’m easily looking at 300+ strikeouts by the end of the season.

Another thing I wish SDS would bin off is hot streaks. I don’t mind the little fire symbol being there to show that you’re doing well but I wish it didn’t boost your hitting stats.

If I could do a whole season on Legend without the hot streak boost it would be fine, but the problem is it makes hitting too easy after I have already found my level and then because it’s easy I keep hitting like a beast and the hot streak never ends so i essentially spend the majority of the season with boosted hitting stats when I dont want them.

@genopolanco_PSN I’ve been messing around with sliders for hours and still can’t find a balance.

I’ve even put the difficulty back down to Legend and it’s still the same. I’ve lost all ability to read the pitch out of the hand and get hits.

I legit can’t play this game anymore. Messing with settings and sliders has just killed it for me.

Screw this, no sports game should be this much hassle and stress to try and get a realistic experience out of.

Absolutely fuming that my 9 year career is dead because SDS either has you hitting like a baseball God or swinging at air like a toddler with a breadstick and can’t land on anything inbetween.

Thanks for your help and advice anyway, I hope they get better at balancing the game’s difficulty in future editions.

@genopolanco_PSN So how am i supposed to find that perfect balance?

I cant move the difficulty down because it makes it too easy but boosting my stats has the same effect.

I don’t like messing with sliders, it seems like adding a new variable to an already complex mess and it feels like cheating.

Why can’t SDS just make a difficulty that’s realistic to the average real life pro rather than only being able to be an overpowered, unrealistic monster or a pathetic, embarrassing swing and misser?

@genopolanco_PSN Do you think increasing my contact skills would help? My contact is currently all at 80 but I don’t want to push it up too much and start smashing everything easily again

My plate vision stat is 90 but when I move it up to 91 hitting feels too easy again so I feel like the same thing will happen if I boost my contact even by a fraction.

I recently had to move my batting difficulty up to G.O.A.T. because I was finding Legend too easy. I want my career to be a challenge and realistic, I don’t want to just be scooping every award in sight every year, it was fun for the first few years but now I’m looking to test myself at the top level.

Oh my goodness, this difficulty is infuriatingly inconsistent. I’m either getting 4 strikeouts a game or 4 hits a game and nothing in between.
I rarely ever get groundouts, popups or flyouts. It’s either the best game of my life or an absolute embarrassment.

Why can’t I find a good balance of difficulty? I like the challenge of G.O.A.T. but it’s sending my strikeout record into oblivion.

There are two types of game and the difference in pitch velocity between the two is incredibly obvious even though the pitch types and speed may be exactly the same according to the stats they definitely are NOT.

I can tell when a game is going to give me 4 strikeouts by the first few pitches of the first AB because they are usually fastballs that are physically impossible to catch up to and the only way you hit them is if you guess and get lucky. Nothing to do with skill or practice and it’s just ridiculous.

I can’t go back down to Legend but I also don’t feel like I’m getting any better on G.O.A.T. It just feels like every game is the flip of a coin and I’m fed up of getting 3-4 strikeout games, facing pitches that only a bot could reasonably react to.

@tedlanc_XBL See that’s what was happening to me in 25, no matter what team I played for across multiple careers, we would smash it in the regular season and then fall at the first hurdle in the postseason.

That’s why I’m so surprised that this year it’s like I don’t even have to try that hard to win a WS.

I’ve just finished my 7th season on my RTTS career and have just won my 4th WS.

I won 3 back-to-back with the Dbacks, then reached FA and signed for the A’s and won another 1 straight away in my first season.

The Show games I’ve played before are 14, 15, 16, 17 and 25 and I would be incredibly lucky if I even won 1 WS across an entire career.

In those 5 previous games I had about 9 different careers and won 3 WS but all 3 were in separate careers meaning I would only win a WS once in every 3 careers.

Did SDS make it easier to win it in this year’s game or I have I just been incredibly lucky? Has anyone else experienced anything similar?

For context the most recent WS I was playing on Legend batting difficulty so it’s not like I’m smashing 3 grand slams every game to power my teams to the win. In fact for at least 2 of the WS wins I was largely unproductive in the postseason.

I was absolutely crushing it on HOF so I moved the difficulty up to Legend but was doing really poorly so I decided to go back down to HOF but now I can’t hit on that either.

What has happened? Why has Legend ruined my ability to get hits on a lower difficulty that was previously very easy for me?

How do I get my ability back?

I got drafted first round by the Dbacks and made 4 WS in 6 seasons and won 3 of them back to back.

I’ve now reached FA and signed with the A’s.

@WoozyPolarBear_MLBTS On last year’s game I could only hit on HOF with all my hitting stats at 99.

Now I can get by on Legend with all my hitting stats on 80.

Maybe I just got better since last year, I dunno.

@scheker1980_PSN So I’ve just started season number 7 and I’ve bumped up the difficulty to Legend and it seems a lot more realistic. I am getting hits but I typically have to sit on off speed because fastballs are really hard to react to. I’m batting around .270 but I’m not getting many HRs or RBIs and I’m also striking out a lot. I might try very delicately upgrading my hitting stats until I find a good balance point but don’t want to go too far and make it too easy again.

I’m into my 6th season as a left fielder and I usually up the difficulty for batting as my career progresses (rookie when I’m a rookie, all-star when I make the all star team etc, etc)

But this year I’ve had to put it up to hall of fame fairly early in my career and most of the time it’s still way too easy.

My power and contact stats are all exactly 80 but I’m still in triple crown territory and I’ve just won 3 WS back to back with the Diamondbacks.

I’m going to have to put it up to legend difficulty for more realism but on last year’s game hall of fame was the perfect balance for me and legend was [censored] near impossible and that was with all my hitting stats maxed out.

Anyone else finding it way easier this year?