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@StinkyMcPooter_XBL But this is what I’m asking, what is that “don’t have it” that only seems to exist with this game and no others that I play?

@StinkyMcPooter_XBL I do think some of it is on me too. Some days I just can’t time my swing or line up the PCI correctly or read the path of the pitch, at least that’s what the on screen feedback says.

I just don’t understand why my reflexes and reactions differ day to day when I don’t feel any different. It’s not like it’s due to tiredness or issues with my vision, it just seems to be random.

Why is it one day I’m on top form, getting multiple hits and smashing home runs and then the next day I can’t line up the PCI, can’t catch up to fastballs, swing too early on off speed, can’t read the pitch out of the hand, strikes look like balls and balls look like strikes?

And don’t just give me the old: “That’s baseball!”

Like what’s the ACTUAL cause of this constant flip flop in form? Because it feels like it’s all muscle memory and I do the same thing every day yet the results say otherwise.

I’ve honestly never played a game as unpredictable as this and it’s so irritating. The amount of times I have a day free and I look forward to playing and then I pick up a controller and oh no, I guess we’re not playing because I don’t “have it” today.

Every time I go onto this game it’s a complete lottery as to what kind of experience I’m going to have and I’m getting sick of it.

@whitejw98_MLBTS I just don’t get how you’re supposed to react to them fast enough. Even anchoring my PCI high and in I still swing late even if it’s lined up perfectly.

I try to lay off them until 2 strikes but if a pitcher has a 100mph fastball I can almost guarantee that’s the pitch I’ll strike out on, usually trying to protect when I’m down in the count.

@Dark87Knight758_XBL Yeah, whatever you say my guy… keep defending this trash heap of a game. It’s people like you who allow them to get away with this [censored]…

@sbchamps17_NSW Haha, so funny bro…

All I ever seem to see in this game when batting is pitchers spamming 98, 99, 100mph fastballs that just clip the top of the zone by the width of a fly’s nose hair.

I’m sorry but these pitches are unhittable unless you just guess and get lucky or have superhero reflexes.

Feels like a cheap way for the game to stop you getting hits and I don’t know what to do about it.

Any help?

@Player99_MLBTS I play on Legend with human power and fastball speed sliders lowered slightly to try and replicate a realistic experience because any difficulty lower goes the other way and becomes too easy.

I just wish it wasn’t constantly bouncing from one extreme to the other with the hitting system, a more even experience would be great but it feels like the game is constantly trying to do a balancing act, either boosting me when I struggle or shutting me down when I start to do well, rather than producing a natural outcome where if I play good I get hits and when I play bad I don’t.

@Dark87Knight758_XBL Blah, blah, blah, I’ve heard it all before, “you’re the problem”, “git gud”, “skill issue”, “forced slumps don’t exist”, “that’s baseball”, etc, etc…

Go ahead, keep making excuses for this game, we all know the forced slump exists just as much as a forced hot streak exists, it goes both ways. It’s a well documented tactic of keeping casual players invested and coming back to play the game, and it’s not just The Show, it’s all sports games that do it. EA are the worst.

I know the difference between poor results due to my own tiredness, lack of focus and bad technique compared to the CPU going god mode and either boosting stats or lowering them to achieve the outcome it wants.

@StinkyMcPooter_XBL The last couple of days it seems to have improved for me but yes, what you described is exactly what I was experiencing.

@PriorFir4383355_XBL I don’t understand why they put it in the game in the first place and it’s not just The Show, it’s every sports game I have ever played.

Why are they against just rewarding good technique and skill and punishing sloppy play? Why does the game have to influence these hot/cold streaks making user input feel essentially irrelevant?

There is a clear difference between when I’m picking up bad habits and when the game just outright doesn’t want me to get hits no matter what and I can feel the difference almost instantly.

I understand people who want to argue that it doesn’t exist online because it’s 2 human beings but when the CPU is involved, its clearly there.

Found a way around it!

I was looking online and someone said about exiting the game application completely and then restarting and it worked!

Had a 3 game series against the Reds, went 0 for 12 with 4 strikeouts.

Quit the application and reloaded and played the same series, this time went 5 for 13 with 3 home runs and 1 strikeout.

When you feel the game try to reign you in, just quit and reload!

Fed up of going on a nice little run of form only to have the game suddenly wake up and decided that’s my lot.

I go from crushing it for a few games to every swing being poorly timed and the PCI being impossible to square up according to the feedback.

Absolutely no point playing this game if CPU is going to predetermine runs of form both for and against you.

And people online will try to convince you that you are the problem even though you know you’re doing the same exact thing across all games good or bad.

Why do all sports games have this ‘cpu must play god and reign you in when you start doing well’ complex.

Please explain?

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!