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Since about 3 days ago I suddenly cannot hit a thing.

Everything I make contact on goes straight to a fielder.

Pitchers seem to be throwing strikes constantly that require ABS challenges because they’re as close to being a ball as you can get without being one.

I’m having swings with both timing and contact “good” result in fouls balls. (Makes zero sense)

Can’t catch up to fastballs, getting nowhere near off speed pitches.

Did they change something? Because I’m in season 17 of my career and haven’t struggled this badly up until this point…

@BirdmanMorin_PSN I don’t understand why they have to put it in the game to influence form when we, the players, will have different form day to day due to natural human inconsistency anyway.

They don’t need to add a simulation of something that already exists.

I’m begging you SDS please, please, PLEASE GET RID OF HOT AND COLD STREAKS!

They absolutely ruin the experience when I have spent hours getting the difficulty setting and sliders set to a perfect point and then I have one game where I get a few strikeouts and they slap that cold streak on me and I can’t hit anything for the next 12 games.

Or you get the hot streak and the game becomes too easy and then you’re messing about with sliders again trying to counter it.

It’s an absolute joke and is totally unnecessary.

I don’t have an issue with the little symbol being next to your name when you’re doing well or bad but for the love of God, stop making it have an effect on your ability to hit.

If it’s going to affect stats then you should be boosting me when I struggle and making it more of a challenge when it gets too easy NOT the other way around.

@PapaRick68_MLBTS

He was juiced the first few years I’m sure of it

I’ve tried to up the difficulty as my career progresses to keep a level of realism, I haven’t broken any records but I’ve done pretty well!

12 seasons sounds horrific! Was that some kind of glitch? And why did you stick with it that long?! I would’ve quit after 2 or 3!

I read online a while back that once your player gets past 35 his stats start to gradually decline.

My player is in his 16th season, age 37 and all his stats are exactly the same and have not gone down at all.

Was I given the wrong information or is it more that his in game ability declines but the physical stat numbers stay the same?

@Sarge1387_PSN Sorry my answer probably came across really blunt, you didn’t upset me

@Apolloz_99_MLBTS So stats and difficulty are irrelevant?

If so then I don’t see how anyone is supposed to be good at this mode if you have to memorise every single player’s swings and timings, that’s some next level brain training memory exercise stuff, I just wanna play a video game and have fun man

@Apolloz_99_MLBTS Yeah but the lineup’s stats are better and it’s 3 difficulty levels lower…

Is the logic in the room with us?

@Sarge1387_PSN No I’ve had my RTTS career set to competitive the whole time and the two modes feel completely different.

@theBlindRhino_PSN Yeah exactly, they miss sometimes, not every single pitch

This system would make someone new to baseball think pitchers have no control whatsoever

I have only ever played RTTS but today I decided to try DD. Since I enjoy collecting the cards and building a team, I thought I’d actually try using it and see what DD is all about.

I cannot hit a thing.

I play RTTS on Legend difficulty with contact and power sliders lowered slightly to make it more challenging and my guy’s hitting stats are all at 80 except for plate vision which is 90.

On Diamond Quest I can’t even pass the random challenges which are set on veteran difficulty.

I just cannot time up my players swings with anything, even when I just guess and press the swing button at pitches before I even know what they are it’s still saying I’m very late on the swing and I can’t make contact with any pitch despite the fact most of my players have higher hitting stats than my RTTS player.

I don’t understand why this mode feels so much harder when I’m using better players on a much lower difficulty?

Think I’ll just stick to RTTS

Just when I thought I’d seen every inconsistent, non-logical system this game has to offer I discover this laughable pile of trash

I will say I haven’t really pitched since MLB 16 as I usually just do RTTS as a batter but I hopped on the game today and thought I would try the pinpoint pitching since I see people using it all over instagram and YouTube.

It’s genuinely terrible, I don’t understand the logic behind the outcomes, there doesn’t seem to be any if I’m honest with you. Input seems to have zero effect on the outcome like every pitch is just completely random in terms of location no matter what you do.

I follow the pattern exactly, even getting the entirety of the lines green and it usually results in the ball missing the zone by about a mile or hitting the batter.

This game never fails to make me laugh in terms of how non sensical it can be. I’m not really bothered because like I say I rarely pitch but oh my goodness they just can’t help themselves from creating trash can they

I feel bad for players who only want to pitch, why would anyone choose this over pulse or meter

@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.