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@LilFelt-X_XBL said in Goat Difficulty not playing like Goat in RTTS?:

@Jacob151167_XBL any idea what the rest of the sliders might be? I just want to practice. I can’t seem to find them anywhere. Do you think it’s set to minimal human contact/etc/ and maxed out pitchers on everything?

I wouldn't worry about adjusting the contact sliders until you adjust to the pitching speeds on Goat. Max speeds on fastballs and offspeed pitches are fast—not quite like real MLB baseball, but pretty close.

Also, Operation Sports might give you a better idea of how to tweak the sliders for the most realistic simulation-style gameplay, assuming that's what you are looking for.

@OngoingOsprey92_XBL said in Frame rate fix update?:

@Jacob151167_XBL Yes I am. I will give it a shot, where can I find the setting?

Click on settings on the main menu screen, click on gameplay, and scroll to display. Scroll to the shared options (strike zone, pitch history, etc.), go to swing feedback, and turn this off. I've noticed a lot less chopiness with this setting off during at-bats. It's only a band-aid fix, though, and we shouldn't have to do this at all, but it is what it is.

@Easy_Duhz_It__PSN said in I officially have no way to play MLB: The Show 25:

Sucks to be you, i guess. You should have known the day would come when it wouldnt be available on last gen consoles. They even gave an extra 3 years or so to get ready.

I really don't get this argument. Yes, I understand that the PS4 and Xbox One, launched in 2013, are performance bottlenecks. Yet, cross-play is enabled on the Switch, which was technically not even close to the PS4 or Xbox One. The Switch 2 will basically be a PS4 Pro handheld in 2025.

@LilFelt-X_XBL said in Goat Difficulty not playing like Goat in RTTS?:

I set my difficulty to GOAT and it feels way too easy hitting compared to Diamond Dynasty. I was also disappointed to find out GOAT wasn’t implemented into Dynamic difficulty. I end up batting like .350 on legend plus and I end up bored. Why is GOAT easy? Has anyone else noticed this? Is it because I am in double A?

Adjusting the pitch speed sliders for GOAT difficulty, with max sliders, is probably the closest we get to actual MLB speeds; however, the default GOAT is only slightly more difficult than Legend.

I really enjoyed the first three and would like to know when the others will drop. Will they be in the next few weeks or closer to the All-Star game?

@OngoingOsprey92_XBL said in Frame rate fix update?:

SDS, what's the word on the fix for the frame rate stuff? It's been two weeks, and a bunch of us are still not playing a polished game.

Please and Thank You.

Are you playing on Xbox? I had to turn the swing feedback analysis completely off, and it seemed to smooth out the framerate when hitting. Not sure why a glorified PS4 game isn't locked at 60 FPS, but here we are.

@theBlindRhino_PSN said in Why Are Audio Names Being Deleted?:

@Jacob151167_XBL said in Why Are Audio Names Being Deleted?:

@theBlindRhino_PSN said in Why Are Audio Names Being Deleted?:

what bugs and glitches?

In the past 3 years, the audio has been quite weak, actually the weakest area of the game, along with the graphics. Gameplay has remained solid, however.

never mind. Don't start.

I wasn't planning on it. Have a great day.

@theBlindRhino_PSN said in Why Are Audio Names Being Deleted?:

what bugs and glitches?

In the past 3 years, the audio has been quite weak, actually the weakest area of the game, along with the graphics. Gameplay has remained solid, however.

@SaveFarris_PSN said in Why Are Audio Names Being Deleted?:

With the extra PA announcers, they literally tripled the amount of disc space needed.

And? Unless the process of recording audio has changed drastically, which it hasn't, we still aren't talking about a lot of space. Considering that real MLB players' names aren't accessible in the files but are said in-game, I'm going to have to guess that the audio team is just in over its head.

The PA announcers are a gimmick. Anyway, everyone wanted more player names, not new PA announcers.

@SaveFarris_PSN said in Why Are Audio Names Being Deleted?:

"Siri, what is disc space?"

Nice try, Farris. Audio files don't take up that much space. I have my old Show games on PS3 backed up, and the audio files take up the least amount of space compared to every other file on the disc.

Konerko, Beckett, and many other names have simply been deleted from the game for basically no reason. Can anyone affiliated with SDS explain what is going on, or how the audio engineers still have jobs? Can they rehire the old team? Because the last three years have been a mess. And don't get me started on all the bugs and glitches this year.

@Dolenz_PSN
The PS4 also didn't support copying audio files from a USB drive directly; however, SDS was given permission by Sony to transfer and convert their legacy code from the PS3 and get it working on the PS4.

I am assuming that the music streaming services, and the fact that the Xbox One/Series X never had this feature or any legacy code built for it, means that SDS would have to completely build a workaround, which is not efficient or practical for multiple consoles.

@noahkb2005_PSN
In all fairness, video games are the highest-grossing forms of entertainment and have been for a while. Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment has been well documented in FPS games for a while, so it wouldn't shock me, purely from a financial standpoint, for sports games to also use DDA to a lesser degree to increase revenue through player engagement.

@GradektheBard_PSN said in Backorders removed:

Let’s be clear, the OP was in OhChev’s twitch chat last night bragging about how he used his profits from these back orders to sell to 3rd party stub sites. He is mad because this change is costing him actual money (violating TOS).

Love to see it. If these people put as much effort into the actual stock market instead of a virtual video game where the currency has no actual value, they could probably make thousands. But hey, priorities.

@PriorFir4383355_XBL said in Rays Stadium Update:

Good luck with that! I mean that seriously. But, since SDS has totally screwed up Stadium Creator to the point of it not even working, you likely won't even see a custom stadium for it.

People can joke, but at this point, people who enjoy creating stadiums deserve partial, or honestly, full refunds. SDS has known for a while how broken it is and won't even acknowledge it.

@SchnauzerFace_MLBTS
Man, you're going to have a blast with this! I tried to make it as accurate as I could, but I didn't have the best video or photos to work with. But I'm pretty happy with it so far.

It's the only competitive Sox team I'll see all season, so that was extra motivation to almost finish this before Opening Day.

Is in the vault. Features some of the best players in team history; it's still a work in progress.

I've never liked this feature and have always turned it off, but this year, no matter what options I switch, it is always locked on, and I can't turn it off. Any ideas?

That difficulty, trying to hit Snell lefty-lefty, made me feel like the final score was 10-0 and not 1-0. Anyone else have a similar experience?

@PsylockeSmythe_XBL said in Is Anyone Else Having Issues With The Companion App?:

I'm also on Xbox and not having that issue. I have been able to login just fine and move around the app. My only issue right now is that it is not pushing notifications, so I'm not seeing any of my completed orders get pushed to my phone. I wasn't having this issue in previous years. I've submitted a bug report on it.

Psy

It was the Bing web browser; I had to switch to Chrome.