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@LadySwampfox_XBL

It's definitely not the yips. Everyone with a brain who has played this game before are all saying the same thing. The hitting is wildly inconsistent. I've never had this many perfect/perfect lineouts ever and we're not even a few weeks in. It's funny when you go from a perfect perfect out and then next batter you barely get in the right square with only good timing and somehow you split the outfield gap for a double. If you look at the graphic on the bottom left that shows your timing it doesn't even make sense half the time. It is seemingly just taking up space on the screen. It will say very late in red but the bat will be square to the ball and plate at contact. If I am square at the plate and the graphic looks as though i should be pushing it out to center field then why on earth is it going 50 feet foul? This graphic could be telling as to why the mechanics are so far off if that graphic actually matches the swing (like it should.)

Super unfortunate product this year across the board. It's sad when they had 12 months to improve mechanics of the game and somehow managed to make it worse. Then you add the overheating and lack of optimization issues that they still haven't came out and addressed. The fact that it's 2025 and they are selling on the switch and not pc is very telling also. SDS is in shambles

And also this notion that they can only accomplish a face scan during spring training is complete absurdity. What's stopping them from sending a rep to a game and snapping some some pictures? Or just using existing pictures from MLB footage? Think outside this box. I see this constant rhetoric of "SDS only had 8 months to develop the game" and it's nonsense. Development should be a constant process this game is a live service.

@The_Joneser_PSN said in Is it me or is Hitting is hard in diamond dynasty/competitive:

@Jayseearr, everyone with a brain, huh? Classy way to inflate your own opinion.

I've played this game since it was a thing, and, honestly, this is the best that hitting has felt to me. It's hard because it's supposed to be (and that's why hitting feels better this year). It's "inconsistent" because it's difficult to replicate results in baseball and, to reflect that, this year feels like even slight variations in placement have large effects on the batted ball rather than everything being a home run. My god, it's almost like they want even good players to make outs, like, 70% of the time. Weird.

I see you wrote a book but I'm not reading past that first paragraph. "Hitting is better than it's ever been" and "it's inconsistent because baseball is hard" was all I needed to see. Take your mental gymnastics elsewhere. If we can't agree the mechanics are wonky and the servers are bad then you and I aren't even on the same planet. And that's ok...But I stand behind what I said.

@Onelemur1_PSN I am on strike zone 2 now. My thought was any camera angle that doesn't include the crowd while pitching like the default camera angle does should make the ps5 work a little less hard when pitching (which seems to be when it's struggling the most.) Seems to have helped but it's a band-aid on an open artery nonetheless.

I am having the same issue. I've had three messages from ps5 saying it was too hot all while playing the show 25 and while pitching on the default cam. This game looks like it's from 2018 and yet it's working my ps5 so hard that it sounds like a jet engine. This has never happened before in any other game it's clearly a SDS issue. For any players that come across this i suggest switching your pitching camera that seemed to have helped. Or just don't play until they fix it...Not worth melting solder or components to play this carbon copy of last years game. But to SDS....this is pathetic. You call yourselves sony studios and you can't even optimize your game on your own hardware? You should fix it before you find yourself in a class action lawsuit for destroying people's property. How did this even make it past testing?

Maybe they need to change their approach then if it's not efficient. That's generally what businesses do or else they die. In this case SDS is fortunate they don't have any competition but that could change if they keep releasing the same abomination every year. Some of the player models in this game are downright insulting. Bones protruding out of their face, smiles that only a mother could love...I'd estimate the player models are at least 10 years behind. Shouldn't have to get players in studio either with where technology is at nowdays. A couple of pictures from a couple different angles and consent is really all they should need. Can it be complicated logistically? Absolutely. But let's not pretend like it's some monumental unattainable task. Other games been pulling it off better for a long time now.