Content is always good, but when early, red zone swings on pitches low and away result in no-doubt pulled bombs and good timing/center PCI balls have exit velo's of 85-90mph and float to the OF....the game is not playing well.

Glad you're having fun with it though.

@nymets1987 said in Predetermined losses?:

Is this real thing? Played a guy with all golds and I have 99s everywhere and he hits all homers to win the game and I have to claw to get enough runs to keep up.

I don't know if it is actually real, but I can swear it feels like it exists.

Games where you strike out the other guy like 16x, they look lost at the plate but manage to get a one or 2 early swing HRs late in the game while on the other side good timing/contact has terrible exit velos and launch angles.

I've had games where easy playable grounders get past my IFs or bloop singles on very late swings happen and you can predict a forced hanger next pitch or 2 will result in a 2 run shot.

I think Allstar is just not a very good difficulty when it comes to balance...

Don't like getting bunted on against the shift? Turn the shift off.

You better believe I'm trying to bunt at least once with a lefty against someone like Hader or Chapman in a close game if they bring those guys in to face my better lefty hitters.

Its one thing to situationally bunt, its another to build your lineup around speed dudes and just bunt every at bat imo.

@aaronjw76_psn said in H/9, K/9, BB/9:

Was hoping someone could offer some information on what each of contribute to?

I know HR/9 was basically removed from having any impact but I really don't know what the impact of the others are.

Thank you.

H/9 competes against hitters contact rating to determine the inner PCI size. Higher H/9, the smaller the PCI.

BB/9 I think helps with control but it also just might be a sim stat. Not entirely sure.

K/9 is supposed to help generate swings/misses instead of foul tips.

@dolenz_psn said in Austin Riley is the July LIghtning Player:

Well deserved but the Yankees fans are already complaining hard and trying to make it seem like Austin was totally undeserving..

I can see why, they are really lacking in good flashback cards for their team.

Anyone who understands how this game works should have easily known it wouldn't be Judge. Even as a Yankee fan myself, the guy has a 94 LS and a 97 AS card. Plus Riley has far and away the better numbers anyway.

I've never understood why fans have such a hard time being objective (this goes for most, if not all, teams)

@Harrisville318 said in Perfect release missing spots?:

Are perfect releases suppose to hit the spot or is just a random chance like the rest of the game?

@ryansitko11 said in Perfect release missing spots?:

Just random chance. SDS doesn't reward user input

Pretty much. Nothing says rewarding like grooving an 0-2 pitch for a HR on perfect release/input. I'm all for card stats mattering but the amount of override is ridiculous.

Really? We're a month into the game and we've already managed to flip from "I finished the program a week ago, there's no point in playing with wasted xp" to "There's no point in going further, packs aren't worth it"

I shouldn't be shocked but SDS finally fixes something people have requested since Inning 1 in 2021 and we're already complaining about it.

I will be gunning for the full 750k because I like ripping packs and hate paying for them. Who knows, might get lucky.

@lazy_toast_psn said in How to hit the sinker:

Yea it sux man. Edward is by far the worse. Just whiff after whiff. I legit just quit when I see him. I don’t care. I haven’t figured him out and those games are boring af so free win for you

If you're going to do that, I would recommend making him throw an inning first so he gets his stamina nerfed for the next game and the guy has to use someone else.

@chuck_dizzle29 said in Seeing as this is the last year Albert Pujols is in the game...:

can we please back him off the plate and give him the sweet one hand follow through he's had his entire career?

You can do it SDS, you can do it.

In Pawnstars meme form

Best we can do is another John Smoltz card.

@d_e_m_i_s_e_psn said in Has The Sinker Completely Ruined This Game For Anyone Else?:

@cdnmoneymaker93_xbl said in Has The Sinker Completely Ruined This Game For Anyone Else?:

@dudeman22__psn said in Has The Sinker Completely Ruined This Game For Anyone Else?:

@capt_awesome34 said in Has The Sinker Completely Ruined This Game For Anyone Else?:

@dudeman22__psn said in Has The Sinker Completely Ruined This Game For Anyone Else?:

I know I’ve posted about sinkers a few times, but I was wondering if anyone else feels similarly. I guess most people who do stopped playing, but in the last 3 or 4 years the pitch has just made the game extremely unfun. You can sit on the pitch, know it’s coming inside, and it’s still unhittable. Every game now is just a 3-2 sinker fest with unrealistic sinkers flying all over the zone. Used to play a lot and be World Series, now I can barely play a game without being completely burnt out. Clearly they have no intention of fixing it. Oh well. Guess the few times I play will be RTTS

I am not the greatest player but I don't have that much of an issue with them , any issues I do have I blame on the user - I swing at everything lol - You have to learn to hit them - under is a pop up on top is a grounder - you have to square it up and go with it , trying to pull an outside sinker is a very low success rate.

It’s just tough because unless you know for sure it’s coming, it looks like offspeed and then cuts armsife like it’s a slider

So basicly you mean tye same issue real baseball players have with picking up a sinker gamers have the same issue....mhm how bout that

Real life sinkers don't rise out of the hand, so no. The sinkers in this game are broke and have been for years. Maybe your eye isn't good enough to see it.

My biggest issue is that high sinkers don't flatten out like they are supposed to. They made them less accurate but that doesnt really fix the issue of it still moving 6+ inches up in the zone. High sinkers are supposed to be mistakes.

I think outlier needs to be a toggled setting (similar to holding a button to slide step) that allows the P to reach back and put a little extra on their pitch at the cost of stamina. With the exception of like a handful of relievers and Greene, no one throws 100+ regularly every pitch.

It makes me think back to when meter was a main way to pitch....you could let the meter go further to throw a bit harder but at the cost of accuracy and stamina.

@FRSTDWN_XBL said in One thing I love about this game is:

To win ranked or whatever online you have to be on point. I was playing pretty good for me last night but then was getting tired and decided to do 1 more. You know the 1 more thing right? Yeah I was getting smoked on the mound. I just didn't have it.

Of course there are always a couple games where it's pretty easy or you have these goons who are robots but I think for most it takes all your focus to be successful in this game.

I think its the pinpoint accuracy issues this year because I went from being above average and being able to get high 600s and into the 700s with relative ease to being an absolute trash can this year. Pitching was always what kept me in games when my offense wasn't performing.

I had an event game that went like 7 innings because every time I scored (top 3, top 5, top 7) my good release pitches would hang and my opponent would hit a nuke to tie it.

@DemIsE4_XBL said in Ranked and BR Change Explanation:

@baseball229056_XBL said in Ranked and BR Change Explanation:

@darkblue1876_PSN said in Ranked and BR Change Explanation:

@baseball229056_XBL said in Ranked and BR Change Explanation:

I like the change. The way it was before, there was no value in the reward cards. I think the ws rewards last season were going for about 40k. There should be some incentive and reward for doing something good in the game. Not everyone should get a trophy.

So in other words, this game should be for the "get gud" bullies and everyone else can just shut up and take it.

No that’s kind of a dumb take on what I wrote. What they have done is a good compromise. In the past you could only get the reward by going 12-0 or making ws or buying off the market. A few years back almost no one could get chipper because there were thousands of million stub orders. They created the reward path so everyone could get the reward. That hurt good players by devaluing the rewards. This new system is better because good players still get rewarded but everyone can get a free card.

12-0 players in BR were not hurt. Most 90+ players were still over 100k and the Flawless cards were still 130+k. That is plenty reward for going flawless. This pack SHOULD have remained sellable. Bad move by SDS.

For WS, those rewards were down to 30k which is absolutely pathetic and something needed to be done. I think they did the wrong thing. The card should have remained sellable but the program should have been adjusted so it wasn't so easy to get. BR program takes 10+ hours for most casual players to finish which is a good amount of time.

Best card in the game is behind a 75k pack with probably less than a 1% chance of getting him. This trend of best cards being behind this [censored] will continue and I think it will hurt SDS in the long run. Really not liking where this game is trending.

Agreed. BR was perfect. Average player probably wins 4-6 games per entry and I'd estimate spends 15-20k on BR fees to earn those cards (still good investment if you want to keep too) but it took effort. Most great BR guys go 12-0 several times and will start intentionally at 11-0, wait for reset, win 1 game and sell for 400K stubs.

Selling BR rewards last year was how I bought some of the expensive cards I couldn't pull or win via WS (never completed the program before...last season was first time showing how easy it was).

Now by the time I can afford Mantle, he won't even be usable unless I wild card him (which means possibly not using a 99 Randy or Degrom or Turner or whatever).

@mjfc_363_PSN said in Expiring Set cards being used with Captain boosts...:

I’m all for the captain boost, I really am!!! But the last batch of captain cards were about as silly as it gets. “Arm accuracy captain”?? “Durability captain””?? Tall guys captain???? I mean that’s just ridiculous!!

Eh -- ridiculous in requirements sure, but it plays better than some of the team ones. Since they released so many really good cards from the start -- even boosted a bunch of LS team cards with boosts will play worse than whatever other card you have at that position.

With the tall/short/durabiltiy/etc captains you can atleast use other really good cards and still boost them further which makes them more in play IMO.

@The_Joneser_PSN said in The worst thing about this game:

Why, in the name of all that is decent in this world, does the visiting team get to bring their ridiculous sounds into my ballpark. When the Biscuits are at home, there is no "you're killing me, Smalls" played over the loudspeakers when my players strike out. I don't care that some smooth brain thinks that's funny; there's a place for that, but it isn't in Industry Center Stadium when you're visiting.

I see a lot of people complaining about lesser evils; pay-to-play, expiring cards, bad outcomes on good input... but let's fix what's really important, first.

Please, SDS, don't make me write my congressman.

Yeah definitely weird having visiting team sounds playing.

I personally don't like the nicknames taking over for cards in the lineup/in game/market (see pending update). I like the card series itself but I still want to see MICKEY MANTLE in the lineup...not the COMMERCE COMET (which is a dumb nickname anyway imo). Also -- fix Chapman's. He's the Cuban Missile....not The Missile.

@baseball229056_XBL said in Ranked and BR Change Explanation:

@beanball0571_PSN said in Ranked and BR Change Explanation:

@baseball229056_XBL said in Ranked and BR Change Explanation:

I like the change. The way it was before, there was no value in the reward cards. I think the ws rewards last season were going for about 40k. There should be some incentive and reward for doing something good in the game. Not everyone should get a trophy.

This didn’t change card prices, it was caused by the cross platform market. 3 consoles flooded the market, that’s what drove down prices. Plus they have locked the best cards in the game behind either collections or packs. Oh wait that means people pay stubs to get these cards. They take a mode we actually pay to play and said no more making back your stubs.

I didn’t say they changed card prices I said they changed to nonsellable which is clearly working. Reward cards are keeping their value. Last month I sold my ws reward for about 40k. This season I sold for over 200k.

The prices for WS cards weren't low because they were sellable. They were low because the program was stupid easy to finish.

WS rewards in prior years were always sellable via program, they were just a lot harder to obtain.

Its classic SDS overcompensation where they actually made the program longer (correctly) but also made the rewards no sell (incorrectly).

Also -- their intention to reward players who play well is correct but they are again doing it incorrectly. They are rewarding good players by punishing players who play a lot...which oddly seems to be the opposite of what you want. I'd think you want people to spend MORE time playing the game.

They need to just up the rewards for 12-0 runs and WS and beyond. Even the best players admit they hate playing on Legend.

@GixxerRyder750 said in Conquest:

@Khain24_PSN said in Conquest:

@TheGoaler_PSN said in Conquest:

.....but almost every tweet from The Show twitter is:
'We need more Conquest maps!'
Just sub in a fast runner when it's ghpst runner time and win.

Think we all just want the free packs that are hidden in the map, not the actual conquest experience lol. Conquest used to be the go-to for mission grinding but mini-seasons is probably better.

I'd rather not spend 30 minutes setting a lineup up with "Mission" needed guys to play a miniseason game.

The non-working filters in mini-season are a huge issue but its easy enough to just start one from scratch and pre-set the lineup that way.

Also i feel like the filters in general have taken a huge step back from last year.

For their individual missions or the group charisma player one? I don't believe there is an issue.

I assume you are playing in an eligible mode?

@TheGoaler_PSN said in Conquest:

.....but almost every tweet from The Show twitter is:
'We need more Conquest maps!'
Just sub in a fast runner when it's ghpst runner time and win.

Think we all just want the free packs that are hidden in the map, not the actual conquest experience lol. Conquest used to be the go-to for mission grinding but mini-seasons is probably better.

Hoping he does. I just finished the AL this week and am missing all of the 90+ NL diamonds (Mookie, Verlander, Diaz, Goldy, Arenado). Scherzer going down was great even if it did boost Diaz. Need Arenado to do the same.