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NO. 3 = Tell me you've never pitched without telling me you've never pitched.

Pitches aren't supposed to have (or appear to have) the same amount of break on both sides of the strike zone, hence glove side and arm side pitches. Back door breaking balls are effective when executed because they are harder to pull off and freeze a batter. And usually get blasted if the batter swings, (much easier to hang) pitch spin and speed are much easier to pick up. Arm slot appears different at time of release. There is no tunneling off your other pitches this is what makes it so easy to pick up. The longer the ball is in your hand the easier it is to disguise the pitch. Not to mention the more centrifugal force you get allows for more RPM's which results in more break.

When it takes you to the invite screen you don't have to choose someone from your friends list just go to search and it will pair you with someone.

I've only played about 5-6 CO-OP games and lost one so my rating is only somewhere between 200-250 and for some reason it already gave me pennant race and wild card rewards? It was immediately after the co-op game so not sure what's going on. My Solo record is only 6-1 so haven't played enough of that to have earned these rewards. Unless somehow co-op is affecting solo rating. Honestly havent even checked my Solo rating in about a week to see.

My packs are all claimed on twitch accounts are still linked but not showing in my packs on the companion app, haven't been home to check in game. Had no problems last year and everything is still linked the same way it was last year.

Does anyone know if the Gamepass version that you can play on PC is next gen? Also curious if it would support 120-144 FPS or if its locked at 60? I was thinking about playing on PC but figured it wasn't worth the download if its exactly the same as my PS4 version. Thanks in advance!

Can anyone tell me if RS is cross gen? I didn't watch the streams this year, because I wasn't planning to play since I haven't upgraded to next gen yet. And don't really want to since I play everything on PC.

Some of yall would have never made it in TheShow17 lol I still find myself to early on HOF fastballs just because they are so easy to read out the hand, its instinct to swing as soon as I see a FB in the strike zone resulting in a ton of early swings.

@surfinsantacruz_xbl said in Still cant hit after months:

Start with directional hitting to get timing down. If you like directional and having fun with it then just go with that.

No offense but this is the worst advise I could recommend. Stay on Zone b/c if you ever want to play competitively you'll be using it anyways. Under no circumstance would I ever recommend directional for online play. Its impossible to hit most the pitches that you will see against a decent player unless you are just lightning fast and early on all fastballs. Find your timing routine, everyones is different. And just practice a ton. I'm sorry but there is no way around that.

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Just saw this today, I have been playing with the expectations of this being my last year of playing the show. Because I bought a PS3 and a PS4 for only this game and wasn't going to buy next gen consoles this time around, since my pc's are much better. Try playing Rocket league at 144-240hz for a year then go back to a 60fps game and let me know how much fun it is. I started with MLB pennant race in 96. I would really hate to not be able to play anymore but consoles just don't realistically meet minimum competitive requirements in my opinion.

If your one of those people that say the human eye can't see more than 60fps please understand its not about how many frames your seeing, its about how soon your seeing the first frames. Which in this game is pretty much everything, Pitch recognition as soon as possible. Take a look at some of Nvidia's side by side comparisons.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hnfyNwU7L4

With that being said, I would expect all PC players to be on the same servers with the only cross platform being play vs friends only. I'm not looking for a competitive advantage over Console players. I'm just looking for a chance to play a great game on great hardware and not have to blow money on a console i'll use for only baseball.

The last couple years I would use all silver or all gold teams for the last month anyways just to practice with smaller pci sizes before the new game launches and we are using day 1 players again. You would be very surprised how successful you can be with WAY lower players against all 99's

I used Kontrol Freaks for 3-4 years with the show and this is the first year I took them off and hitting better for some reason.

@fallenjedi9614_xbl said in Timing issues:

@ke1th_n1chols_psn said in Timing issues:

Anyone else have very inconsistent hitting and pitch timing?

I was waiting for someone else to say this. I will be the first to admit im not the best player. I play with directional hitting and I can already here the comments coming from admitting that. However I have always been VERY GOOD with pitching. On Rookie, Veteran, All Star, even Legend. There was a mission a few years back to get the Yoan Moncada card you had to beat WhiteSox on Legend in a 9 inning game. It was brutal and tool me two tries but pitching is what kept me close. This is the first year since owning the game (Show 16) where im missing my locations horribly with ANY pitcher. I even noticed that even the ones I paralleled to IV or even V, I miss too with them. So its not just you. Hitting timing may be different for me cos I use directional so I cant really speak for most but I will say I get a lot of balls the CPU calls early or late and I was right on them, ESPECIALLY IN MOMENTS. Also a lot of "underwater swings" where it feels like my batter is swinging a 100lb bat and phantom swings where the ball is right down the middle and my good to near perfect swing swings through it.

I strongly disagree, hitting timing feels the same, and pitch timing feels easier this year than in any year past. 25 Games 0.63 ERA. Pitching is to easy this year. Which in turn makes hitting timing feel harder. Just my opinion.

"There's nothing wrong with check swings" - SDS FanBoys

How about now?

I never lock in anything that doesn't go towards players or vouchers.

I used tatis until I got chipper, still hitting over 300 with tatis and around 15-20 homers. I still use tatis after getting chipper, just not at third. He has been the most surprising card for me this year. Has had homers in my last 4 RS games.

I did this on 2 pitches

@bwheel1977_psn said in What collections are you working on after LS is finished?:

will never get them done because sds doesn't really try to conflate inflation..

@bwheel1977_psn said in The lag where the outfielders teleport:

Stop playing in mlb stadiums and you will see less of this..

+1

Thanks for input. I'm just really torn on what to work on.