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@fubar2k7_PSN said in Is it just me?:

@maurice91932_PSN said in Is it just me?:

@fubar2k7_PSN said in Is it just me?:

@maurice91932_PSN said in Is it just me?:

I feel like I’m the worst player still playing this game. The only people left are really, really, good. I’ve played five event games and everyone had a remarkable W/L record, and they hit everything. I won the first two, luckily, but it was sweaty.

I guess there are no easy wins left out there, huh?

You mean the worst at online play? I’m still playing and I’d be worse than you online I just prefer not to play against people. I don’t even wanna play my girlfriend son and he lives with me.

Yeah that’s what I mean. This Event has been brutal. I can’t get anyone out.

I don’t even try those. I’d be better off virtually burning the cost of the stubs to enter those. They do cost stubs right?

Not Events. Battle Royale costs stubs

@fubar2k7_PSN said in Is it just me?:

@maurice91932_PSN said in Is it just me?:

I feel like I’m the worst player still playing this game. The only people left are really, really, good. I’ve played five event games and everyone had a remarkable W/L record, and they hit everything. I won the first two, luckily, but it was sweaty.

I guess there are no easy wins left out there, huh?

You mean the worst at online play? I’m still playing and I’d be worse than you online I just prefer not to play against people. I don’t even wanna play my girlfriend son and he lives with me.

Yeah that’s what I mean. This Event has been brutal. I can’t get anyone out.

@ItsShotimee_MLBTS said in Is it just me?:

@maurice91932_PSN said in Is it just me?:

I feel like I’m the worst player still playing this game. The only people left are really, really, good. I’ve played five event games and everyone had a remarkable W/L record, and they hit everything. I won the first two, luckily, but it was sweaty.

I guess there are no easy wins left out there, huh?

What's ur online rating

I don’t know. Do you mean where I am right now in Ranked Seasons?

I feel like I’m the worst player still playing this game. The only people left are really, really, good. I’ve played five event games and everyone had a remarkable W/L record, and they hit everything. I won the first two, luckily, but it was sweaty.

I guess there are no easy wins left out there, huh?

@fubar2k7_PSN said in Mystery mission?:

That’s because he would’ve gotten a single. It’s exactly what @romeischillin said.

Right. So your wording wasn’t correct on your first response. You said “Laying down a bunt and moving a runner over will get you that one.” But that isn’t the whole truth. I have to lay down a bunt, move a runner over, AND get thrown out.

But it all goes back to the original people on this post. There is no such thing as a sac “hit.”

@fubar2k7_PSN said in Mystery mission?:

Laying down a bunt and moving a runner over will get you that one.

But the bunter has to be thrown out, right? So it’s a sac bunt, not a sac hit…

I tried to do this, but it was with Bobby Witt, and he beat it out. I did not get credit for advancing the runner from first to second.

What is a sac hit? I know what a sac fly is, and I know what a sac bunt is.

But if it’s a hit, what is the sac? Doesn’t “sac” mean “sacrifice”? As in “sacrificing an out?” If it’s a hit, what was sacrificed?

Sorry. Basketball is my first love. I thought I knew baseball pretty well. But I need a little help here.

Nevermind. They don’t.

I’ve never played a mini season because I’ve so much negativity about it on the forum. I decided to try to do the monthly one.

I was disconnected for some odd reason and was given the loss. However, I cannot tell if the stats I accumulated that game were tallied toward goal completion. Does anyone know if the stats still count?

@TheHungryHole said in Sets for the rest of the year:

i hear ya but on a more important note - how are you brother?!!?! great to see you still on this forum one of the last few left from the ole group !!!

I am peachy, my friend. Hope you are as well. Not sure how much longer I’ll be around on this game. Too much real life stuff going on. Jan. 2024 will mark a huge, positive change for me professionally, and I just won’t be able to play nearly as much. So little, in fact, it probably wouldn’t even be worth trying to keep up with the DD grind. So this is likely my last hoorah. Let’s get on a party soon, bro.

@fubar2k7_PSN said in Sets for the rest of the year:

Everything you say makes sense but why throw in the amazing record if it’s not a complaint. I’m 17-20.

I threw in the record to drive home the point that it isn’t a win/lose thing.

And I am still playing this game. Frequently. I have played DD for a long time. My assessment, arrived at through years of experience: is that the game has gotten progressively more difficult to produce runs. It isn’t a complaint so much as a statement of facts. These are confirmed in SDS’ own comments:

FACT: Pitch speeds have been increased the last several years.

FACT: PCI placement is more important in getting good results.

FACT: PPP pitching has allowed users to better control where the ball goes (not saying it’s a bad thing. Saying it makes hitting more difficult).

I am sure there are more things. I’m just saying: I am playing this game and playing a lot. I am winning more than I lose and, most of the time, I have fun.

People are talking about how fewer people are playing, and offering ideas as to why. I offered my idea as to why, which is not a personal complaint on how I enjoy or don’t enjoy the game.

They made a hard game harder. That’s why I think fewer people are playing. That’s it.

@fubar2k7_PSN said in Sets for the rest of the year:

You’re playing another person. Do you expect to win every game?

I’m not going to reply with sarcasm or be snarky, but no, I don’t expect to win every game, and I thought I explained it clearly enough.

Let me put it another way: there are too many games with a score of 2-1 and not enough games that are 6-5. It doesn’t matter who wins. That isn’t what I’m talking about.

@TheHungryHole said in Sets for the rest of the year:

most of us on here have real life which supersedes all gaming - who wants to collect multiple sets - it feels like a kind of battlepass EA sports idea - horrible execution and SDS is just being typical SDS

It’s overwhelming. They should have made the collection rewards Core cards. All the other cards in the TA could be sets, but Babe Ruth, David Wright, Jose Ramirez, etc, should be Core.

I agree with Bleeder and Oreo. Fewer people are playing. It isn’t hard to tell. The company has the data for sure, but just looking at how long it takes to get matched in a game tells me fewer people are playing.

I’m sure sets and never getting the feeling of accomplishment (because there is simply too much to do) has led to the decline. And I’ve posted about this before but I truly believe the number one factor leading to the decline is difficulty of gameplay.

This is a hard game, man. Pitch speeds are freaking crazy. PCI placement and swing timing have to be [censored] near perfect on a consistent basis to put up any real offensive numbers. Sure, bloop hits exist. But you all know what I’m talking about. Only goons kill it in this game.

A lot of guys have made peace with the difficulty and that’s great for them. They suck, but they’ve convinced themselves that they don’t, and that their inability to produce at the plate “is just baseball.”

My RS record is something like 117-66 or something, so I’m winning games. This isn’t about that. I’m not saying this as a complaint. I’m saying it as an objective fact: this game is hard to play. But if you’re good at the game, congrats. You’re excelling at something most people can’t.

I was expressing my difficulties with this game on discord, and a guy in there said, “Well, do you go into practice mode and warm up?”

I said, “I warm up when I play sports for real. Not when I play a video game.”

The fact that I have heard multiple people say that “warming up” by going into practice mode is necessary for them before they go into a competitive mode IN A VIDEO GAME is all the proof we need that this game is too hard.

People will come on here and tell me I’m unreasonable; that I should warm up. Like it’s normal or a perfectly legitimate expectation for video game users. Maybe it is, and I’m just old school. But I think if that’s the requirement, the game is too hard.

@chucky97____PSN said in Sets for the rest of the year:

@maurice91932_PSN said in Sets for the rest of the year:
its your wildcard, use it how you want, but a using it on a bullpen arm is wild.

I just played a game where I switched out Chapman and put Realmuto in as my wild card. First at-bat: homer. Opponent quit shortly thereafter. I might be changing my strategy…Haha

I usually don’t care too much about expiring sets but it does bother me when I’m slumping. I go through my cards and look at which guys I have the most success with, and many of them are Sets 1 and 2. I haven’t had luck at the plate with any catcher since Set 1, WBC Realmuto. Huge sample size, and that guy raked for me. I can’t even hit with AS Rutschman.

I usually keep Aroldis Chapman in the bullpen for my Wild Card spot because he’s my best lefty reliever in the game and no one is close.

But yeah, you bring up a good point. The task of grinding another two sets is daunting.

@jaychvz_XBL said in Idea for next year:

I think that pin point pitcher input results should linger a little longer so I can see where I went wrong .

Yes. And the cycling through of the speed and steal attributes when a runner is on base should happen quicker as well. Same with showing results of perfect swings. The text “Perfect Perfect” stays on the screen too long. And with everyone quick pitching, you don’t get to see the swing and PCI placement (I know we know already, but I just like seeing it; the perfect PCI placement. Rarely get to see it, though).

@fubar2k7_PSN said in Idea for next year:

What do you mean? Like if we play against each other and I hold it down you’d see that I did it?

As the pitcher, I can hold down R2 to see my pitch sequence and locations the first time a faced a particular batter. But, it goes away quickly and you can’t see it again, even if you haven’t thrown a pitch yet.

For the hitter, R2 reveals the previous pitch sequence and will remain on the screen for as long as R2 is held. I’m saying that what the hitter sees when he holds R2, should be shown on the pitcher’s end, too, and vice versa.

Locked in: P/P = homerun
Not locked in: P/P is a fly out on the warning track

Haha. Just kidding. I don’t really have a trick to getting locked in. I just keep playing through my frustrations until I don’t even care about the outcome anymore.

When a batter holds R2 to see the previous pitch sequence the pitch sequence should also appear on the pitcher’s screen.