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@coachlyda12_psn said in Anyone else going back to a previous year's version?:

@eatyum_psn said in Anyone else going back to a previous year's version?:

@coachlyda12_psn said in Anyone else going back to a previous year's version?:

I hope in 22 that the pitchers are not super humans like they have been for the last several years...I hit a pitcher square in the arm with a line drive and it bounced off him straight to the third baseman and he threw me out by four steps. I have 112 speed..the pitcher then went on the throw a three hit complete game shut out. If that was real it would have shattered his arm and the ball would not have bounced straight to the third baseman...so much for actual game simulation...they really just took this game from four years ago and added a couple of stupid dog and pony tricks and charged us a higher price for it...I will wait until June of 22 before buying the next one..and if it looks worse than this year I will just play 20

Speed doesn't go above 99

With equipment

Equipment still doesn't make it go over 99. That stat cannot go over 99

Ah. I get it now. Thanks for the clarification.

Not sure if it was clear by the way my post formatted, but do not watch the pitcher, watch the catcher. He will dip his glove befor etha pitching animation starts and that i s when you take off. Safe 99.9 % of the time.

Need this fixed. Not trying to play all base running opportunities/pitches but need to steal.

@sgoforth3_psn said in Threw a perfect game (through 9) - and lost!!!:

I’ve had that where I was pitching a no hitter through 9 innings and was pulled because of stamina. Then lost the game in extra innings. The lack of run support has been frustrating a few times.

I was just pulled after losing a perfect game to an infielder's ineptitude in the 9th inning. If he got his backside off the dirt and fired the ball to first quick enough, the runner would've been out, but the idiot had to take his SWEET TIME fielding the ball. The runner had 25 speed. I know. Sad.

Does the game count that as an error? No. Base hit. 🤦

I strike out the next batter on three pitches. 19 strikeouts in the game, now. Stamina bar is looking good and still in the green. We're winning the game 2-0, and a double play ball could end it right there.

Manager comes out of left field and pulls me. What the hell?? I could've had a freaking shutout à la Mark Fidrych, but the manager has excrement for brains.

The Gameplay Director of MLB The Show 21 would be disappointed in this thread 😞

!Yankees in the playoffs are a no go as well, I wanna Golden Ticket!

That's funny!

I am new to the game (Xbox) after my RTTS games i get some progression to this "1st inning" program I think it is called, sometimes I will play multiple games in a row and it does not seem to move...
As far as equipment, I haven't unlocked much yet but what I do have seems to get "unequipped" from my player pretty frequently.

@sgmrock_xbl said in Equipment bonus still intermittent after Update 3:

To me gear is a part of progression as you get higher and higher level gear as you level the archetypes. I also spent a little cash to fill out gear spots from market place that I didn’t get from packs as I leveled. So it’s a slap in the face for it not to work as I spent $$ on the game and on stubs.

I fully agree with this. The bottom line is that the gear should always work. What I'm seeing so far this morning - hit and miss. Sometimes works, most the time does not. And that's not how it should be.

@thebootman88_psn said in A path forward (how SDS could fix this mess):

I would settle at this point for just being able to have my programs progress. Please. It has been a week.

That's exactly how they'll get away with how barebones the mode is, they'll legitimately by the time they fix it get us so desperate for the basic functionality of the game to work, so that when it does, we'll over look how barebones RTTS really is, I won a cy young no notification, the video podcast they praised about will repeat episodes based off how you play, you have a good game same video every time you have a bad game same video of them criticizing you... in them releasing it at such an unplayable state, will make their fanbase, so appreciated that it works They won't even care about the important missing details in the rest of the mode.... Well done sds

@nanos_mcgregor said in Reinstalling MLBTS 2019...:

@thebootman88_psn said in Reinstalling MLBTS 2019...:

@nanos_mcgregor said in Reinstalling MLBTS 2019...:

@moosealbany_psn said in Reinstalling MLBTS 2019...:

I never bought 2020. First time in about a decade that I didn't buy the new version. Was just too much going on in life with COVID and whatnot. Normally I've had a pre-order waiting at GameStop each year. That said, I'm currently reinstalling 2019.

I'm extremely frustrated with this year's version of the game, and, along with others who have expressed similar sentiment, I am very concerned with the direction and design decisions SDS is headed in.

I have four major concerns regarding what SDS has decided to do with our beloved game.

First, I think the idea of a Universal Profile for RTTS is just flat-out boneheaded. If I want to build a toon who is a fleet-footed, base-stealing, contact hitting CF who can chase down fly balls like a greyhound, that character is going to have a much different look and physique than my power-hitting 1B who crushes balls 450+ feet and runs a 40 yard dash in about 2 minutes. Those two guys are not, in my mind's eye, the exact same guy with the exact same physical appearance with two different "loads".

Second, removing or severely nerfing aspects of the game of baseball for the purpose of online play and forcing players of all other modes to "take the hit" is unfair at the very least. Two examples which I know of: the Knuckleball and the check swing. In the 2021 version of the game, the Knuckleball simply doesn't exist and the ability to check swings when initially fooled by a ball has been nerfed to be nearly obsolete. That's NOT baseball.

Third, the idea and implementation of "archetypes" seems to me to be clearly inferior as compared to the previous method of player progression. If a player can run like Rickey Henderson on Monday, he's not going to transform on Tuesday to a Miguel Cabrera and then again on Wednesday to a Clayton Kershaw. IRL players don't simply forget how to hit a baseball because today they are wearing their "pitcher hat" as compared to their "slugger hat".

Fourth, at one point RTTS could be played and enjoyed entirely offline. You didn't need a persistent, or even a particularly good Internet connection once you had installed and patched the game. In the 2021 version of the game this is no longer the case as Program Progression is entirely dependent on Internet connection.

None of the above reflects my disgust with current state of the game with all the bugs and whatnot. That definitely impacts my overall satisfaction with the game. But the issue I'm trying to call out in this thread are about larger game-design issues which are, at the very least, perplexing to me.

Cheers,
Moose

Just want to chime in and say check swings were utterly broken, actually a good move by SDS cause you’ll never see 30+ check swings in 3 innings in an actual game.

Yes now we have zero in 9 innings. Much more realistic. Because baseball players never ever check their swings.

Not true I have definitely seen some bandits online spamming check swings. I threw 3 straight cutters on 0-2 and the ump gave him every call and then he hit a double.

Then I’m lost. I get the call when I mash the button but my guy flails when I release the button before the swing starts.

@grizzbear55_psn said in RTTS "Break list":

My progression is working exactly as intended after you follow these simple steps. If you go to DD And delete all loadouts and equipment and then recreate them and play 1 conquest 3 inning game or try going straight back to RTTS (have not tried this) then go back to RTTS it works like a dream. I have gotten further in 5 hours today than i have all weekend in regards to progression. Good luck hope this helps! 👍

As far as original post goes i am seeing first base sometimes black when approaching on a base hit.

It's good that there is a work around for those who want it but personally I don't want to jump through hoops to make it work, especially not knowing if it will break again tomorrow.

Online players did not like it so they nerfed it for everyone. It just went from one extreme to the other.

Also, I have been seeing people reply to a certain user and could not figure out why I never saw the original post that they were replying to. It is because only one person has actually made it to my block list and it was him.