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A far cry from the golden days of MLB 17 (15-17 essentially), definitely better than 18/19. I can tolerate the vast amount of good okays but the pitching is what the problem is. Using pure analog, if I overshoot the yellow bar, the pitch should ALWAYS fall lower Than where you intended and the same goes for releasing early, the ball should rise. This is the first edition of The Show (at least since ive been playing in 15) that it isn't the case. Sometimes sure, but other times it'll intentionally go to a location that punishes you the most

Hey everyone, get a load’a this guy!

Ok. I got a few examples. Seems like sleep deprivation definitely played a role but what is really intriguing is Roys change up in the one game compared to hals fb in the other. Again both games HOF RS. Small sample size and will add more if people find this needs additional data collection.

Oswalt 80 mph change and Hal 99mph fastball - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e_w4S2D_Jw (couldn't figure out how to make this loop)
Oswalt 81 mph change and Hals 98 mph FB - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uet9CztWWVI
Oswalt Hal 98 mph fb - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvYF48ygVx8 (this one... sleep deprivation)
Oswalt 96 sinker and Oswalt 81 change up - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK7ktDlcxlY

And again I’m not looking for an excuse. I’m looking to see if there is a coding flaw or some issues with networking that sds could possibly fix and benefit everyone. This has nothing to do with looking for an excuse, you must think I’m one of the many others on this board that want to blame the game for their losses. I outhit that guy in that game, he got a few boppers and I couldn’t hit. I lost and have no hard feelings ab it. I just thought this pitch speed fluctuation should be investigated a bit more closely.

https://imgur.com/gallery/X6S0AIk
Can @Victor_SDS give a bit of a better explanation for this negative exit velo? Thanks friend

Also, what’s up with this?
https://imgur.com/gallery/kYPM3Ln

Somethings really off.. I'm workin on putting two clips side by side for comparison with hal. I'm a newbie to this editing stuff but I'll update this post once I do

yeah pitching needs a slight tweak. This is a good start though. I worry they'll see absurd offensive numbers and patch hitting again... Hope they realize that they can have the perfect game with some pitching improvement. If i had to choose I'd leave hitting the same and just improve pitching accuracy. if i release late the ball should drop below the intended location ALWAYS and vice versa. This is the first show where that isn't the case

That’s because 90% Of games are at shippett, it isn’t like that on other fields

Stop spamming this garbage, thumbs down for you

I vaguely remember in a previous edition they mentioned a +5/-5% boost for a hot/cold Zone, not sure. if it still applies

H/9 does not affect pci size, that is k/9

@royalslover said in Sds and showdown is a joke:

@notoriousHEB said in Sds and showdown is a joke:

@royalslover said in Sds and showdown is a joke:

How can I hit in custom practice, but be late on fastballs in showdown? I put the same settings in practice. Should be the same, right? And this time you can't take a lot of pitches to tire the pitcher out.

The key is to damage confidence not drain stamina.

Not according to most people.

stamina was the wave for the first showdown, its all about dat juicy confidence.

edit: the reason being the cpu threw many more balls in first showdown and it was just in general actually a bit challenging as opposed to how easy stage 2 is due to everyone complaining.

those replays are always wonky and aren't a great representation of what happened during the game. Lets see the full play and your defensive alignment. just admit it, YA BLEW IT

go to the main menu, and go to slider settings. You can save a sliders file that you can load any time you wanna practice, the sliders will not impact your gameplay in DD at all. Just of note, any time you go into DD and back out of DD or load up the game the next day you'll have to load those specific sliders from your save file

0 diamond player, 1 diamond equip/stadium/unlockable

I also predict a JD Martinez and 1-2 yankee golds, likely a Gardner or a Paxton

I need to get my booty past the AS/HOF war zone in seasons, cause AS is gonna be an absolute slugfest (it already is)

@T_H_O_R_Storm said in Just try it for one year:

Make a game with little influence from the simulation, guarantee hits on anything squared up or perfect, nerf the RNG to not reward bad hits, perfect release pitches go where aimed, errors only happen if the player makes a mistake. Forget about monitoring numbers and making adjustments to keep them realistic.

Basically make user input/skill the deciding factor in games and if the game is not successful go back to what we currently have.

Just one year, see how it goes.

its called MLB 15-17 fam

The Pitchers confidence/energy was likely zero/close to it

@IIJACKINTHBOXII said in Gold One Reward:

Larkin rips

“Mom.. MOM! I posted it again!”

@Oachs83 said in Unwritten rules in online play:

I will not throw you a high sinker unless you start spamming them. See it more in events and nothing but eye rolling when your very first pitch to me is a high inside sinker. That’s when I warm up my two primary sinker relievers and you will get the same treatment.

I get it can be an accident once in awhile but when it’s the first pitch of the game then two more follow it’s not. That being said usually the players that resort to pitching this way are not that great and it’s mostly an easy W.

https://preview.redd.it/7tmp8726diw41.jpg?auto=webp&s=0e41af8f319e256ec2048918325671477293e19b