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I would say the quality of pitcher pickoff attempts has improved, and they use the slide step more frequently now. Honestly, I like what SDS has done on this. For better or worse, it does better reflect the state of current baseball. Training has focused a lot on restricting the steals game. Holding the ball, slide steps, and working with pitchers for more effective pick off moves is part of these defense.

It's the same work done with catchers to improve pop up speed.

This goes hand-in-hand with the clear improvement in athletic skills in modern players.

I admit, one of the games within the games that I love about RTTS is the cat and mouse competition between my avatar player on base and the pitcher/catcher trying to keep me from stealing a base. I jacked up my avatar's speed and stealing attributes to 99 and was able to break Rickey Henderson's single season record of 130, but it took a lot of effort.

Still, if you focus on the pitcher's habits and go when he doesn't slide step, then you can steal even third with a high chance of success. But, if the pitcher throws a slide step that the batter doesn't hit or foul off, then you're likely dead meat unless the catcher's throw is off target.

Now, I have never been picked off at third, but that's due to not getting any secondary leads because I've found you simply cannot steal home.

Don't get your hopes up too much. I submitted the same bug report early on with MLB 24 for the exact same issue! LOL!!

Absolutely! It is really ridiculous that the avatar player is the ONLY player on the field not wearing the team default socks with his uniform.

Submitted a bug report for this. Suggest you do the same. The bug report option isn't working, but you can use the suggestion option instead.

I submitted a report on this. I think others should as well. It is a bad decision made by SDS first time with MLB 24 and it seems it carried over to MLB 25. Prior to 24 the STANCE socks worked so that the team custom socks would be worn during games.

@BuffaloReaper94_XBL said in Newly Created stadiums:

Try this: Save or download a stadium. Create a new stadium; when you go to save it, overwrite that "older" stadium. So far, it's worked for me.

Wait!

Doesn't that actually replace the prior custom stadium with the new custom stadium if everything works as it should? I don't see how that fixes the problem of putting hours into a new stadium and suddenly having the console copy indexed to the original stadium it replaced.

@JoeSelser_PSN said in PC is the only way this feature gets changed and fixed.:

@PriorFir4383355_XBL everything you're saying isn't wrong....I know it will never come to PC. All I'm saying is that this game being on PC would be the only way things we've asked for would be able to get down through modding. SDS isnt changing anything with this mode. This is pretty much it.

I certainly agree with the truth that SDS isn't going to upgrade SC. They've had four years of constant, accurate, fair, and professionally worded feedback to do it with.

The only chance it changes is a wholesale change of senior management at SDS, with a new senior leadership team that values what customer-based customer created content can do to keep a game title vibrant longer.

This philosophy isn't alien to the entire video game genre either, it just seems alien to the suits running SDS at this time. There are a lot of video game titles out there with robust options for customers to customize their version of the game.

Think of this for SDS ...

The custom uniform, logo, and stadium options are finally upgraded the way reasonable customers have been asking for over four years now. Common sense stuff like patch options on the uniform sleeves in uniforms, the ability to take a logo and scan it and directly upload it into a custom logo file, and the many reasonable changes to SC so we can design stadiums that are realistic. If those were done, there would be nothing preventing a group of customers from pooling their talents and creating a custom league using the existing options and forming a league of teams all the way back to the late 19th century, playing in stadiums that look and function like those first generation ball parks, which were polo fields, fairgrounds, and city parks.

Take it a step later to the 1920's and the first generation of what we'd call the dedicated baseball parks, with outfield walls (or not) some stuff like flagpoles and trees in the outfield that were in play, and the same league is created for the deadball era of baseball. Imagine playing in a few of the truly "modern" parks of that era but still play in a few that had no outfield walls, and the fans stood around in the deep outfield.

Then, another league with realistic stadiums and team uniforms from the 1940's, 50's, etc ...

I bet that would boost initial sales as well as retain vibrant interest in MLB The Show for more than a single year. Then go to a two-year upgrade with yearly changes in modern era uniforms and rosters throughout the season and at the start of the next season.

What makes baseball so unique in sports is how the ballparks can be so varied and by that variety add spice to each game, giving each home team unique home field advantages in how they tailor their rosters and play games. This is why custom uniforms, logos, and stadiums were implemented in the game. Unfortunately, along the way, the suits at SDS focused on other areas and turned away from these three customizable features.

That will certainly hem in options for anyone looking to use the Yankees!

I have to correct a mistake in what I wrote earlier. There is a third way to earn tokens and increase attributes -- the training sessions that are made available on off days between games in the regular season. Some of the training sessions will not only boost a single sub-attribute by two points, but can also earn two tokens. So, these training sessions can make a difference.

The current situation is a sad mix of reactions and experiences. They pretty much go under these categories:

1. Frustrated at the multi-year lack of proper support to upgrade and give TLC to Stadium Creator by SDS, and having reached their limit of creative stymie and artificial constraints of various causes, are simply not going to design any more custom stadiums until SC is either upgraded or removed from the game. (I'm in this category)

2. Spent the time to create a new stadium in MLB 25 only to have the dreaded bug reappear that spontaneously re-indexes their custom stadium to the original default stadium that originally occupied the save slot in their console program. The prior way to fix this bug was to immediately upload the custom stadium to the vault, wait for it to finally appear in the vault listings (normally would take a day), and then download the stadium from the vault and save it back to the same slot it came from. This forced the game code in SC to untwist itself and properly index the custom stadium vice the one it replaced in that slot. However, the vault isn't working and so that fix option isn't available.

3. People who create a new custom stadium only to find they cannot upload it to the vault.

4. People who have a custom stadium supposedly in the vault, and would like to download it to either play it or conduct further work on it, and cannot download it.

5. People who are trying to create a new stadium but keep running into crash to desktop issues or encounter so many foolish and unnecessary issues that their frustration level rises to an unhealthy level.

@PhilS2344_MLBTS said in Windows in HR FENCES broken in THIRD STRAIGHT THE SHOW GAME:

We are now going into the THIRD version of the game where windows can NOT be placed next to each other. You could put them next to each other in '21 AND '22. Then, in 23 AND '24, you could only put GREEN windows next to each other and it only worked if you started on the right and worked your way to the left. Now, it seems you can't put ANY windows next to each other. How does this problem not only LAST through THREE VERSIONS OF THE GAME, but get worse too? It's bad enough we got ZERO updates in this mode, but they haven't even fixed problems from previous versions of the game. Too bad.

The very main purpose of this sub-forum is to elicit answers and responses to issues raised fairly and accurately just like this. Come on SDS, if you care, show us!

This is the first time in four titles over four years for MLB The Show where I've been able to work to create a 99 speed and 99 steal avatar player and actually have great success stealing bases without having to adjust the difficulty sliders from their default locations.

In short, SDS has finally gotten it correct!

If you choose to use your tokens to focus on base running (at least the speed and steal sub-attributes) you can develop a player to rival the greats like Vince Coleman and Ricky Henderson.

@MAINELYBOSTON_PSN said in Pls Fix Commentary:

@OakFan89-_MLBTS

Hoping next year we finally get a new commentary team, least it will be fresh for a few games.

It's not the team! LOL!!

Boog Sciambi has zero control over what recording is played out. If avoiding glitches like this one is your goal, then you don't want a new commentator team as that would require an entirely new set of recordings that all have to be linked properly to the game code for enunciation.

What's the purpose of the game? If the end state is the result of money, then the purpose of the game itself has been stymied. I'll grant you that it's versus CPU and therefore has no direct impact on me. But, the concept could have a huge impact if the rewards of playing the game are themselves stymied to encourage spending more money to get better.

And THAT point is 100% within my wheelhouse to comment on, wouldn't you say?

OK, thanks!

I already turned in a bug report that was answered for additional details. But, in my case, when you use the Play Next Game option in RTTS, after several run throughs this way, the video turns full black while the audio and menu options remain active. You can actually here the clicks as you cycle through menu options as well as hear the game cycle through the play actions on the manager screen.

Since this happened the second time, I stopped using the Play Next Game option and always return to the locker room and have had no such video issues.

BTW: it is confirmed to be a code issue in the game as I can use my game pad to bring up console menu options and they appear visually.

I see a diamond level piece of gear in about one out of ten equipment packs received. So, they are there.

I'm seeing gold level gear in about one in three equipment packs received.

@GreenEydBndt_XBL said in Can You Create Mutiple careers this year?:

Yes you can. How is he same in each game but the buttons are different based on system. What you need to do is get to the log in screen. The screen with all the different games for example rtts, diamond dynasty, storylines and so on. Once there make sure you’re on the rtts tab. For the Xbox I hit X and it gives me 3 options load, start new and one other option. Hit the start new and you’ll be prompted through the steps.

I can’t help you with PlayStation or Switch buttons but I’m sure someone in the forum can.

Wait, I thought if you start a new RTTS career then it wipes out the previous career. I don't think this is what the OP wants. He wants to run two or more parallel running RTTS avatar careers.

@The_Joneser_PSN said in SDS has issues:

@OPD188_PSN said in SDS has issues:

To release an AAA game in this condition is unacceptable then not to have any transparency concerning releasing a statement as to realizing these issues and commenting on when they will be addressed is even worse.

This sentence is atrocious. If you're going to write about something that has been released to the world without first being checked for errors, you should heed your own advice. Also, I don't think you quite know how to use the word "transparency."

Perhaps your expectations of getting a response in less than 24 hours for a bug report ticket pointing out minor issues are unrealistic, considering the game launched less than three days ago...

Hard to argue with that reply!

Doesn't match my experience at all. I got the package immediately upon starting my college career.