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If you are playing online with 99 Ryan why would you throw anything other than fastballs? For me it is completely impossible to make solid contact. On directional you just cannot swing fast enough. on PCI you cannot move the pci in time to swing especially with how wild he is. Unless you get straight up lucky. I managed the following against him: 20k 4 pop up 3 bunt singles 2 bunt outs with 1 fly out. I looked like a T-baller being pitched to for the first time!

Got it 3rd try didn't even notice e it was HOF

I think they threw it together too quickly. The showdowns don't seem to have music. Not much announcing either in the rest of the showdown missions either. Not complaining kind of tired of hearing the same comments lol

@pennstatefencer said in Field of irritation!:

I assume the runner was a legend, right? Must have went back into the cornfield.

Lmao that must be it!

How does a runner on third just disappear? Usually in a showdown when they come up to bat another runner replaces them. They don't just disappear screwing me out of the showdown winning run. They are hard enough with 102 mph wild things on the Mound and perfectly timed swing and misses on pitches down the middle. I love this game but [censored]!

Alot less if they would let you control the runners. Tired of losing a multi game moment on a easy double because the runner stops at second.

When they bunt I throw high fast balls most the time they pop them up. Unfortunately the bunting issue is a result of the super insane fastball speeds combo with stupid slow off speed with rediculously late break.

I feel the pain this may be the most heartbreaking of trade seasons since the Maddux deal. For the longest time I couldn't wait to see what we would get but hey atleast we got up and comers not washed up has beens like many of the years past.......

I have high and low periods too. But to me thats part of the realism. I often have to change my batting views and swing types based on who the pitcher is, what pitch they are fond of at this moment, whos batting, which stadium im in etc. I have hit 10 hr in a CPU game with a 10mph wind to center then the next game with the same wind same players don't hit a single one.

@newplayerone257_psn said in Why this game is a disgrace for baseball:

@yankblan_psn said in Why this game is a disgrace for baseball:

@newplayerone257_psn said in Why this game is a disgrace for baseball:

@yankblan_psn said in Why this game is a disgrace for baseball:

He complains about people being jerks online, trying to use exploits: where has he been the last 15 years of online gaming?

I think, that you are making it pretty obvious how you feel about online cheating, you are ok with it because people are doing it since forever? And don't go saying that does not mean you are a cheater, because people advocate for what they think is right, specially when pointed out. Out of everything I have written, you decided to mention and advocate for that, the cheating tradition on online gaming. hahaha, got you!

No, cheating is bad, but what can I do? People, when anonymity is guaranteed, will use all kind of cheap tactics and bad behaviour they can get away with. I’m 24-8 or something, just under 700s; I try to have fun, realistic types of games, but I expect fully to run into a-holes and exploiters because that’s the nature of the beast. It’s like saying « we shouldn’t kill anybody »; yeah sure it shouldn’t exist but wishing it away doesn’t work. If you play any type of game online, expect cheaters and exploiters and glitchers on your path. Just because I accept that fact doesn’t mean I’m condoning it. You really are daft for reaching that conclusion out of my post; and presumptuous too.

You can start for supporting my complain against a team of developers who supports with leniency that kind of behaviour, I know you or me or the next guy can do anything meaningful to stop it, but we can express against it in any way possible. You know, I was thinking if I was part of the dev team, how would I address this: in fact, no matter how many checks I can make in the code to prevent spamming of commands, they can just play with the network cord on their end, and that alone will cause these stutterings that desync the game. Ok, they can't control that, but they do can log their activity, and when they see a pattern, give the player a warning, subsequent temporal ban from multiplayer and in extreme cases permanent one. There are ways to enforce good behaviour, but they just don't care.

They do try but when you have 20 million people playing all over the world and 24 hours a day that is massive amount of monitoring. You just have to move on to the next opponent. Some of my best games were decided in the ninth but most of my wins have come from people quiting. This game is one of the few where and average player can beat the everyday grinder online without spending money.

I agree there are some things that are just over the top obsurd. I do however understand that AI is not perfect but some quirks are in there as an attempt to make it more realistic. Game developers have to find ways to account for the "real live game" components that you cannot put in a video game. The hardest part to that is the human err factor. I do wish they would fix the obscene amount of pop ups. lol

The new cards become abundant typically after a conquest when everyone obtains a lot of packs. Don't feel bad I got one not paying attention to the fact it was a new met and is the only card I'm missing to finish the live series and I sold it!

How do you get 3 singles 1 double 1 run scored and not win a showdown that requires 4 total bases and a run scored? Someone needs to learn how to count.....

I'm not a programmer but I have noticed that there is some AI memory programmed into the game. example you keep putting pitches in the same cold zone they will eventually crush it especially the more times the hitter faces that pitcher thats against the CPU if you add in a skilled player on top of that with good pci control and its a recipe for disaster.

@flamexjd20_psn said in This is starting to feel deliberate:

The reason is very reasonable... its run by SDS. Server outages are as guaranteed as taxes, death, 2 strike foulballs and gold glove diving catches from common defenders in Showdowns

Don't forget the missed fastball down the middle followed up with a 6ft tapper on a slider a foot out of the zone with the bases loaded down by one.

All other zone appear to warp the pitch breaks and angles to me.

strike zone for slow pitchers strike zone 2 most of the time, strike zone 3 on the super fast and extremely wild pitchers

Haven't had any issues for several days. Today it crashing after conquest game. Been grinding to complete 1st inning. After losing a week to crashing not sure I will complete the last 150k in experience.

No they are not now I just got an unhanfled server exception hasnt had one in a few days but played several games that didn't count. last week I got the exception error often but got my experience most of the time.