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@eatyum_psn said in Well whaddya know:

@raesone_psn said in Well whaddya know:

@eatyum_psn said in Well whaddya know:

@raesone_psn said in Well whaddya know:

@eatyum_psn said in Well whaddya know:

@raesone_psn said in Well whaddya know:

I would be open to the argument that the pitch went through the zone if the timing on it was very early or even early. But it literally says good timing, and it's closer to the green than the yellow (hence it says good and not just early). That means that the pitch wasn't caught in the flight, the pitch was hit at the location where it ended up being.

I don't think that's true at all, just because it was good timing on the hitter side doesn't mean that's where the ball ends up being. It was still to far out for that to be true.

Doesn't the hitting feedback register the location of where contact is made? Since the timing was good, that spot is accurate to where the pitch would end up using that logic.

No, that's not how it works, just because it's a good time to hit the ball, doesn't mean that is the balls final destination. The ball doesn't magically stop moving if the hitter doesn't hit it there.

I think we're gonna have to agree to disagree on this one. I hear what you're saying, and like I argued before I would agree if the timing was early or very early. But since that wasn't the case here, I do think that the spot that the feedback shows was in fact the location where the pitch would've ended up being if the batter had not swung.

But why? what gives you this assumption? Because using the hitters timing isn't proof, unless you are suggesting the hitters good time to swing is when the ball was in the glove, or that the ball magically stops moving on a slurve before it gets in the glove.

Besides, all of this is moot because we know where the ball would have ended up. https://twitter.com/UHeynaBoutIt/status/1523725235706421250?s=20&t=qwWX3od9aqqy9oadx6-SDQ

Which is outside the par, but the picture makes it look worse then it is, as my first comment said

I’m of the same opinion of Raes; if they use this feedback for balls and strikes, why wouldn’t they use it foe swing feedback? It’s one of the reasons I believe people make too much of the PCI feedback: the ball is where it would have crossed the plate; the PCI is either where the bat crossed or made contact; either way, it never shows both the ball and the PCI at the point of contact. There would still be BS hits, but less severe impression of getting screwed by the engine.

Think it is one of those things they overcorrected. In the past almost every time you tried a play like this the ball would glance off the glove usually in the opposite direction you were diving and no way to make the play, no matter how good of a fielder they were. Now they all seem to make the play.

JP Crawford is nice though, but another lefty…

For Ward, I’m not sure yet, small sample size

I took Britton and Seaver to help with some of the PXP missions. Will probably sell both eventually. If I’m ever not sure, I always take the pitchers because you could always use more choices for pitching.

I start my mornings by hunting some fowl. I then go to my referee job to call penalties. After that my afternoon job is a detective where I interview people who don't engage in fair play.

I then sit down in the evenings and start playing MLBTS.

That is the lifestyle you have to commit to

@raesone_psn said in Created parks:

Played another one just now, beat him 14-0. Wonder if he had fun.

But hitting is broken

I got in a game with another Xbox user (I just switched to series x this year) and put the frame counter on with my CX. 120hz setting using VRR. It was showing steady at about 118-119 was the rate.
Will try again when I match up with a PS player to see if it’s different.

@write-to-shawn_psn said in The solution is simple:

@robbybobby88_mlbts said in The solution is simple:

@write-to-shawn_psn said in The solution is simple:

@robbybobby88_mlbts said in The solution is simple:

I’m 6 2 220 never took an L in the streets of the bay or LA and I've ran through both areas top to bottom my whole life and one thing I do know is that if you wanna take something from someone else bcuz you don't have it or you want to be given something that someone else has owns or possesses you're pretty much a communist.

🤣🤣🤣 the fake internet tough guy returns.

There's purity in your projection I see. I know I know how can anyone online not be a dweeb like you that's actually been outside...

What do you mean? I’m 6’12”, 350 kilograms, 1.5% body fat. Never took an L in the streets of Beverly Hills or Palo Alto.

1.5% body fat [censored] so your telling us you got half the body fat than mr Olympia congrats at least make it realistic

That would explain why I'm so [censored] early the last two days on practice mode.. I was like wtf did my reflexes just get steroids or something.....

@ericulous1_psn said in My name is Nostradamus:

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@oreorockstar_psn said in My name is Nostradamus:

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@chrono_omega_psn said in My name is Nostradamus:

@raesone_psn said in My name is Nostradamus:

@chrono_omega_psn said in My name is Nostradamus:

Raes we need to combine the community to bring a hybrid of 16/17 with with their strengths put together and bugs diminished.

That would be great, but the people over in San Diego are clearly not interested in that direction unfortunately.

I’m gonna have to tag in Bret Hart to put some of these devs in a sharpshooter or something.

This is legit the only thing I understood about today's computers and numbers lesson. I guess something bad happened for PS players. I spent the 2000s and 2010s partying my face off so I didn't play a video game until Covid hit and now I'm obsessed with this game (more about baseball than the video game).

But your Bret Hart reference was awesome.

I actually went to Wrestlemania in Glendale in 2010 and Bret Hart had a "match" with Vince McMahon. It was awful but way cool to see him back. He, Shawn Michaels and The Undertaker were a huge part of my childhood. It was also the night Miitalicised textchaels retired after losing to the Undertaker. If you look in the crowd you'll see me drunk and having a blast. Well, you'll see 80k people like that hahaha..

Um, so what were we talking about?

Ahh, I grew up with Greg The Hammer Valentine’s daughter as one of my best friends so have so many stories at his house at the pool with Beefcake, Hogan, Honkey, Tito Santana, and on and on.

Lots and lots of backstage stories, so many fun memories. She started training at the Hart
Dungeon in her late 20s but passed away before she went far from substance abuse.

Greg was/is a humble and great guy.

That's right, I remember you telling some story about being backstage and them trying not to break character or something to that effect. Wrestling was such a huge thing for me when I was a kid and then again in college when it became somewhat mainstream in the 2000s with The Rock and Austin etc. I remember two of the hottest girls on campus (and I went to SDSU) wearing cut up DX shirts and thinking, what planet am I on? Sorority girls like wrestling?

That's really unfortunate about his daughter. He is definitely an all time great.

Ahh the Aztecs. My defining moment in college....I batted 5th in the lineup and they walked our cleanup hitter intentionally to load the bases to pitch to me. 2nd pitch....BOMB!!! LOL

My Aztecs gave up a HR? Say it ain't so hahaha. Who were you playing for?

We use to love going to watch Strasburg pitch when he was on the team. Khawi Leanord across the street, it was a fun tim motorcycle and Aztec.

LMU

@raesone_psn said in VRR enabled - framerates all over the place:

@xelrojo44x_mlbts said in VRR enabled - framerates all over the place:

@raesone_psn said in VRR enabled - framerates all over the place:

@xelrojo44x_mlbts said in VRR enabled - framerates all over the place:

@raesone_psn said in VRR enabled - framerates all over the place:

@xelrojo44x_mlbts said in VRR enabled - framerates all over the place:

@raesone_psn said in VRR enabled - framerates all over the place:

@xelrojo44x_mlbts said in VRR enabled - framerates all over the place:

@raesone_psn said in VRR enabled - framerates all over the place:

@mrwonderful95 said in VRR enabled - framerates all over the place:

@raesone_psn said in VRR enabled - framerates all over the place:

So my monitor supports VRR and 120hz and everything else. It also has an FPS counter which displays the current amount of frames. I've been playing for a few hours and the results are interesting, very good actually. But what IS weird, is that during gameplay the framerate hovers around 60fps - which is what you'd expect. But during some situations it all of a sudden spikes to the high 70s (like a cutscene) and sometimes event to 120 albeit for a second or so and immediately drops back down to 60 in both cases. If anything this shows me that the framerates are all over the place for this game, there doesn't seem to be a framerate cap at all, otherwise it can't spike like that. Which is weird because we were always told the game is capped at 60fps and it does seem to do that during most of the gameplay with VRR enabled.

I’m asking this with little technical knowledge but is your monitor “upscaling” the image/Frame rates?

No it does not, I have a HDMI 2.1 monitor with Freesync Premium Pro.

Curious, but did you enable VRR for "non-supported games"?

Yes I did.

Are you able to tell any difference with that feature on vs off?

As of today if I turn it off, it goes to 120hz. Which is nice too but is choppier because it has screen tearing. That's why VRR is so godly. So I don't wanna turn it off.

Thanks. That does make sense. Hopefully SDS will implement VRR asap, in order for PS5 users to fully benefit from the increased refresh rate.

As far as I'm concerned they don't even have to implement it, just allow us to play with it if our screens support it.

But doesn't VRR help to smooth out the frames that comes with the higher refresh rate?

Yes it does. But for both VRR and 120hz to work, the game would actually have to support 120fps which MLBTS does not do, which is why with VRR enables it hovers around 60fps and not 120fps. I'll give you a different example, F1 2021 does have 120fps support and I just tried it with VRR enabled and it's pretty much a lock 118-120 without any screen tearing that was there before VRR was live.

Edit: so what I'm actually saying is that I'm fine with playing this game hovering at 60fps as long as I can use VRR. Which is what I'm doing right now playing mini seasons, so it is possible. I just want that to carry over to online gameplay as well and allow us to play that way. 120fps would be nice (not happening at least not this year to my estimation), but if not then I'll happily settle for VRR.
Yes I played mini seasons with it on and you can tell the difference. I was scoring 8-10 runs on hof difficulty, turned it off and score 4-5 runs.

@ecureuil2011_psn said in Something funny:

@raesone_psn said in Something funny:

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Played a game in mini seasons just now, and the opposing team had gold Jim Edmonds behind the dish and no catchers on the bench. So he was the catcher for the entire 3 innings. With a blocking rating of 0, he had 0 dropped pitches and 0 passed balls. Not a big deal but funny how that works.

what year was it that you could put anyone you wanted at Catcher and they were still capable of doing well fielding? I remember people putting OF and 3B there just for the bat

16 IIRC. And in 17 I played 99 Bryce Harper at 1B without issues.

In the same vein, 21 and 22 are the first 2 years you can't play a guy in a position he doesn't have a secondary for; 19 and 20 had big penalties but allowed; 18 I don't care to remember and before 18 I straight don't remember.

are you sure? I haven't tried it in 22 but I feel like I put people out of position at 2b last year (against the cpu)

Also speaking of...I remember every one using Joey Gallo at 2B one year because the penalty still gave him decent defense lol

I played offline 120hz today and only noticed some type of tearing when the ball was reaching to the fielder’s glove, everything else was wonderful

@tezzmaniandevil_psn said in How to tell you're gonna lose a game:

Gotta love the “timing hitting contact swing” combo… this brain dead mechanic (timing) was added so everybody has a chance to win without actually putting in the work to be good and win with a little bit of skill

Maybe it was put in as a option for folks that have disabilities and cant use anything else?

Fact is, timing isnt a problem like yall suggest. Zero top players are using it, just like every year its ZONE. If ya lose to timing players, ya might not be as good as you think you are, maybe? I bet, there are very few, if any, Timing players that are in HoF divisions or higher.

@matt_42187_psn said in "That's baseball":

I don't think pitching is getting the recognition it deserves as well. I don't know how many times I'm 97-100% with .002-.005 early/late release, only for the pitch to miss it's spot by 4-6 inches. You aim for the black, and it will go down the middle 75% of the time. Whoever approved the numbers for coding, may be dyslexia.

Oh for sure, I've been complaining about that for weeks.

@raesone_psn said in Should've named it the very late/early bloopie event:

@jeezy-e_psn said in Should've named it the very late/early bloopie event:

@ibonafidescrub_ said in Should've named it the very late/early bloopie event:

@raesone_psn said in Should've named it the very late/early bloopie event:

@stinkysman77_mlbts said in Should've named it the very late/early bloopie event:

@raesone_psn said in Should've named it the very late/early bloopie event:

@stinkysman77_mlbts said in Should've named it the very late/early bloopie event:

@raesone_psn said in Should've named it the very late/early bloopie event:

Who would've guessed?????????????

Wow you really are having a bad time this year aren't you

And many more with me. Have you played it? Online that is?

Yeah ..it has it's issues I agree ..just seems to be stressing you extra hard this year

I'm just very dissapointed and even more surprised that they went this route, based on all the criticisms from past years coming from the community as a whole. Nobody like the pitching random outcomes with good input. Nobody liked the fact that you can't strike anyone out and foul tip everything to keep at bats going for 15 pitches. Nobody liked the fact that bad swings get rewarded constantly and then good contact hits are often lineouts or flyouts. And what do they do? Instead of learning from those mistakes, they chose to implement ALL those things in this year's game. I'm just flabbergasted by their decision making, they either do not listen or do not care. I don't know which would be worse.

Yes, it’s so frustrating… the new customers needed all the help they could’ve gotten in TS21 and it is not different in TS22

Its been this way for awhile, when did they implement secondary pitch limit? ‘19 or ‘20?. At that moment the game ceased to be competitive.

I think it was 18, but didn't they step away from that after all the backslash it received?

If I’m not mistaken they put it in 19 because in 18 everybody threw junk since fastballs were too slow/unusable. They jacked the speed in 19 and put in secondary penalties, but it was taken out during the year or for 20; can’t remember.

@aam34_psn said in Cover athletes program forces to buy?:

@raesone_psn said in Cover athletes program forces to buy?:

You can't complete the program if you have 1 (or none) of the Deluxe version cover athletes. If my math is correct, you can only get to 73 stars if you have none of the cards and 76 if you have 1. You need 90. This is a first time where SDS actually forces you to buy off the market to complete a program. Again, going backwards buddies.

I knew this would happen and my thoughts were confirmed when the inning bosses were gone. I'm still able to put an ok team together so far no money spent though. I agree with you 100 percent.

This was determined to not be true. All the missions are repeatable so if you can just field a team of Red Sox, Mariners and Twins you can complete the program. If you have Cover athletes or their live series counterpart (i.e. cover Harper or LS Harper, you can also use them, but honestly, it will go so much faster just using these 3 teams.

I did notice last night playing mini seasons that everything I squared up died on the track, weird because the day before I was very clearly getting under stuff and it was flying out.

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I had my thread removed also a few days ago. Why do they let constant insults from the same people and literally remove posts that say bad things about they’re game? That’s a question this mod should answer…if he has any integrity.

Calm down Curtis, what's next, You'll threaten a lawsuit with your terrible grammar and repetitious posts?

I just want an explanation….fair enough?

Explanation for what? Timing isn't new to the game this year, it's been in the game for YEARS. Why is that all of a sudden the reason you are getting beat?

I want an explanation on why certain members are allowed to continually harass other members…all the while the mod is removing posts that puts a light on this game.

Where did I say I was getting beat by opponents using Timing? Show me.

OK bud, have a great day!

Don’t go yet…you made a claim and I asked you to validate it, now your just wanting to leave? Your all the same and too easy.

Everyone can click on your name and read your previous posts on the topic. Everyone knows what you say in the forums, you repeat it every day. No need to argue something that simple.

But, that begs the most important question of them all. What kind of dog do you have? I don't currently have any that live in our apartment due to the rental agreement, but my dad has a Golden Retriever, and three Poodle mixes. All interesting and unique dogs in their own right. I've personally found that I more prefer cats to dogs these days anyway. I'm not required to walk my cat, they are able to use the restroom on their own, and yet they still tend to be equally affectionate towards their owners. The only down side to cat ownership, as opposed to dog ownership, is the cats ability to help it's owner while hunting birds. While I have attempted to take my cat hunting with me on numerous occasions, my cat prefers to chase butterflies or simply take a nap. There is almost no motivation there to do the job he's been given. While frustrating, overall, cats are still my pick.

How about you Bud?

I’m not your buddy, guy!

I'm not your guy, pal!

I'm not your pal, mensch!

@chuckclc_psn said in Free headliner packs:

I had 2 and pulled a Verlander and a Walker Buehler. Don't let it trick you into buying them.

It's like those free samples at the grocery store. Except when you try to make them it's not so yummy

I pulled Verlander from those pack last night as well.. Clearly they're baiting