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Feel like I've been waiting on this forever for the June Monthly Awards. I realize it's only July 1st but would think dates past Week 3 (June 19th) should be available by now. Is this just taking a while or have I encountered some sort of glitch? Thanks.

I purposely give up a hit so I can speed up the delivery with these older players; trying to complete missions and moments become frustrating as hell waiting for these guys to finish their gymnastics routines on the mound.

Man, the quality and maturity of posts on this forum rivals imdb. So much cringe.

@kovz88_psn said in Solution for toxic players...:

Terrible idea. It will just get spammed by people who are mad they are losing and you will have a million "wrongfully banned" topics. There are already ways to report people for actually toxic behavior.

This. Player Reviews on XBox was/is the dumbest thing ever. Nothing but people who don't know how to play a game efficiently whining because they don't have a sense if strategy or just don't like how someone beat them.

@theblindrhino said in Market down?:

@kjlugo_psn said in Market down?:

What am I supposed to do at work now?...

This is why I bought a switch. So I can adapt when things go down.

It's too bad the game sucks on the Switch, lol.

Baserunners, even the elite ones, hesitate and don't run when a ball is missed and goes to the backstop but will constantly attempt to leg out doubles on hits that are clearly nothing but a simple single and get tagged out by a mile. Been this way since I started playing again in 2019. Just gotta get gud at manual baserunning, I guess.

@ccarr77_psn said in Account Banned:

If SDS is banning folks because of their lack of market security that's the bow on top of this great gift of a game. I can hear the Benny Hill music playing in the background now.

Yeah, if this is legit that is absolutely absurd.

@jkooch66_xbl said in What are some positive aspects of gameplay from 21 to 22?:

Honestly not much...This is really the show 21.5. But as for a couple of small things:

Conquest sim speed is GREATLY decreased.

The shift seems less effective and/or extreme pull hitters have more hit varieties that sneak around the shift.

Outlier nerfed a bit

High sinkers nerfed

Analogue pitching is harder

Perfect throws to all bases

That sim speed in conquest was a Godsend, lol.

@buckybarnes2276_xbl said in Tin foil hat time:

@RagahRagah_MLBTS i guarantee you it plays better on the switch then on the Xbox s cuss it plays like [censored] for me

I can't imagine that.

Really, a lot of it comes down to the slower frame rate and small screen combination but functionally it's not up to par, either.

@buckybarnes2276_xbl said in Tin foil hat time:

So the switch can only run this game at 40 frames how wide are there hitting windows compared to us? I would turn cross play off but it’s literally impossible to get a match late at night.

After being used to playing The Show on Playstation, the Switch version is almost unplayable in comparison.

@jeezy-e_psn said in The Show 18 remastered:

@ragahragah_mlbts said in The Show 18 remastered:

@dancindays_psn said in The Show 18 remastered:

change your diaper and go do something else. sick of the whining.

Love it. Like that ridiculous "If you don't like America, leave!" nonsense deflection.

No one should accept something being sub-par. And The Show has been sub-par for a very long time.

And it's not like it's baseless complaining. People are being in depth and pinpointing specific issues in full detail and you're just gonna act like that's not the case.

So you know the game has been sub par for years, yet you buy it year after year and complain about it year after year. Hows that worked out so far? Big changes?.

Because we love baseball and there is not really anything else out there.

@dancindays_psn said in The Show 18 remastered:

change your diaper and go do something else. sick of the whining.

Love it. Like that ridiculous "If you don't like America, leave!" nonsense deflection.

No one should accept something being sub-par. And The Show has been sub-par for a very long time.

And it's not like it's baseless complaining. People are being in depth and pinpointing specific issues in full detail and you're just gonna act like that's not the case.

@bob_loblaw1984 said in My annual assessment of this game:

@raesone_psn said in My annual assessment of this game:

@hustlinowl_psn said in My annual assessment of this game:

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That's what 12 year olds do as well, resort to emojis when they're verbally stuck in a limbo. You're gonna join your friend @Bob_Loblaw1984 on the block list. Bye.

There are a lot of adjectives that could be used to describe you repeatedly tagging me here, but I won’t use them. Just please stop.

The endless cycle of projection and lack of self-awareness continues.

You're literally the most oblivious-to-yourself person I have ever engaged with on a forum or you are just a troll who gets off on the attention.

The guy inferring someone has a "fragile ego" ran away and backed down when questioned a couple of days ago when a couple of people managed to swiftly invalidate his absurd arguments and double standards now keeps coming back to continue to jab people. Maybe if you're gonna do that you can spend some time addressing all the points/questions that were levied on you that went completely ignored?

@d_e_m_i_s_e_psn said in My annual assessment of this game:

@raesone_psn said in My annual assessment of this game:

@joeselser_psn said in My annual assessment of this game:

@raesone_psn said in My annual assessment of this game:

@hoffsdrawlar_psn said in My annual assessment of this game:

This game reminds me exactly of 18. It comes to a point in events where I don’t know what I am supposed to do hitting wise because nothing makes sense. Good contact in the pci lazy pop ups and little choppers. To me it feels like pitcher confidence and/or energy may be factored in way too much with the result.

Yup, another good point. It's hard to get hitters out too. Just like in 18.

AI foul balls in this game are ridiculous. I'll be playing a game of conquest, bring in my diamond closer, to face the bottom of a teams order with guys that are bronze at best, and they'll have 10 pitch at bats. No matter what I throw and where I place it.
Also ..hitting. I notice a theme this year, unlike previous seasons. In extra innings, if my first hitter doesn't get the runner home, and just advances him to third on a sacrifice, i'll go down 1-2-3 every time. It's like clockwork. Move the runner to 3rd, less than two outs, no matter the hitter or his ratings...weak ground balls to the corner infielders everytime, holding the runner at third. With good or perfect contact. Every. Single. Time.

Yeah it's really bad, and online it's even worse because human players will move the PCI towards the zone where the pitch goes and will be in the proximity to foul it off every single time. It's a huge problem because it keeps at bats going forever, until you hang a pitch that's crushed. That happened in 18 as well, hence the constant reference to it.

18 comparison is looking good although it is early. Seeing a lot of good inputs go down the middle of the plate. Also it was super grindy to get a real good team (immortals). Lot of grind in this game for not a lot of reward so far.

I think this sum up the problem and I'm glad I'm not imagining these things.

@codywolfgang_xbl said in My annual assessment of this game:

@ragahragah_mlbts said in My annual assessment of this game:

@codywolfgang_xbl said in My annual assessment of this game:

@raesone_psn said in My annual assessment of this game:

@codywolfgang_xbl said in My annual assessment of this game:

@raesone_psn said in My annual assessment of this game:

So I've been playing offline since release, grinding all the programs and what not. So during that time I always keep my opinion to myself, because we all know offline usually plays fine and you don't really run into the issues that could spoil your experience.

Today I've been playing the event all day long. And it started out okay I guess, some slugfests here and there and just getting my feet wet. Nothing out of the ordinary. But the more I played, the more recurring themes I encountered.

First and foremost, the amount of bloopies/flukies or whatever you wanna call them are simply ridiculous. I understand that it is a part of baseball and it is totally fine if they happen occasionally. But the volume of bad swings that get rewarded are just out of hand at this point. We all like hit variety and we all want contact hitters to be usable, but not if this is the trade off. And that's what I feel is happening here, these hits are a thing because of the complaints regarding lack of hit variety in the past in my opinion.

What I also noticed is that the game, once again, forces my perfectly executed pitches into the strike zone. This was a thing in 18 and it feels the exact same to me in that sense. I have given up staggering amounts of homeruns on offspeed pitches that I spotted almost in the dirt and executed perfectly, yet somehow ended up in the bottom of the strike zone. Why are perfectly executed pitches being punished? What's the point of mastering PPP, which was introduced to widen the skill gap mind you, if you're gonna reduce that skill gap once more by adding randomness to the pitching outcome?

Then I've noticed that contact hitting is broken. Again. Try it for yourself to have a laugh. I played 5 games in a row swinging with the contact button exclusively and I hit 430ft homeruns and got 110+ mph exit velocities all the same. We can no longer see our opponent's feedback, but I wouldn't be surprised if many of the players in this community do the exact same thing. Since it widens the timing windows, allows for more solid contact and still gives you the same exit velocities.. why would you ever normal swing or even power swing?

Then there is the overall performance of the game in terms of fluidity and choppiness. I play on PS5 on performance mode and I played in a handful of created stadiums and major league parks that once again induce frame drops and choppiness all around. As if I'm playing on my vanilla PS4 all over again. Try playing an online game at Target Field and you'll see what I mean.

Another thing that seriously irritated me is the amount of weak flyballs and even pop ups on swings where the ball is entirely in my buckshot, albeit in the top part of it. But that's what the game wants us to do, no? Lift the ball with power hitters? So that's what I'm aiming for and I get okay hits for weak pop ups. Again, this reminded me of MLBTS 18.

Last but not least (for now) is the amount of freeze offs STILL HAPPENING. Like how on earth can you not find the issues to this problem for all these years? I can't help but think that these people just don't care or have given up on this problem like "it's part of the game, get used to it". That's unacceptable and laughable in a sense.

I have tried my hardest to find some good things to say as well. I guess I do like the sound off the bat, especially during a perfect/perfect. I also like the fact that fielders have more urgency and you're able to gun a lot more people now with good throwing input. But that's about it.

I'm sorry, but the game is just not very good. Again. I hate that it gives me MLBTS 18 vibes, but that's really what it does. Hopefully the upcoming gameplay patch that has been confirmed will fix many of these issues. If not, I probably won't play very long.

Edit:
One thing I forgot to mention, the PCI anchor. This feature was brought because people wanted to be able to have a sensitivity slider for the PCI. This is not that! The feature is terrible because it is basically guess pitch lite. People can just sit in a certain part of the zone and take away a whole part of the plate. I noticed that some people do this and don't swing until the ball comes into that part of the zone. I don't see how this has anything to do with skill and I think it's a terrible feature that should be removed asap or should be barred from online play.

I don’t believe you are playing the next Gen version if you are able to choose performance mode. I could be wrong since I’m on xbox, but on the xbox side you can only change the graphics settings on the old Gen version.

You can't do it in game, but in the PS5 settings menu. Why would anyone lie about this anyway?

Something is wrong with your brain if you take that comment as an attack accusing you of lying.

Read it to yourself again slowly and please point out any portion of that which would lead you to interpret that comment as a an accusation of lying.

You're either inferring he is lying or is confused (less likely). What other way is there really to take it?

I don’t believe you are playing the next Gen version if you are able to choose performance mode. I could be wrong since I’m on xbox, but on the xbox side you can only change the graphics settings on the old Gen version.

I posted the response for you…..please show me where I am inferring he is lying or confused? I literally said I could be wrong since I’m on Xbox.

Apparently you aren't aware of how your words come across. It's a fair takeaway.

@bob_loblaw1984 said in My annual assessment of this game:

This thread should be a case study.

Indeed. Textbook narcissists who project their harmful traits onto other people and people who for some reason think everyone creates duplicate accounts to argue with them. My posting style is nothing like Raes, anyway, lol. After how your last visit went you really shouldn't be throwing shade at anyone in this thread anymore. Your arguments were mostly invalidated and silenced. Should just bow out with dignity.

Some of you really struggle with just answering basic questions and self-asessment.

@codywolfgang_xbl said in My annual assessment of this game:

@raesone_psn said in My annual assessment of this game:

@codywolfgang_xbl said in My annual assessment of this game:

@raesone_psn said in My annual assessment of this game:

So I've been playing offline since release, grinding all the programs and what not. So during that time I always keep my opinion to myself, because we all know offline usually plays fine and you don't really run into the issues that could spoil your experience.

Today I've been playing the event all day long. And it started out okay I guess, some slugfests here and there and just getting my feet wet. Nothing out of the ordinary. But the more I played, the more recurring themes I encountered.

First and foremost, the amount of bloopies/flukies or whatever you wanna call them are simply ridiculous. I understand that it is a part of baseball and it is totally fine if they happen occasionally. But the volume of bad swings that get rewarded are just out of hand at this point. We all like hit variety and we all want contact hitters to be usable, but not if this is the trade off. And that's what I feel is happening here, these hits are a thing because of the complaints regarding lack of hit variety in the past in my opinion.

What I also noticed is that the game, once again, forces my perfectly executed pitches into the strike zone. This was a thing in 18 and it feels the exact same to me in that sense. I have given up staggering amounts of homeruns on offspeed pitches that I spotted almost in the dirt and executed perfectly, yet somehow ended up in the bottom of the strike zone. Why are perfectly executed pitches being punished? What's the point of mastering PPP, which was introduced to widen the skill gap mind you, if you're gonna reduce that skill gap once more by adding randomness to the pitching outcome?

Then I've noticed that contact hitting is broken. Again. Try it for yourself to have a laugh. I played 5 games in a row swinging with the contact button exclusively and I hit 430ft homeruns and got 110+ mph exit velocities all the same. We can no longer see our opponent's feedback, but I wouldn't be surprised if many of the players in this community do the exact same thing. Since it widens the timing windows, allows for more solid contact and still gives you the same exit velocities.. why would you ever normal swing or even power swing?

Then there is the overall performance of the game in terms of fluidity and choppiness. I play on PS5 on performance mode and I played in a handful of created stadiums and major league parks that once again induce frame drops and choppiness all around. As if I'm playing on my vanilla PS4 all over again. Try playing an online game at Target Field and you'll see what I mean.

Another thing that seriously irritated me is the amount of weak flyballs and even pop ups on swings where the ball is entirely in my buckshot, albeit in the top part of it. But that's what the game wants us to do, no? Lift the ball with power hitters? So that's what I'm aiming for and I get okay hits for weak pop ups. Again, this reminded me of MLBTS 18.

Last but not least (for now) is the amount of freeze offs STILL HAPPENING. Like how on earth can you not find the issues to this problem for all these years? I can't help but think that these people just don't care or have given up on this problem like "it's part of the game, get used to it". That's unacceptable and laughable in a sense.

I have tried my hardest to find some good things to say as well. I guess I do like the sound off the bat, especially during a perfect/perfect. I also like the fact that fielders have more urgency and you're able to gun a lot more people now with good throwing input. But that's about it.

I'm sorry, but the game is just not very good. Again. I hate that it gives me MLBTS 18 vibes, but that's really what it does. Hopefully the upcoming gameplay patch that has been confirmed will fix many of these issues. If not, I probably won't play very long.

Edit:
One thing I forgot to mention, the PCI anchor. This feature was brought because people wanted to be able to have a sensitivity slider for the PCI. This is not that! The feature is terrible because it is basically guess pitch lite. People can just sit in a certain part of the zone and take away a whole part of the plate. I noticed that some people do this and don't swing until the ball comes into that part of the zone. I don't see how this has anything to do with skill and I think it's a terrible feature that should be removed asap or should be barred from online play.

I don’t believe you are playing the next Gen version if you are able to choose performance mode. I could be wrong since I’m on xbox, but on the xbox side you can only change the graphics settings on the old Gen version.

You can't do it in game, but in the PS5 settings menu. Why would anyone lie about this anyway?

Something is wrong with your brain if you take that comment as an attack accusing you of lying.

Read it to yourself again slowly and please point out any portion of that which would lead you to interpret that comment as a an accusation of lying.

You're either inferring he is lying or is confused (less likely). What other way is there really to take it?

@dolenz_psn said in Let's get rid of griefers:

@this_guy_here22_psn said in Let's get rid of griefers:

Can we get these players that purposely expose exploits in the game to freeze it because they can't win taken off on-line? Jendeyy23 is his PSN, purposely freezes the game and then refuse to quit out when he's losing. These players are aggravating because they just freeze the game to get wins. This should not be a thing in this game anymore as it has been for several years now. If it freezes just don't count the win for either side.

I just looked at his game history.

I looked at his first page of games, which goes back to the 7th.

Your game was the only one I saw where he got a win while losing. His record in those 25 games is 11-14. It does not look like the history of someone abusing freeze offs somehow.

Did you actually do any research before accusing him?

No offense to the OP but the amount of people who assume cheating is going on when there isn't tend to be fairly high, at least anecdotally in my experience.

@matt_42187_psn said in My annual assessment of this game:

@raesone_psn said in My annual assessment of this game:

@matt_42187_psn said in My annual assessment of this game:

@raesone_psn said in My annual assessment of this game:

So I've been playing offline since release, grinding all the programs and what not. So during that time I always keep my opinion to myself, because we all know offline usually plays fine and you don't really run into the issues that could spoil your experience.

Today I've been playing the event all day long. And it started out okay I guess, some slugfests here and there and just getting my feet wet. Nothing out of the ordinary. But the more I played, the more recurring themes I encountered.

First and foremost, the amount of bloopies/flukies or whatever you wanna call them are simply ridiculous. I understand that it is a part of baseball and it is totally fine if they happen occasionally. But the volume of bad swings that get rewarded are just out of hand at this point. We all like hit variety and we all want contact hitters to be usable, but not if this is the trade off. And that's what I feel is happening here, these hits are a thing because of the complaints regarding lack of hit variety in the past in my opinion.

What I also noticed is that the game, once again, forces my perfectly executed pitches into the strike zone. This was a thing in 18 and it feels the exact same to me in that sense. I have given up staggering amounts of homeruns on offspeed pitches that I spotted almost in the dirt and executed perfectly, yet somehow ended up in the bottom of the strike zone. Why are perfectly executed pitches being punished? What's the point of mastering PPP, which was introduced to widen the skill gap mind you, if you're gonna reduce that skill gap once more by adding randomness to the pitching outcome?

Then I've noticed that contact hitting is broken. Again. Try it for yourself to have a laugh. I played 5 games in a row swinging with the contact button exclusively and I hit 430ft homeruns and got 110+ mph exit velocities all the same. We can no longer see our opponent's feedback, but I wouldn't be surprised if many of the players in this community do the exact same thing. Since it widens the timing windows, allows for more solid contact and still gives you the same exit velocities.. why would you ever normal swing or even power swing?

Then there is the overall performance of the game in terms of fluidity and choppiness. I play on PS5 on performance mode and I played in a handful of created stadiums and major league parks that once again induce frame drops and choppiness all around. As if I'm playing on my vanilla PS4 all over again. Try playing an online game at Target Field and you'll see what I mean.

Another thing that seriously irritated me is the amount of weak flyballs and even pop ups on swings where the ball is entirely in my buckshot, albeit in the top part of it. But that's what the game wants us to do, no? Lift the ball with power hitters? So that's what I'm aiming for and I get okay hits for weak pop ups. Again, this reminded me of MLBTS 18.

Last but not least (for now) is the amount of freeze offs STILL HAPPENING. Like how on earth can you not find the issues to this problem for all these years? I can't help but think that these people just don't care or have given up on this problem like "it's part of the game, get used to it". That's unacceptable and laughable in a sense.

I have tried my hardest to find some good things to say as well. I guess I do like the sound off the bat, especially during a perfect/perfect. I also like the fact that fielders have more urgency and you're able to gun a lot more people now with good throwing input. But that's about it.

I'm sorry, but the game is just not very good. Again. I hate that it gives me MLBTS 18 vibes, but that's really what it does. Hopefully the upcoming gameplay patch that has been confirmed will fix many of these issues. If not, I probably won't play very long.

Edit:
One thing I forgot to mention, the PCI anchor. This feature was brought because people wanted to be able to have a sensitivity slider for the PCI. This is not that! The feature is terrible because it is basically guess pitch lite. People can just sit in a certain part of the zone and take away a whole part of the plate. I noticed that some people do this and don't swing until the ball comes into that part of the zone. I don't see how this has anything to do with skill and I think it's a terrible feature that should be removed asap or should be barred from online play.

Everything you mentioned is on point and there should be no rebuttals.

Thank lol, not sure if you're being sarcastic though because of how this thread turned out to be. If you are, like I said multiple times already it's totally fine for people to disagree.

No sarcasm here. I’ve noticed everything you’ve talked about and it’s annoying. Especially the high pop ups with good contact and the PPP accuracy this year.

The person being the most arrogant and argumentative here doesn't seem to have a fraction of the analytical prowess as the OP. Sheep in wolf's clothing who had to claim he knows more but can't begin to back it up.

May not agree on all points but overall a very robust and accurate analysis here.