Two things I want to see in MLB 26:
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Bring back Sounds of the Show. The feature where you could bring in your own music to use in the game. Do it like y'all did on the previous generation consoles (for example the PS4) where you could assign your own imported songs to a team to play during homeruns, big hits, scored runs, in-between innings, and when the team wins.
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Stadium Creator. I want it not only fixed; but I also want it given a respectable update. Stadium Creator, in my opinion, was intentionally neglected in this year's edition of the game which resulted in tons of bugs and issues we didn't have in MLB 24. Also this year, we got no new props to use in creating stadiums. I sounded off about this at the beginning of the season, and I'm banging the pots and pans again now as we're five months away from MLB 26 coming out. This is what I want to see out of Stadium Creator going forward:
-1. Bullpens need to leave the surface of the field. No ballpark in baseball except for the Trop has bullpens on the field. I want the option to have bullpens beyond the outfield fence.
-2. The option to create a domed and/or retractable roofed ballpark needs to be there. The tool has been around for five years now, it's way past time for that ability to be available.
-3. Signage, wall markers, and LED boards on the outfield walls. Again, everyone in the stadium creator community, including myself, are getting tired of looking at the blank walls. We want better outfield wall customization options.
-4. We need more memory. And the capacity limit needs to be done away with too. That's unrealistic and everyone's stadium capacity varies. Do away with the capacity limit and give us more memory to work with.
-5. A completely revamped prop menu. There are 30 active ballparks in baseball and several former ballparks in the game that can be picked from. There should be stuff from every ballpark that exists in the game in that props menu. I'm referring to: light towers; scoreboards; flags; billboards; even the stands (which I'll get to in a minute). I should have at least 40 different scoreboard options and at least 40 different light tower variations to work with from each ballpark in the game.
-6. We need more realistic seating decks. Look around at each stadium in the game. There's not a lot of seating in the outfield. We need more realistically-sized seating deck options.
-7. The outfield wall dimensions and the ominous red line of doom known as the "prop too close to the field" message. Target Field has a deck that hovers over the playing field surface. Police it to a limit or set a certain distance a prop can overhang onto the field and let us have props/decks hanging over the field of play. Same goes with the field dimensions themselves. Quit punishing us for customizing the outfield wall height and distances manually by making it ineligible for online play.
My solution, set a minimum and maximum distance you can move the wall to and allow that created ballpark with manually set dimensions to be eligible for online play.
Whether this is achieved right off the bat, or through a series of updates throughout the season, I would like to see these two things addressed and made better in MLB 26.