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Companies aren’t obligated to create and sell a product that you’d like, just because you’d like them to. Buy a console that you can play it on or move on. They’re well-aware of the change that they chose to make. They don’t need diatribes posted on their forums about it. These forums are for people actually playing the game. No one needs this. This is entirely a you-problem, not theirs or ours.

@SaveFarris_PSN

Beltran is literally only available via packs because that’s where you get every single card necessary to get him.

@Casualy-Hardcor_XBL

If tempo is actually a thing, wouldn’t the solution be to have the batter begin the leg kick at the same time and with the same quickness on every pitch, regardless of speed, but have a slight delay at the peak of the kick? Making the delay component closer to the swing timing would negate its usefulness.

@MUSTARDxTIGER__PSN

Tempo is a reference to the speed in which the batter’s leg kick (or the pitcher’s delivery, it depends on who you ask that claims to be able to do it) occurs in-game purportedly correlating with the speed of the pitch, such that it occurring sooner/quicker tips that a fastball is being thrown while it occurring later tips that an off speed pitch is being thrown. This negates one of the fundamental aspects of baseball (changing speeds to fool a batter) and allows for better hitting results. It isn’t part of baseball because in real life, the batter is the one timing their leg kick. However, in-game, the leg kick animation occurs automatically and isn’t triggered by the user.

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@palmerjones_PSN

Just intentionally walk them…

@x-814-x-MAFIA-x_PSN

No, they claimed matchmaking would be based on a combination of your division and your current rating — just that the division is based on highest rating, not the matchmaking. I posted on here back in March that people would tank their rating.

They should have reset everyone to the bottom of their division’s rating (so if you’re in the 800 to 899 rating, you’re reset to 800), restricted your search to just other people in your division (so you’d only play people in the 800 to 899 rating), have your difficulty set by your division (so if you’re in 800 to 899, all of your games are on HoF even if you go above 900), and stop giving out ranked rating rewards (so if didn’t make WS prior to Weekend Classic, you cannot make it by getting over 800 during Weekend Classic — your opportunity to exceed a new threshold ends when the ranked season ends and Weekend Classic starts).

@BOREDJASON13_PSN

Because of multiple factors, including returning to a power creep where the best live series cards are still usable at this point in the game (whereas seasons made them largely irrelevant quite quickly the last two years), the live series collection rewards being the best cards available (Beltran best CF; Hodges best 1B; Clemens best SP; Valenzuela being among the top 5 SP; Headley arguably the best natural 3B, etc), and BR rewards being randomized instead of following set patterns (thereby putting less of them into circulation).

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@Finn_Scotus_MLBTS @Pergo_MLBTS

You just use the left stick now for direction. Right stick is only ambush inputs.

They’re effectively just placeholders as there will eventually be vouchers like the Jolt one for collecting a higher numbers of cards than the one pack amount, where those vouchers can be collected for a legend or flashback card. They’re just there to show people that there will be legends & flashbacks collections. They’re not supposed to be overly rewarding or anything.

@BASEBALL__24_7_PSN

On the main DD screen, go to your icon in the top left beside your PSN and select it. On the screen that pops up with your logo in the middle, press right once and you have the cross play option.

@bostondirtdog21_PSN

Is it that only two are collectible or is it that only two show up right now because only two have been discovered?

@soulshred99_PSN

None of the game modes are “in a hurry” modes. They’re all strategic. ~80% of the player base or so got used to wasting pause time as a regular thing. They’re now being forced to stop doing that and it will take time to adjust. People won’t just spend 5 years wasting time and then flip a switch and stop in 2 months. But they did waste time.

The worst part of being a good player in prior years and playing events was matching people that were sub-700 rated players. They all wasted time. All of them. The amount of unnecessary pausing in the game was off the charts and beyond ridiculous. The amount of slow pitching is still off the charts and beyond ridiculous. The amount of refusing to click through cut scenes is still off the charts and beyond ridiculous (which SDS yet again made worse by adding new, longer ones to the game). The amount of holding R2 is still off the charts and beyond ridiculous. Match another WS player, have a lot of offense on both sides, and finish in 15 to 20 minutes or match a 500 rated player, go up 3-0, swing at literally everything to try to get the game over with, never give up a run, and still somehow take 25 minutes in a game that should have been over in 10 minutes.

If anything, reducing pause time is too little of a step to fix this problem. They still need to remove R2 (or any other way of slowing the pitcher that doesn’t count as pausing). They still need to either remove cut scenes or have anytime spent with “Waiting for ____” on the screen count against pause time so people get dinged for watching them (or using them I guess in regards to fan cam). They still need to cut the time to pick and throw pitches in half. The worst part about the online experience is how little of the experience is spent actually playing the game.

The only time I have had less than 45 seconds of pause time all year was a game where I let it run down on a FQ request because the game was glitched (it showed Hunter Greene as pitching but it was Jake Arrieta’s pitch mix; opponent refused to FQ and the game froze one batter later). There isn’t something wrong with the pause timer unless you’re pausing when you’re not actually doing anything.

@SDS_JoeK_PSN

Thank you for posting this here instead of just social media.

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