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@oreorockstar_psn said in HOF pitch speeds:

@d_e_m_i_s_e_psn said in HOF pitch speeds:

@jake98833_psn said in HOF pitch speeds:

@redsman09_psn said in HOF pitch speeds:

What’s the consensus on them? I personally find them to be too fast. I’m not a great player by any stretch but in past titles I’ve made World Series and from 15-19 had a consistent batting average from .284-.287 And saw a small decline to .270 in 20. But this year my batting average is below .250. And despite me being rated 838 this ranked Season I’m batting the Mendoza line. Most of the games I play on HOF are extremely low scoring. I don’t understand how fastballs on legend offline are slower then HOF online. What’s everyone’s thoughts? Should the pitch speeds be adjusted?

Man I am glad I don't play this online it sounds awful based on all the feedback way to inconsistent

Yea like @WashedND_PSN said, as long as you don't care about wins and losses and use different players it is better. Had a HOF game against DeGrom and gave him 10 earned runs in 1.2 innings, turning on 102 easily. Very next game, couldn't turn against Strasburg and his straight as an arrow 99. You just never know what pitch speeds you are going to run into. HOF seems like about 40% you will see laggy warping pitches. Legend is pretty much every time.

This is the issue. Without dedicated servers, you are too often at the mercy of your opponents shi**y wifi resulting in warping fastballs that are near impossible to hit every few games.

Another issue I have wanted addressed is why can't we have universal pitch speeds and sliders at least give us the option jumping between difficulties stinks offline/online

I’ve noticed this too. I’m quite confident it’s not numbers they’re proud of, or else we’d be hearing about them. Same with the breakdown of averages in perfects, goods etc. Gone completely awol because the numbers are going to justify a lot of threads in here.

Yea I dont get it. There are times when I feel like i need to just cheat fastball and if im way early on the other stuff its just too bad

@redsman09_psn said in Is anyone else having a bunch of issues?:

For example, it’s hit or miss if my equipment will cart over to gameplay. Best example is with my con L and pow L attributes. With my equipment it’s supposed to be 70/62. Some games it is sometimes it’s my base attributes of 56/49.

Then if I’m using my CF load out and change it to my pitcher load out prior to my game as a starting pitcher it doesn’t register and keeps my default load out.

It makes rtts extremely frustrating and practically unplayable. It’s hard to enjoy the storyline when I’m getting shelled or having games where I’m going 0-4 or 1-4 because the game isn’t registering stuff or bugging out.

When you are in Ballplayer and you change loadout to the right there is a activate loadout, i think that is part of process still toying around with it though.

@redsman09_psn said in Hitting on ps5 vs ps4:

Why does hitting feel so different on each system? When I got my ps5 back in November I became a much worse hitter. My season batting average was consistently like a 250-260’s. Now that I’ve switched back to the ps4 when playing the show I’m hitting like .315 on the season. My career BA has also jumped like 6 points. Is there some setting I need to adjust or something. My I game setting are the same for both platforms and I play on a monitor? Yet I’m constantly late on fastballs on ps5 I even set the ps5 to performance mode but I’m still late. What am I missing? It’s extremely frustrating

I had the exact same problem-noticed it in big way playing in custom leagues on legend bs PS4 users...I really think it has to do with cross platform play-I swapped back to PS4 and timing issues went away and my hitting went back to my norm?

I guess it’s a case of “pick your poison” eh?

I play the game without a center PCI. I’m getting more perfect perfect contacts now. It’s strange.

@jacksonvance35 said in Compared my pitching statistics from 19 to 20...:

@rAtbAby407 said in Compared my pitching statistics from 19 to 20...:

It sucks. The game is awful in online play. If pitch speeds were consistent that would be a start. I go from mashing the ball against a pitcher on the same difficult level to not being able to foul a ball off. Same pitcher. That isn’t my hitting, that’s latency and it’s atrocious.

My favorite experience with pitch speeds is I faced Nolan Ryan and Nate Pearson back to back on HOF and crushed them. Next game Alec mills blew 92 by me for 6 innings

This. It drives me bonkers and it SO frustrating. Also, if you have a pitcher you’re normally good with that starts giving up loud outs or cheap hits, just warm up another starter and swap him, cause it’ll be a loooong game.

@EvylShaun said in How will 99 Griffey Jr. be introduced this year?:

@metskid03 said in How will 99 Griffey Jr. be introduced this year?:

@EvylShaun said in How will 99 Griffey Jr. be introduced this year?:

@the_dragon1912 said in How will 99 Griffey Jr. be introduced this year?:

A player program. He has his own nameplate that hasn’t been unlocked yet.

This actually makes more sense than showdown extreme. As I said i figured it may be another program similar to ruth, but remembering now that Griffey banner is still locked I think it's all but guaranteed to be a program.

Showdown Extreme could be worth x stars for a Griffey player program so you never know.

Why do you have to say hurtful things.

It hurt me to type it, don't worry.

@REDSMAN09 said in An appreciation post:

I feel like we don’t see a whole lot of these. Now before I get flamed by some of you guys who just want to hate on this game and focus on the negativity, let me be clear. By no means am I defending some of the poor gameplay issues that have been talked about every day on this form. The point of this post is to focus on the positivity of this game.

With that being said I can’t tell you how happy I am that this game is not a game that is hampered by a pay wall and micro transactions. I’ve just been watching trailers for NBA 2k and Madden and they are filled with a ton of backlash for micro transactions and cards being hidden behind a pay wall. And I am so glad that SDS has stayed true to their community and makes a ton of top tier players affordable. In 18 we got a game that was plagued with extreme mind numbing grinding and immortals locked behind a pay wall where you would have to cough up a significant amount of stubs to get guys to even complete. And after hearing the backlash from the community they went back to their roots which I am extremely happy about. There’s really no point of this post other than to say thank you for not becoming one of those companies.

Good ok with 87 mph exit velocity on a 98 mph fb. Yes there are a lot of free cards though.

Mccutchen a big L in my book. Trying to tell the Yankees how to run their organization is one of the most comical things I’ve seen.

There's clearly so.e type of game script heavily influencing game scripts. I get mad as hell at the game too. After I cool off, I just accept that the game is fluky and scripted and keep playing. Best to not take itseriously, but it's impossible to not get stressed at times.

With that said, I'm glad I didnt fork up the stubs for Britton and settled for Franco 😂

@cavalier_0013 said in Anyone else not pull a diamond in BIAH packs?:

Ballin' is a Gold Pack!

lol excellent

Ballin Is A Dream Pack

Ballin Is A Blue Balls Pack

Ballin Is A Fantasy Pack

Ballin Is A Joke Pack

@shuker23 said in Tips for Lefty v Lefty?:

I'd recommend splitting the zone in half and only looking inside.

THIS...I start my pci high & in and just go up & down to hit inside pitches. If the pitch goes to the outside of the plate just let it go. It’s very rare that guys who pitch outside off speed stuff will throw 3 strikes doing it. More times than not you will draw a walk. At that point they’ll start pitching more inside where you’ll be ready to turn on them. Good luck!

@REDSMAN09 said in Can you report players directly to SDS?:

Guy messaged me telling me to off myself after he beat me in a one run game. I reported him to psn but all he got was a warning and he just laughed it off. Will SDS do anything about it? This dude attacked me completely unprovoked. He started the messaging and I didn’t hurl around any name calling or insults. This guys played over 600 games And has lost 350 of them so I’m sure this isn’t the first time it’s happened.

I turned my messaging off in '17 for this reason.

Thank god i came to this forum wanting to write about hitting, I swear I can’t hit anything right now from 757 to 610 in 2 days with 2 runs in 6 games, I normally play 2-3 hours a day but after getting shut out back to back I just stopped not fun anymore

Try cocking your thumb to make a right angle. High rise Kontrol freaks CQC’s would help also.

Sometimes it does help to take a short break. I also find that it helps to change my hitting view for a few innings(or a game vs cpu). It could also be that the game may be playing a little sketchy(timing windows and pci input seem off right now).