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6/30 on beltran
9/24 on Victor
14/21 on miggy

Live series I could prob have everything but judge and ohtani at this point.

I decided early on to not go after live series and no life the game. First year since 2020 or so I didn't get live series done within the first 6 weeks or so.

It's kindve a bummer to not get Beltran but it is what it is. My god squad team is still super good and if I can't best someone then I likely wouldn't beat them with Beltran anyways. Andruw Jones is just about as good minus the switch hitting.

So not the big a deal but compounds to the lack of motivation to play this year.

Will not be getting Beltran... Hopefully I can hit with Andruw

I'm behind on allot of stuff in my normally behind on

Ranked Def feels better to me then the event. Felt a lot of lag in the event and I warmed up on hof.

Maybe it counts people who have used these cards in br... Maybe once you use someone once in br you have"acquired" them

I don't bunt, I feel im more likely to get out than not

@SQT18_XBL said:

Why? Almost every online game I am constantly waiting on the other player. Long time before the game starts. In between every inning. A decent amount of time in between the opponent's at bats. I'm just trying to understand why anyone would just sit there and not progress the game.

I'm sure that I'm just missing something. It would annoy me less if I understood why.

Just quit.

I'm doing the multi-player program to get stats. I've got the event wins so the wins are irrelevant.

I just hit a grand slam (dashboard quit), the next game my 2nd at bat homerun (dashboard quit). I should have 2 hits, 8 total bases, 5 runs, and a lot of pxp but instead I have 0 of all of it.

It's extremely demotivating to play online in this current design.

Atleast let event wins be repeatable or something so I can get some type of progress in multi-player program. I can only play an extended amount of time on Fridays and this is gonna take centuries of every time I have a good game people disconnect.

What is this you're talking about?

I already bought and collected Albies. Will prob be end game dh/2b unless he gets another card. His leg kick makes it so easy to time things up that I could really care less how his attributes compare to any alternative

Had no problem people bunting me to death successfully.

Freddie Freeman perfect bunt to 2nd base lost me a game

I just barely beat a guy and he scored all his runs from bunting, pause stealing, and then if they are going to get caught stealing they just retreat and the catchers all seem to have some delay lag animation when that happens.

Bunting with Freddie Freeman and runners on 3rd and 1st. Both runners steal and Freeman perfect bunt to 2nd base with prob his 0 bunt rating. How are you supposed to defend Freddie Freeman bunts.

I guess everyone uses hader when they know it's broken. This bunt/steal stuff is broken with the slow catcher animations.

Its just generally not a fun experience and I don't understand why people play that way. I won, big whoop. Not a fun game playing someone like that

@Apolloz_99_MLBTS said:

@ref479ode_PSN quick pitching isn’t cheating or anything. They will also do this an any online mode. No one is gonna give you the same look every pitch

What I described is toxic, exploit, bush league, lame, etc. Is it running a cpu program to play for you? No, but it's a loser way to play.

@Apolloz_99_MLBTS said:

@ref479ode_PSN I don’t really run into a lot of bunt dancing unless it’s an event and it’s usually a weird series sweat. Dash-boarding gives you the win. Quick pitching is to contain the run game that isn’t a problem unless you can’t hit it.

Quick pitching is not to contain the run game it's to throw off batter timing and change the release point of the pitcher. What I'm referring to is when it's not relevant to a speedy runner on base. It's a bush league way to pitch imo. I don't mind it if it's to contain speed.

Dashboarding you get the win, sure. But alot of [censored] is stat based missions too. So if you hit a 3 run hr... It's annoying.

Yesterday I ended up winning a game by a good bit and it went all 9. They guy played good and didn't do anything weird but he dashboards after the last out. I'm sure he just turned his console off and went to bed but I wanted to see the hit analysis because I felt so locked in. I couldn't see that. So not a huge deal....

But when you play 5 or 6 weekend classic games in a row these things compound and in general it's a unpleasant experience all together.

I feel like a league wouldn't have all this dumb [censored] in it or the players would be booted for being annoying

I like playing online more than offline but I run into more toxic players than cool laid back players.

Pausing, bunt dance, dashboard, quick pitch slide steps, etc.

This even happens in online rated which is literally zero stakes. I would just like to play adults.

I'm assuming reddit, anywhere else?

I just quick sold 4 dupes on the app and got account restricted.

I don't really care but I could see how miserable that would be if you were trying to unload binder.

And yes, I think if thats how the app operates then it might as well be removed. It's a place for bots but no longer serves any purpose for genuine non-cheater people who play the game

I played Friday and prob got miz 80% of the time. It was fine. Better than randy and Don john

Petco was fine as a change of pace. Had some perfects die in right center but for the most part it felt rewarding when it should and I don't think I gave up any bs hr to anyone over 4-5 hours

@Apolloz_99_MLBTS said:

@ref479ode_PSN I was just wondering how you go there so fast.

Looks like last time I played online before yesterday was 6/2 but looked like event. Couldn't tell you my last ranked game. I think once you get to 300 or 400 or 500 you maybe just don't drop back down when seasons reset unless you lose

@JenkinMeyer_PSN said:

I’m at a complete loss here. Get the obvious SDS hate out for their bugged out game and they need to fix that 100%

Why are people upset at this new content? They’re trying something different which is miles ahead of the standard Spotlight Fridays

They give us some challenging stuff to do, engage in it or don’t. At least it’s there.

Otherwise go about your normal programming

Because they're forcing online play. Some people may complain anyway but online player currently has known deliberate cheating, unfortunate bugs that online players exploit constantly hader/taylor. Stealing is almost impossible to stop with 99 p5 Mackey.

I think it would be fine to force online play occasionally for a reward if the online game was not currently toxic, full of exploits and cheating.

Its just a bad experience this year. I think that's why the complaining. And it's rightful. I personally liked the drop and felt a purpose to get acuna but I ran into all the annoying things of online play I mentioned in 5 games.

Plus the reset of pxp when you have every other opponent dashboard

@Apolloz_99_MLBTS said:

@ref479ode_PSN how are you on hof online if you don’t play online.

Looks like I'm 19-5 this year, and I played one weekend classic
https://mlb26.theshow.com/universal_profiles/psn/ref479ode

In past years I would predominantly play online, this year I've mainly played offline. Yesterday I went 5-0 in ranked and last game was on HOF.

So either way, I don't consider myself much of an online player anymore but I usually win in these lower divisions so my ranking goes up quick

Seems like I'm starting to get stick drift when pitching 4 seamers but in multiple games my fielders randomly and repeatedly dove for balls after they had already landed. There was also a play where a ball dropped in front of my cf and both the rf and cf dived multiple times as the ball was basically a dead ball between them

There were also occasions where my pitcher started pitching before I initiated the pitch and I've never noticed this offline.

Is this happening to others or is this my controller dying?