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@x-814-x-MAFIA-x_PSN said in Is it just me:
Or is the 95 ovr AS Chapman better than the 99 HOF Wagner?
And why is the HOF Cy Young classified as a Free Agent?
Would love to use the card. But any XP wont count towards and type of program.
Well I agree Chapman is a better cards its not due to stats. It's due to arm slot and pitxh release point. Next CY will in fact count towards any XP program for starting pitches but as a team stat you are correct.
@x-814-x-MAFIA-x_PSN said in Plz fix the gameplay:
Why don't people understand that just because you get a Perfect/Perfect; it doesn't mean it will always be a hit.
Maybe the pitcher threw the ball in the exact spot he wanted to throw it. Maybe the batter is a Contact Hitter. Maybe the fielder has Diamond fielding.
Alot of things factor into how a ball is hit and where it goes after it is hit.
I think SDS needs to get rid of the Perfect/Perfect feedback.
It causes more trouble than it's worth.
This is completely bad comments. No player can say they believe perfect swings should be punished. Thus is simply a rage inducing comment because no logical person would say yes punish peopel for being good at our game. Especially when SDS keeps claiming stick skills rain supreme.
@chuckuluck_PSN said in Weekend Classic rating:
I’ve been in the top 10 of my player pool for every Weekend Classic so far, except this one. I am currently 3-6 and just CANNOT get a big hit ever. Sitting at -88 rating. the weird thing is I still feel like I’m seeing the ball well and pitching well. Just not getting results. Am I just slumping or is something different this go-round? Would love anyone’s feedback!
Well you could be slumping I know I an right now. The is actually the problem of WC ratings being bloated this time. Due to the shortened time between WC on about 2 weeks. There is alot of higher overall rated players in lower divisions. Prime example is Gold 2 where the top 25 rated players this time all have 1000+ banners. Unfortunately due to a shorted time period these individuals (no fault of thier own) didn't have time to play and make it to thier normal division. I previously went 4-2, 5-1, 5-1 in WC this time 2-4. In direct result due to playing 3 players who where clearly 1000+ players. I honestly don't fault them because not everyone can jump on and play 2-3 ranked games everyday to get back to where they were. It was just a bad design by SDS not thinking about this potential issue.
@kingdutch_PSN said in The strike zone:
@Joeflakes_XBL said in The strike zone:
Over the years sds will implement the new rules that the mlb have, the DH, pitch clock, and disengage rule. Why is the strike zone still wrong?
The game only calls 50/50 on the black strikes. Why isn’t the zone correct but every other rule is correct?
What’s this “new rule” regarding the strike zone you’re referring to? If you’re playing online or diamond dynasty the umpire setting will always be set to “perfect” which is what you’re talking about. If it’s more than 50/50 out of the zone it won’t call it a strike. Umpires have to be set to average or another umpire setting to get different calls, but that’s only offline.
Yes you are correct the umpires setting is set to perfect. Unfortunately however if you have played the game perfect isn't always perfect and I've both seen on streams and experienced in actual gameplay strikes be called balls and even worse was the recent bug in co-op that you could throw pitches in the other batter box and get it called a strike or down the middle and be a ball. The other part is if we're going to say perfect umpire according to MLB rules any part of the ball touching the strike zone is a strike. So the 50/50 balls being called balls are not perfect umpiring. This was proven to be the case just this week in the 9th inning during the all-star game when Edwin Diaz got a low pitch called a ball and protested and auto cast has it as a strike because it barely touched the zone.
So first yes I understand how gamepass was an awesome way to increase overall player base last year. As well as the expense of games and not wanting to spend money on them. The unfortunate result of it being free on gamepass in 24 was that it became a spend money on in game purchases for stubs because the seriously cut down on free stub methods and packs. This was a direct cause of giving the game for free on game pass and then as a result of lost revenue they made in-game things locked behind stub spending until this time (24 all-star) when they began having a free pack in programs. So yes on the 1 hand some people are mad they don't get the game free, while others are happy to pay for the game and get to actually have the NMS experience back.
@JoeSelser_PSN said in Too many foul balls:
@Cam8w_MLBTS agreed. I can understand if it's a good contact guy with good vision, but when a hitter with no batting attributes over 50 fouls pitches off like a prime ted williams that's annoying. I seriously think it has to be programed that way because the majority of runs scored in this game is by hitting homers. The crazy amount of fouls were probably programmed to be balls put in play, outs or not.
Well understanding that yes cards attributes should be a factor and contact, vision, discipline need to be factors in at-bats. It should not be a saving grace for when someone has no actual plate discipline. Anyone who has played the game knows they have seen multiple fouls on pitches that are literally intentional waste pitches no where near the strike zone that are fouled off until you make a bad pitch and get to see it sail to the moon. It needs a tweak just like we need to see pci shrinking on breaking pitches and sliders get tweaked (interesting the reason the pci shrinks on these pitches was a supposed fix in 23 for foul balls lol).
Yes 100% agree there are to many fouls. I have both been a victim of 0-2 15 pitch at bat that ends in a HR and been the person being basically handed a HR. It is very annoying and I wish they would figure out how to improve this (increasing wif rate per swing at balls out of the zone or something). Unfortunately it is an RNG ran game and the individual saying use power swing if you want to strike out more needs to not be an argument baiter and actually have constructive input.
This WC I haven't had any issues with lag, alot of warped pitches (Probably need to reset my upload priority for my consol again). I have however seen that with this shortened time in Gold 2 the top 25 rank people are all guys who have been 1000+ rated in the last 2 WC. I'm not gonna say they have been sand bagging and just want to get easy wins. I feel like people might not have had enough time to make it up higher. But it did also highly impact my WC, 3 previous went 4-2, 5-1, 5-1 then this 1 went 2-4 with 3 of those being against legitimate previous 1000+ players with 90-20, 100-60, 59-9 records. This is pretty much exactly what WC was suppose to avoid, but again I am doing my best not to blame the players because non of us really knew it was gonna be a 1 week then WC again.
So with my setup I have a satellite set-up for wifi with 1 of the satellites in my game room and directly hard lined in to my xbox. On my set-up I have an app that allows me to designate what devices receive upload priority and speed first. Only have mine set at 60% priority would probably have better speed if I set it to 80, but then my wife and kids would probably wonder why they can't stream a show lol. I believe (could be wrong) but under ypur console settings I believe for both Xbox and ps you can find a setting that allows you to make the console priority download too.
So I cannot say I am 100% no money spent. Day 1 of the game I always spend $100 on stubs and buy 2 50 bundles. That is however the only money I spend on packs or cards. I do feel like this years game has been the BEST ever on handing out free packs and stubs. (100% my opinion and I've been playing DD since 18) I know it is over stated but DQ is an amazing addition to DD and I always start my day by doing a quick DQ run usually avoid the sweeper and play both my stadium games on HoF. My luck has been about 70% of the time I get 1 or the rewards with it at 60% chance and about 50% of the time I get both. So this has been a great quick way to make anywhere from 25-60k stubs every day. And yes I understand some people have had worse luck then this and I am only speaking on my own experience this year. Doing this however has allowed me to complete live series and currently have every collection completed. Yes again I will say this has been my experience and understand some people have had a harder time.
I am hoping due to Atlanta not having a great season he is gonna be the 99 finest TA card. I could be wrong and will most likely be wrong, but just seems like how it is going.
@RAisEdByGoAt_XBL said in Warped pitches on WC:
Has anyone experienced what feels like warped pitches during the WC ? The best way I can explain it is there is almost a hiccup or slight pause but then the game suddenly fast fowards through the pitch. Sometimes it happens when swinging as well. It’s making it extremely hard to time the ball up. Almost as if HOF suddenly feels like legend or even GOaT at times. I can’t catch up to the fastball hardly at all. And the break on pitches really breaks. Once again it feels like there’s a brief pause then the game overcompensates and presses play so it fast forwards extremely fast for a split second.
I’m at a loss and just want to know if this happens to others
Yes it is a real thing. It happenes because of bad internet to internet communication. So either your internet took a hit and is running slower or thiers is or in my case sometimes my kids are running thier switch, tv, wife on her phone and tv all while I'm trying to play. Best advice i can give is make your console hard lined with an ethernet cable and set it up as priority 1 for internet so anyother device on you connection loses speed before your console.
Just for 100% transparency there are players (not saying everyone) that run cronos. This is apparent when every pitch they throw is a perfect the whole game.
@x-814-x-MAFIA-x_PSN said in Prediction Rewards Are a Joke:
Im just curious that if you picked Cruz or Caminero to hit the most HRs in a round; did you get double credit?
No but either choice was considered a winning voucher.
@davisonkj17_PSN said in Grinders Get Kicked In The Nut Sack Yet Again:
@SaveFarris_PSN
Grinding should be defined as actually playing the game to earn a card
Flipping on the market is not part of “grinding”
Therefore he is correct, grinding gets “kicked in the nuts again”
You just answered your own statement. You do earn a card by grinding. In fact you earn 2, with a chance 1 of them could be a 98. So you just proved grinders are not being hated. Plus you can repeat a conquest and get a free pack and DQ and get 2 free cards. Sell those 3 and guess what you could by 4 of the other cards you need. Oh my god!!!! SDS basically handing you everything you need to do it no money spent, but because they didn't just give it to you for showing up it's not okay.
@Zachtronics_XBL said in "Seriously? We're starting with this already?":
I'm curious as to why SDS has chosen, in recent years, to put SO many losers into the game, as Legends. Palmeiro, McGwire, Sosa... what are you doing?
Bring back Will Clark, Dennis Martinez, and get some guys that played a hundred years ago. We're educating the players on Negro League players who played nearly 100 years ago, so let's do the same with MLB.
Clemens can go, too. Why waste the time and money on these guys? They don't have a place in a game that's supposed to be the pinnacle of baseball video games.
So do you not understand that SDS isn't a big studio like EA and they have to pay those players for thier likeness. As well as some already have contracts with other games like Ichro and the Japanese baseball game. You just seem like 1 of those people who's parents hand them the keys to a Honda civic at 16 and cried because it wasn't a sti.
@dbub_PSN said in No Team Affinity:
But we were hoping for new missions maybe with a path to earn packs. I already had all 30 vouchers so there's not much to do. I guess I need to play less.
Team Affinity used to give out SO many packs.
If you had the AS voucher you earned approx 50 standards and a dozen other packs per AS voucher. So a metric ton more free packs then ANY previous show entry.
@MrNintendo_MLBTS said in Am I the only one?:
SDS could you change it so that cards over 95 would still still count towards theme team total, just not get attribute boost?
They do
@Ericulous1_XBL said in No Team Affinity:
If you have all the the vouchers, you get 30 new cards which is awesome.
But there is nothing for you to do in Team Affinity. That is a massive L for offline players. I am sure there is lots of good content, but this really bums me out that they skipped this. It also means there will be no Team Affinity program paths for Finest either.
There is a new DQ, showdown, and mini season all for all-star card for offline players. Plus they'll probably be a draft content program, HR derby program and all-star program.
@Easy_Duhz_It__PSN said in my complaints about mlb 25 the show so far:
@Rhyno1986_XBL said in my complaints about mlb 25 the show so far:
@Easy_Duhz_It__PSN they said it on the live stream in 23 and then when people quoted them they took the stream down. Just like they said pitching wasn't an issue and foul balls are working as intended. If they just admit there are problems they look better. But hey I get you probably work for them and are trying to defend them. But just admit that stuff is bugged and stop saying it's fine.
Where did i say everything was fine? I just asked a simple question. And i still call [censored] because you can't provide proof. If that was actually said, people in here who watch every stream would be quoting that every single time they get a perfect/perfect lineout to 3rd.
Why is the only thing people like you can say is "you must work for them"? I dont.
Maybe you're just trash at the game.
Yep trash player who has finished WC in Gold 2 5-1 all 3 times over here.
@DrPoopShooter_XBL said in All-Star Elly:
I'm struggling to justify using his all star card. I have his live series and cover card both P5 and theyve been some of the better cards in my lineup all year. His all star card has terrible fielding and 80 stealing while both other cards have 99. I can barely steal 2nd sometimes and can't ever get 3rd anymore while his other two cards were basically 100% success for 2nd and 3rd. I have no idea why they destroyed his stealing stats and his fielding but I'm not sure the slight hitting increase is worth swapping cards. Might put the CA card back in my leadoff spot.
With all due respect use any and every card you want to. But with actual card usability as a standard the all-star elly is 100% better then the other 2. He has 100+ contact BOTH sides, 100+ clutch and over 90 power vs lefties and 100+ vs righties. Yes the nerfed fielding and stealing down to 80 to get him to a 96. Still a gold shield @ p5 without having to worry about clutch rating or pitcher type.