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Yes SDS did a good job with this drop, but in all honesty it's probably NOT because of players criticizing. It's mostly probably due to a 40% player drop due to CF coming out. Again though the content was good and actually fixing things that should've been fixed day 1, as well as finally trying to remove shrinkage after lieing about it

"Accidentally" bought a pack off the market, when you have to go through 4 separate prompts to get there lol. Listen great luck, bad math 300-75=225 but come on people aren't dumb on this forum

DrBear100_PSN said:

@Rhyno1986_XBL said:

Oh my card flip app is working, maybe play the freaking game

Khem, you can definitely play the game without flipping, but I have one question if you don't mind answering for me...... does it make a whole lot of sense to flip and not play the game? Hint It’s a rhetorical question.

Hey kiddo I don't flip lol. NMS just playing and don't ever worry since I've always completed everything without having too

Oh my card flip app is working, maybe play the freaking game

@Joeflakes_XBL said:

@sbchamps17_NSW

He just said they’re investigating. Didn’t say they were going to fix it. They’re also investigating the glitched pitchers that’s not going to well as far as fixing

Lol fix it? Besides 1 thing that literally was a financial problem for them, what gameplay issue have they fixed lol

@yugilasombra_MLBTS said:

A serious gameplay issue that has been affecting competitive play for years, and it needs to be addressed: the tempo animation exploit.

Right now, the batter’s stride/leg‑kick animation changes BEFORE the pitch is released, depending on whether the pitch is a fastball or an offspeed pitch. This means hitters can identify pitch type early without reading the ball out of the hand. That is not skill — that is an animation tell.

This is a game-breaking problem because:

• Fastballs trigger a noticeably faster load animation
• Offspeed pitches trigger a slower load animation
• The hitter receives information the pitcher cannot control
• It creates an unfair advantage in competitive modes
• It rewards animation-reading instead of actual pitch recognition

This is not “realism” and it’s not “timing skill.”
It’s an unintended visual exploit caused by inconsistent animations.

It is realism there are many players Jaren Durren being a player who this year switched to a big leg kick swing. And it doesn't give you any more information then being good at watching the hand. You can see an obvious hump up on breaking pitches, while fast balls don't. I've tried tempo but have a hard time reading the leg and had. Also reading animations is a huge part of the game in general. Knowing if the outfielder got a bad animation can be the difference between some guys getting a double or being able to tag up. Which is real life as well. But the biggest thing is, this game in no way has realistically realism in it lol. In real life 90% of MLB games have a combined foul balls total of around 50 not 90 lol. Diving plays are usually missed not a ball that warps 4 feet to the glove and throw out the fastest runners. If you want to complain about unfair actaully broken things how about pitchers who's pitch can completely break the hitting mechanics or simply warps out of their hand lol.

@ryguy034753_XBL said:

Show us a video .

You can look up videos on how to use tempo hitting. I don't see this is actaul glitch/cheating. Since really big leg steps are a part of MLB hitters swing types. And the people who are good with tempo use these hitters. I don't do it but just because I find it hard to focus both on the leg kick and the hand of the pitcher.

@SDS_JoeK_PSN said:

@Rhyno1986_XBL said:

Well because this DOES NOT affect SDS. It only affects players

If it affects the people that play our game, it affects us, and we understand that.

The team is working very hard on a number of issues that are of concern to the community -- Grant Taylor, Hader/King, and many others.

It's been a while since I've said this, and it bears repeating: Sometimes circumstances make it easier for us to give updates on these things and sometimes they don't. But please don't take a lack of public updates to mean that nothing is being done.

These things can take time and require a lot of internal coordination -- Making the team aware of an issue, being able to reproduce it and find a fix, testing and implementing that fix, and messaging out the fix are all important parts of the process and have to be considered.

Just to offer some friendly insights here.

In this case (Grant Taylor), I can say that this does seems to be a bug and the team is looking into it. I'll keep everyone updated appropriately as much as possible.

Thanks!

Well @sds_joek_psn as the problems have continued since last year with Hader and since May with King it is hard to believe this. It is just like saying "we completely removed slider shrinkage" yet it was in fact not removed. Well it may seem "rude" to say that SDS doesn't seem to care since it doesn't affect their bottom line, it also isn't inaccurate given what we have experienced this year.

Ah oh now we're seeing the other side again. ANOTHER glitched pitcher, but SDS is refusing to communicate or do anything about this again. Why? Well because this DOES NOT affect SDS. It only affects players, but hey at least it's just the wined up delivery that's glitched. He's still hittable and in the stretch he is BP. Just don't watch the pitcher like normal focus at the shoulder because that's where the ball in his delivery spawns from.

Oh All-star voting is completely garbage.

@xXwhiteboy21X_PSN said:

The game seems obvious in favoring guys who pay for stubs rather than guys who truly grind. Definitely putting this game under the “Pay-to-Win” category.

Nope completely false. I have live series and just got Victor completely free to play. I am not a 10-0 goon or a legend player and did not do the pack glitch. I hang out around 750-850. You just have to be willing to put in the time to regrind mini seasons and DQ.

@Ditka06-_MLBTS said:

@Rhyno1986_XBL I literally mean 415 show packs without a live series pull. Yes. Not talking about other diamonds all though very far and few. Odds say 1 and 61 for a live series diamond^^ im at 415 without one. Dolenz just broke down the odds^

See and with this statement it makes it even more unlikely that you haven't pulled a live series diamond. So once iguana I'll revert to saying you mean you haven't pulled a 90+. That i could believe but not ANY.

@go4stros25_PSN said:

I want to use some of these chase cards, but even with 2mil stubs, buying a 200k+ card is dumb. We need the 2 conquest maps to have chase packs in them. Also it would be great if adley and ted Simmons werent through to roof. If you are sitting on expensive cards for the 99 Martinez collection I would sell them today. Sds sees that nobody has this card and they are about to tank his cost. Like the did with the bullpen pack.

Also in the future give us a way to cancel all current orders, or a sell all duplicates option it would be better for the flippers because so many people would just qs everything. Listing thousands of Commons on the market is annoying.

If you have 2 million stubs and don't have any collections done, then you really need to rethink your priorities there killer.

@Ditka06-_MLBTS said:

Another 15 packs. No live series diamond. Puts me at 415 packs now in a row. Ill be back to keep up the count.

Lol I really really don't believe you. If you don't have proof I'm guessing what you mean is 415 packs and NO 90+ live series or 415 packs and NO Ohtani. Pack odds are not manipulated. Lol SDS can't manage to fix people's ranked records without breaking the servers if they could manipulate pack odds the servers would crash lol.

@xRatedGProdigyx_PSN said:

Save some of it for slower periods when they don't have enough offline content. It doesn't have to be all done tonight (unless you're impatient for a Neto card)

Lol you realize this 1 conquest is as long as 1 of the US conquests right? Like i do all the off line grinding, but this is just a cop out kind of thing so that they can wait a week to do any content again.

Lol so you really some how though a 14 strong hold conquest map for the summer program was a good idea? I'm thinking whomever decided this needs to be given a week off without pay. Or maybe make them play it 14 times.

@Ericulous1_XBL said:

Not sure why my original thread was locked after 68 pages. But here is a new thread.

If you are stuck in a moment and can’t get out of it, post here. Vent about it and watch it magically go away.

Paul O’Neil. Please just get 3 hits

It's 3 hits on Veteran, it's seriously not that hard.

@go4stros25_PSN said:

Sds still hasnt done anything to any of the exploiters. They would have posted somewhere complaining about it.

Forza didn't do anything to the exploiters lol. No they admitted it was THIER fault since it was a coding error and reset EVERYONES money to a max of 10 million and gave everyone a free car lol.

@Bridge-Piece_XBL said:

@Rhyno1986_XBL said:
Yes they did lol. If it didn't hurt their bottom line they wouldn't care. Just like everything else in this game that is broken. Hence why historically if you look the only time they fix something is when it has to do with stubs and packs lol. It's okay I'm sure you are just sad you're wrong

You keep saying “bottom line” like it’s a gotcha. The exploit hurt the game economy and gave cheaters an unfair advantage. That impacts SDS and every legit player. Both things can be true.

Hey Hader and King like I've said give unfair advantage. I get it you just hate to admit trueths, that's fine. I never once said "it was a bad thing" because yeah it was. I've stated that it literally is NO different in the blunt face of ToS as EVERYTHING else and I don't feel bad when SDS has continued to ignore everything else. This years gameplay has been atrocious and they ignore it and say things like oh it's working as intended and even though we stated we removed it we left it in because it is more "realistic".

Unfortunately it's not an exploit it's simply how SDS wants you to play because they lied about PCI shrinkage. So the only way to avoid it is switch hitters. This year's hitting is as bad as 17, squared up is an out but just late flys and don't expect to have a single game with out an average 50 fouls lol