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Stop quick pitching or trying to pitch an inning in 2 minutes...

@k2thazwb_mlbts said in Game Pass Digital Deluxe Upgrade:

@surfinsantacruz_xbl said in Game Pass Digital Deluxe Upgrade:

There will be a month of server issues. Stick w the free standard edition on gamepass.

in all fairness last year was the first time we had server issues and it was overwhelmed bc of gamepass. SDS didn't know it was gonna be on gamepass until about 2 weeks before release. now we add switch this year, there might be more server issues but they should be better prepared for the gamepassers

“First time we had server issues”

@yankeefan412_xbl said in Why is the comeback coding still a thing?:

Just had it happen yet again for like the 5th time this year. You know the drill - The opponent swings at everything & can’t hit for 8 innings but then magically in the bottom of the 9th the same pitches are in gaps or homers or my personal favorite the errors. I know some people don’t think it’s a thing but it definitely is & this is on sds for never changing it from year to year. It’s ridiculous.

This is 100% true... every player who has played the game constantly can relate... yesterday I was dominating this guy with two hits until the 8th, and suddenly he connected and early swing homer in a perfectly spotted change up to tie the game, next batter, my pitcher couldn't find the zone with 3 straight sinkers for a BB and a pop-up to third that Ramirez "try to catch" in slow motion resulting in a hit... then bases loaded with a new arm... just left a hanging 2seam fastball in the middle of the zone for a double... that inning the guy scored 6 runs.

I was thinking about this… This is the first year my expectations for the game have been low because I literally played the last game like 3 or 4 months. With that said… for me, the desire to play is at its higher lever those first months specially the two weeks after launch but paying +12 euros per day for those 4 days of early access just doesn’t pay off. I couldn't care less about the packs and stuff because they are already announcing 90 diamond cards, and it is extremely easy to build a competitive team. So I guess I'm going to get drunk and have fun going out till the 5th.

I would pay $20 just for the early access…. Couldn’t care less about the rewards and stuff

@irishjedi412_xbl said in Best DD memories you have???:

This guy was beating me 8-1 in the 4th inning when I get invited to his party. He tells me how he has had diarrhea and feels it coming on & wanted to know if I could please quit...I said no, But I’ll take a friendly quit - He said no & I then said ok & left the party. We reach the 6th inning & the score hasn’t changed & the friendly quit comes over. At this point I realize he wasn’t lying & actually has to [censored]. So I reject the friendly quit & watch the timer keep ticking down until it hit zeroes & I got the win. That is my favorite memory.

all over

@dangerousskilz said in Diamond Dynasty:

Just curious if I should cancel the Deluxe edition and buy the cheap edition since they only wanna reward online players with the best cards. That is a fact and was in the live stream. They will give the best rewards to online users, not every one who purchased a copy

If you are stating this kind of [censored] you should definitely not buy the game at all... For me being a competitive player is kind of hard to lose the excitement of using a WS reward card you earned competing but the amount of Ws SDS is asking as a second option would be an excessive grind... so fair enough. I guess you want WS or BR Cards given to you as a daily reward...

@red_ted_is_back said in Is it just me or is the hype not as strong for the game this year?:

@t-rox_09_mlbts said in Is it just me or is the hype not as strong for the game this year?:

@halfbutt_psn said in Is it just me or is the hype not as strong for the game this year?:

I could be wrong but I suspect there is less hype because some folks have had enough of buying a reskin of the same game for full price.

Last year, I was so hyped, pre-ordered, was active in a league… This year, I’m not buying, let go of league play, and am generally happier.

It gets tiring convincing yourself that the gameplay is fun.

Just my .02 cents. I hope all of you who are playing this year have all the fun!

I agree with this. I'm usually on pins and needles waiting for the early release. The game just feels like a restart of your cards binder every year. Grind grind grind, get annoyed then start over next year. Might be time to move on with life without video game baseball.

Play the long game - give franchise mode a go. You’ll probably end up playing for the same amount of time, whilst playing a whole season that will (hopefully) be rich in stats and subtle storylines and the best part is no lag, no crappy opponents, no facing the same pitchers ad-nauseam and you can pause at any time to do something else.

I cannot guarantee however that outcomes haven’t been balanced to keep you competitive. It has felt like that since TS18.

I’ve been playing franchise in Legend with Orioles and I have had a lot of fun for real…

Guys, keep it simple... I made the move from PS to Xbox like two days after they announced the game for free in Gamepass (last year) and was thinking about the risk if they were removing the game after few months. The game is there and after 3 or 4 months after launch I stopped playing it. I would love to start playing this Friday, but I won't waste +12 euros per day until official release, specially with the experience of the servers being a big pile of those first days... Don't think about the rewards when you can have a great competitive team by just playing and giving you a better experience by assembling your team that way. I was a PS user, and I couldn't be happier that I didn't buy the PS5 because PS Plus is invisible against Gamepass. I will spend 13 euros per the whole library of games and will compete with all of you with the same rights as i "owned" the game. Maybe they do retire the game from gamepass, but by that point, I don't think I would be playing it.

At this point, I feel like a new gamer in the show… I have reached WS several times in past years, but I wouldn’t say I’m a great player, just that I like to compete. The thing is that in this year game I can’t win consistently (horrendous record near 500.). I used meter pitching and zone hitting and I have allowed too many runs with hanging pitches in the zone (some of them resulting in Ls) and a crazy amount of hits with pitches very far from the strike zone. I was a decent hitter and I just try to work the count and make good contact, but I can’t understand why some many of my good/ good contact with high power guys (+90 power) resulting in lazy fly balls even in small stadiums. Not here to complain about the game because I just play MLB The Show and I freaking love it, just want to see if is a new approach or meta that could be such a big difference. Maybe it is just me battling combine with a lot of better players, but would appreciate some advice. I tend to play Franchise in Legend.

Maybe…

@bob_loblaw1984 said in Any Advice? RS Fight:

Maybe it’s just the pitchers I’ve been using in BR, but pinpoint seems nerfed quite a bit this year. Not complaining. It might be a good thing if it makes control pitchers more attractive.

Interesting 🧐 that could definitely help

What a beautiful and great addition… Congrats SDS, love the chance to use cards nobody would use

@parradox-cam_psn said in How Many Have Not Played Ranked Yet?:

Bro..unless your a top 15% player, online records mean nothing with how random this game is. For example, I played 2 games this morning and felt like I had more good hits than my opponents but lost….the next 2 games I played my opponents out hit me skill wise but weren’t rewarded…I won both games. With how random this game plays, especially this year, we are just trading wins in the middle ranks. It’s how the game is designed to keep players active. All UT games follow the same script. There’s money to be made.

100% true. I’m now playing Franchise in Legend because I’m not that great of a player but I tend to reach World Series when I have the time to try it… this year im like 5 games above 500. and the amount of crazy stuff like a perfect timed pitched hanging in the middle of the zone just to get the got me frustrated

It is... Yesterday, I hit a hard grounder to third with a speed of 105 mph and the runners in third and first just were standing there without moving... I just reacted to get the runner on third back and the guy threw to first after it, getting the out because we couldn't react jajaja it felt real because the ball was hit so hard that you couldn't know if it hit the ground or was a line drive...

Yesterday I got the one from the WBC pretty hyped to use him

@SuntLacrimae50_MLBTS said in R2 GOTTA GO:

@mjfc_363_PSN said in R2 GOTTA GO:

@Honor_The_Game44_PSN said in R2 GOTTA GO:

@trippy1313_XBL said in R2 GOTTA GO:

@therealcboy_18 said in R2 GOTTA GO:

We need the R2 make the pitch hang BS to leave the game kinda dumb we hang pitches because of a [censored] on the other end of the game fix your stuff SDS.

I'm not even sure what you're talking about.... can you explain? Xbox user here.

People will hold the R2 button while they are hitting …this prevents the pitcher from starting their delivery. This causes the movement to hang on Pinpoint or even Analog, which then will often result in a meatball or something out of the zone.

Exactly. I’ve been saying it for years…..and I’m not the only one. If you need a second just call time. SDS just doesn’t care bro.

You can only call time once. And if they took r2 away people would just pause.

Many people pitch unrealistically fast, and some pitchers have cheesy rhythms, and the game doesn't require pitchers to come set. r2 counters this.

I'm not defending people who spam it. But I am saying that what we have now is likely the best solution to an impossible problem.

If they take away r2, pitchers should have to come set.

You couldn't explain it any better, bud

Maybe try to find a good Custom League of Live Series Roster. It is the most strategic mode regarding baseball by competing against real users. Other than that, Franchise in high difficulties.