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I agree it can be challenging, but I'm going to try to give a constructive reply.

The thing with the A.I. is, the first few pitches of an at bat, and of the game, dictate what the pitch mix is going to be going forward. If you chase one out of the zone early, you can expect to be a marked man and delivered a majority of balls the rest of the way, and, this is important, on any REPEAT tries for that moment, and every consecutive at bat going forward. This is why if you quit out and comeback later, you almost always have an easier time than you did when the CPU gave you everything in the dirt.

Also, certain pitchers are "junk ball" pitchers, at least as far as the game is coded, and some are low ball pitchers, some high, some have flat fastballs, and some break down, etc.

Anyway, if you chase early or at all, expect a sh^t show and quit out if it gets really bad and is trying you patience, and try to see what that particular pitcher is throwing that is causing you to chase.

I'm mediocre at the game, but have finished every moment, and though some are harder than others, I have a very good grasp on what the A.I. is trying to do. I hope this helps and don't get too discouraged!

@car-ramrod-18_xbl said in Pinpoint Pitching is Still Bugged:

@scotty2hot-y_xbl said in Pinpoint Pitching is Still Bugged:

The fix is to revert the controller's firmware back to factory defaults. The feature is included within the series x/s OS. Just google it and or check out the youtube how to's. Takes 10 seconds.

FYI: The firmware update for xbox controllers kills pinpoint. And I also own a series 2 Elite.

That was an acceptable answer for The Show 21, but this is a new game and they should be able to fix it. I haven’t seen any other games have issues with the controller firmware.

There are many many games that were severely impacted by Xbox's "0 input latency feature" update. And many games were developed on Dev builds from microsoft that did not include their new controller "feature." My assumption is that the code for pinpoint will have to be re-worked in such a way as to notice whether or not the "0 latency controller update" has been applied and adjust the input sensitivity accordingly; and hopefully by us talking about it here, we can point them in the right direction.

Imagine the market crash if it was Cal?

Yesterday's action would pale in comparison.

Not sure what happened, but pinpoint pitching all of a sudden stopped working offline and online on all my xbox controllers, regular elite etc., after months of smooth play.

Tried wired, wireless, rebooted console, fresh batterries, etc., It's strange.

Can't complete any motions.

I agree completely. The issue needs to be fixed 100%. It's only that I have seen xbox players like us not be able to use pinpoint properly all year and I had not seen anyone, here or twitter or youtube, explain the issue and it's remedies, both short term and long term.

So in an effort to be constructive I will further the dialog. For those who have an Elite Series 2 controller, you can go into your controller settings, where it allows you to create custom key mappings for each of the buttons, etc, and if you choose the right analog stick, there is an option that allows you to set the latency for the analog movement. There are different latency settings that you can select with a corresponding line graph detailing the latency response time, and one is titled "immediate" -- it is this setting that will allow you to reproduce the issue with the pinpoint pitching gestures not being able to be completed. Just select it and save your loadout and then go back into the game and try pinpoint. It will suck, believe me. But then go back and try the other latency settings for the right analog stick and you will see that as latency is added to the button movement, the game is better able to register the gesture without erroring out.

It is my hope that SDS reads this, and that they pass on the info to the developers.

My intuition is that the Xbox gaming environment does not allow the game access to the individual controller settings, and that a workaround for the issue may be to have a setting in the game that directs you to the requisite system settings outside of the game in order to make the proper adjustment, not unlike what you have to do to turn crossplay on and off in the Xbox environment.

Furthermore, I believe the main issue is that Microsoft has not included a setting in its peripherals and controllers options to turn on/off the "0 latency feature" for its normal wireless controllers and until it does so, which may be never, we may have to manually revert our firmwares back in order to play the game properly - which I want to stress, is not a hack (and accessible by using microsoft's trouble shooting feature built into its consoles) and only updates your controller's software to a previous version that does not have the "0 latency feature" turned on by default.

The active quirks are analagous to some of the perks you get in showdown, ie- increased exit velo on two strike counts, increased vision on first pitches, etc.

LG C1 is an incredible deal now that they slashed its price. I would grab one soon while you still can.

I feel like allowing you to pick a difficulty preference before searching for games will eliminate the lion's share of quits.

I have the same issue on Series X. After each play, the grass on the field flickers.

On all Wainwright moments, just hold the PCI to the very bottom of the zone and power swing.

@bryanm18_xbl said in Is pitching Broken (Xbox series X):

I'll post back on Thursday to let you know, if anyone cares.

Please do.

Not sure if anyone else submitted a bug report for this issue, but I have.

I am on Xbox Series X using Dolby Vision, and still see the flashing grass animations after most pitches when using any created stadiums. The issue seems to be more prominent on fields with more elaborate grass patterns. I did not have this issue in MLBTS 21.

The fix is to revert the controller's firmware back to factory defaults. The feature is included within the series x/s OS. Just google it and or check out the youtube how to's. Takes 10 seconds.

FYI: The firmware update for xbox controllers kills pinpoint. And I also own a series 2 Elite.

Sure.

I'll sign!

@yoshi24_mlbts said in Pinpoint Pitching is Still Bugged:

Correction guys … I just downloaded the Tech Test and used Chapman. I pitched 3 splitters and all of them were over 80% acccuracy and 1 at 98% … So, that is fixed. Thank god, I can use the splitter now … Thanks, SDS

EDIT: I use an Elite2-Controller with all the updates on it (so no factory reset, as somebody mentioned above.

It *will *actually allow you to "upgrade" the firmware on the elite 2 with the "0-latency patch" now as well, as I stupidly did recently only to be left with the inability to finish a single pinpoint pitching gesture with my 150$ controller. Luckily, I discovered how to revert the firmware, and all was fine thereafter.

Incidentally, I went ahead and reverted the firmware to factory defaults on all of my wireless controllers and they all work like a charm now with pinpoint pitching as well-- before they all were useless which is why I bought the series 2 Elite controller in the first place.

If anyone still has issues with pinpoint using Series X/S wireless controllers on 21 or 22, especially with finishing the downward part of the gestures, you only have to revert the firmware to factory defaults to greatly improve the experience.

@penguinztoocold_psn said in Will not be buying your game anymore:

@antmansmash1_xbl said in Will not be buying your game anymore:

fix the issues your better than this

Fix the homonym and comma, YOU’RE better than this.

It's technically a homophone, however.

MVP Kris Bryant

@jeezy-e_psn said in TA 5 Reveals:

@collin_sds_psn said in TA 5 Reveals:

Remember you can check all the reveals here, https://theshow.com/21finest/

Tell me we are getting a 2 way finest Willians Astudillo card for the Twins.

And give him his god-like palm ball.

@bob_loblaw1984_mlbts said in New RS -- I'm Out...Maybe:

@oldgatorcat_xbl said in New RS -- I'm Out...Maybe:

@mubby_33_psn said in New RS -- I'm Out...Maybe:

I'm so angry it is Trout. I despise online play. I doubt many people who earn him will sell him. It's going to be like Chipper Jones last year. I though SDS was trying to prevent this from happening?

I’m not thrilled about it either as I would like to play with the card and it impacts my ability to collect every card, but it isn’t the end of the world if there is a card that is tough to get without grinding RS and rewards online players.

Won’t be as bad as last year because of the reward program. Some people will even pull him twice this season.

This.

There are a lot of good players with buy orders in, who will make world series and win 30 games. That, coupled with a lot of players grinding out 30 wins will put a large number of them in the market. RS will be full of quick quits and tank n ranks.