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@PAinPA said in New to MLB and Baseball in general:

@Tarnished-Willem said in New to MLB and Baseball in general:

Thanks for the tips guy's yes i'm watching some baseball on YouTube now.

So you do have to substitute players, it makes sense now why I miss everything they were dog tired probably haha I played all nine innings with same.
Anyway i will go practice some swings and try to get some guy's on base.

So it's confirmed there's no "real" tutorial, guess i'll have to learn the hard way then by trail and error.

I ll start with the basics, you get 9 players on your team one for each base, a shortstop who plays between 2nd and 3rd,and 3 in the outfield. They play in the field defensively and also are the ones who bat for you. You get a 10th guy the DH who bats instead of the pitcher.
Pitchers - either starters or relievers.
Starters are guys with high energy bars that can throw a lot of pitches and go many innings during the game, relievers have less energy and typically only pitch an inning,they typically come in when a starter is tired or is getting hit a lot.
A closer is a reliever who pitches the last inning to finish off the win and usually is the best reliever in the team.
I would suggest looking up the definition for balls,strikes, hits, outs,extra base hits, steals,runs,innings. The mlb glossary has all of that,it would be easier to read it there.

as for your question at first, if the ball is hit in the air it can be caught for an out any base runners must stay at their base until after it's caught or they can be made out as well.thats probably why your batter got to first and the other guy was still there.
I am very knowledgeable about baseball so post any questions you may have.

Thanks very helpful never even noticed these are the same guy's catching and batting lol.
Yes i think i'm getting the hang of flying balls now players have to stay on base i noticed yes, also i was pushing them with L1 and they got tagged out every time.
I'm not really sure when they can run/steal safely i'm having really hard time getting guy's back onto home, 99% of time I don't get further then second base, is it normal scoring is this hard in baseball ?

I'm pretty descend in defense i think most of the time I can pretty easily strike out all their players so it's hard scoring for CPU too but because i'm not getting any players back home i often go into Conquest overtime with 0-0 all the CPU need is one lucky hit every time and they score.
Also I noticed in overtime there's always one of my players on seconds base even before starting first batt, I have a lot more chance to score in overtime then i do in normal play i feel. Is the guy on second an overtime rule or what is exactly happening here ?

Also in Conquest what is the difference in Rookie/Legend because i'm not noticing any difference I mean i have a awful hard time winning on a Rookie even, but higher difficulties don't feel harder what is actually changing?
I mean batting is hard on Rookie but doesn't feel harder on higher to me.
They catch 99.9% of the balls i do hit on Rookie as they do on All star or whatever.
They pickup the ball and tag me out before my batter can reach first base on Rookie.
So i'm not really seeing what is "easier" on Rookie ..

Thanks for the tips guy's yes i'm watching some baseball on YouTube now.

So you do have to substitute players, it makes sense now why I miss everything they were dog tired probably haha I played all nine innings with same.
Anyway i will go practice some swings and try to get some guy's on base.

So it's confirmed there's no "real" tutorial, guess i'll have to learn the hard way then by trail and error.

Hi all

I'm new to MLB and baseball but i like card collection games so yesterday i picked up MLB and OMG! what is this the Dark Souls of sports games !!!
Hitting the ball is crazy hard but i guess I just need to practice it (a lot) more.

But i have a question about tutorial there doesn't seem to be any in-game I found some help popups in the settings but these are pretty basic.
Am i missing some tutorial mode somewhere in the like 200 menu's or is there just no tutorial ?

I really don't have much of a clue what i'm doing so it would be nice to have some kind of tutorial for new players that goes over first of all the rules of baseball in general and second how positions are played and their controls.
And third players statistics etc. because especially the last 2 aren't explained like at all or extremely basic.

Also what the heck is a Bullpen even ?!? I open packs and sometimes get the option to add to rotation or Bullpen sometimes sell sometimes nothing.
I'm very confused by this as I don't even know what a Bullpen/rotation means.
So for now i just backed out every pack opening don't want to be adding them to something I don't understand.

Look the basic baseball rules i can get away with by YouTube videos but like for example in-game you get in quite a lot of situations. when I finally get a ball to hit (first of all it get's caught like 95% of the time) my dude runs to first base but there's already one of my players there so my dude just walks off the field, is he out what even happend ? and why is dude on first base not running second base. And there's a lot of other examples of things I really didn't get especially throwing one time you just throw other times you use the R2 marker thing it's not making a lot of sense to new players we could really use a proper tutorial.

I'd have to say though game is addicting even though i suck at it and miss like 99% of hits it's still fun
Not complaining on the game I like the game, just need more support for newer players imo