The game has felt smooth to me the last week or so for most of this event. I had a couple games here and there where speeds/timing windows felt wonky but I was still cruising and sitting at 25-2.
Then today, I couldn't see a fastball no matter who threw it. Orlando Hernandez looked like Edward Cabrera. I could sit with my PCI in the exact location and guess fastball and still couldn't swing fast enough. Facing the very same pitchers I was smashing on my way to 25 wins, all of a sudden every single one had Outlier even when throwing 90 MPH. I lost 4 games in like an hour because I couldn't see the ball, recognize pitches or ever catch up to anything. I'm not even going into the outcomes on my good contact because I can live with that. What I can't live with, is not knowing what game I'm loading into when I boot up. The game was unplayable this morning and after getting the last wins I needed for Giolito, I did my dailies and I'm not touching the game again today.
This Jekyll and Hyde routine with pitch speeds needs to disappear. If this game had dedicated servers and these issues didn't exist, I truly believe it would be one of the best games ever. As is, the game literally tells me if I should play it that day or not and I'm tired of fighting through that just because I want to play baseball.
I would be willing to pay a monthly fee to rent dedicated servers, too. I'll donate to a GoFundMe to get dedicated servers into this game. SDS can afford to do it on their own already from the revenue and I know this, but I would STILL give them extra money on top of the hundreds I've already plugged into it just to have dedicated servers in this game.