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@the_dragon1912 said in The Return of Pepe Alazar. What is with SDS Infatuation with Fake Cards?:
If you wan't future stats to stop then you got to go convince dan Quisenberry to give SDS his rights. Until the Royals, Diamondbacks, and Rangers have more legends its not possible to do programs where every team gets a card without future stars
Dan Quisenberry is dead. He passed away in 1998.
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/q/quiseda01.shtml
@scar_usmc77_psn said in Really Wish We Could Do Something About BUNT DANCERS:
Counter with even better bunt dancing
A bunt dance off!
@rikstarr1970_xbl said in Thank you SDS 
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I agree with you 100%. I also hit the skip on Heidi’s take on the game. How do you turn off her commentating? But I have noticed that the further you get in franchise, the commentating from the broadcast crew does change up a tad.
Within the in-game Settings menu, go to the. Presentation tab. There's a toggle switch labeled In-Game Sideline Reports. Switch the setting to "Off".
This year I think they sat in a room and said, "What songs wound be really good for Grand Theft Auto 6???" No baseball vibe to the soundtrack at all.
Eddie Gaedel & Pete Gray.
@slipknot-008_xbl said in The Fundamental Problem With Commentary:
I really wish leagues and teams would get away from using former players. Many of them are terrible. Please and DeRosa to me are not good, the few times I’ve caught them in games. As a Jays fan I have to listen to the duo that loves to repeat each other non stop, Pat Tabler and Buck Martinez. That’s why I always love when they get Dan Shulman to kick one of them out from time to time.
The commentary really needs a revamp, too much repetition. Make it seem more natural.
Don Sutton sadly passed away in January. He was a fantastic radio announcer for the Braves. That said, I agree with you in general about players in the booth.
MLB Network's group of former players are cringeworthy announcers. Also their in-studio crew must snort cocaine before they go on air they're so inane.
Put the dimwitted former ballplayers with a limited grasp of the English language out to pasture. Give me the likes of Jim Powell & Chip Caray any day.
Quant testing doesn't seem to be their forte... Their approach to game play updates is equivalent to the the "pull and pray" contraception method.
The stamina and confidence levels of my relievers & closers when they enter the game seemingly make no sense. Fully rested relievers oftentimes enter games with both meters well below full. Doesn't seem to matter the score, doesn't matter the scenario, doesn't matter their recent performance history either.
if I remember correctly, a couple of years back they tried to adjust the pitcher's confidence level based on their recent performance as well as the game scenario for relievers and the closer. Also, they began draining a pitcher's stamina faster once their confidence level fell below some invisible threshold.
That said, the whole system seems FUBAR today. Why would a fully rested reliever who has been performing well in recent games enter a game with significantly diminished confidence? Especially when I'm up by five or more runs???
Even more puzzling, why would they have diminished stamina when they enter the game when they are fully rested??? They aren't overworked, and I generally don't start warming up my relievers until my batters have one out in my half of the inning. Also, I'm mindful to place them in "Ready and Waiting" mode when they are warmed up.
As a coach and general manager, I would probably know if I had a bullpen full of drunks who were downing drinks at the bars the night before the game & came to the ballpark so hung over that it affected their performance... Either please allow me to place my relievers in a 30-day rehab facility to dry out; or take a look at your code and fix this illogical nonsense.
@painpa_psn said in The Fundamental Problem With Commentary:
@tigermoose93_psn said in The Fundamental Problem With Commentary:
@painpa_psn said in The Fundamental Problem With Commentary:
Remember DD's commentary is chopped to accomadate fast play.
so they either broke down longer commentary or recorded a bunch of short lines and the cpu doesnt patch them in very well.I'm a Franchise Mode player & my opinions derive from there.
Cpu doesnt put the lines together well there either, in addition to the brodcasters not reading the script before recording it, not protesting the asinine comments they just recorded,and it receiving only minimal attention in several years
Agree. Mark DeRosa comes across like Chris Farley in Tommy Boy in this game.
@painpa_psn said in The Fundamental Problem With Commentary:
Remember DD's commentary is chopped to accomadate fast play.
so they either broke down longer commentary or recorded a bunch of short lines and the cpu doesnt patch them in very well.
I'm a Franchise Mode player & my opinions derive from there.
For enabling us to turn off commentary from Heidi Watney this year. Also, thank you for enabling us to turn off the in-game lineup & starting defense announcements.
Ms. Watney's comments are both obvious and obtuse. Other than allowing you to check a box off with the PC cults for gender inclusivity, she provides absolutely no value whatsoever in this game.
Also, if I had to hear Mark DeRosa tell me every single game for the third year in a row that Corey Seager is the second coming of Cal Ripken, I probably would've thrown my controller through my television screen.
Besides playing franchise, I enjoy collecting cards in this game... As a result, I continue to scratch my head at why SDS made a decision to impose XP penalties on Franchise Mode players who tinker with their sliders. What's the purpose or point? Especially if you're increasing the difficulty on some of the sliders to create a more realistic simulation?
Poor, poor decision IMO. A big bronx cheer to the genius who thought this was a good idea! Pffffffffft!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I've traveled a lot with my career and have watched or listened to radio & television game broadcasts in nearly every major league market. Never in my life have I ever heard a color commentator spend 80% of their time analyzing and forecasting individual pitches and swings like they do in this game. Maybe one or two comments a game after a pitch flies to the backstop or something, but certainly not every other comment out of their mouth!
The Show's commentary seems to be a gripe point year after year; and I'd argue that the scripting is the biggest issue. It simply isn't authentic. The original architect either didn't do their research, or they decided to cut corners for whatever reason.
IMO, Matt Vasgersian calls a decent game but the rest of the commentary is pure garbage. The other sports titles on the market at least make an attempt at realistic commentary every other year or so. The Show needs to completely scrap it's commentary model and start over. It was faulty to begin with & hasn't improved.
Even the 2K baseball series (as bad at it was) had a leg up on The Show 21. At least they made an effort with the color commentary.
@skarmaen_psn said in It's honestly amazing how good this game is:
Content is good, and they deserve praise for making it easy to build good/great teams without spending money on stubs.
Gameplay is not good. Played for 4 years now and it's never been close to good. The field plays so small that it's HRs or nothing.
This may be the best sports game on the market (haven't played any others for years) but that's more an indictment of other games than it is praise for The Show.
Well said. Agree wholeheartedly with your whole assessment.
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@tigermoose93_psn said in Classic Pitching is a Hot Mess:
@the_dragon1912 said in Classic Pitching is a Hot Mess:
To be fair classic pitching is meant for beginners and playing on lower difficulties. Should it be as far off as you describe? Probably not. But it requires literally no user input whatsoever, thus leaving it all to RNG
You're quite correct about the RNG & I'd argue that every variable dependent on a RNG in this game is sloppy... Pitch location, CPU ground ball ratios and umpire consistency being the most egregious examples. The code is sloppy and produces results that aren't even close to reality.
That said, Classic Pitching does allow for a modicum of user input... You aim the locator where you want the pitch to go. The fact that it goes far to the right 60% of the time that I'm aiming to the left side of the plate is what pisses me off.
@the_dragon1912 said in Classic Pitching is a Hot Mess:
To be fair classic pitching is meant for beginners and playing on lower difficulties. Should it be as far off as you describe? Probably not. But it requires literally no user input whatsoever, thus leaving it all to RNG
You're quite correct about the RNG & I'd argue that every variable dependent on a RNG in this game is sloppy... Pitch location, CPU ground ball ratios and umpire consistency being the most egregious examples. The code is sloppy and produces results that aren't even close to reality.
That said, Classic Pitching does allow for a modicum of user input... You aim the locator where you want the pitch to go. The fact that it goes far to the right 60% of the time that I'm aiming to the left side of the plate is what pisses me off.
I'm a casual player & mostly play franchise. I prefer the Classic Pitching interface on HOF or Legend difficulty in a simulation mode for a competitive game. I've played over 120 games like this and have to say that the code behind the interface is complete garbage. Also, your last update unbelievably made things even worse.
The way it's presently programmed, pitchers are off their target well over 60% of the time. I'm not talking slight misses either. They don't even head toward the quadrant of the plate I'm pointing to at lest 30% of the time.
Doesn't matter the pitcher or his control stats either. Heck, I got so frustrated with the crappy pitch location that I jacked up the control to 99 on all of my pitches for all of my pitchers... it didn't make a dent.
Even fastballs aimed directly to the middle of the plate go wildly off target on a consistent basis. I mean, WTF? Mediocre high school pitchers can consistently throw toward the desired quadrant even if they're regularly missing the plate!
Either your developers have absolutely no knowledge of pitching mechanics or your executives are content with allowing your development team to release this half-baked mess.
Hire a QA team for goodness sake! Also, spend a little more time under the hood calibrating the engine & a little less on the window dressing.