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This happened to me too in a mini seasons game for the first time yesterday. I had to actually unplug my PS5 to get out of it and took the loss.
Luckily it was only the 1 time but even so this should not happen in offline modes period. This year’s game does seem to be the “buggiest” I can ever remember.
Whether it’s broken coding stacked on top of more broken coding, lack of resources to address issues, or just flat out lack of quality control, it’s definitely noticeable on a daily basis.
It’s because the CPU pitching is an absolute joke this year. The programming is to make them nibble on and just off the edges non stop. Common and bronze pitchers shouldn’t be able to do that repeatedly and yet they do in this game just to make it more challenging?
This is made worse ten fold in moments that require an XBH when they refuse to give you a hittable pitch, throw 4 straight balls, or just outright plunk the hitter.
CPU pitching is generally awful this year but is next level bad in moments where you either need a HR or multiple XBHs. They very rarely throw a hittable pitch and instead common pitchers continuously dot the black or nibble just off the edges of the plate which is impossible to hit with any authority. I understand they aren’t gonna just throw non stop meatballs but this is the polar opposite of that.
Being over rewarded as opposed to under rewarded, especially on lower difficulties should be the priority to maximize the player base.
As it stands now the learning curve is way too steep. Hitting is made difficult either to prolong the grind or to appease that very vocal minority that lives on the game.
Mine would either be annoying or laughable depending on my mood that day.
Common pitchers missing by 3 feet and then painting the black is ridiculous. Nearly every batter being taken to a full count is absolutely tedious.
Common defenders making super human dives and throws not to mention the unbelievable amount of lineouts and double plays is completely ludicrous.
The CPU hitting plays the way it should on lower difficulties. The pitching and defense needs to be scaled back a ton on rookie, veteran and even all star.
Bingo. I said it months ago that the CPU pitching is by design. On lower difficulties players just want to relax and mash after a long day. Not hunt your pitch every at bat only to get dotted up by a bronze or common pitcher repeatedly.
That’s because nowhere near enough ground balls, line drives, or fly balls drop in. Those are mostly outs in this game because the field plays too small and the defense covers WAY too much ground. If more balls found holes then HRs wouldn’t be so overpowered. As it stands now the only reliable way to score runs is hitting the ball over the fence because everything else has a very high probability of being an out.
It’s all by design. The Tony Olivia moments have been horrendous. Hate 6 total base moments with a passion. Between the pitching and diving plays they are ridiculous.
Very true on everything stated here. Call it out though and the SDS defenders come at you like you kicked their puppy.
Well said
Maybe it’s SDS way of pop control. Sure feels like they are controlling gatekeeper live series diamonds too. The live series diamonds are mostly out classed in the power creep now, except for Judge and Ohtani, so all just ridiculously overpriced.
The fact Witt has only 28,000 P5 tells you all you need to know about how few of his cards are actually out there. I’d love to know what percentage of players have completed Live series at this point. Has to be an extremely low percentage.
Like packs the odds are awful. I’m sure per SDS they are just “glitched” so the cop out excuse can’t be challenged. Regardless, unless you can beat the CPU on GOAT it’s not worth the risk.
Exactly this. And who do WC and DQ cater to….elite level players. Add in that CPU pitching and pack odds are worse than ever and Live series is priced the highest it’s ever been and you have a recipe for a frustrating game for the majority of the player base.
Why you would cater to a very small minority in opposition to the vast majority can only mean one thing. Higher level players are much more likely to spend thousands of dollars each game cycle to contribute to their streaming platforms. I’m not saying all elite players spend tons of money but the bigger name guys certainly do.
Genuinely wondering. Why are moments more than 1 at bat or pitching against 1 hitter? Pitching an inning or more facing multiple batters and tallying multiple at bats/hits are not moments.
A moment in time is just that, and the way they are extrapolated into more than they should be, especially with all the RNG in this game, makes them unnecessarily tedious.
Moments would be okay if they were treated appropriately instead of these drawn out tasks that feel like homework and a roll of the dice all wrapped into 1 annoying package.
Oh, I get that. Simply meant people love to say no matter how far the Show has fallen it’s still better than Madden or NBA or FIFA.
That’s not how comparison works. You have to compare previous versions of games to themselves. It’s crystal clear the direction has changed for one reason or another.
As for simply buying the game being worse than the shills I disagree. I don’t spend nearly as much on the game as I used to and I still play because I love baseball, hope things will change for the better even though they don’t, and there are no other viable options.
Bottom line the game requires more time and money to field the “fun” cards and the reward for time invested has fallen off a cliff compared to just a few years ago.
Dolenz can’t deny that and he still buys the game despite admittedly not enjoying it as much. So maybe he is calling himself out to be worse than the shills even though I don’t believe that to be the case.
Tyler is a very well known troll on this forum. You must be new here.
Exactly. This makes all the sense in the world to everyone that’s been around for years and chooses not to use every excuse in the book to let SDS and Sony off the hook for their deviation off the customer friendly path they were once well known for.
Que the shills to come say at least it’s still better than Madden or 2K.
Most of us know who all the well known trolls, shills and fan boys are but they seem to spawn at an alarming rate.
Either greed won out in the end or the Sony suits overruled the original plan and said terrible packs and microtransactions are happening whether SDS wanted to or not.
It’s just a dismissive, selfish, canned response from all the SDS tribalists. It’s pure denial plain and simple.