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That’s why it’s not really too much better than double pxp in comparison.

Agreed. Another weird thing is that if you do a tigers team build you can put the HOF and the other Greenberg in your lineup at the same time. Quality control is not good this year to say the least.

@MarinerMatt01_PSN

It has been an issue since launch. The attribute wheel displays live series/lower cards for better versions of some cards.

Apparently SDS either can’t fix it or doesn’t care to fix it. The cards will play to their actual attributes during gameplay.

@Dolenz_PSN

And at this point in the game cycle most players still around are the die hards with plenty of stubs.

@Teak2112_MLBTS

Real question: how many actual baseball fans do we think work at SDS?

The reason I ask is that a lot of obvious cards seem to get missed, even with a limited legend pool, and they seem to miss the mark on a lot of historical details.

Not saying you need to be a baseball historian to work for SDS but I do feel like most of them don’t even follow baseball and those that do, don’t seem to know much of anything beyond the past decade or so.

Just my personal opinion as a baseball fanatic myself. What does everyone else think?

@soonermagic78_XBL

MLB 25: the glitch, the line out, or the collection.

All 3 pretty much sum up the theme of this year’s installment.

The CPU defense and pitching are both overpowered. The defense is not only faster but the ball is drawn to their gloves almost like a magnet. You can actually see the CPU going into a dive before the batter even makes contact at times.

The pitchers are ridiculously wild except for being able to super dot. My favorite is when the pitches actually overlap in the exact same spot. Good luck trying to replicate that with PAR margins in play.

The CPU pitching and defense both need to be scaled back a ton. It’s not that it’s difficult, just extremely tedious and unrealistic.

@Sarge1387_PSN

Exactly. Instead of all this new trendy garbage. I’ve turned the music off for years because it’s been awful.

I remember the old EA baseball games and even early versions of the Show having pretty decent music but that was a long time ago.

Definitely save up and just buy the cards. The pull rate on them is ridiculously low, 1 in 12,500 packs per show zone.

@RAisEdByGoAt_XBL

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.

@Dolenz_PSN

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.

@creeder21_MLBTS

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.

@creeder21_MLBTS

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.

@nymets1987_PSN

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.

@Ledfoot_19_PSN

Very true on everything stated here. Call it out though and the SDS defenders come at you like you kicked their puppy.

@Ledfoot_19_PSN

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.