@Collin_SDS In order to head off the next hundred angry posts from customers, can we get confirmation whether gameplay (not visual) updates are done for the year? If the team is already 100% moved on to 21' it would be good to know. Otherwise there will be a lot of needless speculation and arguing here that benefits no one.

@get-peened said in Thoughts on New Patch; XP grinding:

First of all, the game really isn’t bad. I haven’t had any horrible experiences with fielding since the last patch. Yeah, hitting may need some tweaking, but overall it’s not bad. Sure, the pitching is hard to control but how would it feel if every single player you faced could dot sinkers on the corner every pitch? Hanging pitches happens, get over it.

The only thing I really don’t like is the loss of double points on MTO, which kills any motivation to play the mode. For me, the 6 hours minimum for around 50 team affinity points is just not enjoyable. It really doesn’t compete with showdown.

I already know that a lot of people will complain about homerun derby xp getting reduced. I don’t even know anyone that was willing to sit on homerun derby for 5+ hours a day just for xp. Although it takes no skill, I would like to congratulate those who have sat through some mind numbing hr derby sessions.

They also reduced the xp in retro mode, who knows by how much yet, because you could simply afk it as the computer walks you and get 15 levels overnight. This was definitely being exploited as some of the rosters in the vault had over 1000 downloads. I’m happy this is getting fixed.

Overall, I’m actually excited to see how many people will sit here and complain about how it’s gonna be iMpoSsIbLe tO gEt xP. The xp reward path wasn’t made to be completed in 2 months. If you want xp, play the game regularly or play showdown like the rest of us. If retro mode didn’t get patched, it would’ve been so interesting to see what teams would look like in the future. Eric Thames, J-Ram and prestige Sandberg everywhere!

I agree with most of this, I appreciate the rational approach. This game is incredibly addictive to baseball lovers, and even though it has a few gameplay flaws I’m glad it exists.

Have to disagree with your position on hangers, or at least clarify what my problem with them is. Hangers are part of baseball... they have to exist in game. In past years, they worked pretty much the way they do in real life, you aim at something, screw up, and miss your target. Sometimes you get crazy break that you didn’t expect. Sometimes you just have a bad grip, the thing pops off your hand and floats in. But what DOES NOT happen is that when you make an execution mistake a gravity vortex opens up and magnetizes the ball to middle/middle. The entire game is an illusion. We are not playing baseball, we are moving dots through x/y axi and timing button presses. The art comes in tricking us into feeling like it’s baseball in some visceral way. It’s extremely artificial and shatters the illusion that you are throwing a ball... and that diminishes enjoyability.

I don’t think I will. Even though I’m addicted.

Something changed with this last patch. Not directly because of the patch quality, but just all the changes in general that I am slow to adjust to. I am so screwed up now that nothing is very enjoyable. Hits and whiffs both surprise me, which is weird. I say “what? How? ... what?” Out loud to myself far too often. The swing feedback doesn’t seem to match what’s happening at the controller.

I used to be a good pitcher but this year I feel like a spectator with little control of placement and a tiny squeezed down strike zone. I’m slowly climbing above 4 era, which is embarrassing. I put a lot of time into the game but i think I’m drifting away.

The content is cool, I’ll probably peek in here or there. But Borderlands 3 is enjoyable and doesn’t make me feel this anxiety, so I’ll probably be there more.

This isn’t a farewell post, don’t bother with dumb comments. I’m directly answering OP.

I must have put 1000 hours into baseball stars. One of the first games to track season stats. Winning games and upgrading your players stats was addictive, and I play the show all these years later for many of the same reasons. Beating the Lovely Ladies 500 times to earn upgrade points is the clear spiritual ancestor of Conquest mode.

Look out for the World Powers tho!

@Agent00Cage I think you are forgetting something. When you get a reward after a game or moment, it let’s you quicksell or post a sell order on the market right there in the screen. But it doesn’t Tell you the current market price. So a lot of people just pick a random number higher than the sell now price to save time. You are seeing at least some of those orders and thinking they are undercutting you. They are not, they don’t even know what your price was.

@MadderBumgarner said in Another Brave in McGriff:

Man it would be awesome to get a Flashback for some more recent Giants players. Ya know from those players that won 3 world series so close together... without even having to bang on a f'n trash can. Or would that make too much sense for the year 2020 where nothing makes sense at all?

I’ve been waiting for a 99 Linecum with 150 break

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I’m not sure exactly what the poll is about from reading the title, so instead I’ll just mention the most impressive thing I’ve ever seen live. 1992 at Candlestick. Bill Swift had come to Giants from the Mariners and he was grinding the NL to powder with his heavy gravity sinker. He was 5-0 already. The filthy Dodgers were in town, with Darryl Strawberry in tow. As an aside, a lot of people forget how much raw talent Straw had before he became a tragic character.

I’m sitting in the right field second deck Outfield loge seats, row 1. We are pretty high in the air. Swift throws a sinker but leaves it high. High sinkers, as everyone knows, lose their break and become bad fastballs.

Straw uncorks his whiplash swing and tunes up the flat sinker. There’s a crack like a rifle shot. Even though we are in second deck, people start standing up because it looks like it might make it up to us.

The ball is behaving oddly. Instead of traveling in an arc, it’s just going up... and up.

And over our heads. Midway up the Third deck. It didn’t even seem real. Straw was so far away he looked like an ant rounding the bases.

Moral of the story:
HIGH SINKERS DONT BREAK SIDEWAYS AND HUMILIATE HITTERS. THEY FLATTEN OUT AND GET SMOKED!

(Also saw the giants win two WS games against KC)

@MathMan5072 said in Best player you seen play live and or best game you seen live at the stadium.:

@nflman2033 said in Best player you seen play live and or best game you seen live at the stadium.:

As much as I hate his guys, statistically speaking, the answer is Barry Bonds, both as a Pirate and a Giant.

Ignoring Bonds, I would say Ken Griffey Jr., but by the time he got to Cincinnati, he was a shell of his former self. I may have to go with Tony Gwynn, at least in the early 90s he was still great. Saw Glavine and Smoltz, but never got to see Maddux or the big unit live.

Best game I went to, well most memorable, I was at the brawl between the Reds and Cardinals, where Molina and Phillips had words at the plate right in the bottom of the first, Cueto kicked LaRue I believe. Quite a nasty site as bad as anything I have ever seen at a hockey game.

Shoot. I forgot about Barry. I sat in the right field seats on opening day at dodger stadium one year and the guy must have hit the ball a good 20 rows behind me. It was unbelievable.

Such a shame. As much as I dislike him, Barry was great before ever touching a needle. The talent was unquestionable. But the jealousy bug got him, he just couldn’t stand seeing players he considered inferior surpassing him (McGwire). That season where he hit .370 and a ton of home runs was amazing, not for the counting stats but because he walked almost every at bat, rarely swung, but when he did it was “perfect/perfect”. That isn’t just roids.

.370 46 hr 110 rbi. 47 strikeouts. 198 BB!!!

Maybe we need a “missed connections” sub...

So we all have experienced the joy of facing only Kluber or Newhouser every game in Ranked Seasons. One of the most interesting things about baseball is that every starting pitcher is somewhat like a puzzle to solve, and seeing different pitchers demands different approaches at the plate. There’s nothing enjoyable about using or facing Kluber every time.
I had thought about this problem quite a bit early in, and I think I was so fixated on manipulating stamina regeneration somehow to fix the problem that I missed an obvious solution. Once a SP starts a game, the pitcher’s card could be tagged with a number Icon that decrements with each RS game completed. Let’s say the number starts at 4. Regardless of stamina, until that number reaches 0 (or perhaps the ”resting” icon disappears) you can neither start them, use them in relief, nor remove them from your roster.
It’s not realistic, but Ranked Seasons isn’t simulating a baseball season realistically anyway. It’s a fantasy ladder mode.
This solves the “starters as relievers” problem as well as forcing far greater variety in starters.

Ellsbury looks like a Q-Tip

Blackmon and Zobrist ~~~

Oh man, there’s a 99 Hunter Pence. Hilarious. Love the guy, but even if you added ratings for Sense of Humor, Stance Vibration and Socks he’d only get to 85.

@eatyum said in Mystery 99s?:

They were for the MLB players tournament, only the real-life players have a copy of their own selves.

Got it. Thank you!

Sorry if this has been discussed already, I feel like I must have just missed an announcement. If you search inventory / not owned on the website, there is a 99 for each team that has no art. Are these post-diamond XP rewards? The juiced Niko Goodrum looks nice.

@ComebackLogic said in Game Update 1.12 Thread:

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@ComebackLogic said in Game Update 1.12 Thread:

Diamond Dynasty used to be a fairly good baseball simulation. It’s not my fault SDS took retrograde steps that have disillusioned both on and offline players. ‍️

You should take out the "Logic" from your name for the obvious reasons.

You should stop derailing threads with your unrelated nonsense.

Dude what nonsense?, I made a response to your silly post about how SDS should remove baseball from a baseball game and turn it into a card collecting game with baseball in the background.

Well, as an example, this thread is for discussing patch 1.12. It’s not a very deep patch, there’s really not much to discuss in all honesty. Yet much like every other thread, you have come in here spouting about online casuals, hot pockets, card collectors and all that guff. I really don’t care what your opinion of online or the people who play it is, but this isn’t the place. This is for discussion of 1.12 and the state of gameplay post patch.
I would also cordially suggest you don’t post in the Diamond Dynasty subforum, as this is for discussion of that mode, which you don’t play. As the entirety of that subforum is probably going to be within the hot pocket eating, card collecting demographic which you apparently despise, the only reason you’d post in there is to attempt to stir up the populace. It’s a tired act at this point, it was never all that amusing or original to begin with, but if that is how you wish to post, at least stay in general discussion or franchise threads, where you’re more likely to be on topic when posting about offline modes.

Franchise forum people are men and play the game properly and are actually good at the game so it would be boring to post there, you DD and online people fascinate me. Its like finding a planet of slightly less evolved living beings and analyzing them for scientific purposes, their behavioral patterns (rage qutting when they are losing) or what they consume (Hot Pockets and Red Bulls)....I have much more data to collect

That’s kind of how I feel about people who are stuck in the late eighties to early nineties, before online gaming was a thing and all you could do in a baseball game was play infinite meaningless seasons against the computer. Less evolved, a bit retro. It’s kinda cute, who doesn’t enjoy a bit of nostalgia from time to time?

Nope, has nothing to do with nostalgia, has everything to do with replicating RW results....the Simulation part of it is what I'm after. Its exactly how I play Formula 1 Sims....replicating the actual sport as close to as the game would allow. Online is for other thing like Poker, but the sole reason for playing a Baseball game shouldn't be for a pretend fantasy world where you use super hero powers and bring back the dead to play and grinding EXP likes its Final Fantasy. If I want to play a fantasy game like I'd play The Witcher or Skyrim, if I want to play a fantasy racing game I'd play Mario Kart of Need for Speed, if I want to play a fantasy baseball game I'd play Super Mega Baseball. If I want to play a simulation of baseball, it should be The Show...but it seems like its getting to be less and less of that.

If I did play a franchise I’d probably use custom rosters from the late 90s with my favourite “super heroes” like Griffey and Bonds anyway. Just because you’re using accurate current day rosters with full minor leagues and I’m using a 1998 roster of legends or whatever, we’re still seeking the same standard of accurate, realistic baseball simulation gameplay. If you’ll allow me to expand upon that even further, as an online player, I’m expecting and hoping SDS can deliver the same experience that you achieve offline when playing with custom sliders. It’s not a case of picking sides and drawing a line between someone who plays online and offline. We’re not in opposition here, no matter how many times you try to set the debate up as an online vs offline player face off, or casuals vs whatever you deem yourself to be.
We’re all entitled to a solid baseball experience in all modes and SDS have not delivered that. The gameplay online this year has been the worst I’ve experienced and I played a lot of ‘18. That has no relevance on fantasy cards vs accurate current day rosters and custom sliders. No matter if I’m using LS Albert Pujols offline or a juiced flashback Pujols online in H2H I expect the same quality of gameplay. The name tag and the pixels on screen representing a player who may be dead some forty years or more, or representing a current day player such as Manny Machado should in no way dictate the quality of my experience.

Here is the problem and is always going to be the problem with you casual players even if you play offline Franchise casually. You guys don't get it, you aren't baseball fans or haven't played baseball since you could practically walk...you're just video game players that kinda watch baseball on a casual basis or when your team is in the playoffs like a bandwagon fan. I like baseball, I'm a baseball fan...I play baseball casually in real life and when it comes to playing it as a video game I want it to match what I see and do. Most of you DD players and online players play it as a video game..that's cool...but it shouldn't be just that......SDS has the license for MLB so don't make it just for casual kids make it for baseball fans too.

1. I’m from England. I played with my friends when I was a kid, but I wasn’t afforded the opportunity to play competitively because the game doesn’t exist at that level in this country.

2. I class myself as a baseball fan, I think you’re attempting to be deliberately antagonistic again with this statement, but again, you’re entitled to your opinion, no matter how ridiculous I might personally feel it is, or how bad it makes you look when you state it in such an ignorant manner. I’m also a Red Sox fan since ‘97, when they hadn’t won anything for quite a while, so again, you’re just spouting nonsense about things you really know nothing about.

3. In no way did you come close to addressing the statement I made which was, in short, that as an online DD player, I’m entitled to the same quality of gameplay as an offline franchise player. SDS do not provide this and as result, they’ve failed in their endeavours to create a good baseball game. All the name calling, deflection and dragging threads off topic in the world won’t change that.

I, and many others have already blocked joshjays44 since the forum moderator does not attempt to deal with this obvious trolling. The only time this repetitive, unfunny and off topic nonsense pollutes my threads is when people quote his/her/its posts in responses. Please just block it rather than replying.

You ever wonder if it’s just someone at SDS trolling in their free time?

Yes, but it's a fairly fruitless line of inquiry. Would be hard to determine, and if you did "catch" it what would you do with the information? Try to shame them online? Pointless.

I posted about this possibility a couple weeks ago, and if true it would be very disappointing and unprofessional. No matter how needy users are, no matter how irrational, and no matter how poorly they understand how software gets made and released - they are still the customers. They (we) pay for all of this.

There are a couple accounts that play no games according to their profile (or only a few here or there) but post consistently and always about the same things. Namely, trolling and demeaning the userbase in a very specific way, including repeatedly asserting how wonderful the game is in contradiction to the obvious, objectively verifiable game play bugs. Its hard to imagine a troll having such a narrow focus and investing this much time in service of what appears to be a grievance about unappreciative users.

@ComebackLogic said in Game Update 1.12 Thread:

@joshjays44 said in Game Update 1.12 Thread:

@ComebackLogic said in Game Update 1.12 Thread:

@joshjays44 said in Game Update 1.12 Thread:

@ComebackLogic said in Game Update 1.12 Thread:

@joshjays44 said in Game Update 1.12 Thread:

@ComebackLogic said in Game Update 1.12 Thread:

@joshjays44 said in Game Update 1.12 Thread:

@ComebackLogic said in Game Update 1.12 Thread:

@joshjays44 said in Game Update 1.12 Thread:

@ComebackLogic said in Game Update 1.12 Thread:

Diamond Dynasty used to be a fairly good baseball simulation. It’s not my fault SDS took retrograde steps that have disillusioned both on and offline players. ‍️

You should take out the "Logic" from your name for the obvious reasons.

You should stop derailing threads with your unrelated nonsense.

Dude what nonsense?, I made a response to your silly post about how SDS should remove baseball from a baseball game and turn it into a card collecting game with baseball in the background.

Well, as an example, this thread is for discussing patch 1.12. It’s not a very deep patch, there’s really not much to discuss in all honesty. Yet much like every other thread, you have come in here spouting about online casuals, hot pockets, card collectors and all that guff. I really don’t care what your opinion of online or the people who play it is, but this isn’t the place. This is for discussion of 1.12 and the state of gameplay post patch.
I would also cordially suggest you don’t post in the Diamond Dynasty subforum, as this is for discussion of that mode, which you don’t play. As the entirety of that subforum is probably going to be within the hot pocket eating, card collecting demographic which you apparently despise, the only reason you’d post in there is to attempt to stir up the populace. It’s a tired act at this point, it was never all that amusing or original to begin with, but if that is how you wish to post, at least stay in general discussion or franchise threads, where you’re more likely to be on topic when posting about offline modes.

Franchise forum people are men and play the game properly and are actually good at the game so it would be boring to post there, you DD and online people fascinate me. Its like finding a planet of slightly less evolved living beings and analyzing them for scientific purposes, their behavioral patterns (rage qutting when they are losing) or what they consume (Hot Pockets and Red Bulls)....I have much more data to collect

That’s kind of how I feel about people who are stuck in the late eighties to early nineties, before online gaming was a thing and all you could do in a baseball game was play infinite meaningless seasons against the computer. Less evolved, a bit retro. It’s kinda cute, who doesn’t enjoy a bit of nostalgia from time to time?

Nope, has nothing to do with nostalgia, has everything to do with replicating RW results....the Simulation part of it is what I'm after. Its exactly how I play Formula 1 Sims....replicating the actual sport as close to as the game would allow. Online is for other thing like Poker, but the sole reason for playing a Baseball game shouldn't be for a pretend fantasy world where you use super hero powers and bring back the dead to play and grinding EXP likes its Final Fantasy. If I want to play a fantasy game like I'd play The Witcher or Skyrim, if I want to play a fantasy racing game I'd play Mario Kart of Need for Speed, if I want to play a fantasy baseball game I'd play Super Mega Baseball. If I want to play a simulation of baseball, it should be The Show...but it seems like its getting to be less and less of that.

If I did play a franchise I’d probably use custom rosters from the late 90s with my favourite “super heroes” like Griffey and Bonds anyway. Just because you’re using accurate current day rosters with full minor leagues and I’m using a 1998 roster of legends or whatever, we’re still seeking the same standard of accurate, realistic baseball simulation gameplay. If you’ll allow me to expand upon that even further, as an online player, I’m expecting and hoping SDS can deliver the same experience that you achieve offline when playing with custom sliders. It’s not a case of picking sides and drawing a line between someone who plays online and offline. We’re not in opposition here, no matter how many times you try to set the debate up as an online vs offline player face off, or casuals vs whatever you deem yourself to be.
We’re all entitled to a solid baseball experience in all modes and SDS have not delivered that. The gameplay online this year has been the worst I’ve experienced and I played a lot of ‘18. That has no relevance on fantasy cards vs accurate current day rosters and custom sliders. No matter if I’m using LS Albert Pujols offline or a juiced flashback Pujols online in H2H I expect the same quality of gameplay. The name tag and the pixels on screen representing a player who may be dead some forty years or more, or representing a current day player such as Manny Machado should in no way dictate the quality of my experience.

Here is the problem and is always going to be the problem with you casual players even if you play offline Franchise casually. You guys don't get it, you aren't baseball fans or haven't played baseball since you could practically walk...you're just video game players that kinda watch baseball on a casual basis or when your team is in the playoffs like a bandwagon fan. I like baseball, I'm a baseball fan...I play baseball casually in real life and when it comes to playing it as a video game I want it to match what I see and do. Most of you DD players and online players play it as a video game..that's cool...but it shouldn't be just that......SDS has the license for MLB so don't make it just for casual kids make it for baseball fans too.

1. I’m from England. I played with my friends when I was a kid, but I wasn’t afforded the opportunity to play competitively because the game doesn’t exist at that level in this country.

2. I class myself as a baseball fan, I think you’re attempting to be deliberately antagonistic again with this statement, but again, you’re entitled to your opinion, no matter how ridiculous I might personally feel it is, or how bad it makes you look when you state it in such an ignorant manner. I’m also a Red Sox fan since ‘97, when they hadn’t won anything for quite a while, so again, you’re just spouting nonsense about things you really know nothing about.

3. In no way did you come close to addressing the statement I made which was, in short, that as an online DD player, I’m entitled to the same quality of gameplay as an offline franchise player. SDS do not provide this and as result, they’ve failed in their endeavours to create a good baseball game. All the name calling, deflection and dragging threads off topic in the world won’t change that.

I, and many others have already blocked joshjays44 since the forum moderator does not attempt to deal with this obvious trolling. The only time this repetitive, unfunny and off topic nonsense pollutes my threads is when people quote his/her/its posts in responses. Please just block it rather than replying.

Serious question, not trolling: What are you doing on your PS4 that requires more than 20-40 down? Because online gaming does not. That's fast enough for things that require speed, like streaming and downloading things.

I ask because download speed is barely relevant for online gaming. 5 down is enough typically. Instead, you should be concerned with ping, having the correct NAT type and any bufferbloat added by upstream devices in your network.

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