Outfielders still not locking onto balls. Fielders running full speed at balls to the enter into a give up and stumble animation. Get your act together man, this just isn't fun.

No quick selling locked cards is reasonable. Preventing users from exchanging locked cards is ridiculous.

Don't need to steal signs to know beanballs are incoming...

You to must not read much about the history of baseball...

Awesome reward there SDS. I haven't completed the Cardinals collection yet, but you were nice enough to give me two silver Wongs in the same pack. I'll enjoy looking at these two since we can't exchange or quick sell locked delicates

Is there a difference in crush or CRUSH?

It's the fear of losing that makes you play different. There is a stress factor because unlike moments and conquest you can restart or try again.

Showdown is fun for me. I can't tell you the last time I locked in on a game playing on veteran. I went down to two outs before hitting a walk off in the NL Central last mini showdown. I was fist pumping and letting Luis Castillo know what I really thought about him.

@A_PerfectGame said in This was a hidden patch:

@Harryhukari33 said in This was a hidden patch:

Just take a minute to think logically:

SDS gets a TON of complaints about hitting and the timing window... it could impact their ability to generate revenue on transactions, game purchases, etc.. Why would they NOT post updates in the patch notes to talk about adjusting the hitting? They have every interest in posting an update like that to generate more interest and revenue from their customers.

They didn’t touch hitting. Nothing to see here.

Brah. Look. I’m telling you as a person who was lining out like 15-18 times a game. I didn’t get better over night. My hitting rewards are legit. Have I lined out??? Yes. But it’s almost like I get why. Something is very different about this game why would I say that???? I just woke up and all of a sudden my contact is being rewarded way better why? Exit velos are higher why? Did they just put my game on steroids so I stop complaining??? Lol

The game is tuned different between AS and HOF. The last event was AS. The PCI is larger for both contact point and vision, pitch speeds are lower. Check swings are easier to accomplish and there is less it a penalty for timing and placement errors.

On HOF now PCI'S are smaller and pitch speeds are faster. Timing windows are shorter for good timing. Check swings are harder to accomplish and poor timing/placement is penalized more. With the increase in difficulty good PCI placement/timing is more difficult, so the solid contact rate is higher.

If you are able to keep consistent timing and PCI placement with the increased difficulty level you are going to see better results. Players that don't make the jump well will see a decrease in solid contact.

You reading way to far into this. It's no secret AS difficulty can be very inconsistent. HOF is a decent jump in necessary skill to hit. Remove the tinfoil hat and be glad you can play the game well on a higher difficulty level.

Fielding, pitching, and baserunning are the real bugaboos of this game. Hopefully they'll continue to address those.

White pants for home, gray or colored for away.

MLB failed here more than anything. It's the reason this situation has evolved the way it did.

There was no disciplinary system in place for players set up by MLB. Any attempt by MLB to push it off on the union is a farce. The MLBPA wasn't preventing any discipline, their stance was any discipline should follow policy. MLB never instituted any kind of penalty system for players, only against teams and ownership.

When this all broke open MLB had no grounds for player discipline. The penalty system for players is not applicable to the timeline of the Astros cheating.

Manfred fined the Astros the maximum and suspended Hinch and Lunhow. That's all they could do. Of course MLB was made aware of potential cheating by Houston in 2017, but no one had any proof.

This only came to light because of Fiers, but to suggest he only waited till now it's also false. Bob Melvin stated he went to MLB with information from Fiers but did nothing.

That's where this all went haywire. MLB sat on it's hands and then the skeletons fell out of the closet.

Crane is a snake and the Astros players are chodes, but what else does it matter. The sign stealing scandal did not definitively determine the Astros winning the WS but they'll have to live with their reputations being tarnished.

Y'all can keep arguing about 2017, I'm here in 2020 enjoying spring training and the start of a new season of the greatest game on Earth ️

@hegone44 said in Perfect... 98 out of the pitchers hand... 93 off the bat...:

Good lord this is dumb.

First of all, it most certainly is physically possible to barrel the ball and hit is slower than the pitch speed. Things that factor into exit velocity include: mass of batter, mass of bat used by batter, speed of bat, speed of ball, spin of ball leaving bat, trajectory of bat leaving ball.

Second, a pitch thrown 98 MPH is NOT traveling 98 MPH when it hits the bat, it's traveling 98 MPH a few feet in front of the pitcher. The ball, due to drag, will lose about 1 MPH per 7 ft traveled. Therefore, if a pitch is 98 MPH 53 ft from home plate, and is contacted a foot in front of home plate, then the ball was moving 90-91 MPH when contacted.

Spin has a huge impact on distance. Fastballs require the bat to completely change the direction of spin, where as a curveball with top spin the bat accelerated the spin in the same direction. It's why curveballs are hit farther than fastballs despite traveling slower.

Offline I never have an issue but online there is no rhyme or reason I can find to consistently warm up a pitcher correctly. I have even selected ready and waiting with a pitcher who was a sliver away from being full and he comes in already in the yellow and had full energy to start.

Stretch and toss will have guys fully warmed up.

It's always without fail too when it happens that pitcher is about useless for his mandatory 3 batters.

@TiKi_L1ON said in Perfect... 98 out of the pitchers hand... 93 off the bat...:

@coastereight said in Perfect... 98 out of the pitchers hand... 93 off the bat...:

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Yeah I just calculated it out and the bat speed would have to be around 5 mph to get and exit velo of 93 on a 98 mph heater lmao I knew taking that physics course would come in handy one day

Show your work

Showdown is fun, I enjoy the edge of your seat can't screw this up to game play. I talk so much $hit during the process. I love it!

White pants for home, gray or colored for away.

@Rambo_11k said in I've Come to the Realisation...:

No thanks, I’ll still blame the core gameplay instead of myself when stuff like this is happening.

https://imgur.com/gallery/JxOEKI1

Game winning triple!! Look at the feedback, Early/Okay with the PCI not even touching the ball???

I’m sorry but with garbage like this happening and how the game grooves your pitches down the middle or forces a walk with PERFECT RELEASE and forces errors to start a rally.....it’s the gameplay doing all that bs....not me.

That's why they say don't trust the feedback online. Your opponent may have seen something different.

@dcordash1 said in I've Come to the Realisation...:

@Chuck_Dizzle29 said in I've Come to the Realisation...:

Sorry sir your game history determined that was a lie...

Who are you and who asked you? No offense.

Sorry I'm with the Fraudulent B.S. Post division.

@dcordash1 said in I've Come to the Realisation...:

Beware the SDS fanboys (perhaps employees ..who knows) are spreading the propoganda already. "get gud" guy is always singing off this same sheet of music. The game is a crapshoot. It's both enjoyable and horribly lacking. Just have to be willing to put up with the bad long enough to enjoy the good.

I started 2 games today with 99 Kluber. First pitch of the game home-runs off of outside pitches buried in the red. Gold batters both.

Don't know if I was playing one of these "top guys" but if anyone is so good they can hit a dinger off of a decent pitch from the highest rated pitcher in the game....they would be hitting so many homers and ringing up the scoreboards it would be a farce. It's nothing more than AI induced animation. But, yeah, I'll admit some are better with PCI than others..that's just eye-hand coordination. But, when the AI intervenes you swing through fastballs that you KNOW you would have hit most of the time.

And, don't always trust the final placement of a pitch on PCI. The AI will display a location that's impossible based on the physics and the trajectory at the beginning of the pitch. It's animation..it's not real. And as long as you're OK with that you won't get too down on yourself and frustrated.

Sorry sir your game history determined that was a lie...

That is a perfectly acceptable outcome with 51 power.

1. Moran's top dot is the smallest of the three, clearly indicating that is his weakest contact point.

2. 51 power means he doesn't swing as hard. 99mph fastball even when barreled requires enough force in the swing to hit the ball harder than it's pitched.

3. Pitch is at the bottom of the zone.

If you got that in the middle or lower dot and gotten a line drive or ground ball you probably would've had a better chance for a hit. This wans't a you problem, it was a Bronze Colin Moran problem ‍️

@Beattie76 said in I've Come to the Realisation...:

It's really hard to determine how good you are. I mean, getting the PCI on the ball with good timing results in a lot of okay contact for routine outs, while lots of late/weak contact somehow finds a hole through the infield. So, in that case, is the good timing good PCI guy a worse player because he's not getting hits ?

That isn't true, or those top guys would be losing more because they make far fewer poor inputs than the vast majority of players.

Most hits in baseball are not solid squared up rockets.

How else would you propose bloopers, seeing eye singles, etc. occur in the game? Would you really want to square up a ball and get a blooper?