MLB 14 The Show: Little Issues Hampering the Fun

[bwiggy33]

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My only complaint is there no longer being slow mode. I'm still having fun, but man oh man it'd be nice to breathe between pitches and actually have time to think about what I'm doing.

[dalger21]

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I've stopped playing it. The whole random PCI with timed hitting turned me off. MLB 14 might be my last purchase for a few years.

[ShaBoomer]

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My "small" issues with this game, are how impossible it is to play RTTS/PlayerLock modes under ALL PITCHES, making the mode unplayable for me because I only play these modes under ALL PITCHES. (this issue seems more a bug, than by design though).

What do you mean by this? How is it impossible to play?

[ShaBoomer]

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My only complaint is there no longer being slow mode. I'm still having fun, but man oh man it'd be nice to breathe between pitches and actually have time to think about what I'm doing.

There are plenty of ways to take your time yourself, without weighing down the game with extended cut scenes and making the pitcher stand on the mound for 15 seconds between pitches.

You can call time (down on the d-pad), you can press R3 to get the batter's perspective, you can hold R2, L3. You can press Options to pause, or the touchpad as well.

Lots of ways to slow the game down...

[cardinalbird5]

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"Batting Interface Lacks a Ball Icon

Speaking of pitch cursors, MLB 14: The Show could greatly reduce the frustrations of its "zone" hitting style if there was an on-screen icon that represented the ball from the time it left the pitcher's hand to the time it crosses the plate. Presently, the ball's location only appears on screen once it's inside the catcher's mitt.

Baseball titles from Konami, SEGA, Nintendo, EA Sports, Acclaim, etc., have all offered this method of hitting, yet Sony's MLB: The Show series still does not."

Uhh no. How about read and react to the ball? I don' know need a little cursor on my screen. Spirits is a great baseball game, but it isn't the show. That game is pure hand-eye coordination and physics based. Its cursor is based on the sweet spot of a bat, while the PCI is something completely different composed of attributes of the hitter/pitcher.

Everything else I can agree with. I wish community challenges were paying out stubs. I don't mind the loading times, but it is a waste of a mode until we can actually make stubs from it.

[bwiggy33]

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There are plenty of ways to take your time yourself, without weighing down the game with extended cut scenes and making the pitcher stand on the mound for 15 seconds between pitches.

You can call time (down on the d-pad), you can press R3 to get the batter's perspective, you can hold R2, L3. You can press Options to pause, or the touchpad as well.

Lots of ways to slow the game down...

I already know all of this. It's not the same though. I've been accustomed to the slow style since I started playing all the way back with MLB 10. Doing all of those shortcuts and stuff hampers the experience and doesn't give it the feel the game previously had with true slow speed. I understand people who didn't use slow mode are happy and it doesn't affect them, but I just don't understand why some people make it sound like us slow mode users are the bad guys. The fact is just flat out that the dev team pulled it from the game. They did something that angers a small amount of people, but none the less it's still part of their fan base and most of those people have played the game for years.

[@legendm0de]

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What do you mean by this? How is it impossible to play?

http://theshownation.com/bug_reports/12714

It almost seems like a bug or something they overlooked somehow.

[nemesis04]

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My top 3 issues:

1) Check swing appeals are way out of whack, had to turn them off.

2) Contact swing is on major steroids.

3) The pickoff controls are no longer camera specific. Still not sure why this needed to be changed.

Nothing earth shattering but still there non the less.

[jmik58]

I've played The Show for nearly 5 years and I love Zone hitting as it is. It's taken a long time to get good at it, but I love it. I love trying to predict the contact point with my left thumb while timing the swing with my right. it's a very challenging and rewarding system IMO.

[gator3guy]

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I rarely use contact swing unless I'm 0-2 or has a weak hitter at the plate, but I was hitting with Jean Segura, 1 out, man on 3rd, 0-2 count, I just wanted a ground ball up the middle so I did swing influence "down" and contact swing. Don't you know the next pitch goes 420 to dead center. Keep in mind Segura has like 37 power. Not sure if something got messed up in the code, but I was shocked when it happened.

For me, the things that really bother me at the moment:

Sliding/warp tags- It takes away from making a great read, when my player is sliding in mud and the CPU pulls a swipe tag out of the sky. This has been in the series for years now.

CPU sliding into every base- it completely takes the hit and run option out for me because I can never go first to 3rd. I have no idea what is causing it.

White generic faces in "The Show Live" for SCEA CAPS. Pretty much ruined the mode for me. Playing with the Mariners and seeing James Jones with a white face, beard, and black arms is a big eye sore.

No hit variety- No bloopers. No hits over OFers. The OFers react too quickly still. The outfields still look too small. All my hits are either HRs, line drive one-hops in front of the OFers, or ground balls up the middle. It's pretty disappointing we still have this problem in the series.

[SpectralThundr]

Must have a different copy, not getting frame rate studders at all. And have no issue with contact swings producing home runs, it happens in real life every single night, same with the camera, I haven't had to reset it at all and I use a custom view. Go figure.

[cardinalbird5]

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I also don't find contact to be that big of a deal. I've hit 2 homeruns with it in about 15 games. I also play on Legend with Houston. Maybe contact is OP on AS or lower, but then I'd recommend putting the difficulty up.

[ShaBoomer]

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http://theshownation.com/bug_reports/12714

It almost seems like a bug or something they overlooked somehow.

Can you explain it a little more in depth? Or provide a video? I've never seen this happen, and I'm not sure what you mean by playing "under ALL PITCHES".

Do you mean when you play with Quick Counts OFF?

I play RTTS and Player Lock (in Franchise Mode) all the time, never had the camera circle around.

I'm gonna try now...

[zukes]

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To the author:

gameplay, pitching, pitching ball marker fade (you can feel the edges of the zone with rumble)

advanced,pitch callout to off

This is to prevent your on same couch opponent from knowing pitch type and location

[Bigsheen]

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Biggest issue is the pickoffs on both offense and defense. Too many overthrows, and maybe its just me being slow but it has become almost an automatic pick off if you take one step off the base.