MLB 15 The Show Gameplay Stream Details - Archive Available Now, If You Missed It

[masterfliip]

For those who missed the live stream. Go to pastapadre.com for the video..you're welcome 😏

[HustlinOwl]

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is this new directional hitting available for online play? Timing has always been removed

[Cowboy008]

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They mentioned having sliders for Dynamic difficulty now and how once you get to a certain point you could lock it right there. So my question is do they have separate sliders for hitting and pitching or are they both tied to one slider?

[WaitTilNextYear]

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From the twitch stream, the improvements in coloration and shadows were undeniable and very promising. I had a sense that the player models themselves hadn't been upgraded much because nothing had been mentioned, but the new coloration does make a difference. It was easy to see when Cutch '14 met Cutch '15.

I also liked the look of the new scorebug and had been on the fence about stashing it out of sight in '14 or keeping it because I like me some clean screen. But, this lil bug is sleek enough to stay.

While I couldn't tell so much about the grass texture itself (given that they were just now re-coloring the grass and dirt), the color scheme they were using when comparing the game to IRL was pretty close. I hope they can do a little bit to make the grass seem less like a carpet (well, except for Tampa...) with texturing in this 11th hour of their dev cycle. The color is nice, but color + texture is king.

Was also pleased that the combination of curved routes to balls, separate sliders for IF'ers and OF'ers, and the overall re-scaling of all player speeds should make DEFENSE a focal point of '15 for change. I think we all know the facepalm that is putting a guy who is rated 40 as a 1B out in LF/RF and him playing there like a natural. This should cut down on that cheese.

I'll have to say that I've been about 60:40 on buying '15 and this twitch boosted that to 65:35 or so. I was pretty impressed.

It's also nice to see the joy that B Ma brings to Russell_SCEA. He was so happy to introduce him. lol

[WaitTilNextYear]

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They mentioned having sliders for Dynamic difficulty now and how once you get to a certain point you could lock it right there. So my question is do they have separate sliders for hitting and pitching or are they both tied to one slider?

DD has always had separate pitching and hitting sliders (est 2014). You can be a crappy pitcher and a great hitter and vice versa. Rookie+ pitching and HoF++ batting or whatever combination.

This new feature just means you can stay at whatever level you want on both sides of the game.

[strawberryshortcake]

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The only thing I guess I'm disappointed with is directional hitting. I, like many of us on here, were hoping that this would basically be MVP's hitting. It seems to me that this is simply the same thing as guess pitch which is already in the game. I really want the ability to change "where" you are swinging AFTER you press the swing button.

They want the game as accurate as possible..when you go up to hit you think about where you want to hit it before you swing. Sometimes before you even get in the batters box. You don't swing then as you're swinging decide to push or pull it. I think how they have it is pretty darn good from what they've shown


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Here's my take on it having never played MVP baseball. You both make valid points. But I will sort of have to side with Gagnon39 on this one just a little bit more.

Swinging. It's essentially a two part process:
(1) leg kick [plus arms moving backwards to start the swing motion]
(2) follow through [arms moving forward to end the swing motion].

If they want the swinging game to be as accurate as possible, the batter needs to be able to adjust his follow through in some fashion.

For the sake of argument, bases loaded, 3-2 count, a left hand hitter might be looking for a strike pitch low and down the middle. The pitcher decides to throw an elevated letter high strike. That split second the batter should be able to adjust his "(2) follow through [arms moving forward to end the swing motion]" to either foul off the pitch or remarkably to get a hit.

Just because you mentally commit to a location and start your leg kick {i.e. pressing the controller's swing button} doesn't mean you shouldn't be able to adjust your swing follow through.

Foul balls. Currently the game does it automatically for you. But a 10 pitch foul ball at bat in real life baseball certainly requires the batter to have the ability to "adjust" his swing follow through after he mentally commits to a certain swing location.

[ajblithe20]

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Just finished watching the stream. While there weren't any super WOW moments to me, everything they talked about and some things I saw in the gameplay are really cool. I cannot wait for March 31... going to spend so much time playing MLB 15 this year

[cubby blue]

"DD has always had separate pitching and hitting sliders (est 2014). You can be a crappy pitcher and a great hitter and vice versa. Rookie+ pitching and HoF++ batting or whatever combination.

This new feature just means you can stay at whatever level you want on both sides of the game."

OMG, I didn't even know about this. This is great if you're tweener not quite good enough to play hof or all-star. Man I got to start paying attention more. I've been playing this game off and on since it came out.

[geisterhome]

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amazing what they did with the grass and dirt textures, that's true next gen

[adh5199]

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amazing what they did with the grass and dirt textures, that's true next gen

hmmmm, sarcasm???

[DKTF]

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Man so much info. I don't know if I will use the new directional hitting but interesting how the carma shifts kind of a risk reward thing. I wonder if you can turn off the yellow thing that shows where you are aimen? There are now 2 sliders to adjust dynamic difficulty one for how fast it will adjust and one where you can lock in so that the dynamic difficulty will stay at like all star +. Man these guys think of everything! I wonder if you can just select difficulty's like all star + to start with? Interesting how they can make the game do createn things on the fly to test things or to show things off. We now have sliders for errros on both outfield and infield hope fully that means we have seperact sliders for CPU and USER now when It comes to fielding. That infield glover flip toward the end was just sick! If I am not mistaken they said that now analog hitting doesn't require you to time pulling back with the pitcher thing. If that is true that is sick because I never did analog just because I fell like it was to hard to time that plus beable to time the swing and to beable to use the left stick has while for zone plus analog hitting. If I can do zone plus analog but not have to time the pull back then I may beable to do zone plus analog for once.

[DKTF]

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Oh also I noticed while pitching there was this red looking thing on the screen. It looked different then any of the pitching modes in the past. Was that the new pitching meter that is supposed to be harder and less forgiving or what?

[DKTF]

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I preordered mine from target for $39.99.

Ps3 version is 39.99 not ps4

[MrOldboy]

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Lots of great stuff in this stream that at least shows the team is addressing many of the concerns fans have had. Some really minor ones even.

The pitchers starting on 1-1 is fantastic as I when QC's were announced the first thing people starting asking about as what about bunts. I still wish they would have added in a middle ground, where all counts are in randomly including 0-0. It wouldn't speed up the game as much, but it would be faster than starting every count at 0-0 and for someone like me it would be a happy medium.

Nice to see Wrigley renovations in there, couldn't tell how accurate they are to the renderings, but if they have the advertisements and video boards I'll be very happy. Hard to tell if they finally fixed the basket, it's always been gigantic compared to actual wrigley field.

The imperfect outfield routes sound like they address a lot of issues people have had with every outfielder being able to make almost every play, but I honestly only saw a few variations in the stream. The one Puig mis-step was great to see, but watching Joc line up perfectly to where the ball will ricochet or reaching up repeatedly to snag a ball off the wall made it seem like only a slight change from past years.

Some of the odd AI animation choices are still there like barehanding at 2nd on double plays when there seems to be enough time to turn it normally. Similar to last year I hope that the glove flip does not become like the helmet falling off of sliding baserunners and occur at a high rate. But it is great that these animations are in there, they just need to be used in the right situations.

Overall game looks great as it did last year, some of the improvements I personally want to see are not really in the core gameplay, but more to the underlying graphics engine (player body types, etc) and the AI in franchise/RTTS modes. But they are recognizing where the game can improve and being honest about faults the game has had in the past which I appreciate. It's a piece of software, it will never be perfect, but you can improve it with each iteration.

Also, can you use directional hitting with zone? If not that would be really disappointing. They made it seem like it was just a change to timing hitting.

[DKTF]

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I cant believe nobody is talking about the new Dynamic Difficulty. Now we can set the speed at how fast or slow we want it to change and adapt. Then when we feel it is perfect we can set it to 0 and it wont change anymore.

For me this is a huge thing and a serious game changer. No chasing sliders, no having a bad day and having everything change. Now I can get it right where I want it Veteran ++ for pitching and All Star +++ for hitting or whatever and then set it so it will just stay there forever!!!!!

Dream come true, for me anyway.

agree I wonder if you can just set it to like all star + to begin with or do you still have to start at like rockiy vetrian.