MLB The Show 16 Has Officially Arrived, Post Your Impressions Here

[steelerfan]

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I had 2 such doubles go over the left fielder's head in a 3-game series with Arizona a few days ago. Both times the LF took a step forward and then tried to recover.

[Beatles]

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I despise those modes too. High five bro!

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[SoxFan01605]

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I've seen more down the line doubles this year than in the past but there's merit to what you're saying.

I am not sure if the parks are too small, or the ball gets to the outfield too fast or if the OF's are too quick to the ball. Hell, it might be a combination of all of those. I believe it's better than its been but i also think you're on the money here.

I did have the holy grail of doubles last night. A ball directly over the OF's head that bounced off the base of the wall. That's the type of double that for me at least has been truly rare over the years.

I think the two main culprits are OF speed/reaction time and ball friction. Through the IF the bounce and spin seems to have improved again, but when the ball hits the grass (especially down the line, it feels like) it dies like every park is soaked through.

That said, overall double chance and variety seems better for 16. Like you're example, the ball over OF's head is far more likely this year. I've also noticed more extra base hits due to misplayed routes or over-aggressive play by the AI, which has been nice to see.

[Armor and Sword]

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The hit variety I am seeing this year has been amazing. Doubles that have gone down the line and then into the corner. Doubles launched over OF's heads who made bad reads, Doubles off the wall as well as triples.

It's been so damn good.

[Dirty Turtles]

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Now that the rosters are out, we finally got to start our online franchise. First game I've played all year on default settings and I throw a no-hitter with Cole against the Reds. First time I've ever thrown a no-no in a baseball game (without cheating). We'll see how the next few games go before I decide if it was just luck, or if I need to turn the sliders up.

[Bunselpower32]

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well, everyone is making me feel like a dummy, it must be me then!



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So I changed to zone hitting, and instantly, the hit variety is better. I’m actually catching on pretty quickly, it took me a long time to start turning positive batting practice scores when learning directional last year, but I’m already getting into bronze territory with zone after a few hours. I’ve already had several pokes through the hole with Piscotty (the best!), and he’s peppered the gap a few times, and has shaken it up with several different looking weak pop ups and grounders (something I didn’t see at all before), and hey, I even got a few flare hits, something I hadn’t seen. Amazing improvement.

So yeah, long story short, directional hitting has the worst hit variety apparently.

I also agree with doubles to the corner guy. Prince fielder cannot get a double on those, and a good runner like Piscotty gets thrown out quite a bit. It’s like some element of the the game speed doesn’t fit. Fielder speed, arm strength, something isn’t adding up quite right.

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[sdatkins]

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So I changed to zone hitting, and instantly, the hit variety is better. I’m actually catching on pretty quickly, it took me a long time to start turning positive batting practice scores when learning directional last year, but I’m already getting into bronze territory with zone after a few hours. I’ve already had several pokes through the hole with Piscotty (the best!), and he’s peppered the gap a few times, and has shaken it up with several different looking weak pop ups and grounders (something I didn’t see at all before), and hey, I even got a few flare hits, something I hadn’t seen. Amazing improvement.

So yeah, long story short, directional hitting has the worst hit variety apparently.

I also agree with doubles to the corner guy. Prince fielder cannot get a double on those, and a good runner like Piscotty gets thrown out quite a bit. It’s like some element of the the game speed doesn’t fit. Fielder speed, arm strength, something isn’t adding up quite right.

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I agree. Last year was my first year after switching from XBone to PS4 and I loved directional hitting. This year directional hitting did not work for me at all and I just switched to zone hitting last night and immediately saw more hit variety and had much more hard contact. To me directional hitting seems off compared to last year. Last year I crushed fastballs in the upper half of the zone and this year they all seemed to be pop ups and flyballs once I got past rookie difficulty on dynamic difficulty. Zone hitting allows me to hit the ball where it is pitched this year.

[Bunselpower32]

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I agree. Last year was my first year after switching from XBone to PS4 and I loved directional hitting. This year directional hitting did not work for me at all and I just switched to zone hitting last night and immediately saw more hit variety and had much more hard contact. To me directional hitting seems off compared to last year. Last year I crushed fastballs in the upper half of the zone and this year they all seemed to be pop ups and flyballs once I got past rookie difficulty on dynamic difficulty. Zone hitting allows me to hit the ball where it is pitched this year.

It’s funny, aside from your bit about the pop ups, which is absolutely true, the reason I like zone so much is because it produces less hard contact. Or should I say, hard contact seems to matter more. Before, over an out an inning was coming on screaming liners. I was blistering almost everything. but the variation of zone has really loosened that, and the hard ones I hit now seem to find the holes more.

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[sdatkins]

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It’s funny, aside from your bit about the pop ups, which is absolutely true, the reason I like zone so much is because it produces less hard contact. Or should I say, hard contact seems to matter more. Before, over an out an inning was coming on screaming liners. I was blistering almost everything. but the variation of zone has really loosened that, and the hard ones I hit now seem to find the holes more.

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Maybe it's because it is so different from last year that it just seems directional hitting doesn't seem to be giving me the results that I got last year and that is why I feel zone hitting is better this year. I do agree I hit a lot of line outs and deepish fly outs with directional. With zone I have hit a lot more line drives in front of outfielders and hard ground balls through the infield, which probably gives me the allusion that I am hitting better when maybe really I am not, but the results are a lot better!

[MythicalGnome]

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Usually the best way to continue pleasing the group you've pleased is by not removing the things they are pleased with.

I understand there is a lot that goes into these things. And I don't mean to be argumentive as a way to shower disappointment.

It's just that you all already had this niche group very happy. And you had the press button group happy too.

Not sure I understand how creating a feature meant to show everything could warrant needing changes to please those that don't want to see everything when they already have a separate feature for that.

If what you're saying is, "we didn't have the resources to make the content to fill the space we normally skip through" then I definitely understand. Sucks but I understand. I imagine creating content most will skip through is not easy to have.

I agree. I want immersion back not taken away from me. Give us options. The Show was doing so well with the sim options. I skipped them sometimes, but I also watched them a lot.

[Stolm]

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I agree. I want immersion back not taken away from me. Give us options. The Show was doing so well with the sim options. I skipped them sometimes, but I also watched them a lot.

Honestly they should just bring back that Real-Time Presentation option. For those that want to experience all apsects of a game, they are able to, and I am sure a lot of the devs would be happy their work is actually being seen.

[spitoon]

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I agree. I want immersion back not taken away from me. Give us options. The Show was doing so well with the sim options. I skipped them sometimes, but I also watched them a lot.

I agree with leaving the options in...they had always done that in the past. I guess they must be running into "space limitations"?

How about they remove the silly little sequences that occur when you leave the game alone for a while? I don't really care if the center fielder wants to do pushups or the umpire strums the bat like a guitar...save the space for something that matters.

[geisterhome]

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I agree with leaving the options in...they had always done that in the past. I guess they must be running into "space limitations"?

How about they remove the silly little sequences that occur when you leave the game alone for a while? I don't really care if the center fielder wants to do pushups or the umpire strums the bat like a guitar...save the space for something that matters.

Really think space isn't an issue, I have no idea where this idea that there a space limitations coming from.

Agree on that sequences though, I even find them slightly annoying, like then don't fit into a serious sim and take me out of the immersion even sometimes.
Other thing is the need of the devs to present themselves in game all the time, don't mind having them as spectators but why do they need to be shown so often and only them...

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[Stolm]

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Most of these scenes and animations are still in the game, they just have it programmed to skip through them.

I have heard the devs bring up space limitations before. One example was brought up when talking about the size of the jerseys and how they are unable to have players wear their owns jerseys in the All-Star game because of how gigantic the jersey files are.

Honestly that sounds like some extreme inefficiency.

[WhiteBunny]

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Most of these scenes and animations are still in the game, they just have it programmed to skip through them.

I have heard the devs bring up space limitations before. One example was brought up when talking about the size of the jerseys and how they are unable to have players wear their owns jerseys in the All-Star game because of how gigantic the jersey files are.

Honestly that sounds like some extreme inefficiency.

Space limitation is a pretty common problem, especially if you're using an old engine. It's not the console hardware, but in-engine limitations. There are slots for everything: teams, animations, sounds, etc... . And obviously, adding or removing things can be easy/difficult depending on the engine specs. I have no details, but probably SCEA use its own engine and only SCEA knows its own limits. This engine was build specifically for PS3, which was a strange and unique creature while PS4 and XBoxOne are pretty much like a PC. You can use a NASA PC but if the engine set a counter to 100 for teams, the counter will be 100 even if your hardware can land a space station on Mars. It's a software problem. And if the software is an old one, you'll have more problems.
Honestly, brodcasting issues are a different beast. Animations are still there, they simply cut down their lenght for whatever reason or because telemetry or maybe they think baseball should be faster.