MLB 17 Feature Wishes?

[KBLover]

Re: MLB 17 Feature Wishes?

While it's a good idea, if we're talking about franchise here, it wouldn't make much sense if the players stats in-game didn't match his real-life stats. Unless I'm missing the point.

Say a player in your franchise is batting .240 at the all star break and has dropped 2 points overall, while the same player in real life is batting .320 and SCEA has raised their overall by 2 points. If you import the updated rating into your franchise, it'll show his real-life overall gain despite a significant decline in performance in-game, so you're basically negating everything the in-game player has done up to that point.

I could see it being useful if the player didn't exist in the roster file before. Say you started with SCEA roster and they make a player and you want to bring him in. That guy would not have existed so there's no overwriting.

But even in the scenario you describe, as long as the user is aware of that (make sure to give a "you will overwrite the existing player" warning) then that might be fine, especially if the ratings are very different (say the user tried to create the guy himself but then the "official" created player comes out and he's very much different).

Maybe for folks who wait for OSFM, it might not be as impacting, especially if it's mostly prospects making it to the majors or guys like that who are not in the stock roster, but for those who just start with SCEA rosters, it could be useful even for an in-progress franchise.

[bigd51]

Re: MLB 17 Feature Wishes?

I could see it being useful if the player didn't exist in the roster file before. Say you started with SCEA roster and they make a player and you want to bring him in. That guy would not have existed so there's no overwriting.

But even in the scenario you describe, as long as the user is aware of that (make sure to give a "you will overwrite the existing player" warning) then that might be fine, especially if the ratings are very different (say the user tried to create the guy himself but then the "official" created player comes out and he's very much different).

Maybe for folks who wait for OSFM, it might not be as impacting, especially if it's mostly prospects making it to the majors or guys like that who are not in the stock roster, but for those who just start with SCEA rosters, it could be useful even for an in-progress franchise.

Okay, I think I understand what you meant. Guys like Dansby Swanson (Braves), who are represented as fictional characters because SCEA hasn't "made them official" yet?

If so, you have a good point. To counter my scenario, they could even make it an offseason only or spring training only option so you can't overwrite them in-season as to not manipulate in-season stats for the player or the team. Similar to how Madden use to handle importing NCAA draft classes in the offseason.

[tonybologna]

Re: MLB 17 Feature Wishes?

I could see it being useful if the player didn't exist in the roster file before. Say you started with SCEA roster and they make a player and you want to bring him in. That guy would not have existed so there's no overwriting.

But even in the scenario you describe, as long as the user is aware of that (make sure to give a "you will overwrite the existing player" warning) then that might be fine, especially if the ratings are very different (say the user tried to create the guy himself but then the "official" created player comes out and he's very much different).

Maybe for folks who wait for OSFM, it might not be as impacting, especially if it's mostly prospects making it to the majors or guys like that who are not in the stock roster, but for those who just start with SCEA rosters, it could be useful even for an in-progress franchise.

That's what I was basically getting at. Sorry I didn't explain to you guys a bit better. Thanks!

[mrCPUgeek]

Re: MLB 17 Feature Wishes?

One more thing I would like to see is the ability in fast play to choose to see the home run cut scenes and replay. That is really the one that makes fast play not as fun(to me, at least). Don't get me wrong, I like the other cut scenes too, but the home run is the one I just can't live without when trying to save time getting a game in.


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[KBLover]

Re: MLB 17 Feature Wishes?

Not sure if it's been mentioned, but a runner window for 2B when hitting from a behind-the-pitcher view (and when pitching from that view as well, actually).

I never know what kind of lead my runner or the CPU runner has.

[countryboy]

Re: MLB 17 Feature Wishes?

Not sure if it's been mentioned, but a runner window for 2B when hitting from a behind-the-pitcher view (and when pitching from that view as well, actually).

I never know what kind of lead my runner or the CPU runner has.

When pitching from behind the pitcher, press down on the D-Pad to see the lead the runner has at 2nd base.

I'm not sure if this works when hitting from this view as well.

[KBLover]

Re: MLB 17 Feature Wishes?

I'm not sure if this works when hitting from this view as well.

Unfortunately, no. It makes the hitter step out of the box.

[countryboy]

Re: MLB 17 Feature Wishes?

Unfortunately, no. It makes the hitter step out of the box.

Yeah, I was afraid that it wouldn't work when hitting. A baserunning window would be nice for those that hit from this view.

[Bunselpower32]

Re: MLB 17 Feature Wishes?

Here's a few more

Said this one before, but a steal indicator other than counting on the announcers to clue you in.

Pick off rating, base running awareness rating, call game rating for catchers, just more ratings. There’s too much that’s homogeneous for all players in this game. Add more ratings.

Physics rebuild. The game plays like a ps3 game. I think I said this one too, but it bears repeating.

Better ai with a good runner on base. They sit there and throw over every time you get a lead, and sometimes without one. It basically amounts to cheesing because the guy will get picked off because of the random factor involved, and the ball is never thrown away. Make it almost impossible for a better runner to be picked off once he’s seen the pitchers move. Any move. Dummy included.

Oh yeah, better animation transitions. There are bad animations too, but the worst thing is the stringing of several together. They need to be more fluid.

I’ll say it every time I get the opportunity, gesture pitching. 2k style, or something like that. Some kind of cool differentiation for different pitches.

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[bigd51]

Re: MLB 17 Feature Wishes?

I'd like to see dynamic player ratings in Franchise based on the matchup rating for each game or series, similar to how the Diamond Dynasty ratings work now. Just a better sense of why my players are playing the way they are, in general. Potential and Overall progression seems too random the way they work. I'll have an every day guy batting .180 at the break and see his stats shooting up the board, but have another player declining at a pretty steady pace despite putting up career numbers. I wanna know why these guys are progressing/regressing the way they are so I'll have a better sense on how I'll use them in the future.

Another thing I'd like to see is a first person camera view for batting and fielding. I can't say for sure it'd be something I would use without trying it first, but I think a first person cam similar to 2K Football's first-person cam would be pretty cool to see, complete with sound effects. This would only add to the immersion aspect of RttS, and could also help with seeing pitches better when batting and getting a better read on the ball when playing as an outfielder. You already have the "batter's eye" in the game when batting. Now, just figure out a way to make it playable.

[biggio7]

Re: MLB 17 Feature Wishes?

Not sure how I forgot this one off my longer list but

- The ability to make a player Utility for secondary position. I hate that I can't put what positions I want for a player. This is such a large trend in MLB anymore. It would be nice to bring that back into The Show. It used to be possible on older versions.

[brindlerednoze]

Re: MLB 17 Feature Wishes?

Sorry if it has been previously mentioned...please bring back teamplay just from my friends list alone the show would sell at least 20 more copies...thanks

[theaub]

Re: MLB 17 Feature Wishes?

The one thing that I've always wished was addressed was the fact that there is one single animation for when your team wins the play-in game, DS, CS and Workd Series.... There should be increased levels of joy for each level or at least just have five or six different canned animations for each situation... No hitters, perfect games, walk offs.... They are all the exact same every single time... If you hit a walk off home run in April and in game 5 of the World Series it should be different. It shouldn't be the same exact canned animation.

The one thing that has always bugged me about this game was that the intense moments don't ever feel as intense as they should.

Agree with this.

A lot of animations and scripting are just the exact same from the regular season into the playoffs, which doesn't take into account the extra cameras/coverage etc that playoff games receive. I'll take the HR trot animation. At least to my knowledge, its the same basic cut scenes/etc as it is during the regular season. Watch the random video below. Its not terrible or anything, but at the end of the day just feels like a slightly more important regular season HR.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuyQcebChi4

Now, let's go to the tape

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-JH0oQwVMM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQk9uuPJkEE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1hkrGU2pIg

- more excitable commentary (this admittedly is the most difficult part and is likely too difficult to add in)
- no commentary when the batter is rounding the bases/going into the dugout - just atmosphere
- camera man trails the hitter to home plate and into the dugout (this to me is the most important one if you want a 'realistic' broadcast experience, since its the same for every single HR, no matter what network its on/what the score is etc)
- no replays - I've never seen a canned replay after a HR in the playoffs...because there's more focus on showing the dugouts/atmosphere and then going to the next batter. And in MLBTS, the replays generally kill atmosphere because they remove some of the crowd volume and you get more commentary

Its thing like this that IMO will get the game to the next level realism-wise. Right now the playoffs are just the regular season with a different music package, a field graphic, a different scoreboard bug and a slightly louder crowd with some towels. And I mean those are all good things...but its still missing a lot of the intensity.

[bobzyauncle]

Re: MLB 17 Feature Wishes?

Not sure if it has been mentioned before, but the ability to export stats to an xlsx or csv file format would be useful for working out strategies for your team and would also help comparing your players against their IRL selves.

Would also like to see some graphical stats in game for key things like AVG/OBP/OPS etc

[tonybologna]

Re: MLB 17 Feature Wishes?

Not sure if it has been mentioned before, but the ability to export stats to an xlsx or csv file format would be useful for working out strategies for your team and would also help comparing your players against their IRL selves.

Would also like to see some graphical stats in game for key things like AVG/OBP/OPS etc

What about using that .csv file to actually be able to change things about a player(s) kind of like you can with hex editing? We can do this with Madden roster files so it would be nice indeed. Thanks!