Drop ball in front of catcher = Auto base advance for CPU?

[Geolink]

Anyone having this happen to them multiple times during a game where the pitch drops in front of the catcher and the animation where they have to get up and get the ball in front of them and the runner on 2nd or 3rd gets an automatic advance like a wild pitch? The runner isn't even the fastest runner yet they get to the base safely every time. It's annoying.

Also the number of WP and passed balls is way too high.

[Aensland]

Re: Drop ball in front of catcher = Auto base advance for CPU?

Yeah, it's a pretty significant problem. IMO a bigger gameplay issue than the inflated home runs because slider adjustments cannot remedy this.

It's currently a big discussion in this thread. http://www.operationsports.com/forum...7-version.html

TBH I'm quite surprised from the lack of discussion on this outside that thread, and perhaps it needs to be addressed as a bug report?

[bcruise]

Re: Drop ball in front of catcher = Auto base advance for CPU?

This isn't just a thing the CPU takes advantage of, FYI - there's more than enough time for the user to get that base too.

Although I think the real problem here is too many wild pitches. Nomo's CPU vs CPU testing is revealing this as one of the larger gameplay issues this year. We wouldn't have as much of an issue with the slower animations if balls weren't getting away from catchers as often as they are.

Unfortunately it's kind of a catch 22 - you can lower WP by turning up the consistency slider, but that hurts BB's which are already pretty good.

[Blzer]

Re: Drop ball in front of catcher = Auto base advance for CPU?

Thread here as well:

http://www.operationsports.com/forum...alls-dirt.html

[jeff257]

Re: Drop ball in front of catcher = Auto base advance for CPU?

I have ran into this several times in my RTTS career. Specifically one particular team with have multiple wild pitches and passed balls. And it happens every game and just about every at bat even when I am batting. I have made it to first multiple times even on strikeouts and managed to go all the way around the bases to score. The CPU also takes good advantage of this.

[My993C2]

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Wild pitches and passed balls do happen fairly frequently in the real world. So I definitely want them to happen in the MLB The Show game. But they are happening too much this year. They need to be toned down a little.

[kaptainkarl76]

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I lost a game last night due to this very issue..It seems that the CPU can track down a wild pitch and fire out the runner in no time..I rarely advance on a wild pitch because I rarely make it..Whereas if I throw a wild pitch the cpu takes every advantage..

[L_Thibs]

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This happens to me at least twice a game on average.

[forme95]

Re: Drop ball in front of catcher = Auto base advance for CPU?

I finally had enough and moved my pitch consistency up to 6. It's just way out of hand, worse then 16 was.

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[My993C2]

Re: Drop ball in front of catcher = Auto base advance for CPU?

I lost a game last night due to this very issue..It seems that the CPU can track down a wild pitch and fire out the runner in no time..I rarely advance on a wild pitch because I rarely make it..Whereas if I throw a wild pitch the cpu takes every advantage..

I am a MoM player and this issue also plagues CPU teams. It's not just human players who are effected.

[underdog13]

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Way Too many 5 hole passed balls. Especially rampant online

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[milldaddy35]

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Yep. I am afraid to throw an 0-2 curveball in the dirt with runners on base, because if it does happen to bounce, the CPU runner will take second with ease -- no matter the runner. Something needs to be done for the catchers to react faster once the ball rolls away, or have the ball not bounce, which would cause the runner to stay put.

[ninertravel]

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There was a time where auto base running where you had manual control over the runners, now for some unkown reason if you have it on auto the CPU decides weather or not to steal or take off (really annoying been picked off a few times because of this) best thing to do is hold R2 and then take your at bat then they can't take off. or hold R1 when catcher drops the ball and the runners stay

one thing that I never see is tagging from 1st base to 2nd. NEVER EVER seen it in a game on any MLB the show game

[BigOscar]

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The computer does seem to know a mistake is going to be made before it even happens. It's happened to me a lot on the ball spinning 2 feet in front of my catcher, but also on outfielders deciding to forget that whole humanity AI thing was added this year. Every now and again they'll go into a stupid casual throw animation and the baserunners will have already taken off and sneaked an extra base while the outfielder slowly lobs the ball back into the infield. It's very odd

[forme95]

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Well the Indians must be dumb lol. Three pitches have rolled in front of the plate in today's game, and the runners haven't moved lol. Ones even rolled up to the grass.

I believe they have pitches in the dirt correct. They need to fine tune it about base runners running and making it a wp.

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