MLB the Show 18 Wishlist: PLUS Things they should PATCH for MLB 17

[dran1984]

Re: MLB the Show 18 Wishlist: PLUS Things they should PATCH for MLB 17

- Make Managers and Coaches editable.
- Add Bench Coaches and remove farm director from coaching staff
- Contract Extensions
-Improve Spring Training
- spring training invites and ability to use your whole organization
- make the cpu substitutions realistic
- Double Headers
-Relocation or Expansion

[gigemaggs99]

Re: MLB the Show 18 Wishlist: PLUS Things they should PATCH for MLB 17

Can they PLEASE make it play the entire "Take Me Out To The Ballgame" song in the middle of the 7th inning? If you want to skip it, press X or something simple but I would really REALLY like if they played the entire song.

It's one of the core things about going to the ball park, needs to be in the game.

[Ghoste]

Re: MLB the Show 18 Wishlist: PLUS Things they should PATCH for MLB 17

Couple of really minor changes to DD.

When buying cards from the market, have the 'Buy Now' selection as the second option so you don't accidentally X through and buy a card. Or have a YES/NO verification but defaulted to NO. A few times I've bought cards when I really just wanted to make offer sheets.

On some screens, the overall ratings are covering the part of the card that shows if they are Rookies, Breakouts, Veterans, All-Stars, etc.

When exchanging cards for missions, sometimes their exchange value is covered by a logo I think (Events logo maybe??)

Again, super small stuff.

-ghoste

[Chad0034]

Re: MLB the Show 18 Wishlist: PLUS Things they should PATCH for MLB 17

Being almost a strictly franchise gamer, here is a few things I'd love to see

-HISTORICAL CRITICAL MOMENTS. My main one I'd love to see that I think would change franchise mode experience for lots of players. Now that critical moments are in the game, I would LOVE to see an ability to play super rare historical critical moments for every team in the franchise. When a player is nearing 500, 600, 700 homeruns, 3000 hits, a strikeout record, etc. This makes the entire franchise feel more genuine, and gives you a reason to go checkout another team for a game or two rather than just roll with yours the entire time.


-One of my other main things is the feel of the end of games. They should mix it up and have more than just one ending presentation. The player of the game card thing is outplayed and old, and you'd never really see that in real game. Just a nice highlight combo package would be great, similar to what 2K does, and have it fade to black, and then bring up the screen where you can go box scores, etc. In the playoffs, this should be totally different. For example after winning a world series you see the dramatic cut scene, and then it goes right to a player of the game card animation with the announcer in a very monotone voice. Just feel like with baseball you have so many games, so you see so many endings.

-Ability to see how each player has done against the starting pitcher you are facing in the lineup editor screen. This puts you more into the managerial position to maybe put in a guy on the bench who has crushed this pitcher in the past, and give someone who has struggled a day off.

-ATMOSPHERE. This is one of the things I think is lacking in the game. Way more dugout interaction, celebrations not just for homeruns. Just making the game feel true to the sport, and making the players more life like with their emotions.

-4 to 6 pitcher rotations. Should be an easy thing to code. You literally just select what style you want to run in pitching rotation menu, and it translates to the played game pitcher selection screen and sim.

-Curtain calls, when a starter goes deep into the game, does a great job, and is removed...Having the crowd give a standing applause as he walks to the dugout. Maybe tips his cap. Those are the moments that make you feel the game is real.

-I always loved what NCAA Football did with recruiting, making it a mini-game in itself. Doing something fun with Free Agency would be nice to see. Ability to persuade a free agent, pitch your city, franchise, etc. More than just offering a deal and seeing a meter at the top of the screen. They have all of the morale features, why not use them a little more and have some fun with it?

-Face guards on batting helmet. This is becoming more and more common in the MLB, and to keep the game up to date with the real life sport, I think this needs to be added. I don't imagine it being too difficult.

-I always loved in High Heat Baseball how a random rainout would come into play forcing a double header. This would be one of those fun little things franchise players get excited about.

-I know a lot of guys have been begging for an update to online franchise. If it is updated, I feel like this is a mode I would play a lot with my friends.

-Rotating interleague schedules. This is something a lot of the longer term franchise players have been asking for.

-The loading screen before a game. Adding more to this, maybe spotlight matchup or a pick to click type of deal. (A hitter who has crushed a pitcher before).

-Better AI Roster Management. Call ups/downs, lineups, etc.

-If you won a world series last year, on your home opener, have a big cut scene celebration. This is done in NHL.

-Making the post season feel much larger. The towels are a great start. Now find other ways to reward us for playing a full season. Maybe new scorebug?

-Love in NBA 2K when you are in a certain part of the year (Halloween, Christmas, Thanksgiving), having the game feel as if it was played during that time. I love the pink gear on mothers day, the blue on fathers day, etc. Maybe go further with some baseball holidays (July 4th, etc).

-Ability to see holidays on the calendar. (Mothers Day, Fathers Day, July 4th, Memorial Day). The game already does some fun uniforms and such during these days, so it'd be fun to even have a tiny asterisk letting us know, so we don't sim over it.

-During the first month of the year, when you face an opponent in the first game of the series, showing their key losses/additions from last year would be cool. Having announcers talk about it for a sec. That could be a cool moment.

-Catcher snap throws back to the bag // Catcher Relevance overall. I feel like its becoming a little more common for catchers with rocket arms such as Yadier Molina(more so back in the day), Wilson Contreras types to fire back at the bag. As of now I've never seen it in the game, at least not done when you can even get someone close. The catcher is an extremely important defensive position, would love to make that more important when playing the game.

[countryboy]

Re: MLB the Show 18 Wishlist: PLUS Things they should PATCH for MLB 17

-I always loved what NCAA Football did with recruiting, making it a mini-game in itself. Doing something fun with Free Agency would be nice to see. Ability to persuade a free agent, pitch your city, franchise, etc. More than just offering a deal and seeing a meter at the top of the screen. They have all of the morale features, why not use them a little more and have some fun with it?

I really like this idea.

[Geolink]

Re: MLB the Show 18 Wishlist: PLUS Things they should PATCH for MLB 17

Here's hoping they fix player heights in cutscenes. It's been like this for years every time there's a tall player (ex: Aaron Judge) in any cutscene he automatically turns into a short guy meanwhile his head/helmet stay the same size. It's really odd and kills the immersion.

Hopefully since Judge is on the cover and did some mocap, they addressed this long time issue.

[Herschie]

Re: MLB the Show 18 Wishlist: PLUS Things they should PATCH for MLB 17

I wouldn't mind real advertisements, as long as they're not intrusive. Like Budweiser is crap beer, but they advertise in so many stadiums. Or Pepsi. I mean, if it means more money for SDS, and thus more resources, and a better game, then yeah. As long as they utilize it like a real game does, not a 30 second commercial popping up, but rather the Pepsi Starting Lineup, or the Budweiser Play of the Game.

I know this is a slippery slope though. Now if they got Torco Oil, I would pay 90 bucks for this game!

[bcruise]

Re: MLB the Show 18 Wishlist: PLUS Things they should PATCH for MLB 17

I wouldn't mind real advertisements, as long as they're not intrusive. Like Budweiser is crap beer, but they advertise in so many stadiums. Or Pepsi. I mean, if it means more money for SDS, and thus more resources, and a better game, then yeah. As long as they utilize it like a real game does, not a 30 second commercial popping up, but rather the Pepsi Starting Lineup, or the Budweiser Play of the Game.

I know this is a slippery slope though. Now if they got Torco Oil, I would pay 90 bucks for this game!

I'm pretty sure it's the other way around - that SCEA has to pay the companies to use their trademarks. That's why we have a dalmatian instead of a Chick Fil A cow, for example.

It's money going out of SCEA SD, not money coming in.

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[TheWarmWind]

Re: MLB the Show 18 Wishlist: PLUS Things they should PATCH for MLB 17

I'm pretty sure it's the other way around - that SCEA has to pay the companies to use their trademarks. That's why we have a dalmatian instead of a Chick Fil A cow, for example.

It's money going out of SCEA SD, not money coming in.

This is the truth, even though it is kind of dumb. What a missed opportunity. Odds are SDS would be willing to put it in for free considering they have to do the work to make a suitable placeholder.

Who doesn't want free advertising? MLB stadiums should just say that by putting advertisements in their stadiums, advertisers are also willing to show the advertisement in licensed video games, which themselves are held up to the high standards of the MLB (there is a reason why fighting isn't in the game).

Any company that has any sense would shrug their shoulders. I mean, free advertising. Plus no risk of tainting your brand by associating it with any form of violence.

[Herschie]

Re: MLB the Show 18 Wishlist: PLUS Things they should PATCH for MLB 17

Oh well. Pay Torco, get that sign!

[RedKing19]

Re: MLB the Show 18 Wishlist: PLUS Things they should PATCH for MLB 17

Something I've wanted for a long time is the addition of being able to sign players to minor league deals for spring training in Franchise Mode. It would add a realistic aspect to the game I think.

[TheWarmWind]

Re: MLB the Show 18 Wishlist: PLUS Things they should PATCH for MLB 17

Kind of an odd wish, but I recently turned off commentary because it was distracting me too much when batting or pitching. (Plus Dan was getting under my skin a little. "That pitch was right down the middle, I don't know what he was waiting for!" Meanwhile pitch was right on the low outside corner. I shout expletives at Dan)

I do miss the commentary for the other sections of the game though. I wish we could change the audio profile for different situations, so I could get my custom "on the field" sound profile while pitching or hitting, but get a traditional broadcast audio profile for cutscenes, and maybe even while the ball was in play.

[tabarnes19_SDS]

Re: MLB the Show 18 Wishlist: PLUS Things they should PATCH for MLB 17

Hope they add 6 man rotations as an option. It is starting to look like a few teams are going to use them this year. Angels and possibly Yankees to name 2.

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[Scooter3]

Re: MLB the Show 18 Wishlist: PLUS Things they should PATCH for MLB 17

I'm into my second season in franchise for 2017 and for some reason they are not announcing what number home run a player hits for the season.
Please fix.

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[Scooter3]

Re: MLB the Show 18 Wishlist: PLUS Things they should PATCH for MLB 17

I feel I'm easy to please there's one thing I would really like fixed in 2018 and that's the number problem that has been lingering for decades.
It's simple when I create a player I want that historic player to be wearing his correct number on his back.
This simple request would mean the world to me.
Thanks

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