MLB The Show 18 Gameplay Video - New Features (Astros vs. Yankees)

[BDrizz]

Re: Gamespot:First Look Gameplay And New Features

Watched both vids, couple quick things I noticed:
- Judge was wearing new Under Armor cleats
- Altuve was wearing new New Balance cleats
- Correa was wearing new Adidas cleats
- Springer was wearing new Nike Batting gloves and what appeared to be a camo pattern on the trim? Anyone comfirm?
- Sanchez was wearing new Nike Cleats
- Bregman was wearing Marucci batting gloves
- They added the Face Masks. This is cool
- The new batting camera and presentation package looked smooth.
- Hitting overall looks less mechanical and much smoother.
- The new hit ball indicator trail was cool
- The bat overlay on the hit chart is a cool idea. Shows where your bat was in the swing versus where the ball was. Could be a cool tool.
- Bodies and faces looked much better. These were shown on PS4 Pro so I am curious how the game plays/looks on standard PS4...

[bcruise]

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I'm I the only one here who really would like the batter coming to the plate overlays to show the batters fielding Position example 3B,LF instead of whether the batter bats left or right example L,R?

Also I like that they made the MLB Network Scorebug more accurate.

And they even made the Home Run Overlays unique for MLB network compared to the other broadcasts presentations

So, fun fact here. Last year's MLBN scorebug was a dead ringer for the actual one in 2016 aside from having a graphical B/S count instead of numbers.... BEFORE they completely revamped it for the '17 season. So, there's no guarantee MLBN won't come up with a new one again here in '18, and we'll have an "outdated" one once again. Not a whole lot Sony SD can do about that.

[tnixen]

Re: Gamespot:First Look Gameplay And New Features

So, fun fact here. Last year's MLBN scorebug was a dead ringer for the actual one in 2016 aside from having a graphical B/S count instead of numbers.... BEFORE they completely revamped it for the '17 season. So, there's no guarantee MLBN won't come up with a new one again here in '18, and we'll have an "outdated" one once again. Not a whole lot Sony SD can do about that.

Yep that's a real possibility.

Not sure why the MLB Network can't just give Sony a heads up on any changes they may have made though for the upcoming season?

[tnixen]

Re: Gamespot:First Look Gameplay And New Features

So, fun fact here. Last year's MLBN scorebug was a dead ringer for the actual one in 2016 aside from having a graphical B/S count instead of numbers.... BEFORE they completely revamped it for the '17 season. So, there's no guarantee MLBN won't come up with a new one again here in '18, and we'll have an "outdated" one once again. Not a whole lot Sony SD can do about that.

Here is MLB Network 2017 game presentation.

And the batter coming to the plate overlays in fact do have the batters fielding Position on them. So not sure why Sony does not change this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zb-9d9QGCz4&t=997s

[Factzzz]

Re: Gamespot:First Look Gameplay And New Features

Seeing a lot of generic batting gloves, most likely because it's an early build but hopefully the game doesn't ship like that.

And hopefully this is finally the year we can edit logo color on equipment.

And i was hoping to see this elbow guard on Stanton, as many players started wearing it last year.


It's very likely that not all new equipment has been implemented for these builds anyways.

[jpup]

Re: Gamespot:First Look Gameplay And New Features

Would give anything if they would update umpires uniforms to current. Such an easy thing to fix.


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[Impetuous65]

Re: Gamespot:First Look Gameplay And New Features

I know the game will be good, that to me is a given. I respect the pedigree of SDS.

1. Will we finally get the in depth on the D-Pad Batter/Pitcher Analysis back to where it once was, instead of in the pause menu

2. Will they Make Quirks situational to reduce the amount of info you have to take in. I should not have to read war and peace to find out what is the quirk for this situation. Less is more.

And, why in the hell are they acting like fast replay is something to even mention? Sometimes a talking point, is a balking point, So Ramone killed that noise about a fast replay.

[Bunselpower32]

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This is so small, but the second play of the game when Hicks got the ball back in, it looked like a new animation instead of the pausing that tended to happen sometimes. That particular situation happens so many times during a game having some smoothness will really help keep the immersion.

He also says pinpointing pitches is harder. I love to hear that. If I can play on analog and actually give up walks that would be huge.

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[WaitTilNextYear]

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I love that part of Ramone's script (it seems like he's working loosely from a script comparing similar statements he made in both the Gamespot and IGN videos) about how they all got in a room from 3:30 to 5:00 PM and played the game focusing on hitting. He went on to mention they gave feedback about if they were getting enough singles/doubles etc...which begs the question, were they not doing this before? lol. Seems like pretty basic QA/QC to test that. Maybe he meant to say that they expanded the number of testers this year to include his department and it just came off like they suddenly had the idea to test the hitting in the game in a systematic way for the first time? This is pretty much slider-making 101.

[nemesis04]

Re: Gamespot:First Look Gameplay And New Features

I love that part of Ramone's script (it seems like he's working loosely from a script comparing similar statements he made in both the Gamespot and IGN videos) about how they all got in a room from 3:30 to 5:00 PM and played the game focusing on hitting. He went on to mention they gave feedback about if they were getting enough singles/doubles etc...which begs the question, were they not doing this before? lol. Seems like pretty basic QA/QC to test that. Maybe he meant to say that they expanded the number of testers this year to include his department and it just came off like they suddenly had the idea to test the hitting in the game in a systematic way for the first time? This is pretty much slider-making 101.

They always test it but I think they are giving it extra attention because it went off the rails in 17 and there was a lot of backlash.

[WaitTilNextYear]

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They always test it but I think they are giving it extra attention because it went off the rails in 17 and there was a lot of backlash.

Fair enough. Everyone in the office jamming on the sticks from 3:30 - 5:00 for 3 or 4 months straight might be a bit more intensive than their normal testing process. That's probably what he meant.

[bcruise]

Re: Gamespot:First Look Gameplay And New Features

Fair enough. Everyone in the office jamming on the sticks from 3:30 - 5:00 for 3 or 4 months straight might be a bit more intensive than their normal testing process. That's probably what he meant.

Plus there's the alpha test to consider too. They got A LOT of feedback on the hitting this cycle that they haven't before.

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[Bunselpower32]

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Plus there's the alpha test to consider too. They got A LOT of feedback on the hitting this cycle that they haven't before.

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I would think they have to keep that up. A mass test like that would be too valuable for a team that has limited time.

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[OUSOONERS#1]

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Plus there's the alpha test to consider too. They got A LOT of feedback on the hitting this cycle that they haven't before.

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Hitting in the Alpha sucked so they had better have it tuned before launch day otherwise you think there was backlash last year it was alot worse in the Alpha test ..

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[Aggies7]

Re: MLB The Show 18 Gameplay Video - New Features (Astros vs. Yankees)

Wouldn’t mind seeing rain delays where you have to change pitchers. I can’t imagine we see rainouts or double headers.


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