New MLB The Show 18 Road to the show video!

[SandGropeR]

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I hope they fixed Free agency I hate being forced to "try out for a team" in spring training when you get offers from teams you don't want to play for. Instead I'd like to tell my agent which teams I'm interested in the most and he'll come back with their offer. In addition to receiving offers other teams who you might not want to play for but they'll give you more money.

Yep, want to build my pitcher and off to the Cubs I go

[Dolenz]

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As a long time RTTS player I am a little disappointed in the Caps. This is an offline mode that I always considered the arcade mode of the game. As such I am not a fan of having caps on attributes, AT ALL.

I hope they don't hamstring carry over players that may already be above those caps.

I also wonder, if you are new to the show and are not great at hitting whether you will stuck in the minors longer. I think it is the minority who find the minor league toil fun. As the offline arcade mode I think many people just want to make it to their favorite major league team while the team still resembles the team they watch in real life. Not a team that after 3 or 4 seasons has been gutted by the bad trade and retirement logic.

[Bullit]

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Personally I hope they make the journey out of the minors and into the majors much more difficult and involved. I hate jumping right from AA to the bigs all of the time at 18 years old. It just ruins it a bit for me. I purposely don't spend points just to try and make my progression more realistic.

I know this puts me in the minority but I want a more realistic experience not a more arcade like one. I want the grind to feel real, I want to earn and fight to keep that spot on the major league roster. If you want to pick your team and stay there, cool. The game should allow you to do that. But I like hitting the draft and seeing where I end up. I have had some great times playing for teams I would never ever have picked to play on. I have even started a full franchise because I had so much fun with a team in RTTS.

When it is time for free agency, I love the drama. Do you sign with your current team or test the waters? Go for money or the chance to win it all. Long or short contract. What will happen if I wait? I absolutely live for it, so much fun. RTTS and Franchise are where I spend my time. Personally I want them both to be as realistic as possible.

One thing I wish they would add back in though. I loved the monthly updates from the booth while it showed you stretching or warming up on the field. I especially like when it showed you signing balls etc.

[Otis1kanobe]

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Nothing new in the video besides cut scenes. Concerns me a little bit.

[HypoLuxa13]

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Personally I hope they make the journey out of the minors and into the majors much more difficult and involved. I hate jumping right from AA to the bigs all of the time at 18 years old. It just ruins it a bit for me. I purposely don't spend points just to try and make my progression more realistic.

I know this puts me in the minority but I want a more realistic experience not a more arcade like one. I want the grind to feel real, I want to earn and fight to keep that spot on the major league roster. If you want to pick your team and stay there, cool. The game should allow you to do that. But I like hitting the draft and seeing where I end up. I have had some great times playing for teams I would never ever have picked to play on. I have even started a full franchise because I had so much fun with a team in RTTS.

When it is time for free agency, I love the drama. Do you sign with your current team or test the waters? Go for money or the chance to win it all. Long or short contract. What will happen if I wait? I absolutely live for it, so much fun. RTTS and Franchise are where I spend my time. Personally I want them both to be as realistic as possible.

One thing I wish they would add back in though. I loved the monthly updates from the booth while it showed you stretching or warming up on the field. I especially like when it showed you signing balls etc.

I do the same thing in the minors, just train in attributes when I'm approaching that 60 day since last trained point. That gets you up a few points overall each season. And then I'll dump some training points on my player in the off-season to gain a couple more points to my overall rating. I've found that at least gets me 2 or 3 years in the minors.

Regarding free agency, I just wish they would figure out a way to incorporate salary so it actually means something. I usually sign for a team for MUCH less money than offered, simply because it means nothing and maybe that would allow additional money to sign another free agent. Maybe now with the archetypes and attribute caps, salary can be some way of busting beyond them. Maybe more salary allows you to purchase additional upgrades or something, so you actually have incentive to seek a larger contract. I dunno...

[Bullit]

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Nothing new in the video besides cut scenes. Concerns me a little bit.

Did you watch the same video?

Performance based progression
Work out routines to increase skill cap
Actual path development for the type of player you want to be

That is all I caught after watching a 50 second video once. I am sure guys on here saw 50 things I did not.

[Dolenz]

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It will be interesting to see if the changes make progressing up the chain harder and, if so, whether it will affect the overall amount of games played in that mode.


Yes, it may not be realistic for players to advance as quickly as they currently do in RTTS but I still think that the people who have been playing it all of these years don't want to spend 40 hours or more playing in the same fictional stadiums with the fictional minor leaguers.


While they may pick up some new players with the changes, I think it is pretty much guaranteed that they will also lose some who don't enjoy season after season of being a mediocre player in the minor leagues. It may be realistic but this is a game. It is supposed to be fun.

[Speedy]

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The amount of hate in the comment section of that FB vid. [emoji50]

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[Jimmydm90]

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Hopefully I'm still able to break all the records with my RTTS player.

[PhilliesFan13]

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The amount of hate in the comment section of that FB vid. [emoji50]

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Kind of looked like OS this time of year.

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[tfcfan4life]

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I like it!

[Rob_NYY]

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The amount of hate in the comment section of that FB vid. [emoji50]

All of their posts on Facebook have gotten massive heat due to bat flips, focus on DD and recently the removal of online Franchise mode. The last few weeks have been pretty tough PR wise. Hopefully they can turn things around with the RTTS and Franchise streams. The game is too good to be getting so much hate.

[seasprite]

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It will be interesting to see if the changes make progressing up the chain harder and, if so, whether it will affect the overall amount of games played in that mode.


Yes, it may not be realistic for players to advance as quickly as they currently do in RTTS but I still think that the people who have been playing it all of these years don't want to spend 40 hours or more playing in the same fictional stadiums with the fictional minor leaguers.


While they may pick up some new players with the changes, I think it is pretty much guaranteed that they will also lose some who don't enjoy season after season of being a mediocre player in the minor leagues. It may be realistic but this is a game. It is supposed to be fun.

I will disagree with you about people who have played it all these years wanting it to be easier or just as easy as it were to get into the bug leagues. One of the things that people seem to always complain about with RTTS is that it was too easy to advance up. I think this new progression mechanic may make it more of a realistic climb up and one that people, for the most part, wanted. I could be completely wrong with that though lol.

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[Dolenz]

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All of their posts on Facebook have gotten massive heat due to bat flips, focus on DD and recently the removal of online Franchise mode. The last few weeks have been pretty tough PR wise. Hopefully they can turn things around with the RTTS and Franchise streams. The game is too good to be getting so much hate.

I can see RTTS generating some hate. Not from the Op Sports group as they are more the franchise group that prefers realism over just arcade baseball fun. For many RTTS has been the Arcade mode in this game. A place where they can create themselves and play for their favorite team. They are not wanting a huge grind or spending even more time as a mediocre player in the minor leagues.


We might not see quite the backlash though as most of the forums for the show don't have large RTTS communities in spite of it being the mode where the most games get played every year.

[Flaxseed Oil]

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Last year was the first time I really enjoyed RttS. The documentary mode was great.