MLB The Show 18 First Impressions

[EnigmaNemesis]

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Overcast and in the 50's at first pitch.

Goodness the fog adds so much to the atmosphere!

[EnigmaNemesis]

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I am really enjoying the weight of the players in the fielding this year! You take one wrong misstep, and you can forget about an 'arcade' recovery. Really makes you work the field on scorched liners or trailing bloop hits! Bravo SDS!

The game is so smooth overall, and I am still on an OG with my 4K set. I can only imagine the Pro!

And those PBR uniforms tho!

[Starkers11]

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Loving it so far. My first MLB game so still learning the ropes but it does a good job of allowing newbies to pick it up easily

[GROGtheNailer]

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Just a quick question, does the game run at a solid 60 fps?

[KnightTemplar]

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A bit disturbing. Playing my 4th game of the season. I’ve scored 7 runs in the 1st inning (a rarity for me) and so far, no mound visit by CPU, or even pitcher pulled (all sliders on default).....let’s make it 8 runs and after a bases loaded walk manager comes out and pulls him. Got all 7 runs before the first out was recorded.

This many runs is quite rare, but seems AI should have jumped in a little earlier.

[Koosa1027]

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A big positive for me has to be CPU fielding on default sliders. It's maybe the first time in the history of the series I don't feel like the CPU is universally godly on defense. Speed doesn't seem absurd, routes taken to the ball don't seem ridiculously perfect, no diving catches everywhere. It's been a huge surprise.

Agreed 100%!! Definitely my favorite change this year, sometimes I'm pleasantly surprised that a fielder misses on a diving catch or even a ball muffed off the glove and I miss out on extra bases because I think like in past years that it's an automatic out lol. They did a great job on balancing the defensive side of the ball this year and I don't remember them mentioning much about it in the streams.

~Koosa1027~

[Koosa1027]

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Ok..the different themes is so dope! Finally figured out how to use it as I'm a SOTS fan

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Really interested in this...do you know anywhere I could go to learn how to setup the different themes for fox and espn, that would be enough to satisfy me.

~Koosa1027~

[wizfan2]

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A bit disturbing. Playing my 4th game of the season. I’ve scored 7 runs in the 1st inning (a rarity for me) and so far, no mound visit by CPU, or even pitcher pulled (all sliders on default).....let’s make it 8 runs and after a bases loaded walk manager comes out and pulls him. Got all 7 runs before the first out was recorded.

This many runs is quite rare, but seems AI should have jumped in a little earlier.

Might have been a bullpen issue, was their pen used in the previous game, their previuos starter might have had a rough outing as well.

[wanzalla13]

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Really interested in this...do you know anywhere I could go to learn how to setup the different themes for fox and espn, that would be enough to satisfy me.

~Koosa1027~

It's actually easier than I first thought. When you go to set up your music snd sounds use L1/R1 on your controller to switch from Theme 1, Theme 2 and MLB Theme. You set your music the same way in each Theme.

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[wanzalla13]

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Might have been a bullpen issue, was their pen used in the previous game, their previuos starter might have had a rough outing as well.

I was thinking the same thing. I've seen in real games where the bullpen is shot, and the mgr would leave the SP in even after getting shelled early just to get some length to spare the bullpen

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[Koosa1027]

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It's actually easier than I first thought. When you go to set up your music snd sounds use L1/R1 on your controller to switch from Theme 1, Theme 2 and MLB Theme. You set your music the same way in each Theme.

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Thanks for the reply...another question, where do I get the music files from? If I wanted the fox broadcast music to play in between innings or whatever, how do I get that specific music??

~Koosa1027~

[wanzalla13]

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Thanks for the reply...another question, where do I get the music files from? If I wanted the fox broadcast music to play in between innings or whatever, how do I get that specific music??

~Koosa1027~

Sounds of the show on this site has tons of clips you can use. There are a lot of cats that put in crazy hours making sounds o share

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[countryboy]

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A bit disturbing. Playing my 4th game of the season. I’ve scored 7 runs in the 1st inning (a rarity for me) and so far, no mound visit by CPU, or even pitcher pulled (all sliders on default).....let’s make it 8 runs and after a bases loaded walk manager comes out and pulls him. Got all 7 runs before the first out was recorded.

This many runs is quite rare, but seems AI should have jumped in a little earlier.

The leaving the starter in that long doesn't bother me too much, but the no mound visit does.

In fact, I don't recall seeing a mound visit at all in the games that I've played thus far.

[philmnn]

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This game seems pretty straight forward on if you should purchase or not depending on your background.

New to the show? Buy it
Love the show already or just have a few little gripes? Buy it
Is the series stale to you? Do not buy
On the fence but baseball is baseball? Wait for sale


There's some good inorivements to gameplay, but if you're desperate for something big to get you back in to the series you're going to be disappointed.

Some positives:
-fielding seems a little more realistic. Outfielders jog to balls and time them instead of sprinting and then waiting for 5 seconds.

-outfielders don't play balls off the wall perfectly

-red on jerseys looks way better

-new strike out animations makes the game not feel so stale



Some negatives:
-Strikeout animations. While also a positive, a lot of them start out looking good and then the batter just throws a tantrum and throws his bat. Who throws their bat striking out with one out in the 5th inning?

-home run celebrations. You add like 20 home run celebrations yet not a SINGLE one is realistic. Im all for the arcadey "it's just a game" animations but at least add ONE realistic one.

-red might look good on jerseys but overall jerseys still just need a major overhaul. Numbers are too low, too thin in both front and back, jersey lettering and logos are just too small in general. And some of the new PBR looks downright bad. Play as the Orioles whites during a day game and you can see how bad the O's orange looks. It's literally brown.

-im not sold on the new attendence logic, in fact I think it makes even less sense than last year. While crowds seem better spaced out in like 80% attendence, it really just seems like there's way too many people at every game.

[actionhank]

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Ten days ago I posted that I wasn’t buying the game. I was frustrated about the lack of additions to franchise and the removal of Season mode. However, I relented and went ahead anyway preordering it shortly before release. I’m glad I did because what I was annoyed about is far exceeded by what I love about the game. Sure, I could have dug my heels in and stopped myself from enjoying what is actually another great edition of the game on the basis of what’s missing but I allowed myself to enjoy it by putting those complaints aside. That was my point, as I’ve already explained in the first follow up post. My complaints were legit as are others posted in this thread, but my rcommendation is not to let a few issues spoil what is otherwise a great game. No game is perfect and if I was waiting for perfection then I’d have no games to play.

That's awesome! I'm glad you're enjoying it. I wish I had the same luck with the NHL series. After 2 years of "Man, I really don't want to buy it..." and then caving in...always ended up angrily quitting the game after a month.