MLB The Show 18 Patch 1.11 Available, Patch Notes Included

[countryboy]

Re: MLB The Show 18 Patch 1.11 Available, Patch Notes Included

For what its worth after 4 innings:

8 runs on 10 hits. 3 homeruns and 2 doubles.

Default Legend with Zone Hitting, PCI off.

Also had Lance Lynn get injured on a line drive off his foot.

[KnightTemplar]

Re: MLB The Show 18 Patch 1.11 Available, Patch Notes Included

I’ve had a problem with pitchers (both cpu and my own-on auto field) snagging anything relatively hard hit up the middle (just to their right/left). All I was seeing was pitchers just stab straight down as the ball made its way into center......until I played 2 games today. Was joyed to see 2 great stabs in both those games. Hope this keeps up.

As a directional hitter-center swing, not seeing anthing different so far, and that’s good for me.

[countryboy]

Re: MLB The Show 18 Patch 1.11 Available, Patch Notes Included

For what its worth after 4 innings:

8 runs on 10 hits. 3 homeruns and 2 doubles.

Default Legend with Zone Hitting, PCI off.

Also had Lance Lynn get injured on a line drive off his foot.

Quoting myself but to provide final stats:

I beat the Phillies 9-3. We combined for 25 hits, 6 homeruns (I had 5) and 2 doubles (all by me)

Now before people become concerned about the patch please know that I faced Severino Gonzalez who isn't the most dominant pitcher and is struggling this year. His ERA was 5+ coming into the game.

Also the game prior I beat the Phillies 8-3 where we hit 3 homeruns, had 3 doubles, and a triple in route to 11 hits. This was on patch 1.10.

So a one game sample but those are the stats. To be quite honest, outside of hitting squared up pitches a bit harder, I didn't notice much difference in hitting. I also didn't notice much difference in terms of double plays. Not saying there wasn't or isn't anything new/improved, just from my one game sample it isn't significant/overdone.

On to the next.

[a bit outside]

Re: MLB The Show 18 Patch 1.11 Available, Patch Notes Included

I just played my first game of 1.11.
I do like the added urgency, I thought it played really well defensively.
As far as hitting.....I will have to play a few more as my timing was horrible....late/early etc. Never could get myself in a good hitters count.
On the mound I had the same issue, terrible timing....missing my mark.
Fredbird was afraid to get on top of the dugout and stayed curled up in the fetal position in the dugout.

Maybe next game.

[NDAlum]

Re: 1.11 Tomorrow, Link to Detailed Patch Notes included

How does one score 11 runs through 5 batters?

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Times to hit aka innings

Sorry I assumed it would be less confusing

[countryboy]

Re: MLB The Show 18 Patch 1.11 Available, Patch Notes Included

2nd game finished.

Beat the Phillies 3-2. We combined for 17 hits but there were only two extra base hits, a double by the Phillies and we had a triple. Lot of seeing eyed and bloop singles in this game. Weird game.

I did notice in this game that balls squared up are hit harder, but I don't see it really causing a big increase in offense. Nice to see hard line drives more often than not on squared up pitches.

[jeffy777]

Re: MLB The Show 18 Patch 1.11 Available, Patch Notes Included

1st franchise game via the patch:

Box Score:

https://imgur.com/a/mJuj6Ux

Won 5-4 with all my scoring combing via the long ball (3 solo shots, and a 2 run blast), but my team is pretty stacked since it's a fantasy draft. The CPU put up a good fight, hitting the ball pretty hard too, yet with a mediocre team. They had a couple of nice slicing doubles down the line, a triple over Harper's head that he tried to dive for and came up empty (auto fielding), in addition to 1 big HR.

Feels good to have the CPU a bit more of a threat on HOF pitching.

My HR with Harper felt like it probably would've been a pop out before the patch (a bit early on one high and away in the zone, but squared up and pulled over the fence). Felt nice and looked realistic on the replay.

[jeffy777]

Re: MLB The Show 18 Patch 1.11 Available, Patch Notes Included

2nd game...

Box score:

https://imgur.com/a/ioJ1Ndu

Wind blowing in at Wrigley resulted in a pitcher's duel with Chris Archer, till we finally broke through in the late game. Again, my team is stacked, but only hit 1 HR against the wind. They got to me in the top of the 1st after stringing together some singles, but Happ settled in after that and pitched a gem.

Patch feels good to me. Seems like I'm seeing more pulled pitches, whereas before, almost everything that wasn't on the inner 3rd of the plate was hit opposite field even with "good" timing.

[GWPump23]

Re: MLB The Show 18 Patch 1.11 Available, Patch Notes Included

Last week I posted in Countryboy’s forum about how I wish the negativity around this game would die down, and now... I’m completely wiped out!

These patches are REALLY wearing me down. A 1/2 dozen games post patch & I am hitting seeds ALL over the place & scoring runs like NEVER before... May be turning off the PS4 for a while as I am REALLY getting frustrated!

How in the hell are offline franchise guys ever gunna get a stat simulation’d season in with gameplay being constantly jerked with ALL YEAR LONG! I could never understand how guys could leave the current installment of The Show & go back to a previous year... NOW I get it.

Default LEGEND, MikeLowe & even Pagoi’s sliders aren’t helping... How much easier can this game get? Are us ZONE / METER guys gunna be forced to switch to DIRECTIONAL / CLASSIC? This game is becoming a 1 button, ratings driven version of strat-o-matic

“GW, step off the ledge”... yeah, I get it! I’ve just Loved this title for so damn long that it actually hurts me watching it trend downward like this...

-GW-

[Padgoi]

Re: MLB The Show 18 Patch 1.11 Available, Patch Notes Included

Last week I posted in Countryboy’s forum about how I wish the negativity around this game would die down, and now... I’m completely wiped out!

These patches are REALLY wearing me down. A 1/2 dozen games post patch & I am hitting seeds ALL over the place & scoring runs like NEVER before... May be turning off the PS4 for a while as I am REALLY getting frustrated!

How in the hell are offline franchise guys ever gunna get a stat simulation’d season in with gameplay being constantly jerked with ALL YEAR LONG! I could never understand how guys could leave the current installment of The Show & go back to a previous year... NOW I get it.

Default LEGEND, MikeLowe & even Pagoi’s sliders aren’t helping... How much easier can this game get? Are us ZONE / METER guys gunna be forced to switch to DIRECTIONAL / CLASSIC? This game is becoming a 1 button, ratings driven version of strat-o-matic

“GW, step off the ledge”... yeah, I get it! I’ve just Loved this title for so damn long that it actually hurts me watching it trend downward like this...

-GW-

I haven't gotten a chance to play yet on this latest patch but I assure you, if it's as easy as you say it is, I will follow with updates to my sliders to increase the challenge.

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[NolanRyansSnowmonkey]

Re: MLB The Show 18 Patch 1.11 Available, Patch Notes Included

Last week I posted in Countryboy’s forum about how I wish the negativity around this game would die down, and now... I’m wiped out!

These patches are REALLY wearing me down. A 1/2 dozen games post patch & I am hitting seeds ALL over the place & scoring runs like NEVER before...

May be turning off the PS4 for a while as I am REALLY getting frustrated! How in the hell are offline franchise guys ever gunna get a stat simulation’d season in with gameplay being constantly jerked with ALL YEAR LONG! I could never understand how guys could leave the current installment of The Show & go back to a previous year... NOW I get it.

Default LEGEND, MikeLowe & even Pagoi’s sliders aren’t helping... How much easier can this game get? Are us ZONE / METER guys gunna be forced to switch to DIRECTIONAL / CLASSIC?

-GW-

“GW, step off the ledge”... yeah, I get it! I’ve Loved this title for so long that it actually hurts me to see it trend downward like this...

I cant speak for the patch personally but changes like that would drive me crazy. It takes long enough for baseball stats to stabilize and get a true indicator of how i am really playing over time, without having several other variables pop in and influence everything.

From reading many posts this year you would think MLB 18 should have the slogan "Take a journey through the era's of Baseball!" Seems like people have seen the modern era, the dead ball era, and the live ball era, all within the first 2.5 months of the season. This one is starting to sound like the Steroid era?

Maybe some people dont mind mid-season changes, but i even prefer my own personal sliders to stay pretty close to how they were to start the season so the stats are at least consistent. I would hate to have to start bumping sliders around mid-stream to attempt to compensate for a patch.

I am not saying that is the case with this particular (or any) patch because i really have no idea. It just seems like there are more and more people indicating that there are significant changes and that is what i am trying to avoid.

[KBLover]

Re: MLB The Show 18 Patch 1.11 Available, Patch Notes Included

How in the hell are offline franchise guys ever gunna get a stat simulation’d season in with gameplay being constantly jerked with ALL YEAR LONG! I could never understand how guys could leave the current installment of The Show & go back to a previous year... NOW I get it.

Default LEGEND, MikeLowe & even Pagoi’s sliders aren’t helping... How much easier can this game get? Are us ZONE / METER guys gunna be forced to switch to DIRECTIONAL / CLASSIC? This game is becoming a 1 button, ratings driven version of strat-o-matic

I don't think I could go back to a previous year.

I'd rather just tweak what needs tweaking. If anything, if this PCI influencing batted ball profiles works, it's better, not worse. If you're a good hitter and put the good part of the bat on the center of the ball - why shouldn't you hit it well? Sounds right to me.

I'm always fascinated by the different experience. Countryboy is default legend zone/meter player and his experience seems to be steady and consistent across every version of the game and he posts his games in the franchise thread. He's getting the same varied scores, flows of the game, etc. Yet for you it's not and not in a good way and you've even tried tweaked sliders designed for challenge.

Sounds like I would lower contact slider and solid hits. Shrink the PCI and make it so that you have to be really precise to get the best hits - which is made more possible by the new PCI system, if it works as intended. Heck, go bold - put them at 0 just to see the behavior. Then come back up until you get realism. Maybe you'd find your new water mark that way.

If anything, you have the advantage over me and my love of the one-button, ratings-based strat-o-matic, interfaces (even though there's more to them but I'll go with it), you don't rely on/have to deal with RNG.

So you should have more freedom to tweak since the sliders are limited/pushed solely by your own skill, not the roll of digital dice and the fear of manipulating them too far one way or another.

But I'll say that for me, the experience has pretty much stayed steady. Games play out the same, the results and such are in the same realms, and even if I'm a Classic pitcher, the AI may not be "using" Directional, and either way, the new system probably impacts just the same.

[jeffy777]

Re: MLB The Show 18 Patch 1.11 Available, Patch Notes Included

I feel like the CPU has gotten buffed as well with the PCI changes, so maybe it'll even things out with the right sliders?

I'm only a couple games in, but I don't feel like the game is all that much easier, but time will tell. It doesn't feel like a dramatic difference, so adjusting sliders to suit your needs should do the trick.

[Bullit]

Re: MLB The Show 18 Patch 1.11 Available, Patch Notes Included

Well this just happened...........................

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[countryboy]

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Well this just happened...........................

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I just imagine the first baseman running down the line screaming at the right fielder, "DON'T TOUCH IT! THAT IS MY BALL! DON'T TOUCH IT, I'LL GET IT!!!"