MLB The Show 19 Twitch Stream - Defensive Improvements

[lDyNoMiTel]

Re: MLB The Show 19 Twitch Stream - Defensive Improvements

Well it sounds like the stream impressed most, I need to find time to watch it entirely.

[LastActionHero]

MLB The Show 19 Twitch Stream - Defensive Improvements

I see the colors are now blurred into one another for button accuracy but I wonder why they did not transition the green section into the yellow and chose to leave it solid?

I still don’t totally understand what’s new about it? Anyone? I hoped the shape would be more like how it was in MPV. The meter in the show is just too in your face or something.

Makes more sense to start small if you ask me.

[BigOscar]

Re: MLB The Show 19 Twitch Stream - Defensive Improvements

Finally watched the whole thing and it's impressive how they've cut out those awkward in between ranges that caused issues with animations

I do worry it's all a bit too slick though, hopefully it's just because they were capturing it for the purpose of making it look as slick as possible, but some of those turns were ridiculously sharp to the point of them being unrealistic if you see them often. There was one by the Nats where the 2B charges the ball, then back hand tosses it almost behind him, perfectly into the path of the SS, who barehand catches it, touches the bag, avoids the slides and pings off a perfect throw all in one motion, getting the runner by a couple of steps. Seriously slick stuff, that would be one of the best plays I'd ever seen in real life if someone pulled it off.

I'm hoping these things are possible, but really, really rare.

[Bunselpower32]

Re: MLB The Show 19 Twitch Stream - Defensive Improvements

Watching the stream now, some notables:

• Out of position stuff seems old. However, seems like good athletes at premium positions won't get dinged for playing out of position in case of emergency, which is great, especially for roster flexibility.
• The wall hop stuff looks really nice. I love the idea of the rating determining what you see. It reminds me of MLB 2K where there was a landing indicator that slowly disappeared showing the landing spot, and the better the fielder, the smaller the first indicator. I'm glad to see separations finally being made between players on stuff like this. More contextual situations where your player actually matters.
• Love the new infield animations. I loved the one where Trea Turner got to the bag, slowed up to catch it chest high, and then fired it.
• Speaking of height, the new animations to capture bounce height are real nice. This might start making defense not be a binary choice between "Urgent" and "Not Urgent".
• Second pitcher grounder animation was great. That alone might make me pre-order this game.
• Not a big fan of all of the bare-handed and glove tossing plays. Those need to be toned way down.
• Can already see those all in one tags being a problem. It will be great when it works, but that unless that trailing animation can be broken, you will have missed tags and a pitcher that can't throw to first afterwards.
• Third base play with the Yankees with the 3B steal and double play was great.
• 1st and 3rd steal thing was great.
• Catches on the run will change a lot of plays because many times you had to wait to throw to a base if the guy wasn't already there. However, the showcase play was a bad one, because the pitcher should have been covering 3rd.
• Robbed foul balls. Finally.
• Alright, 3B hotshots were added. It's about time. That's all I've wanted for 4 years. You've sucked me in once again SDS.

All in all, the things addressed were some of my biggest gripes about the game in years past. It was either all or nothing. Finally, they've filled in a LOT of gaps and made it more of a spectrum than a binary. All in all, great job. Don't patch it away.

[RogerDodger]

Re: MLB The Show 19 Twitch Stream - Defensive Improvements

The wall hop stuff is especially good, an innovative idea that probably caught all of us by surprise and differentiating players defensive ability will certainly add another dimension to putting together a lineup card.

[Bremser_Rules]

Re: MLB The Show 19 Twitch Stream - Defensive Improvements

I hope passed balls got addressed as it was one of the most frustrating things in 18. They didn't mention it in the stream that I recall.