MLB The Show 19 Twitch Stream - Defensive Improvements

[Vercingetirex]

Re: MLB The Show 19 Twitch Stream - Defensive Improvements

It wasn't just perfect jumps that led to outfielders getting to every ball and preventing XBHs, it was that combined with their unreal speed and ability to cover distance in a matter of seconds. Reaction did need to be addressed, but the scaling of speed over distance also needs to be adjusted or we will still see a lack of doubles and the rare triple into the gaps. The physics of the ball off the bat also play a huge role in this, whether it hangs longer in the air than it would in real life. It should all be addressed.


Not jumping to buy this until this has been out a while and reviewers have had ample time with it.

[KnightTemplar]

Re: MLB The Show 19 Twitch Stream - Defensive Improvements

Glad for these streams. If we weren’t privy I think a lot of people wouldn’t even notice the detail as many of the moves are subtle and there would be complaints that the devs really don’t do much to enhance the game. It really is “the little things” and I tip my cap to their hard work and long hours that they put in.

[Bullit]

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Anybody have a link to an archive of the stream, I was not able to watch it live?

[MrArlingtonBeach]

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Anybody have a link to an archive of the stream, I was not able to watch it live?

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/380599528

[inkcil]

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Any mention of user control? I don't always feel like I'm controlling the action on defense...like I'm on some kind of semi-assisted fielding setting.

Hopefully manual fielding feels truly manual.

Also, any mention of collision detection between players?

[BigOscar]

Re: MLB The Show 19 Twitch Stream - Defensive Improvements

Missed chunks of it, but it all looked very slick. I have to say, I never thought the fielding lacked slickness anyway tbh, but most of it seemed geared towards stopping online exploits, so the issues with animations getting locked in was never much of an issue against the computer.

I like the direction they're heading in with the bad fielders angle, but again from the bits I saw it seemed heavily angled at online DD, talking about playing Buster Posey in the outfield, rather than Miguel Sano making jump throws from 3rd or Nelson Cruz diving all over the outfield. I saw JD Martinez take a bad jump, but I might have missed bits where they showed the difference between great and mediocre fielders in their actual position? (I probably did, I missed about 15 minutes around that part) Hopefully that's in there.

The hitting stream will be interesting as that's where the fielding should be more apparent I think, as in that stream they were getting to everything as that's what they wanted. That was my number one issue with fielding, that on the default settings everyone got to everything, so hopefully on the hitting stream we see plenty of ground balls through the infield. (and infield hits! I know online people hate the scruffy hits but they are a thing!)

Did they say if you can turn off the bronze/silver/gold shield indicators under players? I presume you can.

[baseballmad]

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I've just spent the last four months, on a daily basis, upgrading the rosters for each team, including all vitals and current off season injuries, ready to play a franchise season for 2019, on MLB17........

I may have been a tad hasty, in assuming the worst for '19.........

Bring on the hitting stream...... to convince me entirely

[MrArlingtonBeach]

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Any mention of user control? I don't always feel like I'm controlling the action on defense...like I'm on some kind of semi-assisted fielding setting.

Hopefully manual fielding feels truly manual.

Also, any mention of collision detection between players?

No mention of collision detection, just some new animations that showed fielders moving out of the way on certain plays (like a 2B avoiding the runner on a double play where the 2B had to charge into the baseline).

They did mention that they want to find a balance between user skill and player in-game ratings. They don't want the human user to feel like an animation in the game cost them a run. So it seems they are trying to make the human's skill matter more, while still realizing that the ratings have to be the differentiation between good and bad players on the virtual diamond.

[Bullit]

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https://www.twitch.tv/videos/380599528

Thank you sir.

[The Kid 24]

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In that brief shot of Mike Trout, I believe I saw new batting gloves!

What he was wearing didn't look like anything from 18.

[Impetuous65]

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The only thing that SDS never address, is playing with an injury/hurt and how that affects gameplay. I would love to see a diamond player play with a slight hammy strain and how he compensates for injury/hurt. I also don't like that diamond guys are always right, just doesn't sit well with me. And they need to address speed range all these guys have the same speed, even your slow fellas almost gets to the ball.

[Jeffrey Smith]

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Watching the stream now. So excited for this years game.


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[Flaxseed Oil]

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That looked smooth as heck.

I loved the Andujar play when he was charging in and threw across his body.

Also loved when Andrelton Simmons took his time at Short Stop.

Let's hope the batting animations are improved, too

[bayman]

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Any mention of user control? I don't always feel like I'm controlling the action on defense...like I'm on some kind of semi-assisted fielding setting.

Hopefully manual fielding feels truly manual.

Also, any mention of collision detection between players?

No mention of less user assisted jumps and from what they've said about it in the past, I would doubt that it's changed without a mention. PYS uses a cheat to allow this control and be functional and they've been against doing something similar in the past.

[Speedy]

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Looks they fixed tons of cheese ploys.

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