MLB The Show 19 Road to the Show Details, Video and Screenshots

[coolkid10159]

Re: MLB The Show 19 Video - Road to the Show

My player is a 98 overall and still has a 'C' potential. I have been traded numerous times and even have my team straight up refuse to offer me salary arbriation making me a free agent! Despite being a 6+ war player, the contract I were offered were just 6 year $30 million. Completely unrealistic. I am going to be a full actual free agent in my next season so hopefully I get a better contract. Total dollars don't mean much but I want to get it for the realism.

While the features in the video are cool, I want to see features that improve the way teams treat my player. I want potential to increase/decrease according to the player's performance. I don't want to be traded 5 times before my player is 25 years old. If my player is a superstar, I want my team to ask me what players we should acquire. I want to feel important.

Travis Shaw on my team has an OPS above 1. Me, an OPS of around .830. Despite this I get the MVP chants. The reason? Because I am 98 ovr and Shaw is an 80 overall. I want fans to react to the numbers not the rating. I want to be offered a contract based on my performance, not my rating.

RTTS is getting improved year by year and this is great. But we need to see improvements to the fundamentals. Isn't that what baseball is all about?

[Steve_OS]

Re: MLB The Show 19 Road to the Show Details, Video and Screenshots

Added screenshots captured from the video, to the link in the OP.

[forme95]

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I'm probably in the small minority that actually enjoyed blending in with the rest of baseball and having a player that filled a specific niche (as opposed to having 99's in everything), but I'm sure they heard the feedback that more people want RTTS to be more of a fantasy experience. Hence the return of the All-99 player.



It's fine with me, as long as I can still adjust my growth to make it similar to last year's caps (and I should be able to as long as I screenshot the '18 archetypes and refer back to that when deciding which stats to raise cap on).



Good video.

100% agree with this. I liked it much better knowing I couldn't be a 1 in a million phenom and had to actually work to make my character better, not just put points here and there. If I sucked at clutch, I got penalized. Did well against a RHP, I got rewarded.


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[Dolenz]

Re: MLB The Show 19 Video - Road to the Show

And 2), physical attributes like height and weight need to be accounted for more with attributes. A 6' 300 pd player should not have 99 speed, a 5'8 player should not have 1st baseman skills, shorter players should start with better plate vision because their K zone is smaller but taller players should start with more power, etc etc.

So you would like to restrict everyone from creating the player they want, no matter how ridiculous, instead of just making those limitations and sticking to them yourself?

It's a single player mode. Their 5'8" first baseman does not affect you or force you to create one.

[Greencollarbaseball]

Re: MLB The Show 19 Road to the Show Details, Video and Screenshots

As long as I don’t end up with an all 99 player just by playing the game naturally, I’m ok with it. Personally, I really enjoyed the realism that the caps added and I’m hoping this change doesn’t ruin that.


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[Smerka]

Re: MLB The Show 19 Video - Road to the Show

Can someone help me?

I’m gonna post this here bc I’m not sure where to post it....

https://youtu.be/86-swnmeOH4

If the Show team could see this vid and add this haircut to the game (post release at any time). I would like to at least get it to them. If they can’t ultimately add it, I would understand.

Thanks

All of the hairdos or the one at the beginning?

[underdog13]

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So you would like to restrict everyone from creating the player they want, no matter how ridiculous, instead of just making those limitations and sticking to them yourself?

It's a single player mode. Their 5'8" first baseman does not affect you or force you to create one.

Currently without caps there isn't a way to prevent that however.

[WSU151]

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The mini challenges and the banter in the locker room were amazing PS2/PS3 graphics.

[Td1984]

Re: MLB The Show 19 Road to the Show Details, Video and Screenshots

Added screenshots captured from the video, to the link in the OP.

Thank you, Steve.

Looked at the archetypes shown in the trailer. Looks like The Anomaly will be my go-to Fielder archetype this year (Junior is an example, plus the favored positions are all 5 of the ones I like playing), and at SP, Plain Filthy will be the one I use again.

[Dolenz]

Re: MLB The Show 19 Video - Road to the Show

Currently without caps there isn't a way to prevent that however.

We'll have to see more on Thursday of course. But if you don't create a 5'8" first baseman then that will eliminate that option. As for the 300 pounder with 99 speed I assume if you don't steal bases and never choose to train speed then it is avoidable as well.

The could raise the cap to 99 but still make it really hard or rare for a power hitting corner infielder to train up their speed. It used to be somewhat that way in the old system. It took far more points to raise speed to 99 for a first baseman than it took to raise it to 99 for a CF.

I think there is a middle ground in there somewhere that system and last years caps.

[Trackball]

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The mini challenges and the banter in the locker room were amazing PS2/PS3 graphics.

I don't care if it looks like the PS1.

Does it play well?

[catswithbats]

Re: MLB The Show 19 Road to the Show Details, Video and Screenshots

I noticed a typo in one of those screencaps.

[catswithbats]

Re: MLB The Show 19 Road to the Show Details, Video and Screenshots

Been a while since I played RTTS but I never found myself wishing there were caps to pigeonhole my guy. What I did want was slower point accrual while young complete with a longer stay in the minors (ideally including A ball) and greater likelihood of injury. That second point was especially frustrating for me when I kept dropping my forty year old's health stats but he still never got injured. I had literally one injury during my entire MLB career and that was a two week stint on the DL after being drilled in the head by a line drive.

I do like the idea of earning improvements through play instead of just allocating points wherever you want. It'll be interesting to see how that system plays out without caps.

With one of my RTTS players in MLB the Show 2011 (on PS3) my guy suffered two different Tommy John surgeries in his career. One year he came back during the postseason, was put on the roster, and led his team to a World Series title. It was cool.

[R9NALD9]

Re: MLB The Show 19 Road to the Show Details, Video and Screenshots

So happy to hear max cap is 99 for all attributes now. Refused to play last year due to them forcing us being an average player...as if anyone ever dreams of being mediocre.

Anyways, I'm very interested to know how this will fit in with archetypes? And how progression is...these two factors will decide if I preorder or not.

[itsmb8]

Re: MLB The Show 19 Video - Road to the Show

We'll have to see more on Thursday of course. But if you don't create a 5'8" first baseman then that will eliminate that option. As for the 300 pounder with 99 speed I assume if you don't steal bases and never choose to train speed then it is avoidable as well.

The could raise the cap to 99 but still make it really hard or rare for a power hitting corner infielder to train up their speed. It used to be somewhat that way in the old system. It took far more points to raise speed to 99 for a first baseman than it took to raise it to 99 for a CF.

I think there is a middle ground in there somewhere that system and last years caps.

Exactly, make the starting point realistic but keep the 99 caps for all attributes. If someone wants to cheese and be a 5'5 400 lb 99 everything with green hair and tats all over they can, just turn it to super easy mode. But for people that play realistically, they earn points and progress realistically so their skills match their position and their physical attributes.