I was thinking about this last night and decided we needed a thread for the new members of OS and The Show. There are a few work arounds for Legacy Issues that we take and do for granted that new folks might not know about.
So I will compile a list on the first post of any that you all want to add.
Please lets not turn this into another "This is what the game does wrong" thread. Lets really try to be helpful here.
Also we don't know for sure if these are in the game this year but it doesn't hurt to know ahead of time.
Player getting first career Home Run pop up for every Home Run:
The Work around for this is to play the first half inning of the first game of the season. For some reason this stops this bug from happening.
Getting all Computer generated faces on player cards:
If you start a Franchise and select Fantasy Draft and then back out of the menu, it will replace all of the real pics with computer generated faces. In the past games these cpu faces would change hats to new teams if they were traded and some (like myself) just like having every player card looking the same.
This no longer works as there are no computer generated images and player cards they either have the real player or are left blank so we are stuck with the shipped player image now even if the switch teams. EDIT: It does change in game player portraits to CPU generated profiles so there is that.
Pitcher coming into the game missing Stamina for no reason.
When warming up a Pitcher, I found that if you select "Schedule to Pitch" they come into the game missing a good bit of stamina. So I never do select the schedule to pitch choice and just switch at the beginning of the inning after the team takes the field. It suck but its the only way I have found to get pitchers to reliably not loose stamina for no reason.
The face swapping/skintone issue happening. Sometimes when you make a defensive sub, the incoming player will have his body/skintone, but will have the head/face/skintone of the player he's replacing.
I narrowed it down to it only occurring when you make a defensive sub thru the quick menu (press up on D-Pad during gameplay). If you pause and go through the manager options, then the bug doesn't happen.
(Credit to CountryBoy)
CPU NOT SUBBING OUT POSITIONAL PLAYERS DURING SPRING TRAINING GAMES
This is a bug this year that hasn't been fixed via a patch, but is on the list according to SDS. In the meantime what you can do is simply go to the PAUSE screen and move over to TEAM SELECT. Choose the CPU team and make the substitutions for them. Yes its annoying and interrupts the game, but this will prevent the CPU from leaving its starters in all 9 innings, thus subjecting them to being injured.
***THIS WILL NOT WORK IN MANAGE ONLY MODE***
Playoff Rosters: A player must be on the 25 man active roster on September 1 (on the roster Aug 31 as the day rolls into Sept 1) to be playoff eligible. If your player is on the MLB roster but on the IL, he will be eligible for the playoffs too.
September call ups (someone verify this is the same as it has been in past): Rosters can expand once the minor league regular season ends. that means you don't get to expand your roster on Sept 1, but rather somewhere a few days later.
Annual budget estimate: If you can't figure out weekly cash flow vs. the weekly salary you'll pay a player, an approximation of the annual budget can be multiplying the cash flow x 26 (for the approximate 6 months of the season). So 1 million cash flow x 26 would mean there's 26 million or there abouts to spend.
Your bank resets to 5 million once you're eliminated from playoff contention. A portion of the money you banked gets put toward your new season budget.
Workaround for the playoff rosters issue:
On August 31st, after you have played your game, sim the minor league games, DON'T ADVANCE TO THE NEXT DAY! When all games are played, call up anyone you want to have available for playoffs. Then advance to the next day.
On Sept 1st, send down the players you just called up before you play your game.
I don't know what you call these, whether they're workarounds or what, but these have been in The Show for many years, so I thought I'd call them out.
In manual replay mode, and am having trouble exiting it? Think you have to turn your game off and back on? No worries, you just accidentally hit the "record" button at some point, and that's what it's doing. To stop recording, hit L3. The longer the clip, the longer it will take to process and finish recording, so give it a moment and you'll get a pop-up message that you can OK out of. Boom, now you may exit.
Trying to edit and tweak a custom camera that for some reason is continually snapping in another position than the actual camera is? I don't know why this causes it, but it has to do with the handedness of your batter. If you're up with a lefty batter it will cause this hitch. Don't tweak it until you have a righty batter up, if in fact tweaking it to your liking is what you want to do.
Please feel free to post others and I will add them to this list as we go.
Peace
Maybe we can get this stickied please, instead of making a new one every couple of years?
So I will compile a list on the first post of any that you all want to add.
Please lets not turn this into another "This is what the game does wrong" thread. Lets really try to be helpful here.
Also we don't know for sure if these are in the game this year but it doesn't hurt to know ahead of time.
Player getting first career Home Run pop up for every Home Run:
The Work around for this is to play the first half inning of the first game of the season. For some reason this stops this bug from happening.
Getting all Computer generated faces on player cards:
If you start a Franchise and select Fantasy Draft and then back out of the menu, it will replace all of the real pics with computer generated faces. In the past games these cpu faces would change hats to new teams if they were traded and some (like myself) just like having every player card looking the same.
This no longer works as there are no computer generated images and player cards they either have the real player or are left blank so we are stuck with the shipped player image now even if the switch teams. EDIT: It does change in game player portraits to CPU generated profiles so there is that.
Pitcher coming into the game missing Stamina for no reason.
When warming up a Pitcher, I found that if you select "Schedule to Pitch" they come into the game missing a good bit of stamina. So I never do select the schedule to pitch choice and just switch at the beginning of the inning after the team takes the field. It suck but its the only way I have found to get pitchers to reliably not loose stamina for no reason.
The face swapping/skintone issue happening. Sometimes when you make a defensive sub, the incoming player will have his body/skintone, but will have the head/face/skintone of the player he's replacing.
I narrowed it down to it only occurring when you make a defensive sub thru the quick menu (press up on D-Pad during gameplay). If you pause and go through the manager options, then the bug doesn't happen.
(Credit to CountryBoy)
CPU NOT SUBBING OUT POSITIONAL PLAYERS DURING SPRING TRAINING GAMES
This is a bug this year that hasn't been fixed via a patch, but is on the list according to SDS. In the meantime what you can do is simply go to the PAUSE screen and move over to TEAM SELECT. Choose the CPU team and make the substitutions for them. Yes its annoying and interrupts the game, but this will prevent the CPU from leaving its starters in all 9 innings, thus subjecting them to being injured.
***THIS WILL NOT WORK IN MANAGE ONLY MODE***
Playoff Rosters: A player must be on the 25 man active roster on September 1 (on the roster Aug 31 as the day rolls into Sept 1) to be playoff eligible. If your player is on the MLB roster but on the IL, he will be eligible for the playoffs too.
September call ups (someone verify this is the same as it has been in past): Rosters can expand once the minor league regular season ends. that means you don't get to expand your roster on Sept 1, but rather somewhere a few days later.
Annual budget estimate: If you can't figure out weekly cash flow vs. the weekly salary you'll pay a player, an approximation of the annual budget can be multiplying the cash flow x 26 (for the approximate 6 months of the season). So 1 million cash flow x 26 would mean there's 26 million or there abouts to spend.
Your bank resets to 5 million once you're eliminated from playoff contention. A portion of the money you banked gets put toward your new season budget.
Workaround for the playoff rosters issue:
On August 31st, after you have played your game, sim the minor league games, DON'T ADVANCE TO THE NEXT DAY! When all games are played, call up anyone you want to have available for playoffs. Then advance to the next day.
On Sept 1st, send down the players you just called up before you play your game.
I don't know what you call these, whether they're workarounds or what, but these have been in The Show for many years, so I thought I'd call them out.
In manual replay mode, and am having trouble exiting it? Think you have to turn your game off and back on? No worries, you just accidentally hit the "record" button at some point, and that's what it's doing. To stop recording, hit L3. The longer the clip, the longer it will take to process and finish recording, so give it a moment and you'll get a pop-up message that you can OK out of. Boom, now you may exit.
Trying to edit and tweak a custom camera that for some reason is continually snapping in another position than the actual camera is? I don't know why this causes it, but it has to do with the handedness of your batter. If you're up with a lefty batter it will cause this hitch. Don't tweak it until you have a righty batter up, if in fact tweaking it to your liking is what you want to do.
Please feel free to post others and I will add them to this list as we go.
Peace
Maybe we can get this stickied please, instead of making a new one every couple of years?
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