MLB The Show 20 Patch 1.04 Available Now - Patch Notes and Discussion

[Scooter3]

Re: MLB The Show 20 Patch 1.04 Arrives Later This Morning - Patch Notes Here

Amen I'm one of the lucky survivors my prayers are with anyone who gets this virus

Seriously? With what is going on in our country (and around the world for that matter).

The fact we got a minor update that was probably in the works pre release is amazing enough.

People need to freaking relax. All the needed fixes in regards to the franchise score bug stat/osd issues will be addressed. As well as the crowd audio issues we have seen and SOTS issues.

A major patch will arrive in due time when they have gathered enough information so they can deploy a large scale update covering many items they are still getting reports on and can test before deployment. Game has been out less than a week.

The attitudes of some of you is deplorable in light of our very serious health and now economic times.

Give it a rest.


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[DJ]

Re: MLB The Show 20 Patch 1.04 Available Now - Patch Notes and Discussion

I don’t know man.....I am getting incredible games.

Everything from day one is still there for me.

Just not having that. I am getting the cpu to swing an miss plenty. Also get them looking.

Anyway I will bow out of this thread. I simply am enjoying this game immensely.


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Same here. Game is playing just as great for me as it was on Day 1. No issues.

[countryboy]

Re: MLB The Show 20 Patch 1.04 Available Now - Patch Notes and Discussion

I mean yeah I can bring the sliders down but that's not going to put the fun back my dude. I was doing fine before, and the difference is so stark that I can no longer say "that's baseball." I was having fun, now I'm not having fun. It's really frustrating with how much I was enjoying 20 before the patch. What's even more frustrating is that they just couldn't help themselves and they made the changes to vs. CPU too even though the release notes for the patch clearly state DD.

The patch is garbage. I don't really know what else to say about it.

Then be miserable my dude.




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[ninertravel]

Re: MLB The Show 20 Patch 1.04 Available Now - Patch Notes and Discussion

As I said when it came out I had a huge home run spike and hit about 6 homers off Verlander in the 1st innings we are talking about Verlander here...

so play with the sliders and fix it. we know that they always patch the game to make it easier for DD guys that complain it's hard.

some tuning fixing the sliders fixed it for me and I had a 12 innings game last night which I won in a walk off 3-2 against the Dodgers

[Fiddy]

Re: MLB The Show 20 Patch 1.04 Available Now - Patch Notes and Discussion

Yeah agree.

And anyone who wants to know my settings can read the OP of my slider thread and also tune in to my streams as I do a lot of video.

And BCruise and I just had an epic Custom Leauge game (Diamond Dynasty set up with 80 overall caps on all teams)

Online is playing amazingly well this year.


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I can verify, I watched the entire game. Great stuff!!

annnnnnnnnnd he just walked off another game as I was responding here! LOL

[Detroit Tigers]

MLB The Show 20 Patch 1.04 Available Now - Patch Notes and Discussion

HELP!!!

This might be a lame answer, but in my experience (which has been amazing), a big part of this is user approach.

Approach while pitching should be self-explanatory: employ real-life pitching strategy, don’t be afraid to walk guys if the at bat doesn’t go your way, pitch around power guys, pitch to ground-ball and pop-up contact for quick at bats against weaker hitters, etc., and pay attention to what kind of feedback hitters are giving you (weak contact, late, early, solid contact, etc.), it is not just random. My team ERA has been dropping like a rock ever since I started to actually RESPECT hitters and employ real-life strategies instead of just whipping the ball in there trying to be “random.”

Approach while hitting is a bit more nuanced, but I think it’s fairly obvious that in order to crack a ton of jacks you need to be swinging for the fences a lot in the first place. If your approach is to look low and away for a bloop slice job over third and in front of the LF, you’re probably not gonna jack something over the RF wall for instance. I’d argue bat/ball physics are freaking ridiculous, and you can put the ball kinda sorta wherever you want when you’re really seeing the ball. So, in a roundabout way, when you’re cracking a ton of jacks, it’s because you’re trying (consciously or unconsciously) to crack a ton of jacks.

Try instead to simply get guys on base, and save the “easy” jacks for when there’s men on. It’s infinitely more rewarding to hit three three-run bombs in a game than it is to crush out seven ho-hum solo jobs. Just sayin’.

The end result will be an absolute chess match where you’re watching and thinking about every single pitch instead of just mindlessly trying to time your swing correctly enough/make a decent enough pitch that the RNG gods give you a decent result.

[Bullit]

Re: MLB The Show 20 Patch 1.04 Available Now - Patch Notes and Discussion

This might be a lame answer, but in my experience (which has been amazing), a big part of this is user approach.

I appreciate the time and effort you took it responding and I really appreciate you it.

I am not trying to be disrespectful of your help. I understand the nuance of The Show both in real and video game form. I have been playing these games since they have existed and played real ball most of my life.

I needed a little direction with sliders or opinions on Difficulty levels and such to balance things a bit. Sorry if I wasn't clear.

[tabarnes19_SDS]

Re: MLB The Show 20 Patch 1.04 Available Now - Patch Notes and Discussion

Since the patch all my pitches drift to the middle of the plate using classic. Cole just gave up 4 homers to Bal with only 3I.

Before patch I had tons of swing and misses.

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[KnightTemplar]

Re: MLB The Show 20 Patch 1.04 Available Now - Patch Notes and Discussion

Since the patch all my pitches drift to the middle of the plate using classic. Cole just gave up 4 homers to Bal with only 3I.

Before patch I had tons of swing and misses.

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Interesting. I’ve always used classic pitching, all star, default sliders and nothing is different.

[Detroit Tigers]

MLB The Show 20 Patch 1.04 Available Now - Patch Notes and Discussion

I appreciate the time and effort you took it responding and I really appreciate you it.



I am not trying to be disrespectful of your help. I understand the nuance of The Show both in real and video game form. I have been playing these games since they have existed and played real ball most of my life.



I needed a little direction with sliders or opinions on Difficulty levels and such to balance things a bit. Sorry if I wasn't clear.

Haha no problem. Well in that case I spent some time with power and contact down at 4 and had several 2-0 and 2-1 type games in a row before going back to default.

As for difficulty, I’ve seen guys on here say they’re hitting too many homers on Legend with pitch speed at 10 so I dunno. It just all depends.

[tabarnes19_SDS]

Re: MLB The Show 20 Patch 1.04 Available Now - Patch Notes and Discussion

Interesting. I’ve always used classic pitching, all star, default sliders and nothing is different.

I'm using HOF. Don't know if that makes a difference. Nick on twitter mentioned that there are issues with pitching and fielding so not sure if that is one of them.

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[canes21]

Re: MLB The Show 20 Patch 1.04 Available Now - Patch Notes and Discussion

Playing nearly exclusively DD, the patch has hurt the gameplay. Its easier to get Perfect-Perfect now than it is to get Good-Good or to get a squared up contact result. This is making each game turn into pitchers not being afraid to throw the ball over the plate because most contacts are gonna be routine flyouts or popouts despite good timing and great PCI placement.

Nearly every game since the patch has just turned into seeing who can score the most off of the RNG meatballs that get thrown. Those get taken yard constantly, yet any other pitch, even ones that should be getting driven, are resulting in incredibly weak contact. I'm noticing the vast majority of balls put into play have lower exit velocities than the pitch speed even if the timing and PCI placement are near flawless.

I think SCEA needs to revert the chances for each contact type to what they were pre-patch, but should keep the smaller PCIs, if not make them smaller. They also need to make pitchers have slightly more control and need to completely eliminate the meatball chance mechanic. I think that would really make the hitting and pitching feel great. What we have now is a mess for both sides.

Before the hitting was easier, but only because the PCIs were gigantic and pitchers had terrible control. Instead of buffing the pitching we saw a hitting nerf that hasn't worked out well.

Give us smaller PCIs so that you actually have to square the ball up with the PCI and can't cover the whole plate with it constantly. Give us the old contact chances back so squaring it up or getting good contact are more frequent than getting perfect-perfect. That is just backwards. Give pitchers more control. Remove the meatball mechanic completely. And stop squeezing the strike zone. Personally, those changes would give much better DD gameplay that reintroduces the skill gap without making each game turn into an 11-9 type game like before. Even if we reverted back to the prepatch hitting and only changed the PCI size, but left all else the same we would likely be seeing much better gameplay.

I get what they were going for with this patch, but they made they really killed the hitting without fixing the pitching at all.

And for the record, I've gotten about 50 regular season games in, about half before the patch. I've gone through a BR run before the patch and one after, each going 7 or 8 games at least. And I've played plenty of showdowns, beating 4 or 5 before the patch and none since the patch. I have a healthy sample size I feel at this point.

[Hockeytown954]

Re: MLB The Show 20 Patch 1.04 Available Now - Patch Notes and Discussion

Any idea when the next patch will be out?

[tytyboogie]

Re: MLB The Show 20 Patch 1.04 Available Now - Patch Notes and Discussion

Any idea when the next patch will be out?

All has been quiet on the rumor front..would be nice if they took care of the little things like the Annoying franchise OSD bug asap and not wait for more substance/items to release one..like holding out untill for instance they figure out how to adjust the hitting issue that devoloped since the last patch...like it would be great if they just put the default hitting back to out of box when users seemed mostly happy with it and move on from there...

[Padgoi]

Re: MLB The Show 20 Patch 1.04 Available Now - Patch Notes and Discussion

Then be miserable my dude.




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Don't be a dick. He was being nice. There was nothing in his post that was vitriolic.

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