Fielding flyballs should not be this hard

[CujoMatty]

Re: Fielding flyballs should not be this hard

It happens almost once a game to me. Here is my last 2 games.

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[Endorphinrush3000]

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Agree outfield isnt good. No MLB players have this amount of difficulty when camped under a ball unless it were very specific parks with the sun beaming down and even then.

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[Drop_ya_mitts]

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It happens almost once a game to me. Here is my last 2 games.

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Is that post patch?

I'm happy that I've not had this issue either pre-or post patch but looking at those two vids...idk what that's about.

Fielding is the best it's ever been for me this year...literally EVERY aspect of it has been improved imo and again, luckily, I've not run into anything like this.
Sucks that that's happening to you

[onegroove7]

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The Show actually has a setting to turn Fielding and Throwing to AUTO.

[TheBleedingRed21]

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It is definitely an issue. You either slightly over run it or try and slow down at the marker only to have the fielder get Locked in animation and not move any closer.

No, it has never been like this for those saying that. You have to stop your run perfect otherwise it locks in a bad fielding animation which is the problem. You cannot adjust even if the ball is still in the air.

[OhDaesu19]

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It's ridiculous that great defensive outfielders cannot catch easy fly balls yet every infielder turns incredible double plays making Ozzie Smith look like an average player. It's unreal how many double plays are turned where both infielders make ridiculously strong throws even after making great plays...I have yet to even come close to breaking up a double play. This game is on the cusp of greatness but these little things that appear to be an easy fix keep it from being so. Thank God for legitimate leagues where we have house rules that state do not advance when OF goes into full moron mode.

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[King Gro23]

Re: Fielding flyballs should not be this hard

Cujo have you thought about adjusting your fielding view? Secondly I'll add in these suggestive tips:

On the first clip: wind & trajectory + exit velo dictates where around the mark to position your player. You got dealt a crap card on that play but arcing your path to the ball a bit deeper should work "in show terms"
It was slicing away from fielder and basically the target was at the approximate depth as LF pre play alignment. But dont get too deep you'll get the famous "oh he botched it!"

The second play you could have half pushed the analog to get the trot animation and caught it over the shoulder sort like a post route. Again on that one you took a shallow route to the ball you chased it horizontally then retreated and swung around.. get the depth then close the horizontal ground to the ball.

You ran 3 oclock then cut to a 1 oclock angle and tried to make a square catch at a 6 oclock position when you should have ran at 1 oclock angle to get depth and cut the horizontal distance in half and cut at about a 3 to 4 oclock angle to make the catch..

Regardless it's tough as a gamer at times. But just suggestive tips to eliminate some of these plays

It happens almost once a game to me. Here is my last 2 games.

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[Baseball Purist]

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Agreed this has been an issue since day 1, and if memory serves correctly has been an issue the last couple of years that has been addressed through various patches.

I can almost call it when my outfielder is not going to trigger an animation and the ball is just going to drop, or my favorite hit some limb of his body.

[HypoLuxa13]

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I mentioned this in another thread, the issue has happened to me probably a dozen times since the game was released. It isn't an issue of not fielding it properly, as in those times when you over-run the ball or pull up short of where you need to be to catch it. It is an issue with the correct catch animation/lock on animation not kicking in.

There have been times when I'm ON the catch location indicator, and still no catch animation kicks in. The ball goes right through the fielder, right past his head, or maybe right behind him. After a split second delay, after the ball is long past and bouncing even further away, an Error animation kicks in, which wastes even more time preventing you from getting to the ball. Gave up a 4 base "inside the park" error to Johnathan Villar yesterday on a fly ball to the warning track because of this issue. By the time I got to the ball, Villar was between 2nd and 3rd, and was around 3rd by the time my cutoff man received the ball.

Even has happened to me with Jason Heyward, who has high fielding ratings.

[underdog13]

Re: Fielding flyballs should not be this hard

On the first clip: wind & trajectory + exit velo dictates where around the mark to position your player. You got dealt a crap card on that play but arcing your path to the ball a bit deeper should work "in show terms"
It was slicing away from fielder and basically the target was at the approximate depth as LF pre play alignment. But dont get too deep you'll get the famous "oh he botched it!"

The second play you could have half pushed the analog to get the trot animation and caught it over the shoulder sort like a post route. Again on that one you took a shallow route to the ball you chased it horizontally then retreated and swung around.. get the depth then close the horizontal ground to the ball.

You ran 3 oclock then cut to a 1 oclock angle and tried to make a square catch at a 6 oclock position when you should have ran at 1 oclock angle to get depth and cut the horizontal distance in half and cut at about a 3 to 4 oclock angle to make the catch..

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Yes these are great tips and would have helped him.

My premise is this: You shouldn't need detailed tips to catch flyballs. It shouldn't take this high level of skill to complete a basic function of the game with regularity.

[Drop_ya_mitts]

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Maybe it's something the user is doing (or not doing) or we'd all have the same issue and I've not had it once. It's a case on locking into what that something is (or could be)...logically speaking. Maybe some of us are just better at getting into the correct positions to field/trigger...take better routes and position the players in a realistic fashion to be able to field well? I'm not saying this is the case, just offering a suggestion as to why this would happen. I know a rare bug was patched that could be the issue you're having, where certain animations wouldn't trigger when set up under fly balls, so would be good to know if you're playing with the most up to date patch.

[Drop_ya_mitts]

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Yes these are great tips and would have helped him.

My premise is this: You shouldn't need detailed tips to catch flyballs. It shouldn't take this high level of skill to complete a basic function of the game with regularity.

TBF, in that second vid, he doesn't even turn his guy around properly, he just leaves him facing the wrong way and doesn't take a good angle to it. He's also all herky - jerky on the stick, you can see it. That's not how you position someone to catch a fly. We need some objectivity here instead of just automatically bagging something as broken. Now I'm not saying all is well here but that second one could well be on him.
Not judging, we all make mistakes and need to improve.
Just keep in mind that the game can't do everything for us...

[PhantomPain]

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I have been playing The Show since the the second iteration of it and have played nearly every other baseball game that used to come out and have never had any issues. This is NOT a user error issue. If it is, then they need to explain what needs to be done in order for it not happen.

This has been happening to me since the beginning on this year's Show and clearly is happening with other people as well. Not sure why it isn't happening with every single person, but it isn't one or two people that don't know how to field that are having these issues.

Edit to add: The thing happening to me isn't as much like the videos in this thread as it is the fielder getting stuck in the vacuum for the catch but not being close enough to the middle of the catch region and no way to get him there. The ball then just falls and goes for extra bases.

[Jr.]

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This is why I use auto fielding. Issues like this about not having your player in the right position to make a simple animation trigger drove me crazy in the past

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[BigOscar]

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My new personal favourite nonsense is when it is hit almost straight at your guy, but very high, so he insists on only moving like a horse doing dressage while you hold the analog stick all the way in one direction, weirdly strafing with a silly little prance, then all of a sudden cutting out of that and into a run without warning so you overshoot the catch.