MLB The Show 22 Technical Test Available Now

[Grey_Osprey]

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Played a 5 innings at default HOF with Timing hitting and Classic pitching.

Max Fried (me) couldn't hit the broad side of a barn. The CPU seemed to have better pitch accuracy/control with fewer pitches left out over the plate. I was lucky to keep the game close (1-0) going into the bottom of the 4th where I was finally able to put a couple runs on the board and take a 2-1 lead. Win probability was 87% going into the 5th inning. Top of the 5th for the CPU saw a lead off double > sacrifice bunt > a walk > a strike out > a seeing eye single between SS and 3rd to tie the game > a routine grounder to 3rd that the 1st baseman dropped > a grand slam.

MLB then declared the game a forfeit claiming the Astros cheated by using a comeback code.

Overall, pitch speed felt better at HOF than All-Star. User pitch accuracy/control felt much worse at HOF than All-Star. CPU pitching felt about the same. Hitting, especially gap/power, was better at HOF than All-Star for both myself and the CPU. Not sure if that was because of playing on HOF or the use of Timing instead of Directional swing, but it was noticeable.

Going to play another game at default All-Star with Timing and classic pitching. May give Meter pitching a try to at both All-Star and HOF to compare pitch accuracy/control.

Not a fan of the win percentage display. I hope there's an option to turn it off.

[bronxbombers21325]

Re: MLB The Show 22 Technical Test Available Now

Played a 5 innings at default HOF with Timing hitting and Classic pitching.

Max Fried (me) couldn't hit the broad side of a barn. The CPU seemed to have better pitch accuracy/control with fewer pitches left out over the plate. I was lucky to keep the game close (1-0) going into the bottom of the 4th where I was finally able to put a couple runs on the board and take a 2-1 lead. Win probability was 87% going into the 5th inning. Top of the 5th for the CPU saw a lead off double > sacrifice bunt > a walk > a strike out > a seeing eye single between SS and 3rd to tie the game > a routine grounder to 3rd that the 1st baseman dropped > a grand slam.

MLB then declared the game a forfeit claiming the Astros cheated by using a comeback code.

Overall, pitch speed felt better at HOF than All-Star. User pitch accuracy/control felt much worse at HOF than All-Star. CPU pitching felt about the same. Hitting, especially gap/power, was better at HOF than All-Star for both myself and the CPU. Not sure if that was because of playing on HOF or the use of Timing instead of Directional swing, but it was noticeable.

Going to play another game at default All-Star with Timing and classic pitching. May give Meter pitching a try to at both All-Star and HOF to compare pitch accuracy/control.

Not a fan of the win percentage display. I hope there's an option to turn it off.

What’s your opinion on timing hitting? To me it seems harder to get hits than using directional without picking a direction, which has acted as timing for the last several years. Maybe it’s all in my head though.

[bryanm1982]

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I just noticed there is a difference in the settings between timing and directional. Wasn’t it always combined?

[Grey_Osprey]

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What’s your opinion on timing hitting? To me it seems harder to get hits than using directional without picking a direction, which has acted as timing for the last several years. Maybe it’s all in my head though.

This was my 1st time using Timing. It felt easier to hit at HOF with timing hitting than at All-Star directional hitting. With HOF timing hitting, both myself and the CPU had noticeably better hitting than All-Star directional. More contact, more harder hit/line drives, less strikeouts (especially for the cpu). edit: Now whether Timing hitting has anything to do with that or it's because of HOF difficulty, I'm not sure.

Keep in mind, I've only played a handful of games to this point, so it could just be I swung at the right pitches and got lucky keeping the game close as long as I did. I normally play to Veteran+/All-Star hitting and All-Star to All-Star+ pitching (using directional/classic), so HOF is a big challenge for me.

[Grey_Osprey]

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Played two more games at default All-Star with timing hitting and classic pitching. One game was standard ATL vs HOU, one game was a DD squad vs Baltimore.

Both games - user pitcher accuracy and control was very inconsistent with a lot of pitches missing far from the intended target and down the middle of the plate. Hitting was good, maybe too good for the CPU. They seemed to hit a lot of pitches hard.

ATL vs HOU was a 6 inning game. 5 8 1 for the CPU; 3 5 0 for me. I was up 3-2 going into the 5th. A single > walk > 3 run HR and the CPU goes up 5-2. Game ended 5-3 final.

DD squad against the CPU (Orioles). 6 5 0 for the CPU; 3 6 0 for me. I'm up 3-1 going into the 9th inning. Single > single > IF hit > SO > walk (run scores) > Grand Slam .... 6-3 CPU.

I like the stat lines of the games, but that's 3 consecutive games with noticeably poor user pitch accuracy/control and late inning heroics by the CPU. Going to go back to directional hitting and give meter pitching a try.

[belltower]

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Using Analog throwing, no meter. I have played 3 games in the tech test on PS5 and have noticed wild throws to first base on two hoppers to third base. This occurred 5 times my first game. And 3 times the next two games. The baserunner running to first was not very fast and my third baseman was very casual fielding the ball but for some reason the throw would take the first baseman off the bag. This also happened with my second baseman once as well. I also saw this happen once with the CPU fielding.

[countryboy]

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So I re-downloaded the Tech Test as I wanted to give it another go and really try out Diamond Dynasty as it opens the game up to see more teams and players.

A few things I noticed:

* When batting, if you press the R2 button you get batter info that appears over the scorebug. Shows player card and shows their attributes and how they've fared today with outcome of plate appearances

* I gave up a homerun to Paul DeJong and noticed I could hit L2 to generate a replay. Did this and it showed the statcast for the homerun which was powered by Google Cloud.

Pretty cool little touches

[bronxbombers21325]

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I just noticed there is a difference in the settings between timing and directional. Wasn’t it always combined?

We had just timing until a few years ago, then it was removed for directional, but if you didn’t choose a direction they always said it worked just like the original timing system. So it kind of baffles me that they put timing back in considering directional supposedly does the same thing when a direction isn’t chosen. So I’m trying to get others opinions on differences. To me just using the timing so far seems to generate less hits than directional without a direction. But I’m wondering if it isn’t just a placebo for me since directional is what I’ve used for years.

[jcar0725]

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We had just timing until a few years ago, then it was removed for directional, but if you didn’t choose a direction they always said it worked just like the original timing system. So it kind of baffles me that they put timing back in considering directional supposedly does the same thing when a direction isn’t chosen. So I’m trying to get others opinions on differences. To me just using the timing so far seems to generate less hits than directional without a direction. But I’m wondering if it isn’t just a placebo for me since directional is what I’ve used for years.

Good question. I've used directional now for a long time, and I only choose a direction in certain situations, so it's basically timing most of the time. I'm not sure why anyone would use timing, if its the same as directional except when choosing a direction....

[Jeffrey Smith]

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Good question. I've used directional now for a long time, and I only choose a direction in certain situations, so it's basically timing most of the time. I'm not sure why anyone would use timing, if its the same as directional except when choosing a direction....

They are always trying to simplify the game for beginners so maybe their data shows beginners are confused by timing and directional being combined.

That would be my best guess.


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[jcar0725]

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They are always trying to simplify the game for beginners so maybe their data shows beginners are confused by timing and directional being combined.

That would be my best guess.


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Yeah, that's solid reasoning.

[KnightTemplar]

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Good question. I've used directional now for a long time, and I only choose a direction in certain situations, so it's basically timing most of the time. I'm not sure why anyone would use timing, if its the same as directional except when choosing a direction....

Same here, except I never chose a direction, ever. Maybe that's why I showed such a great variety of hits as there were times I was never right on a certain pitch.

[Cod]

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Is anyone seeing ball shadows when playing? I noticed in Tropicana and Petco that there is no ball shadow on fly balls, pitches, throws, etc.. I checked older versions of the game (21, 20, 19, etc.) and there are ball shadows. Wonder if I'm missing a setting or something.

[countryboy]

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There are definitely new first baseman animations for picking the ball out of the dirt and even receiving throws from infielders.

[countryboy]

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Is anyone seeing ball shadows when playing? I noticed in Tropicana and Petco that there is no ball shadow on fly balls, pitches, throws, etc.. I checked older versions of the game (21, 20, 19, etc.) and there are ball shadows. Wonder if I'm missing a setting or something.

I noticed this earlier when playing at Tropicana.

I'm playing Petco now and ball shadows show up in the dirt but not on the grass.