MLB The Show 25 Update #4 Available Today - Patch Notes

[KnightTemplar]

Re: MLB The Show 25 Patch #4 - Patch Notes

This is such a good game, gameplay wise. It looks a lot better this year as well. It seems like every year we're getting more and more bugs coming along with it. They normally all get fixed but it makes me want to reconsider by day 1 purchase every year because I always find myself waiting around a month or longer to get started because I want everything to be fixed for my liking.

Can’t say I disagree with any of this.

Perhaps next year just release the game early for everyone at normal price. That would go along way in the PR department.

[MiracleMet718]

Re: MLB The Show 25 Patch #4 - Patch Notes

I'll post my own content but thanks for the helpful advice. It's a valid question. How do these bugs enter the game annually when previously there was no problem?

Condescending remarks about the devs?

Very easily. When you open up code and make changes, some things that you didn’t mean to touch/break get broken. The more lines of code you have and the more complex it gets, the higher likelihood you’ll have bugs that pop up. From there you have to decide:

1) How quickly was it caught?
2) Does it prevent the software/game from working?
3) If not, do you have enough time to fix the issue before the release date?
4) If after release date, how long will it take to both investigate/test/fix.

As I said, read the two links I posted and they explain why software bugs happen and also give a bit of 101 about basic coding that shows the simplified tips for best practices (and multiply it by 1000 for video games).

[sportsgamingguy2023]

Re: MLB The Show 25 Patch #4 - Patch Notes

Very easily. When you open up code and make changes, some things that you didn’t mean to touch/break get broken. The more lines of code you have and the more complex it gets, the higher likelihood you’ll have bugs that pop up. From there you have to decide:

1) How quickly was it caught?
2) Does it prevent the software/game from working?
3) If not, do you have enough time to fix the issue before the release date?
4) If after release date, how long will it take to both investigate/test/fix.

As I said, read the two links I posted and they explain why software bugs happen and also give a bit of 101 about basic coding that shows the simplified tips for best practices (and multiply it by 1000 for video games).

Bugs from previous versions that were fixed during previous cycle, but show up again in new release can also be due to poor code source control. In other words, a back leveled version of code or function got included, not the most up to date one.

[djflock]

Re: MLB The Show 25 Patch #4 - Patch Notes

This is such a good game, gameplay wise. It looks a lot better this year as well. It seems like every year we're getting more and more bugs coming along with it. They normally all get fixed but it makes me want to reconsider by day 1 purchase every year because I always find myself waiting around a month or longer to get started because I want everything to be fixed for my liking.

Agreed and to add on to that, It is making me totally rule out paying for early release.

There are some other things that have me reconsider early launch too. 1 - Its a couple weeks-month after release until we get OD rosters and the missing players , 2 - Equipment seems to no longer ship with the game out of the box. Seems to take a couple weeks- months to get up to speed , 3- NUMBER 1 thing for me - the game use to SHIP with new player likenesses. I think there may be less than 15 players that have a face scan this year that didn't last year. They seem to take a couple roster updates before they give us that big batch of new scans.

[Therebelyell626]

Re: MLB The Show 25 Patch #4 - Patch Notes

Very easily. When you open up code and make changes, some things that you didn’t mean to touch/break get broken. The more lines of code you have and the more complex it gets, the higher likelihood you’ll have bugs that pop up. From there you have to decide:

1) How quickly was it caught?
2) Does it prevent the software/game from working?
3) If not, do you have enough time to fix the issue before the release date?
4) If after release date, how long will it take to both investigate/test/fix.

As I said, read the two links I posted and they explain why software bugs happen and also give a bit of 101 about basic coding that shows the simplified tips for best practices (and multiply it by 1000 for video games).

This makes sense. As someone who plays the WWE 2k series, I know that every time they “fix” something, they break two other things. I would have to imagine coding is very difficult, hence why all the people I know that write software code make upwards of $150,000 a year. Some even more. It’s obviously a very in demand skill