I don’t understand what happens in Ranked Season Play

[jake19ny]

I was 14-5 but somehow still only at All-Star level. I’m one win away from moving up and I’ve now lost 6 in a row all oddly.
For starters my diamond players hit balls thrown right down the middle with perfect PCI and good times swings but just hit weak grounders or pop ups so I can’t seem to score more than 1 run a game all of a sudden.
I keep my opponent scoreless or too 1 run but then the 9th inning happens. My pitcher, despite perfect metered pitches can’t hit the plate by a mile.....however my opponent with a guy like Joey Gallo will hit a ball 2 feet off the plate up and in hits the thing 500 yards for the walk off HR. Either that or I walk guys and my fielders can’t field anything with any urgency.
I simply don’t understand what goes on.

[cktheproblem]

Re: I don’t understand what happens in Ranked Season Play

There's a known issue with the PCI jumping up and/or down on good timing swings. It will (hopefully) be fixed with the patch that is coming tomorrow.

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[jake19ny]

Re: I don’t understand what happens in Ranked Season Play

There's a known issue with the PCI jumping up and/or down on good timing swings. It will (hopefully) be fixed with the patch that is coming tomorrow.

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I hope so man....and I hope they patch the fielding in several areas mainly the ball passing right through your guy rolling to the wall. I can lose just fine on my own without help from the game lol....

[jake19ny]

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Lol....I’m up to 10 losses in a row. They fixed the PCI and I’m just crushing balls now but all go right at my opponent then some silver player hits a bomb HR in a pitch that could never be taken deep due to the laws of physics....but my favorite loss to date came last game. Bottom 8 I’m up 1-0 and my opponent is at bat with 2 outs. Four good metered pitches in a row go nowhere near the mark and I walk him on 4 pitches. He replaces his runner with Dee Gordon and takes the big lead. My throw over to first sails over my first baseman’s head but because he was diving back to first and a good bounce of the wall I have a shot to nail him at second but my firstbaseman throws the ball to the outfield where none of my outfielders want to retrieve it and I can’t take control of anyone so Dee just walks on home to tie it up. I change pitchers and first pitch is a changeup low and at the righthanded batters shoe top but he manages to defy physics and drive it over the left field wall. I end up losing 2-1. Every loss has been 1-0 or 2-1 and all by some odd event. I need to learn how to record this stuff and post videos because if it weren’t so annoying it would be hilarious.

I do wish they would fix the hitting. As it is now physics mean nothing and its simply a reward system for guessing right. If you want to lunge out over the plate to swing at a slider going away 2 feet off the plate that’s fine if they want to reward you with contact but the consequences of a human body taking such a swing should be realistic not an opposite field bomb homerun. Likewise when a meatball comes right down the middle and square up with good everything you should be rewarded with more quality hits. Instead I feel like this game does it opposite.

[mikeq672]

Re: I don’t understand what happens in Ranked Season Play

Sadly, I would guess the hitting engine is exactly how they want it, it severely lessens any skill gap in the game which encourages more people to stay interested and buy stubs. These card collecting game modes are game killers. Development teams no longer focus on making a quality game, they focus on how to get the most people to spend money on extra things like stubs and packs. Random results help keep more people playing, because little Billy wont keep playing if he cant win games he has no business winning. Think about the state of sports games. Madden is a dumpster fire, although it has been for a while. NHL has become complete garbage over the last few years. The gameplay in this game has gotten increasingly worse ever since the increased focus on DD. I cant speak about FIFA or NBA 2k, but Im assuming its more of the same.

[jake19ny]

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Sadly, I would guess the hitting engine is exactly how they want it, it severely lessens any skill gap in the game which encourages more people to stay interested and buy stubs. These card collecting game modes are game killers. Development teams no longer focus on making a quality game, they focus on how to get the most people to spend money on extra things like stubs and packs. Random results help keep more people playing, because little Billy wont keep playing if he cant win games he has no business winning. Think about the state of sports games. Madden is a dumpster fire, although it has been for a while. NHL has become complete garbage over the last few years. The gameplay in this game has gotten increasingly worse ever since the increased focus on DD. I cant speak about FIFA or NBA 2k, but Im assuming its more of the same.

I agree but I think the game leveling think is coming to a head and will hurt them in the long run. For every casual gamer they keep engaged they push away a hardcore fan. The hardcore fans are your preorder people who play from March to November and also sustain the market in game. Diamond Dynasty dies without the hardcore fan.

[mikeq672]

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I agree but I think the game leveling think is coming to a head and will hurt them in the long run. For every casual gamer they keep engaged they push away a hardcore fan. The hardcore fans are your preorder people who play from March to November and also sustain the market in game. Diamond Dynasty dies without the hardcore fan.

I dont disagree at all. Been saying it for years. Completely alienating your fanbase to keep casual fans involved is a very short sighted plan. Sports games are all Ive played since I was a kid, with the GTA or shooters thrown in. But Ive stopped playing Madden, Ive stopped playing 2k, I still play NHL because of EASHL but I used to have 10-15 friends to play that with, Im down to 1. Ive been playing this less and less. At some point the bubble is going to burst on these card collecting modes where the excess spending some people do will stop, and then these companies are left with a trash game and nothing else because theyve stripped their product of every intangible quality they could.

[Mercury112491]

Re: I don’t understand what happens in Ranked Season Play

I am 100% done with Ranked play until they fix whatever is making it impossible to get any swing and misses. Pitch speed, pci size, whatever. Ship a game where 50% if the batters(contact/low power) are useless and more than 50% of the pitchers(power arms) are ineffective. The biggest part of baseball is the battle between the pitcher and batter and this game has none of it. Just venting a bit in the hopes maybe SDS checks forums like this.


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[jake19ny]

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Additionally....eventually people who enjoy and focus on Ranked Season Play will have no incentive to improve their team thus in the long run impact pack sales as well as make the long grind to do missions pointless. The whole point of Diamond Dynasty is to create and build an amazing team but between the ratings mod and game balancing the whole concept becomes pointless for Ranked Season players. As it stands now people are realizing its better to run out a team of silvers and golds rather than diamonds.

So what I’m gathering from people and my own experience....If you work hard at missions or spend your money and get a stacked team you will A) be matched against somebody better than you thanks to the ratings modification or B) you will be matched against a team with less skilled cards and the game will have those cards play at the level of your stacked team....as a result you don’t get enough match ups against a team fairly equal in ratings and fairly equal in skill.

[ph33]

Re: I don’t understand what happens in Ranked Season Play

Last night I finally hit 600 (Started at 0, didn't get the game until about 2 weeks ago). the climb there didn't have too many roadbumps.

But I forgot how much I hate playing in higher divisions. Not because you face higher rated teams and "better" competition, but a lot of this "better" competition is just *******s who know how to take advantage of every animation

Was locked in a one hour+ game yesterday because of some turd who just kept leading off. and leading off. and wouldn't stop.

funny thing is, when I finally got him to stop leading off, he'd steal a base anyways. and I got stuck in a sequence in a chase down where I finally should have had him, but my 2nd baseman caught the ball, signed an autograph on it, and then decided to try tagging the guy sliding in. WTF

They have got to take care of that crap. if you hit the leadoff button at all, you should be forced to MANUALLY retreat. no more of the game holding your hand for you and letting you dive back on your own.

I also wish I could tell my outfielders standing under the catch circle that you catch the ball with your glove, not your *** **** face

[jake19ny]

Re: I don’t understand what happens in Ranked Season Play

Last night I finally hit 600 (Started at 0, didn't get the game until about 2 weeks ago). the climb there didn't have too many roadbumps.

But I forgot how much I hate playing in higher divisions. Not because you face higher rated teams and "better" competition, but a lot of this "better" competition is just *******s who know how to take advantage of every animation

Was locked in a one hour+ game yesterday because of some turd who just kept leading off. and leading off. and wouldn't stop.

funny thing is, when I finally got him to stop leading off, he'd steal a base anyways. and I got stuck in a sequence in a chase down where I finally should have had him, but my 2nd baseman caught the ball, signed an autograph on it, and then decided to try tagging the guy sliding in. WTF

They have got to take care of that crap. if you hit the leadoff button at all, you should be forced to MANUALLY retreat. no more of the game holding your hand for you and letting you dive back on your own.

I also wish I could tell my outfielders standing under the catch circle that you catch the ball with your glove, not your *** **** face

That’s really the most disappointing thing about this game. When you move higher in ranked seasons it should just be skill vs skill but instead it’s about who takes advantage of bugs and poir gameplay mechanics better and for some reason the random errors and BS happens more often the higher you climb

[mikeq672]

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That’s really the most disappointing thing about this game. When you move higher in ranked seasons it should just be skill vs skill but instead it’s about who takes advantage of bugs and poir gameplay mechanics better and for some reason the random errors and BS happens more often the higher you climb

Thats just sports games as a whole now a days. Its not about being better, its learning ways the game essentially lets you cheat. Obviously the game isnt going to be perfect, or anywhere near perfect, but a lot of the issues these games have, have been going on for years. Micro-transactions have ruined the sports game industry.

[jake19ny]

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Well I’m just about ready to move on to something else. The mission trade ins have pushed me away from them. Conquest Extrene seems like it will have me pulling my hair out, and my hard work to build a good team seems to be rewarded with idiotic losses in Ranked Season. I have plummeted to 436. My recent record is around 3-18 and at least 80% of those losses come from random idiocy or poor gameplay mechanics. Let’s look at the amazing ways to lose a ranked season game.

1) Floating PCI
2) Pitching meter deciding to mean nothing
3) Great timed with spot on PCI swings result in pop outs or weak grounders
4) My guys with 94 speed can’t beat out a squib to the 3rd base side but opponents 45 speed guy can.
5) Fielders soft tossing a ball like they are playing catch with their 4 year old.
6) Fielders dropping balls like they just picked up a hot potato
7) Balls magically passing through fielders
8) Fielders walking to balls like they are out for an evening stroll
9) Joey Gallo going 3-4 on pitches way out of the zone including a bomb homerun

I’m sure I’m forgetting some but man it just frustrates me. Add that to the better my team gets the more thise things happen. Meanwhile my opponent who has zero plate discipline and a lesser team gets rewarded with the moonshot on an out of the zone impossible to hit pitch. Honestly almost every recent loss 1-0 or 2-1 because of all of the above. I don’t mind losing if the game is fun and I flat out get beat but this stuff just makes me want to shelve it.

[mikeq672]

Re: I don’t understand what happens in Ranked Season Play

Well I’m just about ready to move on to something else. The mission trade ins have pushed me away from them. Conquest Extrene seems like it will have me pulling my hair out, and my hard work to build a good team seems to be rewarded with idiotic losses in Ranked Season. I have plummeted to 436. My recent record is around 3-18 and at least 80% of those losses come from random idiocy or poor gameplay mechanics. Let’s look at the amazing ways to lose a ranked season game.

1) Floating PCI
2) Pitching meter deciding to mean nothing
3) Great timed with spot on PCI swings result in pop outs or weak grounders
4) My guys with 94 speed can’t beat out a squib to the 3rd base side but opponents 45 speed guy can.
5) Fielders soft tossing a ball like they are playing catch with their 4 year old.
6) Fielders dropping balls like they just picked up a hot potato
7) Balls magically passing through fielders
8) Fielders walking to balls like they are out for an evening stroll
9) Joey Gallo going 3-4 on pitches way out of the zone including a bomb homerun

I’m sure I’m forgetting some but man it just frustrates me. Add that to the better my team gets the more thise things happen. Meanwhile my opponent who has zero plate discipline and a lesser team gets rewarded with the moonshot on an out of the zone impossible to hit pitch. Honestly almost every recent loss 1-0 or 2-1 because of all of the above. I don’t mind losing if the game is fun and I flat out get beat but this stuff just makes me want to shelve it.

Honestly, this game blows now. Its gameplay has fallen off a cliff in the last 3 years. Its become a complete pile of randomly generated trash. The baseball fan in me keeps me trying to find a way to make the game enjoyable, but its just not.

Honestly, if the gameplay was as solid as it used to be, I would have gotten over the souvenir bullsh*t. But its become quite apparent that they do not care at all abour producing a solid, realistic baseball game. They only care about milking every penny out of people in DD now.

[esdot404]

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I agree with the issues stated above. DD and ranked seasons experience this year is awful. The whole issue with PCI and this hitting engine this year has ruined the gameplay online. I also find the pitching to be brutal, there’s very low number of Ks online as too many players make contact on pitches out of zone or in the dirt. Wish they’d go back to 2016 hitting online etc. I will probably play it offline, but definitely not doing anymore DD/ranked seasons.


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