Re: State of DD
They were terrible last year too. I really don't think pitching is that much worse than last year, honestly. At least as a first time player last year and not having any experience one way or the other. Changeups were the most likely pitch to float last year even when hitting perfect on the meter. I almost never used it eventually which sucks because it's such an important pitch in baseball. But in this game it basically just gets served up on a tee for everyone to blast.
The way pitching performs in this game causes so much undue anxiety that I can't believe the most important function of the game feels so pointless. But we have to keep in mind that they are more than aware of how OP and unrealistic the high sinker is because they brag about cards having sinkers like it's supposed to be a big deal. They give pitchers a sinker just to make them meta even when they don't throw them in real life. Aroldis Chapman does not throw a sinker. He doesn't even really throw a 2-seam. I checked his baseball-savant page after seeing him with a sinker and a 2-seamer in this game and he had such a low % of "2-seam" fastballs it was hilarious. Realistically it was probably just a 4-seamer he got some crazy run on that registered as a 2-seam. There wasn't a single sinker recorded all year last year.
So they lean into a broken mechanic because their engine doesn't represent sinkers accurately. Make it meta and one of those douche-bro talking points for content creators to talk about. But then one of the most important pitches in baseball, the changeup, is literally useless and might as well not even be in a pitch-mix.
Again, as a first-time player last year I couldn't believe how poorly the game played online. It feels like absolute dog**** being beaten on weak contact against people who you were clearly playing better than. I've said a million times I would LOVE to just jump into a HoF queue or even Legend and if I get spanked then GREAT. Let me get better at the ****ing game. I'll take my lumps and adjust and get better. Or I won't and I'll keep losing. But let me play on the ******* difficulty with the pitch speeds and PCI I want.
Instead of being subjected to lower difficulties that I simply do not enjoy.
There are people who want to play on AS or Veteran. LET THEM. There are people who want the higher difficulties where input matters more. LET THEM.
quit making me cry sds i hate baseball and YOU you're not my real dad
They were terrible last year too. I really don't think pitching is that much worse than last year, honestly. At least as a first time player last year and not having any experience one way or the other. Changeups were the most likely pitch to float last year even when hitting perfect on the meter. I almost never used it eventually which sucks because it's such an important pitch in baseball. But in this game it basically just gets served up on a tee for everyone to blast.
The way pitching performs in this game causes so much undue anxiety that I can't believe the most important function of the game feels so pointless. But we have to keep in mind that they are more than aware of how OP and unrealistic the high sinker is because they brag about cards having sinkers like it's supposed to be a big deal. They give pitchers a sinker just to make them meta even when they don't throw them in real life. Aroldis Chapman does not throw a sinker. He doesn't even really throw a 2-seam. I checked his baseball-savant page after seeing him with a sinker and a 2-seamer in this game and he had such a low % of "2-seam" fastballs it was hilarious. Realistically it was probably just a 4-seamer he got some crazy run on that registered as a 2-seam. There wasn't a single sinker recorded all year last year.
So they lean into a broken mechanic because their engine doesn't represent sinkers accurately. Make it meta and one of those douche-bro talking points for content creators to talk about. But then one of the most important pitches in baseball, the changeup, is literally useless and might as well not even be in a pitch-mix.
Again, as a first-time player last year I couldn't believe how poorly the game played online. It feels like absolute dog**** being beaten on weak contact against people who you were clearly playing better than. I've said a million times I would LOVE to just jump into a HoF queue or even Legend and if I get spanked then GREAT. Let me get better at the ****ing game. I'll take my lumps and adjust and get better. Or I won't and I'll keep losing. But let me play on the ******* difficulty with the pitch speeds and PCI I want.
Instead of being subjected to lower difficulties that I simply do not enjoy.
There are people who want to play on AS or Veteran. LET THEM. There are people who want the higher difficulties where input matters more. LET THEM.
quit making me cry sds i hate baseball and YOU you're not my real dad
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