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[huggerorange73]

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Wow! The way these guys listen to all you knitpickers, there may not be anything else to knitpick come this time next year! The flags blowing properly? cmon. Amazing details guys

The nitpickers barking is what gets all these little jawdropping/mindblowing/did you see that things added into these games my friend!

[Pared]

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The nitpickers barking is what gets all these little jawdropping/mindblowing/did you see that things added into these games my friend!

I hope you're being facetious!

[Rob_NYY]

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Knight,

You played playoff games, right? Did the playoff games start at night, like they should? Or do they start at dusk and progress into night time? Which would be wrong because by October it's dark by 6:30 PM in most places, and most playoff games start at 8 PM. Playoff games are played under the bright lights of October, I hope that's the case in the game too.

[phillyfan23]

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Knight,

You played playoff games, right? Did the playoff games start at night, like they should? Or do they start at dusk and progress into night time? Which would be wrong because by October it's dark by 6:30 PM in most places, and most playoff games start at 8 PM. Playoff games are played under the bright lights of October, I hope that's the case in the game too.

I asked this exact question to Knight and Knight has PMed the devs asking about this. But Knight told me if it wasn't already in there, it might be too late to add it.

That would just be icing on the cake if it was in there, but I would be surprised.

if it's not in there, maybe it will be corrected via a patch in may like last year. Last year they fixed some sig motions for players, maybe they do the same thing in a patch PLUS add this aspect of playoff atmosphere.

We can hope right??

[Rob_NYY]

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I asked this exact question to Knight and Knight has PMed the devs asking about this. But Knight told me if it wasn't already in there, it might be too late to add it.

That would just be icing on the cake if it was in there, but I would be surprised.

It always bothered me how in MLB 2K7 playoff games would start at dusk and wouldn't get dark until the 7th or 8th inning. One time I actually won the World Series in the daylight. Don't know how on earth that happened but it felt and looked wrong. This isn't 1953.

Anyway, if they don't get this right this year, there is always hope for 2010! They have added so much awesome stuff, I feel like a jackass complaining about stuff and asking for more!

But playoff atmosphere is a big thing with me, right behind sig animations and accessories. I'm THRILLED they dressed up the ballparks for playoff games. Hopefully the fans go crazy in the postseason as well.

[Drew127]

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I asked this exact question to Knight and Knight has PMed the devs asking about this. But Knight told me if it wasn't already in there, it might be too late to add it.

That would just be icing on the cake if it was in there, but I would be surprised.

if it's not in there, maybe it will be corrected via a patch in may like last year. Last year they fixed some sig motions for players, maybe they do the same thing in a patch PLUS add this aspect of playoff atmosphere.

We can hope right??

Well, according to what Knight said on the previous page, he is pretty sure that it varies based on time of year. So what I took from that is that early/late season games will start closer to or in the dark, which would be freaking cool.

[huggerorange73]

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I hope you're being facetious!

I was only semi serious so yes, you are correct!

The devs passion for the sport and their creation coupled with ocd / anal gameplayers make for THE definitive baseball console gaming experience.

It's a marriage made in heaven!

Pared, are we going to do another graphics rundown again this year?

[mlblover15]

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so i also take it game times have been addressed... so if my A's are playing in the mid west we will have game times starting at like 4pm local time or all all times still going to be est... or pst...

cause i think, thinking about that may be the cog that is missing in the thing... cause if your times are all est no matter whree you play the game time "time" of the game in the day time wont be reflected...

i seriously hope they took the actual game times this year of each teams real life schedules so that they will truly reflect the time zones properly is what im trying to say...

[HokieB]

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so i also take it game times have been addressed... so if my A's are playing in the mid west we will have game times starting at like 4pm local time or all all times still going to be est... or pst...

cause i think, thinking about that may be the cog that is missing in the thing... cause if your times are all est no matter whree you play the game time "time" of the game in the day time wont be reflected...

i seriously hope they took the actual game times this year of each teams real life schedules so that they will truly reflect the time zones properly is what im trying to say...

Judging from the Out of Town scoreboards in '08, they have the timezone thing down. I'm playing a season right now with the SF Giants, and when I play a night game at home and look at the OoT Scoreboard when my game starts, all ET games are final, all CT games are around the 6th, all MT games are around the 3rd, and all games in PT are just starting.

Back to the World Series lighting, they'll really nail it if a West Coast game starts at dusk (8:00ET = 5:00PT). I've been watching the recap of the Giants-Angels World Series on MLB Network and all their games started at dusk.

BTW, when the pictures come in, will they be posted in this thread or will someone start a new one?

[SoxChamp]

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The nitpickers barking is what gets all these little jawdropping/mindblowing/did you see that things added into these games my friend!

I would hardly label waving flags as jawdropping or mindblowing, let alone a combination of the two. Seriously?

[Rod_Carew29]

Re: Breaking Up Double Plays

The ONLY way I had, and currently have broken up double plays, was when my runner does that rolling block kind of slide into second. S-o-m-e-t-i-m-e-s the fielder throwing to second misfires the throw to first...because they either have to jump out of the way, or sidestep towards the infield.

Are you sure DP's can't be broken up ever? I know there is no collision detection but I could have sworn that I broke up a couple of DP's in '08. I thought maybe it was just an animation trigger as opposed to two players colliding. Kind of like the collision at home plate???

Of course I could have been dreaming about doing it in last year's version

[theaub]

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Yeah the time on the schedules are always in local time. So if you're say, Toronto, and you travel to Oakland and gametime says 7 PM, it means 7 PT even though an actual schedule would say 10 ET.

Which is much easier (since you only have to program two time of days).

[DodgerFanatic2K3]

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I would hardly label waving flags as jawdropping or mindblowing, let alone a combination of the two. Seriously?

I would.... The time and effort alone they took just to make the flag realistically react to the wind speed and directing is mind blowing IMO

Which reminds me......

I hope they also fixed the problem with the wind direction arrow always pointing in the opposite direction of the actual wind

[dorismary]

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Oh...and I'm VERY happy to be wrong about not being able to play EVERY game on the schedule. The way I check was to pick the last game and then look at the others....and they were simmed....if you do them in order...you're good to go for them all! (thanks dorismary for relaying that info from Kolbe! )

M.K.
Knight165

Hope I didnt wine too much but something just didnt sound right
Hey Mk one wrong outta say a 3000 questions isnt to shabby , but Jims still perfect at least in his mind j/k
Thanks again DMS

[Pared]

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I was only semi serious so yes, you are correct!

The devs passion for the sport and their creation coupled with ocd / anal gameplayers make for THE definitive baseball console gaming experience.

It's a marriage made in heaven!

Pared, are we going to do another graphics rundown again this year?

Hooray beer!

Sure, I'm up for it once again.