Armor & Swords MLB The Show 20 Classic/Directional Clean Screen Simulation Sliders

[Rocket32]

Re: Armor & Swords MLB The Show 20 Classic/Directional Clean Screen Simulation Slider

It definitely does play differently. When you save and exit, you are essentially ending the blueprint or loose script associated with that specific game (in-game momentum, does your pitcher have it today?, etc.). When you load it back up, you're loading up a new script for the remainder of your game. The same thing happens in Madden, and it's obvious because the weather and uniforms change. The only thing that is retained are the stats of that game and the energy levels of the players.

Two ways to approach this:

1. If you're able to, put your Play Station in sleep mode when you have to step away. This way when you come back, you'll literally be picking up where you left off. It's no different than pausing the game.

2. If your daughters want to play while you're away for an extended period, then you have no choice but to save and exit. In that case, I would embrace the changes when you resume - either as a rain-delay type situation as mentioned above, or just an is what it is type of deal. Game dynamics change all the time IRL. I.e. one team looks like it's laying the wood to another, and then boom, the game flips. Over the course of 162 games, it all evens itself out.

On top of that I’d say there’s a change on your end as well. Early on you’re getting your timing down adapting to the starter’s pitch speeds and types like in real life as a lineup turns over for the 2nd or 3rd time vs one pitcher, and then when you step away for an extended amount of time, whether that’s hours or even the next day.....it’s kind of like you’re back in the 1st inning even though you’ve actually already seen a lot of his stuff and are in the 5th.


Same goes for pitching. You’re seeing what pitches are working, what he doesn’t have that game, you get in a groove.....then you stop and come back a lot later. Can you really slide right back into the rhythm you were in instantly? That small readjustment period can be enough to get into a jam or cough up a HR.


When you have to leave mid game for a long while it’s kind of like a mental refresh I think. Depending on how you were playing before that it can be good or bad .

[Burgess]

Re: Armor & Swords MLB The Show 20 Classic/Directional Clean Screen Simulation Slider

Do you have a favourite player injury rule? Let’s say your favourite player is Mike Trout and you are running an Angels franchise. What would you do if Trout got injured for 2-3 months or more? Would you remove the injury altogether, reduce it, or play without Trout for an extended period of time?

[jcar0725]

Re: Armor & Swords MLB The Show 20 Classic/Directional Clean Screen Simulation Slider

Do you have a favourite player injury rule? Let’s say your favourite player is Mike Trout and you are running an Angels franchise. What would you do if Trout got injured for 2-3 months or more? Would you remove the injury altogether, reduce it, or play without Trout for an extended period of time?

I would accept that my best player got hurt and that I have to make adjustments. One of my favorite parts of the game is the unexpected.

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[Armor and Sword]

Re: Armor & Swords MLB The Show 20 Classic/Directional Clean Screen Simulation Slider

Do you have a favourite player injury rule? Let’s say your favourite player is Mike Trout and you are running an Angels franchise. What would you do if Trout got injured for 2-3 months or more? Would you remove the injury altogether, reduce it, or play without Trout for an extended period of time?

In Year 3 of my Yankees franchise I lost Harper for 52 days and when he came back I lost Judge for 1 month.

I play through injuries. That to me is the essence of franchise mode and having storylines emerge.

In Year 4 we lost Trea Turner to a broken hand after he was hit by a pitch in the ALDS.

Tyler Wade had to step in……he ended up becoming the post season MVP on our way to our 2nd World Series title.

Awesome.


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[Armor and Sword]

Re: Armor & Swords MLB The Show 20 Classic/Directional Clean Screen Simulation Slider

And also in Year 4 as well. We lost Gary Sanchez for the season in July. So a kid down on the farm named Julius Cooley was called up. He was our 6th round draft choice back in 2017.

He became known as “The Hitman” Cooley. Those who follow the chise on Twitch can attest to the storylines that emerge each season with injuries being played out.


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[Funkycorm]

Re: Armor & Swords MLB The Show 20 Classic/Directional Clean Screen Simulation Slider

Do you have a favourite player injury rule? Let’s say your favourite player is Mike Trout and you are running an Angels franchise. What would you do if Trout got injured for 2-3 months or more? Would you remove the injury altogether, reduce it, or play without Trout for an extended period of time?

Last season in year 3 of my future Indians in 2027, now in 2028, I had Aaron Judge on his last year of a 5 year contract starting to regress and his numbers starting to slip.

Anyway, in early June 2027, he dove for a line drive, saving the game, but injured himself in the process. After the game, I called up a young LF named Rick Langford. He was 23 and was one of the potential replacements for Judge in the 2028 season. Langford played so well, and way above his ratings, that when Judge came back, Langford remained the starting RF. Flash forward a week later and my speedy contact CF lead off hitter went down for 2 months (one of my favorites on the team) and Langford took over In CF and Judge went back to right.

Langford came in second in AL rookie of the year voting only behind my number 5 starter Andy MacDougal who has a whopping 97 stamina and had a lights out rookie year and is my team's future ace.

In that off-season I had debated resigning Judge to a one year deal but with Langford making his mark, I let Judge go and kept Langford in my outfield in 2028 and is playing well for me.

My point is go with the flow with injuries or you may not see these stories emerge.

What I do though with injuries, is if there are players in the league with "career ending" injuries I write down at season's end what they are, remove them, and then injure them manually for the first 2 months of the new regular season. I do this to add some story lines the next season. This is universal across the entire league.

[Houston]

Re: Armor & Swords MLB The Show 20 Classic/Directional Clean Screen Simulation Slider

I wanted to share with my good friend armor.

This is my 3rd NO-HITTER thrown this season within my custom online league using 3 different teams, well one was a combined NO-HITTER.

Just wanted to share as it was all caught on video.

https://youtu.be/4ofJtY3FCKI

https://youtu.be/bLC_yucq_gw

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[nolczyk16]

Re: Armor & Swords MLB The Show 20 Classic/Directional Clean Screen Simulation Slider

Would anyone be able to supply some advice about making pitching harder?

I play the exact clean screen setup as OP: no pitch marker, no vibration, classic pitching, HOF difficulty. I know it’s not a “hot stretch” of pitching as I’ve gone about 30-40 games without giving up more than 3 runs per game and a lot of 1 run games (against).

To test, I played a few games on legend pitching and I got rocked for at least 13 hits and 7 runs against (on average) through 10 games. Literally 2 out of 5 pitches would drift dead middle of the zone like a magnet (no matter where I aimed) and would end up as a home run for the CPU...it was pretty maddening. Would anyone suggest legend...and then moving down CPU hitting sliders or raising Human pitching consistency and accuracy?

Or would a better method be to raise CPU hitting sliders on the HOF pitching difficulty?

Would appreciate any support on this, and I’m sure we’ve all experienced something like this before


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[Armor and Sword]

Re: Armor & Swords MLB The Show 20 Classic/Directional Clean Screen Simulation Slider

Would anyone be able to supply some advice about making pitching harder?

I play the exact clean screen setup as OP: no pitch marker, no vibration, classic pitching, HOF difficulty. I know it’s not a “hot stretch” of pitching as I’ve gone about 30-40 games without giving up more than 3 runs per game and a lot of 1 run games (against).

To test, I played a few games on legend pitching and I got rocked for at least 13 hits and 7 runs against (on average) through 10 games. Literally 2 out of 5 pitches would drift dead middle of the zone like a magnet (no matter where I aimed) and would end up as a home run for the CPU...it was pretty maddening. Would anyone suggest legend...and then moving down CPU hitting sliders or raising Human pitching consistency and accuracy?

Or would a better method be to raise CPU hitting sliders on the HOF pitching difficulty?

Would appreciate any support on this, and I’m sure we’ve all experienced something like this before


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I would increase the CPU hitting sliders by one:

Contact
Power
Solid Hits

Start with solid hits by 1 and Power by 1


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[Armor and Sword]

Re: Armor & Swords MLB The Show 20 Classic/Directional Clean Screen Simulation Slider

Would anyone be able to supply some advice about making pitching harder?

I play the exact clean screen setup as OP: no pitch marker, no vibration, classic pitching, HOF difficulty. I know it’s not a “hot stretch” of pitching as I’ve gone about 30-40 games without giving up more than 3 runs per game and a lot of 1 run games (against).

To test, I played a few games on legend pitching and I got rocked for at least 13 hits and 7 runs against (on average) through 10 games. Literally 2 out of 5 pitches would drift dead middle of the zone like a magnet (no matter where I aimed) and would end up as a home run for the CPU...it was pretty maddening. Would anyone suggest legend...and then moving down CPU hitting sliders or raising Human pitching consistency and accuracy?

Or would a better method be to raise CPU hitting sliders on the HOF pitching difficulty?

Would appreciate any support on this, and I’m sure we’ve all experienced something like this before


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Oh also drop your Pitch Consistency to default 5 from 6


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[nolczyk16]

Re: Armor & Swords MLB The Show 20 Classic/Directional Clean Screen Simulation Slider

Awesome, thanks Armor! Just out of curiosity, is legend pitching just too overpowered to even think about (when using classic pitching)?

Per your guidance, I’m going to stay on HOF and just raise CPU hitting sliders if needed, but was wondering about your thoughts on legend.

Hope you’re well!


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[Armor and Sword]

Re: Armor & Swords MLB The Show 20 Classic/Directional Clean Screen Simulation Slider

Awesome, thanks Armor! Just out of curiosity, is legend pitching just too overpowered to even think about (when using classic pitching)?

Per your guidance, I’m going to stay on HOF and just raise CPU hitting sliders if needed, but was wondering about your thoughts on legend.

Hope you’re well!


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I have never been able to use classic pitching on Legend. I can never find the right slider balance to make it on “fair” ground.

HOF is IMO the best level to use Directional hitting and Classic pitching.

All-Star is also good but more slider adjustments are needed for my personel skill level.

The great thing about The Show is how well balanced the game has always been (till 21 IMO) and how easy it has been to tweak sliders to get a nice simulation of baseball.

I would go ahead and do this first:

Lower your pitching consistency to 5
Increase CPU Contact and Power by 1

That should do the trick.

[nolczyk16]

Re: Armor & Swords MLB The Show 20 Classic/Directional Clean Screen Simulation Slider

Great, I completely agree about Legend, even great pitches out of the zone were being crushed on that difficulty.

Final clarification with you, your most recent post says to raise contact and power by 1, but 2 posts ago you said to raise power and solid hits, so I just wanted to clarify.

If I’m still experiencing low run totals against I guess I can go ahead and raise power, solid hits, and contact all by 1. Wound you ever touch CPU timing?

Thanks as always, your help is immensely appreciated


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[Armor and Sword]

Re: Armor & Swords MLB The Show 20 Classic/Directional Clean Screen Simulation Slider

Great, I completely agree about Legend, even great pitches out of the zone were being crushed on that difficulty.

Final clarification with you, your most recent post says to raise contact and power by 1, but 2 posts ago you said to raise power and solid hits, so I just wanted to clarify.

If I’m still experiencing low run totals against I guess I can go ahead and raise power, solid hits, and contact all by 1. Wound you ever touch CPU timing?

Thanks as always, your help is immensely appreciated


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I would leave timing alone. Start with power and contact and human pitch consistency down to 5. Play at least 12-15 games. If your still not feeling it move solid hits up 1 too.


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[nolczyk16]

Re: Armor & Swords MLB The Show 20 Classic/Directional Clean Screen Simulation Slider

I would leave timing alone. Start with power and contact and human pitch consistency down to 5. Play at least 12-15 games. If your still not feeling it move solid hits up 1 too.


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Appreciate it Armor!

Be well, man


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