RTTS Game watch altered/removed

[mrCPUgeek]

I've been playing MLB the Show since 2009. When they added player lock to franchise with result place option, I was in heaven. Now that they have basically taken that away, I find myself questioning the future of this game. Like others have said, I can sorta understand not enhancing it anymore if only a few use it, but why take it out? If they would just give us an option to turn on what they have now from the beginning of the game, that would be great at this point.

[Aensland]

I don't play RTTS but totally feel ppl's frustrations. I understand removing certain aspects of the game to make room for new stuff, but removed options, like home run celebration on/off cam, makes no sense.

[jada855]

The Hype!

Well Gentlemen,

This is a true story of how it all went down for me. I have always spent a ton of time creating a SS to look like me in MLB the show using the create a player face sculpting engine since MLB The Show 14 on PS4. Year to Year saves was a joy because I actually play 162 games each year in Franchise mode using a player locked SS with All Pitches turned on to watch the full game.

I was hyped and I mean hyped for MLB 16! I followed all the twitch streams and was excited to hear about new animation's and a smarter AI and the small changes to Franchise mode which I hoped would give me better CPU teammates.

So March 29th roles around I hit download from the PSN store waited about 45 min for the download and a hour or so for the game to install.Fired up and continued my Franchise save from MLB 15 there's my created SS looking a little better with the update to the created characters.

I get into the game first thing I noticed was the sound improvement then the graphics MLB 15 was beautiful and even though there are some hiccups with the graphics on MLB 16 flickering in the outfield stadiums for example. It still looked amazing with atmospheric perspective added to the stadiums like fog or haze in the distance. I was locked in and ready to go!

Back to Back to Back

My created player lock SS comes up to bat I strike out, the screen fades I am up to bat again not realizing what just happened I hit a pop up and get out. Another screen fade and I come up to bat for the third time in a row. Now I’m like wait a minute. I look at the score bug and I am losing 6 to 1!

I go to options thinking I got something turned on by accident. I look around Player Lock Options and realized all the options are gone. Okay maybe their in there when I hit R2 no go! Exit out the Franchise game maybe they are in the main settings NOPE!

I come over to the forums and found the original thread before this one. After reading some of the comments on the first couple of pages of this thread! Reality started to kick in TEARS OF FIRE started to fill the bottom parts of my eyes as I starred at the options screen in MLB 16. I just spent $59.99 and just found out about my favorite features were removed because only 0.04% use it.

The Trust

No one forced me to buy MLB The Show 16. I brought it because of the The Trust since the first game I purchased on PS4 and the people who worked on the game had live streams explaining the details.

The Reviews
I like how in the reviews online never mentioned that these options that had been in ever since MLB 14 and MLB 15 had been removed. It was not even mentioned on the Twitch Stream They mentioned hey we have a new Hybrid Mode along with Fast Play and Broadcast.

Anyone who has played the last two iterations of the game would have of assumed that Broadcast mode is the full game broadcast. But now everything is Fast Play even when on Player Lock. If they would have said these features were removed on the twitch stream I would have never purchased the game.

The Patches Coming Out

I am holding on to hope that the first two patches released for this game address the Player Lock and Broadcast Presentation options. If not it will probably never get addressed as noted earlier in this thread and from this point forward it will probably be forever removed.

I have personally discovered more than a handful of bugs in the game and have reported each to
The Show Nation bug report forum with image and video evidence of the bugs to help improve the game.



Pressing The “O” Button For 18 innings

I literally sat through a 18 inning Player Locked Franchise game pressing the “O” Button through each at bat for my player locked SS, team at bats as well as the CPU to watch a full uninterrupted game.

The reason I did this was to not have a scripted defense turn! Knowing the ball is directly coming to you at Short Stop is no fun at all! Manual Catch was also removed so fielding the ball is just a matter of running to a spot to trigger the glove animation and works every time! HEART BREAKING!

This 18 inning game behaved a lot like a scripted RTTS game and waited for me to make a big play! This was the reason I stopped playing RTTS! I ended up losing to the CPU. I tweeted the Devs about this and have yet to hear a response!

What Now

MLB The Show 16 does some things very well and its a shame that we can’t enjoy them or miss out on them because the only way to get All Pitches is to play on Fast Play hack.

It seems a lot of the user’s here are not happy about this. So I am trying to hold out for hope otherwise I will probably have to go back to playing MLB 15 and miss out on the nice animations, new ui screens, changes to franchise mode etc!

[ChavezAthletics]

I'm with you, very frustrating these core features were removed to make room for silly gimmicks like showtime. What a joke.

[lalblc]

Quote: Originally Posted by ATLiott

It's not there. It used to have "Game Watch Options" and the options were classic (which is what we have now as the only option), all, and result pitch. Pretty pissed right now. Not going to lie. Definitely wouldn't have made the purchase had I known this.

Yeah I feel the same way. really mad about this

[mrCPUgeek]

Quote: Originally Posted by jada855

Here is a link to The Show Nation bug report if anyone wants to help vote up this issue! Fielding just feels so scripted now with player lock outside of hitting! http: // theshownation.com / bug_reports / 10425

This was my bug report. For some reason, it is no longer on the bug reporter. I have PM'd Victor on theshownation.com and posted on their boards, but have not heard anything back. I haven't been rude or anything. I don't get why it was just removed. It's not even listed as closed or anything. Just not found!

Not really sure what that means.

[jada855]

Quote: Originally Posted by mrCPUgeek

This was my bug report. For some reason, it is no longer on the bug reporter. I have PM'd Victor on theshownation.com and posted on their boards, but have not heard anything back. I haven't been rude or anything. I don't get why it was just removed. It's not even listed as closed or anything. Just not found! Not really sure what that means.

mrCPUgeek,

Thanks for following up on this and letting us know! I also tried to search for it as well no result.

[rollerpig79]

A lot of people have said it already but I'm heartbroken that I can't watch the play-by-plays until after my first at-bat. I'm batting cleanup for the Astros in RTTS and I can come in and we're down 5-0 (the unbelievable amount of runs is another story) in the first inning, with Keuchel on the mound. I want to know what the hell happened and who did it. I guess I can press OPTIONS and check the stats there but it would be so much easier if I could just press TRIANGLE when the game starts.