New Bat Flips Are In!

[HarlemYankee]

Surprised this hasn't been posted yet... But The Show did a bat flip competition and if these are any indication, it looks like they are adding a bunch of bat flips to the game... I wonder how many and if you're able to pick any bat flip with any stance?

https://twitter.com/MLBTheShow/statu...29446828789760

[Cowboy008]

They probably aren't going to add all of them into the game.

[HarlemYankee]

Quote: Originally Posted by Cowboy008

They probably aren't going to add all of them into the game.

Didn't he say they were adding them to the game in the video? Why motion capture a bat flip contest if there's no intention of using them?

[KnightTemplar]

Do we see the bat flips in the game? I don't. Even with the replays I don't think I've seen any. Guy hits a home run it immediately cuts to the field (which it has to). Maybe if the replays focus solely on the bat flip, but otherwise?

[Cowboy008]

Quote: Originally Posted by HarlemYankee

Didn't he say they were adding them to the game in the video? Why motion capture a bat flip contest if there's no intention of using them?

At the end of this video Ramone says be sure to vote for which one of these animations should go into MLB the Show 18.

https://twitter.com/MLBTheShow/statu...03924761661440

[HarlemYankee]

Quote: Originally Posted by KnightTemplar

Do we see the bat flips in the game? I don't. Even with the replays I don't think I've seen any. Guy hits a home run it immediately cuts to the field (which it has to). Maybe if the replays focus solely on the bat flip, but otherwise?

The batter only does a flip when it's a no-doubter... And you see it on the home run cam and then when they show the replay... But the annoying part about when they show it on the replay is that they normally cut it off midway.

[HarlemYankee]

Quote: Originally Posted by Cowboy008

At the end of this video Ramone says be sure to vote for which one of these animations should go into MLB the Show 18. https://twitter.com/MLBTheShow/statu...03924761661440

Ahhh.. I see now. I thought the question was to vote which one was more "stylish" because that was attached to the post. Seems like a little bit of a loaded competition --- whatever Judge did was going to win in a Twitter poll... Especially when he's going up against a Twitch streamer lol

[dran1984]

I find it concerning that this is the type of stuff that they are using to promote the game. They have been posting images from 17 for several weeks now and now they use a bat flip competition as content for 18. Meanwhile no trailer of any actual info for the new game.

This type of content is what they usually do at the end of the cycle closer to release after they have released key features of the game.