Anyone else feel like veteran difficult is bugged?

[ZoltanZ]

Maybe its just me, but doing moments on veteran or playing conquest matches on veteran is ridiculous sometimes. You get a low bronze or common pitcher that paints corners the whole game. PCI placement has to be perfect or you roll over, pop up or completely miss. If you are just early or just late while pitching they hit 450 bombs on you. I barely scratch out wins.

Then I play on All-star difficulty and destroy the cpu in conquest or the few moments that are all-star level I complete on my first try. Just feels like the difficulties are all out of wack.

[Fuimus Troes]

Re: Anyone else feel like veteran difficult is bugged?

Maybe with hitting, but definitely not with pitching. I no-hit everyone on Vet in Conquest all the time.

Hitting seems to be way less forgiving this year. I am being honest when I say that about 50% (maybe even more) of my perfect-perfects have been outs this year. I've hit PP fly balls with guys with 100+ power that have died on the warning track. Something's wrong.

I'm not comparing this to "IRL," to be clear. I'm comparing it to MLBTS 20, when PP's for me were hits 95% of the time. (I juggle between vet and all star on hitting.)

I can't be the only returning player noticing this.

[ZoltanZ]

Re: Anyone else feel like veteran difficult is bugged?

Hitting seems to be way less forgiving this year. I am being honest when I say that about 50% (maybe even more) of my perfect-perfects have been outs this year. I've hit PP fly balls with guys with 100+ power that have died on the warning track. Something's wrong.

I'm not comparing this to "IRL," to be clear. I'm comparing it to MLBTS 20, when PP's for me were hits 95% of the time. (I juggle between vet and all star on hitting.)

I can't be the only returning player noticing this.

Exactly, can't tell you how many P/P hits have been outs. 90-100+ power guys catch a hanging curve or slider P/P and its goes to the warning track. That should be a no doubter all day. There is definitely something up with hitting.

[BL8001]

Re: Anyone else feel like veteran difficult is bugged?

I had a weird day in DD yesterday.


Playing in the East affinity conquest map.


Played 4 games on vet and they were all the same AI wise. In the 2nd inning I would bring in my reliever and the first pitch they would homer. I would strike out everyone else. EVERYONE ELSE.


I even went out and bought Cy Young because of his high H/9 and limits homer perk. What I figured out is if unlike all the other batters I struck out, if I start the 2nd inning with a ball instead of a strike they won't homer on me.


Then to get even more wtf. I decide to sleepwalk a 9 inning game on rookie for easy xp.

Play the Orioles on rookie with Means on the mound.


I hit him hard, I mean hard, with good contact and pci placement.
I should list each hit result because I recorded it. But instead I will say I had 3 hits, 1 k by bob gibson and 23 flyouts and groundouts directly to AI defenders.


And of course the AI had 1 hit in the 2nd inning but at least this time it was a triple by Mountcastle and not a HR.


Something is wack with this game. I went into practice and tossed it on Legendary vs kershaw and struck out swinging twice and then homered. WTF is that. This game is too much all or nothing, and nothing can be grounding and flying out to the AI 23 times.

[bkrich83]

Re: Anyone else feel like veteran difficult is bugged?

I think I remember hearing people talk about this in past versions, where Vet was harder than AS for some reason. There might be something to this.

[AReifschneider]

Re: Anyone else feel like veteran difficult is bugged?

What's really happening is you're playing three-inning games and have uneven distribution. I finished all the non-team affinity conquest maps with seven out of eight position players OPSing over 1.000, but would still have strings of 1-0 games. It's just luck. 2-0 in three innings is actually a hell of a pace, it just feels wrong.

[JoshC1977]

Re: Anyone else feel like veteran difficult is bugged?

I don't think it's "bugged" per se, but it's the strangest difficulty in the game.

It's not rookie where you get a lot of legit meatballs nor All Star where the CPU can paint the corners fairly well. On vet, they throw a lot of stuff in the zone (like rookie) but they aren't exactly good pitches to hit (unlike rookie).

I REALLY have to wait for my pitches to my hitter's hot zones before I swing...I take a ton more strikes on that difficulty than any other.

The other thing with Moments....there's no wind...and balls hit with no wind don't quite fly out like they do otherwise.

[Finn]

Anyone else feel like veteran difficult is bugged?

With respect to the all or nothing type aspect to run scoring. I believe it was another thread here I read about someone noticing that the CPU was mixing in contact swings more often and on non typical counts. So for the past few games I’ve tried the same and although the sample size is small I have for the most part seen more doubles, singles and manufactured runs then when using normal swing 95% of the time.

[WhiteBunny]

Re: Anyone else feel like veteran difficult is bugged?

I think Veteran is a little bit more difficult, but not that much. I've completed all Moments plus some Conquest with no much trouble. But my approach to the plate it's always the same, just wait for a good ball to smash and never think that victory is granted just because i play on lower difficulty. I like it. Veteran is easy enough to relax my reflexes a little bit, but not easy to the point you can play without any effort.

[RainOnTim]

Re: Anyone else feel like veteran difficult is bugged?

I think I remember hearing people talk about this in past versions, where Vet was harder than AS for some reason. There might be something to this.

That might have been because of the slower pitch speeds (compared to AS, HOF, Legend). I've seen players who consistently play at HOF/Legend say that hitting for them is harder on Veteran than All-Star because it's hard to calibrate down to the slower speeds.

I doubt it's bugged. Like with real baseball, you'll get a lot of weird outcomes. Also, I notice that sometimes I just suck way more at hitting than usual. Sometimes my timing is messed up, sometimes I can't pick up the ball, sometimes I can't for the life of my place my PCI where I want it. Yeah for sure the game can be harsh to you sometimes with RNG, but I find most of the fun of the game is trying to persevere through that over time.

[Fuimus Troes]

Re: Anyone else feel like veteran difficult is bugged?

I still think the strangest thing about hitting this year is the lack of success on PP's. Yesterday again, several PP grounders and liners straight at fielders. VERY different from last year.

I've been playing a lot and played 20 to death, and I think solid contact is rarer this year and home runs much less frequent.

[brunopuntzjones]

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For the most part I win pretty handily on veteran (especially in 9 inning games where eventually the good and perfect swings will start dropping if they weren't earlier) but it's probably the worst overall gameplay experience, especially in Conquest.

[torpidbeaver]

Re: Anyone else feel like veteran difficult is bugged?

Wasn't it also confirmed last year that SDS is monkeying about with the sliders on Moments, making some of them harder or much harder than a typical Conquest game played on "Veteran" difficulty? Could be that effect that you're feeling.

I recall being especially frustrated by some of the Moments last year where it was painfully obvious they had fingers on the scale.

[brunopuntzjones]

Re: Anyone else feel like veteran difficult is bugged?

Wasn't it also confirmed last year that SDS is monkeying about with the sliders on Moments, making some of them harder or much harder than a typical Conquest game played on "Veteran" difficulty? Could be that effect that you're feeling.

I recall being especially frustrated by some of the Moments last year where it was painfully obvious they had fingers on the scale.

I don't remember if this was truly confirmed but tbh I believe it. The number of good or even perfect swings that die at the track on some of the rookie moments is nuts.

[ZoltanZ]

Re: Anyone else feel like veteran difficult is bugged?

Wasn't it also confirmed last year that SDS is monkeying about with the sliders on Moments, making some of them harder or much harder than a typical Conquest game played on "Veteran" difficulty? Could be that effect that you're feeling.

I recall being especially frustrated by some of the Moments last year where it was painfully obvious they had fingers on the scale.

This was some of the annoyance for sure. 2 that immediately come to mind were the Babe Ruth homerun and Eric Davis 2 XBH. Crush a fastball down the middle with a P/P swing and the ball just die at the warning track over and over again.

If they want it a harder difficulty, make it all-star or HoF but don't screw with the sliders and call it "veteran"

I have also noticed sometimes that there won't be a shift on in the infield or outfield but you hit a laser to the gap and the right or left fielder is standing right there, playing in the gap. But when I checked before the pitch, he was in his normal position.