Will we ever see Rain/Delays in this game?

[Intelx]

I mean.......why couldn't this be a "little thing"?

Intelx

[countryboy]

Re: Will we ever see Rain/Delays in this game?

in '10? No

in the future? Yes...I think so.

[EnigmaNemesis]

Re: Will we ever see Rain/Delays in this game?

They said weather is something they have on the list. They had fog early on in the game (for 10), but ran into some technical difficulties, so I would not be surprised to see it in for 11.

Not to mention the PS3 now has an additional 70MB of RAM for the developers recently, since the footprint is shrinking on the XMB from 120MB to 50MB.

So that is some good news for next year. And the games on the PS3 looked good now without that extra ram, so I can imagine with it. That is an 18% increase in RAM for games.

[econoodle]

Re: Will we ever see Rain/Delays in this game?

good thoughts enigma and good idea for a post IntelX, this is a thread after my own heart.


I have wanted rain for a while, i liked it in 2k which for some reason they took out this year.



I agree i think we wills ee it but i fear its not high on the devs list.


i know some will say, 'what the heck do you want rain for, its dumb'

well i think it will be fun, frustrating and all that, to be up 3-2 in the 4th as it starts to pour and watch u try to speed up gameplay to get to the point where the game is official.

seeing the umps call the game would be cool, then the fun part, having a double header scheduled, [or have the game rescheduled for later in the year] would make a nice strategic situation as u try to juggle the starting rotation because of the cancellation.

bring it on.

[Pistolero]

Re: Will we ever see Rain/Delays in this game?

That would be nice feautre wouldn't mind seeing a bench clearing brawl cut-scene niether and the ump giving warnings,too.

[EnigmaNemesis]

Re: Will we ever see Rain/Delays in this game?

That would be nice feautre wouldn't mind seeing a bench clearing brawl cut-scene niether and the ump giving warnings,too.

Unfortunately MLB will not allow this in the games anymore.

[superjew887]

Re: Will we ever see Rain/Delays in this game?

I beleive this used to be in MVP baseball but it's really not a big deal. I don't see rain delays adding anything to the game whatsoever. If your in a game it delays it, and if you sim it skips the game. It's really not needed.

However, rain DURING a game that won't cause a rain delay would be nice to see.

[BigDuke]

Re: Will we ever see Rain/Delays in this game?

I don't see rain delays adding anything to the game whatsoever. If your in a game it delays it, and if you sim it skips the game. It's really not needed.

I disagree. Depending on the length of the delay, the starting pitchers might get cold and lose (or reset) their confidence. Players who were hot during the game might cool off. And now that they've added real-time clocks and night/day transitions, there's the added immersive graphical effects as well.

I'd really like to see weather (rain and snow) in this series. Like others have mentioned, the possibility of postponements and double headers would be really cool and add to the "strategery".

[5th_fathom]

Re: Will we ever see Rain/Delays in this game?

Another thought...

If they were to add rain, it would be another incentive to get retractable roofs working in the game.

Picture rain falling on half the field as the roof above slowly closes.

[cardsfan2222]

Re: Will we ever see Rain/Delays in this game?

Another thought...

If they were to add rain, it would be another incentive to get retractable roofs working in the game.

Picture rain falling on half the field as the roof above slowly closes.

One of the reasons I would play in Seattle in MVP 2005 was to see this happen. It was cool watching the roof close while I was playing. Unfortunately, from what the developers have said they would have to do all new stadium models to get the roofs to close. Personally, I'd rather have more classic stadiums than roofs that close.

[5th_fathom]

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One of the reasons I would play in Seattle in MVP 2005 was to see this happen. It was cool watching the roof close while I was playing. Unfortunately, from what the developers have said they would have to do all new stadium models to get the roofs to close. Personally, I'd rather have more classic stadiums than roofs that close.

I disagree.

I'd rather have the current stadiums working properly before any demolished stadiums get brought back to life. To each his own I suppose.

[ram29jackson]

Re: Will we ever see Rain/Delays in this game?

why put something in the game I am just going to press X to get past anyway ? baseball is cancled because of rain so why bother with it........minnesota will be a bitch during playoff runs haha

[Pared]

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It's part of baseball though. Should they not put batter walk-ups if someone is "just going to press X to get past anyway?"

It's going to take some work to implement. If they put weather, they have to make it location appropriate, time appropriate, add retracted stadiums, rain delays, make-up games, player animations (slipping in mudd) and so forth.

It's not like they can just draw some lines moving, have the announcer say, "Here comes the rain!" and call it a day.

[shoe]

Re: Will we ever see Rain/Delays in this game?

If they do this hopefully they add snow for Target field as well.

[B_rad13]

Re: Will we ever see Rain/Delays in this game?

One of the reasons I would play in Seattle in MVP 2005 was to see this happen. It was cool watching the roof close while I was playing. Unfortunately, from what the developers have said they would have to do all new stadium models to get the roofs to close. Personally, I'd rather have more classic stadiums than roofs that close.

Why though? There are so many stadiums that have roofs retract now a days. I would love to see roofs closing in '11.