MLB 14 The Show Online Gameplay Announcement
 

The MLB 14 The Show team has been looking closely at the online issues in the game and have posted an announcement, as seen below.

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"We have accomplished much of this: input and timing for Batting, Pitching, and Fielding online all feel the same as offline with virtually zero latency"


That hasn't been my experience. Not even close.

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They said they "accomplished MUCH of it" they didnt say "ALL of it" nor that they have "deployed it".

They very well could still be working on it in studio before it goes live.

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I hope they can wipe the stats as I felt cheated on the two losses I took. One game it locked up and I had to manually reset and I got the loss. I'll wait until PS4 before I even think about online again, it is a complete mess.

They made it so far last year to the point where if two people were on wired connections the lag was almost gone completely. This had felt like a beta (or alpha) test for PS4 and it's a shame PS3 owners are receiving such a poor online mode.

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I only played one game because the game kept matching me up with the same guy 3 times in a row, and it was a mirror matchup (I really hate mirror matchups in sports games).

I never had any lag issues with swinging/pitching lag, especially with how terrible MLB 12 and 13 were to me. Just the visual anomalies like the article says, id say its still way better than previous versions, but I only really got to play one game.

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I had to look up "mirror matchup". I'm assuming it means when both challengers are using the same team?

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So disappointing. Hopefully they get things ironed out. I've never seen online so completely broken before. Im starting to get a lil worried with the past online issues plaguing this series. Last year was the best I ever seen so it was disheartening to see this as bad as its ever been.

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Right after they said they "accomplished much of it", it immediately says, "input and timing for Batting, Pitching, and Fielding online all feel the same as offline with virtually zero latency."

It sounds like it's supposed to be a present tense thing.

They go on to say, "as a result of this overhaul and our emphasis on a minimal latency experience a number of visual anomalies and issues of synchronization have manifested that we are actively identifying and working to resolve."

So it sounds like the online gameplay with "virtually zero latency" should already be in place, but there are more fixes to come.