Operation Sports MLB 13 The Show Community Impressions Thread

[pistolpete]

Re: Operation Sports MLB 13 The Show Community Impressions Thread

Well, playing while fast forward pitching is impossible and zero fun. Here are my stats playing in that manor:

Team ERA: 6.66 (last)
Errors/Game: 1.25 (last)
Runs Allowed/Game: 7.625 (last)

And on top of that the ability to pinpoint pitch guessing on the Vita, a very worthwhile feature, has been removed.

The game looks great once the ball is in play, but other than that its current state is extremely disappointing.

[jr86]

Re: Operation Sports MLB 13 The Show Community Impressions Thread

Well, playing while fast forward pitching is impossible and zero fun. Here are my stats playing in that manor:

Team ERA: 6.66 (last)
Errors/Game: 1.25 (last)
Runs Allowed/Game: 7.625 (last)

And on top of that the ability to pinpoint pitch guessing on the Vita, a very worthwhile feature, has been removed.

The game looks great once the ball is in play, but other than that its current state is extremely disappointing.

I keep seeing you banging on about this in a number of threads.
I am not seeing this at all using FF to pitch.
Through 10 games in my 'test season' i have given up 59 runs which was padded by 2 games where we gave up a 10 and a 9 spot respectively.
Maybe try using a team with a better pitching staff and see what happens

[LastActionHero]

Man those ball physics 2.0 are so frikkin awesome! I've been surprised with it every game so far. I've seen all sorts of hits that you would never hit in previous installments. Makes the game so much more alive. I'm having a blast!

[DGuinta1]

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This year best for me against the computer. Great games, tight games and actually able to come back against the computer this year and pull out some late innings heroics. Love me some The Show!

Online play is so arcadey to me cause everyone just skips thru everything, hurry hurry! Enjoy this great game and not rush rush... Geez.

[bkrich83]

Well, playing while fast forward pitching is impossible and zero fun. Here are my stats playing in that manor:

Team ERA: 6.66 (last)
Errors/Game: 1.25 (last)
Runs Allowed/Game: 7.625 (last)

And on top of that the ability to pinpoint pitch guessing on the Vita, a very worthwhile feature, has been removed.

The game looks great once the ball is in play, but other than that its current state is extremely disappointing.

This game just may not be for you. Although I thought we established that last year. Or was I thinking of someone else?


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[DGuinta1]

Re: Operation Sports MLB 13 The Show Community Impressions Thread

Just sweep Toronto in Toronto. Tied series finale in the 9th and won in the 18th! wo0t! Go Yanks!

[pistolpete]

Re: Operation Sports MLB 13 The Show Community Impressions Thread

This game just may not be for you. Although I thought we established that last year. Or was I thinking of someone else?


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It's difficult to enjoy franchise when your team's ERA is 2.4 runs/game worse than it was in 2012.

I average 4.4 runs/game but it's nearly impossible to win.

[slthree]

Re: Operation Sports MLB 13 The Show Community Impressions Thread

Well, playing while fast forward pitching is impossible and zero fun. Here are my stats playing in that manor:

Team ERA: 6.66 (last)
Errors/Game: 1.25 (last)
Runs Allowed/Game: 7.625 (last)

And on top of that the ability to pinpoint pitch guessing on the Vita, a very worthwhile feature, has been removed.

The game looks great once the ball is in play, but other than that its current state is extremely disappointing.

I can't speak for the vita because I play on the PS3.

All I can say, and its only my experience as 1 guy, is that I FF from time to time and haven't experienced this issue.

But, I mostly pitch for myself and FF the hitting. Sounds like you FF the pitching a lot.

I do understand why that era would drive you nuts. Is it in line with your pitching staff? I mean, is your staff really bad?

If not, its definitely something the guys at SCEA could look at, especially if more people experience it.

In this last patch, they fixed the simmed K's which were coming out way too low at the end of the year. Maybe the cpu doesn't sim pitching well and maybe the issues are related. If so, they can probably tune something that can fix it.

I hope those who have the vita version like you will take some time to test it to see if they get the same results.

[nomo17k]

Re: Operation Sports MLB 13 The Show Community Impressions Thread

Since not many people seem to be discussing this, I'd like to mention that online gameplay this year feels very lag free to me. Offline, I feel the best timing point in batting has been pushed back a tiny bit too much for my liking (meaning, you can catch up to 95 mph fastball even if you are actually late on the pitch), but in online games, this effectively acts as lag calibrated timing window. I have no problem pulling fastball online, which was never the case before. But I haven't tried Analog hitting online yet... it remains to be seen how I fare with the interface...

[ckarlic]

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Loving the game. Just wanted to say that for the first time in the Show's history, Im really digging the soundtrack. I may actually use some of the songs for some batter's walk up music.

[DJ]

Re: Operation Sports MLB 13 The Show Community Impressions Thread

Loving the game. Just wanted to say that for the first time in the Show's history, Im really digging the soundtrack. I may actually use some of the songs for some batter's walk up music.

Is it just me or did they lower the volume on the soundtrack this year?

[ckarlic]

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Is it just me or did they lower the volume on the soundtrack this year?

I agree. Not too low but it is a noticeable. I just turn up my sound bar a few notches higher than normal.

[thefakeJTS]

Re: Operation Sports MLB 13 The Show Community Impressions Thread

Does anyone know if they fixed the Sounds of the Show volume with the patch?

[bkrich83]

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It's difficult to enjoy franchise when your team's ERA is 2.4 runs/game worse than it was in 2012.

I average 4.4 runs/game but it's nearly impossible to win.

How many games in? Which roster? What are the variables?

I have yet to see this issue with FF. But I don't run FF much.

As I said, I think we established long ago this simply isn't the game for you. I think last year your complaint was, it was too realistic. Now it's not realistic enough.

[pistolpete]

Re: Operation Sports MLB 13 The Show Community Impressions Thread

How many games in? Which roster? What are the variables?

I have yet to see this issue with FF. But I don't run FF much.

As I said, I think we established long ago this simply isn't the game for you. I think last year your complaint was, it was too realistic. Now it's not realistic enough.

As much as I complained I still played at least 100 games. I do the same with 2k's series.

2012 was too realistic, and people even had graphs on the reaction time necessary to successfully hit. I was not wrong about this, and SCEA even has opened up the timing window. People should be happy the Show had enough critics regarding this.

I have found, outside of an annoying trend in fast forwarding games, that the Show 2013 is an immense improvement. Opening up the timing window alone while still maintaining the integrity of the human player's offense alone is a monumental improvement.

There are still a number of quirks in the game that are really irritating. In my case it's my teams ~6.75 ERA and well over 7 runs/game allowed during fast forwarding.