MLB 14 The Show: Little Issues Hampering the Fun

[@legendm0de]

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I also wish it wasn't so easy to sign young arbitration aged players to pretty tame contracts based on the way other players have reported being able to do. I saw Julio Tehran last night with a 5 year, 1.1M a season contract. Perhaps I am dead wrong, but I don't know if that is nearly accurate. However, in real life, there was a big fuss last year when Mike Trout had to sign a 1 YR/ 1 M contract with Anaheim, but now they have given him a much more realistic deal, so they only got away with doing that to him for one season.

I really don't know what exactly is the correct way these contracts are supposed to be, but I wish it was a little bit more competitive to agree with a young "star player". I know that in real life, George Springer has already rejected 1 or 2 contracts offered by the Astros so I wish the process was a more competitive one. And this would mean the need for unlocking the contract revision period only being limited to the offseason. Negotiations can be done where, the agent says to us no more negotiation until the season is over or something, but don't lock us out of it entirely. Hopefully whatever issue with the arbitration contracts can be patched and then worked on more completely for the new game.

[coolkev21]

aside from the online franchise and contact swing issue...

all the rest are very little things.

good read though. thanks man

[teebee]

Ball icon? While hitting??

What/?!

[tmoney51691]

All I know is I'm having a blast, and that's all that really matters.

[PsychoBulk]

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I want unclean batters boxes. Chalk is always perfect during game play.

I must have a different game then because i often see the chalk in the batters box messed up.

Ball icon? While hitting??

What/?!

Yeah, that kind of lost me too, im not sure what he was trying to say

[Will I Am]

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I must have a different game then because i often see the chalk in the batters box messed up.


Yeah, that kind of lost me too, im not sure what he was trying to say

Cursor hitting ala PYS has a ball icon while hitting. Try it some time you'd love it.

[chuckm1961]

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Playing with Player Lock in Season Mode, and simming out all other at-bats....

I am seeing WAY, WAY, WAY too many runners thrown out trying to score. It happens several times in most games.

[Bigmikelakers]

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By far the best MLB game I've played so far. But I still can't believe they can't get the future season schedules to work right in Franchise. My Angels don't even get to play the Dodgers in the 2015 season for interleague and I'm still stuck playing NL East teams (interleague schedules rotate yearly) from 2014. It also seems like the schedules shifted in a way where a season series starts on Saturday instead of Friday. Another thing thats annoying is that the World Series on the West Coast still starts at 7pm local time. In real life it starts at 5pm local time for East Coast viewers. Fix those two issues and we will have an even better game in 2015.

[duc748s]

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I agree that it's significant in real life, but injuries have no future impact in the game. Not even directly after the player returns. So when the offseason comes, it's as if no player was ever injured.

There's likely no room in the game for it, but I would love to see injuries overhauled. Make injuries have an impact on the player, over the course of the current season and their career. If a pitcher has TJ (would need to be added to the game in itself), he should lose some stats for the first year after returning.

If a player breaks a leg/ankle, they should lose some speed. How many players come back instantly at 100%? Back injuries should have an impact on durability/stamina, as in real life. Etc, etc, etc...

To add to this - The ability to assign rehab assignments and for how long would be awesome....

[@legendm0de]

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This is one issue that is very little that I also have. Dugouts and the dugout activity has looked really cool since 2010 but it hasn't changed much since then from where it was. I wish there was more visible activities by the members of the dugout and most importantly activity after runs are scored. You never see the players giving high fives and helmet fives etc after runs, I wish there were alot more activity in the dugouts to match the level of activity we see fans have throughout the game. That would do so much for me, but right now everything in the dugout is limited to cutscenes almost.

[dalger21]

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You never see the players giving high fives and helmet fives etc after runs, I wish there were alot more activity in the dugouts to match the level of activity we see fans have throughout the game.

Thought about this the other day. Remember hitting a go ahead HR and there was no life in the dugout.

[decga]

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Thought about this the other day. Remember hitting a go ahead HR and there was no life in the dugout.

This is a must for me next year for the PS4 version of the Show. The game is lifeless. No interaction in dugouts.... Its a little issue, but I would like to see it happen.

[decga]

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I read all of these posts. There are some valid points. Some of us are pissed off at the Show and it sounds like it has been awhile. I'm a Show fan and hopefully SCEA will read this thread and work on some or all these things for next year's version....

[SickDL]

Costum camera not saving is freaking annoying. Would be so bad if the loading times wouldnt be so long. Really annoying bug

[saucerset]

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I think this years game is a solid effort. I have really enjoyed my time with the game so far and I have played probably close to 100 games. One of my biggest gripes is the fielding in this game and I can't believe this article didn't touch on that. I personally feel like the fielding part of the game is the worst aspect overall of this franchise. There are so many canned animations that don't look good, players have no sense of urgency. It doesn't matter if Adam Dunn is running to first or if Billy Hamilton is running to first, if it's a ball hit to the right of my shortstop, he'll still take a step back and make a weak throw. Fielders still catch almost everything which reduces weak hits and variety. This is most likely an issue with fly balls always being so high, but sometimes infielders will catch balls they have no business getting to. I wouldn't mind if they did a complete overhaul on the fielding. I don't believe it can get much worse than it is right now.

Right there with you, pal. It would be nice if the human controlled fielding would be the same as the AI. Example: ball hit along the left field line. The left fielder goes over to get it. AI fielder grabs the ball, stops and throws. Human controlled fielder grabs the ball, does not stop running until he hit the wall, stops at the wall for a second, then without any urgency lobs the ball in. Same ball hit along the right field line is a triple for the CPU hitter. It's also very frustrating to be thrown out by the SS who is standing in short left field and then watching my SS from the same area double pump before throwing. More issues like balls hit between 2nd and first and watching the AI suck them up every time but my players won't even come close in a dive to make the play.