MLB The Show 16 Twitch Stream - Diamond Dynasty (Archive Available)

[thomas2345]

Re: MLB The Show 16 Twitch Stream - Diamond Dynasty (Archive Available)

I'm not sure I'm following. It would still work the same as last year in terms of matchmaking right? If there is no one in your division available you'll play someone outside of it and in those cases they said it would be on all star.

Now though you are forced to play on the difficulty of the league you are in which might cause the problem I referenced. If I just made it to the next level and then get matched with someone in that higher league I have to play at a new difficulty. One loss and you are back down to previous league. It might be hard for players to move up and stay up between leagues now since every time oh have to face higher tier players who may have been playing at that difficulty for a while while you are only experienced with the lower leagues setting.

I get what your saying. We will see if it becomes a problem if guys complain that its too hard for them.

[cardinalbird5]

Re: MLB The Show 16 Twitch Stream - Diamond Dynasty (Archive Available)

I'm not sure I'm following. It would still work the same as last year in terms of matchmaking right? If there is no one in your division available you'll play someone outside of it and in those cases they said it would be on all star.

Now though you are forced to play on the difficulty of the league you are in which might cause the problem I referenced. If I just made it to the next level and then get matched with someone in that higher league I have to play at a new difficulty. One loss and you are back down to previous league. It might be hard for players to move up and stay up between leagues now since every time oh have to face higher tier players who may have been playing at that difficulty for a while while you are only experienced with the lower leagues setting.

The pitch speed barely goes up. For example, a 90 mph on fastball is really like 78 mph on rookie, 79 on Vet, 80 on AS, 81 on HOF and 82 on Legend. It won't be that big of a deal.

I see absolutely no one demoting themselves due to 1-2 mph of speed different. Cheesers will still cheese, good hitters will still hit.

Most of the WS/CS guys I have spoke with are stoked about this change. AS difficulty was not fun playing in the WS against top players and stacked teams. It took less skill to score runs with gigantic PCI's. HOF will help a bit with the PCI size.

Precision Input will help too.

I say this change will have more people happy than mad for sure. Plus there is less than 1 pct of the players in the WS and that may be the only divsion they have HOF on...so itd only affect the top 1 pct and no one is demoting themselves once they get to the WS.

Now if they add it for CS, which I think they should since it isn't easy to get to 1750, then it may have more of an impact, but still HOF.......is not like its impossible to hit on nor will the pitch speed change much.

[MrOldboy]

Re: MLB The Show 16 Twitch Stream - Diamond Dynasty (Archive Available)

The pitch speed barely goes up. For example, a 90 mph on fastball is really like 78 mph on rookie, 79 on Vet, 80 on AS, 81 on HOF and 82 on Legend. It won't be that big of a deal.

I see absolutely no one demoting themselves due to 1-2 mph of speed different. Cheesers will still cheese, good hitters will still hit.

Most of the WS/CS guys I have spoke with are stoked about this change. AS difficulty was not fun playing in the WS against top players and stacked teams. It took less skill to score runs with gigantic PCI's. HOF will help a bit with the PCI size.

Precision Input will help too.

I say this change will have more people happy than mad for sure. Plus there is less than 1 pct of the players in the WS and that may be the only divsion they have HOF on...so itd only affect the top 1 pct and no one is demoting themselves once they get to the WS.

Now if they add it for CS, which I think they should since it isn't easy to get to 1750, then it may have more of an impact, but still HOF.......is not like its impossible to hit on nor will the pitch speed change much.

I'm not really talking about pitch speed. I'm talking about new players, not us veterans who play offline on the higher difficulties. If I am a new player and after 50 games finally get up to the next league, well I have to face a player who's likely been in that league for a bit and may be more experienced. Without practice I can see those players easily being overwhelmed by the higher difficulty. It's not just pitch speed that changes, PCI size, etc is different. I forsee a lot of bouncing in between leagues for inexperienced players this year. For players like us, it likely won't change much since the difficulty will be the same for both players and we have played on those difficulties before.

I want more people in the higher leagues as it gets boring facing the same people. It could also spread out the cheesers if new players reach the higher leagues. They have made a lot of changes that for veteran players may be really exciting, but could be barriers for newer players to the game, or just online modes in general. I have several friends who have played The Show for years, but only offline and never past All-Star. I play them on All-Star and they compete with me, but not on HoF or Legend even though I'm not that great either.

[cardinalbird5]

Re: MLB The Show 16 Twitch Stream - Diamond Dynasty (Archive Available)

Newer players are highly unlikely to reach the WS/CS and if they do that means they are good enough to play on HOF. Besides the difficulty goes back to AS if there is a mismatch.

[MrOldboy]

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Newer players are highly unlikely to reach the WS/CS and if they do that means they are good enough to play on HOF. Besides the difficulty goes back to AS if there is a mismatch.

You only get good over time, with practice. I know you can remember back when you were first moving up to the higher difficulties. Now imagine if you are doing well on all-star and then move up to a new league. You have one game to stay in that league or else you can get bumped back down. If they immediately get bumped down and feel it was the difficulty spike that will be off putting to some players. It's true that better players should do fine on higher difficulty, but only with practice. And you know that playing online is a different beast than offline so practicing against the AI just doesn't cut it. I don't think it'll be that big of a deal in the end honestly, but can see some people staying on the threshold bouncing between leagues.

[TattooedEvil]

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QC on DD!!!!! THANK YOU TIM TEBOW!!!!!!

[MetsFan16]

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Does anyone know if all flashback cards will be viewable in card collection? Or will we have to unlock their missions to see them?

[RLebron12]

Re: MLB The Show 16 Twitch Stream - Diamond Dynasty (Archive Available)

Does anyone know if all flashback cards will be viewable in card collection? Or will we have to unlock their missions to see them?

I'm pretty sure they said in the twitch stream that some guys will be hidden and you won't know who they are until you unlock them....or until someone else in the community unlocks them and posts it on here lol.


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[BrianU]

Re: MLB The Show 16 Twitch Stream - Diamond Dynasty (Archive Available)

Is Extra Innings still in DD for 16?

[Strictly4MyNIPPLEZ]

Re: MLB The Show 16 Twitch Stream - Diamond Dynasty (Archive Available)

Is Extra Innings still in DD for 16?

No but you can play other squads straight from the leaderboard


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