How is this Rewarding?

[Stolm]

The more I play this game, the more I am baffled by some of the design decisions this year.

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How in the hell is this, in any sort of way, supposed to be a rewarding experience for the player?

A single button press? I am basically being given a free out. In past games this took some quick thinking and moderate amount of skill. Now they are just handing you the defensive plays on a platter, with a gigantic slow window for you to make up your mind. (You know just in case you didn't want to catch it?)

I didn't even have to lean or move in the correct direction either. In fact I was locked out from moving at all, which makes the play look awful like I am just falling over and catching it. This play didn't even look like a dive was required at all anyway, if I wasn't locked out of moving I probably could have quickly stepped over and snared it.

What is the thinking behind this design choice?

Am I supposed to feel skillful? Smart?

Is this something they thought would make the game look "cool" on a twitch stream, where the streamer can act excited while yelling loudly?

Same goes for Baserunning:

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Am I supposed to feel quick-thinking and fast, that I was able to get back to the base, with a loud bullet-time alarm blaring every time a Pitcher tries a pick-off move?

What an absolute borefest RTTS is this year.

[thaSLAB]

Re: How is this Rewarding?

There is an option to turn ShowTime off.

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[Stolm]

Re: How is this Rewarding?

There is an option to turn ShowTime off.

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Turning it off does not prevent these Fielding or Baserunning events from happening.

[vizioN]

Re: How is this Rewarding?

It's a brand new feature that's going through its first year of testing. The fact that you are this upset about it is appalling. At least they're trying to make fielding a little more interesting, and allowing you to make exceptional plays without having to have the world's greatest reaction and coordination in playing video games to make.

[Schreibi34]

Re: How is this Rewarding?

I wait for the next patch. If there are no major changes to Rtts i will try MLBTS15. I'm a Rtts only player and 16 is a absolute no go! No result play, no manual catch button, automatic bullet time. My 1B constantly locks in a standing around "animation" because it took me longer than 0.5sec to decide to run to the base. 1B is a absolute mess!



The last version i played was 14 on the PS3 and i was a happy customer. Question:



Does 15 on the PS4 provide me a good classic Rtts experience?



Thanks for the help!

[scooterperpetual]

Re: How is this Rewarding?

Turning it off does not prevent these Fielding or Baserunning events from happening.

Pretty sure you can turn it off its like Show Time Fielding or fielding style something along those lines, could have sworn I saw an option for it.

[jvalverde88]

Re: How is this Rewarding?

Yeah its Showtime Fielding, I turned it off in my RTTS. Same goes for Showtime Running.

[aarondmsu]

Re: How is this Rewarding?

Turning it off does not work for the fielding events. Well, it doesn't work for me anyway. I have it turned off and I'm still getting it for fielding events but I'm not getting it for base running events.

[WhiteBunny]

Re: How is this Rewarding?

Yeah its Showtime Fielding, I turned it off in my RTTS. Same goes for Showtime Running.

It doesn't work. Even if you turn off showtime options, you'll see these quick time events. SCEA really drop the ball on RTTS mode this year. Options removed, cheating perks, a brainless showtime mode. Even the option play next game doesn't work as intended.

[Skyboxer]

Re: How is this Rewarding?

Turning off the showtime events does work.
I haven't had any since I turned off the events fielding in gameplay settings AND Mode specific settings. Play next game also works fine. The only time I've seen it greyed out is going from one series to the next.

[jr3153]

Re: How is this Rewarding?

I wait for the next patch. If there are no major changes to Rtts i will try MLBTS15. I'm a Rtts only player and 16 is a absolute no go! No result play, no manual catch button, automatic bullet time. My 1B constantly locks in a standing around "animation" because it took me longer than 0.5sec to decide to run to the base. 1B is a absolute mess!



The last version i played was 14 on the PS3 and i was a happy customer. Question:



Does 15 on the PS4 provide me a good classic Rtts experience?



Thanks for the help!

I imported my 2015 RTTS to 16, and I have not enjoyed it as much as 15. I think I am going to go back and finish it on 15. Just my thoughts

[WhiteBunny]

Re: How is this Rewarding?

Turning off the showtime events does work.
I haven't had any since I turned off the events fielding in gameplay settings AND Mode specific settings. Play next game also works fine. The only time I've seen it greyed out is going from one series to the next.

Here we go:

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And Play next game mode locks the time for your next match, so the last game of a series will be not in daytime.

[Stolm]

Re: How is this Rewarding?

It's a brand new feature that's going through its first year of testing. The fact that you are this upset about it is appalling. At least they're trying to make fielding a little more interesting, and allowing you to make exceptional plays without having to have the world's greatest reaction and coordination in playing video games to make.

Testing should be done before release, not after.

They assured us on multiple occasions before release, that all forms of Showtime were optional and could be disabled at any time, and that's not the case.

Whether it's a bug or not, I don't really care at this point. It has been over a month since release and it hasn't been fixed.

Turning off the showtime events does work.
I haven't had any since I turned off the events fielding in gameplay settings AND Mode specific settings. Play next game also works fine. The only time I've seen it greyed out is going from one series to the next.

Turning off Showtime does not work, not completely. Even with the main Showtime option disabled, along with Showtime Throwing off, both Baserunning and Diving Plays will use the Bullet-Time effect.

[bkrich83]

Re: How is this Rewarding?

Stolm with a complaint thread? No way!

[Garrett59]

Re: How is this Rewarding?

It's a brand new feature that's going through its first year of testing. The fact that you are this upset about it is appalling. At least they're trying to make fielding a little more interesting, and allowing you to make exceptional plays without having to have the world's greatest reaction and coordination in playing video games to make.

The fielding stuff whatever but baserunning is just extremely lame and boring like this..