Why should I use dynamic difficulty?

[PVarck31]

I'm curious about this. I normally play on All-Star for both pitching and hitting. And sometimes I feel like I need difficulty changes when either one of those things gets either too easy or too hard.

I guess I'm trying to understand how it actually works. Like will it just average out and be the perfect setting or will it just make it too easy or too hard then keep adjusting until you really aren't getting anywhere.

Maybe someone understands this and can explain it to me. Thanks.

[alston4659]

Re: Why should I use dynamic difficulty?

This is my first year using dynamic difficulty and so far I love it. So I'm not the best at this game even after buying the past two editions so this works perfectly for me. Both hitting and pitching start off at rookie level then based on how well you do at both the setting gradually moves up. There's are bar that is displayed throughout games that goes up or down depending on how well you are hitting and pitching. My pitching is better than my hitting so I've worked my way up to all star at the moment. But if I have a bad game or two pitching the bar will move down until I get my groove back. Same for hitting. I'm at the tail end of veteran at the moment and I think this is best suited for me because I'm not necessarily stuck on any one difficulty level. Give it a shot. It's worked wonders for me thus far.

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[JahCreations]

Re: Why should I use dynamic difficulty?

I think its great i just wish there was a way to start at the level you want then have it adjust. I just hate having to grid. Through 10-15 games to get it to where i fee a balance of challenge and fun.

[bravo2208]

Re: Why should I use dynamic difficulty?

^lol I'm the opposite. This is my first Show in a while so I'm grinding through Play Now games to get my skill level to a good place for Franchise/RTTS. This process has also been keeping me entertained while we wait for the OSFM roster. I don't know why I never used dynamic difficulty before. It's great.

[Caulfield]

Re: Why should I use dynamic difficulty?

If you're already good enough to play on legend, dynamic probably isnt for you. But if all-star gives you fits, then dynamic can slowly over time improve your game. Before dynamic, even veteran would tie me in knots. After years of dynamic, I still stink at hitting, but now I can stink at it on all-star & still do enough with my pitching to sometimes qualify for the post-season.

[UTAllTheWay]

Re: Why should I use dynamic difficulty?

I always use Dynamic Difficulty. I love the way it is constantly moving. If I hit a place where I am struggling then I either figure it out or it lowers the difficulty slightly and I get back on track.

It's just like baseball. There are ups and downs.

This is why I have no problem with OSFM Roster taking a while. It gives me time to get the Difficulty to where it needs to be before I start my franchise.

[nemesis04]

Re: Why should I use dynamic difficulty?

Also remember there is a slider to speed up or slow down the process. You can also bring it to a grinding halt when you reached your desired level.

[Jr.]

Re: Why should I use dynamic difficulty?

I always use Dynamic Difficulty. I love the way it is constantly moving. If I hit a place where I am struggling then I either figure it out or it lowers the difficulty slightly and I get back on track.

It's just like baseball. There are ups and downs.

This is why I have no problem with OSFM Roster taking a while. It gives me time to get the Difficulty to where it needs to be before I start my franchise.

I actually think Dynamic takes away the ups and downs. Or at least does it too quickly. If I go on a 3 game slump offensively, the difficulty will become easier and allow me to get out of that slump. If I get hot for a week, the game gets harder and my team falls back.

If I put together a great roster, I should be able to dominate consistently without the game getting more difficult. If my team sucks, it should show.

I used it in the past to get to a sweet spot where the results felt good, then put the progression slider on 0 to keep it there. I wouldn't recommend leaving the slider at 5 or something, but I think it can work to get to your sweet spot without having to mess with individual sliders as much. I don't know if it's ever going to happen, but it would be amazing if they could transfer your DD setting with the carryover.

[DJ]

Re: Why should I use dynamic difficulty?

The slider really helps. I crank it up to 10 so I can breeze through until I get to All-Star +. Once there, I drop the slider to 2 (which means I'll rarely see a change, but can see it if I have an extended hot/cold streak) and go from there.

[holliday50]

Re: Why should I use dynamic difficulty?

I absolutely hate it. As a Starting Pitcher, I can't seem to get the slider to decrease. Before I realized what was happening, it was already at HOF+, and damn near reached Legend before I discovered the slider to disable it. Here's the problem though...as a SP, I find that it doesn't react negatively nearly as quickly as it needs to, so continues to climb. When it hit HOF+, I even had an outing where I threw 70 pitches through 2 innings, gave up 5 runs & got pulled...and STILL didn't even lose 1 rank in difficulty. During this experiment, I turned the slider all the way up to try to get the difficulty back down. It's a very frustrating experience, as the last thing I want to be doing is struggling my way through AA ball. Is there any way I can change this, or do I need to delete & create a new character? Really sucks because I just completed my first season with him.

[hitman23]

Re: Why should I use dynamic difficulty?

Using Dynamic Difficulty now. I love it. My games are not showing the same results if I was permanently set on a certain level. I am absolutely horrible on Legend Pitching and things are too easy on HOF hitting for me. If I am set at HOF pitching things get too easy for me and am am using the meter.

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[ripwalk]

Re: Why should I use dynamic difficulty?

Is it possible to manually select one of the + difficulties as your permanent?

So if say I determine Veteran+ or AllStar+ is best ... Is it possible to use it full time WITHOUT being on dynamic?

[Jr.]

Re: Why should I use dynamic difficulty?

Is it possible to manually select one of the + difficulties as your permanent?

So if say I determine Veteran+ or AllStar+ is best ... Is it possible to use it full time WITHOUT being on dynamic?

You cannot get to the + difficulties without dynamic. But if you can get there using dynamic, just zero out the difficult sensitivity slider and it won't change anymore

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[bcruise]

Re: Why should I use dynamic difficulty?

As others have said, there's two main reasons for wanting to use it:

1) You want the game to adjust itself as you play, getting easier or harder depending on how you do. I don't care much for this, personally - it feels too artificial. Like for example I don't want to be late in an elimination game in a playoff series and suddenly have the game bump up to a higher level (this actually happened to a streamer I was watching about a week ago). I do the adjusting away from any main mode I'm trying to play, like franchise - I'll bump the level up to whatever I want in play now's or whatever and then freeze it in place. Which brings me to....

2) You want to use the + Difficulties as a static difficulty. This, currently, is me - at least for hitting. I did bump my Dynamic pitching up to regular Legend, but for hitting I've moved up to Legend + because it seems like a better fit this year. After I got there, I zeroed the slider so it doesn't move from that difficulty.

There's a third reason too, although it may not be as applicable anymore - to make sure your difficulty level remains the same on Road to The Show. I don't really want to go too far into this in this thread, but let's just say my main way of noticing that the difficulty changes in player lock/RTTS mode when you promote/demote doesn't show up anymore. So things may be different now than they were in previous years. Regardless, Dynamic with the slider zeroed is still the best way to negate any difficulty shenanigans in RTTS - whether it can be seen anymore or not.

[Fiddy]

Re: Why should I use dynamic difficulty?

For those who use this, do you leave the slider at default or do you adjust it say to max to experience it moving up and or down more?