MLB The Show 17 Patch 1.04 Available Now, Patch Notes Included

[CleveCluby]

Quote: Originally Posted by stealyerface

Great post Cleve. Keeping the posts constructive, and somewhat positive, seems to be to be a better course of action than writing a post that says that until the batting glove Velcro is the correct color for the Marlins Alternative Uniform gets fixed, the game is "broken" and the art director should be ashamed that got through the testing of the game... ~syf

LOL, That gave me a chuckle.. Sadly, I am as guilty as some others. Baseball and Football are my sports passions. When I purchase a game, I already have an expectation out of it. Like you, I think the show is the greatest BB game ever produced. I am old school, Baseball has changed over the years, I am 65 years old and I grew up watching, playing the game as it was. SP pitched as many innings as possible, relievers only got used when necessary. There wasn't a right lefty theory. As a coach, I expected my SP to go 7 inn if possible. Of course there were exceptions.

MLB the Show 14, 15, 16, had this pretty close to expectations even using the L-R as realistic as possible. Then MLB 17. And everything is completely out of wack with the pitching logic. IMO. I wouldn't care, the rest of the game is awesome, But I can not find any way of making the Pitching logic realistic. I played a game the other day and this has happened several times. Playing national league in a 3 to 2 game. I am winning, Bottom of the fifth inning and they have a runner on second 2 outs, and they let the pitcher bat. I strike him out. Top of sixth, they bring in a new pitcher. What kind of strategy or logic is that. That's simply not baseball of any kind. And this has happened more than once.

Last night in real life. Kechuel for the Astro's pitched a complete game against the Indians in a 4 to 2 loss. Even though the Indians had the tying and go ahead run on base, in the 9th, They didn't pull him.. You simply won't see that in MLB 17

[BillPeener]

Quote: Originally Posted by Armor and Sword

- And something to consider is the fatigue of that teams bullpen. There are games where I know my entire bullpen has been stretched over a 3-5 game period and I only have one really fresh pitcher, and the others will be done in 8-10 pitches. It does happen. There are ton's of factors involved. But like you I have not seen anything wonky in full count games - The bummer about quick counts (I played with QC exclusively on MLBTS14) is you can't bring in a relief pitcher with a 0-0 count. That is the one quirk about it. Answers in bold.

Thanks. I'd be OK with the game creating a quick pitch count for my new reliever. It doesn't have to start out as 0-0, but as it stands, the game is calculating the count based on the previous pitcher, and frustratingly, in many cases, that pitcher happens to be a position player I forgot to replace. It's not a major deal, but it's not realistic, either.

[kehlis]

Quote: Originally Posted by Padgoi

If that's the case then the actual displayed pitch count should display this accordingly. If the pitch count says 60 but it's actually 90, it should say 90, no?

Someone else will have to answer for me unless I can find the thread from last year it was discussed in.

But the "by design" was in game should reflect the actual pitch count for fatigue purposes but the post game box score replicated the additional pitch.

And again though, I'm sorry if I'm misremembering that scenario.

[parky_17]

Quote: Originally Posted by Armor and Sword

- And something to consider is the fatigue of that teams bullpen. There are games where I know my entire bullpen has been stretched over a 3-5 game period and I only have one really fresh pitcher, and the others will be done in 8-10 pitches. It does happen. There are ton's of factors involved. But like you I have not seen anything wonky in full count games

This was just a play now game so the the bullpens fatigue wouldn't come into play here


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[badflounder]

This patch really is a step backwards IMO. The issues I've noticed so far:

- Definite frame rate drops compared to pre-patch on PS4 Pro (on all modes; 4k, some improvements, and high frame rate). 4K has always sucked with this year's game, but high frame rate is now stuttery too. I'm gaming in HDR too FWIW.
- Numerous RTTS presentation bugs which I didn't notice before: Division standings wrong during presentation, described as NL West but showed NL East standings, etc.
- Batted ball sound (obviously wrong now)
- Incorrect manager fielding requests.....SS told to cover 3B Drag, etc.

The big issue for me is the framerate. It is super annoying that now even the high frame rate option is stuttery. Just unacceptable, and it's noticeably different than before the patch.

[Stryker84]

Quote: Originally Posted by NDAlum

My 3 wants: 1. SP issue : CHECK 2. Catcher issue : CHECK 3. HR issue : CHECK I can finally play!!!!!!!!!

What was wrong with all these issues!! Just curious

[MrArlingtonBeach]

Quote: Originally Posted by badflounder

This patch really is a step backwards IMO. The issues I've noticed so far: - Numerous RTTS presentation bugs which I didn't notice before: Division standings wrong during presentation, described as NL West but showed NL East standings, etc.

This happened to me pre-patch, too...in Franchise, the audio would say, "Let's take a look at the NL Central standings..."

And the AL East would be shown.

[badflounder]

Quote: Originally Posted by MrArlingtonBeach

This happened to me pre-patch, too...in Franchise, the audio would say, "Let's take a look at the NL Central standings..." And the AL East would be shown.

Ah okay, good to know! So I suppose the main change for me is the frame rate hiccups. I'm normally not sensitive to frame rate issues, but it's actually quite noticeable, at least on PS4 Pro / HDR. Kind of frustrating as this game is brilliant in so many ways, but then some of the bugs really do hamper the experience.