MLB 14 The Show - Carry Over Saves to Future Versions, Generated Pitch Counts & More

[Blzer]

Quote: Originally Posted by bp4baseball

[*]You can now carry over your saves to future versions of MLB The Show. MLB 14 The Show lays the foundation for year-to-year saves, meaning you never have to worry about starting your Franchise or Road to the Show seasons over.

[seanjeezy]

So anyone care to speculate how carry over saves will work? If a created player from OSFM is called up in '14, will he be replaced with an official SCEA version in '15? Will his stats carry over? Will we be able to import players mid franchise?

If SCEA can nail this, the Show will be a cut above any other sports game (that is until the others figure out how to do it as well hehe).

[nomo17k]

Quote: Originally Posted by bcruise

... and the player will take control on the meaningful pitch of that at-bat - the one that gets either swung on and missed/taken for a strikeout, taken for a walk, or hit into play. Plus I'd assume you can foul it off too to see another pitch. There are some finer points to that because not everything in baseball happens on that last pitch (pickoffs, wild pitches and passed balls, for example), but I'm sure we'll get more specifics on how it works later. ...

I'm curious how the game decides what the meaningful pitch of an at-bat should be (when a gamer is in control of a hitter). A hitter can always decide to let a pitch go, do nothing, and the count goes deeper. That is, if you are patient. But if you are hacker who swings at the first strike in every at-bat, that's possible too.

How many pitches a batter sees is very dependent on his approach, so I'm afraid (not really afraid... there will surely be an option to see every pitch anyways) that generated counts may not adapt to your hitting approach. Curious how the game will be handling this.

[Bobhead]

Quote: Originally Posted by seanjeezy

So anyone care to speculate how carry over saves will work? If a created player from OSFM is called up in '14, will he be replaced with an official SCEA version in '15? Will his stats carry over? Will we be able to import players mid franchise? If SCEA can nail this, the Show will be a cut above any other sports game (that is until the others figure out how to do it as well hehe).

I can't imagine how they could ever import new rosters or any of that on-the-fly. I'd imagine you are locked to the rosters you started with, and you just get the benefit of the new platform, and any changes made to stadiums, physics, etc... in, say, MLB '15.

[nomo17k]

Quote: Originally Posted by seanjeezy

So anyone care to speculate how carry over saves will work? If a created player from OSFM is called up in '14, will he be replaced with an official SCEA version in '15? Will his stats carry over? Will we be able to import players mid franchise? If SCEA can nail this, the Show will be a cut above any other sports game (that is until the others figure out how to do it as well hehe).

I think the roster/players is currently saved directly to each mode save file, so like Bobhead said I think we will be carrying over the set of players you started with (plus player progression, etc.). I hope importing players any any point would be possible, but who knows.

Being a son of Debbie Downer (and the dad is a chicken), I'm afraid (again, not really afraid.....) that the stability of player progression will be very important in order for the franchise/season/RTTS save file carry-over to be really useful. Player progression is a very dynamic thing and it is definitely one of the hardest things to balance well, but I hope this is something that ends up being well done. If the whole league plays unrealistically (as in stats, etc.) after 5 years or so, the appeal of the save file transfer will be severely diminished I think.

Seeing the items that will be in for the upcoming release, It is such a nice confirmation that the devs at SD Studio do really value our voices with regards to what we want to see happen in this game.

[tril]

its going to be a long winter!!!!
Good work SCEA!!!!
absolutely love the carry over. ITs about time a sports game implements this.

[Tweeg]

Importing saves and generated pitch counts!!!!

If my wife wasn't sleeping right now, I would be yelling FFFFF'ING AAAAA at the top of my lungs. So pumped about this.

[@legendm0de]

Quote: Originally Posted by royounggoku

I have VERY limited knowledge of baseball and I'm trying to get into it so can you please explain to me what that is?

The game will just simulate your at bat then hand the controls over to you to finish it off, they may give you control of an at bat with 3 Balls 2 Strikes and you finish it off.

It will also allow you to do so as the pitcher too, if I'm not mistaken. So this generated counts mode will mean you won't have to play the game in full, which can take at least 1 hour up to even 3-4 hours depending on how you play it.