MLB 14 The Show New Universal Profile, Stubs Deep Dive (Dev Blog)

[Perfect Zero]

I'm interested in seeing how the new Universal Profile works. I remember NFL 2k5 having it and it was really fun to play against a somewhat likeness of yourself. Hopefully the Show will have something that can match it. The Stubs... we'll see how it works but it looks to be like a "freemium" type thing. You can earn them through doing things, but they're easier earned through paying SCEA. I'm not too concerned about it though considering that most of the stuff you can by with Stubs looks to be the same as in years past.

[LingeringRegime]

I need this game to come out tomorrow.

[metsfan4life1]

I don't even pay attention to these things in the game, so I'm waiting for the next Dev Blog. They're saving all the big things for last.

[metsfan4life1]

Quote: Originally Posted by Curahee

Both of you knock it off and stop derailing these threads! Take it to PMs or I'll get a MOD to settle it for you!

We all know you're an undercover Mod good sir :P

[cardinalbird5]

This sounds pretty dang cool!

I love how deep this franchise has become! I wish NBA 2k did the same.

[Curahee]

Quote: Originally Posted by metsfan4life1

We all know you're an undercover Mod good sir :P

No but I do play one on TV!

[Curahee]

A post from Lance:

Quote: Originally Posted by LanceL_86

UP derives data from online and offline games. The hitting/pitching difficulty is calculated based on what data we have -- it's basically an average with a few other factors taken into account for splits. If you strictly play DD, then your difficulties would be displayed as midway points on the difficulty bars, as DD uses All-Star difficulty. As far as COTW goes, there are a few modes we don't accrue data in, and COTW is one of those. We also won't accrue data in Community Challenges, RTTS, HRD, and training modes. Tracking data in these modes skews things too much -- data becomes unreliable. We only track the displayed tendencies in the UP.

[Factzzz]

This is a pretty cool feature, it'd be nice if they used something like this in RTTS to track your players tendancies, it'd be like a scouting report for you RTTS player.