MLB The Show 16 Twitch Stream - Gameplay and Animation (Archive Available)

[tbone1]

Quote: Originally Posted by KingsDream

I totally agree about missing the " foul ball camera " !!!! I loved watching tracking a foul ball but they removed that feature last year. We need more votes for this !!!! Does anyone know if it's returning this year ???

Also a good way to show stadium upgrades.
Really hope this was added back in as well as walkups!!

[nomo17k]

Quote: Originally Posted by Blzer

... Yet in the game, when the front side gets what I call "lazy," it does diminish the look of the power of the pitch. Curious as to who did the mo-cap sessions on those ones is all, because I would not expect that look to come to be if somebody was giving max strength on a pitch or throw (or anything close to it). Just my observation.

Very thoughtful post as usual.

Although I do think pitching deliveries have improved tremendously over the past few years, what I feel about the result of mo-cap is that all these pitching animations quite often look as if they came out of "shadow pitching" sessions without the mo-capped person actually throwing the ball at near full strength. Without the ball in hand, I think many people don't have the body movement that they would otherwise make actually doing the real thing.

Another issues is unavoidable given that I don't think the devs have a couple dozen different people doing mo-cap, but because of the mo-cap guy's need for being self-conscious about imitating somebody else's natural movement (for the imitated, that can be done out of muscle memory and without being too self conscious), the delivery loses some of the dynamism that would naturally exhibit itself when a pitcher tries to maximize power at the pitch release by their body movement.

[Chai2112]

I just watched most of the streams (skipped a bit here and there). Did they show the new different running animations and new swings? If so, can anyone tell me at what point during the streams or at least how they looked? Thanks.

[mlblover15]

what confused me was all this talk about pitchers "sliding around" after pitchers... i am currently looking at several different pitchers in play now games in cpu vs cpu... and i dont see it.. they all look good... am i missing something?

[ryanmc564]

Quote: Originally Posted by mlblover15

what confused me was all this talk about pitchers "sliding around" after pitchers... i am currently looking at several different pitchers in play now games in cpu vs cpu... and i dont see it.. they all look good... am i missing something?

if you look at some pitchers feet after they make the pitch, the legs and feet slide into a new position rather than them actually taking steps to get them in that new position correctly, some animations are more obvious than others, but I guarantee you have seen it hundreds of times, if they did a side by side the difference would be as clear as day.

[ScouserHUN]

Another thing I just discovered. Look at the field of view of the batting camera the guys were using in the stream. You can see 1B & 3B at the edge of the screen. This way, we don't need the runner window (maybe Ramone said in the stream it's cut), because you can see all players on the field while batting. Look at the FOV difference:





You'll Never Walk Alone!

[Russell_SCEA]

Quote: Originally Posted by KingsDream

I totally agree about missing the " foul ball camera " !!!! I loved watching tracking a foul ball but they removed that feature last year. We need more votes for this !!!! Does anyone know if it's returning this year ???

We are bringing back showing some of them not all.

[tnixen]

Maybe I am wrong but I do not think PBR was turned on in this stream. If you look at this screenshot the dug out looks like it does in 15 not the one shown in the first trailer with PBR turned on.

I think the game already looked great in yesterdays stream so I can't imagine how it will look with PBR turned on