MLB The Show 16 Patch 1.04 Available Now, Here Are The Details

[Kodii Rockets]

Quote: Originally Posted by Armor and Sword

Spoiler Fielding animations are the best they have ever been. Ton's and ton's of more organic and realistic looking plays in the field. Routes to the ball are far more realistic in the OF. Ball physics are better than they have ever been, hit variety is off the hook this year with balls rolling all the way down the lines, bouncing into the corners. Playing balls off the wall is far more realistic this year due to the ever improving ball physics. The lighting is insane. The hitting feels so much better this year. CPU hitters chase out of the zone. Setting up hitters feels real now. Base running....yes base running as far as steal success ratios, the cat and mouse game between pitchers and real legit threats to steal bags is a game within a game this year. Listen I could go on and on. But MLB 14 and 15 feel dated to me when I play MLB 16. I could never go back. The game plays like butter offline. If you don't think so....then continue playing MLB 15. It's a great game too. And it is fully patched already. This last patch smoothed out some choppy animations at the plate (check swings which were God awful pre-patch) and I am sure another patch down the pike will get everything tuned to a tee much like last years patches tuned up MLB 15. Play by play and commentary is vastly improved from MLB 15. Quite frankly MLB 15's commentary and play by play was abysmal. I could not take it anymore after just a few months. Choppy, disjointed, repetitive more than it ever was...just plain piss poor. This year has a ton of freshness to it, much more emotion, stories, dynamic references during franchise. Player emotions are showing a lot better after big hit's, strikeouts, defensive plays etc. HR calls are vastly improved. Just so much better. Man this game is freaking awesome. But way too many people here focus on one or two things for 50 pages and refuse to play the game. Sorry if you don't use default base running, sorry if all you play is online. And believe me I want online to work properly as I love Diamond Dynasty and Conquest. I am sure it will get worked out. It's been what...5-6 weeks since release? And yeah the game should ship in better shape....I get all that. I am sure they will fix the issues. They are not perfect. This game is not perfect. But the way people attack and post is out of hand and a down right embarrassment. The game is highly playable for all offline modes. In fact in it's current state despite some things that still need to get worked out (I am not going to apologize for things not working properly like classic base running after the most recent patch) the game blows away last years version by a comfortable margin. Things need to be repaired. No question. The point is....pretty much anyone I speak with in the community agrees the game is awesome....in spite of the state it shipped in and we are all enjoying it while we await the forth coming fixes. It's become a cess-pool of piss poor posting. I have remained silent....but I can't anymore. I believe that issues can be discussed in a far more mature and civil manner. I am not blind to the bugs in the game. I was uploading bug reports too, up voting issues I have seen. That's being productive and working with the team instead of spewing venom like a cry baby. I mean Jesus people. Back away from the ledge....go play another game....do something other than bark hatred at guys who love their job and give us a hell of a baseball game year in year out. This game screams passion for baseball. It's a joy to play.

[Knight165]

Quote: Originally Posted by torpidbeaver

That's awesome news. No one from the Dev team has spoken about why they pulled the "trade warning" from Franchise, have they? Or if it might go back in? I'd sorta planned on playing 30-team control in the vague hope it'd go back in.

I think it was one of two(three) things....

Either the trade delay was screwing with trades being pulled(the problem last year) by CPU teams...hence the rather low trade numbers and they didn't have time to totally rewrite it and eliminating the delay was the best option for them(certainly not for us....I remember when I asked for this years ago and Kolbe and Aaron put it in....I was so pumped!)
or it didn't work with the trade slider correctly
or....it got lost in the shuffle with the new menus(I doubt this one)

I hope it gets re-instated.
I really liked not hearing from teams right away or seeing the deals and wondering if they were going to go through.
I actually with it was random...from instant to up to 7 days(maybe 5) and you had no idea if it was in the works still or not.

M.K.
Knight165

[Knight165]

Quote: Originally Posted by torpidbeaver

Do you mean the AI promoted a SP from AAA? Or hired on a free agent?

The AI called up SP's from the minors from what I saw.
I have to see if any FA's were signed to fill them.
A combo would be sweet...but I haven't seen FA's signings during the year.

M.K.
Knight165

[SoxFan01605]

Quote: Originally Posted by Knight165

I just had a little time last night at work.... Started a new franchise....manually injured 1-2 SP on just about every team and no RP's replaced them. Of course....I want to test it further, but in the past....I would usually get the best RP in most cases. I'm REALLY hoping this is the case over an entire season. Going to test this right now. M.K. Knight165

That was the case for me as well. That's definitely encouraging results then. I hope to go back through this weekend and do a full post 1.04 franchise run through and see were things are at for me.

I'm still holding off on my franchise for now, but I'm hopeful my two other franchise-related bugaboos are addressed in the next patch (assuming there is one). If there's no word by then, I'll just move forward anyway.

[Knight165]

Quote: Originally Posted by SoxFan01605

That was the case for me as well. That's definitely encouraging results then. I hope to go back through this weekend and do a full post 1.04 franchise run through and see were things are at for me. I'm still holding off on my franchise for now, but I'm hopeful my two other franchise-related bugaboos are addressed in the next patch (assuming there is one). If there's no word by then, I'll just move forward anyway.

I'm not in the know....or by any means speaking for the devs...but I did see a post where someone quoted someone from TSN that they were aware of issues being introduced by the patch and were working to resolve them.
I think at least another patch is forthcoming.
Just my thought.

M.K.
Knight165

[countryboy]

Quote: Originally Posted by Knight165

The AI called up SP's from the minors from what I saw. I have to see if any FA's were signed to fill them. A combo would be sweet...but I haven't seen FA's signings during the year. M.K. Knight165

This is awesome, awesome news!

[SoxFan01605]

Quote: Originally Posted by Knight165

I'm not in the know....or by any means speaking for the devs...but I did see a post where someone quoted someone from TSN that they were aware of issues being introduced by the patch and were working to resolve them. I think at least another patch is forthcoming. Just my thought. M.K. Knight165

Yeah, I get you and I'm fairly confident there will be another. As I said earlier (before things kind of spiraled here...lol), despite the rocky QA this year, I respect the effort and trust the team to keep at it. History is certainly on our side there.

The only question for me is what will be addressed. I'm hoping for numbers being added back to the interface and the trade approval toggle. Both of those are somewhat tenuous patch hopes though as (and I think it was bcruise who rightly pointed this out earlier) interface related fixes can be tricky.

We'll see though. It's been a frustrating start, but I think people forget too that while there have been several issues and, therefore, several attempted fixes, we're still only just over a month into this game's release. That's why I'm ok still holding off.

[Knight165]

I did see a FA signing..."mid" year...only one and the same one in three sims.
The Padres sign CP Greg Holland in mid to late April(I guess they don't like Rodney either! )

But that's all I see for mid season signings.

So it's not "shut off"....but it just doesn't happen much I guess.
(year 1 maybe)

M.K.
Knight165