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MLB 15 The Show OS Community Impressions

10:40 AM - March 31, 2015 by Millennium

Now that MLB 15 The Show is available for everyone, we would like to hear some early impressions from the OS community. Early impressions from the lucky OSers that found a copy early, can be seen here.

Please, only post impressions.

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With that said, let's hear those impressions!

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# 421 Smallville102001 @ 04/12/15 04:34 AM

My hitting is get better know but man pitching in this game is way harder then before! In the past I have been AS pitching and kind of in the middle has default AS to easy but HOF to hard. While so far this year on DD and only at Rookie+ I am already have a hard time. Like half of my games I pitch while. I have played 8 games and had 2 shut outs and I think 2 another games where I gave up 3 or less but I have also had 4 games where I have giving up like 4 or more including a game where with bumgarner I gave up 7 runs in just 4 innings. Rookie+ pitching almost fells like HOF right now lol. Hopefully I can adjust after I play a few more games.

# 422 Black59Razr @ 04/12/15 04:45 AM

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Originally Posted by N51_rob


	You should stream all these blow-ups. I would love to see it happen 4 and 5 times in a row.

Not trying to rub your face in, guy who lost 4 straight; I just love talking baseball. And you really have to know how to pitch in this year's game if you want to be effective. I started off on Hall of Fame level, expecting to move it to Legend in a couple weeks. Well, I got rocked so hard after the first dozen games, I had to move it down to All Star. Once down in All Star, I re-learned how to actually pitch. I am now ready to go up to Hall of Fame again. Here are a few things to think about that may help you out:

I guarantee all these blowups are pitches that landed in the center square. After every huge hit I give up, I look at the pitch location, and it's at least touching the center square over 80% of the time. This is a first for The Show. In games past, the CPU would actually crush some BS 3 run home runs. But this year, it's waaaaay more realistic.

What I would suggest to the guy who blew 4 straight late inning games to not be afraid of walks or a strike percentage under 60%. In years past, I would walk zero to one batter per game, have a strike rate of 70%, and throw 90 pitch complete games. This year, you can't play that cheese. You have to actually nibble. You actually have to walk guys. You actually have to work around certain hitters, look at the lineup and decide who you are going to attack. In years past, going 7 innings was cake. This year, I am super happy if my SP can get me 6. I usually have a strike rate of 55-60%. I think low 60s is high for real MLB.

Another thing you have to do, if you're blowing it in late innings, is realize that relief pitchers are the worst players on the field. Don't expect to pound the zone with them. You have to nibble; take less chances. You have to find the hot pitcher and roll with him. Be very mindful of every pitch a RP throws. If after 2-3 pitches, you see he's not hitting his spots, get another RP up and throwing, and be ready to make the move. Plus, don't give in. Let that RP walk him, then pull him. Your next RP, who may be a few OVR points less than the other guy, might get 6 straight outs. These clowns are very inconsistent. That's why they are in the bullpen.

Dang, sometimes I wonder if this game is getting too sim for it's own good. They may have to make an arcade setting to strip all this stuff out.

As for experiencing tons of errors, I feel the exact opposite. I jacked my fielding and throwing sliders almost to full blast, and I am now finally seeing an average of 1-2 errors per game.

# 423 Smallville102001 @ 04/12/15 04:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Black59Razr


	Not trying to rub your face in, guy who lost 4 straight; I just love talking baseball. And you really have to know how to pitch in this year's game if you want to be effective. I started off on Hall of Fame level, expecting to move it to Legend in a couple weeks. Well, I got rocked so hard after the first dozen games, I had to move it down to All Star. Once down in All Star, I re-learned how to actually pitch. I am now ready to go up to Hall of Fame again. Here are a few things to think about that may help you out: I guarantee all these blowups are pitches that landed in the center square. After every huge hit I give up, I look at the pitch location, and it's at least touching the center square over 80% of the time. This is a first for The Show. In games past, the CPU would actually crush some BS 3 run home runs. But this year, it's waaaaay more realistic. What I would suggest to the guy who blew 4 straight late inning games to not be afraid of walks or a strike percentage under 60%. In years past, I would walk zero to one batter per game, have a strike rate of 70%, and throw 90 pitch complete games. This year, you can't play that cheese. You have to actually nibble. You actually have to walk guys. You actually have to work around certain hitters, look at the lineup and decide who you are going to attack. In years past, going 7 innings was cake. This year, I am super happy if my SP can get me 6. I usually have a strike rate of 55-60%. I think low 60s is high for real MLB. Another thing you have to do, if you're blowing it in late innings, is realize that relief pitchers are the worst players on the field. Don't expect to pound the zone with them. You have to nibble; take less chances. You have to find the hot pitcher and roll with him. Be very mindful of every pitch a RP throws. If after 2-3 pitches, you see he's not hitting his spots, get another RP up and throwing, and be ready to make the move. Plus, don't give in. Let that RP walk him, then pull him. Your next RP, who may be a few OVR points less than the other guy, might get 6 straight outs. These clowns are very inconsistent. That's why they are in the bullpen. Dang, sometimes I wonder if this game is getting too sim for it's own good. They may have to make an arcade setting to strip all this stuff out. As for experiencing tons of errors, I feel the exact opposite. I jacked my fielding and throwing sliders almost to full blast, and I am now finally seeing an average of 1-2 errors per game.

Yeah I agree blowing leads has never been a problem with the show. Wow I cant believe that you have put error sliders up. I have played like 9 games and between me and the user I have already seen like 20 errors and the last few games I have had the error slider at 3 or 4 or it might be even more then 20 in 9 games. Heck in 9 games I have already had like 4 drop fly balls and the CPU like 2 and you almost never see drop fly balls in real life. I may even have to put the error sliders at like 2.

# 424 countryboy @ 04/12/15 07:14 AM

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Originally Posted by nemesis04


	I did not know we were getting a "winning" patch for the game?

We are getting that patch. I actually got it early through SCEA to give it a test run and it worked! I had back to back comeback wins against the Nationals in the 9th! And then in both games I was able to secure the win by shutting them down in the bottom of the 9th!

Awesome patch!

# 425 Bullit @ 04/12/15 08:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Smallville102001


	I find that very hard to believe because like 90% of the time I lead off at all the CPU we throw over. I even had the CPU throw over like 4 0r 5 times in a row before and have even had the CPU throw over when I don't take a lead. At the same time I have heard people talking about how the CPU will try to squeeze bunt a lot of times and I have never seen that once in all the years I have played this game since 08 lol. What do you have the pick off slider set at? I have already put in down to 4 may go even lower. I also hate that a lot of times if you take one step lead and the CPU throws over you get picked off even if the pitcher is right handed. You should never ever get picked off by a righty.

I play with everything at default, i never change sliders. Playing all star on both hitting and pitching default rosters.

# 426 Bullit @ 04/12/15 08:44 AM

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Originally Posted by ChrisHansen59


	Up 3-1 in the 9th, man on first and it should have been a game ending DP but again, my defense commits errors at crucial times and now there are two men on. Next man up hits a 3 run homer to put the AI up 4-3. 4 games in a row now where circumstances like that have happened. I think it might be time to put the game down for now until first patch.

Wish the Nationals could get a patch, since they have lost four games just like you described. But I guess that doesn't really happen in Baseball.

# 427 countryboy @ 04/12/15 10:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Smallville102001


	I find that very hard to believe because like 90% of the time I lead off at all the CPU we throw over. I even had the CPU throw over like 4 0r 5 times in a row before and have even had the CPU throw over when I don't take a lead. At the same time I have heard people talking about how the CPU will try to squeeze bunt a lot of times and I have never seen that once in all the years I have played this game since 08 lol. What do you have the pick off slider set at? I have already put in down to 4 may go even lower. I also hate that a lot of times if you take one step lead and the CPU throws over you get picked off even if the pitcher is right handed. You should never ever get picked off by a righty.

When you say lead off, are you taking an extra step? Because if so, then I would expect the pitcher to throw over because you're taking a bigger lead, which typically means something is up, either a steal attempt or hit and run.

If you press the steal button before the pitcher starts his windup, that is, imo, like leaning towards second base. Again, I would expect the cpu to throw over.

And should never get picked off by a righty? You need to watch more baseball.

# 428 Smallville102001 @ 04/12/15 11:34 AM

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Originally Posted by countryboy


	When you say lead off, are you taking an extra step? Because if so, then I would expect the pitcher to throw over because you're taking a bigger lead, which typically means something is up, either a steal attempt or hit and run. If you press the steal button before the pitcher starts his windup, that is, imo, like leaning towards second base. Again, I would expect the cpu to throw over. And should never get picked off by a righty? You need to watch more baseball.

Some times I take a extra step some times I don't but even if I take a extra step and change like are late or early I take the extra step I get a lot of throw overs. If you think a lot of righty's are picking off guys then I don't know what to tell you because righty's are almost never going to throw a guy out on a pick off. Like 95% of the time a guy is picked off it is going to be by a left hander. That is the big advantage that a left has lot harder to get a good lead and have to be a lot more alert to pick off moves.

# 429 countryboy @ 04/12/15 12:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Smallville102001


	Some times I take a extra step some times I don't but even if I take a extra step and change like are late or early I take the extra step I get a lot of throw overs. If you think a lot of righty's are picking off guys then I don't know what to tell you because righty's are almost never going to throw a guy out on a pick off. Like 95% of the time a guy is picked off it is going to be by a left hander. That is the big advantage that a left has lot harder to get a good lead and have to be a lot more alert to pick off moves.

I rarely take an extra step and I hardly see throw overs. Once in a while they will throw the ball over, but its on the low end. When I take an extra step, I get more throw overs, but again its not an over-abundance of throw overs.

LOL...you don't need to explain baseball to me, I'm vastly knowledgeable in the sport. I understand the advantages of a left handed pitcher vs a right handed pitcher when it comes to baserunning.

I never said a lot of righties are picking off runners. Your statement was that a runner should never ever get picked off by a righty. I suggested that you watch more baseball because there are times that a right handed pitcher with a good move to first will pick off a runner, especially if he takes a big lead, which you suggested is happening in your game. You take an extra step lead and you got picked by a right handed pitcher and you said that should never happen.

# 430 Skyboxer @ 04/12/15 02:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Smallville102001


	Some times I take a extra step some times I don't but even if I take a extra step and change like are late or early I take the extra step I get a lot of throw overs. If you think a lot of righty's are picking off guys then I don't know what to tell you because righty's are almost never going to throw a guy out on a pick off. Like 95% of the time a guy is picked off it is going to be by a left hander. That is the big advantage that a left has lot harder to get a good lead and have to be a lot more alert to pick off moves.

Wish that was true 2 days ago. Freaking Gardner...

# 431 RnRexpress3423 @ 04/12/15 03:00 PM

I don't know about you guys, but I let the catcher call the game. Unless I really disagree with the pitch selection, I let him call 95% of the game. I've been atrocious at hitting in this years version, but, I've been pitching pretty damn well. Hopefully my hitting picks up.

The show is awesome once again and I'm sure with a patch or two, it will go up and beyond what it has achieved already, greatness.

# 432 bcruise @ 04/12/15 03:05 PM

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Originally Posted by RnRexpress3423


	I don't know about you guys, but I let the catcher call the game. Unless I really disagree with the pitch selection, I let him call 95% of the game. I've been atrocious at hitting in this years version, but, I've been pitching pretty damn well. Hopefully my hitting picks up. The show is awesome once again and I'm sure with a patch or two, it will go up and beyond what it has achieved already, greatness.

I enjoy doing this too, but I've found that it really only works well for me up to All-Star difficulty. On HOF, to pitch even close to effectively I feel like I have to decide my pitch strategy for myself - the AI's pattern recognition just gets too good and it WILL hit me hard if I just try to follow the API all the time.

This is one of the reasons I don't go up to HOF pitching, and I've found a nice sweet spot on All-Star + through Dynamic Difficulty.

# 433 bronxbombers21325 @ 04/12/15 03:15 PM

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Originally Posted by RnRexpress3423


	I don't know about you guys, but I let the catcher call the game. Unless I really disagree with the pitch selection, I let him call 95% of the game. I've been atrocious at hitting in this years version, but, I've been pitching pretty damn well. Hopefully my hitting picks up. The show is awesome once again and I'm sure with a patch or two, it will go up and beyond what it has achieved already, greatness.

I tweaked the sliders for human contact and human timing and it seems to make hitting a bit easy. Not too easy, but realistic. I'm 3 games into my franchise and I have had one bad game and too good ones. So I'm enjoying pitching to this point.

# 434 Jimmydm90 @ 04/12/15 06:57 PM

I keep running into bugs. My worst one is when I try to feed a card to my diamond dynasty player, the cards disappear as they should but I never get any boost to my player. The points just vanish.

# 435 Smallville102001 @ 04/12/15 09:08 PM

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Originally Posted by countryboy


	I rarely take an extra step and I hardly see throw overs. Once in a while they will throw the ball over, but its on the low end. When I take an extra step, I get more throw overs, but again its not an over-abundance of throw overs. LOL...you don't need to explain baseball to me, I'm vastly knowledgeable in the sport. I understand the advantages of a left handed pitcher vs a right handed pitcher when it comes to baserunning. I never said a lot of righties are picking off runners. Your statement was that a runner should never ever get picked off by a righty. I suggested that you watch more baseball because there are times that a right handed pitcher with a good move to first will pick off a runner, especially if he takes a big lead, which you suggested is happening in your game. You take an extra step lead and you got picked by a right handed pitcher and you said that should never happen.

Ok maybe not never but very rarely should a right hander pick of a base runner and if you take like that one step lead it happens a lot and like I said I don't always take a extra step.

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Originally Posted by Skyboxer


	Wish that was true 2 days ago. Freaking Gardner...

# 436 countryboy @ 04/12/15 09:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Smallville102001


	Ok maybe not never but very rarely should a right hander pick of a base runner and if you take like that one step lead it happens a lot and like I said I don't always take a extra step.

I have yet to be picked off in this game. I actually think the pickoffs are better this year than they have been in a long time. Used to be if you threw over enough times one or two things was going to happen:

1) Ball sail into the stands
2) runner gets picked off

I've been in plenty of "cat and mouse" matchups with pitchers and runners this year without having to worry about throwing ball into stands as a pitcher or getting picked off as a runner.

# 437 ChrisHansen59 @ 04/12/15 10:17 PM

Once I played a few games in my franchise with some tweaked sliders instead of the default sliders that Diamond Dynasty has, I have been getting some good games in.

I'm also only seeing the issue with the pick-off attempts although I have yet to be picked off on the ones that there are.

I didn't mean to come in here and cause any kind of trouble.

# 438 DJ @ 04/13/15 12:43 AM

Clubbed a grand slam tonight and yet, only 3 runs counted. My runner at 1B stayed there after the HR. Boo! (I'm sure this has been reported already)

# 439 brrmikey @ 04/13/15 02:15 PM

Love the games as always. If there is one complaint I have (I know I'm in the minority with this possibly) it has to be the pace of play on broadcast...it feels like Fast Play. It's a bit sad to not have the ball followed into the stands as often as it did last year for fouls..ok I've began to live with that because at least seeing the whole batter follow-through sequence is kind of cool, but to cut short the throw from the catcher back to pitcher is a bit much...also on strike-outs it seems the next batter walkup has been axed. I just wish the game was slow paced like it used to be...and X could be used to skip if wanted. A+ game, but I do miss the slower "baseball" pace...especially how 99% rock solid the frame rate is this year...i want to behold all it's glory and only use X when i'm in a time crunch.

# 440 Armor and Sword @ 04/13/15 03:31 PM

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Originally Posted by brrmikey


	Love the games as always. If there is one complaint I have (I know I'm in the minority with this possibly) it has to be the pace of play on broadcast...it feels like Fast Play. It's a bit sad to not have the ball followed into the stands as often as it did last year for fouls..ok I've began to live with that because at least seeing the whole batter follow-through sequence is kind of cool, but to cut short the throw from the catcher back to pitcher is a bit much...also on strike-outs it seems the next batter walkup has been axed. I just wish the game was slow paced like it used to be...and X could be used to skip if wanted. A+ game, but I do miss the slower "baseball" pace...especially how 99% rock solid the frame rate is this year...i want to behold all it's glory and only use X when i'm in a time crunch.

Can't agree more. This game is truly amazing. But this part of it has been a little bit of a let down. I miss these elements.

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