MLB 14 The Show

[tjung0831]

I'm using timing and seeing good hit variety. For batting I use catcher classic cam and like Dan I lowered those same settings to 1 and 10 based on his post earlier in the thread. I'm playing everything on default on veteran except for those two settings mentioned above and so far I'm 3-1 in my Phillies season and have only hit one home run which I actually like. I'm stringing hits together to get my runs and not just playing for the homerun.

[grtwhtsk]

How do you download the official rosters on the PS3 version? I keep getting a message on the dashboard about the May 12th rosters when I start the game but can't figure out how to download them. I looked at the community section and that looks like custom rosters.

Are any of you guys using custom rosters?

I think it's under 'Community'.
For custom - Look in the roster vault for OSFM. The best roster you will ever DL.

Which version of the OSFM roster do you recommend? Thanks.

[Diablo25]

How do you download the official rosters on the PS3 version? I keep getting a message on the dashboard about the May 12th rosters when I start the game but can't figure out how to download them. I looked at the community section and that looks like custom rosters.

Are any of you guys using custom rosters?

I think it's under 'Community'.
For custom - Look in the roster vault for OSFM. The best roster you will ever DL.

Which version of the OSFM roster do you recommend? Thanks.

Thought there was only one. I'd have to look. Look for one done by Knight.

[bkrich83]

I am totally addicted to this game at this point. Quick counts have been a game changer for me.

Playing timing hitting at the all star level, and classic pitching at HOF level. Made some minor slider tweaks and have been getting great results for my skill level.

[sportdan30]

I am totally addicted to this game at this point. Quick counts have been a game changer for me.

Playing timing hitting at the all star level, and classic pitching at HOF level. Made some minor slider tweaks and have been getting great results for my skill level.

Agree 100 percent. I'm getting in games in less than 30 minutes. I don't think I've played this many games before.

[tjung0831]

Took a no hitter into the 8th today with Kyle Kendrick in my Phillies season....7 2/3 before losing it. Crowd was into it though and I was nervous as hell. Was getting a bit hard with Kendrick's control too, not mention the pressure of trying to get it done! Made a couple of nice plays at 3rd in the 7th and at 2nd in the 8th to keep it alive though. Such a great gaming experience overall though....it's fantastic.

Once I was getting close, I figured I better get the broadcast going. Here are the last few innings.
http://www.twitch.tv/tjung0831/b/532738814

[icvu42]

Anyone else seeing a high number of injuries? I have the slider set at 4 and see basically an injury every day.

Rick

[dbdynsty25]

Anyone else seeing a high number of injuries? I have the slider set at 4 and see basically an injury every day.

Rick

I was...until I turned it off. I figured with the whack fatigue model, giving guys rest once a week, which is about what you are required to do to keep them fresh, it makes up for it.

[Phototropic]

I am finishing my last spring training game tonight. Yes, I am a crazy person and played them all, but I used those games to hone the settings I'll be using. Pretty excited about the regular season and getting back to real stadiums.

[tjung0831]

Well just had my first freeze up....in the bottom of the 11th in a 4-4 game against the Braves. Ball froze about halfway to the plate, yet I had full control over my batter via the swing buttons but the option button wouldn't do anything and I couldn't get to the menus. That is frustrating...I was down 4-0 and battle my way back to tie it on a pinch hit Freddy Galvis homerun with two outs in the bottom of the 8th....sucks.

[sportdan30]

Well just had my first freeze up....in the bottom of the 11th in a 4-4 game against the Braves. Ball froze about halfway to the plate, yet I had full control over my batter via the swing buttons but the option button wouldn't do anything and I couldn't get to the menus. That is frustrating...I was down 4-0 and battle my way back to tie it on a pinch hit Freddy Galvis homerun with two outs in the bottom of the 8th....sucks.

That's a bummer. Your first mistake was playing with the Braves though! Haven't had a freeze yet through 25 games.

[dbdynsty25]

Well just had my first freeze up....in the bottom of the 11th in a 4-4 game against the Braves. Ball froze about halfway to the plate, yet I had full control over my batter via the swing buttons but the option button wouldn't do anything and I couldn't get to the menus. That is frustrating...I was down 4-0 and battle my way back to tie it on a pinch hit Freddy Galvis homerun with two outs in the bottom of the 8th....sucks.

That's a bummer. Your first mistake was playing with the Braves though! Haven't had a freeze yet through 25 games.

AGAINST. There's no Freddy Galvis on the Braves. Sheesh.

[tjung0831]

Well just had my first freeze up....in the bottom of the 11th in a 4-4 game against the Braves. Ball froze about halfway to the plate, yet I had full control over my batter via the swing buttons but the option button wouldn't do anything and I couldn't get to the menus. That is frustrating...I was down 4-0 and battle my way back to tie it on a pinch hit Freddy Galvis homerun with two outs in the bottom of the 8th....sucks.

That's a bummer. Your first mistake was playing with the Braves though! Haven't had a freeze yet through 25 games.

I'm using the Phillies for my season!

[Brando70]

Plowed through my first season in RTTS as a LF for the Astros. Was close to an everyday starter. Got off to a hot start, went into a bad mid-season slump where I dipped to .200, then rebounded a bit to get back near .240 before breaking my leg in September. I got a one-year AAA contract for $500,000. Overall, I found it really fun. It is easy to lose track of what's going on in the league or even with your team, but the challenge of building a solid player is great, especially as the ability get expensive and you lose points if you don't train. I also didn't miss pitching, which I think is the weakest part of the game. Looking forward to a second year.

[dbdynsty25]

Well it's official. Had to give it a month to make sure I wasn't seeing things but this is my favorite sports game of all time.

The graphical improvement off the field is first and foremost w the upgrade in hardware. Pair that with all of the new features/additions and it makes for a great damn game.

Three of the features they added are being used exclusively and they are all brilliant. Adaptive difficulty...dynamic cameras...and generated pitch counts. I absolutely love each one and they all combine to make it the perfect sports game.

[Slumberland]

Yeah, quick counts and dynamic difficulty solve two of my ongoing problems with the series, all at once. Plus the whole RTTS and Franchise carrying over to future versions, regardless of platform. Craziness.

[Inuyasha]

Online plays great. Just tried it today. I like they have a play now exhibition mode where it's not ranked. Found some good no cheese players.

What is the best mode of the game? I like it playing once in a while, but no urge to play everyday.

Also what is the consensus on camera angle? I get dynamic adds more immersion, but it's too low and hard to sometimes see.

[grtwhtsk]

Well it's official. Had to give it a month to make sure I wasn't seeing things but this is my favorite sports game of all time.

The graphical improvement off the field is first and foremost w the upgrade in hardware. Pair that with all of the new features/additions and it makes for a great damn game.

Three of the features they added are being used exclusively and they are all brilliant. Adaptive difficulty...dynamic cameras...and generated pitch counts. I absolutely love each one and they all combine to make it the perfect sports game.

Totally agree, my favorite as well. My youngest son loves to play RTTS

[skinsfan]

Well it's official. Had to give it a month to make sure I wasn't seeing things but this is my favorite sports game of all time.

The graphical improvement off the field is first and foremost w the upgrade in hardware. Pair that with all of the new features/additions and it makes for a great damn game.

Three of the features they added are being used exclusively and they are all brilliant. Adaptive difficulty...dynamic cameras...and generated pitch counts. I absolutely love each one and they all combine to make it the perfect sports game.

I'm "over" most sports games, but this one is excellent. If baseball-as-video game was more popular, it would be a real system seller.

[Diablo25]

Well it's official. Had to give it a month to make sure I wasn't seeing things but this is my favorite sports game of all time.

The graphical improvement off the field is first and foremost w the upgrade in hardware. Pair that with all of the new features/additions and it makes for a great damn game.

Three of the features they added are being used exclusively and they are all brilliant. Adaptive difficulty...dynamic cameras...and generated pitch counts. I absolutely love each one and they all combine to make it the perfect sports game.

Totally agree. The quick counts and Dynamic cameras are the real deal.

[sportdan30]

Well it's official. Had to give it a month to make sure I wasn't seeing things but this is my favorite sports game of all time.

The graphical improvement off the field is first and foremost w the upgrade in hardware. Pair that with all of the new features/additions and it makes for a great damn game.

Three of the features they added are being used exclusively and they are all brilliant. Adaptive difficulty...dynamic cameras...and generated pitch counts. I absolutely love each one and they all combine to make it the perfect sports game.

Well, I'm now 20-24 (6 games out in the division) in my season. Hoping the call up of Tavares in my season sparks the offense a little bit! Playing just as poorly as the real Cardinals, but I'm loving every game. By far, this is the most games I've ever played in a Show season. And it's mostly due to the quick count feature, but above all the game is just so enjoyable to play. Yeah, there are some small issues here and there, but this game has met my expectations once again.

[Danimal]

PS4 version is on sale.

[TCrouch]

The only thing I can say about this game to explain its greatness is this--I have hated baseball basically my entire life. There are long periods of boredom followed by 2 seconds of excitement, and if I'm ever feeling like I have a bout of insomnia I'm fighting, I can turn on a baseball game and be asleep in minutes. I just dislike the sport. I've bought The Show once before and played 5 games and realized I still hate the sport.

But my brother has become something of a baseball nut the past year and kept trying to get me to turn on Giants games when he's down, and eventually I figured what the hell, I'll buy The Show on PS4 when it releases since it's something new to play on the console.

100+ games later I'm a much better fan of the sport. The cerebral aspect of trying to outwit hitters (especially playing against my brother or another human), and sitting on pitches--learning when to predict when he (or the CPU) has to throw me something hittable, when to expect trash...how to read the ball coming out of the pitcher's hand and its elevation, which pitches the pitcher has in his repertoire--suddenly I'm not swinging wildly at everything, but running up pitch counts.

Then strategy slowly started sinking in. Hey, I got that lead off runner on first, and if I drop a bunt down the 3rd base line, it's an easy move ahead to 2nd, even if he throws me out at first. Of course I later came to realize that's pretty common, the sacrifice bunt. But as a lifelong hater of the sport, the game taught me these things organically.

After dozens and dozens of games against my brother (who also bought a PS4 and The Show after we played it that first weekend) with absolutely no ball marker when pitching, no strike zone, no hot/cold zones, etc., it was a very realistic-feeling simulation of baseball. Suddenly I'm catching myself watching games on TV, recognizing pitches and scenarios. Or the pitchers I used to hate in the game--the ones with just fastball/changeup/curve--becoming ones I find have the most effective versions of those pitches, and being able to work over hitters. Or discovering the beauty of the dreaded 2seam/4seam/cutter fastball array and working corners of the plate. "Here, 3 pitches that start out identical--good luck knowing if it's dipping outside or coming inside on that 1-2 count", etc. The last few games this past weekend I started tinkering with my lineup, moving guys around that I thought might work better than the defaults I had been using.

I don't know--the mere fact that I even looked at the price of the MLB Extra Innings package this weekend kind of told me all I suspected...

This f*cking game turned me into a baseball fan. It must be good.

[dbdynsty25]

This f*cking game turned me into a baseball fan. It must be good.

Welcome to the club. The game is by far the best sports simulation on the market as far as I'm concerned.

I'm 41-29 w/ the Braves, a half game up on the Nats (who just took 2 of 3 from me) and I've played every inning. Usually by about this time I'm messing with Road to the Show or at least thinking about it. But this year I'm just looking forward to playing more games and trying to hold off the Nats.

Dynamic difficulty has made it so I can't go and run off 15-20 in a row like before...it just adjusts to make the game more realistic no matter what your skill level. By far my favorite addition to this years game. It's genius.

[TCrouch]

What makes it even more amazing is that my brother and I can use totally different skill levels and have genuinely competitive games almost every time. For my entire life, any time we've played a competitive video game, it's been the equivalent of me doing that stiff-arm-to-the-forehead-while-the-other-kid-swings-blindly move. I have no doubt that I can make it appear to be competitive, and then in the waning moments of the game, pull it out and win. I can't just let him win as it's practically against my religion, but I also don't want to thump him so bad that he quits.

Well, with this one, he can use the Meter mode, I can use Pulse, I'm on adaptive difficulty and he's on Rookie, he has timing hitting and I have zone, his fielders auto field and then he picks where to throw to, while I have to manually field.

It's like the first TRUE equalizer I've seen. Since so much of the game is the mental duel between the pitcher and batter, I still get fooled routinely on what he's doing on the mound, and I catch him a bunch, too. I have ZERO idea who's going to win a game when we fire it up. I lost 11-1 on Thursday night, and turned around and won 15-0 three games later. Then I lose 2-0 in another game, win 1-0 the next. 7-4 two games after that, etc.

I never have a clue what's going to happen until we're into the 3rd or 4th inning, it seems. That fear of getting my ass legitimately kicked all around the stadium is a good time.