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Found this among discussion on meter pitching for the Show 13, I think:quote:Meter-style delivery. This brings up a semi-circle meter, Holding down X starts the meter, and you'll want to release the X in the colored area at the end of the meter. Then, the meter will come back, and you have to hit X again when the edge of it hits the center of the aiming meter. Is that still all true? Am I throwing wild loving pitches by the third inning because I've been going "oh, well, top of the meter is best, so just always hit the top of the meter" and I'm wearing my player's arm out, then CONTINUING to make him pull that arm around with all the force possible? Am I a virtual slave driver?
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Yes, hitting the beginning/middle of the yellow is considerably better for your endurance. But if you want to blow someone away with a high fastball once in a while, that's what the top of the meter is for
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May 20, 2014 21:08
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Hydrocodone posted:Found this among discussion on meter pitching for the Show 13, I think: Yes, good job trying to Mark Prior your RttS guy.
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May 20, 2014 21:27
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gleep gloop posted:The show always has the weirdest god damned soundtrack. It's always all over the place. Like they try to make a soundtrack everyone will like but end up panicking and pleasing noone. Seems even worse than usual this year.
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May 20, 2014 22:32
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paint dry posted:It's always all over the place. Like they try to make a soundtrack everyone will like but end up panicking and pleasing noone. Seems even worse than usual this year. I remember it used to be pretty ok, alternative rock, inoffensive rap, some R&B but this year is just the most random poo poo possible. I've only heard of I think one group on it.
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May 20, 2014 22:55
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I like that they randomly put an early-90's rap song on the soundtrack. Sure, why not.
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May 20, 2014 22:57
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I turned off the soundtrack like day one. I'd already heard it enough watching people stream.
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May 20, 2014 23:00
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Honestly it's not even that bad, but they really should have sprung for more music. Look at how EA does licensed music in their games, it's more bland and pop centered but there's like fifty songs so you're at least not hearing the same poo poo over and over again.
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May 21, 2014 02:02
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I dunno, I kind of like the music. It's repetitive but I'm the guy who listens to the same song on repeat for a week at a time so there you go.
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May 21, 2014 02:46
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I say this in the NHL thread all the time, but I don't really listen to games much anymore, especially sports game (which is what I normally play). I usually just turn the sound on my TV down to 0, and then either put something else on TV or listen to music. All of the commentary and music is too repetitive.
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May 21, 2014 04:54
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Welp, all 3 online games I've tried post this last patch have crashed at some point. Two hard freezes and one crash to the dashboard. The fielding/base running seemed a bit better though. Not as much skipping and stuttering.
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May 21, 2014 13:52
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I know it was mentioned earlier in the thread but gently caress please give me an option to have my RTTS pitcher tell his coach to take him out of the game. I hate pitching 7 good innings with no hits but getting tired and I end up giving up 3 hits in the 8th inning before they decide to take me out.
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May 21, 2014 15:41
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I'm 1/1 so far as well with crashes.
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May 21, 2014 16:16
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Grab a shotgun, cock it back. Shoot the sun until the sky is black.
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May 21, 2014 22:42
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IMB posted:Grab a shotgun, cock it back. Shoot the This looks better.
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May 21, 2014 22:58
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Seriously? I give up 6 loving hits in a row that all hug the line and get past the first basemen and blow a five run lead? Bullshit. Oh and the Royals STILL won't start me, the ace is the closer with 22 stamina and the #5 guy is 46 overall. gently caress pitching.
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May 22, 2014 02:03
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Luigi Thirty posted:Seriously? I give up 6 loving hits in a row that all hug the line and get past the first basemen and blow a five run lead? Bullshit. Oh and the Royals STILL won't start me, the ace is the closer with 22 stamina and the #5 guy is 46 overall. gently caress pitching. Try being a catcher and getting dinged when your retard pitcher can't hit anywhere near where you call them. Dropped pitch my rear end.
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May 22, 2014 03:30
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I love how RTTS instantly makes all of us say poo poo that would get us instantly labeled as a locker room cancer.
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May 22, 2014 04:42
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So in my franchise just about everyone of my solid hits seems to either be a line drive right at an outfielder or a deep fly ball, which option do I need to mess with to make increase the amount of hits I get from good swings?
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May 22, 2014 04:44
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Eifert Posting posted:I love how RTTS instantly makes all of us say poo poo that would get us instantly labeled as a locker room cancer. Speaking of which, can I not force a trade? I'm on the Twins, who traded Mauer and Buxton for garbage.
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May 22, 2014 05:26
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IMB posted:Speaking of which, can I not force a trade? I'm on the Twins, who traded Mauer and Buxton for garbage. You can request one in interactions but that's it.
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May 22, 2014 05:28
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Eifert Posting posted:I love how RTTS instantly makes all of us say poo poo that would get us instantly labeled as a locker room cancer. MLB The Show 14: Michael Young Simulator
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May 22, 2014 05:42
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I've taken to saying "Warning... Track... Power" in my best stadium announcer voice whenever my guy hits ANOTHER ball 5 feet from the fence. Wish I could get the announcer to call me name "warning track power" name.
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May 22, 2014 06:37
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Somewhere here I complained about pitchers throwing too many strikes in the minors in RTTS. Lo and behold I get a 9/1 call-up and my first MLB AB is an 11 pitch walk. In 400 AAA ABs I had 1 HBP and 0 walks. Have 3 after 4 games now. I'm glad the MLB pitchers walk you, but still wish they'd tweak it so you could work on taking pitches in the minors. Is there anyplace you can see your teams transactions in RTTS? I can't seem to find it.
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May 22, 2014 06:42
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Still playing The Show 11, got offered arbitration, made a modest counteroffer and then simmed the rest of the off season. The arbitration deadline rolls around and I got a message to the effect of "Congratulations! The arbitrator has ruled in your favor. Your salary for the upcoming year will be $0." This is hilarious and I don't mind playing for nothing because you don't need money to have The Will To Win, but is this gonna gently caress up the rest of my career? Am I going to get benched and traded for some no name minor leaguer because the team views me as being "worth" zero dollars?
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May 22, 2014 06:56
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It's my first baseball game and I don't follow the sport in real life so could someone shed light on what's a good batting average for the difficulty in RTTS? Currently set to dynamic and my batting average was around .345 and .365 and now I've worked my way up to legend and my average is now hovering around .295. I don't really agree with the dynamic settings though because I could be -- at the set level, then I luck out and get a 3 run HR and all of a sudden I'm at ++ for that level. What level you playing RTTS? (Also gently caress the AI for throwing sliders when the count is 3-2)
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ive never heard the soundtrack on the show. i just play Swans and Autechre and its super fun.
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Rad Valtar posted:So in my franchise just about everyone of my solid hits seems to either be a line drive right at an outfielder or a deep fly ball, which option do I need to mess with to make increase the amount of hits I get from good swings? Here's what I do: Use zone hitting and aim at either the top of the strikezone or the bottom of the strikezone. Wait on a pitch in the zone you're covering, mash dingers. Also it helps if you learn how to guess to go from up -> down or down -> up based on where he threw his previous pitch. Hope this helps.
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Do pitchers have tendencies you can exploit? The last Show I played was the '11 version, so I don't know how much the CPU pitching has changed
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May 22, 2014 15:03
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Actually played 3 ranked online games today without a crash, maybe they fixed something on their end.
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jackofarcades posted:You can request one in interactions but that's it. It only gives me, a 19-year-old fireballing lefthander starting his second season in the majors, the option to retire. Which I'm debating because gently caress the Twins.
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So I finally watched the opening cinematic and laughed my rear end off. When you play the Game of Baseball, you win or you die.
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So I'm new to The Show franchise and haven't played a baseball game since the NES. Any tips to throw my way while I wait 8 years for my install progress bar to hit 100%? Really looking forward to RTTS but should I start elsewhere?
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OMGzKakaniz posted:So I'm new to The Show franchise and haven't played a baseball game since the NES. Any tips to throw my way while I wait 8 years for my install progress bar to hit 100%? Really looking forward to RTTS but should I start elsewhere? RTTS is fun but too repetitive for me to play all the time. Makes a great 'I've got 20 minutes to play some baseball' thing though. I wish you could have a connected RTTS with a pitcher and batter. Diamond Dynasty is an Ultimate Team type game mode where you get 'cards' of fictional players and assemble a team. You can buy new cards, buy packs of new cards, or combine cards you have to build your team. They can only play for 30-40 games each so you're consistently refreshing your team. I'm having a lot of fun with it, but it is buggy. Franchise is a standard franchise mode. It's pretty deep although I haven't gotten into it yet really. For gameplay I would start on dynamic difficulty. This will start you off with the CPU pitcher throwing easy stuff and the CPU batters hardly able to hit. As you get better it'll ramp up the difficulty on you, and if you have trouble it'll knock it back down.
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my rtts character is "War Hellride". Announcers know him by "Wesley Willis".
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Chamber 9 posted:my rtts character is "War Hellride". Announcers know him by "Wesley Willis". Rock on Chicago.
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DrNutt posted:Try being a catcher and getting dinged when your retard pitcher can't hit anywhere near where you call them. Dropped pitch my rear end. It's mid-May and my guy has a BABIP up near .500. No idea what the Royals defense is doing but it's not catching balls!
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So in my Rookie year, I went 14-5 with a 1.92 ERA and a crapton of strikeouts. I won the Cy Young award in my rookie year and of course, the Rookie of the year award. What a great 2014, I did not expect to get called up so early, and I definitely made the most of it. Time to kick rear end in 2015 and improve to be an even better pitcher! Haha no. I'm 0-7 halfway through the year with a 5.72 ERA. I have no idea what has happened to me. I'm doing exactly what I did my rookie year, but they are hitting me like every player has studied my every move in the offseason or something. The difficulty has not changed. Nothing is different. I just can't do it anymore. And my manager won't send me back to AAA to work things out and is making me suffer in the majors thinking I'm just going to dish out my Cy Young stuff out of nowhere. Seriously, I have no idea how this happened, but I can't help but admire how cool it is to actually NOT be dominant and get my rear end kicked and struggle to figure out what the hell I'm doing wrong. What's not cool is my overall dropping at a ridiculous rate because I suck so bad.
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My guy is currently putting up an ERA straddling 2.00 for the Giants, but he was only called up as an injury replacement so its gonna be cool when i get sent down to get owned by the PCL again
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Serf Surviving posted:Haha no. I'm 0-7 halfway through the year with a 5.72 ERA. I have no idea what has happened to me. I'm doing exactly what I did my rookie year, but they are hitting me like every player has studied my every move in the offseason or something. The difficulty has not changed. Nothing is different. I just can't do it anymore. And my manager won't send me back to AAA to work things out and is making me suffer in the majors thinking I'm just going to dish out my Cy Young stuff out of nowhere. The Tim Lincecum story!
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