MLB The Show 17 Patch 1.05 Available Now, Patch Notes Included

[Shergie51]

I just wish they would fix the diving mechanic during fielding. I have not been in a situation where it was beneficial to dive, because they cover more ground simply running in a backwards angle. They dive too slow and there should be more ball logic when diving. In previous versions once you got the timing down it played very well, but here I cannot recall a situation in which I needed to dive for a ball.

[Shergie51]

What about the cpu check swings/appeals? Fact that it is always determined they did not swing the bat. Have they determined whether or not this is an issue? Not a big deal at all, just curious.

[jada855]

Quote: Originally Posted by Shergie51

I just wish they would fix the diving mechanic during fielding. I have not been in a situation where it was beneficial to dive, because they cover more ground simply running in a backwards angle. They dive too slow and there should be more ball logic when diving. In previous versions once you got the timing down it played very well, but here I cannot recall a situation in which I needed to dive for a ball.

Shergie51,


Curious as to what is your style of play? Do you play using Player Lock or full team control. Full team control defense definitely plays different than Player Lock defense. Especiallly with the diving mechanic.

I have to turn the setting for one button dives to on which gives wierd results as R2 for dive no longer works.

[Shergie51]

I refuse to do any fielding when i play rtts, except SS. Why they cant understand that letting us lock onto our player using the standard/normal defense views used during regular play would be the greatest thing ever i do not know. We dont need this awkward 1st person view, especially when it switches camera halfway to the ball forcing us to push A different direction on the control pad even though we are still running the same direction. I have played the show since it's inception and they have made no improvement to this and I can't imagine the feedback would be positive unless no one plays outfield.

Fielding is my favorite part of the game so much that I have a franchise in which I fantasy drafted based on defense and all I do is throw fastballs down the middle of the plate and try to field. Also, I have the one button option selected as well.

I know that diving over the ball has been this way, and it just was a matter of timing to dive for a ball. It is the same way now with timing, however I have yet to come across a situation where simply taking a steeper angle to get the ball was not more beneficial than diving. Perhaps i need to take down fielder speed or reaction in sliders, but I remember not having good results when i did that before.

Also, I would be interested to know from all use that guys out there how many pop-ups to the catcher on average happen during a game and whether or not it is all that my batters pop out to the catcher now at least six times a game. And if this is normal, which I'm being sarcastic and I know that it is not, how come the computer doesn't pop out to the catcher as much. And this so far has been on legend and Hall of Fame and with directional or zone. Problem is so bad that this is how I learned of the last patch. I was popping out and hitting dribblers so much that I went and checked online to see if something had changed and sure know if there had been a patch.

[Shergie51]

After reading my last comment I realized how negative and whiny it sounded and if any developers read that I apologize. I definitely don't want to be THAT guy. The positives still far outweigh the negatives, and thank you for the patches and listening to constructive feedback. It is still a great game so thank you

[RogueHominid]

I finally had a chance to play-test this in my LAD franchise. QC is definitely working better. I faced Erlin and he lasted a full 6, despite being down 2-0, and they only pulled him once I got 2 men on base in the 7th.

That would have never happened previously; he'd have been gone after the 4th.

Also, the batted-ball sound is much better now that it's back to normal.

I can't imagine what else they'd need to do to make this game better, at least from my perspective. It's amazing.

[b22gamer]

It's 7:47 AM EST. was hoping to get a quick DD game in before work...you would think there'd be no server traffic at this time....Server Error. Your Connection to The Show Online has been lost. And so has my patience with this game. FFS Sony....GET. YOUR. SH!T. TOGETHER.

[chuckclc]

Quote: Originally Posted by b22gamer

It's 7:47 AM EST. was hoping to get a quick DD game in before work...you would think there'd be no server traffic at this time....Server Error. Your Connection to The Show Online has been lost. And so has my patience with this game. FFS Sony....GET. YOUR. SH!T. TOGETHER.

Yeah, seems to be down for a while now. A good way to test if it is the servers if I am having problems on the game is to go here http://theshownation.com/home,this site is on the same server.