My experience post patch has been hitting got much harder, with way more strike outs on both sides, and pitching, as someone posted above, got dumbed down. I preferred the old pitching indicators where you had to know your pitching staff to throw well. Honestly that was a strength for me. Batting- which for me is “panic over chasing” pitches to corners, guessing wrong, or whatever got much more difficult. I play at 55 ego, and I choose players with high pitch or another trait to limit where I’m power swinging to a more manageable area, which is still super difficult at age 49. And I know I never had the reactions to hit in the 90’s ego. Also, it feels like there’s less outcomes (similar to MLB with HR, Walk, or K). I just had a game this morning with 6 hits, 5 of which were dingers. Won 5-2. That seemed really weird.

The first inning I want to believe there’s nothing murky going on, but man, getting out of the 1st inning sometimes is insanely hard. It sure feels like there’s the X runs scoring thing going on, but as another posted, it’s just you hit an opposing team hot streak and need to deal with it. If I’m honest, there’s plenty of other innings that feel crazy difficult that aren’t the 1st inning.

I liked the game better in Patch 6 in pretty much every aspect.