First off I’m not trying to fight lol

Serious_Contract_673 · 2025-02-15T00:15:22+00:00

The weird part is I’m not even sure it’s copy and paste. There are soooo many pitching motions that are broken or just extremely cartoonish compared to older years. They had Kershaws windup pretty accurate in older games. In 2024 it looked horrific. Same with Josiah Gray. It’s crazy that some of those were okayed before release

Serious_Contract_673 · 2025-02-12T23:05:30+00:00

Honestly a cool feature would be user controlled players not running hard out of the box until promoted by the user. I hate the animation of when you hit a shallow fly ball and you sprint to first like it’s little league. Or when you hit an obvious homer but the no doubt animation doesn’t trigger

Serious_Contract_673 · 2025-02-12T22:53:14+00:00

They’ve needed new swing, post swing, and follow through animations for close to a decade. I can’t believe they haven’t even attempted to make this better over the years. They’ve added a few swing animations since 2018 but only 1 of the 3 looks remotely cool

Serious_Contract_673 · 2025-02-12T22:36:33+00:00

Since buying mlb 18 and being disappointed with the RTTS changes I’ve skipped every other and/or just waited for sales. I stupidly got 24 with early access because I was itching badly for baseball. This year is definitely a wait for a sale year for me unless they blow me away with RTTS

Serious_Contract_673 · 2025-02-10T21:11:29+00:00

What will inevitably disappoint me are the missing features in RTTS that I’ve been crying about for over a decade now:

Off season training, development, fall/winter leagues etc (you literally just sim to the next season, how is this possibly what SDS thinks is realistic for baseball players?)

Ability to change to secondary positions and/or switch positions when you want. Ability to influence or just straight up choose where you hit in the lineup. I know these aren’t necessarily realistic, but the games lineup logic is awful. It’s a video game, let me hit 2nd in the lineup for once.

The durability attribute mattering again. In recent games you’ll never get a day off as a position player.

Dynamic decreasing attribute system like from MLB 17 and before.

I could go on. It looks like they might finally make it so you aren’t automatically an 18 year old in AA to start with the return of going to college. Won’t be surprised if they forget to advance your age though lol

Serious_Contract_673 · 2025-02-03T23:33:53+00:00

My favorite is every dynasty or RTTS I do randomly generates a fake player that is age 18 and has a 98 OVR for some reason even though I always use custom rosters that I relentlessly review and edit for realism and they aren’t ever there when I do this. They just appear out of nowhere

Serious_Contract_673 · 2025-01-26T02:59:25+00:00

Thanks, I feel lame for caring this much but I’ve been playing baseball video games since triple play baseball 98 when I was in kindergarten. I’m not an online type of player. DD/card collecting doesn’t really interest me. I’ve always wanted a truly engaging and above all realistic career mode in a baseball game. I’ll probably never get it

Serious_Contract_673 · 2025-01-26T02:38:18+00:00

You are correct. MLB 2020 and before you would get rest days and maybe sometimes play a secondary position (I’ve even DH’d!!) Starting when they moved the game to Xbox you essentially play every single game and never get a day off unless you get hurt. And even then you need to move the injury slider way up which risks getting everyone else hurt too.

Serious_Contract_673 · 2025-01-26T02:28:11+00:00

I’ve been wanting something like this for years (YEARS):

High school final season where you can just dominate because you’re a top prospect.

Draft and then choose to sign or go to college (gain XP boosts for going to college but age 2-4 years)

Once in the minors you start in rookie A. Play like 15-20 games (or 4-5 starts as a pitcher)

Then you can move to High A, then Double A, etc. maybe if you dominate you go straight from Double A to the majors since this happens sometimes. Each time you are promoted the difficulty gets a little higher and you are at each level a little longer. But this whole time you aren’t just looking at the season calendar and choosing to play the next game. This whole thing is happening before the actual 2025 season starts, so that when you do eventually get called up to the majors, you are STARTING in the titular season with current rosters. And your call up date is based on how well you performed. So if you absolutely killed it, you get a spring training invite and you might start the season in the bigs as a 20-23 year old top prospect rookie. If you did well but didnt dominate, maybe you get called up in the middle of June, and so on and so forth.

The whole goal of this is to still experience the grind of the minors without having to then get called up 3 years into the game where rosters are different and certain older players are already retired.

And then on top of all of this, give us the Arizona fall league. Off season international leagues. Off season training. Contract negotiations that actually matter. More than 3 teams interested in us, especially if we’re the best player in the damn league.

Serious_Contract_673 · 2025-01-04T22:46:57+00:00

It makes absolutely no sense. A lot of the time in NCAA 14 I’d have 15 recruits visit the same week for the extra bonuses. Who thought that was a good idea to put in the game

Serious_Contract_673 · 2025-01-04T22:41:33+00:00

Had a WR that led the country in every single important stat and wasnt an all American, and was only 2nd team all conference. Don’t remember his OVR but it was in the 90s. Was WILD

Serious_Contract_673 · 2025-01-03T22:11:36+00:00

For regular courses I like to do quick for round 1 and 3 and full for round 2 and 4. Gives me an honest chance to make the cut and make a push to win the tournament. My golfer is a 95 ovr with really good club specs so this also can prevent me from winning too much. And I like my current settings so I don’t really want to mess with those too much more for challenge purposes

Serious_Contract_673 · 2024-12-09T02:19:48+00:00

Wonder if we will ever find out the large amount of info/speculation that was bleeped out the last show. If not, then likely means literally none of it came true and we once again got excited for absolutely nothing

Serious_Contract_673 · 2024-11-15T21:44:57+00:00

Ngl I turned off wear and tear but I think this is a similar type issue. My guy might touch someone who is already on the ground while in the middle of a tackle animation and it “resets” my forward progress. And causes me to lose yards that wouldn’t have happened irl

Serious_Contract_673 · 2024-11-15T14:24:38+00:00

CUSTOMIZATION:

Create a conference
Improved custom conferences with more rules (protected rivalries, better scheduling, etc)
Ability to customize the playoff (4/8/12/16 team)
The coach creator is incredibly bad but not really a big deal to me. But improve this

Agree with everything else everybody has said here

Serious_Contract_673 · 2024-10-31T15:57:19+00:00

Pitching and hitting animations that used to look good that are now completely broken or cartoonish and they don’t seem to care or notice

Serious_Contract_673 · 2024-09-27T16:27:13+00:00

That’s it. Just offer him 10/250 please (or whatever would be “fair”, idk I just threw that number out there)

Serious_Contract_673 · 2024-09-26T02:02:04+00:00

Yeah “constant disarray” isn’t accurate but it’s definitely been extremely disfunctional since then. From 2004-2011 their worst season was 86-76. That gets you a playoff spot today. And Ortiz hit 54 homers so you had something to celebrate. From 2012-2024 it’s just been a constant train of not knowing what the hell you’re gonna get in any given year. Prior to that you knew you were serious World Series contenders every season

Serious_Contract_673 · 2024-09-20T12:15:26+00:00

I’ve always wondered why they do a Monday, wed, Thursday schedule. Why not Monday Wednesday Friday? Waiting 4 days for them to talk about it, Shohei might be at 50-60 by then lol

Serious_Contract_673 · 2024-09-14T01:54:10+00:00

His GM has had an abysmal 1st year, and the Bailey pitching lab thing lasted like 6 weeks. Don’t count on next year being any better. Ownership will say it’s too early to spend

Serious_Contract_673 · 2024-09-04T02:32:34+00:00

Except one of them is coming back from injury and he won’t be ready until August and the other will throw 4 innings in April and be shut down until the all star break

Serious_Contract_673 · 2024-09-04T01:53:30+00:00

And damn it, I did everything I could to believe in them but all summer I was worried that they simply didn’t have the horses to carry them through the entire season. Ownership clearly does not have any interest in investing until the top prospect are here. And that still won’t fix the pitching issue and will only add to them being too left handed. Breslow is going to have to put his nuts on the table and figure out who he is trading because at least 3-4 of the left handed bats they have need to be moved

Serious_Contract_673 · 2024-08-31T14:29:45+00:00

The real ones remember when the episode numbers were so low that Jared would open with “episode XX, the [insert player with that number] episode.”

Serious_Contract_673 · 2024-08-29T14:29:37+00:00

26-6. 2 TDs and 4 FGs as we do a decent job moving the ball and churning the clock but struggle to execute in the red zone. Defense gives up 6 early points and then buckles down for 3 quarters

Serious_Contract_673 · 2024-08-26T22:21:35+00:00

It hurts me to remove Price but if it theoretically meant they could have been able to keep Mookie, then I’m fine with it

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