re: MLB The Show Thread

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Going to make Old Alex Box in stadium creator

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They really screwed me up this year. Last year I made college baseball rosters for each MLB team. It would have been super sweet this year with the ability to create stadiums. I racked up a couple hundred bucks because people were wanting team A replaced with team B, so I charged per extra team I had to make.

I started doing the work on this year's months ago, and not long after they announced that you wouldn't be able to save from the old game to the new. So I just trashed the idea. I'm sure someone will scoop up my rosters and fix this for the current season.

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Yeah I will, though apparently there’s no search option in the stadium vault

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frick

Just post on every single board as soon as you finish it, so I'll know when to go on the show and look for most recent stadiums created

Who else is buying a hard copy today?

I'm pumped for this release since it's the first time on Xbox.

I’ve been playing on game pass. I’ve never been into stuff like diamond dynasty and tried to get into it today. Holy hell what a mess. Even with the tutorial I have no clue what’s going on

I have 0 discipline at the plate and it’s quite frustrating lol. Can someone at least explain when to you the different types of hitting buttons? (Power, contact, normal) Not from a situational standpoint but more so from a strategy POV for this game? Like should I always power hit or what?

Works for me, where do you see that?

I think it was Right trigger on xbox (pre pitch) pulls up an attribute box in addition to the last pitches thrown info

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should I always power hit or what?

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Power swing will reduce your contact window. Depending on your hitting settings & difficulty level, swinging too early/late with a power swing will often result in soft fly ball out or missing completely. And it is a lot harder to check swing a power stroke and you'll swing & miss completely more often than fouling something off, so you'll rack up Ks if you don't have strike discipline yet. But if you time a power swing perfectly, you can do a lot of damage obviously. So power swing is your most risk/reward scenario.

Contact swing will increase your contact window while reducing power - think of it as choking up on 2 strikes and protecting the plate. Or if you want to do a hit & run, contact swings may be preferred since you'll likely put the ball in play as long as you are swinging at strikes.

Normal swing obviously balances everything out from a power & contact perspective. You can hit HRs on a regular basis by just using contact swing once your power attribute gets higher. So you don't necessarily have to rely on power swings once you level up in order to be a 30+ HR hitter every year.

Difficulty levels & sliders can adjust all of this too, so you can tweak things like user power & contact window in the settings.

Beginner difficulty levels will have the cpu throw a lot more strikes down the middle, so you might be able to get away with using a ton of power swings early on. Higher difficulty levels will have the cpu painting the corners and rarely throwing straight down the middle, so you'll likely want to lay off of the power swings until you're in a hitters count.

So I just switched to Zone hitting and the results are night and day. Went from scoring about 2 runs per game to 5 in just the first few instances. I'm getting better about not swinging at everything too. I put the cursor right in the middle of my hot zones for the first pitch and if they throw it there, I use power. Generally I wait for 2 strikes to use contact or normal swing depending on who is at bat.