One of many threads OSers like to make with each massive sports activities recreation is the “little issues” thread. It’s been a mainstay for a few years, and so after all we’ve now obtained loads of issues filling up the MLB The Present 24 Little Issues thread.
These threads are far and wide in a great way. They are going to contact every little thing from gameplay to presentation to modes to only very random stuff. One of many first issues that got here up was the showcasing of the EvoShield Sliding Mitts now being within the recreation.
This really grew to become its personal little sub-topic as a result of there was a glitch that was stopping the EvoShield Sliding Mitts from altering colours. OS consumer laguna_bob got here up with an ideal workaround.
Simply discovered a option to shade the EvoShield Sliding Mitts within the recreation! They’re at the moment glitched, so coloring it doesn’t really have an effect on it and it stays at a default black shade. However, upon enhancing my A’s roster tools, I discovered that they’re colorable. Their shade is tied to the colour of the wrist guards worn by that participant for no matter purpose. Hopefully this will get patched in order that gamers who put on completely different coloured wrist guards than their sliding mitts could be higher recreated in-game.
Sticking with presentation, SDS put it entrance and heart that there can be extra dugout celebrations after house runs on this 12 months’s recreation, and so fairly a couple of posts have been cataloging the varied ones in ’24. My favourite that has been posted (by Arizito Sports activities) entails the Tigers and their Hockeytown homage with a hockey stick and helmet. In fact, it’s technically outdated as now the Tigers are utilizing one other Ilitch-owned model for 2024, going with a Little Caesars celebration the place a dude has pizzas on a spear. It feels type of company and gross in a method that Hockeytown didn’t though the Crimson Wings are additionally owned by the Ilitch household, however I digress.
Bat flips have additionally been referred to as out a number of instances as nicely, they usually actually are extra saucy at instances — and have been trending that method for a pair years now in The Present. It’s a pattern that may border on the absurd to an extent (in the event you don’t watch lots of KBO video games), however they actually do hit the spot total. Right here’s a Christopher Morel bat flip that comes from OS consumer The Gamer.
Sticking with homers, OS consumer agentlaw13 will get a bit of extra within the weeds and calls out one thing that every one sports activities video games have to all the time take into consideration: anticipation. NBA 2K followers in all probability know probably the most about this matter as a result of we’ve made a stink earlier than about how that recreation was gifting away a “inexperienced” launch earlier than pictures even went in, thus taking away all of the suspense and anticipation. They later patched it so we had extra management over these moments (not forcing digital camera cuts and permitting us to show off inexperienced launch notifications), however agentlaw13 calls out a worthwhile change right here in MLB The Present 24 that will get into the identical form of idea.
Runners on base will now pause on the basepaths with wall scraper house runs to see if the ball is caught or going over the fence. In years previous, the runners would maintain operating on house run balls, taking away the suspense on lengthy fly balls to and over the wall.
I feel MLB The Present may do much more on this entrance as they might tweak issues like giving us extra management over “little question” house runs by even having these turned off if we don’t need that instantaneous digital camera lower, however that’s a smaller factor.
There’s a lot extra I may name out, however the final two fast ones I’ll point out hit on franchise mode and Storylines. OS consumer Alfonsori factors out a pleasant contact for franchise mode:
Now you can commerce arbitration-eligible gamers and gamers on renewable contracts in franchise through the offseason.
And lastly, OS consumer TripleCrown9 reveals factors out one of many many small touches which are within the Jeter Storylines mode:
I like how in Jeter Mode, the Yankees put on their year-specific World Sequence patches/memorial patches (though they aren’t accessible in the remainder of the sport). I’m within the ’99 World Sequence and the Yankees (not the Braves sadly) have the ’99 WS patch on the appropriate sleeve and the DiMaggio memorial on the left sleeve.
Be at liberty to go to the Little Issues thread for MLB The Present 24 and add to the dialogue.
