Ballistic Baseball

Great game, but a few bugs…

I’ve been playing this game for a couple years now and I still enjoy picking it up for 15 minutes a day or so. The graphics are good, but not quite up to their full potential. Certainly not a deal breaker though. Gameplay is easy, and upgrading is simple. There ARE a few bugs that I want to mention, however… Certain pitchers will sometimes loose their heads. No, I’m not kidding. Weird as it may sound, the pitcher’s head will suddenly disappear, leaving an empty pair of pants and shirt floating around on the pitcher’s mound. The baseball cap floating in midair is quite amusing as well. Although rather comical, this tends to become annoying. Another problem I have is with my batters skipping bases. If I steal a base and bunt a foul ball in the same play, the ball with float in midair for a bit, and in the next play my first base guy will run directly across the field to third, and my batter will run straight to second… both of them nearly trampling the poor floating uniform on the pitcher’s mound. Lastly, under certain circumstances when playing against the computer in arcade mode, some pitchers will throw fastballs at about 125 mph, which is absolutely ridiculous considering that the fastest possible throw for a fastball is about 108 mph. All in all a great game, but please fix these annoying bugs.

Great Game, but a few suggestions

I have played this game for the past week non-stop essentially, really great game, love the progression part of career mode. The only thing I’ve noticed that could be improved would be a progressive amount of training points per each league. You still get the same amount of points as if you were still playing at the cornfield and only one inning, even if you’re at a 4 star team. For one team I have to grind 3 innings for the same amount I’m doing for a rookie team with 1 inning. I’m kind of cheesing the system with just upgrading 2 batters to full contact and full power and winning off of two hits in the rookie league. I can stay here for as long as I need to, but I would really enjoy a reason to play 2 more innings on my other team, but the rewards system isn’t up to par. Solution possibilities, Gain additional points for highlight features, e.g., a home run, grand slam, shut out, no hitter, etc. Again really enjoying the game, but I think allowing players more training points the higher you go or implementing a reward system would be beneficial. Don’t take the grind out of the game, don’t allow us to buy training points please.

Amazing game

I love this game so much!! Being a lover and former player of baseball I feel like pretty much everything is accurate to real life-whether it be the cutoff man when the ball is in the outfield or the diving catches everything just feels right. My only concerns to developers is if you could add something to where you can control your players when their running the bases, for example: I have a challenge where I have to hit three Grand Slams and it’s very hard to get one person on each base in order to get the Grand Slam or if I know I’m going to get thrown out at third when the ball is in the outfield. I wish I could hold players on a base whenever I need to instead of just hoping I’m safe. Another small detail is when I get that slow motion animation for the home run the batter leads with his hands and is almost pushing the ball instead of leading the hips and the bat follows. The regular speed doesn’t have that problem but, it’s just when it slows down it’s noticeable and makes me cringe every time I see it. Just a couple minor complaints but, nothing big enough for me to dislike this amazing game!

One of my favorite baseball games ever

This is one of my favorite baseball games I’ve ever played. Hitting and pitching are very satisfying and the announcer is sometimes pretty funny. One of my favorite lines by the announcer is “That was tremendously tremendous!” It cracks me up ever time. Leveling up your guys is relatively easy, for the most part, but I wish you got more upgrade tokens when you won. Five just really isn’t enough in my opinion. But other than that, leveling up your guys is super easy! I haven’t really seen a lot of glitches in ballistic baseball, but there is one that really makes the gameplay weird. Almost every time I’ve got hit by a pitch, the ball stops under my batter’s feet and rolls on the floor for about three seconds. If you have someone on base, then they don’t move and stay where they were, even if they were on first. And then after that, the batter that got hit hits again. If he hits the ball, then he glitches to second base like he was actually hit with the ball. It’s a pretty funny glitch, but I hope you guys could fix it. But other than that, this game is awesome!

Pretty Good but Buggy

I like the game, especially career mode, but there are a lot of bugs that I thought would have been addressed by now but they’ve been around for a long time and they really affect gameplay. When you set your runners to steal and the other team’s pitcher hits your batter, there’s a pause in action for the offense while the defense gets to throw two or three pitches. When play resumes the offense has to watch while the last three throws go by unable to swing at them. Also, if you bunt when the ball has been thrown way outside play freezes for the offense again. One more: I’m not sure a bunted foul ball after the second strike should be considered an out but it is in this game’s league. There are others but I can’t think of them. It’s be great to see an update with these issues fixed.

The scamming is ridiculous.

They need to prevent players from intentionally disconnecting when they are losing. Mostly Far East players at night. It does nothing for development and advancement Follow up: At higher levels it becomes a buntfest. I’ve gotten better at dealing with them but it isn’t realistic baseball. There should be a limit per inning, otherwise players will do it the whole time. Only other solution is to make it more difficult to bunt and get on base Update: they say they trying to balance the game. I give them an extra star for that. They need to develop a new pitcher who can counter the bunt. A knuckleballer or whatever. The game is not enjoyable, nor realistic, when players only play to bunt, which is what you get here. Only way to make it unenjoyable for them is to stall by waiting the full allotted 10 sec and pitch balls outside so they can’t bunt. It can drag the game out for hours but makes it as unenjoyable for them as they make it for others. If you really want to get under their nerves press sub pitchers in between pitches and at last second cancel. That adds another 10 sec. The game needs more balance to stop these idiots who get off on bunting every time

Glitches too prevalent to take serious

The main issue I have with this apps severe and catastrophic glitches is that there’s zero ability to report the occurrence from within the game itself. So they just linger on. Do you know how long the Dirt Demon homerun contestant has been screwed up with 500’ moon shots or line drive lasers off the outfield wall? Since day 1 for me. The career mode was decent in the beginning, but as you progress levels the catastrophic freezes her more frequent. And the final nail comes via the new play-and-progress 1v1 online competition within the career model. I reached level 23 I think. Every other win is another step up and automatically saved so you don’t slide backwards more than one ranking/level. That means every other game you face sliding one position if you lose. OR IF THE GAME CANT FIND YOU AN OPPONENT! 4x in a row I tried to beat that level after progressing from my last saved spot. And all 4x the game connected, loaded, then kicked me back to the Home Screen and I LOST that position I just won. Weak effort by the developer to maintain a good report and tackle issue. There are better options other than bullish!t baseball.

Fun that can be wasted

First off, I love this game. The cartoony physique of the players, the accessible controls, player/team progression, and outrageous cosmetics gives this game a nice appeal. I can admit that I DO NOT play this game online as I’m not overly competitive. Just a disclosure. My biggest issue with this game is the super-grindy rising star mechanic; where you can unlock unique players that have special abilities every month that can be upgraded with progression points. These points are earned through various monthly, weekly, and daily tasks. The key here is: monthly. If you do not achieve enough points over the period of the month to unlock this player, you start over at the beginning of the next month. I played almost 100 traditional and home run derby games and still didn’t get enough to unlock the player, only to loose what I had at the start of the month to ABSOLUTE ZERO. Again, this game is fun, but it really feels like it was originally a free-to-play game that supports a cash shop, only to have these items removed to get it on Arcade.

Fun for the most part

Playing this game online is nothing short of frustrating. Players intentionally disconnect forcing you into a loading screen that seems like the game is frozen forcing you to leave the game and forfeit any upgrade points. When they do play they will throw pitches ONLY outside of strike zone which are virtually impossible to get a decent hit on, and when they’re batting it’s really just a competition to see who can get the most bunts. Ballistic bash mode was great at first but very recently i’ve noticed no matter how perfectly you time the swing and place the location right in the sweet spot i went from hitting roughly 17/20 home runs down to 2/20 if i’m lucky?? Don’t know what changed but my average score has dropped from ~1,500 down to no more than 500. Small gripes honestly, aside from the online mode being extremely frustrating due to other players and whatever recent changes were made to batting mechanics in ballistic bash the AI career or arcade mode is a lot of fun.

Fun and addicting!

This game is great! Love that I can play a quick game of baseball in no time at all. The pace of the game is perfect, graphics look great, and the career mode is fun to play. My only issues are the reward point system after each career game, and the fact that online play in career mode can never seem to find a match. If the point system could be increased a bit. I feel it would make the online progression more enjoyable. Especially when I can’t play online which is said to give you even more reward points if you win. So instead I’m stuck playing game after game after game getting only five points for my wins, when it costs seventy five just to upgrade one player at times. Kind takes the fun out of it a little when you feel like you’re getting nowhere. Besides that, it’s a great game like I said before. Just a few minor tweaks and I think we’d have ourselves a grand slam of a game. Great job!

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