R.B.I. Baseball 20

Massive improvement, I’m addicted but the game is glitchy. Using on iPhone 10; have played 35 games. Three times the game crashed after my team hits a home run and then when I bring the game back up to continue, the batter that hit the home run is back up with a new count and no home run. Also, when building power for swing, batter swings without me lifting my thumb, sometimes he swings just as I touch and hold to build power. If the batter swings before the pitch is thrown, it’s always counted as a swinging strike. On defense, the pitcher’s aim circle has wildly jumped on its own (not the bouncy move for a low confidence pitch) to where the aim is a hit batter, behind the hitter or way outside. On occasion pitcher never got a choice of what pitch to throw. On three occasions, home runs in straight away left and right fields were ruled foul balls. C’mon man!

Overall, this is a major improvement over previous versions. I love the new pitching controls, and the improved batting controls are also excellent. Unfortunately, when batting for contact, the batter swings late unless you barely tap the button and release it almost before you touch it. If you let your thumb hit the button longer than a nanosecond, it starts building power rather than swinging. The only way to hit the ball at this point is to hold for full power and release to hit. The other bug is getting the player on second to steal. The tutorial tells you to tap the player on second, but there is no way to tap him. I have tried twenty five times before giving up. I’ve tapped all around him, but he never steals. Fix these two bugs (especially the batting one) and this is a five star game for sure!

I really enjoy this game on the iPhone and my iPad. It’s fun and fair. Most of the controls are pretty intuitive. The graphics are much improved and work well on a mobile device (I prefer the iPad but the iPhone works good as well). However I do have issue with the Modern Batting. While I like the ability to hit grounders and fly balls as well as pull the ball to the field I wish, the power feature is very difficult and sometimes frustrating to use. I wish they would make an adjustment to it, maybe you could lock in your power with the first press before the pitch and then press again to swing. It’s a nice idea the way it is but it’s way too touchy to execute in real time effectively. If they were to fix the batting it would be a 5 Star in my mind.

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This is my first review til some updates (if any) are implemented. First the fielding animation where the ball disappears for a split second and rubber bands into the player glove. Hey! we’re in the age where we have the very best programmers! Cmon I know you can do better. Second.. the modern batting is a bit interesting to me. I see what you’re trying to do, it seem backwards to me. I do like how you can pull the ball etc. On a bright note.. the graphics are a major improvement and looks good though the after home run plate animation for every player who does the same celebration gets old real quick. I give it a 3 1/2 stars. The pitching menu and actions are great. I up my stars if the developers continue to update the game. They have everyone’s attention cause we’re stuck at home and there’s no baseball on now.

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UPDATE, MAY 1: The developer (thanks for getting back to me) tells me that the issue is not with my iPad. Apparently, the “Modern” mode is set up so that NO ONE is able to move a batter around in the batter’s box, and the batter will automatically move based on the pitch location and swing timing. The absence of this feature is still a significant design flaw in the program. I’ve raised my rating to 2-stars and will re-evaluate if and when subsequent updates to the program include the feature. ________________________ There is a serious bug with the program if you are playing on an iPad 4, namely that, when you are batting in the “Modern” mode, you CANNOT move the batter’s position in the batter’s box. So, batting performance suffers in addition to the quality of play. THE DEVELOPERS NEED TO ADDRESS THIS IMMEDIATELY. IN THE MEANTIME, IPAD ISERS SHOULD AVOID THE GAME. I will re-review when and if the bug is fixed.