In MLB The Show 23, Shane Bieber of the Cleveland Guardians waits to get the ball back from the catcher in front of a packed crowd in San Francisco.

Friday Starter – March to October series finale and Fighting Baseball OOTP mod update

 July 21, 2023  Posted in Friday Starter 215 Views

Last legs on the March to October

Over on the 30-30 Club YouTube, I’m wrapping up a long series showing a full season of the March to October mode in MLB The Show 23. The last video goes up on Saturday morning.

For a “quick” version of a Season or Franchise mode, it’s taken me 18 episodes at about 45 minutes each to get through. I’ve probably put fewer hours into Zelda than I did living out a fantasy 2023 Cleveland Guardians season. You can watch the series from the start on my MLB The Show 23 playlist on YouTube.

This is part of an effort to record at least one example of each mode in The Show. I chose to play the Cleveland Guardians, sort of a mid-tier team in the game (and maybe a little less than mid-tier in real life) with dynamic difficulty on to see where my skill level would end up by the end of a playthrough.

Without spoiling too much, it’s gone really well. I don’t consider myself especially good at The Show, but I’ve been comfortably playing for a while now at All-Star hitting and Legend+ pitching difficulty. The Show has always really difficult to tune in terms of difficulty, with custom sliders and Casual/Simulation/Competitive gameplay settings making the game arguably too easy to tune. I’ve played some modes where Rookie difficulty was surprisingly hard, and now I’m sitting pretty at nearly the highest difficulty in March to October… Something odd about it I can’t figure out.

And one small thing: I guess it may never happen now that he’s out of the majors, but please, San Diego Studio. Fix my man Oscar Gonzalez’s face.

A small update on the Fighting Baseball OOTP mod

Fighting Baseball mod for Out of the Park Baseball 24. This shows the standings page with the custom logos pulled from the original Fighting Baseball.

I teased this a few months ago and it’s nearly ready: A mod for Out of the Park Baseball 23 that lets you play in the league from Fighting Baseball, the land of Mike Truk and Bobson Dugnutt.

All the logos and uniforms from the original game are implemented, and most of the rosters. Let me just say, there are plenty of beautiful, soaring, evocative names from Fighting Baseball that have not gone viral, and I hope this mod helps us all appreciate them more. Some personal favorites:

  • Marquis Lchette
  • Dick Derehow
  • Frank Fozolish
  • Kevin Mumminen
  • Sala Bineen
  • Xavier Naddux
  • Gaetan Bamphous

You simply could not make a better roster of names if you tried.

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