OOTP Patch Hotfix Public Beta: 26.5.69

[Matt Arnold]

Sorry for the couple troubles with the last public patch. There's some issues we definitely wanted to clean up sooner rather than later, so we're putting out a hotfix for that version.

This patch, 26.5.69, should correct those issues, and includes some roster updates as well.

Use this at your own risk! Please back up important league files before loading them in this beta.

Changelist 26.5.69

• Updated players in new standard game, some draft updates
• Fixed Historical Exhibition Round-Robin pool select
• Fixed some Korean character render issues
• Fixed talent influence on minors option not sticking
• Fixed CI/SH not being included in PA calculations in some cases
• Fixed demand/short demand columns not filling correctly
• Fixed feeder league stats/scaling
• Fixed jersey fonts when playing in Korean
• Fixed some text conditions
• PT - Fixed clubhouse shop card list filtering by price / afford checkbox
• PT - Replaced clubhouse shop card list mission filter with variant filter
• PT: Fixed some refresh issues in the clubhouse shop
  

Important info for online leagues: This patch should be compatible in online leagues.

How to access the beta on Steam:

• Quit OOTP 26 if it's running.
• Open Steam client -> Library
• Right click on Out of the Park Baseball 26
• Click on "Properties" at the bottom of the menu
• Click on the beta tab. Here, enter the following code: ootp26betapt
• Click on "Check code"
• Open the beta pull-down and select "publicbeta".
• Close the Steam client (Steam menu -> Exit)
• Open the client again. It should then download the beta build.

Update Info for our webstore customers: To apply the update, simply download the setup file and install it over your current installation. There is no need to uninstall or unlicense your current copy! However, you should quit the game before installing it, of course. Updates always contain all the changes from previous updates. Saved games are compatible between different versions.

Download link for Windows PC (Fastspring Webstore Version):
Main server: PC Installer
Mirror Link: PC Installer
Here's a PC installer (Fastspring) that installs into a single folder, which is useful for external HDs for example. Or for creating a second test install of the game, so you can try the patch out without the risk of messing up your main install of the game if something is wrong in the patch:
PC Single Folder Installer

Download link for MacOS (FastSpring):
Main Server: MacOS Installer
Mirror Link: MacOS Installer

Thanks,
Matt + The OOTP Team

[Larryk007]

Matt, can you give a quick explanation on how it works for the option to use the "Talent Influence on minors"?
There have been several long posts to get this new option. Can you give a detail explanation?
Like: If you select the option, "the potential rate is blended with the current rating 50% or something like by league, or age or....)

[downwithootp]

When you say “some draft updates” does that include 2025 draft results in live start? If so, is it all 20 rounds?

[Carplos]

Originally Posted by downwithootp

When you say “some draft updates” does that include 2025 draft results in live start? If so, is it all 20 rounds?

https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...d.php?t=364329

[Lukas Berger]

Originally Posted by downwithootp

When you say “some draft updates” does that include 2025 draft results in live start? If so, is it all 20 rounds?

Originally Posted by Carplos

https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...d.php?t=364329

Not all 20 rounds, we're not magicians to be able to update things that quickly

When we release this publicly, it will have everyone in the first 10 rounds included in the db. There will likely be somewhere around 100 missing players from the last 10 rounds still, those will be added in the next patch.

[azepeda1]

The Astros like to draft way off of anyone's lists, as I have learned the past decade plus. Those teams have to give y'all a headache because you have to add all of those players into the database.

Thanks for doing this, it makes the game more fun

[Lukas Berger]

Originally Posted by azepeda1

The Astros like to draft way off of anyone's lists, as I have learned the past decade plus. Those teams have to give y'all a headache because you have to add all of those players into the database.

Thanks for doing this, it makes the game more fun

Both the Astros and the Brewers in particular, I feel like half their guys we don't have in the db and I've never heard of them before, but once I do research on them, end up thinking they look super interesting!

[uti-pontus-hage]

Downloaded the beta just to see if the issues I have experienced are fixed.
I can't see any differences in my save.
Every player in the upcoming 2030 draft have 0 or impossible in both the demand row in the players profile and in the columns talked about earlier.
In game date is April 25th so have not done the draft yet - maybe this things corrects it self then? But for me right now this patch do not change anything.

Edit...

And just out of curiosity I started a new test save. When taking over a MLB franchise demands seems to work as intended. If it matters (have never start unemployed) all players have slot as demand when unemployed, just as in my save in year 2030. But again, have never started that way, probably means nothing.

[Matt Arnold]

Originally Posted by uti-pontus-hage

Downloaded the beta just to see if the issues I have experienced are fixed.
I can't see any differences in my save.
Every player in the upcoming 2030 draft have 0 or impossible in both the demand row in the players profile and in the columns talked about earlier.
In game date is April 25th so have not done the draft yet - maybe this things corrects it self then? But for me right now this patch do not change anything.

Edit...

And just out of curiosity I started a new test save. When taking over a MLB franchise demands seems to work as intended. If it matters (have never start unemployed) all players have slot as demand when unemployed, just as in my save in year 2030. But again, have never started that way, probably means nothing.

It should correct either when the draft pool is published, or on draft day when you start the draft. Otherwise it won't have updated the values

[uti-pontus-hage]

Originally Posted by Matt Arnold

It should correct either when the draft pool is published, or on draft day when you start the draft. Otherwise it won't have updated the values

Okey! Thanks matt for the response!
If this is the build for the official launch, what do I have to do when I have the beta installed? Have never played a beta build before. Using Steam.

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

Originally Posted by uti-pontus-hage

Okey! Thanks matt for the response!
If this is the build for the official launch, what do I have to do when I have the beta installed? Have never played a beta build before. Using Steam.

Hey, you just go back to
Open Steam client -> Library
Right click on Out of the Park Baseball 26
Click on "Properties" at the bottom of the menu
Click on the beta participation tab and change response from 'publicbeta- public beta testing' in the drop down box to 'No'

[downwithootp]

I’ve tested this in normal starts and in live starts, teams will release a few of their 50 potential pitching prospects randomly. It’s even worse after the draft because then you can come away with 4-5 pitchers that were just drafted in 2nd and 3rd round.

Is this a bug other people are experiencing? Is this being addressed in new patch?

[jpeters1734]

Originally Posted by Larryk007

Matt, can you give a quick explanation on how it works for the option to use the "Talent Influence on minors"?
There have been several long posts to get this new option. Can you give a detail explanation?
Like: If you select the option, "the potential rate is blended with the current rating 50% or something like by league, or age or....)

They are certainly not going to provide the percentages.

[uti-pontus-hage]

Originally Posted by Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Hey, you just go back to
Open Steam client -> Library
Right click on Out of the Park Baseball 26
Click on "Properties" at the bottom of the menu
Click on the beta participation tab and change response from 'publicbeta- public beta testing' in the drop down box to 'No'

Thanks!

[Paul Reuschel's Mustache]

Originally Posted by downwithootp

I’ve tested this in normal starts and in live starts, teams will release a few of their 50 potential pitching prospects randomly. It’s even worse after the draft because then you can come away with 4-5 pitchers that were just drafted in 2nd and 3rd round.

Is this a bug other people are experiencing? Is this being addressed in new patch?

I started a 2025 season save using 26.5.66 and had the same happen. Way too many good young starting pitchers who were released by their teams for no good reason. Then I started a new save and set all minor leagues active roster sizes to "no limit" from AAA to Rookie League. Started simming and during the first week in April, decent to good young starting pitchers were again being released by various teams. And as the OP said, these were young starting pitchers drafted between 2024-2022 with a potential of 2.5 to 3 stars or a rating of 45-50. I looked under the hood at their actual ratings and they were all good.

One or two such guys being released I can understand. But there were way too many all at once at the start of the season. Frustrated, I deleted the save and am now taking a pause from this potentially great but frequently flawed game.

[Lukas Berger]

Originally Posted by downwithootp

I’ve tested this in normal starts and in live starts, teams will release a few of their 50 potential pitching prospects randomly. It’s even worse after the draft because then you can come away with 4-5 pitchers that were just drafted in 2nd and 3rd round.

Is this a bug other people are experiencing? Is this being addressed in new patch?

Originally Posted by Paul Reuschel's Mustache

I started a 2025 season save using 26.5.66 and had the same happen. Way too many good young starting pitchers who were released by their teams for no good reason..

We do not see this happening in our tests. The AI is definitely a little too trigger happy at signing and releasing guys, which we're working on fixing up for the next patch, but they are very low rated and inconsequential guys.

Have you changed any settings when this happens? Or still on defaults?

The most helpful thing would be if someone who is seeing this (the AI releasing top prospects) can upload league files where it is occurring for us to take a look at.

[Paul Reuschel's Mustache]

Originally Posted by Lukas Berger

We do not see this happening in our tests. The AI is definitely a little too trigger happy at signing and releasing guys, which we're working on fixing up for the next patch, but they are very low rated and inconsequential guys.

Have you changed any settings when this happens? Or still on defaults?

The most helpful thing would be if someone who is seeing this (the AI releasing top prospects) can upload league files where it is occurring for us to take a look at.

It's a typical MLB/MiLB universe plus the four independent leagues.

I'm in Commissioner Mode and playing as Manager & GM.

AI Settings:
Player evaluation settings changed to 55-25-15-10.
Trading preference to 3 clicks from the median to favor prospects.

A few other changes here and there, such as aging and development speed and so on.

I didn't keep any of the saves.

I only saw young starting pitchers being released after starting a new save using 26.5.66. Rarely happened before. But if you're not seeing it in tests, then it must be caused by some settings I changed.

I'm going to hold off until you release the patch with the full draft class. Then I'll go through my usual tinkering and start a new save. If the starting pitchers end up being released again, I'll upload the league file.

[Lukas Berger]

Originally Posted by Paul Reuschel's Mustache

It's a typical MLB/MiLB universe plus the four independent leagues.

I'm in Commissioner Mode and playing as Manager & GM.

AI Settings:
Player evaluation settings changed to 55-25-15-10.
Trading preference to 3 clicks from the median to favor prospects.

A few other changes here and there, such as aging and development speed and so on.

I didn't keep any of the saves.

I only saw young starting pitchers being released after starting a new save using 26.5.66. Rarely happened before. But if you're not seeing it in tests, then it must be caused by some settings I changed.

I'm going to hold off until you release the patch with the full draft class. Then I'll go through my usual tinkering and start a new save. If the starting pitchers end up being released again, I'll upload the league file.

Thanks.

Speaking from experience, the settings most likely to cause AI wonkiness are setting too strict roster limits, especially on the lowest levels of the minors. That's why there's even text in-game advising not to set the rookie league levels below 35.

Obviously this shouldn't happen even because of a changed setting, so it's still something we'd like to fix up.

Since there are so many different settings though, it's impossible to test them all, so it really helps us to have an idea of exactly what settings folks are using if they see something like this.