Road To Release - Q&A Video

Kris Jardine · 03-15-2021, 01:40 PM

If you have unanswered questions from the road to release, feel free to submit them to http://www.bit.ly/OOTP22Questions and they may be selected to be part of our Q&A video on March 19th!

Kris Jardine · 03-19-2021, 08:34 PM

One thing we didn't get to cover in the Q&A video was online leagues.

OOTP’s online leagues are very important to our community, which is why we have enabled them for many years and continue to support them moving forward. For Out of the Park Baseball 22, the existing online league infrastructure will remain in place, which allows leagues to continue from version to version as players see fit to migrate. We understand that some online league players would like to see various updates and improvements to the way they are managed. However, the effort to design, implement, and support new online league structures – as well as the disruption this process would cause to all existing online leagues - is much larger in scope and impact than our studio is capable of executing at this time.

Matt Arnold · 03-19-2021, 09:09 PM

And since I know people have been asking, here is a non-exhaustive list of the changes that we have in. There are numerous other changes that are not included here, and most of these have been mentioned in various locations, but we figured we'd give another treat to everyone as we head into the weekend:

OOTP 22 Changes
- All new updated 3D Ballparks for all 30 MLB teams
- Ballpark Construction Kit
* Ability to change fence and foul pole configurations, with elements shifting around them
* New stadium elements available to use
- Added new coaches: 1B coach and 3B coach
* New attribute to coaching staff: cohesion. Some coaches will work better together than others,
and will need to hire coaches that work well together to get most of your staff
* Added ability to hire coaches away from other teams for a promotion (ie. can hire a bench
coach to be your new manager)
* Expanded coaching teach_defense rating to teach C/IF/OF. Those plus teach_running now
handled between Bench Coach and 1B/3B Coach. 1B/3B coaches also have an in-game running rating that can impact plays
- All new updated historical ratings for fielding, for every player in history
- New in-game Camera Mode: Dynamic Action Cameras, where the action camera will change
angles during the play
*Ability to set select which cameras can be used as action cameras for the dynamic camera mode
- Added option for higher seed to start the first round of the playoffs ahead by one or more games
- Added ability for regions to include cities. Improved editing of regions in-game (on the World Page)
- Added regional draft option
*Teams can be assigned to draft from specific regions, and there can be one or more rounds at the start of the draft where teams must select from those regions
- Adjusted independent FA to only appear in off-season
- Players in international complex will not gain pro service time from as young an age (starts age
18)
- In older historical setups where SP allowed in relief, AI more likely to assign secondary roles
- Rebalanced league player salaries
- Added new trade frequency settings for "Almost Never" and "Constantly"
- Added new settings available for leagues with Foreigner restrictions
* Individual Salary cap and contract length limits may be set
* Option to restrict trading of foreigners
- Updated AI for handling foreigners in leagues with limits
- Updated trading AI
- Adjusted experience gain, fatigue calculations
- Updated Gate Share calculations, new league setting to decide where season tickets count
towards gate share. More visibility in team accounting page.
- Added standings history graph as widget option (also displays standings through relegations in
Pro/Rel league setups)
- Updated trading AI, new finer grain difficulty and preference scales. Leagues with trading frequency set to “Almost Never” will also almost never trade star players, limited mostly to smaller roster moves if they do any trades
- MLB 2021 draftees will have the “Redshirt” option so that draft year and HS/CO status should match better
- Fixed some stability issues resuming games in progress
- Updated Scouting Task List, scouting frequency
- Adjusted and Balanced in-game influence of range, player defense impact
- Adjusted and Balanced platoon split issues.
- Adjusted SB rates
- Adjusted position training logic
- Adjusted in-game AI logic for PH, LOOGY
- New player strategy settings for better individual pinch-hit controls
- Split team strategy settings by leading/trailing
- Improved AI in finding depth chart subs as backups from other positions
- If allowing SP in relief, use them if relief roles set higher in priority chain
- Windows 64 bit
- full support for the new Apple M1 CPU
- In-game 3D:
* Added ability to have cameras dynamically change during the play
* Adjusted general timing of throws and relays
- New player stats: Shutdowns and Meltdowns
- Many new player streaks tracked
- Many New achievements (more streaks, new Diamond-level achievements, achievements for
milestones)

03-15-2021, 01:40 PM	#1
Kris Jardine OOTP Developments Join Date: Jan 2017 Location: Miramichi, NB, Canada Posts: 1,022	Road To Release - Q&A Video If you have unanswered questions from the road to release, feel free to submit them to http://www.bit.ly/OOTP22Questions and they may be selected to be part of our Q&A video on March 19th! __________________ Out of the Park Baseball 22 is available NOW! Webstore - https://ootpdevelopments.onfastspring.com/games/ Steam - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1...k_Baseball_22/

03-19-2021, 08:34 PM	#2
Kris Jardine OOTP Developments Join Date: Jan 2017 Location: Miramichi, NB, Canada Posts: 1,022	One thing we didn't get to cover in the Q&A video was online leagues. OOTP’s online leagues are very important to our community, which is why we have enabled them for many years and continue to support them moving forward. For Out of the Park Baseball 22, the existing online league infrastructure will remain in place, which allows leagues to continue from version to version as players see fit to migrate. We understand that some online league players would like to see various updates and improvements to the way they are managed. However, the effort to design, implement, and support new online league structures – as well as the disruption this process would cause to all existing online leagues - is much larger in scope and impact than our studio is capable of executing at this time. __________________ Out of the Park Baseball 22 is available NOW! Webstore - https://ootpdevelopments.onfastspring.com/games/ Steam - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1...k_Baseball_22/

03-19-2021, 09:09 PM	#3
Matt Arnold OOTP Developer Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Here and there Posts: 15,833	And since I know people have been asking, here is a non-exhaustive list of the changes that we have in. There are numerous other changes that are not included here, and most of these have been mentioned in various locations, but we figured we'd give another treat to everyone as we head into the weekend: OOTP 22 Changes - All new updated 3D Ballparks for all 30 MLB teams - Ballpark Construction Kit * Ability to change fence and foul pole configurations, with elements shifting around them * New stadium elements available to use - Added new coaches: 1B coach and 3B coach * New attribute to coaching staff: cohesion. Some coaches will work better together than others, and will need to hire coaches that work well together to get most of your staff * Added ability to hire coaches away from other teams for a promotion (ie. can hire a bench coach to be your new manager) * Expanded coaching teach_defense rating to teach C/IF/OF. Those plus teach_running now handled between Bench Coach and 1B/3B Coach. 1B/3B coaches also have an in-game running rating that can impact plays - All new updated historical ratings for fielding, for every player in history - New in-game Camera Mode: Dynamic Action Cameras, where the action camera will change angles during the play Ability to set select which cameras can be used as action cameras for the dynamic camera mode - Added option for higher seed to start the first round of the playoffs ahead by one or more games - Added ability for regions to include cities. Improved editing of regions in-game (on the World Page) - Added regional draft option Teams can be assigned to draft from specific regions, and there can be one or more rounds at the start of the draft where teams must select from those regions - Adjusted independent FA to only appear in off-season - Players in international complex will not gain pro service time from as young an age (starts age 18) - In older historical setups where SP allowed in relief, AI more likely to assign secondary roles - Rebalanced league player salaries - Added new trade frequency settings for "Almost Never" and "Constantly" - Added new settings available for leagues with Foreigner restrictions * Individual Salary cap and contract length limits may be set * Option to restrict trading of foreigners - Updated AI for handling foreigners in leagues with limits - Updated trading AI - Adjusted experience gain, fatigue calculations - Updated Gate Share calculations, new league setting to decide where season tickets count towards gate share. More visibility in team accounting page. - Added standings history graph as widget option (also displays standings through relegations in Pro/Rel league setups) - Updated trading AI, new finer grain difficulty and preference scales. Leagues with trading frequency set to “Almost Never” will also almost never trade star players, limited mostly to smaller roster moves if they do any trades - MLB 2021 draftees will have the “Redshirt” option so that draft year and HS/CO status should match better - Fixed some stability issues resuming games in progress - Updated Scouting Task List, scouting frequency - Adjusted and Balanced in-game influence of range, player defense impact - Adjusted and Balanced platoon split issues. - Adjusted SB rates - Adjusted position training logic - Adjusted in-game AI logic for PH, LOOGY - New player strategy settings for better individual pinch-hit controls - Split team strategy settings by leading/trailing - Improved AI in finding depth chart subs as backups from other positions - If allowing SP in relief, use them if relief roles set higher in priority chain - Windows 64 bit - full support for the new Apple M1 CPU - In-game 3D: * Added ability to have cameras dynamically change during the play * Adjusted general timing of throws and relays - New player stats: Shutdowns and Meltdowns - Many new player streaks tracked - Many New achievements (more streaks, new Diamond-level achievements, achievements for milestones) Last edited by Markus Heinsohn; 03-20-2021 at 09:31 AM.