OOTP 27 Public Beta: 27.1.49

[Matt Arnold]

Happy Opening Day!

We've fixed a few noted issues, and have updated rosters to get as close to opening day as possible. The version we will release here is 27.1.49, and we will start it off as a public beta for today, and should have it as a full release soon. The version should be stable, so please do check it out.

Changelist 27.1.49

• Updated Opening Day rosters+ratings
• Updated Historical DB
• Some stats history fixes/updates
• Fixed players stuck on DFA/released after signing
• Fixed some default lineup/depth AI
• Updated pitch per AB balance
• Fixed teams DFA/release players with larger contracts
• Updated default catcher framing values
• Fixed league selections per year for percentile stats
• Fixed issues loading custom historical jersey xml
• Fixed custom uniform dialog crash
• Fixed Oakland Athletics historical minor leagues not showing up
• Fixed PT leaderboard page crash
• Adjusted shop player screen so retained money is not visually cut off
• 3D: Fixed some throws not ending correctly
• Fixed misc UI issues, mostly light+classic skin
• Online Leagues: Fixed team export to include team transactions page layout
• PT: Changed PT Live info text to reflect scoring changes

Important info for online leagues: This version is NOT compatible between versions. The commissioner of the league must import all exports from teams while on the previous version, and then can save/sim, at which point all league members MUST update to the new version

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 attempting to install the update. Please note that you may need to delete or unload previous installers of the game after download. Please be sure that after updating you see the correct version of your game.
For Steam users, this is set up as a public beta version. How to access the beta on Steam:
Quit OOTP 27 if it's running.
Open Steam client -> Library
Right click on Out of the Park Baseball 27
Click on "Properties" at the bottom of the menu
Click on the Game Versions & Betas tab, and select "public_beta".
Close the Properties popup
It should start downloading the beta version.
Note that you can opt in or out of the public beta version using the same procedure.

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

Baseball Season is here

Thanks,
Matt + The OOTP Team

[Matt Arnold]

Some notes on the opening day rosters:
-There are a few players that incorrectly start off on the DFA list, like Joe Musgrove, Christian Yelich and Robbie Ray. However, they do get properly added back to the rosters after you sim a day.
-The 25-man rosters should be very close to the real ones, maybe one or two of the last guys on the roster might be different from real life though. The 40-man rosters are not correct. As always, we leave the extra space here for the AI to fill over time, which helps smooth some things out.
-We're still looking into the live start. It should mostly work ok, but there are some data inaccuracies. Some players who changed teams in the off-season are starting back on their old clubs.
-We're continuing to look at general roster AI and updates. Please do continue to report anyone who has unusual roster history, and we hope to get those corrected.

We'll aim to have this as a full official release in the next few days.

We're almost through what we would call the launch patch cycle, and will be able to start getting in some other nice quality of life features, as well as some more balance around the game. Have a great start to the baseball season!

[Cwalker]

Heck yeah! Excited to test this patch out, thanks team!

[Andy]

How about some facegens still wearing old uniforms?

[Lukas Berger]

Originally Posted by Andy

How about some facegens still wearing old uniforms?

It's on our list of things to look into soon, but I don't think we got to it yet.

[Lukas Berger]

Originally Posted by Andy

How about some facegens still wearing old uniforms?

Originally Posted by Lukas Berger

It's on our list of things to look into soon, but I don't think we got to it yet.

Just to clarify on this, do these update when you go into a game, or another time when they should auto-update, or do they just never update even when other unis do?

[Kerspatchka]

Regarding issues folks are having with players being waived, has that been addressed with this beta?

https://www.reddit.com/r/OOTP/commen...eep_on_the_40/

[Andy]

Originally Posted by Lukas Berger

Just to clarify on this, do these update when you go into a game, or another time when they should auto-update, or do they just never update even when other unis do?

It's a OOTP26 game that I converted over. When I play out games some players have uniforms from a previous team. I'm not positive, but my guess is if a new photo was generated in 26 then they have the correct photo in 27. I say this because I play out every game and my players all have the correct uniforms. The problem are the players on the other teams.

[SkipBranham]

Originally Posted by Lukas Berger

Just to clarify on this, do these update when you go into a game, or another time when they should auto-update, or do they just never update even when other unis do?

I'm noticing all kinds of wonky stuff going on with facegen. If I edit a player and change his beard style/hair color/beard color It won't change automatically and instantly like it has in the previous 6 versions that I've played. The only way to get a change to take hold is to do the change, then go to "regenerate picture" THEN you have to go to either hair or beard color and select a new color and then and only then will the new beard style appear and only with the beard color that you had selected BEFORE you clicked "regenerate picture".

Furthermore, I've noticed that my changes revert back to the original facegens after saving and exiting the game. IMO, there is definitely a bug, or multiple bugs still surrounding facegen.

[Lukas Berger]

Originally Posted by SkipBranham

IMO, there is definitely a bug, or multiple bugs still surrounding facegen.

Yeah, all this is very much on the list of stuff we're aware of and working on.

[SkipBranham]

Originally Posted by Kerspatchka

Regarding issues folks are having with players being waived, has that been addressed with this beta?

https://www.reddit.com/r/OOTP/commen...eep_on_the_40/

I'm a few weeks into my save and I noticed the Pirates waived Bryan Reynolds who was hitting .167 albeit only about 25 games into the season. Is this similar to what your talking about?

[Lukas Berger]

Originally Posted by Andy

It's a OOTP26 game that I converted over. When I play out games some players have uniforms from a previous team. I'm not positive, but my guess is if a new photo was generated in 26 then they have the correct photo in 27. I say this because I play out every game and my players all have the correct uniforms. The problem are the players on the other teams.

Thanks, that might actually be helpful for us to reproduce this. We've been having trouble doing so so far.

[SkipBranham]

Originally Posted by Lukas Berger

Yeah, all this is very much on the list of stuff we're aware of and working on.

Thanks for the update, Lukas.

[Lukas Berger]

Originally Posted by Kerspatchka

Regarding issues folks are having with players being waived, has that been addressed with this beta?

https://www.reddit.com/r/OOTP/commen...eep_on_the_40/

Originally Posted by SkipBranham

I'm a few weeks into my save and I noticed the Pirates waived Bryan Reynolds. Is this similar to what your talking about?

As you can see on the changelist, there are two different DFA/release fixes here. Those should fix the vast majority of these cases.

Originally Posted by Matt Arnold

[*]Fixed players stuck on DFA/released after signing[*]Fixed teams DFA/release players with larger contracts

There still seems to be a few guys getting released that shouldn't, especially for marginal players fairly soon after trades (this is better than previously, but maybe not 100% fixed). We'll keep looking at this. Things should overall be far better though.

[kirkland_island]

Thanks for all the hard work!

[Bluenoser]

Originally Posted by Lukas Berger

Thanks, that might actually be helpful for us to reproduce this. We've been having trouble doing so so far.

Lukas - the image problem is with converted leagues and with leagues created in 27. I mentioned this during Beta actually.

Here's something else you can do to maybe help flesh out the problem.

Go to the Reports Home page, the one that has news items coming up, shows standings and leaders. Not the League Home page, but the reports home page.

Now just quick sim a few days using the checkmark and watch the news articles. Some of them have the image missing. Now go to the League Home Page, click on the news article and you will see the image. Now go back to the Reports Home Page and the image shows up in the article.

You can also get it to show on the Reports Home Page by going to the player editor and regenerating the pic.

I'm pretty sure it's something to do with facegen. Players with their old uniforms on show up in game wearing them and on the big scoreboard they have the old uni on.

[Vinnyvagus01]

Is this save game compatible, or do we need to start a new save?

[negroleagueenthusiast]

Was any work done to the massive change that appears to have been made in terms of feeder league and fictional league setup?

[QuestGAV]

Originally Posted by Matt Arnold

[*]Updated default catcher framing values

Does this mean you made some minor tweaks to the default rosters or you fixed the engine problems that had catcher framing resulting in catcher framing runs being 95% reduced from last year? Difficult to tell from this note.

Were there any changes made to the AI's inability to sign personnel after their initial offers are rejected?

[Sweed]

Not mentioned in the list but the hold runner button now works.