OOTP 27 Public Beta: 27.2.56

[Matt Arnold]

Hello again to everyone.

The team has been working through as many of the reported issues as we can, and are ready to start the public beta of the next patch cycle with 27.2.56. The biggest focuses of this patch aimed to correct some memory leaks which caused instability for some users, as well as to improve the in-game distribution of balls to fielders and difficulties.

Changelist 27.2.56

• Fixed teams skipping SP in the draft
• Fixed slow development of initial roster set
• Fixed historical pitch ratings being reversed in some cases (best pitches importing as worst and vice-versa)
• Fixed draft page wrong slot values for supplemental picks
• Fixed too many GB 3-1 plays
• Fixed/Adjusted lots of ball landing locations/difficulties, impact of defense
  **Adjusted defense influence, infield hit rates, infield single landing locations, flyball double landing locations, groundball difficulties, groundball fielder landing spots, inside the park HR rates, impact of shifts, among others
• Fixed o-swing% percentile order for hitters
• Fixed text engine related crashes
• Fixed some memory leaks
• Added highlight to current date on team schedule page
• Added camera positions in park editor page
• Expanded quick game log on player page
• Fixed two way player contract values
• Added Finish Today check to online league commissioners
• Added app.cfg “force_recaps” option to enable recaps when playing in Korean
• Fixed facegen features not regenerating
• Slightly adjusted injury rating balance, so less players are wrecked over time
• Slightly toned down potential ratings for players in the draft (and adjusted scouting so scouts are less excessively optimistic in projections)
• PT: Fix some instances of saved template rosters being duplicated
• PT: Added background to the tournament caps and slots text
• PT: Added hover text with the four categories for team score
• PT: Fixed slots restrictions not sticking to template rosters on the server
• PT: Improved recolor on tournaments/roster editor
• PT: Fixed missions page cards not displaying, pack rewards ordering
• PT: Fixed crashes watching replays on hover
• PT: Changed order of the tournaments/draft in the main menu

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

We'll monitor this over the next few days, and will aim to release officially early next week if there are no issues

Thanks,
Matt + The OOTP Team

[omg_pwnasaurus]

Originally Posted by Matt Arnold

[*]Fixed historical pitch ratings

Thanks Matt!

Can you elaborate on this point a bit? Was going through some bug threads and such but didn't see much related other than my back and forth with Landsdowne in the historical db thread about editing some historical pitch type values and it not reflecting on the front end.

Thanks!

[Dijon-Main]

My Saturday has been saved

[Charlie Ricker]

Thank you!!!!

[Matt Arnold]

Originally Posted by omg_pwnasaurus

Thanks Matt!

Can you elaborate on this point a bit? Was going through some bug threads and such but didn't see much related other than my back and forth with Landsdowne in the historical db thread about editing some historical pitch type values and it not reflecting on the front end.

Thanks!

Yes, it was related to that, I think. Some guys were importing with what should have been their best pitches importing as their worst ones.

[Murph3]

Thanks! Can you expand on Fixed historical pitch ratings?

Patch looks awesome

[Lukas Berger]

Originally Posted by Murph3

Thanks! Can you expand on Fixed historical pitch ratings?

Patch looks awesome

As mentioned above, basically some guys were importing with what should have been their best pitches as their worst ones and their worst as their best.

EDIT: I edited the changelist to explain this a little better

[WavesOfActivity]

Thank you for the update! Just wrapping up my 2029 spring training this weekend.

[dlefe]

Had hoped that the Feeder "Create" display issue would have been resolved in this Patch iteration. Rest looks good. Will have to wait for next patch to see if it gets included as kind of stuck until the feeder create issue is resolved.

[SoxFan123]

i love the injury update. that was a little ridiculous. I had never seen that in all the years playing

[David Watts]

Originally Posted by Lukas Berger

As mentioned above, basically some guys were importing with what should have been their best pitches as their worst ones and their worst as their best.

EDIT: I edited the changelist to explain this a little better

How will this work with leagues that are already running. Will this correct pitchers that have already imported? Will all new amateurs import correctly, or do we need to start a new league?

[LooneyOne]

Hello all ..

Does this patch finally fix the following? .. havent started a season waiting on a fix ..:

1) import/export bug (editing stats will cause L/R handed splits to add to his season totals)

2) the HOF section not working correctly (HOF plaques still not showing up and extremely loooong loading times for HOF section to load).

[EpicLord]

Hopefully toning down the injuries will help with starting pitcher development. Even on Hall of Fame mode, starting pitching just doesn't really develop that much in my opinion on current patch.

[Lukas Berger]

Originally Posted by LooneyOne

Hello all ..

Does this patch finally fix the following? .. havent started a season waiting on a fix ..:

1) import/export bug (editing stats will cause L/R handed splits to add to his season totals)

2) the HOF section not working correctly (HOF plaques still not showing up and extremely loooong loading times for HOF section to load).

I know the imports was on our list of stuff to try and get in for this patch, but it may not have actually made it in yet. At least I don't see it on the changelist, even the internal one, so that probably means we did not get to it yet.

[Dijon-Main]

The draft tweaks look great! Simmed about 20 years into the future and tested out a couple classes; once you get to round 3 or 4, there are very few to no 50-potential players left, which I think is much more realistic.

[Lukas Berger]

Originally Posted by David Watts

How will this work with leagues that are already running. Will this correct pitchers that have already imported? Will all new amateurs import correctly, or do we need to start a new league?

You would need to start a new league.

It might update correctly when you switch over to the next year, if you have 'update according to history' checked though, but I'm not 100% sure on that.

[tem316]

I hope that this means the 1B will now step on base when possible, and not make a full on overhand throw to the pitcher who has run all the way to First, when they could take one step.

[Lukas Berger]

Originally Posted by tem316

I hope that this means the 1B will now step on base when possible, and not make a full on overhand throw to the pitcher who has run all the way to First, when they could take one step.

Yes, that's the 'Fixed too many GB 3-1 plays' item on the changelist.

[Tycobbler]

Originally Posted by tem316

I hope that this means the 1B will now step on base when possible, and not make a full on overhand throw to the pitcher who has run all the way to First, when they could take one step.

Same. Now a pet peeve hopefully gone

[eddienwonton]

So thanks for the fielding patch and also helps fix the run environment issues

However, I still find it a bit unrealistic historically when it comes to CF fielding mainly

CF is historically one of the most demanding positions when it comes to fielding, and yet the balls in play are lesser than LF and RF. I also don't believe that 2B should be getting that much plays too as a result. In the link is the 2010 sim I ran to look at the fielding numbers.

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ywg8a...=u4nas93q&dl=0