OOTP 26 Announcement

[SidHickenbottom]

Originally Posted by zappa1

I literally just now had this happen. Bottom 8th, 2 outs. I just scored 3 runs in the top half to take a 7-4 lead. Boom! Just like that gone. I don't even know why. That game is lost now and has to be replayed. Frustrating.
This is just the 2nd time this has happened to me. Maybe if it could auto save every half inning or inning. Just the game, not every single thing. You could restart from the previous inning.

I would love this. I've effectively adjusted things to minimize crashes but live in fear of losing important games in the late innings.

[Cide]

Originally Posted by zeroxjf

To clarify, will the macOS version have a native Apple Silicon build, or will it still be an Intel-based app running under Rosetta? Rosetta emulates Intel-based apps.

Apologies if I missed it, but was this answered?

[dishnet34]

Originally Posted by SidHickenbottom

I'm a roughly 17 year OOTP player and have never and won't ever play PT. I've been a bitter anti-PT guy--it still kills me rarely the OOTP podcast talked about standard play--and have had some disenchanting experiences with the game the last five years or so, but I was pretty pleasantly surprised how much focus was on franchise/single-player game during the rollout announcement. I don't think standard play is being ignored--if anything some of the biggest innovations in game history have at least been attempted the last few years.

We've almost always started with standard play in Road to Release for the last few years, and then went to PT. We know the base game is the big thing and needs to be talked about first before anything. But yes, standard play is NOT being ignored, for sure.

[atlbrave1]

Any idea if the distribution of K's for Starting pitchers has been adjusted (or reverted) for 26? Have shelved 25 since it could never get a realistic spread of K's per 9 (primarily could never get a Nolan Ryan, Randy Johnson, Pedro type of starter). Hadn't been an issue in prior versions.

https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...d.php?t=358832

[omg_pwnasaurus]

Enjoyed the draft walkthrough with Will quite a bit! If I play historical/scouting off, will I still be able to take advantage of the great new draft features or is it only with scouts?

[fredbeene]

Originally Posted by YankeesFanWisc

What updates or changes have been made to historical replay mode?

Here are a few necessary tweaks I’m hoping that were added to the game

Historical accurate owners and front offices: If you start in 1976 with the New York Yankees, you should start with George Steinbrenner as the owner, Billy Martin as the manager, and so on and so forth.

If you are playing a historical reenactment, the front offices, trainers, scouts, and coaching staffs should accurately reflect a given year. And those changes should carry over every subsequent season.

Historical Transactions: An override feature. You should be able to alter historical transactions from the database. For example, prevent the Detroit Tigers from trading John Smoltz for Doyle Alexander.
Maybe the Reds draft Derek Jeter this time around. The fun thing about Historical mode is the butterfly effect. There should be a way to make subtitle changes while still being able history closely.

Those are the two glaring issues I have with the mode. And fixing both of those issues would make this game almost perfect. Perhaps these issues were already addressed. Just something I think that would enhance the playing experience.

1000x YES. Glaringly missing. Historical What ifs.!!

[fredbeene]

Originally Posted by ashantewarrier

Agree

agree!

[MikeS369]

Is the game still using .ktx files and if so are they still able to be replaced with .webp and .png files?

[jamesu7777]

I'm in for the 8th straight year!

[Wh4tThePuck]

My wish list, to go on the pile:

* Autosave feature for crash scenarios so we don't lose those magical moments
* An API with the executable to automate certain things like saves, merging league games for multiplayer, etc. Honestly, doing multiplayer in this game feels difficult. In a world where you had the funding, there would be a cloud server and we would all login to our leagues and play the games, but we can't. So the next best thing is, make it easy on commissioners to merge people's teams, and I could code around that if there was an API. I could even set up a scheduler so that I would have minimal drudgery work. Please oh please, make it easier on commissioners to run leagues. Multiplayer keeps your fans coming back!
* Fantasy draft leagues that would be affected by real games played (or not, make it optional). I would love to do rotisserie and customizable draft leagues each year. Then we wouldn't need to go on to websites; we could actually use this powerful OOTP simulator. I know we can do perfect team live start, but this is difficult for trying to stimulate the website experiences.
* I am one of those people who use OOTP as a glorified screensaver to watch games up on the TV. The graphics aren't the best, but it's good enough where I can enjoy having a game up there while I'm home doing whatever. Any graphical improvements are appreciated.

Anyway, I love OOTP, and I enjoy your hard work. I don't post a lot but, please don't forget about us people playing OOTP with our family/friends. I could get more people to play if it wasn't as difficult for multiplayer.

[Baileycjj]

with the stadium updates - will this still allow allow the older custom stadiums built. When I said older stadiums I was referring to the historical stadiums

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[low]

Originally Posted by MikeS369

Is the game still using .ktx files and if so are they still able to be replaced with .webp and .png files?

I'm also wondering about this.

[Sweed]

Originally Posted by Baileycjj

with the stadium updates - will this still allow allow the older custom stadiums built. When I said older stadiums I was referring to the historical stadiums

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They posted somewhere that the new animated scoreboards could be added to the mod stadiums if the mod-creator wanted to take the time to do them. It sounded like it was a bit of work to do, so it might be a big ask of the mod creators. But it also means the historical stadiums should work in v26.

[Baileycjj]

great news - thank you

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[ThirdEye]

Looking forward to the new changes and graphical improvements, the live scoreboards are a real game changer for 3D stadiums.
Personally, I hope to see the ability to add numbers on different places on the jerseys like on the front left, front right, sleeve, etc. Some jerseys look plain wrong missing their numbers!

[Jeff1787]

Originally Posted by Lukas Berger

We've added quite a few new early era non-affiliated historical minor leagues.

Added in some MLE functionality to give better ratings to quite a few of the best historical NeL players and will also include those top NeL players in random debut.

Other tweaks and adjustments too, as always.

How many NeL players were added to the DB?

[Will Beh]

Originally Posted by omg_pwnasaurus

Enjoyed the draft walkthrough with Will quite a bit! If I play historical/scouting off, will I still be able to take advantage of the great new draft features or is it only with scouts?

Good question! At the moment, with the complete scouting system turned off, I believe the combine happens (you can go see which players are drawing the most attention on the league screen), but you don't have a screen to scout the players.
That being said, all the other new draft features will work; new draft pipeline, draft central, new option to display ratings below min (red stars), new rules like the PPI, etc.

[omg_pwnasaurus]

Originally Posted by Will Beh

Good question! At the moment, with the complete scouting system turned off, I believe the combine happens (you can go see which players are drawing the most attention on the league screen), but you don't have a screen to scout the players.
That being said, all the other new draft features will work; new draft pipeline, draft central, new option to display ratings below min (red stars), new rules like the PPI, etc.

Sick! Thanks Will! Can't wait to see Big Mac tear up that combine

[omg_pwnasaurus]

This might already be in '25 but I'm not sure so figured I'd ask here. I use Excel to look at the draft pool, upcoming FA class, check out my player payroll for as far as that screen allows you to look and some other stuff. Typically I just highlight, cut/paste all that stuff which is a bit cumbersome but the options to export look like they just open up a new browser window where I manually cut and paste the data.

Is there a way to export that stuff to an Excel file already formatted similar to the in game screens at all?

Thanks

[Bunktown Ballers]

Originally Posted by Larryk007

Ordering now, March 14 hurry up!

March 11 will be beta drop