Super Mega Baseball 4 News

IMPROVEMENTS

• In Franchise mode, you can now simulate games from the Season Schedule screen just like in Season mode. Manager Moment resolutions are automated when games are simulated in this fashion.
  
• In Pennant Race and Online Leagues using random or fixed starting pitchers, an "unscheduled" starting pitcher without a Two Way trait can no longer be inserted into the starting lineup. This prevents an exploit where an "unscheduled" starting pitcher in the rotation could enter to pitch if put in the starting lineup and later swapped defensive positions with the active pitcher in game.
  
• Batted ball sound effects have been updated. "Bigger" effects now tend to happen less frequently and are more reserved for harder hit balls.
  
• Logo size and placement on uniforms has been modified to increase the amount of space that the logo occupies on the front of the jersey.
  
• Lighting improvements have been made to some time/weather conditions at Sakura Hills, Swagger Center, Shaka Sports Turf, El Viejo, and Founder's Field.
  
• Some umpire voice lines have been trimmed while others are now more reserved for bigger moments in the game.
  

ISSUES ADDRESSED:

• Fixed: Game crashes shortly after winning a season in Standard Franchise mode.
  
• Fixed: Game can crash when entering the league picker in certain situations when an ongoing Franchise, Season, or Elimination is at a specific stage in the playoffs.
  
• Fixed: Game can crash when trying to advance to the next game in a Franchise, Season, or Elimination in certain situations where the starting pitcher is included at a non-pitching position in the default lineup.
  
• Fixed: Most RBIs are not recorded properly when playing in online play.
  
• Fixed: Players with the Two Way (C) trait incorrectly give up too many passed balls when playing catcher.
  
• Fixed: The Pinch Perfect trait persists for the entire game when pinch hitting for the DH.
  
• Fixed: The Fastball Hitter and Off-speed Hitter traits incorrectly modify batting contact when the traits are in the lowest or highest state, particularly lowering batting contact when at the lowest level.
  
• Fixed: For some accounts, Pennant Race and Online League matchmaking times out shortly after searching for a match.
• Fixed: In the League Editor screen, Custom leagues do not appear as an option when adding a team to the league.
  
• Fixed: Ball can enter dugout but fail to trigger an Out of Play event at Stade Royale, Whacker's Wheel, and Peril Point.
  
• Fixed: Some batted ball sound effects do not trigger in online play.
  
• Fixed: In Franchise mode, improving a player's secondary position from None fails to save properly.
  
• Fixed: Game can crash or show stale data in the Player Movement screen.
  
• Fixed: When used with the Creators Classic league, the Player Movement feature failed to operate correctly and could lead to crashes or a corrupt league savedata.
  
• Fixed: The You Complete Me achievement/trophy is incorrectly awarded when the CPU-controlled team achieves the complete game shutout.
  
• Fixed: Jersey 8 renders incorrectly on the Male Average body type.
  
• Fixed: In Franchise mode, watch stars fail to update after sorting in the Sign & Release screen.
  
• Fixed: Some player names are not announced correctly (Stracy, Filthwick, Schoendienst, Tuff, Butterfinger, Bartholomew, Alomar Jr).
  
• Fixed: Some Super Mega League or Legends League players can incorrectly have their names filtered out.
  
• Fixed: Batted ball sounds for hitting off the handle or the end of the bat are incorrectly swapped for left-handed batters.
  
• Fixed: Ambience audio is not heard at Peril Point.
  
• Fixed: The stadium announcer is not present in Evening/Cloudy conditions at Peril Point.
  
• Fixed: Various performance and physics related issues at Peril Point.
  
• Fixed: Some crowd heckles happen at unintended moments in the game.
  
• Fixed: In online play, swapping positions with your pitcher when the DH rule is on and choosing to bench your DH results in the game stalling indefinitely.
  
• Fixed: In an Online League that has a one-time draft, updating its settings to use a different draft pool of players leads to drafts no longer being able to be conducted or continued.
  
• Fixed: Game can crash when attempting to return back to the away team's pregame lineup when on a non-lineup tab for the home team.
  
• Fixed: Game can crash when the Player Menu overlay is forced to close while in the middle of changing Ego.
  
• Fixed: Game can crash when attempting to go to Pennant Race or Online League Hub via the Player Menu.
  
• Fixed: Game can crash when clicking buttons in the Incoming Challenge dialog before the dialog is properly loaded.
  
• Fixed: Game can crash on the Exhibition team select screen in online play if the party leader leaves the screen while a user has the league picker open.
  
• Fixed: Game can crash rarely on very first engagement.
  
• Fixed: Game can crash when attempting to navigate to an Online League when already in Online League Hub.
  
• Fixed: Game can crash rarely when auto-help appears after using the Related Help buttons on a previous help page.
  
• Fixed: Some buttons in the UI appear visible and enabled when inoperable.
  
• Fixed: Game can crash when using the mouse and viewing a user's in-game information in Pennant Race or Online Leagues.
  
• Fixed: In Franchise mode, signing a player at their asking salary fails to properly save, leading to the player's salary resetting back to their previous salary upon reloading the Franchise or starting the next season
  
  

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Super Mega Baseball 4 introduces Shuffle Draft, a new deckbuilding-inspired feature where you pick a combo of Legends and Super Mega All-Stars to create a unique roster. The conditional trait system from Super Mega Baseball 3 returns after a massive overhaul to become Team Chemistry & Expansive Traits, now with a total of 75 player traits that play into your team's Chemistry. "

A hotfix is currently rolling out on Steam. Here are the patch notes:

Improvements:

• The thresholds on the Surplus/Payroll scale in Franchise Mode Shuffle Drafts have been adjusted.
  

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed: Savedata can reach an invalid state and crash the game when attempting to list leagues.
  
• Fixed: Online League Shuffle Drafts can become unstable when leaving and re-entering the draft screen, possibly leading to the game returning to the Play Menu when attempting to continue the draft.
  
• Fixed: Crash occurs when attempting to start a new Franchise or Season from Shuffle Draft's Post Draft screen.
  
• Fixed: The game can crash when returning to the Player Development screen after viewing a player in the roster.
  

A day one patch has been issued. Here are the patch notes:


MAJOR ADDITION:

New Player Retention Feature in Franchise Mode:
• Players are now explicitly re-signed or released during a new Player Re-signing phase before the start of the offseason.
  
• Asking salaries for next season are driven by a new Loyalty value per player. Players that are more loyal will ask for lower salary increases and be more willing to re-sign with the team at their current salary.
  
• New Manager Moments now appear after regular season games. Manager Moments present a choice between two players where the decision affects one or both players' Loyalty.
  
  

IMPROVEMENTS

• Ages of Super Mega League players have been reassigned to ensure that star players like Hammer Longballo do not always retire early in a Standard Franchise playthrough.
  
• The visual appearance of some Super Mega League players have been updated.
  
• In Franchise mode. the starting Surplus (salary cap room) values have increased overall. Each team is now guaranteed a minimum of $2.5m in Surplus at the start of a Franchise playthrough.
  
• When starting a Franchise playthrough with a Shuffle Draft, there is a new visual indicator on the draft screen indicating where your team currently lands between having a high payroll (highly rated players) and having a high Surplus (more development funds).
  
• In Franchise mode the price, effects, and spawn rate of Player Development Opportunities have been updated. The effects and the cost of purchasing a PDO have been reduced, while the spawn rate has slightly increased.
  
• More Franchise Player Development Opportunities have been added. Some opportunities now have a chance of a position player changing secondary position or a pitcher acquiring a new pitch type. New description variants have also been added.
  
• The Franchise Sign and Release screen now shows your Team Chemistry while viewing the Free Agents list.
  
• Franchise Skill Arc events can now result in a pitcher losing a pitch type.
  
• On the Franchise Summary screen, you can now view summaries for the last 50 seasons (up from 10).
  
• The algorithm that produces the selectable players each round in Shuffle Draft has been revised to better suit your team's needs.
  
• There is a new post draft screen presented upon completing a Shuffle Draft.
  
• A directional arrow is now displayed for fielders tracking the ball. The arrow will appear gray when no input is given (indicating the direction the fielder is running) and become colored when input is provided (indicating the direction of the input).
  
• In the Player Editor, a list of first and last names has been added. All listed names support the announcer announcing them by name.
  
• New body types and character customization options have been added to the Player Editor.
  
• Four new female heads have been added to the Player Editor.
  
• Five new dyed hair colors have been added to the Player Editor.
  
• The in-game trait activation animations have been updated.
  
• In local head-to-head play, the Wild Thing trait now introduces a chance that power pitches can have increased targeting error.
  
• On-field CPU behavior has been updated to better respect player traits.
  
• CPU pitching has been tweaked to be slightly less cautious when pitching to strong hitters, and to be slightly less aggressive when pitching to weak hitters.
  
• Foul ball and Watch Mode cameras have been refreshed.
  
• It is now more obvious when a game enters extra innings.
  
• The in-game substitution overlay now shows batting and throwing handedness as well as pitcher stamina.
  
• On the Exhibition Team Select screen, a button to change to a random team has been added.
  
• Additional text to help describe the different game modes has been added.
  
• You can now export a snapshot of a Franchise playthrough to a new league. The exported league will not change as the Franchise playthrough continues.
  
• You can now reset the Free Agents pool for a Standard league back to its built-in defaults.
  
• New Creators Classic League has been added to the set of built-in leagues. The Creators Classic mixes all Super Mega League and Legends League players together with well-known personalities from baseball media.
  
• Entire Standard and Partner leagues can now be reset to their built-in defaults with a single operation.
  
• Standard, Partner, and Custom leagues now include a short explanatory description.
  
• When creating a new Custom league, you are now prompted to provide a name for the league. Default league, conference, and division names for new Custom leagues have also been updated.
  
• Sorting functionality has been changed to make sorting roster tables more intuitive.
  
• The default sorting of team rosters now separates position players from pitchers.
  
• The salary column is now pinned to the left side of the table in the Franchise Sign and Release screen.
  
• Team Chemistry icons and charts have been updated to help improve clarity of the mechanics.
  
• Player cards have been improved and are now more readable.
  
• Trait Overlay behavior has been updated: added shortcut buttons to Trait OVerlay to access various relevant help pages, adjusted associated help pages for certain screens, and enabled navigation for screens while the Trait Overlay is up.
  
• An MLBPAA logo now appears when a Legends player is seen during the splash cinematic.
  
• The stadium preview images have been updated.
  
• UGC-limited players are no longer blocked from certain multiplayer game modes when there is no UGC.
  
• New help screens and pro tips have been added.
  
• Automatic help now appears in more places when first encountering new mechanics in the front end.
  
• Game Mode and Team Chemistry help screens now have a "Related Help" section to help guide you to other relevant information.
  
• You can now switch between English and Japanese audio, regardless of locale.This can be done via the Options menu.
  
• The front end now displays what music track is playing when a new track starts.
  
• New ambient audio during gameplay has been added.
  
• Camera flash VFX during the season win cinematic has been updated.
  
• There is a new visual effect for when a Pennant Race or Online League match is found.
  
• Home team sound effects for home run and dropped third strike scenarios have been improved.
  
• Team sound effects now have a "Disabled" option.
  
• New player animations have been added and some existing animations have been updated.
  
• Various updates to UI navigation and UI animations have been made.
  
• Miscellaneous HUD and UI improvements have been made.
  
• Various updates to the audio mix have been made.
  
• Various updates to stadiums have been made.
  
• Content on various help pages has been updated.
  
  

ISSUES ADDRESSED:

• Fixed: Red asterisk incorrectly appears for two-way players in a valid two-way position.
  
• Fixed: Two-way players do not have a glove icon in the lineup when a valid two-way position is selected.
  
• Fixed: In Franchise, Season, and Elimination modes, base Mojo and Fitness icons are incorrectly displayed in the Next Game Preview.
  
• Fixed: In Franchise mode during the offseason, attempting to release a player that is still listed as someone who left your team would fail to release the player and instead fill that vacancy in the roster.
  
• Fixed: Non-party leader can perform operations in Franchise mode.
  
• Fixed: In Shuffle Draft, player traits of selectable players do not display in their default state.
  
• Fixed: Completed Season and Elimination game mode instances are inaccessible.
  
• Fixed: Gameplay warnings are not staying on the screen long enough.
  
• Fixed: Co-op play does not allow the player fielding or baserunning to use the Strategize button.
  
• Fixed: Players in the front end can be holding a bat or ball when not intended.
  
• Fixed: The ball shadow is not visible in some stadiums when in the shade.
  
• Fixed: The stadium announcer is cut off unintentionally by cinematics that are shorter than their voice lines.
  
• Fixed: Player emote sounds happening when the player is not on screen.
  
• Fixed: Announcer and other voices slow down during on-field slow motion.
  
• Fixed: Baseball players are clipping in certain animations.
  
• Fixed: Players are appearing incorrectly in certain cinematics.
  
• Fixed: The game can crash when navigating between certain menus.
  
• Fixed: The lower fielding camera is being used when it should not be, making hard-hit balls to the outfield difficult to judge.
  
• Fixed: Odd bat shifting can sometimes be seen in the batter's hands.
  
• Fixed: The Wild Thrower trait does not cause disastrous throws as intended.
  
• Fixed: The Noodle Arm trait can incorrectly trigger on short throws that do not require the throwing minigame.
  
• Fixed: Player traits are not properly being shown as active or inactive in certain screens.
  
• Fixed: Balls thrown accurately from the outfield through a cutoff with high velocity can end up off target.
  
• Fixed: Balls deflected off the catcher's glove do not seem to always match the glove's position.
  
• Fixed: Default fielder selection incorrectly selects the pitcher instead of the catcher on certain pop-ups behind home plate.
  
• Fixed: Ball entering the 1B dugout at The Corral fails to register as out of play.
  
• Fixed: After completing a Shuffle Draft outside of Online Leagues, players can end up with duplicate jersey numbers on the same team.
  
• Fixed: Substitutions do not process when editing pre-game lineups for two human-controlled teams.
  
• Fixed: The lineup menu can get into a bad state when a remote party member advances to the next screen.
  
• Fixed: Lineup changes are not saving in Pennant Race.
  
• Fixed: An Online League can get into an invalid state for a player if the season is reset while a match is in progress.
  
• Fixed: The game can crash after disconnecting from the internet in Online Leagues.
  
• Fixed: Unable to challenge players in Online Leagues after canceling a previous challenge.
  
• Fixed: The Online League challenge message remains on screen too long.
  
• Fixed: Online League details do not properly update for all participants.
  
• Fixed: An improper error can be shown when trying to join an Online League via an invite code.
  
• Fixed: The game can crash in Online Leagues after selecting My Team when league settings have been changed.
  
• Fixed: When entering a new Online League, the top button might not be selected by default.
  
• Fixed: Multiple players that are connected to the same EA ID can result in online standings tables not fetching data properly.
  
• Fixed: In Online Leagues, the team pop-up shows Custom Leagues even when the Online League is restricted to Standard teams.
  
• Fixed: Creating new teams can result in a crash.
  
• Fixed: Randomly generated teams can be assigned a home park that is restricted behind non purchased DLC.
  
• Fixed: After making customization changes, player cards do not update in certain cases.
  
• Fixed: Making customizations to a team can cause league edits to be lost.
  
• Fixed: It is possible to add custom players to a Standard game mode.
  
• Fixed: Some scroll bars use different buttons for paging than others.
  
• Fixed: Text and UI highlights appear as the same color and make text illegible.
  
• Fixed: The game can crash in multiplayer situations when a player disconnects.
  
• Fixed: The game can crash after selecting disabled buttons in online play.
  
• Fixed: The game can become unresponsive when accepting a game invitation while in an active multiplayer game mode.
  
• Fixed: The game can get stuck when transitioning into certain pop-ups.
  
• Fixed: Various audio issues.
  
• Fixed: Various minor animation issues.
  
• Fixed: Various minor UI bugs.
  
• Fixed: Various places where the UI can become unresponsive.
  
• Fixed: Spelling and grammar mistakes.
  
• Fixed: Various stability and rendering issues.
  
• Fixed: Physics issues exist in certain stadiums.
  
• Fixed: Minor visual bugs in some stadiums.
  
• Fixed: Some trophies/achievements do not trigger properly.
  
• Fixed: Possible crash in certain screens when disconnecting the controller or disengaging from the game.
  
• [Steam only] Fixed: Gamer tags can overflow in certain dialogs.
  
• [Steam only] Fixed: Various cases where keyboard and mouse are not behaving properly within the UI.
  
• [Steam only] Fixed: Using the mouse to press the substitute button in the New Batter overlay does not do anything.
  
• [Steam only] Fixed: Unable to change which baserunner trait is being viewed with keyboard/mouse in the HUD.
  
• [Steam only] Fixed: You can get stuck after engaging with a different controller.
  
• [Steam only] Fixed: You can accept an Online League challenge without a controller connected when a controller is required for the Online League.
  
• [Steam only] Fixed: In Online Leagues, the Change Admin pop-up does not populate properly.
  
• [Steam only] Fixed: You can now exit the game from the terms acceptance popup on first startup.
  
• [Steam, Switch only] Fixed: In some cases, a player would not be properly disengaged from the game when their controller disconnects.
  
• [Steam, Switch only] Fixed: No error notification is given when failing to join a party session that is full.
  
  
  

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