MLB 16 The Show Developer Deep Dive: Showtime and Road to the Show

Sony San Diego streamed MLB 16 The Show on Twitch yesterday and did a deep dive of Showtime and Road to the Show modes. Here are the key takeaways from the stream below and we have the first part of the video archived above!

• New Batting Angle called “Fisheye”


• Scouts look for timing, contact, distance on hits with 20/80 scale


• 20/80 scale IS in Franchise mode


• Errors, range all judged in Scout Day


• ShowTime will be optional


• Anthony Rizzo is going to be one of the player reps


• “big moments” will be a focus of RTTS, like when player steps onto field for first time, etc.


• Advance Next Day feature is only on Playstation 4


• Level up attributes like in ’15 but Perks are new, hard to unlock the most powerful


• ShowTime will be hard to earn and won’t be available all the time


• During load screens you can see different info by hitting L1/R1


• Faster load times


• Perks is on the PS3 as well as PS4


• ShowTime bar regenerates like energy


• 600+ new animations this year. Out of Position logic and animations will be discussed in future streams


• Lots of new dives, pre-pitch dives that will be discussed later. 100s are recorded.


• Hot / cold players are shown on load screens


• EvoShield, Oakley & All Star are the 3 new Equipment options.


• No bench clearing brawls per MLB


• ShowTime for pitchers. Pitcher (hold R2) focus in, Can throw precision pitch (infrequently)


• More first/last names added to RTTS for your player


• no face scan capability for Road to the Show


• ShowTime is R2, Dive is R1.


• ShowTime has an “off” option = don’t have to use it


• Devs will track if people use it or turn it off.


• Devs will try to get a transaction log into RTTS this year.


• More equipment + ritual items in RTTS, more mysterious stuff will be revealed at a later date.


• Market will be the same for Road to the Show BUT lots of new stuff will be revealed


• New dynamic difficulty slider


• 32 Total Perks


• cost of Perks will likely change, work in progress


• Ambient yells and chants come out of the PlayStation controller’s speakers in The Show 16


• Tuesday’s stream will be about gameplay


• Player edit screen will now show that player’s uniform

Thanks to MLBtheShowTips  for this info!

MLB 16 The Show Developer Deep Dive: Showtime and Road to the Show