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!

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