OOTP 15 50 percent off, releases new update
By Nick Tylwalk
With the Mid-Summer Classic right around the corner, it’s the perfect time to be playing some baseball video games. OOTP Developments thinks so too, putting Out of the Park Baseball 15 on sale for 50 percent off in honor of the All-Star Game. You can grab it for $19.99 for Windows, Linux or Mac, but only through July 16.
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OOTP 15 has also received its fourth update, making improvements in a number of areas, including the 3D engine and the in-game AI. As for specifics, here are a few:
- Improved memory management resulting in increased stability and speed, especially with large games
- Free agent compensation / arbitration is now more realistic. OOTP correctly assigns FA comp status to all free agent-eligible players who stayed on the team the entire year, and compensation draft picks are only given when the user/AI offered arbitration to this player.
- Draft picks with signability of “impossible” no longer state their demand. You have just one shot to convince the player with a great offer.
- Added the option to hide player nicknames (in the player personality section of the game setup)
- Improved the league events editor. When in commish mode, users can edit the dates of existing events and also create events using the internal event types. That way experienced users may fix problems with events caused by league scheduling errors.
- Moved the “Force Start / Position” section in the player strategy screen from the depth chart strategy to the pitching strategy for pitchers and renamed it “Force Role.”
Plus there are the usual crash and bug fixes. Our sister video game site, GameSided, loved OOTP 15, and that was before any updates. If you’re looking for a baseball sim, the time to pull the trigger on this one is while the sale is in effect.