Let's Solve the Showdown debate! (Poll)
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I hate Showdowns
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I love Showdowns
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14%
Quit whining
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@chestnuts20_psn said in Let's Solve the Showdown debate! (Poll):
@ccarr77_psn said in Let's Solve the Showdown debate!:
How are you supposed to get better playing a mode that doesn't reward you for good user input? I absolutely hate when I'm given a Moment on such terrible swings. Showdown is exactly the same. Where is the sense of reward? It's randomly generated. A monkey could beat Showdown
A monkey could beat it but so many people struggle with it. I think that is a product of playing on the lower difficulty, the randomness. I can't wait for SD extreme to see if the randomness reduces drastically.
People struggle with it because they are not rewarded for it. It drains you. I've been there. Haven't even looked at Showdown this year.
I won't even try the extreme stuff. Also, if you play online a lot I think Showdown and grinding the CPU give you bad habits
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@ccarr77_psn said in Let's Solve the Showdown debate! (Poll):
@chestnuts20_psn said in Let's Solve the Showdown debate! (Poll):
@ccarr77_psn said in Let's Solve the Showdown debate!:
How are you supposed to get better playing a mode that doesn't reward you for good user input? I absolutely hate when I'm given a Moment on such terrible swings. Showdown is exactly the same. Where is the sense of reward? It's randomly generated. A monkey could beat Showdown
A monkey could beat it but so many people struggle with it. I think that is a product of playing on the lower difficulty, the randomness. I can't wait for SD extreme to see if the randomness reduces drastically.
People struggle with it because they are not rewarded for it. It drains you. I've been there. Haven't even looked at Showdown this year.
I won't even try the extreme stuff. Also, if you play online a lot I think Showdown and grinding the CPU give you bad habits
This is 100% true
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I chose Quit Whining because I neither Hate Them or Love Them.
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**1 Hour update
After 1 hour, I think the statement "Everybody hates Showdowns" is proving false but time will tell. I think that the max votes for a free poll is 100, that should give us a pretty good idea.Quit whining
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I hate Showdowns
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28%
I love Showdowns
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Someone voted from the South Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Ghana. This is neat!
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they are easy as pie i voted not sure if it went through
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Love sweet love
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"I hate Showdowns" is now at the bottom with possibly 36 votes remaining.Quit whining
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48%
I love Showdowns
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27%
I hate Showdowns
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I'm voting (quit whining). I don't love them, but would much rather play showdown than moments or play vs cpu. to earn points toward programs. They are more fun for me than moments and about even with conquest. I should add though that the only one I've done this year that was difficult was the 5th inning one.... the rest I did first try. I think the majority of whining comes from not being skilled enough to beat showdown and not actually a showdown itself issue... no offense to them, but it's true.
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I do wish we could earn parallel points in SD/Moments for the players we use.
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Showdowns got me better at this game
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Hate. But I'll do it if necessary.
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I think these are the final results based on it
stating only 100 votes on a free pollApparently this is wrong as it is still accepting votes. Less than a 1/3 of voters hate Showdowns, in conclusion "Everybody hates Showdowns" is false.Quit whining
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39%
I hate Showdowns
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31%
I love Showdowns
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Theyre not terrible in my opinion. Nerve wracking though!!! I can usually get through a showdown with having to restart MAYBE once or twice? But i will say there are alot of times where the difficulty feels alot higher than VETERAN
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I don't like any cpu grinds because they are boring to me. However, outside of exchanges, showdowns are the easiest way to complete TA's.
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@chestnuts20_psn said in Let's Solve the Showdown debate! (Poll):
@ccarr77_psn said in Let's Solve the Showdown debate!:
How are you supposed to get better playing a mode that doesn't reward you for good user input? I absolutely hate when I'm given a Moment on such terrible swings. Showdown is exactly the same. Where is the sense of reward? It's randomly generated. A monkey could beat Showdown
A monkey could beat it but so many people struggle with it. I think that is a product of playing on the lower difficulty, the randomness. I can't wait for SD extreme to see if the randomness reduces drastically.
Do you recall what the challenges were for extreme?? I can’t recall what that was…just having flashbacks to 3 + 4 HR missions with Yelich + Gehrig (believe that was moments extreme)
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@tmichae10_psn said in Let's Solve the Showdown debate! (Poll):
@chestnuts20_psn said in Let's Solve the Showdown debate! (Poll):
@ccarr77_psn said in Let's Solve the Showdown debate!:
How are you supposed to get better playing a mode that doesn't reward you for good user input? I absolutely hate when I'm given a Moment on such terrible swings. Showdown is exactly the same. Where is the sense of reward? It's randomly generated. A monkey could beat Showdown
A monkey could beat it but so many people struggle with it. I think that is a product of playing on the lower difficulty, the randomness. I can't wait for SD extreme to see if the randomness reduces drastically.
Do you recall what the challenges were for extreme?? I can’t recall what that was…just having flashbacks to 3 + 4 HR missions with Yelich + Gehrig (believe that was moments extreme)
Wasnt it like only 4 bosses with nothing in between? I think they swapped pitchers outside of Pearson at the end. Could have been Sale or Feller or someone else.
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@poksey_mlbts said in Let's Solve the Showdown debate! (Poll):
@tmichae10_psn said in Let's Solve the Showdown debate! (Poll):
@chestnuts20_psn said in Let's Solve the Showdown debate! (Poll):
@ccarr77_psn said in Let's Solve the Showdown debate!:
How are you supposed to get better playing a mode that doesn't reward you for good user input? I absolutely hate when I'm given a Moment on such terrible swings. Showdown is exactly the same. Where is the sense of reward? It's randomly generated. A monkey could beat Showdown
A monkey could beat it but so many people struggle with it. I think that is a product of playing on the lower difficulty, the randomness. I can't wait for SD extreme to see if the randomness reduces drastically.
Do you recall what the challenges were for extreme?? I can’t recall what that was…just having flashbacks to 3 + 4 HR missions with Yelich + Gehrig (believe that was moments extreme)
Wasnt it like only 4 bosses with nothing in between? I think they swapped pitchers outside of Pearson at the end. Could have been Sale or Feller or someone else.
Right right right, it was all boss elimination games…that future stars Nate Pearson at the end. I think I had beaten that one but passed on the moments extreme (due to said multi-HR moments)
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I love them and hate them at the same time. love the concept the idea the setup, but the execution is horrible. the cpu plays by different rules,and the same cpu that handles the action also runs the opposition so it frequently manipulates it against you, if it played like a regular game it would be great, but a lot of the time the cpu is playing not the game but objectives prevention.
need 2 runs to win and start with 1st and 2nd,base hit scores 1 and 1st and 3rd,walk to load bases and infield in, that parts fine.
(but here comes cpu bs) grounder up middle that ss gets to, should be a 123 dp and youd have 2nd and 3rd and still going,but cpu makes the runners stay lead off waiting for the pitch and hitting button doesnt move them and they go home back to 2nd and get 3 outs.bs when it happened , but it happened a second time. and from other instances in my 3 attempts so far ive had 2 triple plays 4 double plays 1 run not tag on sac fly(later did score to win on that) just on baserunners not aware the ball in play.ive had 3 moments now where i n the first 3 abs i complete all but 1 of the objective only to at em ball for all 9 outs(4-5 pitch abs so i was patient and not pressing).
most of the time it seems blatant that its more a matter of luck(or not getting cpu bs) rather than skill.
I like the idea of showdown but they need to tweak it so it becomes a matter of skill rather than the mess it can be now
