Early Thoughts
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@ericulous1_psn said in Early Thoughts:
There is nothing to grind. They took a hatchet to offline content. There's mini seasons which could be great but instead of 6 team affinity programs and a huge innings program, not to mention the monthly program and daily moments program and reduced it all to 1 featured program. I guess I'll have a lot more time to go outside? But yeah, this is little more than a DLC to last year's game.
And they still have the screen UI like last year. I am not a big fan. Never got use to the navigation. But like I said, I am along for the ride. I paid a hundred bucks, Im gonna ride for a while lol.
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@chuckclc_psn said in Early Thoughts:
@ericulous1_psn said in Early Thoughts:
There is nothing to grind. They took a hatchet to offline content. There's mini seasons which could be great but instead of 6 team affinity programs and a huge innings program, not to mention the monthly program and daily moments program and reduced it all to 1 featured program. I guess I'll have a lot more time to go outside? But yeah, this is little more than a DLC to last year's game.
And they still have the screen UI like last year. I am not a big fan. Never got use to the navigation. But like I said, I am along for the ride. I paid a hundred bucks, Im gonna ride for a while lol.
Speaking of, the ui feels like a demo game and did to me all of last year. This REALLY feels like a demo game with some of the crucial content missing. No TA, inning program, moments tab(hate moments). I really hope I am wrong but it feels like this is going to be a total flop for nms players unless you invest a lot of time into conquest
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@ericulous1_psn said in Early Thoughts:
There is nothing to grind. They took a hatchet to offline content. There's mini seasons which could be great but instead of 6 team affinity programs and a huge innings program, not to mention the monthly program and daily moments program and reduced it all to 1 featured program. I guess I'll have a lot more time to go outside? But yeah, this is little more than a DLC to last year's game.
Mu dude monthly programs aren't even possible at this point they have event started the season. There are so many things to grind, there is 30 gold cards that have to be pxp grinded, moments, grind out mini seasons, conquest that's a grind.
TA programs were not a grind at all last year pretty easy in comparison. I think they have found a great balance here where you will need to play the game the right way to get your team
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I am the weirdo who likes RttS and I noticed the in-game commentary (not the pointless podcast things) was getting stale super quickly. Kept getting the same lines over and over. And most frustratingly… they took out my last name from the audio options! It’s been in there for years. But thank god we have an audio clip for Big Papa Country Chicken or whatever the hell. And the animations seem buggy as eff. My ballplayer does this weird walking/floating/gliding movement when breaking into a home run trot.
But the game seems to be in a better place now than it was to start the year in 21. Or 20. Or 19.
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@cdnmoneymaker93_mlbts said in Early Thoughts:
@ericulous1_psn said in Early Thoughts:
There is nothing to grind. They took a hatchet to offline content. There's mini seasons which could be great but instead of 6 team affinity programs and a huge innings program, not to mention the monthly program and daily moments program and reduced it all to 1 featured program. I guess I'll have a lot more time to go outside? But yeah, this is little more than a DLC to last year's game.
Mu dude monthly programs aren't even possible at this point they have event started the season. There are so many things to grind, there is 30 gold cards that have to be pxp grinded, moments, grind out mini seasons, conquest that's a grind.
TA programs were not a grind at all last year pretty easy in comparison. I think they have found a great balance here where you will need to play the game the right way to get your team
I don’t think he’s complaining that there’s literally nothing to do on the game. The appealing aspect of DD the past few years is being able to obtain a god squad through programs etc. that doesn’t seem like it’s going to be much of an option this year. I’m personally not at all interested in mini seasons or conquest. I want to field a good team and play ranked
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@schnauzerface said in Early Thoughts:
they took out my last name from the audio options!
I have seen a lot of people say that! I have an extremely rare last name and first name and I have always been in the game. I just assumed they did some sort of database search for players that played a certain amount of hours and included their names in game. Maybe they didnt do that this year? I need to check if my name is there. Or maybe they just need to pay us for out rights? Hummm
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@chuckclc_psn said in Early Thoughts:
@schnauzerface said in Early Thoughts:
they took out my last name from the audio options!
I have seen a lot of people say that! I have an extremely rare last name and first name and I have always been in the game. I just assumed they did some sort of database search for players that played a certain amount of hours and included their names in game. Maybe they didnt do that this year? I need to check if my name is there. Or maybe they just need to pay us for out rights? Hummm
To be fair, they didn’t have my exact last name, but they had a nearly identical pronunciation (“Goodrich” in place of “Goodridge”). So I had to use “Goodman,” which is annoying. I know they can’t have every surname in the world, but it is annoying to have had it in there for years and all of a sudden lose it.
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I'm just a little... confused so far. I'm just not sure where to start. I was pretty clear in prior years what my overall strategy was - brute force on everything. This year I'll have to think a little more. That's not necessarily a bad thing. It's obviously going to take more time to earn your free stuff.
Two random takes so far:
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Mini seasons seems kind of cool. I started here instead of Conquest (I'm a little disappointed with "Prospects" again in the USA map, but I'll still grind through it many times). One thing to beware of this early in the cycle... my first game was against a team of mostly silvers/golds like my team. I looked at the roster of my next opponent, and he has all diamonds.
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LS card art - I like most of the card art in general, but the LS seems "blah" to me.
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@arvcpa_psn said in Early Thoughts:
I'm just a little... confused so far. I'm just not sure where to start. I was pretty clear in prior years what my overall strategy was - brute force on everything. This year I'll have to think a little more. That's not necessarily a bad thing. It's obviously going to take more time to earn your free stuff.
Two random takes so far:
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Mini seasons seems kind of cool. I started here instead of Conquest (I'm a little disappointed with "Prospects" again in the USA map, but I'll still grind through it many times). One thing to beware of this early in the cycle... my first game was against a team of mostly silvers/golds like my team. I looked at the roster of my next opponent, and he has all diamonds.
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LS card art - I like most of the card art in general, but the LS seems "blah" to me.
Watch the mini seasons right now....There is a bug where wins count as losses a good part of the time
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@schnauzerface said in Early Thoughts:
but it is annoying to have had it in there for years and all of a sudden lose it.
They will never have anything close to my name in here, but they did have "Darwin Barney" for years. It was close enough that years ago my wife said "they have your name in there"? To be fair, we're both old and deaf.
In last year's game, I fell off my chair when a Pirates minor leaguer had my first name. Alas, at age 27, batting .194 in AA, I don't see him making it to the Show.
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@schnauzerface said in Early Thoughts:
My ballplayer does this weird walking/floating/gliding movement when breaking into a home run trot.
That sounds AWESOME.
I set up my RTTS player, opted to be drafted by a "random" team, and was selected by the Dodgers. I've never been randomly drafted by a good team before.
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@oreorockstar_psn said in Early Thoughts:
Watch the mini seasons right now....There is a bug where wins count as losses a good part of the time
I'm good so far - I'm showing 2-0, and I'm actually 2-0. Those who are showing 0-2 are obviously playing this mode incorrectly.
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