Mini Seasons is lame
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@mjfc_363_psn said in Mini Seasons is lame:
Is anyone actually losing besides me? I’m actually embarrassed. Not used to losing games vs cpu.
Actually, CPU is much tougher in 22 it seems. On Rookie, pitchers throw mostly [censored] and paint the black. It’s pretty stupid.
On top of that, more than half of my well hit balls are bee lines to fielders who don’t even have to move. Ridiculous.
CPU pitchers on Rookie should be throwing meatballs on a regular basis like in 21. That’s not the case, and it makes offline grind...unpleasant. Poorly done, SDS.
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So I have reset the league a few times just to see if there's any variety in teams. There isn't. The Cats and Whales always have a max squad. The other teams are pretty much all gold players.
I wonder if this will change when more users have teams, or if the game is programmed to take those two teams from the top 1 percent and then the rest from the middle.
Also disappointed there's no stats page or persistent fatigue. "Mini Seasons" is just play the CPU for 3 inning games, which I'm okay with. Just wish it felt more like an actual season.
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Its a big improvement from Extra Innings.
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@magic1313_xbl said in Mini Seasons is lame:
I have seen some people losing on HOF, looks like it will be challenging which I am looking forward to. Did they make any other modes cards unsellable? Is the North America Conquest Map reward sellable?
I don't think the Conquest reward is sellable. At least it has not been in the past.
I just checked. My Piazza card is not sellable
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@bjd10048842_psn said in Mini Seasons is lame:
@weshill627_psn said in Mini Seasons is lame:
I think mini seasons is uninspired and boring.
They could have done a lot with this mode, but its just conquest without simulating spots on a board.
My biggest complaint, i've played two different teams that have generated full collections complete, and the most recent team has Andrew Miller, so i guess whoever i matched up with is rich lol. The CPU seems to cheat on the higher difficulty so i have to play on Veteran to make sure I win. lol.
I wish before each series they had a cut scene breaking down the team your playing's last few games, or telling us more about the team's history (even though its made up). or just something other than a paragraph.
Instead of them randomly generating teams from online, they should have made up players and give them complete backstories and their history, then they could have put leaderboards, by showing who played the best vs those teams.
Its just playing the cpu 20+ times for the Longeria card and thats the only reason i'm playing, and it sucks he is stuck behind that grind...Come on SDS, where is your creativity at?
Agreed. Did anyone play Blitz, the football game from 10 years ago? All the teams were made up and there were little cut scenes and rivalries etc.
games had that creativity a while back lol.
Exactly, zero creativity from sds. Just boring cpu grind...
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This is why companies can't win sometimes. People complain every year about fake FS cards but at least they are actual prospects and SDS has a decent track record with them. Now people are complaining that they didn't create actual fake players for them to play against.
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This mode was not working for me yesterday, I won two games but after both games on the last screen it freezes before I can exit so I had to dashboard the screen and went back to check and it recorded that I lost both those games when I had won them. I am not playing that mode. Does anyone know if you can restart, Quit out the season your in to start a new one? I did not see anything that would allow that.
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@virusts_xbl said in Mini Seasons is lame:
Its a big improvement from Extra Innings.
Probably. But that isn't saying much.
The bigger issue for me is that Rookie CPU grind is weirdly difficult this year. Pitchers are maddeningly all over the place (meatball % way down) and good contact on my part goes straight to fielders. I had a game where I hit 2 PP in a row, both line outs to fielders, and the next batter I hit a PP just foul. WTF.
I never lose to Rookie CPU, but it's more like 3-0 than 20-0.
This makes the grind less enjoyable. Rookie CPU used to be something like HR Derby, a chill mode. Now it's not. Ugh.
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@weshill627_psn said in Mini Seasons is lame:
I think mini seasons is uninspired and boring.
They could have done a lot with this mode, but its just conquest without simulating spots on a board.
My biggest complaint, i've played two different teams that have generated full collections complete, and the most recent team has Andrew Miller, so i guess whoever i matched up with is rich lol. The CPU seems to cheat on the higher difficulty so i have to play on Veteran to make sure I win. lol.
I wish before each series they had a cut scene breaking down the team your playing's last few games, or telling us more about the team's history (even though its made up). or just something other than a paragraph.
Instead of them randomly generating teams from online, they should have made up players and give them complete backstories and their history, then they could have put leaderboards, by showing who played the best vs those teams.
Its just playing the cpu 20+ times for the Longeria card and thats the only reason i'm playing, and it sucks he is stuck behind that grind...Come on SDS, where is your creativity at?
I think the problem is more you than mini seasons. If you are constantly playing on Veteran and not challenging yourself, yes, things get boring. Challenge yourself. It's okay to lose, it's baseball.
Also the missions reward for higher difficultly too.
You are making it boring by choosing an easy skill level.
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Offline guys asked for this type of mode and SDS delivered. I knocked out a season myself, it isn't too bad. Good deal of XP and rewards are alright.
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@suntlacrimae50_psn said in Mini Seasons is lame:
@mjfc_363_psn said in Mini Seasons is lame:
Is anyone actually losing besides me? I’m actually embarrassed. Not used to losing games vs cpu.
Actually, CPU is much tougher in 22 it seems. On Rookie, pitchers throw mostly [censored] and paint the black. It’s pretty stupid.
On top of that, more than half of my well hit balls are bee lines to fielders who don’t even have to move. Ridiculous.
CPU pitchers on Rookie should be throwing meatballs on a regular basis like in 21. That’s not the case, and it makes offline grind...unpleasant. Poorly done, SDS.
I won like 20 games on HOF to hit the XBH goal and my record was like 18-2. I was also using the cards that gave me XP...so like gold cards that are just average.
I played a game on rookie and I couldn't hit at all...was kinda crazy. I was expecting cookies all game. I then played the rest on Veteran which was super easy. Rookie was just weird.
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@washednd_psn said in Mini Seasons is lame:
Offline guys asked for this type of mode and SDS delivered. I knocked out a season myself, it isn't too bad. Good deal of XP and rewards are alright.
The mode did not work properly for me counting wins as loses and not giving me stats toward missions.
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@dbarmonstar_psn said in Mini Seasons is lame:
@washednd_psn said in Mini Seasons is lame:
Offline guys asked for this type of mode and SDS delivered. I knocked out a season myself, it isn't too bad. Good deal of XP and rewards are alright.
The mode did not work properly for me counting wins as loses and not giving me stats toward missions.
That sucks. I had one game that I won but it counted as an L in the standings but it actually gave me credit towards the 20 AS wins needed.
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@washednd_psn said in Mini Seasons is lame:
@dbarmonstar_psn said in Mini Seasons is lame:
@washednd_psn said in Mini Seasons is lame:
Offline guys asked for this type of mode and SDS delivered. I knocked out a season myself, it isn't too bad. Good deal of XP and rewards are alright.
The mode did not work properly for me counting wins as loses and not giving me stats toward missions.
That sucks. I had one game that I won but it counted as an L in the standings but it actually gave me credit towards the 20 AS wins needed.
The first 4 games went good and then the next two that I won counted as L so I stopped playing. I do not see a way to restart the season.
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its too long imo. i did it once. won't do it repeatedly unless they add a new card like longoria
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@retrogzy_xbl said in Mini Seasons is lame:
its too long imo. i did it once. won't do it repeatedly unless they add a new card like longoria
They will be adding a new reward each time a new season is update so in this case May 2nd.
The rewards will get better as you go along I could also see them add in a FoTF pack in future season, not a choice pack but a random on that would be sellable for example
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@thegoaler_psn said in Mini Seasons is lame:
I had no idea a card is hidden behind this mode. I do well with Longoria. At least his siggy the last 2 seasons, so I want it.
I've heard the nightmarish glitches, so I haven't tried this mode yet.Yeah. I'm not attempting it until it's fixed. Wins turning to losses is no bueno.
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@washednd_psn said in Mini Seasons is lame:
@suntlacrimae50_psn said in Mini Seasons is lame:
@mjfc_363_psn said in Mini Seasons is lame:
Is anyone actually losing besides me? I’m actually embarrassed. Not used to losing games vs cpu.
Actually, CPU is much tougher in 22 it seems. On Rookie, pitchers throw mostly [censored] and paint the black. It’s pretty stupid.
On top of that, more than half of my well hit balls are bee lines to fielders who don’t even have to move. Ridiculous.
CPU pitchers on Rookie should be throwing meatballs on a regular basis like in 21. That’s not the case, and it makes offline grind...unpleasant. Poorly done, SDS.
I won like 20 games on HOF to hit the XBH goal and my record was like 18-2. I was also using the cards that gave me XP...so like gold cards that are just average.
I played a game on rookie and I couldn't hit at all...was kinda crazy. I was expecting cookies all game. I then played the rest on Veteran which was super easy. Rookie was just weird.
Rookie is really messed up right now. Might be glitched...?
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My biggest issue with it, is that stamina doesn't impact the CPU. You have the 1st game of the series go into extras, both teams get into their pen, so that's part of your pen you can't use the next game, meanwhile the CPU can bring in the same pitchers no problem.
I like the use of stamina, but it should effect both me and the CPU.
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Nothing that you said is wrong necessarily, but at the end of the day no matter what they did it'll get old fast and become a grind. You just have to be happy it's there at all to mix things up from conquest a bit.
