Official Grade so far: A-
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Hitting is the best it’s been in the 4 years I’ve played The Show
️ It finally feels like input matters. Love the hit variety and I haven’t noticed many, if any off PCI HR’s. -
Content: I Think they nailed the concept of offering a choose your own adventure for content, I can totally see the pros and cons of going for big collections as well as purchasing set one cards now, there will certainly be a variety of cards being used!
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Servers: I haven’t been disconnected at all. Knock on wood.
L’s:
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too many Perfect / Perfect outs. I don’t need or want a home run or hit every single time, but the amount of liners directly into an infielders glove as well as the maximum power perfect fly out to the warning track simply happen too often, if they could reduce the amount of perfect perfect outs by about 10 to 15% then I think hitting would be as close to perfect as we could ask for
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iOS app not being updated…seriously!!??
Nitpicking / Annoying tweaks I would love:
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I think they should really increase the amount of wild cards to one pitcher and one hitter slot, having both wildcard slots would soften the blow of so many cards from set one dropping off in July. Honestly, I would even be fine with two hitting and two pitching wildcard slots but I know that is pushing it!
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The set 1 collection rewards (Ruth, Jones and Martinez) should be core cards. If we’re collecting 150+ cards and or locking in a bunch of stubs those cards should be usable all year! Personally, I would be focusing all my stubs on the set one collection if I knew I could keep Babe Ruth and Pedro Martinez for the whole year.
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we should be able to repeat show down at least three times for team affinity. Call me a lazy old complainer, but I do not have the patience to do multiple mini seasons for the vouchers, we should have the option to complete showdown a couple more times per division if we have the skill to do so.
Overall the game is a BLAST so far. So much to do and I haven’t even done the Negro league stuff or ballplayer grind.
Grade: A-
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Bumper cars.
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Agree with the set 1 collection should be core cards.
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Tweak coop where we can bring more offense.
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Defensive animations still a major flaw and no urgency and terrible. Bunt cheesers bunt slow lazy throw to first such a joy safe almost everytime.
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I love it so far. My only gripe, and it's a small one, is the ball-to-bat audio. Can be extremely soft/quiet one decently hit line drives and fly balls. The P/P audio and hard hit balls sound great.
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I agree with most of your review, especially the frequency of perfect/perfect outs. If you haven't started The Negro League content yet, I'd chance that you'd change your review to a A++
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I also agree that the Set 1 Rewards should be Core cards.
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@SilverBullet3519 said in Official Grade so far: A-:
I love it so far. My only gripe, and it's a small one, is the ball-to-bat audio. Can be extremely soft/quiet one decently hit line drives and fly balls. The P/P audio and hard hit balls sound great.
Yes!! I should’ve had added that to the nitpick section. Blows my mind that some people enjoy the wiffle ball Sound.
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@Kolah_MLBTS said in Official Grade so far: A-:
I agree with most of your review, especially the frequency of perfect/perfect outs. If you haven't started The Negro League content yet, I'd chance that you'd change your review to a A++
I’m thinking of doing it tomorrow. Can’t wait!
Where do those cards show up? Are they part of a collection at all? Don’t see a menu in DD with their cards at all.
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@Kolah_MLBTS said in Official Grade so far: A-:
I agree with most of your review, especially the frequency of perfect/perfect outs. If you haven't started The Negro League content yet, I'd chance that you'd change your review to a A++
The perfect perfect outs are felt more for people like me who aren’t that good however, I’m real baseball you can make perfect contact and hit right to someone and it happens more with teams having video and shifts. So I’m not too bothered by it even though I may get frustrated occasionally.
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@bjd10048_MLBTS said in Official Grade so far: A-:
@Kolah_MLBTS said in Official Grade so far: A-:
I agree with most of your review, especially the frequency of perfect/perfect outs. If you haven't started The Negro League content yet, I'd chance that you'd change your review to a A++
I’m thinking of doing it tomorrow. Can’t wait!
Where do those cards show up? Are they part of a collection at all? Don’t see a menu in DD with their cards at all.
They are their own collection. Do the 8 storylines then you unlock 95 Buck O’Neil. Loving the Satchel Paige card though
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@lioned33_PSN said in Official Grade so far: A-:
@bjd10048_MLBTS said in Official Grade so far: A-:
@Kolah_MLBTS said in Official Grade so far: A-:
I agree with most of your review, especially the frequency of perfect/perfect outs. If you haven't started The Negro League content yet, I'd chance that you'd change your review to a A++
I’m thinking of doing it tomorrow. Can’t wait!
Where do those cards show up? Are they part of a collection at all? Don’t see a menu in DD with their cards at all.
They are their own collection. Do the 8 storylines then you unlock 95 Buck O’Neil. Loving the Satchel Paige card though
Thanks, can you be more specific? I got satchel paige and I can add him to starting rotation, but where is the collection for him in the collection tab, do we get stubs and packs for getting them all? Do they count towards the set 1 Ruth collection?
In other words if I don't plan on using them in my lineup all that much, is there any benefits to the cards other than collecting dust in a non-existent binder?
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Best upgrade of the game since MLB the Show 17.
I like that hitting is hard. It should be challenging to hit in the majors.
I am very much enjoying the gameplay advancements in this years game.
