TA grind is unbearable
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TA is not just about playing the game regularly. I play the game a ton and have not finished a single division. I have done the showdowns, conquests, and almost all player pxp missions (outside of a few captain pitcher ones) and I have done one TA mini season. I have the AL west at 96% but the other five are at 78-79%.
Unless you are going to avoid online modes so you can load up division based teams and beat up on cpu, conquest or mini seasons modes, it just isn’t going to happen in a reasonable time frame. Or you play way more than I do and I just can’t play more than I do.
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SDS can't win. If they drip out the grind, people complain. If they do a massive content dump that's meant to take weeks for the average gamer, people complain.
Do it at your own pace! The cards you unlock are good through Season 2, which goes into July.
Relax.
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Not all modes progress towards team affinity. My brother plays a lot of co op ranked. We went through the whole program together several hours of gameplay and no pxp ever counts. I’ve been off on leave for surgery so I finished mostly grinding against the cpu but he’s yet to get a single card from the program.
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@soonermagic78_XBL said in TA grind is unbearable:
Not all modes progress towards team affinity. My brother plays a lot of co op ranked. We went through the whole program together several hours of gameplay and no pxp ever counts. I’ve been off on leave for surgery so I finished mostly grinding against the cpu but he’s yet to get a single card from the program.
The moonshot event is great for TA grinding
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@BJDUBBYAH_PSN said in TA grind is unbearable:
@soonermagic78_XBL said in TA grind is unbearable:
Not all modes progress towards team affinity. My brother plays a lot of co op ranked. We went through the whole program together several hours of gameplay and no pxp ever counts. I’ve been off on leave for surgery so I finished mostly grinding against the cpu but he’s yet to get a single card from the program.
The moonshot event is great for TA grinding.
Yea I told him to load up with players he needs points with and play that till it’s over. I don’t understand why you can’t get pxp from a ranked mode. I remember them saying just play the game how you want. Lol
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You're sharing players with another human. So should you get pxp if your teammate hits 2 nukes with your guy and you strike out twice with him???
Pretty simple and pretty fair, I think.
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@SuntLacrimae50_MLBTS said in TA grind is unbearable:
You're sharing players with another human. So should you get pxp if your teammate hits 2 nukes with your guy and you strike out twice with him???
Pretty simple and pretty fair, I think.
I don't know the answer on pxp with Co-op, but I think the point they are making is that this game is really not "play how you want to play". It is play a specific way if you want specific cards. Programs like TA are designed more for an offline player to load up specific players and play CPU or mini seasons over and over...or load up specific guys and play moonshot. TA is not going to come easy for someone who mainly plays things like RS or BR.
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@Crimson_Chin7_PSN said in TA grind is unbearable:
@BJDUBBYAH_PSN said in TA grind is unbearable:
Been done for weeks
Speaking of unbearable LOL
hahaha
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@Honor_The_Game44_PSN said in TA grind is unbearable:
@SuntLacrimae50_MLBTS said in TA grind is unbearable:
You're sharing players with another human. So should you get pxp if your teammate hits 2 nukes with your guy and you strike out twice with him???
Pretty simple and pretty fair, I think.
I don't know the answer on pxp with Co-op, but I think the point they are making is that this game is really not "play how you want to play". It is play a specific way if you want specific cards. Programs like TA are designed more for an offline player to load up specific players and play CPU or mini seasons over and over...or load up specific guys and play moonshot. TA is not going to come easy for someone who mainly plays things like RS or BR.
If you want to be strictly literal, then fine. But co-op is clearly not meant for pxp -- too easy to exploit. Losers would be paying WS players to co-op with them. It would be a pathetic cottage industry nobody wants to see.
This game has its problems, but within the realm of UT games it's the most consumer-friendly out there. Everyone who plays a lot can have a god squad without spending one cent over the price of admission. If they play a lot.
And you get more pxp for online modes like RS, BR, and Events.
There is nothing unfair going on here.
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I just finished up last night. But yeah it takes dedication. Putting those guys or playing with those teams every chance you get. Mini Seasons and conquest for me mostly. But I like having something to work towards. Now that I am done I am waiting for nest season.
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@Dolenz_PSN said in TA grind is unbearable:
@BJDUBBYAH_PSN said in TA grind is unbearable:
Been done for weeks
Well, aren't you special!!
Amazing what you can accomplish with 210 hours invested over a mere 5 week time period.
Playing well in ranked, BR or events gives you more XP. That's some players have finished it already.
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@Jacky-Chan1_XBL said in TA grind is unbearable:
@Dolenz_PSN said in TA grind is unbearable:
@BJDUBBYAH_PSN said in TA grind is unbearable:
Been done for weeks
Well, aren't you special!!
Amazing what you can accomplish with 210 hours invested over a mere 5 week time period.
Playing well in ranked, BR or events gives you more XP. That's some players have finished it already.
210 hours in 5 weeks is an average of 6 hours a day.
Not judging, just saying.
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Agreed. You’d think a mini season, conquest, moments and showdown would be enough to at least get you half way. Then it’d make sense for you to have to grind it out the rest of the way. Even with completing the Captain and Henchmen tasks while doing the mini season/conquest it still felt like an eternity.
I didn’t play last year so I went into this year with hopes tackling TA first. It’s been so off putting I’ve only finished East and AL central. I’ll finish it when I finish it. Honestly the only card that I’ve enjoyed using from the what I have is the Wander Franco and Devers. No one else has really been interesting to me to even put in a line up.
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@fishfan2012_PSN said in TA grind is unbearable:
Agreed. You’d think a mini season, conquest, moments and showdown would be enough to at least get you half way. Then it’d make sense for you to have to grind it out the rest of the way. Even with completing the Captain and Henchmen tasks while doing the mini season/conquest it still felt like an eternity.
I didn’t play last year so I went into this year with hopes tackling TA first. It’s been so off putting I’ve only finished East and AL central. I’ll finish it when I finish it. Honestly the only card that I’ve enjoyed using from the what I have is the Wander Franco and Devers. No one else has really been interesting to me to even put in a line up.
I think the thing that can be easy to forget at times is that these forums are probably filled some of the most dedicated players. Just because some people here have completed these programs and to them it was easy, does not mean it is that way for everyone. If dedicated players are completing the moments, showdowns, conquests, pxp missions, still playing other modes and not finishing it before the next one launches, that might be a sign that the program could be discouraging to many players.
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Not that difficult... beat the 3 showdowns, 3 conquest maps, 30 moments, play the game with players that aren't listed as "free agents" and do the captain missions... I've completed both East Divisions and I am nearing completion on AL West with NL West sure to follow... Central are only divisions I haven't gotten around to getting a lot of their players in my lineup but hopefully once I do their Conquest and Showdown I'll know where I'm at... plus the program doesn't expire so you can still do TA1 while TA2 is out which might also mean that certain PXP and XP and stats and such stack... unless they specify that the players have to be from Set 2 in TA2 but I'm thinking it'll stick with the same model as TA1.
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@SuntLacrimae50_MLBTS said in TA grind is unbearable:
You're sharing players with another human. So should you get pxp if your teammate hits 2 nukes with your guy and you strike out twice with him???
Pretty simple and pretty fair, I think.
I don’t think it’s simple and it’s definitely not fair. Just my opinion.
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@dap1234567890 said in TA grind is unbearable:
I think most people who play this game regularly is done with the TA programs! You make progress by just playing the game in any DD mode with games being played!
I think that’s completely detached from reality I’ve finished all of the programs and have about 900,000 xp the only things I don’t have done are TA and have one more game until I unlock the pack from ranked. I play too much. I see where OP is coming from.
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@Crimson_Chin7_PSN said in TA grind is unbearable:
This team affinity grind is unreal. 60k points for ONE player from ONE division?????? My god that is insane. If you have the time or sheer will power to 100% all of these divisions then you are much more dedicated than I lol
I agree and guess what we have to do it all over again for TA season 2 on May 12th
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@TPB-Violet-9_XBL said in TA grind is unbearable:
I play too much. I see where OP is coming from.Same here. While I am glad we have TA, the biggest thing holding me back from completing this program is the fact that these cards expire in a couple of months. I just mainly went after the few cards that appealed to me, and that was it.
Completing the PXP for some cards that I am not eager to use, and doing the Showdowns, is just not worth it to me. If they had higher attributes, and/or did not expire, then I would definately be investing more time in this.
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@soonermagic78_XBL said in TA grind is unbearable:
@SuntLacrimae50_MLBTS said in TA grind is unbearable:
You're sharing players with another human. So should you get pxp if your teammate hits 2 nukes with your guy and you strike out twice with him???
Pretty simple and pretty fair, I think.
I don’t think it’s simple and it’s definitely not fair. Just my opinion.
Simple and easy are two different things. And nobody said you have to finish at any particular point. You can get them all for free. How is it unfair? Explain.
