Mini seasons so annoying
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@Precisionist99_XBL 1000% agree it's a struggle this year
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@ApolloZ_99_MLBTS nah it's just a struggle this year compared to years past
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Yeah I may give up on the Mural mini-seasons. Effort not worth the reward. Rarely get anything over the fence with the Mural hitters, my only offense is Moniak or waiting til the 4th to Sac fly-sac fly my 1 run. Right now it's even questionable I'll make playoffs in my 3inn/28 game season, as opposing hitters often just run into one of my pitches.
Possibly might move to 9 inning games see if I have better luck, but once I get the cards will never touch this one again.
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Years past you could do this but not this year, they changed all that. Just a struggle that's all.
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@ApolloZ_99_MLBTS No they don’t. The ai throws it all over the place and then makes an epic pitch on a 3-2 count.
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@LuvMyXBOX_XBL Rookie mode throws fewer strikes than ever this year …
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@OlSkoolE63_MLBTS Re-read what I said again.
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Mural miniseason sucks you get mostly all fringe edge strikes or balls. What is interesting is that on 3-2 pitches they nibble the edges and chance the walk but it never results in a walk. Haven't had a 3-2 pitch over the plate.
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@MetalDoc17_XBL this true of both rookie and veteran. 10 years ago I would do my stat grinding on rookie or veteran cuz for the most part, cpu would groove meatballs and you could knock things out without having to do sweats vs cpu. Now, I’m embarrassed to say a lot of my mini season games are 3-0, 3-2, 2-1, 1-0. Back in the day, 10 runs on veteran was pretty common. I don’t need “practice” while grinding. That comes from playing online. That’s just my opinion.
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@platewelder_363_MLBTS Still pretty much Home Run Derby in the WBC and Cityscapes mini-seasons. Murals for some reason plays worse than Conquest games. I don't understand why they mess with difficulties like that.
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Yeah, I’m working thru the New Threads mini season now. I can only play a couple of games at a time in this one.
Seems as if every game is a 1-0 win where I get a runner on first, steal 2nd and 3rd, and then sac fly them home. Just an absolute grind!
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Yeah, I’m working thru the New Threads mini season now. I can only play a couple of games at a time in this one.
Seems as if every game is a 1-0 win where I get a runner on first, steal 2nd and 3rd, and then sac fly them home. Just an absolute grind!
I just started and do 3 a night I agree I have to try harder on rookie than I should
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Yeah, I’m working thru the New Threads mini season now. I can only play a couple of games at a time in this one.
Seems as if every game is a 1-0 win where I get a runner on first, steal 2nd and 3rd, and then sac fly them home. Just an absolute grind!
I just started and do 3 a night I agree I have to try harder on rookie than I should
The Mural one has random times where the computer will decide "Nope, you're not winning this game."
Square it up, it's an out. Computer makes bad contact, it's an extra base hit. I've legit had the game just randomly send a runner after a pop up, I didn't even press a button and he goes.
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I mean, if most of your mini season games are 1-0 and you're not playing on legend....
Then, the sad truth is you just have to get better at batting. Im not ridiculing - I stunk for a while, and still have awful stretches. But, once you get past a certain hump, everything seems so much easier
...its just night and day and you're all of a sudden like "oh, this is how it feels to be able to bat" -
All you gotta do is either find or make a stadium similar to Costco from last year.
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Mini seasons is the best mode to play this year.
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Yeah, a psa for those having trouble scoring runs - use Blank Canvas created stadium in the Vault
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@Rubbaneck34_XBL yea if you like offline. But it’s brainrot at times.
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Do 9 inning games in a 7 game season on Rookie. For some reason 3 inning games are all 1-0 or really low scoring snooze fests but 9 innings you can put up a dozen + runs easy in almost every game. The XP is ridiculously low in everything offline though.
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It’s a massive push to get offline players to either quit the game or move online. Plus monetize the game as much as possible by putting as many good cards in packs while dropping minimal free cards which are always objectively worse than pack cards.
The direction is very clear as they are pushing the game to a niche market of online grinders and/or whales. They don’t care about quality or player experience anymore as their target market will stick around no matter what and spend money just to stay competitive online or simply because they are addicted to the packs.
