Showdown should be taken away, permanently.
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How about some advice for beating the Showdown for an old man playing the game with his grandson for the first time in many years when it was on PS2 and I wrote a complaint letter to Sony that the Dodgers didn’t have the little red number in the front? I tried it twice with mashers and got stuck at 17 both times. BTW - has there ever been one on Rookie before? Heinz ketchup, it’s SLOWWWWWWW GOOOOOOD. And that’s not a dig at less experienced players. I love all of you…you miserable bast—-s. Just kidding. Thank you for your consideration, Papa Rick.
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Old guy here also! I did it with at least 20 outs to spare for both of the “mini bosses” or whatever they are called.
Directional hitting. I pushed my left stick straight up for every hitter and pressed “A” for regular swing.
I drafted all lefties except for Jordan (125 power) and Caminero (120 power??). My key suggestion: only draft players whose vision is GREEN. (Jordan is not). Draft the highest rated lefties in order by power vs Righties.
Another key: STEAL!! Someone posted this earlier and it’s true, CPU will let you steal (2nd at least) until you get to around 5 runs behind.
Another key: don’t worry about positions. I had Brandon marsh as my catcher! Just draft lefty high vision sluggers!!
Let Ramone throw some pitches. He will definitely dot. Getting his confidence down to zero is the goal.
HTH. BTW, I’m not good at this game either. And I’m not a fan of showdown either!!
Edit to add: I drafted all exit velocity increasing perks. 7th inning, when behind, with no on base.
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Wow! Thanks for the response. Much appreciated.
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Are you stupid??? I’ve played on legend with 80% chance to get reward and get nothing. If I were to play on rookie I had like 50% chance. So I’m forced to play on higher difficulty and even when I win I don’t get reward. That’s a horrible model to base a game where you can complete all missions all goals and then end up getting nothing. You spend pretty much a hour depending on which quest. That has to be the worst model to sell to people. I understand risk reward but why the hell is that even in a game like this?? That takes all the fun out of playing. Some people have jobs and families and don’t get to sit on a game for 8+ hours. And the facts are all these people in this forum that have played on higher difficulty and got nothing. What are you even talking about
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Plus, the HRD showdon isn't even that hard. Just spam power swings and have a good eye, and you'll be done in no time.
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Rhyno1986_XBL said:
Are you stupid??? I’ve played on legend with 80% chance to get reward and get nothing. If I were to play on rookie I had like 50% chance. So I’m forced to play on higher difficulty and even when I win I don’t get reward. That’s a horrible model to base a game where you can complete all missions all goals and then end up getting nothing. You spend pretty much a hour depending on which quest. That has to be the worst model to sell to people. I understand risk reward but why the hell is that even in a game like this?? That takes all the fun out of playing. Some people have jobs and families and don’t get to sit on a game for 8+ hours. And the facts are all these people in this forum that have played on higher difficulty and got nothing. What are you even talking about
Huh I'm stupid yet you played for an hour to only have 80% on legend. Interesting so you failed at least 2 challenges olayed the whole map. Sounds like a you problem. Since i can run to the stadium pass the 5-6 challenges along the way, beat the sweeper and have a 65-70% chance in 10 minute, and usually walk away win 1 or both top rewards. Huh yeah deffinetly a you problem since in and hour I can do this 4-5 times. So seems like YOU don't know what you are talking about.
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@WackyGrass_PSN I’d bet that the majority of players can beat showdowns. Wanting an entire mode to be removed because you aren’t very good is selfish and frankly, dumb. I’m all for making these cards sellable, so you aren’t locked out from getting them, but taking things away is almost never the answer. I want more things to do, not less. They already removed RTTS and MTO. Let’s not encourage them to continue to give us less options. Go practice.
You guys are really out of touch with how tough this game is for huge majority of people. I would still hit a baseball further than most on here but can't hit a little white ball sitting on the ground. Very few people are really good at video games. They are good at other things like being a Dr, teaching, welding, etc. I think the streamer/cheating universe has clouded people.
Pick a game, any game and the majority of people streaming it are cheating. Hate to burst anyone's bubble.
If SDS was wise, they would print this post and force feed it to everyone at their next concept meeting. Video game companies need to accept two things. First, most customers have about an hour a day (mostly at night after work) to play a game before getting to other things related to family. Second, those few who devote extreme time to master a video game tend to come onto forums like this one and voice overt contempt for those who lodge concerns about degree of difficulty.
Put those two concepts together, and it means companies need to work better at scaling the game's difficulty. But, that only works for offline games. Online versus humans needs to be a level platform and you take your chances. But, offline should allow the game to be tailored for experience.
Last point, anyone who derides others the way I've seen some do here earn my immediate account ban. Such people I'm frankly not interested in hearing from. No one rationally complains about people earning skills in something. But, condescending and taunting people over it earns nothing but rebuke and shunning.
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Last point, anyone who derides others the way >I've seen some do here earn my immediate >account ban. Such people I'm frankly not >interested >in hearing from. No one rationally >complains about people earning skills in >something. But, condescending and taunting >people over it earns nothing but rebuke and >shunning.@priorfir4383355_xbl
I agree!! I’ve been called an “unc” , “chud” , “Karen” (had to frankly look all those terms up!), a “loser”, “child” and my favorite: “a female cat”.All those folks are on my block list, which I’ve never used before this season. Like you, IMO, if you resort to name calling, you’ve “lost the argument “ and I’m not interested going forward in what you have to say. Disagree all you want, just be respectful.
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Honest question and not trying to sound like a [censored]…but if your skill level is such that you struggle with this showdown, or any showdown, then why do you care about collecting rewards or even playing the game at all? I’m not very good at this game and it’s rare for me to not finish the Showdowns on the first try. What do you use the rewards for if you don’t play games?
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@tear4eddy_PSN thats a very reasonable question to ask.
We got people here complaining about being "dotted up" by a 79mph fastball on veteran difficulty. Like, man, mosey your pci over to the ball and swing. And the ball just randomly goes places - a lot of times the ball is gonna end up on one of the lines that mark the strike zone...thats just probability, its not Ramone Russell "dotting you up."
Somebody's in here talking about "having to power swing." Don't power swing, man, nobody power swings. Just hit that X button like we all do, lol
If you cant do these showdowns, I dont know how you'd even use any cards in the game. Do you just look at them?
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DD, IMO, is at heart a card collecting game around baseball.
I like getting cards and finishing collections. Those are my main goals. I also like finishing each Inning Path and every program. Consider that an intermediate goal
I also can’t play successfully at higher levels. And I also don’t want this to be a full time job.
I consider myself a “casual”. I can honestly say that, so far, in 2026, DD is not for casuals.
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@WackyGrass_PSN I’d bet that the majority of players can beat showdowns. Wanting an entire mode to be removed because you aren’t very good is selfish and frankly, dumb. I’m all for making these cards sellable, so you aren’t locked out from getting them, but taking things away is almost never the answer. I want more things to do, not less. They already removed RTTS and MTO. Let’s not encourage them to continue to give us less options. Go practice.
You guys are really out of touch with how tough this game is for huge majority of people. I would still hit a baseball further than most on here but can't hit a little white ball sitting on the ground. Very few people are really good at video games. They are good at other things like being a Dr, teaching, welding, etc. I think the streamer/cheating universe has clouded people.
Pick a game, any game and the majority of people streaming it are cheating. Hate to burst anyone's bubble.
If SDS was wise, they would print this post and force feed it to everyone at their next concept meeting. Video game companies need to accept two things. First, most customers have about an hour a day (mostly at night after work) to play a game before getting to other things related to family. Second, those few who devote extreme time to master a video game tend to come onto forums like this one and voice overt contempt for those who lodge concerns about degree of difficulty.
Put those two concepts together, and it means companies need to work better at scaling the game's difficulty. But, that only works for offline games. Online versus humans needs to be a level platform and you take your chances. But, offline should allow the game to be tailored for experience.
Last point, anyone who derides others the way I've seen some do here earn my immediate account ban. Such people I'm frankly not interested in hearing from. No one rationally complains about people earning skills in something. But, condescending and taunting people over it earns nothing but rebuke and shunning.
Gaming companies can be pretty dumb if you ask me. Letting streamers have a big say in your game is completely idiotic. Most only care about the views and money.
Take a game like PUBG which has casual and ranked mode. For some reason in ranked they put bronze and silver teams (lowest levels) against teams full of Master players (mostly cheaters cough, cough). Do they not understand this is a quick way to get the bronze and silver players to quit playing? At least MLB The Show has it where if I am a 500 rated player I will not see a 900 rated player in ranked unless the 500 rated player lets the bar go to far or the 900 rated player sandbags which most won't do because an online record in a video game is more important than life itself.
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@capardo_XBL Signore Capardo, Paisan. I want you to go ask your wife if I can (virtually) kiss you, you beautiful man. My wife could care less what I do nowadays. Ha ha. No, seriously. Thank you! One false start because I use the Catcher Camera View as a timing mechanism but for some reason I tried Strike Zone but I followed all your advice and I got 17 again! LOL! On the very next try, though, I finally did it. The pack gave me the choice of Jordan or Schwarber and I went with the big lefty and completed the HRD Collection. Thank you, my friend. Now on to completing the AS Collection. I was within one before it was expanded. Oh well. Take care, Rick
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Finally finished the HRD Showdown yesterday on my 3rd attempt, because Ramone was throwing like Ramone - hanging fastballs down the middle of the plate, and not throwing half his pitches as balls and also dotting the corners, like he was on the first two tries.
He did that a bit in the 2nd round, but not too bad. People can dismiss it, but if Ramone isn't throwing like himself & you're supposed to score 19 runs or whatever it was, and you get a number of fly balls in a row to line out or die at the warning track, it's possible to have to redo the Showdown.
