Anyone else uninterested in finishing live series collection or collecting 42 players?
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I ended up with mantle, awards griffey and mvp trout in the outfield, the speed on the bases and defense were critical in big game situations. I just don’t see chipper being a huge threat in the field and on the base paths
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@hikes83_psn said in Anyone else uninterested in finishing live series collection or collecting 42 players?:
I worked so hard in 19 for Mays and 20 for Mantle but this Chipper? Meh... he didn’t make my end team last year whereas Mantle and Mays were mainstays all year.
I’ll finish it eventually but I’m in zero rush to get the LS done. Rewards apart from Soriano aren’t worth it IMO. Ortiz is nice but there’ll be over a dozen great options at 1B in no time
I hear what you're saying, but this year's Chipper is lightyears better than last year's Chipper. Add the +5 for parallel 5 to his attributes and he's undoubtedly one of the best hitters in the history in the game with gold fielding and 70+ speed. Not to mention the switch hitting, the great swing and the fact that he's able to play SS which is always a lacking position for great bats.
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@hikes83_psn said in Anyone else uninterested in finishing live series collection or collecting 42 players?:
I worked so hard in 19 for Mays and 20 for Mantle but this Chipper? Meh... he didn’t make my end team last year whereas Mantle and Mays were mainstays all year.
I’ll finish it eventually but I’m in zero rush to get the LS done. Rewards apart from Soriano aren’t worth it IMO. Ortiz is nice but there’ll be over a dozen great options at 1B in no time
Just goes to show how we all hit differently with various cards. Mays was a great card for me, but he ended up on the bench, due to only wanting one rh in the outfield (and that was Trout, easily my best). Mantle I just couldn't get going, even though he got 7-800 abs.
Now I'm not saying that Chipper was the end-all-to-be-all, but when the dust finally cleared he was my starting 3B. Now I'm just going off memory here, but his card this year looks even better.
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NL collection rewards are great. AL not so great. I’m a Braves fan, so ultimately I want Chipper, but I admit that it was an odd choice. I expected it to be Hank or Roberto. I would assume one of those will be the overall reward later in the year (like Honus and Trout were). Never know though. Sometimes it’s like they put names in a hat and go with the name they draw as the reward. Compared to 2K though, MLB is miles ahead better for rewards and collections.
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@mubby_33_psn said in Anyone else uninterested in finishing live series collection or collecting 42 players?:
The big 3 are fine. Chipper will rake. Ortiz was a phenomenal hitter for me last year, just no defense. Soriano is very intriguing. The thing that turns me off about these sets is the rewards. Stub reward for completing each team is pathetic and the lack of xp for completing sets this year stinks. Also what the heck am I supposed to do with some of these low golds as the set rewards? Kiner, I'm looking at you. I've only been playing 3 days and many of those rewards aren't even bench bats. I'm going to attempt to go NMS also.
This is my thoughts exactly. I will have it all finished in next few days(fingers crossed for the servers) but the team rewards and division rewards are pretty meh. Even the high ones, I don’t like pitching with tanana at all, feller is okay but I took him out for lower players too, I couldn’t hit a lick with the Ernie banks card, etc. Cant complain about the 99s though especially early in the year.
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I'll probably get it done around the end of may/early June like normal. I didn't use 99 Chipper either of the last two years. I'm not rushing on the 42 collection though. I never Do well with Jackie
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Have you guys actually hit with a 99 Chipper card? He’s a switch hitting Pujols that now has good defense at 3rd thanks to the upgrade system. Mays was the best card in 19. Mantle was the best card in 20. I think Chipper will be the best card this year.
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@hikes83_psn said in Anyone else uninterested in finishing live series collection or collecting 42 players?:
I worked so hard in 19 for Mays and 20 for Mantle but this Chipper? Meh... he didn’t make my end team last year whereas Mantle and Mays were mainstays all year.
I’ll finish it eventually but I’m in zero rush to get the LS done. Rewards apart from Soriano aren’t worth it IMO. Ortiz is nice but there’ll be over a dozen great options at 1B in no time
Are you talking about the 99 Signature Series Chipper from last year? He was amazing for me and way better than Mantle who was off my team in August. Different strokes I guess but I’m one who prefer these 3 to last years as Ortiz rakes whereas Sheffield has a difficult swing IMO. Not sure about Soriano yet but I’ll have Papi today.
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Agree with everything you said except the disrespect for Third Leg Craig LOL. He was on my bench the entire year. Top tier base stealer with catcher as a secondary? Yes please!
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@the_dragon1912 said in Anyone else uninterested in finishing live series collection or collecting 42 players?:
I'll probably get it done around the end of may/early June like normal. I didn't use 99 Chipper either of the last two years. I'm not rushing on the 42 collection though. I never Do well with Jackie
I like Jackie cards ok, but I have Soriano at 2B. Chipper will be at 3B. My outfield is stacked. I’m working towards Freddie Freeman’s superfractor at 1B and I’ll have Big Papi too. Jackie is a bench bat and pinch runner at best right now. I’ll slowly work through the Affinity programs just to keep up for later stages to come, but it’s not really about wanting the 99 Jackie. Don’t get me wrong though, I’ll take him. That’s the problem with completing the collections early on, it’s hard to get excited about other released cards until about halfway through the year when we start seeing 98 and 99 elite cards.
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@rosborn27_psn said in Anyone else uninterested in finishing live series collection or collecting 42 players?:
@hikes83_psn said in Anyone else uninterested in finishing live series collection or collecting 42 players?:
I worked so hard in 19 for Mays and 20 for Mantle but this Chipper? Meh... he didn’t make my end team last year whereas Mantle and Mays were mainstays all year.
I’ll finish it eventually but I’m in zero rush to get the LS done. Rewards apart from Soriano aren’t worth it IMO. Ortiz is nice but there’ll be over a dozen great options at 1B in no time
Are you talking about the 99 Signature Series Chipper from last year? He was amazing for me and way better than Mantle who was off my team in August. Different strokes I guess but I’m one who prefer these 3 to last years as Ortiz rakes whereas Sheffield has a difficult swing IMO. Not sure about Soriano yet but I’ll have Papi today.
Yeah I pretty much had every card in the game last year. Had MVP trout, Mays and Mantle in OF, Seager, Tatis, Mookie and Babe in infield with Salvador at C
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Jackie's always my endgame 2B, so he's the first thing I'm shooting for this year.
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@cdnmoneymaker93_xbl said in Anyone else uninterested in finishing live series collection or collecting 42 players?:
@mubby_33_psn said in Anyone else uninterested in finishing live series collection or collecting 42 players?:
The big 3 are fine. Chipper will rake. Ortiz was a phenomenal hitter for me last year, just no defense. Soriano is very intriguing. The thing that turns me off about these sets is the rewards. Stub reward for completing each team is pathetic and the lack of xp for completing sets this year stinks. Also what the heck am I supposed to do with some of these low golds as the set rewards? Kiner, I'm looking at you. I've only been playing 3 days and many of those rewards aren't even bench bats. I'm going to attempt to go NMS also.
Legends and flash back collections those rewards card will be need to get the big reward who I think will be Hank Aaron as he was the live series reward
Yeah I know they help with the rewards later on and the bigger sets, I just wish some of them were usable on my team. An 81 or 82 overall is an underwhelming reward for collecting 40 cards, some of which are 85 and above. So the set requirements are much better than the actual reward.
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@renz2003_psn said in Anyone else uninterested in finishing live series collection or collecting 42 players?:
Last year I was all over mantle and FotF players. This year everything seems so meh, Sheffield and Mantle were great. Biggio did suck a bit. I feel like the best 42 players were in the preorder packs.
Bruh, that Joey Gallo 42 card has wrecked for me. Ken has been my best card out of the pre-order pack, but Gallo is a machine this early in the year.
I haven't even tried flipping (servers, duh) or started collections. I'm taking my time this year because rushing through it last year did make the game boring, waiting around for the next program to drop.
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Why everyone hating on Chipper. Ppl don’t realize how good he was last year and how scarce his card was. I can’t wait to unlock him
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I am not in a rush to get Chipper and Papi as I used their cards last year and neither were on my team at the end of the year(I know these cards aren’t exactly the same).
I was however stoked about the Soriano card, particularly for 2B like I used Mookie to finish ‘20. I’m a lifelong Yankee fan so I got to see him come up and have those couple of monster years before moving on and having a great career.
I pulled Belli and some of the sub-90 diamonds so I decided to buy the rest of NL collection and I don’t regret it one bit. Very small sample size so far since the servers have been terrible for so much of my attempted gameplay, but Soriano is 10 for 13 with 6 Bombs including a walk-off Grand Slam for me so far. He also had another line drive single taken away as the game disconnected before the play finished, so
He’s really 11 for 14(.786) so far. -
I am loving chipper so far this year.
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@lazy_toast_psn said in Anyone else uninterested in finishing live series collection or collecting 42 players?:
Why everyone hating on Chipper. Ppl don’t realize how good he was last year and how scarce his card was. I can’t wait to unlock him
I don’t know what it was. When I had his Veteran card early I loved it. Then when I got his 99 I just got off to a horrible start with him and just wasn’t feeling it. I was also using Seager and Manny at 3B and just hitting better with them so I guess I gave up on Chipper.
The moonshot event may have skewed my view on a lot of the cards early on as some of my batting averages were in the high .400’s and .500’s and I’m not an elite hitter.
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@sumodeads600_psn said in Anyone else uninterested in finishing live series collection or collecting 42 players?:
@lazy_toast_psn said in Anyone else uninterested in finishing live series collection or collecting 42 players?:
Why everyone hating on Chipper. Ppl don’t realize how good he was last year and how scarce his card was. I can’t wait to unlock him
I don’t know what it was. When I had his Veteran card early I loved it. Then when I got his 99 I just got off to a horrible start with him and just wasn’t feeling it. I was also using Seager and Manny at 3B and just hitting better with them so I guess I gave up on Chipper.
The moonshot event may have skewed my view on a lot of the cards early on as some of my batting averages were in the high .400’s and .500’s and I’m not an elite hitter.
I rolled with Seager and JRam last year but Chipper was on another level
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Yeah, I thought while watching the DD stream the only real L was the LS collection rewards, easy to pass.
