Game is a "C" so far
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A lot of the changes are minimal and overall this game just seems like a 23.5 patch update:
The Good:
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Grind how you want: You can grind programs on or offline, repeat showdowns / missions. Finally!
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the 4 wild cards: This is something we should have had last year
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Hitting feels great so far (still a ton of P/P outs, but so be it)
The Bad:
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Ranked unchanged again, so bland and boring, stub rewards for reaching next division are just sad for the 5th year in a row
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Co-Op untouched!?: No improvements to freezing or the crappy gold cards
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Awful legend class, Beltre is all we got !?
The Ugly
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Bright screens blinding me
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TA Grind...you can do conquest, a showdown and monents and not reach even 1 of the 89 overall cards
- You would need to complete TA Showdown 120 times to complete Chapter 1 for all divisions LOLOLOL
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Servers down
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Live Series rewards massacred
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"TA Grind...you can do conquest, a showdown and monents and not reach even 1 of the 89 overall cards"
This....
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Hitting feels like garbage I honestly don’t know what game you’re playing. My biggest issue is the 80% ball rate for pitchers in conquest on like rookie and veteran.
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@VioletNine9 So far it feels like I'm getting rewarded for good contact and vice /versa. I haven't played online yet tho.
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@go4stros25 Legit, I have done all of that and reached the XP maximum and I'm still 20K XP away from the first choice pack. And they expect us to do this all over again twice more this season
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@bjd10048 said in Game is a "C" so far:
@VioletNine9 So far it feels like I'm getting rewarded for good contact and vice /versa. I haven't played online yet tho.
Well it must be too much rng because I am not
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@go4stros25 said in Game is a "C" so far:
"TA Grind...you can do conquest, a showdown and monents and not reach even 1 of the 89 overall cards"
This....
And possibly hit the XP Cap.
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@go4stros25 said in Game is a "C" so far:
"TA Grind...you can do conquest, a showdown and monents and not reach even 1 of the 89 overall cards"
This....
Mini seasons- if you go 28-0 then win the championship you will have 16 ta vouchers.
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@VioletNine9 said in Game is a "C" so far:
Hitting feels like garbage I honestly don’t know what game you’re playing. My biggest issue is the 80% ball rate for pitchers in conquest on like rookie and veteran.
Right!!! I almost submitted a ticket to SDS to complain about this. There are too many balls vs strike ratio. I even started playing conquest games on HOF. The ball to strike ratio is hilariously and embarrassingly too High!
On average, the cpu throws 70% balls to 30% strikes. In rl, if any mlb pitcher matched this ratio, they would not be in the majors...
This needs to change to more of a 70-75% to 30-25% strike to ball ratio.
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@Shauwn
Yep it’s poor programming. Just look at how the cpu hits. They rarely hit or even swing at the first couple of pitches. Lay off borderline pitches with eagle eyes or take every pitch on the corners. Then ultimately swing once they have to with 2 strikes. It’s how the game thinks players should hit when in reality pitchers and hitters are usually much more aggressive. Imagine how much quicker the game would be if the CPU didn’t throw so many balls and actually swung earlier in counts.
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They claimed they made TA easier to grind but made it more total TA xp, decreased the amount vouchers give by a lot, and added 2 more TA per season. It really sounds like the they made it easier lol. It’s like 3x as much work if you don’t go play H2H modes. Terrible
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@ Triple H.
Bro, you're 100% righy! This is why I never throw balls to the cpu. They rarely swing unless they have to. Then I love when they foul off 7 pitches in a row..
I remember back in the day, rookie, veteran, and all star was much better. They'd throw mostly strikes. It was a good way to practice swings, and get easy runs. The games were quicker. No one wants to play conquest, we do it to practice, get stuff done, and for rewards to build our teams for online dd.
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@ JoeFlakes
I was thinking the same thing. They increased the TA xp, which is nice. However, everything else just went backwards.
It's more tedious, games take longer to play due to the cpu pitching like a drunk and hungover Wild Thing, and less vouchers being rewarded.
Last year wasn't perfect, but it was more rewarding and better.
I havent jumped into Mini Seasons yet, but last yr u only had to play like 8 games I believe to make the playoffs?
It was actually not horribly bad throwing a team together, and to try cards out to see if they'll make your online dd squad.Right now, I'm gonna suffer through all the ta conquest to get better players to throw them in my lineup to play mini seasons just to try knocking these out. I'm sure it will take longer than last year, which sucks.
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@Shauwn
I’m going to try a mini seasons after this conquest too but the workload is too much. Especially when have to do this 2 more times. By the time we finish this TA chapter the next one will be out it’s terrible. I liked how it was at the end of last year, 1 conquest map and showdown per league that got you 1/3 of the way done.
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@VioletNine9 It is the same way in mini seasons. And on all star and up it is foul off ball hell.
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I’ve actually been worse at hitting so far this year
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@cjhanz84 said in Game is a "C" so far:
I’ve actually been worse at hitting so far this year
Me too but I am kind of chalking that up to actually having to use golds and flawed low diamonds.
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@Shauwn
Bingo. Plus if the CPU fouls off multiple pitches it almost guarantees they are gonna get a hit later in the at bat. Don’t even get me started on their very early swings on 103 mph fastballs on the black or random no doubt HR that occurs out of nowhere on a pitch the CPU has no business making contact on. Strange and laughable at the same time.
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I'll upgrade the game to a C+, once you get the TA guys, progress flies.
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Bumper cars
