Early thoughts - DD is going to frustrate the more casual and semi casual players.
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I thought the same thing until a YouTube streamer said this morning that they will add more cards in TA throughout the year. He also said that TA is NOT meant to finish right away
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Clearly you all who are still complaining just skipped through the post explaining this (mine) in order to keep complaining that it’s “too long”. It’s only “long” if you think of it as “season 1”, when clearly this is meant to be an entire years’ worth. Captains (Jolt cards) for each team should be the goal. I accidentally got two of them just doing other things. It takes hardly any time to get them if you focus on them. The start here mission, getting the IP and strikeouts stats, combined with the PxP of the silver and gold rewards for each team gets you there. Maybe a couple hours per team. Spread that out a month, it’s a few weekends maybe? You know… roughly the same amount of time the normal “season 1” would take.
TL;DR - quit looking at the 350000 TA goal; that’s for the entire year. Aim for the captains.
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So basically heres my approach so far. I pick starters for a few teams, i went in to the conquests and i only used those starters. Pitch one for 2 innings, another starter for an inning. I grinded out wins (3 wins gets you 5000, 2 more after that gets you 10,000), IP (12 for 5000, 30 for 10,000). By the time i hit the 30 innings, id have 50Ks for another 5000. With the 5000 for the moment and 20K for the 2 pxp missions, that gets you at 65,000.
Im not even focusing on hitting missions because those will come naturally thoughout the course of the game. Im grinding 9 inning games now solely for pitchers and pxp missions. That said, without even trying, i almost have the Twins captain because i had 4 Twins in my lineup racking up doubles/hits
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Really the main issue here is the spring breakout program requires either the showdown or a quite large amount of pxp (4,000 to skip the showdown). That showdown is very easily the toughest one in 2 years (aside from extreme). On top of that, many of the stat missions are unrelated to any of the cards in the program as well. I personally did the showdown 4x to get it over with, but I understand the frustration here.
Had the end reward Cardinal been in Pipeline (which is a significantly easier program) Dolenz wouldnt be as frustrated
He was fine with the path to get the Jolt card, and the concerns about TA were hypothetical
Funny thing is I have the Pipeline program done, the Spring breakout almost done, about half of the silvers p1'd and the rest halfway there, have done every TA moment and have a total of 3 TA golds and 0 Jolts because I am just playing a card until its p1 and moving on. Im in no rush for the captains at this point personally.
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@Teak2112_MLBTS said in Early thoughts - DD is going to frustrate the more casual and semi casual players.:
many of the stat missions are unrelated to any of the cards in the program as well.
Thats misinformation.
Ks w/ Dodgers - Jackson Ferris
XBH w/Pirates - Konnor Griffin
Hits w/Padres - Ethan Salas
Ks w/Rockies - Chase Dollander
XBH w/ Tigers - Max Clark
Hits w/ Cardinals - JJ WetherholtThey also have pxp missions. 1000pxp isnt a lot when you have 2 batters and a pitcher.
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I’m doing one showdown per day when I log in. It’s not that hard and warms me up to play other modes. By Tuesday I’ll have the cards.
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@DeleteyourTTVBTW_MLBTS TA 20 and 21 were both on that same model (individual teams instead of divisions) and were grindier.
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21 was division based not team
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After finally playing for a good couple hours last night I don't have any concerns, the my journey stuff will come with time and once I knock out a few collections that will also speed things up.
Just by playing the game I'm already at the gold card for the Rockies and that was because I picked Jiminez for the Evo program. As more stuff comes out and the lines up shake up and more golds and diamonds find there way into lines ups things will be good!
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To add on to my last point I'm at 30k for the Rockies all I need is to do the collection 20K and get another 100 pxp with Nolan Jones and I would have Jolt Helton. Getting the 3 cards will be easy work.
I think those vouchers for the All Star and finest cards are basickly just head start items for when those programs drop so needing them now is not even a worry.
I'll be shocked if not everyone had the Jolt cards for the Cubs and Dodgers after the Tokyo series program drops because those two teams will be a heavy focus.
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As a casual player with a job, a wife, and life off console...I gotta say I don't mind the grind. I'll never have a shortage of stuff to do. This is where taking a day away from it might be beneficial, just to reset the eyes. But on the flip side I can see how people would get frustrated with it, though.
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@Dolenz_PSN, I agree with you that some players are going to feel a little daunted... and that it's also a good game. I dislike the grind in general, and far prefer just playing games with cards I like rather than being strategically "efficient." And there's a lot this year, with the way that TA was rolled out.
While I've essentially ignored TA (and usually do, until I notice that I'm getting close to something organically by playing games without regard for TA stats), I pretty much flew through the Spring Breakout and Pipeline programs. It was pretty easy to put a team together with Pipeline and Spring Breakout players, and, happened to fit nicely for me because I tend to like playing with those Future Star-type cards. Anyway, I didn't complete most of the missions you'd listed earlier, just K's with Rockies (Jimenez, Dollander) and K's with Dodgers. Only did the Showdown once. Through Conquest (only completed one map), Diamond Quest runs, and a few games vs. CPU, both of those pretty much finished themselves (that 1000XP repeatable goes really fast, and takes the place of a lot of those missions).
I didn't bother with the Spring Breakout collection... I didn't like the collection reward's swing when I used him in a moment.
Anyway, not at all as daunting as it looks. And I think you'll like that Wetherholt card... beautiful swing, and by far my favorite to use in the game so far.
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I am a casual player. To be specific, I use directional hitting and I hit about .240 against the CPU on veteran. I am a Cardinals fan, like Dolenz, and I really want the Weatherholt card because he would fit great on my Cardinals TA team that is using Edmonds as hitting captain. However, I will never be able to complete the showdown even once, so I have to pass on a card that I really want simply because it cannot be sold. Why not let me buy stubs and buy the card?
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@Orcin_MLBTS said in Early thoughts - DD is going to frustrate the more casual and semi casual players.:
I am a casual player. To be specific, I use directional hitting and I hit about .240 against the CPU on veteran. I am a Cardinals fan, like Dolenz, and I really want the Weatherholt card because he would fit great on my Cardinals TA team that is using Edmonds as hitting captain. However, I will never be able to complete the showdown even once, so I have to pass on a card that I really want simply because it cannot be sold. Why not let me buy stubs and buy the card?
If you're not doing the showdown, you can grind pxp to get the Wetherholt.
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@Easy_Duhz_It__PSN said in Early thoughts - DD is going to frustrate the more casual and semi casual players.:
If you're not doing the showdown, you can grind pxp to get the Wetherholt.
I see that now, thanks. I missed the obvious "repeatable" tag on the 1000 pxp with program cards. I am glad I have a path to get the card, but I would still rather buy the card with money and spend my game time using it instead of grinding cards that don't fit my captain bonus.
Why doesn't Sony want my money? It sounds like a good deal for both of us. Just make all of these program cards sellable.
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@Orcin_MLBTS said in Early thoughts - DD is going to frustrate the more casual and semi casual players.:
Why doesn't Sony want my money?
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If they made every card purchasable, the community would lose their [censored].
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Why would they bother to make programs if they can just sell everything?
I get it...you wanna play the game with your team but sometimes in life, we have to do things we dont wanna do in order to achieve the results we want.
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@Easy_Duhz_It__PSN said in Early thoughts - DD is going to frustrate the more casual and semi casual players.:
I get it...you wanna play the game with your team but sometimes in life, we have to do things we dont wanna do in order to achieve the results we want.
Yeah, this is not a life lesson. It's a video game. It is supposed to be a fun and relaxing form of entertainment, not a character-building exercise.
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@Orcin_MLBTS said in Early thoughts - DD is going to frustrate the more casual and semi casual players.:
@Easy_Duhz_It__PSN said in Early thoughts - DD is going to frustrate the more casual and semi casual players.:
I get it...you wanna play the game with your team but sometimes in life, we have to do things we dont wanna do in order to achieve the results we want.
Yeah, this is not a life lesson. It's a video game. It is supposed to be a fun and relaxing form of entertainment, not a character-building exercise.
Everything is a life lesson. You're right though. It is a video game. Its meant to be played. If you want the Wetherholt card, you may wanna start playing now. You'll get it sooner.
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@mietha_PSN This is the correct answer. I love the new grind too. I too have already completed all 3 USA maps, the all 3 player programs, The Pipeline Program, Starter Program, 3 of the team affinities, 1 diamond quest, the Sabathia mini season and both showdowns. (This was Friday Morning through Sunday night)
Working on Spring breakout, but stopped that to do the other Mini Season and work towards more of the TA programs.
And game isnt even to general release yet. Is it more of a grind....yes, but its 100% what I know I wanted......
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@Orcin_MLBTS there’s always franchise and RTTS
