I played RTTS last night because I’m sort of waiting for Friday. I played on Allstar. I play every DD game on legend for the bonus PXP. I got pV on Bobby Witt in less than 60 at bats. I promise you I had “solid contact +5” on EVERY dynamic challenge and didn’t complete a single challenge for the bonuses through high school and have one college game left. What type of new player would have enough fun failing every challenge lol.

Who are we gate keeping from completing offline content? Kids? Retired people? Mentally disabled? What is the point….just make rookie automatic like every other sports game. They aren’t about to take over BR and win millions of stubs….thats what cheaters are doing.

Guessing you have no life. Congrats. Glad a video game defines your identity. For the rest of the normal people out there we have made very clear points that are obviously way too far above your level of intelligence. We are all super impressed that you can mash on legend though. Does that help feed your massive ego?

@Player99_MLBTS said:

@JenkinMeyer_PSN said:

Some people would love to play franchise with the new cards and vast assortment of players.

They can, they're called the Free Agents, Mid-Century Groundbreakers, Expansion Era Boomers, and Long Ball Beasts.

I am not sure you know this, even if it has been in the game for over a decade now.

Are those set rosters? I don’t know or have a clue but I know if I were a franchise player, it would be way more fun to have some legends or whatever sprinkled in instead of playing with outdated rosters and just SDS’s general horrible rating system on players.

If Joe Schmoe is a 64 bronze (according to their 3-year criteria or whatever criteria they use) why does he also have a 95 diamond?

Is he 64 or 95

There’s crazy ratings ranges that have never made sense to me thus rendering live series entirely useless

“Well he got a base hit last week so clearly 200/103, 65 power left 85 right. 99 speed”

They undermine LEGENDS with Topps now cards

@JenkinMeyer_PSN said:

Some people would love to play franchise with the new cards and vast assortment of players.

They can, they're called the Free Agents, Mid-Century Groundbreakers, Expansion Era Boomers, and Long Ball Beasts.

I am not sure you know this, even if it has been in the game for over a decade now.

@oldgatorcat_XBL said:

Diamond Dynasty is not meant for beginners

Stop right there. Why should playing with legends flashbacks tons of other baseball players be gated by “you’re not good enough to use these legends you scrub” sort of mentality

People that play offline or in franchise and game modes you don’t enjoy shouldn’t have to engage in this [censored]. They’d like to play say, WBC with the WBC players without having to be railroaded into the gacha system.

Whether you suck or not at something shouldn’t exclude you from content

Some people would love to play franchise with the new cards and vast assortment of players. Let them, what is the harm?

@Player99_MLBTS said:

@theblindrhino_psn I'm pretty surprised that you don't even understand what he said. If opinions are offending you, ignore them. It cannot be that deep that you have to drag on the conversation. Get over it.

Anyone who quotes Lebowski understands more than you know

@Onix_Savage22_PSN said:

@markemark_NSW oh ok my apologies but imo 26 is way easier then 25 the amount of bloop hits u get this year is crazy. This year as the “worse” player u can still win as last year the better player won 95 percent of the time this year is literally a coin toss as to who wins.

I agree with your assessment 100%. The gameplay is much better than last year. Not remotely close to good but better. Maybe from an F to a D+ or C-. There are other things in this game that plague it worse than being able to hit or pitch this year. Quite honestly when I played events it wasn't all that bad, I got my Biz card my 2 Jackie Robinson packs and said deuces.

Anyone who's been playing for more than a month was used to running out all-99 lineups. Now that the season has re-started, there's a lot more golds and (dare I say) silvers being used. Maybe, just maybe, the fact you haven't rebuilt the super-team yet is why it seems harder than it did just a few months ago.

Also, if you play with timing or directional hitting it gets a lot easier when the 99s that don't have flaws come out. Would I prefer that Rookie mode be easier for my old and declining reflexes? Yes. Does it benefit SDS to make it that way? No.

There was a change made last year I feel to make the CPU pitch better. They do a LOT of low pitches which are the toughest IMO to not get fooled on. They also attack the outside corner as well. Further, I feel Commons and bronze have way too much break and control.

Followed that up with a vs CPU game in Coors with a bunch of Topps now and NGL and rookie cards to finish JR XP. On vet. Put up 20 runs.

Much, much, much different games.

@capardo_XBL said:

A couple of things…..

One, mention that the game on rookie/vet is hard and the “get gud” crowd appears!!

Two, one of the biggest issues (IMO) is that conquest on vet, DQ on vet, moments on vet, vs CPU on vet, and Showdown on vet all play differently!! Instead of making them all play “the same”, SDS tweaks sliders in each mode. What they should do is have all the modes on the same level play “the same” and simply add higher rated cards if they want a mode to be more difficult.

This is accurate. It’s all about the difficulty sliders they’ve programmed in. Even on rookie - diamond quest plays way different than conquest. Way way different

One, mention that the game on rookie/vet is hard and the “get gud” crowd appears!!

Two, one of the biggest issues (IMO) is that conquest on vet, DQ on vet, moments on vet, vs CPU on vet, and Showdown on vet all play differently!! Instead of making them all play “the same”, SDS tweaks sliders in each mode. What they should do is have all the modes on the same level play “the same” and simply add higher rated cards if they want a mode to be more difficult.

@sbchamps17_NSW said:

@theblindrhino_psn nope, he asked me to let him play so I agreed and he actually had fun too lol

So you have no frame of reference here, Donny. You're like a child who wanders into the middle of a movie and wants to know...

@sbchamps17_NSW said:

I play on Nintendo switch and don't have a problem with hitting, even my 10 year old nephew played this game with my settings and wasn't complaining about how hard it was to hit. That's with me using zone hitting with the PCI and he had no problem at all

Yeah but were you beating him with a club while your nephew played?