New Showdowns
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@halfbutt said in New Showdowns:
@louieepthree said in New Showdowns:
@maskedgrappler said in New Showdowns:
Started the final boss down 15-2, got it to 15-11 with 10 outs left, had the KC pitcher up to 140 pitches when all of the sudden he starts dotting everything. Lost 15-14 with 2 men on.
God this is God [censored] frustrating.
Think I'll just grind out innings from now on.
Or hear me out.... do more of the missions?
Yes, I agree. I’m about to do the final boss down 15-10. I think you need to beat a few more of those blue missions, grappler.
Obviously, it's not like I skipped them. I just cant hit 102 mph fastballs and kept getting Pearson and kopech.
Like I said though, losing in the end was my own fault. I started swinging at junk once the winning run was on.
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@Untchable704 said in New Showdowns:
The only downside to it is I don’t want to play the first ones anymore and I still need to do 25 teams haha.
Also if you play a really tough boss it can be difficult because they don’t walk you like all star
Yup, I haven't even done the new ones, because i have too many other teams at stage 1. In fact i only have 2 teams at stage 2. So I'm still doing the old ones.
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@maskedgrappler said in New Showdowns:
@halfbutt said in New Showdowns:
@louieepthree said in New Showdowns:
@maskedgrappler said in New Showdowns:
Started the final boss down 15-2, got it to 15-11 with 10 outs left, had the KC pitcher up to 140 pitches when all of the sudden he starts dotting everything. Lost 15-14 with 2 men on.
God this is God [censored] frustrating.
Think I'll just grind out innings from now on.
Or hear me out.... do more of the missions?
Yes, I agree. I’m about to do the final boss down 15-10. I think you need to beat a few more of those blue missions, grappler.
Obviously, it's not like I skipped them. I just cant hit 102 mph fastballs and kept getting Pearson and kopech.
Like I said though, losing in the end was my own fault. I started swinging at junk once the winning run was on.
I hear that. At least you know you can beat it now if you just lay off the junk.
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Hate to ask this again but there’s no collection for stage 2 so if you maxed out 70 points in stage 1, (without doing collections) collections wouldn’t grant you the 10 points right? Collections should be available for all stages depending on when you get collections done
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@bonion said in New Showdowns:
Hate to ask this again but there’s no collection for stage 2 so if you maxed out 70 points in stage 1, (without doing collections) collections wouldn’t grant you the 10 points right? Collections should be available for all stages depending on when you get collections done
It makes sense that the collection doesn’t give you points for Stage 2 though.
If someone already had the collection done for Stage 1, and there’s a mission for that same collection in stage 2, they would get the points again for Stage 2 because they already have the mission finished.
It sucks if you didn’t do the collection for Stage 1, but it’s not that big of a deal in the end.
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@DriveByTrucker17 i see what your saying trucker I’m not looking for a loophole, once you do collections once for 10 you shouldn’t have option to again. I just think that collections should be available one time only at any stage. I lost about 100 points bc I had 10 teams maxed but didn’t do any collections
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@bonion said in New Showdowns:
@DriveByTrucker17 i see what your saying trucker I’m not looking for a loophole, once you do collections once for 10 you shouldn’t have option to again. I just think that collections should be available one time only at any stage. I lost about 100 points bc I had 10 teams maxed but didn’t do any collections
I just don’t think SDS would be able to set it up like that though.
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@DriveByTrucker17 said in New Showdowns:
@bonion said in New Showdowns:
@DriveByTrucker17 i see what your saying trucker I’m not looking for a loophole, once you do collections once for 10 you shouldn’t have option to again. I just think that collections should be available one time only at any stage. I lost about 100 points bc I had 10 teams maxed but didn’t do any collections
I just don’t think SDS would be able to set it up like that though.
They could if completing the collection gave a TA voucher,like they did for the potm moments.
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@GradektheBard said in New Showdowns:
@louieepthree said in New Showdowns:
Either they nerfed showdowns cuz people complained they couldn't beat them.. orr they nerfed them cuz we complained about Future Stars as TA2 and wanted us to actually get them done... hmmmmm
Or, they nerfed them because the data showed the success rate was awful.
Think about it this way, it costs 1000 stubs $1 to play so to new people who don't know anything about flipping cards for stubs or grinding for stubs they are going to pay for stubs. If the consumer feels that the money is being wasted on a mode thats not rewarding why play, why keep paying money if you think it's too hard they may feel that the mode is a money grab. Now if the mode is easier the new consumer is going to shell out money for stubs and play feeling they too can get a good card.
It's a business and sds needs to keep people especially new people playing and paying especially in this lockdown.
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@HollaMV7 said in New Showdowns:
The bosses are not always the same. In the NL I had Plesac, Smoltz, and Zack Brown as the final.
What other bosses have people had?
I had pleasac, Rollie (wtf?) then the braves guy
Al I had snell , ohtani and then the Astros guy
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Tried the AL last night, still sux when every pitcher throws 100+. Easy to make stubs back, still absolutely no fun to play.
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@GradektheBard said in New Showdowns:
@louieepthree said in New Showdowns:
Either they nerfed showdowns cuz people complained they couldn't beat them.. orr they nerfed them cuz we complained about Future Stars as TA2 and wanted us to actually get them done... hmmmmm
Or, they nerfed them because the data showed the success rate was awful.
Exactly. But people enjoy insulting one another on this forum.
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ok no joke, The Graterol showdown he basically beats himself. im willing to bet you could walk away and he will walk in enough batters for you to win before getting 20 outs. he walked in about 6 batters for me and i made the final run with my first hit of the showdown.
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@Lie-on-Lion said in New Showdowns:
ok no joke, The Graterol showdown he basically beats himself. im willing to bet you could walk away and he will walk in enough batters for you to win before getting 20 outs. he walked in about 6 batters for me and i made the final run with my first hit of the showdown.
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@Saberq269 said in New Showdowns:
@kidcharlemagne22 said in New Showdowns:
Community complained and now we have a mode that give zero competitivity. That's crazy how people are lazy in video games. If you want no challenge, play conquest in rookie mode.
Go play BR if you want competitive gameplay or RS.
This is against the CPU
The developers themselves claimed that the purpose of Showdown was to create an anxiety and tension filled experience, similar to online competitive, for single player vs CPU.
Competitive gameplay was literally the selling point during the live stream.But along with not wanting a challenge, people also think they should be able to acquire every TA in like a week or two, so whatever...
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This post has been talked about way more than I anticipated...
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Finally finished a first stage Showdown! Only took 20 tries.
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@maskedgrappler said in New Showdowns:
@aaronjw76 said in New Showdowns:
@Untchable704 said in New Showdowns:
The only downside to it is I don’t want to play the first ones anymore and I still need to do 25 teams haha.
Also if you play a really tough boss it can be difficult because they don’t walk you like all star
I don't understand this? AS is more difficult than Veteran so shouldn't the everything from the CPU be easier (eg: worse pitches)?
They throw more pitches in the zone, on all star they try to trick you more with pitches just off the plate. If your strategy is to take pitches until they are out of stamina veteran could be more difficult.
I thought I would test this with the 2nd inning showdown. Had Feller as the final boss and everyone says he walks you a lot if you take pitches.
He walked 4 and struck out 20 with me taking every pitch. He was dotting the corners like prime Maddux, lol.
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@rymflaherty said in New Showdowns:
@Saberq269 said in New Showdowns:
@kidcharlemagne22 said in New Showdowns:
Community complained and now we have a mode that give zero competitivity. That's crazy how people are lazy in video games. If you want no challenge, play conquest in rookie mode.
Go play BR if you want competitive gameplay or RS.
This is against the CPU
The developers themselves claimed that the purpose of Showdown was to create an anxiety and tension filled experience, similar to online competitive, for single player vs CPU.
Competitive gameplay was literally the selling point during the live stream.But along with not wanting a challenge, people also think they should be able to acquire every TA in like a week or two, so whatever...
Except for the fact that their Showdown sliders are juiced in favor of the CPU something that doesnt happen in BR or RS
Nobody can paint dot after dot after dot like Showdown CPU can
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