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There is no gap. Do not try to hit into the gap, it does not exist. There is only home run and fly out.
I swear, completing home run moments this year feels 10x easier than completing 2 hits in a game moments, as the CPU will cover infinite ground.

I'm very against censorship laws, I get up on stage at bars & tell dirty jokes, but I would say the most immature, poorly adjusted people are those who seek to porno-fy every aspect of life. There's nothing really healthy or "well-adjusted" about wanting to see "bewbs" in a baseball game. It's kinda antisocial. There are a thousand cool, creative things you can make a baseball team logo with that are not X rated.

I don't know what they think they're safeguarding against that they don't want people to be excited and get through the inning path quickly? So it's just single packs and packs of outdated cards from old programs?

There is nothing I am looking forward to on this inning path, and it really really feels like it was not like this in years past. 2 good fielding contact hitters & one boss at the very end? Come on. The inning path now just feels like a legacy thing that they want to get rid of, and have in because they have to include it.

I thought I'd played the game a pretty decent amount since I got it at launch, but I am a full 200,000 xp away from the Inning Boss card, with 5 days left.
That seems a bit off. Getting through most of the inning path should be something a big chunk players are able to do, not just the 5% of power users. Not saying perma double xp or anything, just bigger xp rewards within programs or something.

@NotesOfJohn_PSN Usually DQ only counts progress & stats when you get to the Stadium Challenge & not any of the moments. So I actually surprised when I got the achievement for blasting one off of Jim Kaat.

Which makes it pretty dumb, since have to go through several turns just to get like 2 at bats to hit a home run, or you have to either spend a few more turns going to the other stadium or start over.

Yeah 11 wins on a All Star is def a bit much. I've gotten single wins on All Star in conquest before, but that was some time into the year against a standard roster. At this moment most of the New Threads mini seasons CPU teams have a better roster than I do, so that's a tall order.

Hope that doesn't become standard for getting some mini seasons cards. It's fine to lock extra packs behind that, but not so much exclusive cards.

Thanks. I have never bought stubs before, so I couldn't figure out where this bundle was.

I played through that one, because the starting odds were so high. The other one that's up, absolutely not.

My biggest issue with the mode isn't the time suck, or even the odds, though those are both negatives, it's that if you lose a showdown challenge , you can earn a penalty (or just have a 1 in 6 chance of getting one from a dice roll) that makes the next challenge impossible, and then you're in a feedback loop or failure. Hard to hit a home run if you cannot get good contact with the ball.

Got Beltran and the rest of my Now & Later Packs today. Pulled two LS diamonds out of them (Diaz & Raleigh), so I'd say they were something of value.

@Stinkysman77_MLBTS They have Now & Later packs to build loyalty and incentivize you to buy the next year's game. Basic marketing concepts. You're supposed to launch the game and open your packs. Instead, I said "WTF are my packs?" and closed the game and opened MLB 25 and was annoyed. That's bad business practice. And saying "cram it, you get nothing" would be worse.

The only fun Showdowns have been for like Moonshot/Home Run Derby cards. I did the Jackie Robinson one twice & it wasn't terrible, because the live series cards were better than the pitchers, but some just give you seriously awful cards to use and it's just pointless to try.
I wanted to like DQ, but it's not good & the penalties are worse than the boosts you get & if you get a bad penalty, you're in a feedback loop of failure and you just have to start over. Plus it just takes so much time if you want to have a shot at the good reward without playing at a high difficulty.
Oddly I've started enjoying mini-seasons more than Conquest, because the games just flow together pretty quick. Conquest is good if you want to use the same pitchers in back to back games.

I did count wrong, and you can actually can skip one of the moments & get to 150.
A trick I use for tough HR moments is to put The Switch in handheld mode. I don't know if it's a bigger timing window or less input delay, but when you did a perfect/perfect it seems to give it a little extra juice. Either way, I just put something on the tv in the background and try until I get lucky.

@sbchamps17_NSW Unless I can't count (I did the addition pretty quick), to get to the end without any doing collections, playing online in the event or doing the extreme missions, I believe you gotta complete all the regular missions, all the regular moments.

It's nice to be able to complete the program offline, by doing every single mission and every single moment, but did they really need to ask me to hit a home run with a guy who doesn't hit home runs, at the least home run friendly stadium in the game, against Bautista?

Having a really poor control doesn't really make his and Chapman's cards all that easy, when your goal is to hit a home run.
(Probably figure it out after like a hundred tries, but I just hit a towering perfect/perfect fly out to left-center & I'm sure I'd have a better shot at The Polo Grounds)

Well, good news for everyone who already had 99 Ted Williams in their lineup. Nice of them to give the rest of us the 95s I guess, like parents buying the Nikes they only sell at the outlet store to show off to the other kids at school.

I'd prefer a system where you work to get individual cards you want (like how I got Cal Raleigh), instead of you gotta excitedly collect all the cards in the game, because maybe they'll release someone you really like in 4 months.

It's odd, because when you play the CPU, at least in Conquest, they clearly have a lineup, or at least batting order, set for LHP and one for RHP, but we can't do similar, and just set two lineups to automatically be chosen from.

@capardo_XBL It's a sac bunt. You have have to press and hold the bunt button before the pitch is thrown, and not move the stick, for it to register as a sac and not an attempted bunt. (at least that's what I remember)

Even when his cards aren't at a high level, I struggle against Nolan Ryan. He shouldn't be that unique, other pitchers throw heat. and have an off-speed pitch, but man.

I'm usually a completist, but I can't hit home runs with Sosa in moments, so I guess he's not a card worth having.

They definitely panicked with releasing all these 97s, 98s and 99s already. I figured we'd be around 95 at All Star Break. Clearly didn't have the year all planned out. Idk if they think people are bailing on the game, but now all they can do for the next few months is release 99s with slightly better/different stats. And I guess the finest cards will have to be 125s across every stat?

I feel like, aside from just the current monthly spotlight collection, all the other collections are harder to complete. I don't like the voucher thing, where you need to do every single collection to get a good card. I think I preferred the Season Set collection, where you just throw in a gob of any cards and at least get something, as opposed to a voucher that's useless unless you have 14 other vouchers.