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I can't believe how challenging mini seasons is this year. A couple years ago, I liked Conquest, last year I was like "Mini seasons, this is my jam" and now because all the teams have all the best cards in the game (and I do not), I'm losing a shocking number of games. It's quite different from when just the Whales were stacked, now I'm getting wrecked by the Cairo Cats. (Also, I'm trying to finish TA missions and such, and don't want to have to use only my best cards against the CPU)

And just as I thought "Well, I got through those first couple showdowns real smooth", now they're hard too? Can't catch a break. And then I come up 100,000 xp short of the Boss cards every inning? Probably going to just play casually the rest of the year and maybe start up Road to the Show mode around when next year's game rolls out.

I definitely didn't understand what that meant, but I wasn't all that worried since there are like 7 alternative ways to complete the program.

Well, using the Ramirez card in the Showdown slowed the game to a crawl, so not that one.

I got deep into every inning path last year & the year before, aside from like in the summer when I was on vacation for 2 weeks. Now it looks like I will average 300k on the path all year and get exactly zero Boss cards, ever. Folks saying "It's like this every year" are just making stuff up.

I also now play pretty much exclusively on veteran (Even in the mini seasons games, where the CPU almost always has a better roster now, for some reason?). And you might as well, since you get a little more pxp.
For me, the issue isn't so much that it's difficult, it's the inconsistency. I feel like last year I had a really good idea of my swing, now I have no feel for anything. I'll get early swings on balls I felt I was absolutely late on and vice versa. It's also very all or nothing, lot of games I win on like 3 hits that were all home runs, because the fielding is so good.

I'm sure Ty Cobb's views aren't any worse than Blake Treinen's. Probably just some grandkid who wanted double the money they were offering.

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)