Official grade: B-

W's:

• Weekend Classic rewards (2) are sellable! First one is April 11th.

• If you miss out on them, you can get them in lower tiers of WC next season.

• Each game you lose removes rewards you're eligible for.

• Ohtani revealed as the highest LS card (91 overall)!

• Diamond Quest, stats and PxP all count during DQ games. Main goal is to move towards to bosses in stadium icons. uncover the board before doing final stadium boss.

• DQ rewards sellable!!

L's:

• They show the "rare" reward for the first DQ board to be a 79 Juan Soto. Seems like a crappy reward for all that time it should take!
• Wish they talked more about Weekend League and or the combined online mode rewards track.
• Diamond Quest seems like a time sink, but good for offline players I guess? TBH conquest seems like a better bang for your buck.

N's (Not Sure):

• Diamond Quest, lots of time, luck and skill required. You use your own DD squad, there can be squad restrictions.

• Zone Sweeper is the toughest challenge, biggest risk / reward (angry baseball icon)

@GradektheBard_PSN Nice find, so it intergrates its own 3 inning games.

Dynasty Quest sounds fun, seems like its replacing conquest (not confirmed) but that's my educated guess.

@SchnauzerFace_MLBTS I can't decide if I like it because it might water things down a bit....?

That being said, I never play BR so now I can get those same rewards by playing Ranked and Events like I always do?

No word on Co-Op being fixed or fine-tuned

So far, so good!

Weekend league opens only at the last 4 days of each ranked seasons.

Ranked, BR and Events are all one program combined.

Team Affinity is back, they say new but I don't see what's different other than its each team and not entire divisions?

This game seems like MLBTS 20 remastered (which is fine w me) but no major changes that I can tell.

@sbchamps17_NSW you just be blind or slow. Or both.

@jake98833_PSN that’s exactly what I’m referring to, there was a guy with a blue shirt on the bus when they were showing the college team and it legitimately looked like someone from a blitz football game I remember playing on my PlayStation one

Via @TheScann9579_XBL on twitter, he sums it up very well:

*My thoughts after the RTTS stream today.

I like the changes and plan to play it, especially more than I have before. However, the stream made me somewhat lessen my expectations.

This feels like the most change we've seen in the mode in YEARS. However, with this being a mainly pre-draft experience + most Amateur things (bats, teams, etc.) being limited to RTTS, you're only gonna see these things so often in the game.

In my opinion, it would've been cool to see at least some things make their way outside of just RTTS like the metal bats or playing with the teams (even if generic rosters) in Exhibition games.

So, I'm excited to try it. I think it'll make RTTS a more replayable experience. However, if most of the minor league/MLB experience is the same as before, there'll be some disappointment there. It's been SO similar at its core for a while now, and I'd love to see the regular dynamic of the mode change.*

D+

The entire stream is just really going over minor changes that we should’ve had years ago. The graphics literally look like PS1. It is so bad. The only positive is that you can choose your school with a lot of people that are from those areas would like. But this still looks like something that Madden and 2K have had For years.

They make a big deal about these tokens. It’s really not that special.

@SakAttack87_PSN Lets hope it actually matters in game. For years now they've claimed to make OF attributes matter and as we all know, nothing falls in the gaps.

We shall see!! Promising future for the game since it can't get worse than last year TBH

@Easy_Duhz_It__PSN Agreed, the rewards for completing them should be a 99 overall of the new NL legend....

The amount of resources and $ they put into 8 hours of gameplay is SO inefficient.

W's:

1. WEEKEND CLASSIC!
   Weekend league with the "best rewards". Much needed.

2. AMBUSH HITTING! Looks like PCI increases in a zone you choose to "sit on" and decreases eveywhere else. Couple this with Anchor and it makes hitting more dynamic

3. Manny Ramirez and Clemens (these were correctly predicted by an article that also predicted A-Rod)

4. Diamond Quest (I'm intrigued)

L's

1. I'm not joking at all the graphics literally look worse than in years past. Go take a look at the screen shot for Roger Clemens it literally does not look like him at all. Personally, graphics is not a top priority for me but SDS should be embarrassed that this game looks like it's from 2007.

2. I don't really consider middle bats and some high school games to be a big addition to the game, but i guess some people will like that?

3. I consider it an L that a huge focus of the game is still going to be storylines and a third negroe league story line, just seems like they put so much of their resources into these that amount to about 6 to 8 hours of actual gameplay for the entire year.

BUMPERbarryBonds

@IrishFist412_MLBTS Thank you sir.

Get the gamepass ppl away!!!!

@CDNMoneyMaker93_XBL

I don’t care about people’s value. I want a better experience for people who pay. Like me

BumpLumpCrump

@Dolenz64_XBL

Time for you poors to get your bread up and pay for a PS5 so the rest of us can have better gameplay.

1. No Gamepass means servers will be less clogged and won't crash as often (hopefully).

2. We don't have to hear all the gamepass people mention they have gamepass over and over. They're like Vegans. BYE!

Bump @CBrev47_MLBTS @CBrev47_PSN @CBrev29