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They made one fantastic addition to the game. Double PxP.

To SDS credit, I would add being able to restart a Moment without having it finish was a fantastic addition as well this year.

Gotta give credit where it is due: Thanks for cleaning up the “Collect” tab. If you don’t have anything to collect, the yellow dots disappear.

This was not the case before this latest update.

Thanks, SDS. Makes collecting much easier now.

OP, I truly feel your pain. Showdown, simply and frankly, is a mess!

It needs to be completely blown up and redone.

It may say “rookie” and “vet”, but it’s really not. The pitchers and fielders are jacked up and don’t play to their ratings. They pitch and field WAY above.

50-60 rated pitchers dotting corners, a ton of “atom” balls, double plays “on demand”, relievers throwing 40+ pitches with no loss of stamina are just a few of the shenanigans you deal with.

Many of us simply skip this mode altogether.

I, personally, have only gotten two Showdowns. The starter one and WBC. After that, the few I’ve tried I’ve made it to maybe halfway.

I’ve sworn them off until SDS “fixes” them. And like you, it upsets me that this causes the grind to be much longer.

Yeah, this is an old program….

I thought I’d give the showdown another try, figuring SDS has made it easier. Yeah, right.

I’m halfway thru. Failed against Satchel Paige. Next up? Martin Dihigo with a runner in first and need 3 runs.

My runner on first is Cap Dixon. 90 speed,90 agressive, 90 steal. Their catcher? Some dude with a 50 arm.

First pitch, I send Dixon. As he is sliding, he stops slightly in mid air, allowing the ball to get to the 2b for the tag.

3 pop outs later and I’m done with this Showdown.

And I’m never playing another Showdown EVER in this game. This mode can, uh, do things that are anatomically impossible.

This mode is simply broken. Thanks for listening!

@apolloz_99_mlbts not disgruntled, but frustrated. And when those who are frustrated stop expressing that frustration, SDS REALLY needs to start worrying. Because it means we’ve left the building.

Babe or Randy? Shoot. I’m hoping to get enough XP to get Bobby Doerr!!

@ericulous1_psn said in Who are yall using at catcher:

@capardo_xbl said in Who are yall using at catcher:

I am using FOTF Garver. Can’t get him out if my lineup. He hits em far!

There isn't a FOTF Garver. The Rangers is Corey Seager. I'm curious who you actually mean haha.

OP- FOTF Carson Kelly is fun to use, Gary Sanchez collection reward for the Yankees and the Cover Mauer 88. I'll eventually collect them all and grab his 96. I would imagined FOTF Realmuto is also fun to use. His ASG card last year was mighty.

One of my favorite things to do is drink “beverages” and play The Show. One of the things I should not do is drink “beverages” and post!!

I meant Sean Murphy. I think. You know, the FOTF catcher.

I don’t think the game is “pay to play”. But, I do think that SDS is trying to nudge ( not force or push) us to play online.

The game is awfully “grindy” for us offline strictly players.

For me, it is fatigue caused by being “overwhelmed” at the sheer “grind for 99” in this years game.

My goal each year in DD (3rd year) is to finish as many Collections and Programs as possible. Anything online and anything Extreme is out for me. So, I don’t finish the GOAT collection and don’t finish Extreme program.

Past two years, I’ve been able to meet my goals. With a lot of months playing frequently.

This year? I just don’t see it. I used to play frequently, and have still yet to finish ANY TA. In fact, TA 4 hasn’t even been started. At one time, I had completed just about all “Other” programs, but since Season 4 that is no longer the case.

And the Collections? I still need 35 cards for Set 3. All of those will come from finishing the TA3 collection, which I’m 40 cards short there.

Again,TA4? Zero. Nada. Zilch.

I don’t like the direction that DD has gone in this year. Having a TA collection that feeds into a main Set collection is a “grind within a grind”.

So, as many have pointed out, this year, the game is more of a “job” than a video game.

For me, that leads to overwhelming fatigue.

This is a thread where my list of users that gets banned grows…..

No, most of us don’t struggle on rookie! We get frustrated because our all 99 rated God squad scores 1 or 2 runs against the 2023 Oakland A’s while they play like the 1970 Billy Martin Oakland A’s. We win, but 1-0, instead of the “gazillion” to nothing that our 99 squad “should” do if Rookie played like Rookie should.

And it’s not once or twice. It’s every single Conquest game!

We play to grind out some PXP, relax and drink a cold one. Instead, we spend more time shaking our head and yelling at the screen than hitting homers.

Thanks for listening!

The fact that you can restart a Moment without it having to “finish” was a game changer for me. I’ve gone from abhoring Moments to actually not mind playing them.

I’ll chime in here and say that I keep checking this Collection HOPING that SDS comes to their senses and makes those cards available some other way. Who in the heck wants to play that Showdown TWICE!!

Please, please, please do not make Showdown mandatory in order to finish this Collection!!!

There was a thread the other day about being “bored”. I thought about it, but that’s not the word I would use for this year so far.

@tripleh-4481_psn you found the word I was looking for though: Stale. The game does have that “been there, done that “ feel to it so far. Yup, stale.

I’ve posted this before, but I’ll repeat: The Show does not “understand” Rookie mode at all. I play Madden, they dont do a lot of things right, but they “get” Rookie mode.

On Rookie madden, you score SO many points that you gain confidence and actually WANT to play on a higher level to challenge yourself.

In Rookie The Show, all the same “shenanigans” exist except for slightly slower pitch speeds. Pitchers dot and fielders are gold glovers all the time. So, you are NOT encouraged to move up except that you HAVE TO in order to get XP and PXP to get rewards.

A big difference.

I’ll add that another really SIMPLE thing SDS could do is to allow us to QS all the Diamond uniforms we are collecting from WBC mini season and TA path.

An easy 15k+ stubs for most of us. Something simple to improve game play “morale”.

To complete this thread, I finally got it! I used raesone suggestion and If I didn’t get a hit in the first at bat, I started over. I used ericulous suggestion and did directional hitting.

Took a while and needed a game where Trevor rogers didn’t pitch, but got it!!

Thanks all.

4 - 83

1 - 67

I don’t know. Finished Cincy map yesterday. Halfway thru TA East map tonight. Feel like I’m hitting in the deadball era. Fortunately, so is the CPU.

LOTS of lazy fly balls to the OF. LOTS.

Haven’t seen this posted anywhere. If already done so, I apologize.

Looks like SDS added a repeatable PXP mission fir Charisma players.

1500 for 10 points!

No more mandatory showdown.