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@collin_sds_psn said in Music request for show 22?:

Got suggestions? Post them.

I did so in an old thread, and I'll post em again since you asked

Gathering Crowds by John Scott (yes, it's the TWiB theme music and would be amazing as menu music) and Jet Set by Mike Vickers (another song from TWiB).

Now to be honest, these are not your typical song aimed for the younger crowds, but I guarantee you that they will appeal to your older audience with nostalgia......and hey, the songs are amazing too.

Yeah, it was Dylan "BP" Bundy......

I couldn't for the life of me beat the missions (I went 5 for 10 in the missions believe it or not) and went in down 9 runs and it took 5 outs to beat the final boss.

I took a quick look at his game logs (from sept. 10th up to now) and this post makes no sense.

No games in which he hit 9 or 10 Perfect-Perfects and on the whole, which is what I assume he is talking about and not just a single game, for those games (I didn't actually count but just roughly estimating from the Perfect-Perfect reports) his success on Perfect-Perfects is close to 90%+.

And all the while, the 99 Signature Pedro Martinez card is unusable online.

I feel bad for you guys, I really do.

I live on the South Shore of Montreal, Quebec and I was without power for close to 4 weeks back in January of 1998 after we were hit with what we refer to here as "THE" Icestorm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_1998_North_American_ice_storm

At least it was winter for us and we could heat up with out fireplace, but you guys are facing incredible heat. I've read some articles on the current situation and it's not very reassuring.

I hope things get settled quickly.

@raylewissb47_psn said in So just played a HOF game:

@el-fiama-bianca_xbl said in So just played a HOF game:

@slipkid69_psn said in So just played a HOF game:

It’s because of the mean people here that he won’t let us know who he is. He contemplated posting one of his baseball cards for all of us to enjoy

@slipkid69_psn said in So just played a HOF game:

It’s because of the mean people here that he won’t let us know who he is. He contemplated posting one of his baseball cards for all of us to enjoy

OP says he's a pro player??

Yes and I’m an astronaut by day and I fight crime with my cat at night.

If you only knew.....

@schnauzerface said in Shark map inquiry:

Y’all know me. Know how I earn a livin’. I’ll capture these strongholds for you, but it ain’t gonna be easy. Bad map. Not like going down to the Play vs CPU and stat-grindin against Arizona and Pittsburgh. This map, swallow you whole. No shakin’, no tenderizin’, down you go. And we gotta do it quick, that’ll bring back your Maddenites and your 2Kers, put all your businesses on a payin’ basis. But it’s not gonna be pleasant. I value my neck a lot more than a bundle of 10 The Show packs, Ramone. I’ll sim this map for a bundle, but I’ll play the strongholds, and beat ‘em, for a FoD rare round. But you’ve gotta make up your minds. If you want to finish this map, then ante up. If you want to play it cheap, run a squad of commons and bronzes all winter. I don’t want no map reveals, I don’t want no YouTube walkthroughs. There’s too many streamers on this forum. A FoD rare round for me by myself. For that you get the strongholds, the territories. The whole [censored] thing.

You're gonna need a bigger map.....

@instnctbigs_xbl said in 12-6 curveball? I don't think that pitch exists.:

Dwight Gooden had a gorgeous 12-6

I think the best 12-6 of all time was Sandy Koufax.

Damned thing just did a dive bomb.

@schnauzerface said in 12-6 curveball? I don't think that pitch exists.:

I threw a 1-7 curve, but I was in the eastern time zone so it was 12-6 for a lot of America

So you threw a Curve Ball in the east, a 12-6 in central and a screwball in the west?

@thegoaler_psn said in 12-6 curveball? I don't think that pitch exists.:

So then people are throwing 11-5 and 1-7 Curves?
Why is a Curve called 'Uncle Charlie?'

The exact origin is not known, but it referes to someone having a very good curve ball.

For someone with a dominant curve ball, they coined the term Lord Charles. I believe Dwight Gooden was the first to have his curveball called a Lord Charles, but I may be mistaken.

I could spend about 60k and I'd be either short of the PotM or Ohtani to get Mookie. I`ll wait till September cause there's no way in HELL that I'm shelling out about 450k for 3 cards for the ASG program that I'll never ever use.

Why is it that that picture is giving me the urge to make a mound visit......

The whole online vs offline play has been going on for years now. Only SDS has the answer since they have the metrics, but I would be curious as to where the majority of their revenue stream is coming from.

Casual players and "hardcore offline" players (I place myself in the latter) prefer to play offline because, in general, we are looking to have an enjoyable time playing the game our way, on our difficulty setting without having to worry about possible cheaters, freeze-offs, connection issues and the general "toxicity" that seems to come out of online play.

Now before you ask, as a matter of full disclosure, while I love offline and would play it almost exclusively, I am not averse to the online portion, but I play it at the strictist minimum and not a single game more than I need to in order to obtain what I want.

While I think many in the online community are decent enough people and want to play against another person as a way to test their skill, there are those who want to abuse the mechanics as much as possible, and generally make the game as unenjoyable as possible for their opponent because their only goal is to win at all costs. Now I know I am generalizing here, but that crowd is usually the younger crowd, the less "mature" crowd.

The best comparision I can make is a PvE vs PvP environment. Most people prefer a PvE environment because they just don't like to have their gameplay experience ruined by someone else who is intent on having fun at someone elses expense. An old game I used to play, Ultima Online, at one point decided to "split" the world into a mirror image of itself, Felucca and Trammel, with Trammel being the PvE only world. Overnight, Felucca became a barren wasteland because people prefered to play without PvP and when they wanted some PvP would simply go to the Felucca shard to get their fix.

This game is no different. I think both communities can co-exist, and I think SDS has an obligation to ensure that both can get what they want out of this game. There needs to be an offline RS mode (I made a post about that several weeks back) for the offline community so that vs CPU has more meaning. Those that refuse to play online except say events and the occasional BR won't invest money into the game to play a mode they refuse to, but I suspect that many of them would invest a few $$$ more to get some better cards in order to play an offline mode that gives them a REASON to play and a goal to work towards.

@dolenz_psn said in You let cheaters run rampant.:

@hustlinowl_psn said in You let cheaters run rampant.:

@sunjah_psn said in You let cheaters run rampant.:

Use it as a baseball video game, and you'll enjoy it more. People whine saying they have to have multi-player, it is the only thing that matters.

Then, all they do is complain about cheaters.

Play baseball for baseball as a video game...use Franchise and I SWEAR to you, there will be no freeze glitches or "bunt cheese". Multiplayer sucks and is stupid. Single player Franchise would be beyond belief if these past 7 years had been spent improving it and the game itself instead of this idiotic multiplayer BS.

CPU/AI is incompetent and boring sorry

But the CPU

Doesn't cheese you
Doesn't cause freeze glitches
Doesn't dashboard before a HR can land
Doesn't send you obnoxious messages after a game
Doesn't pitch Degrom or Cabrera every game
Doesn't have a bad connection that causes lag
Doesn't abuse the pause timer

In the end those things just make the game far more enjoyable for many of us. I'm old and grew up not playing competitive online video games so I have no desire to prove myself against other gamers.

100% agree which is one of the reasons why I would like SDS to implement an "offline" RS mode to allow people to play the game without all the downsides of the online version. I am sure a LOT more people would be invested in playing the game.

Thing is, Vida's delivery is funky.

Can't speak for anyone else, but I have a hard time hitting him.

Today's moment is on HoF difficulty.

Anyone else here think this is SDS' way of telling us the "Extreme Program" is just around the corner?

@chestnuts20_psn said in You can stick showdown:

@ironcity5812_xbl said in You can stick showdown:

@jonblaze2424_psn said in You can stick showdown:

Get better at picking perks

Also get better at the game

Right on cue with the “get better at game” numb nuts SMH

Get better at the game doesn't always mean on the field but making better choices when drafting is key.

Yup. I find that drafting the right players and picking the right perks is 50% of the solution.

For example, that LUCKY 7 Bronze is really nice...but you have to GET to the 7th pitch to get that meatball.....

@ladyswampfox_xbl said in Who should I lock in as my last milestone card for Mookie?:

I wouldn’t recommend Kiner. Sure, his bat is great, but that bronze shield makes him a defensive liability in the outfield.

And don’t forget—this inning program has a 90+ Live Series Diamond card to get at the end. What you spend now you can make up later with what you pull from that pack.

Yeah...that 92 Max Muncy will really get the stubs.....

@jonblaze2424_psn said in You can stick showdown:

@jake98833_psn said in You can stick showdown:

@jonblaze2424_psn said in You can stick showdown:

Get better at picking perks

Also get better at the game

This comment is silly SDS needs to have consistency in the game they develop and not artificially inflate game difficulty each mode should be balanced they just refuse to do it

I know....i've been on a roll lately telling people to get better so I had to. I definitely understand the frustration as I've been on that side before. It's one thing if it's the team affinity where you can bang it out in 20 minutes but something like the FOD Showdown takes an hour at the very least....only to get to the final boss and get absolutely worked.

If you got to the final boss and got absolutely worked, then you are doing something wrong.

Don't get me wrong, Showdown is not a cake walk, but compared to the 1st Inning Showdown from last year, they are quite easy and doable in 1 try even if you are an average player.

In the FoD Showdown, the only one that can be harder is the first showdown boss since you are starting with a limited amount of "good" players. But even then, you are given a lot of outs and a small task to do on Veteran IIRC.

They "hardest" boss in the FoD Showdown for me was Lefty Grove and even then it wasn't terribly difficult. Just sit fastball and you will beat him.

As for Felix, well, he was not even close to what I anticipated to be. I was expecting to have a hard time and it was rather easy. It took me 3 outs to get it. Yes, I started 20-20 but as others mentionned, picking the right players and especially perks is the key to winning.

Get ready for the Topps Now moments.......we gonna have a LOT of HRs to hit.