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5 cards from the program
1 card from the event
3 cards from miniseason
3 cards from collecting cards
12 total from playing

14 cards in the pack

@LHUBison58_XBL said:

Yeah, I played with one eye last year. What helped me a ton was adjusting my expectations. I still got a lot of rewards and Pxp from pitching and I’m now a lot better because of it. But it took ME adjusting MY goals and expectations to find joy. You gotta do you first and foremost. There is nothing wrong with playing offline and embracing that grind. I play offline daily for relaxation. I throw on a podcast and play. It’s so relaxing. Find your happy place.

I am admittedly a very bad sport. Someone above mentioned not needing to win to progress the multiplayer program. You both are probably right, and I will have to adjust my goal from winning to completing the multiplayer program for the sake of my sanity.

@jcassaro44_PSN said:

I’d wait for a little. Let the higher skilled players rank up, do some offline grinding and come back in a week or so.

I was wondering about higher-skilled players just starting. On a side note, I finally won a game

I haven't played ranked in 2 years. I have never handled losing well. I decided to give Rank a try today. I played 3 games, lost all 3, quit the middle game in the first after giving up multiple runs and not feeling like I would ever get out of the inning. I'm still sitting at 0 rank. If I'm so terrible I can't even get above 0 rank, why bother? What am I missing? I have nerve damage in my primary hand, and it shakes uncontrollably. It gets worse wiith anxiety and I keep making unforced errors because of it. I just don't see the point if I'm only going to lose. What don't I understand? How is there any hope of getting the rewards if II can never win?

I really hate that they seem to have gotten rid of it

I haven't been able to find it for DD either. I assume they removed it, unfortunately.

Ever since The Show 23, all of DD has been locked to competitive mode. Ranked, BR, and Events were always locked to competitive mode. Starting in 23, so was conquest, play vs CPU, and moments, as well as everything else in DD. So, ever since 23, our own settings mean nothing. This year, you stealthily took hot/cold zones away in DD as well. I understand the need in a PvP environment for uniform settings. But what does it matter if I want to play a mini-season on casual or simulation? Please consider unlocking the rest of DD, so our settings matter again.

5 regular packs if we are lucky

@Liam749908_XBL said:

If you don't go on those two screens, you can still acess everything except collections. Im still getting normal progression as well. Sucks, but still workable.

I'm afraid to play like that. Knowing my luck, when it gets fixed, all my progress will be reverted to before the patch

Same issues for me. This is really inconvenient. I hate to jump on this bandwagon, but why are we paying for early access to deal with this? I just want to play

same issue

I came here to say the same thing. It seems to be getting worse. I can't even access the xp path screen most of the time

It took me a second to find myself, 1 hour and 15 minutes into the stream for anyone else wondering

@Teak2112_MLBTS I can't argue with the additions since 21, but I guess to be honest I'm seeing everything right now through a lens of massive disappointment over TA.

@Teak2112_MLBTS What about All-Star cards and Finest cards? With no more TA how will they work?

There will be NO next ta program. None! This is it for the whole year for TA

@yankblan_PSN I wish I had your faith and hope about this, I really do

I hate that there will be no more TA drops. For offline players like me, that means a lot fewer packs, cards, and stubs on top of significantly less content to do. I hate pvp and really resent the push to force people to pvp, by giving us less offline content to do

This may turn out to be a lengthy post. My questions are at the bottom as a TLDR.

I was playing a VS CPU in DD tonight on rookie in the show 25, and was irritated that the CPU was throwing mainly balls and pitches on the black. I've played for a long time, and this is not how the CPU has always pitched. I commented to myself that it was pitching like someone would online. It got me curious if the difficulty was correct. I paused the game, went into settings under general, and saw that one of the difficulty settings was set and locked to competitive. I thought I remembered that only Online was forced to competitive setting (am I wrong). So I loaded up 24, then 23, and they were the same. Now I've struggled a lot since 23 and could never figure out what changed. So then I loaded up 22, and there was no such setting to be found in the in-game VS CPU settings.

Since 23, there has been a setting that locks all DD content to competitive difficulty, not just Online. Which means, since 23, all DD content has been an online simulator. I have been the caretaker for my mother for years as she battled cancer until she found peace just in late February. I don't want stress or competition. I want to play casually in DD and intentionally stay away from online.

TLDR
So my questions are as follows.

1. Didn't competitive difficulty used to be in online play only?
2. Did SDS announce this change, and I miss it?
3. What are the real differences between Causal, simulation, and competitive difficulty?

I'm another to chime in and add to the chorus about not getting packages from in-game challenges