If there were no program stars I wouldn't go near them. Completed all before today, and moments are BY FAR my least favorite mode in this game. A complete waste of time and energy on a mode with such dumb sliders that it may be finished in 1 or 2 trys, or it may take 3 hours. Over half of them put you against a pitcher that is the opposite pitching hand that your player is designed to hit against, and the other half they don't throw the ball anywhere near the strike zone...WASTE OF TIME
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As somebody who does not have the extra funds to buy tons of stubs, this mode at least was able to pay back my entry every other entry. I am not very good at this game but i enjoy it, and no matter how much I play and practice I don't have the eyes and finger movement of somebody half my age. This leaves me 3 options: 1)Not getting full enjoyment of this mode that I was enjoying trying to finish 2) Play with Directional (Which I don't want to since timing window is so small now) 3) I just have to miss out on 75 Program Points and am left with a game I enjoy but I can only play vs. CPU on lower difficulties. I get there are great players at the game, but there HAS to be a better option then nerf everything because the elite are abusing things (Showdown for FOTF cards). I hated moments last year, but at least I could get 50-75 points for my program each inning because it wasn't all or nothing.
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@genopolanco said in Wow SDS... WS Rewards are trash:
I think we’re just at that point in the year where everyone sees a card and instantly thinks they’re not good enough for their squad.
116 contact and 87 power vs righties is plenty enough to hit tanks.
Crazy talk, next you'll tell me we should use players that we loved in real life and ugh have fun. Oh no, my favorite team or player got a couple amazing cards. Try being a Twins fan where you get the same boring Rod Carew, Kill, and Hunter each year, or most of the midwest teams that never sniff a top tier card, so if Vlad is your guy F'n use him and have fun. People take this [censored] way to seriously
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@Psycho__Kinetic said in Yeah I'm done:
I understand that they're probably short staffed; but until gitting and pitching are fixed, along with other bugs; this game is going to die.
That being said, anyone/everyone can say that they're done playing; but unless you ACTUALLY stop playng; it's a moot point.
I assume we'll have a stub sale soon, and if people are serious about wanting the game fixed; that's where we make our stand.
Keep buying stubs, keep playing, and there really isn't any reason for them to patch the game.
Being short staffed didn’t stop them from releasing a real quick patch to ruin our fun, no reason they couldn’t revert to the previous patch just as quick. Why did we even have a beta if it didn’t matter at all?
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This one was the hardest by far for me. Only had failed an inning showdown twice before, failed this one 5 times. Something needs to be done about these sliders they use. I was in conquest all first (All Star) and then in Showdown balls are coming in on cough**Veterancough* 3 times faster then FBs on All Star. Mix that with the super human defense sliders, it's not fun and it just makes me turn off the game instead of wanting to beat it. If you play different modes for fun like I try to it's annoying having to relearn these fake speeds/sliders since they are all different.
Showdown moments? Jacked way up, I went right into Edmonds and Pence moments right after and was beyond early for an hour before I settled back in and cake walked through those.
Moral of the story, moments suck and need to go. They are obviously an easy lazy dev tool to just insert numbers into the spreadsheet and create "content" but when everything is HIT 1 HOMERUN, 3XBH, 1 HR, 3 H 2 XBH...it's just not fun to play.
Rant done, 9th Showdown is a little too turned up, could be that I play on a TV like most players and we get punished for that with a Showdown with 3 99MPH+ pitchers to face this time.
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I feel like the better question to ask SDS is why is there tinkering with the hitting window every update? Pitching has been the problem all season, and because a small percentage of the community is beyond amazing at the game they tweak hitting, negatively effecting a much larger portion of the playerbase. I am nowhere near good, but the minute I start to feel like I'm improving, there's a tweak under the hood and I'm back at square one trying to get my [censored] together. This is much more noticeable in moments/showdown where pitch speeds sliders are through the roof and your hitting sliders seem way down. I imagine the game we would have had this year had they kept hitting in the ballpark of where it was in early access and fixed the real problems with the game (Pitching and Fielders Speeds).
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@dap1234567890 said in Flash Sale Started an Hour Early:
@X-FREEZE-OFF-X_PSN said in Flash Sale Started an Hour Early:
@dap1234567890 said in Flash Sale Started an Hour Early:
@X-FREEZE-OFF-X_PSN said in Flash Sale Started an Hour Early:
@dap1234567890 said in Flash Sale Started an Hour Early:
MLB All Star Game Pack for 35K stubs.
You sure that's a Flash price? I know those are new packs.
Well, that is what I am thinking since there is a big green lightning bolt that says "Flash Sale" on top of that pack along with the 35,000 stub price next to it. Oh and that there is a "Time Limited: XXm XXs" clock counting down just below the pack might be a hint as well!
Yeah, I jumped on and saw that. Lol
I just figured since they were new packs they wouldn't be on sale.
So I'm assuming that these were normally 50K; so most will be on sale for 35K.
Probably since pretty much every pack this year has been 50K. Inflation is horrible!
HEY! It's hard to keep up with the cost....of making fake digital cards....or something absolutely stupid like that. It's better I guess then SDS just saying they want to rip you off financially.
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I love terrible takes from the 1%. They act like their WS cards had no value, you guys get the cards day 1 or 2 when they have MAXIMUM value, who cares if by the end of the program they are 40k? (Which is still alot of stubs to many players). Same goes for BR, a bad player having to reset over and over again to get 3 points progress in the line where the WS quality players are sitting on 11-0 runs and getting the BR card immediately when it's value is 500k +
These players want the gatekeeping back, plain and simple. If they can get the game back to BR cards costing offline players 400k+ they don't have to grind anything outside of BR/Ranked to earn stubs cause they'll have a limitless supply of 12-0 cards. Maybe there should be a 3x cap for BR rewards so that the 1% know how the rest of us feel huh?
Less then 90% of the player base has the ability to get to WS and even less to go 12-0, if you just push away all those players who is left in these online modes? SDS should be working to make online play more accessible to players, not less. I thought it wouldn't be til set 3 when most players realize just how many of their favorite cards are going away and have to do another boring grind with [censored] cards to get a new set of the same dudes to use again, but these changes may just forward the massive dropoff in player numbers. As a hardcore offline (sometimes online) player I'm pretty much ready to go after all these greedy changes. Pretending they aren't getting as bad as Madden/2k is dumb, they are doing everything possible to make you have to buy stubs to play the game.
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Agreed, just lost a MTO game because my CF decided on back to back plays on lazy flies not to lock onto the ball, gave up a 3 run lead and decided I'm sick of the headache I have when I play this mess of a game. Why have a beta and a solid first week and then just immediately start to pull your game apart? Had similar fielding issues playing yesterday, it's bad enough hitting is almost completely RNG, Pitching is beyond RNG, and now I get to play RNG with will my fielder even bother to field a ball? Stupid
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I've been stuck on the multi game one for an embarrassing amount of time. This card is trash, and it's super convenient that he only has solid hitting against lefties and STL apparently has none. I hate moments like these. Also hate that moments have their own fake F'ing difficulty that isn't anywhere near the labeled difficulty.
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@GoTitans3_XBL said in BR program unsellable too. Thanks streamers:
@GradektheBard said in BR program unsellable too. Thanks streamers:
Designing a reward structure that only benefits less than 1% of your customers is a terrible strategy.
But hey, at least they won’t have to hear oh chev cry anymore.
Oh that’s his name. Yea that guy needs to go outside. I listened to him cry about it for an hour straight one day and was like why am I listening to this dude whine.
I mean, life is hard when he gets the card immediately and sells it for 500k, it's just not fair that casual players can earn the card weeks later and sell it for 50k These kids are freaking clowns, can't wait to see how angry he is when every game of a 12-0 BR run is a sweatfest when offline players aren't willing to drop 50k in runs that end in 3 or 4 games and just drop the game. Same with Ranked.
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@sersimpleton said in Please institute a harsher rage quit punishment:
@Dthomp said in Please institute a harsher rage quit punishment:
@Cpm032987 said in Please institute a harsher rage quit punishment:
Or just don’t make so many online missions. Make the missions longer but offline capable.
Nah, we just need to force everybody into the toxic online mode so that everybody can be miserable. Offline stat grinding, are you insane? People would just do the easiest thing possible, and saying "XBH and I quit" is not the same somehow..
They constantly gather data from online play, this could be why all these prestige player programs are online only, to encourage people to play online.
Possibly, I still think it's more likely the same scam Activision had with CoD putting people against players with the P2W weapons mechanic they had to try and sell more loot boxes. The idea is that if I play online and I don't have the best cards and get beat by the best cards that I will go into the market and open up my wallet because that better card that beat me will make me a better player thought process.
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Fun, just as much a pain in the [censored] as last month for me so far. Difficulty needs to be the same across ALL modes. None of this hidden difficulty stuff in moments and showdown, and completely different then vs. CPU or online, it's a dumb decision, and somebody needs to be replaced for thinking this wasn't dumb.
I hate how much of DD is designed for only the hardcore fanbase to enjoy. I love the collecting and playing, but as a below average player trying to improve, forcing us into stupid modes to get PP this way is lame.
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Based on timing, maybe they found the bug that let so many cheese the 2nd inning and are implementing it so that the bosses aren't 50k by the end of the day
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Why on earth add things for players who want to actually play the game when it can all be designed around the stock market part of the game. That's who this stage was made for, the catchup mechanics are a joke. Stage 1 showdowns are hit or miss at best even after the changes thanks to bad sliders and you get 1 extra ticket? Come on with that [censored], not sure why I should keep playing the game, 99s everywhere, almost all sellable/farmable for players who only play the stock portion of the game.
But hey, you can go online to prestige them...nothing for the many many players begging for an offline stat grind to prestige cards. Please come play our broken online game that majority of the playerbase hates....
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It's weird since they've both been solid all season, yet a starter takes one amazing start to jump 5 points in a week...
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No, they don't test and you know it
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@mucous052army said in Patch 1.04:
I would've loved it had they fixed all the stat missions not counting.....
Why do that when we can worry about only the percentage of the userbase running around in RS and online only? I haven't tried the new patch yet, but I am barely average at this game and have to play on lower difficulties just trying to have fun. I've failed the 1st inning SD so many times the last few days and I need those 75 points for the program and now this patch makes me even less likely to achieve that. I guess I get to only play boring conquest all day every day.
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Imagine thinking people give two craps about people "flipping" cards to make stubs. List for whatever you want it for, and move out of the market and actually I don't know...play the game?
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@nymets1987 said in 2nd Inning Showdown:
@genopolanco said in 2nd Inning Showdown:
@Dthomp said in 2nd Inning Showdown:
Fun, just as much a pain in the [censored] as last month for me so far. Difficulty needs to be the same across ALL modes. None of this hidden difficulty stuff in moments and showdown, and completely different then vs. CPU or online, it's a dumb decision, and somebody needs to be replaced for thinking this wasn't dumb.
I hate how much of DD is designed for only the hardcore fanbase to enjoy. I love the collecting and playing, but as a below average player trying to improve, forcing us into stupid modes to get PP this way is lame.
That’s issue with gaming in general today. Everything is heavily criticized from both aspects. You have casuals who aren’t able to complete things and then the hardcore who complain about there not being enough to do.
That’s why I’d prefer a sliding scale for missions and moments and such and therefore rewards and some missions should be off or online.
I honestly think that's the best medium ground. Let the player choose the difficulty so the tryhards can turn it up but the rest of us have a chance to complete things, even if it requires more clears then the better players.
Has anyone had fun playing moments?
Did 1st inning showdown just change?
Wow SDS... WS Rewards are trash
Yeah I'm done
Showdown
Fix Timing Hitting
Flash Sale Started an Hour Early
The new BR/WS reward setup is fair.
Baserunning has made this game unenjoyable.
Al Kaline 2 XBH
BR program unsellable too. Thanks streamers
Please institute a harsher rage quit punishment
2nd Inning Showdown
Maintenance?
New moments for TA.
Can a CP get some love?
Does SDS test these modes before the my release them?
Patch 1.04
Don't kill the margins
2nd Inning Showdown