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Let us pick the difficulty and scale the rewards, just like with March to October.

If you want to play the NL East showdown on Rookie go for it, but you’ll only get 1 voucher as your final reward.

Instead of 70 program stars for the Inning Program you get 50 if you play on the easiest difficulty and let it scale up from there.

You can still play and enjoy the mode but you get to pick how difficult you want it to be and the higher you choose the better the rewards. They do this for M2O I don’t see why they couldn’t do it for Showdown

Man I don't know how you can stand doing more than 1. They take like 8-12 hours each and I'm only half way through my first one as the Rockies and I'm already bored to tears because they have me playing so much.

SDS is most likely pulling the same BS they did last year, where they mess with the sliders to make it more difficult than a normal rookie or veteran experience in say something like conquest.

They also give players specific quirks for the mission you’re on(if you need to hit a HR, the pitcher will have HR Stopper, etc) even if those players don’t actually have that quirk in regular DD.

@Baggs805 said in Guess pitch:

@JEEZY-E said in Guess pitch:

@DriveByTrucker17 said in Guess pitch:

It’s fine if you want to use it in conquest or Play vs. CPU, but it doesn’t belong in any H2H mode.

I use guess pitch all the time in H2H, I guess fastball, get fastball, miss fastball

Wait then why isn’t mine showing up. I’m trying to do it the same way it’s always worked

They took it away from the in game options but you can still turn it on in the main menu settings and it’ll be on for the modes in DD they allow it to be on for(like conquest).

@Abvid said in Seriously showdown:

What I think they are saying is that it’s crazy this happens so much on rookie when you would expect it more on legend with the same player.

SDS likely pulls the same BS they do with Moments where they screw with the sliders to make it harder than it actually says. You can tell because you can play a Moment on veteran and it’s a completely different experience than playing conquest on veteran.

multiplayer games

Great, so offline is still trash. Tremendous work everyone.

Why in the world does your inventory still reset to the top card every time you check the market on a player? Imagine doing the FA collection and having to scroll to where you were every single time you look at a card.

@ToneOfWrath said in Best Gold Catcher?:

Kraken is always good. I'm in Albuquerque so Garver is always a good shout too. In other words, I'm a fan of his and he's pretty good too.

Grandal is probably my fave though. Everybody,including me, seems to hit good with him, no matter what his stats say. Glitchy swing I guess.

I was using Grandal since launch but [censored] that 6 speed killed me too many times to count.

@raesONE said in Why is Mookie so cheap??????:

@maskedgrappler said in Why is Mookie so cheap??????:

He's not the gatekeeper of his division anymore, Arenado is.

He want in the AL either, that was Trout.

The Red Sox and Angels are in different divisions.

@Dolenz said in Defeat CPU on All Star Difficulty:

@Duffman180 said in Defeat CPU on All Star Difficulty:

I can barely beat the CPU on Rookie right now, looks like I wont be finishing these missions.

There is also an online mission and an exhange (or maybe collection) that you can do instead of the CPU game. There are 3 options and you only need to complete one of the three, assuming you finished the moments

I'm an offline only DD player so that's out of the question.

I can barely beat the CPU on Rookie right now, looks like I wont be finishing these missions.

@DeckerCurtis2002 said in Sooo are porgram points supposed to be harder to get this year???:

@Duffman180 said in Sooo are porgram points supposed to be harder to get this year???:

@Saberq269 said in Sooo are porgram points supposed to be harder to get this year???:

@Dolenz said in Sooo are porgram points supposed to be harder to get this year???:

@c7susb9 said in Sooo are porgram points supposed to be harder to get this year???:

I’ve heard March to October gives decent XP, but I can’t confirm that personally

It would just give you normal XP for playing the game. The points that you earn in that mode are for Team Affinity and are not Program Points for the first inning.

Yes they are.XP gives you Program Stars

But it's BS how they do it.

I swear I’ve played multiple games and not hit 2K for multiple games and haven’t gotten any stars meaning it resets every game which would be kind of BS. Kind of defeats the purpose of their whole "earn stars just by playing" mantra they've been pushing if you never hit 2k every game.

Last year you would get 1 star for every 3 innings played, this year I believe they said they changed it to 1 star every 2,000 XP(which to me they did it because they wanted it to be a lot harder to earn them this year). Which if it resets every game then you can play nothing but conquest, finish with say 1,900 XP and never earn any program stars.

And that to me that seems to be the case because as an offline only player I've played a ton of conquest and I'm only at 74 stars and that's with having the game since early release and playing for 2-3 hours every day.

No, you will still get a program star every 2,000 xp. The game keeps track of when you reach your next 2,000 xp threshold.

Highly doubt that as I was stuck on 74 stars for like 3 games because I never reached 2k XP in 1 game but I know for a fact I reached it collectively since I average like 1,700 XP minimum every conquest game.

@yankblan said in Sooo are porgram points supposed to be harder to get this year???:

@Duffman180 said in Sooo are porgram points supposed to be harder to get this year???:

@yankblan said in Sooo are porgram points supposed to be harder to get this year???:

1st Inning Showdown is only 500, not 1000. You get that back after first miniboss. Can’t speak for TA Showdowns, but 1st Inning is not that tough. Barely missed on first attempt and easily sailed on the second one. Pick one diamond SP, a good CP and rest only boppers. Only take perks that boost contact after 2 strikes and when losing, or behind in the count. Drain the P by taking as many pitches as you can. You should get that 70 pts fairly easy.

It doesn't make a difference when they give the final showdown boss BS abilities, just tried the 1st inning showdown and was doing fine(went into the final showdown down 15-10) when all of a sudden not even Mike Trout could hit a HR off Oswalt on a perfect/perfect high fastball because they gave Oswalt HR stopper but only for that part, he doesn't have it any of the other times you face him. Only scored 2 runs because every single long fly ball would die right at the warning track, every. single. one.

Plus they upped the difficulty of the final showdown boss from Veteran to All-Star meaning not only is hitting broken but they made it harder.

Final boss was always AS. Don’t forget you have 20 CONSECUTIVE outs, so try to get 4-5 pitches per AB. Once you start scoring runs and getting hits, the confidence bar starts dropping, and there’s no end to an inning that will stop your chance with runners on, you can have a guy on second and fail 5 straight times so relax. Build that momentum. Only swing with 2 strikes, the perks will help you. I bunted over the winning run from 1st to second and then to 3rd since I had outs to spare to avoid negating the runner.

Work counts, fall balls off down 2 strikes, drain that energy and confidence bar. Never swing at the first pitch. You should get it fairly easily. To the same along the way to get as many rewards/boosts as you can.

I don't know what you're referring too but I'm talking about the 1st Inning showdown. You only have 15 outs not 20, and before patch 1.04 the final boss was Veteran, now it's All-Star.

@yankblan said in Sooo are porgram points supposed to be harder to get this year???:

1st Inning Showdown is only 500, not 1000. You get that back after first miniboss. Can’t speak for TA Showdowns, but 1st Inning is not that tough. Barely missed on first attempt and easily sailed on the second one. Pick one diamond SP, a good CP and rest only boppers. Only take perks that boost contact after 2 strikes and when losing, or behind in the count. Drain the P by taking as many pitches as you can. You should get that 70 pts fairly easy.

It doesn't make a difference when they give the final showdown boss BS abilities, just tried the 1st inning showdown and was doing fine(went into the final showdown down 15-10) when all of a sudden not even Mike Trout could hit a HR off Oswalt on a perfect/perfect high fastball because they gave Oswalt HR stopper but only for that part, he doesn't have it any of the other times you face him. Only scored 2 runs because every single long fly ball would die right at the warning track, every. single. one.

Plus they upped the difficulty of the final showdown boss from Veteran to All-Star meaning not only is hitting broken but they made it harder.

@Saberq269 said in Sooo are porgram points supposed to be harder to get this year???:

@Dolenz said in Sooo are porgram points supposed to be harder to get this year???:

@c7susb9 said in Sooo are porgram points supposed to be harder to get this year???:

I’ve heard March to October gives decent XP, but I can’t confirm that personally

It would just give you normal XP for playing the game. The points that you earn in that mode are for Team Affinity and are not Program Points for the first inning.

Yes they are.XP gives you Program Stars

But it's BS how they do it.

I swear I’ve played multiple games and not hit 2K for multiple games and haven’t gotten any stars meaning it resets every game which would be kind of BS. Kind of defeats the purpose of their whole "earn stars just by playing" mantra they've been pushing if you never hit 2k every game.

Last year you would get 1 star for every 3 innings played, this year I believe they said they changed it to 1 star every 2,000 XP(which to me they did it because they wanted it to be a lot harder to earn them this year). Which if it resets every game then you can play nothing but conquest, finish with say 1,900 XP and never earn any program stars.

And that to me that seems to be the case because as an offline only player I've played a ton of conquest and I'm only at 74 stars and that's with having the game since early release and playing for 2-3 hours every day.

At least you can try to upgrade them. I'm an offline only DD player so by making all the missions online only when I get Helton SDS basically told me to kick rocks.

Well to earn stars for the player programs that's assuming you do all of them 100%, it’s not like last year where could earn stars from doing moments. This year it’s basically you do everything or you get nothing. At least moments last year if there were 20 moments and 10 were hard and 10 were easy you could do those easy 10 and still get some stars. This year if there are 10 moments, unless you do all 10 you get jack so it's much harder.

@samguenther1987 said in 1st Inning Content:

I sit at 170 stars. I should hit 200 by the weekend. I can always come back and finish off the 300 stars latter by completing collections though.

I don't believe there any collections that give stars.

@T-Rox_09 said in Does anyone know if Program Stars from games are a running tally of 2K or does it reset every game?:

We get one star for every 2K XP? I never knew that. sometimes in a ranked seasons game you can get 1K XP in one inning. I'm not sure this is accurate. If this were the case there would be some games I'm getting three and four stars but I guess I don't pay attention to that.

Last year you would get 1 star for every 3 innings played, this year I believe they said they changed it to 1 star every 2,000 XP(which to me they did it because they wanted it to be a lot harder to earn them this year). Which if it resets every game then you can play nothing but conquest, finish with say 1,900 Xp and never earn any program stars.

And that to me that seems to be the case because as an offline only player I've played a ton of conquest and I'm only at 74 stars and that's with having the game since early release and playing for 2-3 hours every day.

Like I understand whether you get 2001 XP or 3999 XP you’re only getting 1 program star, but I swear I’ve played multiple games and not hit 2K and haven’t gotten any stars meaning it resets every game which would be kind of BS. Kind of defeats the purpose of their whole "earn stars just by playing" mantra they've been pushing if you never hit 2k every game.