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Can SDs confirm which program is required for the head start reward? The blog says it’s the moonshot program, but the image shows moments of glory?

The doubling of the xp cap is misplaced. They needed to double gameplay xp for the rest of the year, not the cap. I doubt many people are playing enough at this point to even hit the lower cap let alone 30k xp at the current xp rate per game

They messed this up by designing an xp path for like the top 5% of players without asking the fundamental question of “who cares”. As in, who cares if a small percentage of our player base get jroll/walker/petite in a few weeks. None of those cards would exactly break the game or even “ruin” power creep, but by gatekeeping them from a tiny minority, they may have cost themselves the majority of their customers come season 2.

@chucky97___ the better player does win though. If that wasn’t the case, we wouldn’t see the same names at the top of the leaderboards/going flawless multiple times/etc.

I’ve seen some high scoring games, but they aren’t typical for the average player. Here are my last 8 BR games: 1-0 W, 5-4 L, 3-2 W, 5-1 W, 6-1 W, 1-0 L, 2-0 W, and 1-0 L. Not exactly high scoring

@doobiebross66-72 it probably does justify it though, as I presume they have a ton of data that goes into gameplay decisions.
Let’s be honest here, if they made every very early swing vs a curve in the dirt a swing+miss, they’d probably lose 50% of their customers in a week.

Glad to see you posted this whiney rant both here and Reddit. Got to make sure everyone saw the tears.

You are, by your own admission (flawless BR and 24-3 ranked record) a top 1% player. Guess what, if SDs makes the game for the top 1%, they will go out of business. And yes, they are in fact a for profit business, not some public good.

The median player in DD is not very good, plays for fun, and has no desire to “git gud”. That’s the base SDs needs to game design for if they want to maximize profits.

Currently, the Boss Knocks and Bosses on the Bump Mini Season missions still only count hits/innings for the TA 1 bosses. Can you please update these to count both TA 1 and TA 2 bosses (or just TA 2) since we aren’t getting a chapter 2 mini season.

@SuntLacrimae50 it’s just very upsetting that someone on their team honestly thought replacing one of the best diamond cleats with a gold was ok.

@DEF266 it’s true and I’m not the only one, it was literally everyone who had those particular cleats. The sad thing is they had other, non-scummy options available for a replacement, but chose the scummiest option.

SDS has replaced an 11k Diamond cleat (the Adidas Ultraboost 5.0) in everyone’s inventory with a gold cleat. This is nothing less than stealing stubs and no different than if they decided to make the 100k+ classics Edward Cabrera an 85 after everyone bought him.

If they lost the rights to that cleat, then we should have received an equivalent DIAMOND cleat or a (sellable) diamond cleat choice pack. Replacing that with a gold is equivalent to stealing those stubs.

They messed up the program path and only put in 2 silver choice packs, thus they added this pack with 2 picks to make up for it.

@Nauracy34

Not really, they could just ban people who did it yesterday for say 10 days from online play. Thus, the people who were legitimately playing RTTS could continue to do so, but the people exploiting it for DD would be penalized (as they should be).

SDS has no idea how to code a knuckleball and thus we get the broken pitch we see today. It’s way too consistent (which is nothing like real life), you can actually place it (nothing like real life), and it defies the laws of physics (can break both left and right (nothing like real life).

They need to remove the pitch from H2H play or it is going to make a mockery of their attempt at e-sports.

There is a reason Waldron is the most p5 player in the game right now.

Hopefully, they ban everyone who exploited this, as it does in fact violate TOS.

I got the Nike cleats from one of the storylines. I think it was Josh Gibsons and would imagine each of the NL storylines give you an item (unsellable of course).

Mini seasons is almost unplayable because of this change. Just walked 6 times and was hit twice in a game (and easily could have walked 3-4 more times if I wanted).

Why does SDS ruin things that aren’t broken. They really need a better dev team.

I think it’s between 25-30k. I backed out all my spring breakout bonus xp and came up with 30, but may have had other bonus too.

This is absolutely absurd. Honestly, someone should lose their job over this idiotic decision. Do you really not want people to play your game at all this year.

FYI, that is literally all I played (besides the DD intro stuff you are forced to play).

Perhaps, this wasn’t well thought out.

Based on the frequency with which you see max elevation stadiums, they are clearly very popular and likely going nowhere. The complainers in this case are clearly in the minority.