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Man they didn't care about RTTS at all this year, huh? Like the progression thing is bad but really only became super wide spread after the early release patch and the servers are the servers but this? Everyone seems to have this issue and that means that no playtester went deep enough into the mode to try for a fourth pitch. That's kind of insane.

@BuddyHightower_XBL
You're running into two issues and conflating them, which isn't your fault at all. The first is that loadout don't switch. In that specific instance, when you were playing as SS or DH you weren't getting XP with those loadouts because your active one was still SP. Basically you were playing SS with SP as your stat booster. This is apparently a bug. I don't think this is working how they wanted (but I don't know anymore)

The second issues is you've now run into the progression bug, so now you're just not making progress regardless of whether or not you have the right loadout selected. Maybe try going into Diamond Dynasty (DD) and playing a conquest map game (because it's just 3 innings) and then go back into RTTS. You will still need to switch loadouts in the main menu like you did, but you should (emphasis on should) get XP for them as long as you don't leave RTTS again. As soon as you do, you'll likely have to go through a DD round again.

@Sagacious1_XBL Except now you own the game, which people who play it on gamepass don't, and will still have it when it rolls off gamepass in a couple months, plus all the extra stuff. You're really only down 50 bucks tops. There's so many more reasons to be annoyed at shelling out cash for this game at the state it's currently in then something that is at least partially on you.

@TheRealHan17_PSN Some of the issues, sure. You can't account for everything in a live environment. But others? This game has had server issues at launch every single year since like 15. it's not new. It's worse, but not new. Knowing that, which I do and you do and SDS sure as hell does, it's entirely foreseeable that when you tie single player progress to an always online component and that component stops working, single player progress stops. You cannot progress in the majority of this game without being online, and you cannot be online because, like every year, the servers have issues. It is extremely fair to be upset at SDS for making the conscious decision to tie an otherwise offline mode to their crappy servers.

The biggest issue, and I think you'll agree, is basically their lack of transparency here. People literally cannot progress in this game. RTTS loadout progress and switching is flat broken. DD players are getting booted out of games and not getting their rewards. SDS I am sure is working on them but as you mention saying 'future release' is just terrible phrasing. They need to come out and say what is wrong and be very specific on how they're working on it. This isn't like a roadmap issue, and like tying RTTS to DD was a gameplay decision so whatever. I'm happy they're looking at it but that takes time. There are very specific bugs that clearly prevent playing from playing the game SDS intended and they need to give a more concrete ETA on when a bug fix is inbound.

@GrizzBear55_PSN As soon as I can get into DD again I'm giving this a shot
@dethgryp_PSN Just wanna give props out to you. Really enjoyed being wasted and playing the hell out of this game right until that update at 0500 lol

You're not a manager in this mode. It's called Road to the Show, not Road to the Front Office. If you want that experience, Diamond Dynasty and Franchise mode give you that option. In RTTS, you're just a player. You don't have say in when you play, how long you play, or even really what team you're on.