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Is it me, and this is not a complaint, or is the ball flying out of the yard offline. Out of nowhere I've been blasting HRs like crazy. Vs CPU and in Mini Seasons while grinding, balls that don't even seem like they've got the EV or distance are going out. I started a new Mini Season and hit 13 HRs in 2 games. I'm blasting 9 or more vs CPU. Really helping with the Alonso program.

I agree with the OP. The ease and quickness of having a team full of Diamond 96 to 99 happened way too fast. 5 days into release most people had a full team of diamonds and by the end of June you could field a team of leveled up 95s and never need another card, hypothetically.....

It also affected the market making low end diamonds basically close to quick sell price by the end of May.

I'd love to see us have to use silvers and golds a lot more to grind towards those diamonds. Even some commons and bronze. It would make building the team a lot more fun and rewarding as well as create a really healthy transaction market.

@RAisEdByGoAt_XBL said in Hitting is RNG:

@Ledfoot_19_PSN I think you have it backwards. A lot of us running high fiber speeds experience some of the most lag. Geographical location matters a ton

Definitely. Good point.

RNG is a necessary evil in sports games. It's how well the tune it. A great example is how we had way too many wild pitches in vs CPU modes. Wild pitches happen in baseball and RNG determines how often in a video game. This was tuned poorly for a while.

That said online play is more about connection IMO. Patience and pitch location take a back seat to PCI placement and timing. I get it that's it's frustrating when we hit a lot of Good/Good outs and your opponent hits a ball just late off his shoe string for 457 foot bomb but that pendulum swings both ways. It's luck in a far from perfect game but the player with better connection will win 8 out of 10 times.

It's just my opinion but it's too early in the real season to have so many 99s. I think the increments went up too fast too soon and 2 bad things happened because of it.

1. Everyone will have a God Squad by the end of August, if they don't already.

2. Most Golds and low end diamonds became useless right out of the gate. It's why the market and stub earning became a chore this year. By the end of April an 85 Diamond was barely worth 5000. It's why there are so many complaints about pack luck this year. It's probably not that odds are down but odds are when you pull one it's barely at quick sell price.

I would love to see us have to grind more with silver and golds to earn those Diamonds and have them slow down progression. At this rate who's gonna give a [censored] about the finest voucher trade ins.....

@PAinPA_PSN said in Just admit you guys added a lot of Rng this year:

Is it rng or is it maybe something else, like connections and lag?
I can only speak to single player experience,but from the beginning of the year with lesser cards to now with high contact/vision/power cards I am seeing a lot less random and a lot more consistency. the mechanics would be the same for both single player and multiplayer,so I wonder how much of it is rng and how much of it is connection issues or lag?

It's both. The game cannot be about skill only, it's a sports game and statistics driven using players with ratings designed to make them play like their real life counterparts. RNG is necessary in a sports game like rolling dice. That said they can tune these things better than they do.

Connection and lag are a bigger culprit in online vs games. The best player in the world with a garbage connection will lose to a mediocre player with a great connection most of the time.

@capardo_XBL said in Sandberg Program -- Big Win -- but:

@Ledfoot_19_PSN hang in there! Just about every one of the Sandberg moments took me at least 10 restarts to finish. That particular moment you reference was at least twice that.

Finally did it. Ironically I hit HRs in 3 other of his moments rather easily lol

I cannot hit the 2nd HR in the back to back HR moments.....just can't. Hit an inside the park HR and it didn't count. I just walked away after wasting an hour in the least fun mode in any game ever....I skipped ahead to the XBH and hit a HR go figure...

I think it's all an indictment of the world we live in. Be it sports, politics, or day to day life, class, morals, values, and civility are just absent. As far as a salary cap goes I'm so tired of owners crying poverty then overpaying for players. I'm old, I've seen plenry of strikes and lockouts in all my sports.....millionaires fighting with billionaires but one thing they have in common are owners crying the blues and a year or two after a strike the stupid contracts start again. As a Met fan I know it all to well as I just celebrated Bobby Bonilla Day recently.

Unfortunately there isn't much room for change in this game and by now, those of us who have played for years, have settled in on our camera views and square up most things in the strike zone. So my theory is they've intentionally made the pitching this way.....will it be a ball 3 feet off the plate? Or will it paint the gray? You get 1 maybe 2 pitches in the box per at bat. As a result, due to pure boredom, is I find myself moving the PCI around more and swinging at [censored] I wouldn't normally swing at and I don't rake as much. These wild pitches and hit batters are a result of this eratibc pitch design.

Someone will probably answer this better. It's bunt for hit, bunt in a run, or a sac fly

I've got about 70 packs (Regular, Ballin, and Headliners). Would you open them before or after the new content today or after and why?

Beltran is my best. I have some that rate high that may surprise.
LS Trea Turner
LS Tatis Jr
All Star Ted Williams
Topps Now Adolis Garcia
Lightning Caroll
HD Jazz Chisolm
All Star Pete Alonso

I rake with these.
Honorable mention to any Elly card, silver Trout, Tatis, and Witt Jr

I recently posted an idiotic thread about pack odds and immediately made it inflammatory. I then went on to feed the very devolving a post like that will do. I have plenty of issues legit about this game and can even question the legitimacy of pack odds but overall its probably just a combination of total insane bad luck this year and the bizarre way the market turned early this year making packs feel unrewarding.

I let frustration get the better of me and ego drive it down hill. We all have legit complaints and all know some on the forum will fan the flames be it a loyal defender or blind hatred for the game and I don't want to be either of those. Overall the vast majority of peeps on this forum are good people with valid points, gripes, insight, and helpful tips and I'm glad to be a part of it.

Sorry to those I called out and for dragging that thread to the lowest level of social media.

Peace out 🤟

@LIONED-33_XBL said in Lol with packs:

@Ledfoot_19_PSN its not really a cliche when its true. Now go enjoy a hotpocket and find something else to cry about.

Lol, you must be a lib....total lib logic and hypocrisy.

@LIONED-33_XBL said in Lol with packs:

@Ledfoot_19_PSN you lost me with fan boys. I dont disagree there are some issues, but your fan boy argument is old. Suprise you didn't use bootlickers. Bottomline, you want everyone to agree with you, regardless of your argument or they are instantly wrong and the only rebuttal you have is "Fan Boys". Grow up, your lack of the ability to have an intelligent conversation shows you're either 12 or have the IQ of 12, pick one i dont care. Come out of your parents' basement and come up with new stuff.

No I don't want everyone to agree with me. There are plenty who do and plenty who don't. I personally believe pack odds are not accurate and it wouldn't shock me along with many others. We know for a fact difficulty levels are manipulated. Veteran in Conquest is not the same Veteran in vs CPU.

Early on you barely pulled gold uniforms, it was always silver, now I pull gold uniforms all the time. In a few months, like every year, diamonds will be more common in packs yet the odds don't change. Wow what statistical miracle.

Pretty funny how you said I lost you with Fanboy then use the cliche of come out of your mom's basement.

Fan boys never disappoint....I love the statistics comments as if they have an idea of how many people open how many packs each day and they KNOW THE NUMBERS....Sheep, God I hope you people don't vote if you base your life on what you're told rather than what you see.

@LHUBison58_XBL said in Lol with packs:

@Ledfoot_19_PSN said in Lol with packs:

@YOSHI24_XBL said in Lol with packs:

No tinfoil, just statistics. You opened just 71 packs

…and expected what? 2 Ohtanis?

That's a ridiculous response but one expected from the fan boy section.

Why don’t you answer his question? That is how discussion occurs. I know our society is gearing towards just shouting down your opponent, but your slapping him (of all people on here) as a fan boy is both misinformed and lazy.

Of course I don't expect 2 Ohtanis that's absurd but this year, since release, you can open 70 to 120 packs and barely make 6000 stubs. Back in the early stages of TA I was opening 50 to 100 every few days and you barely pull anything you can earn stubs with. As someone who has played diamond dynasty since its first year I don't recall it being this bad. People can agree or disagree. If I wrongly labeled someone a fan boy than I apologize, it gets frustrating with those ones I'm talking about that immediately attack people and defend even the most obvious flaws of the game.

@YOSHI24_XBL said in Lol with packs:

No tinfoil, just statistics. You opened just 71 packs

…and expected what? 2 Ohtanis?

That's a ridiculous response but one expected from the fan boy section.

Good luck bad luck aside, grinding feels so pointless....

58 Regular Packs 3 Golds. Pulled my first Chase pack 85 Glasnow

7 Ballin packs 10 golds

5 Headliner packs 3 Golds

1 Jumbo pack 3 Golds

17 of the 19 golds are only worth the quick sell value.

The SDS fan boys can break out the tin foil hat comments all they want, I've played this game long enough to know this year is ridiculous. It's designed more than ever to push stub sales to those foolish enough to buy them.