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The original post is true for me also. I have limitations. I play offline only and veteran difficulty to compensate. I understand that I am playing with low diamonds and golds compared to the 99's that we had last year. However, I am playing against AI teams with bronze players. Those bronze pitchers are dotting sweepers and those bronze fielders are robbing extra-base hits with highlight-reel catches. My low diamond hitters are driving perfect-perfect contact right at the fielders or turning solid contact into lazy fly balls. It makes the game frustrating. I just want my bronze/silver offline opponent to play like one, and my own rare good contact to result in something positive. Is that asking too much?

Leave online play alone if people like it. Just make offline grinding a little less painful on the easier difficulties. If people want to be challenged offline, they have the higher difficulties and better rewards for using them.

@The_Joneser_PSN said in Hitting is not fun:

but I don't understand this:

@Orcin_MLBTS said in Hitting is not fun:

... turning solid contact into lazy fly balls.

I'm not trying to pick a fight, here... I just don't know what this means. If you hit a lazy fly ball, what is it that makes you think you should have had solid contact? Is it just because of the feedback window?

Yes. The feedback window says that my contact was "good". I think it is reasonable to then assume that my contact was good. I have no other data.

I don't believe you are in a position to understand the concerns expressed by myself and others in this thread. You say that you don't play on anything below all-star. I never play above veteran. You talk about the pci placement, but I use directional hitting. I think your skill level is too high to relate to our difficulties. Again, I don't want to change your experience. I just think that rookie and veteran should be a bit more forgiving.

Since directional/timing is allowed and it is easier, why don't you just use it yourself?

@The_Joneser_PSN said in Hitting is not fun:

Sorry... but this is supposed to play more like a baseball sim; it was presented as such before launch and new steps toward realism were touted, and it should aim to play like one (for once), at least as you get out of the lower difficulties. Not saying that low difficulties should inspire so much struggle (taking peoples' word for it), but higher difficulties should be hard. If not hitting .400 with HRs every 5 at bats "is not fun," then maybe you just don't think baseball is fun unless you change it into something that it is not.

But this thread IS about the lower difficulties, not the higher difficulties. So while your point is valid, it is also irrelevant.

@The_Joneser_PSN said in Hitting is not fun:

Again, not saying that this is the case, and this is probably a second stupid question, but do the people who play offline and want an easier experience mess with the sliders?

You can ratchet up the "CPU strike frequency," which should concentrate pitches closer to the middle of the plate while keeping the slower speeds, and you can increase the "human power," or whatever that slider is called... is that being done and it's still too difficult?

Changing sliders has no effect in Diamond Dynasty.

This hulking thing drops down between innings in my conquest game with the Orioles and Red Sox logos. Neither team playing in the game of course. This is new with the patch. Why oh why???

@PScrabro_PSN said in Showdown can be Done!!!!:

If you can't beat Showdowns, you are either swinging at every single pitch or you are not hitting in any mode anyways, so why only cry about Showdown.

I wanted to come in here and whine about showdowns, but this statement is just so true. I have a lot of trouble with showdowns, but I do much better when I am patient and wait for good pitches to hit. I also do better when I am confident as opposed to anxious, i.e. I have been playing well in other modes lately.

Having said all that, I do wish that there were only one or two elimination showdowns on the path. The WBC path with 100% elimination showdowns is just ridiculous.

@BJDUBBYAH_PSN said in Team Affinity:

@Misfits_138_1_PSN said in Team Affinity:
It’s 90 free cards towards the Set Two collection

^ this

I am still working on set 1 but getting close. I should have set 2 done by Labor Day.

He wore #5 when he played for the Kansas City Monarchs.

Hitting captains must be in the lineup and cannot be removed until after the 6th inning (or you lose the buff for all hitters). Pitching captains only need to be on the squad to supply the buff for any qualified pitcher that enters the game.

I am two stages away from the end. My next challenge is Lee Smith and the penultimate stage is likely Chafin. Should I just skip to Castillo?

Using zone hitting, you move the PCI around in an attempt to make perfect contact with the ball. With directional hitting, you hand that part of the process over to the CPU, and its ability to do so is based on the vision rating. Higher vision makes the CPU better at placing its PCI center on the sweet spot.

I don't want a workaround. I want the whole idea of nickname cards to go away. They should not be showing the nickname anywhere except on the front of the card.

Nolan Gorman

Buy the stubs and hold them for two weeks.

I am a casual offline player and a novice at playing the market, so I am looking for some advice. I will be interested in completing the live series for several teams (maybe all) eventually, but I really don't care how quickly I do it. I purchased the digital deluxe and I will have a bunch of now and later vouchers. Should I sell all of the diamonds and high golds that I pull in early access? If so, should I save the stubs for a few weeks or start buying again after the full launch? Or should I just keep everything I pull to avoid having to acquire it again? I know prices always fall over time, but players also jump up in level and therefore price. I just don't understand the best way to play this.

@Easy_Duhz_It__PSN said in Early thoughts - DD is going to frustrate the more casual and semi casual players.:

If you're not doing the showdown, you can grind pxp to get the Wetherholt.

I see that now, thanks. I missed the obvious "repeatable" tag on the 1000 pxp with program cards. I am glad I have a path to get the card, but I would still rather buy the card with money and spend my game time using it instead of grinding cards that don't fit my captain bonus.

Why doesn't Sony want my money? It sounds like a good deal for both of us. Just make all of these program cards sellable.

I am a casual player. To be specific, I use directional hitting and I hit about .240 against the CPU on veteran. I am a Cardinals fan, like Dolenz, and I really want the Weatherholt card because he would fit great on my Cardinals TA team that is using Edmonds as hitting captain. However, I will never be able to complete the showdown even once, so I have to pass on a card that I really want simply because it cannot be sold. Why not let me buy stubs and buy the card?

I collect pre-1980 cards. I have a few nice ones. My favorite is a 1953 Bowman Stan Musial.

My pet peeve is new and hopefully will be fixed soon. The announcer continually calls a single to the outfield on line drive outs, flyball outs, and ground ball outs.