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I used to be a competitive bowler. I carried a 200 average, bowled collegiately, multiple leagues and tournaments each month. You know what I didn't do? Go over to the 80 average bowlers on the lane next to me just playing to have fun, and tell them "you guys are weak". That's what maturity looks like.

Has anyone found any settings to increase hitting in Conquest games? Just about every game goes to the 4th inning as a sac fly fest. I don't understand why hitting is just fine in Mini Seasons but absolute frustration in Conquest. And of course they made Conquest the only solo way to earn the Spring Break cards.

That's comparing apples and oranges. Yes Rookie is harder this year, so less Ks per game for pitching and less runs scored overall in Rookie games. But that doesnt make the complete lack of length or depth of offline content any better. They aren't appeasing anyone, all they are going to see is a falloff of player count as the year progresses due to nothing to do, and less renewals next year as it feels like the MLB the Show franchise is on a severe down trend.

Just finished my I-don't-know-"th" time through WBC mini-seasons. TA's are all done through the first level of Jolts (the rest are all 100 TB grinds). Every offline program is done. I'm around halfway to 500k and have no desire to keep repeating the existing content. "CoNtEnT iSnT tHe PrObLeM" folks, how did you get to the 500k without mind-numbing repeated content? I'm pretty much heading over to other games at this point. Will I return on 5/1 to finish that content in 2 hours? Not sure, but this is by far the earliest in the history of MLB the Show I've felt the "I'm done with the game" feeling.

Guys just block the "online" troll, he's got nothing better to do than harrass people from mommie's basement while he eats his 8th bag of skittles and drinks his 28th mountain dew bought from mommie's SNAP benefits.

Anyone notice the AI has improved and rng has gone to [censored]? From last season to the beginning of this one I used mini-seasons to grind hitting stats. Now AI pitchers slider-spam, hardly ever miss in the zone, and good contact with 100+ power hitters fade at the warning tracks. This was the one mode a casual/bad hand eye coord player like me actually enjoyed playing (since they moved Conquest games to "simulation" style). I get the need for nerfing/balancing in the name of fair play for online games, but I mean mini-seasons is an offline mode why nerf it?

I completed every offline program, grinded out several Jolt cards in TA, and played a ton of RTTS in between content, and ended somewhere in the 470s. Unless they expected everyone to complete all the TA stuff in 1st Inning there is definitely a math problem here. I guess Inning Bosses is just going to be another "online player only" thing now.

@Rhyno1986_XBL The problem is "play your way" was some sort of mantra they were pushing yet Moments end up being required for nearly everything (I say nearly because I've noticed you can do Spotlights to completion and skip the moments). I will admit they've made moments much easier than in the past (anyone remember the Griffey father/son HRs one?) but why push a narative of letting people play their way then gateway pretty much everything with Moments. IMO every moment should have a matching "grind" so that if a moment is too hard they can accomplish it another way. For instance a player moment "hit a HR" could be matched with "10 HRs in offline gameplay" or some such.

I don't understand why they don't have staggered TA content like in the past. I keep reading what is there now is all there is for the year, hoping that is false but I've read it in several threads already. I know they got rid of MtO because I guess I was the only one playing it, but why not do a TA/mini-season combo where you have to win a season with an single franchise team or something similar? I love missions where I have to make a roster work with limited or underdog cards.

@Dolenz_PSN said:

Yeah. The amount of XP needed is kind of irrelevant. It is the opportunities to earn that XP that is more important

This^^^. The XP needed for a boss should be around the same that you get for going through all offline content in the inning ONCE.

So I'm in spring training after getting called up in my 2nd year in Aug. Led the team in BA and OPS by the end of the season. So in my 4th spring training game in the following year the announcers introduce me as the American League Rookie of the Year. I was? My coach never said anything. My agent never said anything. The game didn't even say anything!

You'd think there would be something in the game for this...your agent, your coach, some training tokens, a package, a little pop-up with fireworks saying congrats, Mike Trout saying we bros...something.

The RNG is really wacky this season even for the offline modes. I can take a team in mini-seasons and get 4 HR / 10 hit games against a team of 90+ players, but I play against the White Sox in Conquest using the same exact team and I am lucky to get a win with 2 sac flies in the 4th. I don't know why they made the bat a wet noodle for Conquest games, this started last year I used to love Conquest.

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@k9_21owl_MLBTS said in Official Egg Hunt Thread:

How do you Get Blue? I can't figure it out lol

Common Courtesy program...which requires a lot of different failures.

Since the DD content seems pretty much over, my thoughts/frustrations for the year.

FIrst what I thought was great:
Mini-seasons! I loved having so many types. Rewards felt worth it as well, maybe a little more "repeatable" ones (to be fair the last one has very good repeatables).

Team Affinity. I loved the content mix of short term/long term grinding goals. I bit too sporadic, and it would have been nice to have more tie-ins with other programs or mini-seasons instead of "500exp" for every player.

The bad:
Conquest mode. Number of maps was great, the mode itself played like dog excrement. I know the tryhards out there would say Conquest games are easy, but you guys have your Veteran and over difficulties for that. Rookie games were just stupid grindy. WAY too many "Line drive-Caught" or "No problem here" after solid hits. Too many hard hit balls dying at the warning track. Lower the RNG for Rookie games or introduce a lower difficulty like you have for other modes. And get rid of the pitching where its constant nibbling. Just rage-quit inducing when it seems like every 2 out of 3 games comes down to the 4th inning hoping for 2 sac flies to win it. If the hitting was like Mini-seasons it would be so much better. I can take the same team that had to 4th Sac fly fest to win against a 96 OVR Mini-season team and get multiple HRs.

The Ugly - March to October. Get a few packs if you play it, yay! It was my favorite mode last few seasons, I didn't even touch it this year. Please tie it back into Team Affinity.

Is Atl and SD on the conquest timed? I'm confused what "before the leaderboard resets" means.

Edit: Well I did it in 3 turns and it counted. I guess it's just flavor text and not really a requirement?

@KnightRaider574_XBL honestly feel like Conquest got nerfed a year or two ago. It seems to me like it is set to Simulation mode (or whatever it's called) and you rarely seem to get rewarded for good hits. Mini-seasons however seems to be set on Casual mode, so you can really get in some hitting streaks in a 3 inning game. The Left Hander and the newest Mini Season pretty much feel like Home Run derby. For grinding stats I recommend Mini-Seasons...yeah the games get lopsided quick but it makes grinding more time efficient. Conquest games are good for a realistic to nerfy feel, yeah you might get some 8+ hit games but usually you are winning by one or going into the 4th trying to get two Sac flies. I'll do Conquest games when working on pitching stats or SB numbers, or for the rewards, but for stat grinds I really think Mini-Seasons is the way to go.

@SDS_JoeK_PSN said:

@Salluch_PSN -- First off, sorry this has become such a headache for you and many others. Our support team is working hard to get through the tickets having to do with Now and Later packs/program issues, so sit tight and bear with us as they work through the list. Your patience is very much appreciated!

As an aside, for future reference, you're probably better off submitting one ticket and then following that ticket through the process, rather than submitting multiple tickets. Just makes it easier and faster for everyone.

Please feel free to keep me posted on everything.

I'm glad this issue is being looked at. I know they are just common packs (I had over 200 unopened at the end of last season) but those are valuable now. I opened MLB the Show 25 to confirm how many I have, but I could not find the actual vouchers there (what you get when you open the packs on the 25 end). I know I had 21 before I opened them, but only 1 Now and Later pack to open here. Is there any way to confirm the vouchers or are they hidden?

Spring Break: 16 cards to complete the set. Doing the program gets you 7, where's the other 9? Conquest...only Conquest, which has become one of the worst offline modes due to hitting nerfed to the point it's registered with the Geneva Convention as a torture device. When pitching AI batters endlessly foul balls off until your entire pitching staff is dead from exhaustion. I'd literally rather play online and hope I somehow find someone worse than me to play against or do 20 Father Son HR momemts than play another Conquest game again.

Yeah had no clue about this (it's also on Xbox)
. Nice PSA.

TA is such a wasted opportunity. It used to be the great grind umbrella, something to work on if you got programs done early and were waiting for new ones. It also had a great tie-in to March to October making that mode a very fun change of pace. Why did these things change, did people actually complain about the extra content?