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I'm still grinding WBC Pool A to get the Arenado since I'm not going to pay the inflated price there. Alexi Ramirez swings a wet noodle so trying to just grind the 2k one more time.

Do the "back" missions have to be done in the exact order?

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

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.

@betamax0_NSW Got a Vlad Jr live out of one of mine.

I love the storylines as content, but the cards are a bit useless as they don't get any franchise stats (from a DD perspective). I know last year there were a few missions for Negro League cards. I would love to see a TA-style system for them. I also loved the way the Jeter storyline played out (although hating the Yankees) and would love to see more like that as well.

I can remember the days when pitching AI was really bad especially in AA/AAA, serving up meatballs and making hitting under .400 almost impossible without throwing some at-bats. But now the AI is just ridiculous, throw junk til they are 3 - whatever then turn into Greg Maddux. Clip the strike zone...challenge and lose. Clip the corner, then clip the strike zone again, use up 2nd challenge but they win it by a pixel. If the pitcher had that much control to begin with how are they getting 3 - 0 in the first place? Award patience and make walks possible! Occasionally (like 1 in 4 games) I'll get like 4 almost wild pitches and get a 4 pitch walk. But normally it is 3 then paint-paint-paint. Not one hittable ball (we are all aware by now an inside strike is unhitable).

Honestly last year I feel like I got more Diamonds out of standard than Ballin packs. Ballin packs were just extra tokens after selling the gold/silvers.

Just FYI logging in today got my 20 packs and Beltran. So they are addressing the tickets just be patient.

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.

@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?

Ok look I'm not ashamed to admit last year was too easy, it was almost impossible not to hit .400+ in AA regardless of attributes. But it evened out in AAA and Pros. This year my character with around 50s in Contact/Power can barely get .200 in AA. Everything floats in the outfield or goes straight to an infielder. HRs are a pipe dream. Is this an overcorrection to last year? Does it get easier if I get my attributes over 60s?

I really wish they'd fix AI pitching. I get what they were trying to do...AI picks up on your tendencies and exploits them. Swing at 1 slider outside the zone and you will see 90% sliders the rest of the game. However this is not realistic in a baseball sense. Batter A swings at a slider outside the zone, maybe the AI gets a K or a weak hit. In real life you don't slider spam the rest of the game, each batter is supposed to be different. I mean I understand the concept of "when a pitch is working" but I've literally seen bronze AI pitchers get one swing and miss with their 4th pitch slider and literally throw nothing else the rest of the inning.

Sliders are stupid OP anyways you need to perfect/perfect them to get any sort of solid hit. Reminds me of splitters last year.

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.

Errors are unavoidable unless you are really good at the "Simon says" minigame. I've played both an IF and OF and it seems OF gets those a lot more...however OF seems to get more points playing defense. If you want to level up fast play as a contact hitter (my "power" 3B took 3 seasons to get to the pros). Don't ignore defensive stats, especially fielding/arm strength/arm acc because those really pump up your Overall and that controls your chance to get called up. Also it's agonizing but I've read in other threads never sim your Spring Training games.

@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.

Since I'm still finishing out the 25 HRs for each team I've been playing a lot of the Mini-Seasons, either the Left Hander one or the new one. Pick teams for Pitcher bosses (usually the ones without a power hitter boss) and load up the AS/CS bosses in the field. I think I'm down to 3 Neons left.

To preface, I am on Xbox Series S. Been playing the Show for about 10 years, and this is in reference to offline games in Diamond Dynasty and occasionally RttS. I use a PCI setting with fishbowl on the outside and bat in the center, pitcher feedback on, and play mostly Rookie games.

I've got this feeling over the last week or so my PCI is visually not correct. I've been hitting poorly, everything is a lazy pop up. I can see the bat image on the PCI hitting the ball squarely, but when I get the after swing image after the out it shows my PCI placement is much lower. I didn't think this was even possible, but I've recorded the game and looked at it frame by frame and it is happening. Is there a setting I messed up somewhere, or is this a controller issue (I use the standard Xbox controller)? Is anyone else having this issue or am I just going crazy here.

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.

@Slyravaniste_XBL In a way I am glad I don't get them often. I have had them happen on my 3rd baseman and I am always caught off-guard. In addition to having old-man reactions I usually miss them, and IMO it's stupid that if you dont react fast enough or are able to hit A B X Y Y B fast enough you get NEGATIVE exp. The only one you don't get punished for is the rob HR minigame, and ironically that's the one I succede at the most.