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In what universe does "less people should earn the inning Boss" make any business sense?
It's not about lowering the xp, it's the simple fact that if offline players complete the content put out in an inning they can still be massively short of earning the boss. This is the change they made from like every single MLB the Show in the past. This is what we are bitching about.
I agree with the 21 & 23 post. I forgot which one had the TA connected with March to October but that's pretty much all I did in that one because it was so fun to try and mold franchises into playoff contenders in just a few nights, and actually get rewarded for it (TA completions, playing xp). I don't remember anyone complaining about not reaching the Inning bosses back then, and the following posts telling people to get better, adapt their playstyle, or grind harder. In fact I think the only thing on the boards was people bitching about online play after losing one game, I don't even think I looked at the boards much back then, no reason to.
@JDHalfrack_PSN Great post, but I think the point is it shouldn't have to be this way. Previous years you could play the offline content at a reasonable pace, have a variety of things to do, not even pay attention to the XP Path and then 'boom' oh wow I got the inning boss. Now it's finish the new content in an hour or two, then have to get back into the mini-season grind over and over (which I have done and still won't complete the Boss xp). It's just not fun for most people. TA was always one of my favorite things to do, I've already completed it this year by the 3rd Inning! (I'm talking about all the Jolt rewards not the stupid millions of Pxp for a few packs). Myself and I'm sure a lot of others are just apathetic now. We don't want to play online, we've accepted we won't get any of the boss cards, and we're bored of the cut and paste content.
Love the posts saying to suck it up and play online to get the rest of the xp for the Bosses. Thank you for making my point.
I was gonna stress about it, then I got all mathy...70 from the EZ stat missions, 30 from the PxP missions. Ok maybe that 4000 w/ Vintage seems grindy? Win 1 Conquest = 10. Or sub in the 1500 for Jolt (I still have a few that haven't hit 500 pxp) = 10. Or win a BR game = 10. Literally 145 mission points to get before you gotta get all Highlander and figure out who the Immortals are. It was just a troll by SDS.
@TheGoaler_PSN But the replies are hilarious.
298k did every offline program, finished grinding out the rest of the Jolts (lots of TB tracking), went through the Mural mini-seasons twice, finished all the Storylines, finally finished enough collections to get 95 Miggy, played a bunch of RTTS. I don't know how so many people are farther along, as I'm just bored with the game now. I'm just resigned to the fact Inning Bosses and Judge/Ohtani will be out of my reach this year.
Houston needs a 99 card aluminum trash can named "10th man"
Think it was 19 or 20 I had a RTTS 3rd baseman who led the league in HRs in his 2nd full season in the majors. Outside of that my favorite The Show was the year they had MTO feed into the TA program, I literally ran every MLB franchise though MTO at least once which was a ton of fun learning each roster.
9 inning games are good when chasing stats, for some reason (at least for me) I'll hit a spike in hitting and go through my entire order in one inning, often with back-to-back HRs. When I play 3 inning games I often have 1 run/4 hit games that feel (from a stat gaining perspective) like a waste of time.
As far as the Live Series collection, I'm down to Judge/Ohtani/Ramirez essentially, and probably won't get the stubs to get those as I'm already bored with the game. I got the 95 Miggy, every Jolt, every mini-season done at least once, every (offline) program done, and still 100k from 3rd inning boss. Just not a whole lot of incentive to keep playing.
Who's the one that would always shout, "Left on left crime" anytime he'd get an extra base hit leftie on leftie...like it was some magical ability only the top players could do. That dude was annoying and I barely lasted watching his stream.
Forums by nature will always be negative, but the tone is usually set by the quality of the game. There have been years past (back when this was a fun product with lots of content) where all you would see on the forums is "I lOsT sO tHeY mUsT bE cHeAtInG" posts. There were years I wouldn't even come to the forums because there was literally nothing about the offline content, just the Onliners crying as Onliners are wont to do. Now that Offline content has become the red headed stepchild of SDS's attention, yeah the posts are brutal and 99% negative covering just about every aspect of the game.
Been posting pretty negatively all year about this game (and deservedly so) but did have a cool moment (not "Moments" which I hate). In the Mural miniseason finals late innings. Vlad Sr hits a single down the middle. Vlad Jr follows with a 2 run game-winning HR. As a big fan of the Guerreros (I watched Sr play in Anaheim growing up) was sort of a "ok that was totally cool moment".
This thread still alive and kickin?
Yeah not all mini-seasons are built the same. I flew through the WBC ones to get wins. I started the default one at 9 innings for stat games, I don't expect to ever finish it. Threads was harder but not as hard as Murals. I think Murals is set to "simulation" like Conquest games are, where you need a 90+ power hitter to hit a 95+ mph fastball perfect/perfect and you MIGHT (if RNG allows you) get a HR. Cityscapes is pretty easy and I'm still chasing the 75 HR mark on that one.
@platewelder_363_MLBTS Still pretty much Home Run Derby in the WBC and Cityscapes mini-seasons. Murals for some reason plays worse than Conquest games. I don't understand why they mess with difficulties like that.
Yeah I may give up on the Mural mini-seasons. Effort not worth the reward. Rarely get anything over the fence with the Mural hitters, my only offense is Moniak or waiting til the 4th to Sac fly-sac fly my 1 run. Right now it's even questionable I'll make playoffs in my 3inn/28 game season, as opposing hitters often just run into one of my pitches.
Possibly might move to 9 inning games see if I have better luck, but once I get the cards will never touch this one again.
On Rookie pitchers do not throw down the middle anymore. They changed the AI to try and get to full counts every at bat. Nibble...nibble and if 0 - 2 you will get 3 straight balls, this happens 99% of the time.
Also is it just me or is the Mural mini-season 10x harder than the previous ones? I don't think I have more than 4 hits in any game yet.
So haven't been to the boards in a few days: Two threads about online opponents swinging at everything hitting HRs on every pitch off the plate. One thread that online hitting is too hard and perfect/perfects are outs. Honestly I feel for SDS in this situation how do you win here? (FYI I don't play online so my opinion means nothing)
Started the morning at 440k. All content is done except for Witt's 7th step, which is worth 10k. I played a 3 inning conquest game and a 9 inning mini-season game (7 - 1). Now I'm sitting at 441,969. This is absolutely laughable at this point.