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@TheJeweledLotus_PSN said:

Hitting is crazy overpowered on all star, there is too huge a gap between hof and all-star. Ima. Regular WS player but I’m stuck in the 500’s every game is double didgits both teams, you can’t get anyone out. The pci is so gigantic you have to power swing everytime or you foul every single pitch off or make weak contact. I’d like to play a realistic game of baseball and that only happens on hof, why are the 3,4,5,6 hundred all on all star and 7,8 hof? Need either a middle ground between the two or hof needs to start at 600.

Also all the sudden this year if you throw a ball 2 inches inside the guy jumps out of the way so you can’t even use that pitch much anymore. Some guys you throw it above the zone not even inside and they jump out of they way, could have been swing and misses. As someone said else said pci shrinkage is still in the game.

Saying hittingnis over powered is completely false. Hitting is way under powered this year. I've never seen this many perfect/perfect line outs ever. It Seems like this because fielding is such a crucial thing this year. You cant just put anyone you want. Bronze and common fielders are deffinetly stuck in the mud on plays. But also having perfect hits with 80 power die at the warning track proves that hitting is in no way OP this year.

SDS I know it might be a small thing, but could we please be able to sell the duplicate MlB team and WBC jerseys. I know what some people will say, no you can't do that it'll crash the market. Okay cool but then stop giving me a prompt saying I CAN quick sell it just for it to say this item cannot be sold.

Just so everyone can learn something. 50-1 odds in NO WAY means that out of 50 packs you are guaranteed a diamond pull. What odds mean is that for EVERY 1 pack it contains a 50-1 chance that it contains a diamond pulls. It is still a chance and luck factor, and why it is possible to both go WAY over the odds in not pulling a diamond and then also pull 5 diamonds in 10 packs. Odds are not a guarantee, so please stop acting like it is fraud when it is just luck. What better odds get more packs by grinding

Face it SDS doesn't care. There is no reason. A 100% pitch with a 0.00 or even a 0.02 release when you even have the par way off the plate should ever end up down the middle. There is no reason to reward someone for a very late hit when a perfect/perfect is a line out. Not even a good good fly out when your oppent has 7 hits with very late or early timing and is allowed to foul off pitches not even near the zone. SDS says stick skills rain supreme in the online settings, but it's not true. They DO NOT CARE! That's why they took oppent pci placement away in 22. So that people couldn't keep sending them videos and pictures of hits and found balls no where near the pci.

@AcesWild614_PSN said in Give us more time on the pause timer:

Give us the time back on the pause timer, people aren't griev
ing, we are looking at the other teams bullpen, changing our pci, doing our defensive shifts. I just lost a weekend classic game over the timer and I wasn't griefing. Infuriating, I was actually shaking and losing my composure over a video game. I just want to make my adjustments, it's baseball. I was going to win that game I was trying to make pitching change and it cost me my Donaldson start. People aren't grieving nobody asked for that change, switch it back

Absolutely NOT!!!! People still abuse the pause timer now. It refills 30 seconds until max of 1.5 minutes after every inning not paused now. Before people would intentionally run the timer down until 10 seconds they play and then do it again next inning. If you aren't ready to play then don't enter a game. And if it takes you longer then 10 seconds to make a pitching change or to platoon a hitter you need to rethink your decisions. Finally if you can't hold your bowls until a game is complete then just quit or risk a forfeit.

Hitting attributes that matter.
Power- how hard a ball is hit (in reality actually effects what kind of angle or how often a no doubt animation for a HR will kick in)
Contact- how big you PCI is against pitcher (is affected by pitcher H/9 rating)
Vision- impoves timing windows
Clutch- takes over for contact while runners in scoring position (supposedly only negates the lesser of the 2 between contact and clutch. If contact higher uses that still if clutch then that)
Discipline- matter for check swings

Durability- how often and liking the player will get injured (only matters in offline modes RTTS, MTO, and Franchise) should only be used on live series cards because any other series it is just used to skew the rating of the card. This is why a 91 overall Wyatt only has 70 power and contact against both sides but 99 Durability, because it raises the ending overall rating.

My apologies on the Durability tirade, but seriously SDS knows what they are doing when they abuse it.

Okay here we go. While I don't condone how some people on here are basically bashing on others for thier problems with showdown instead of giving some actual advice to help these individuals. Showdown is almost always locked at veteran difficulty and is made to be a fast paced easy way to get some quick rewards.
That being said here are some suggestions to possibly help improve your game play.
-if you are gonna try and steal against the computer make sure to never take a lead
-cpu is programmed to pitch out or pick off if a runner with 80 spd+ takes a lead
-to improve your steal success rate on XBOX tap left trigger then hold right bumper right after, I believe it would be just L2 tap and hold L1 on PS5. This will usually cause your runner to steal as soon as the pitch release happens and give you best possible chance at a good steal reaction
-try a different hitting view. The most widely used are strikezone or strike zone high (I prefer strikezone high). Bith give you a zoomed in batter view to help see pitches.
-remember to watch the release point of the pitcher not the strikezone. If you watch the strikezone you will almost always be late on fastballs.
-use whatever hitting interface you prefer, but know that zone when you are successful is the most rewarding.
-in showdown known the pitcher and situation.
-take pitches, lower stamina makes pitchers easier to hit and get more rewarding hits off of
-lastly remember while it is frustrating use it as a training mode. Try different views, hitting inputs, and just watch pitches sometimes.

@vvvvv2732_MLBTS said in Extreme Program:

Man I hate diamond quest. You do great for 2 hours, beat most challenges including the sweeper, you have 40 % chance for Kenley and 70 % chance for Santana only to get neither and feel terrible for wasting so much time for nothing.
Hope SDS will scrap it or change for next year.

I feel like this is were the miss understanding of hate for DQ comes from. I rarely play the whole map. 90% of the time just go straight for the stadiums and play on HoF or Legend (haven't played the Extreme 1 because of work yet) if it's an all live series team. Usually only have 25-35% chance to get rewards, but only takes me 15-20 minutes to complete. So if I don't get lucky and get both I just run it back and try again. This way I'm getting 4 runs of DQ in EACH with a 25-35% chance of getting rewards. So as long as I walk away with 1 of each after 4 runs I've maximized my time and instead of 1 run in 2 hours with only 80-95% (not garuanteed), I get 4 runs in and so far have always got both by my 4th run and Usually have 1-2 duplicates I can sell (maybe not great for this DQ because I heard you can't sell them).

I've tried both things and there is still an egregious amount of perfect perfect outs this year. Now I agree fielding matters and contact hitters should get more soft singles, but to have this and then hit a perfect with 88 harper with a power mod and 90+ power that is an out can not happen. I will die on the hill of a perfect swing should never end with an out. You should not punish players for doing everything right

Yeah it's been happening, you'll have to back out and restart that mini season. SDS knows and it has been reported multiple times, but unfortunately it's like everything else this year. Completely broken, sliders shrinkage has been removed LOL JK we just lied about it. Sds is in a bad spot they can't actually fix anything because they don't know how. So you either have to just deal with it or stop playing. Unfortunately for fans of the game the only thing that will make SDS keep their promises is probably a complete player boycott. I do love this game but SDS has fallen on every sword they have shown this year. Updated hitting, nope same broken rng mess. Perfect umpires in DD nope pitches 100% in the strike zone being called balls. Fielding rating matters, nope can still put a common fielder in the field and have them drive across 15 feet and throw out a 99 spd player. Check swings and foul balls have been reduced, nope not even. New anti cheat software, nope even top rated players say theres more cheaters then ever. New bot screening in ranked, nope match up with 3-4 everytime i go to find a game. Unfortunately they just do not seem to care anymore. Sorry for the rant but someone needed to call out the BS being fed to us this year.

@fubar2k7_PSN wierd another offline kid saying he's hitting .300 in hall of fame. You obviously haven't been playing the game, because EVERY content creator out there is saying this exact thing right now. To many good and perfect swings are outs, while just late and late swings are getting the same exit velocity and are hits. You should never have to try and be bad at a video game in order to be rewarded. Not to mention hall of fame in offline is equal to all-star in DD.

SDS says that the reason same handed low and away sliders shrink the pci is because it's suppose to "limit" foul balls. It doesn't especially when people see that pitch and just contact swing so they won't get struck out and foul it off. The real reason is last year they tried to fix it and when they sent the patch out it crashed the game for 18 hours. It's the same why they can't fix anything in the hitting engine. They don't know how without breaking the game.

Dear SDS your content is always good, I understand you can't control what "Legend/retired" players allow you to use their likeness. On that though you do directly control YOUR hitting, pitching, and fielding mechanics. This year we were promised that "fielding" would matter. Yet still we see multiple times were a diamond fielder does the stuck in mud, confused if they are on a baseball field animation or a 99 spd 99 reaction OF somehow drops a fly ball. But in the next 1/2 inning a common fielder is diving across the infield and throwing out a 99spd hitter or a bronze OF is making a diving okay to stop a gap shot. This is completely reverse of YOUR statements all year. This is controlled by your rng and needs worked on. Next hitting is so RNG based it's a joke. We've all seen the BS pci shrinking on sliders away or breaking balls. But what about the randomness on squared good timing. I've seen and had the ball just look dead with 100+ power and the feed back clearly being good but acting like it was very late. You promised us a crisp any player regardless of power can hit HR with perfect swings. This also has not been the case. Finally your pitching is broken and you know it. A 100% .01 pitch will either be a dot or go down the middle or completely miss the whole screen. You know this is happening you have commented on it and have done nothing to fix these things. If you want this game to survive and become an Esport as you have suggested then crisp quality gameplay needs to be your focus. Yes the 70% of random players are here so they can add Babe Ruth and hit without trying. But the players who are playing on All-star and above want quality gameplay. They want to be rewarded for doing good, not see a common fielder does the 2 step catch on a perfect perfect that in real life is 99% of the time a gap shot. Please rework and revise your gameplay engines or your game is going to continue to collapse.

So just played my first 2 weekend classic games. And I'll start by saying I pushed to get to WS and I usually hang around 800-820 anyways. But the matchups were obviously not as SDS advertised. Both my oppents were at the top end and obviously intentionally stayed out of 900 to sloth the players. It's a bad outlook that has soured the experience. I have no problem loosing when I match up against someone who is 900 rating and they beat me. But people intentionally lost to go to the bottom to snipe rewards it's a bad experience. And SDS is basically condoning it by not matching people against the same ranking as them I.E. tighten the field more. Should be matching against players 0-20 points around me whose highest rating is 0-20 points around me, not the guy who quit 6 games to go to 801 from 898. Then it also needs to be moderated better, both my loses were while winning in the 6th by 5+ runs and then the oppent paused for 60 seconds and then couldn't miss after unpausing. This is sketchy and opens SDS to lawsuits for obviously deplorable player ethics. And yes it is legally actionable because the "STUBS" and "CARDS" I now can't get have a monetary in and real game value I.E. 150k stubs = $99.99 USD.

Now there will be people who come in and say get good. Usually offline players who claim to play on legend on franchise or supposedly a top 50 player who you can't find on the rankings. They're gonna say you lost because you suck and OK cool, but at least I don't lose on purpose or intentionally sandbag my rating because I can't handle actually trying.

@Sarge1387_PSN said:

@sds_joek_psn please take this one to the team-

You’ve got to allow us to sell dupes of diamond jerseys even after we’ve collected them. If we choose a no sell reward out of a pack? That’s on us. If we get it as a log in…that’s different.

I’d like to give SDS the benefit of the doubt here and believe it’s a bug…but I really can’t. Please at least consider switching this back, otherwise there’s really zero point to the “community” market, just have a full on store instead.

I agree I've brought this up before but I don't think anything will change. Wish we could at least exchange X amount of jerseys for a standard like we can for mini series banners.

Hey don't worry the latest update made it so previous capped live series at 500k now is capped at 750k. You know because people who have 5 ohtani cards because of BR runs or pack luck cried it wasn't fare they could only make 500k. But hey they still haven't fixed the hair lag, coop quit glitch, pci shrinking on breaking pitches, or the fact that perfect hits are outs 30% of the time but being very late is still a bloop double 65% of the time. Stop complaining everyone

RNG is more prevalent then ever in ALL DD modes. I've seen players foul off 15 pitches in 1 at bat in 0-2 counts and pitches not even remotely close just to get a very early HR or a very late jam double the opposite way. I've seen and had my perfect hits be 100+ line outs with 100+ power hitters and then watched a 87 moh very early be a no doubt shot. The hitting engine is horrible this year. Then add i. The still prevalent PCI shrinking on sliders low and away or change ups just because SDS can't fix the code in the game without breaking it like last year.

@Tylerslikewhoa_XBL actually they have all said it there tool. Apparently you just don't pay attention. They've all said pci shrinking is a bs excuse just because SDS can't fix it. They've all pointed out that the bs random rng on perfects abd goods is broken. One time a good squared is 100 exit velo on a 99 mph pitch. Same hitter same swing same pitch next time is 85. It's because they can't code it. So next time do research before you open your mouth.

@chrisham8380_PSN said in Diamond Quest Sucks:

SD Studios has no respect for its players time. I’ve done the most recent Diamond Quest 5 times, and have had over 50% chance to get the epic cards every time, with one time being at 63% and another at 70%. I’ve gotten the Ottavino card once, and haven’t gotten the Jung card at all. I hate wasting my time and that’s what this mode is. If I complete the map and don’t get the cards, my percentage should automatically be increased for my next run. Stop making people grind for so long you get one card because the game decides it just doesn’t want to give the card out. Please SD Studios…please start respecting your players time. We’re the ones who pay you f***ing salary.

Soooo I don't think you understand how odds and statistics work. Just because you have a 70% chance doesn't mean it's guaranteed. Also feel like you are probably leaving out alot of information because I played this exact quest twice today. And got each 1 at a time on each play through on Allstar (58% rewards chance) after completing every challange and beating the sweaper. So either A) you are super unlucky or B) you are losing your stadium challenge your rewards. Also the majority or the player base loves DQ. It has been an awesome way to make stubs, packs, and rewards to sell when you do get them.

While I agree that SDS has made some shady decisions on using durability to boost a the overall of some cards and then tanking it and throwing those points into actual stats that matter. To go back to all 99 and having 4 releases of the same card is a joke. Game is a month old and we're at 90-93 now. In another month 95-97. They simply need to stop abusing durability on the program rewards and build the card just like they would for a pack wall card. Just to be clear they also abused this stat in the all 99 era as well. You just didn't notice it because even if all stats are 125 the card overall still makes at 99.