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As someone who loves conquest this is a dream come true. This will keep me very busy lol.

Never thought i would even challenge for him but now i'm one win away from Seaver and 6 away from Ruth and just beat the AL on Hall of Fame (a challenge for me) i'm feeling very confident that i can do this now. If i hadn't given up on this for awhile who knows i might have had him already.

@TheNinjaRaven_PSN said in August Retro Lightning hitter:

@Ericulous1_PSN said in August Retro Lightning hitter:

@CDNMoneyMaker93_XBL said in August Retro Lightning hitter:

It's either Jim Thome or Jim Thome

Hahaha, oh is it super obvious? He does have 5 AS games and 1 silver slugger. Last year we didn't get a 99 Jim Thome until like October but I'm sure everyone will complain about another lefty first baseman.

Lastly, how do you guys know this stuff? I pride myself on knowing a lot of baseball history, I could probably recite the winner and loser of every WS going back to the early 50s but if you just say "this person had 5 All Star games" I wouldn't know where to begin. Now if it was something more rare like 16 gold gloves or 5 WS rings I could figure it out. But All Star Games? What's your secret?

Its called the internet. Put who won 5 gold gloves, etc in search and it magically gives you the answer you seek..amazing!

Why is every answer you give rude or insulting?

Wooow..... finally packed Trout, i quick flipped him because my luck been so bad this year! I am stunned. Yeeeeees. Sorry I've been waiting 5 years for this moment. This is a incredible feeling lol

@broken_toy1_PSN said in Hitting is not fun:

I was about to post this in another thread, but thought my reasons were different from OP since I only play offline.

I play this game to relax, not get frustrated that all my games are either 1 run/hit games (mostly this) or 15-0 blowouts.

There are usually some growing pains at the beginning of each year, but those should have been fixed by now. 3 innings of lazy fly balls to center and dribblers to second is insane and boring. There has to be a balance between realism and playing a video game. That used to be accomplished by changing difficulty. Grinding on Rookie takes the same time as grinding on all-star now, except for XP. I admit that I'm not as good as the arthritis in my hands progresses, but I'd like to still enjoy the game I've been playing since MLBTS19. The Arthritis isn't that bad. I thought it was an adjustment to Directional hitting, but seeing multiple posts like this tells me it's not. As all sports games are, the grind is the game. Earn this player by hitting 50 home runs, that's fine, play the CPU vs the White Sox at Costco Field. Might take several times, but the grind is the game. This grind isn't fun. The balance went way too far to realism. To me, it feels like like being on the seesaw with my big brother and he just jumped off, slamming me to the ground.

I even find myself moving the sliders in RTTS and MTO. I've never had to do that before. Beginner with moved sliders so I can hit HRs on a regular basis while getting my player to where I actually want to play is now tedious. I'm back to always pressing up on the left joystick like I did when first starting out. I went through a lot of controllers that way, I'm not going to do that much longer because the controllers, I now use to accommodate my aging hands, are much more expensive.

I love what they did with the content this year. The creep is amazing! They finally use odd numbered cards instead of always going up by 2. I'm still using LS cards over a month into the baseball season. Most importantly, I get to team build every day I play, like I did in MLBTS 2021. Except for TA, which I'm reserving judgement until TA2, the programs are better than they've ever been. A decent amount of decent cards that can be earned. Yes, too many cards that have to be bought, but you can get a good team without buying a bunch. We're already on our 3rd mini season, and finally have had a good number of conquest maps. Diamond quest is a great addition, plus gives good cards. The changes made to RTTS are true improvements. I didn't see any changes to MTO, but we can't expect everything in one year.

I do have to say I don't like the changes to fielding and pitching though. The CPU still has common "gold gloves," while my diamond fielders miss easy ground balls and have errors in every game. That added to poor pitch control with 80+ control pitchers is laughable when you throw a 4 seam well above the zone and it gets hit out of the park because it ended up middle/middle. Add that to boring hitting and the gameplay sucks. This is a game, treat it like a game. RPGs have story mode, FPSs have easy, and other sports games have rookie that plays like it's for rookies. Shouldn't MLBTS?

You want true realism, cool, play on legend and be alright with some of your players having .176 batting averages. Make me play Rookie instead of Veteran, that's fine. But please don't take the fun from the game.

For me it's the CPU pitching, it gets worse every year and this year is terrible.

I now refuse to play 9 inning games against the CPU because every game now is the pitcher throwing either ball after ball or unhittable dots on the corners, and when you do find a hittable pitch and hit it perfect perfect you can bet the fielders will find a way to come out of nowhere to make the catch, even if they have bronze fielding.

I've said this for the past 2 years at least, if I'm playing on rookie and trying to grind stats I don't want to just sit there watching my hits turn into outs, it's very deflating. Rookie/Vetran/All Star should be fun grinding levels not the CPU playing like it's a GOAT team.

@twisted-_-tea-_psn said in Lame content drop:

@samguenther1987 said in Lame content drop:

@savefarris_psn said in Lame content drop:

This week alone, we're getting...

• New Ranked Rewards
• POTM
• Conquest Map
• New Event
• TA4
• New Mega Collection

Where did you see the new Mega Collection news?

Let’s be honest neither of those ranked rewards are better than cards we already have, this is the worst potm program by far, who even plays conquest at this point of the game cycle, new event has boring rewards and it’s played on all star, TA4 looks terrible already. They just updated to promote a new collection today. It could be very good or it could be very bad. Hoping that it saves the huge flop that today was.

Me, I love conquest and can't wait for them to release more maps. You can chose to be negative or you can enjoy the game I chose to do the latter. Not to mention that Josh Donaldson card was a end game 3rd basemen for me last year.

If it takes you more then 5 minutes to get back to the game between innings you deserve the loss. You agreed to a game and are the one being rude and wasting your opponents time. I assume you like staring at a screen for x amount of time while your opponent pauses huh? I can see the rare unforeseeable instance were something comes up and you have to pause but not every inning.

In case anyone missed it you can collect 10 2021 all stars for 15,000 XP in the 5th inning.

Finally done, time to try out Randy Johnson and Clemente. Happy this is over.

90% of the pitches from the cpu are either balls or dotted, SDS people are not playing this mode to sit on their hands, and if you do get a hit it's right back at the pitcher or great contact is a double play

For instance I had runners on second and third with none out and my next 2 batters (De La Cruz, great contact right at the pitcher, runner on 3rd is frozen up the line of 3rd so 2 out) followed by a perfect perfect from Schwarber right at the Center Fielder.

I use to love this mode but i am quickly tiring of it this year.

It shouldn't be a chore to score runs. Rant over

Got Mantle. Completely worth the grind tonight awesome

Well I know what I'm doing this weekend and for the foreseeable future lol, all-star should be fine, it's hall of fame that seems a bit daunting.

12PM Pacific, same as the last 9 programs.

The grind is over, Betts acquired to complete the collection. Very excited to try out Chipper and the 99 Soriano.

Just a heads up there's a new collection to go along with the POTM in the 4th inning program, collect 3 POTM, worth 20,000 XP.

9 inning game against the CPU on ROOKIE, nothing but balls or dots on the black, this is just so unbelievable unfun so far this year. I just want to hit, I'm just so frustrated.

Pulled both high rounds among others for HRD sets (kept Ripken sold Cespides) i mean thats good enough right there but working on the Mets TA's to get there future star i land Arenado out of a free pack. This is easily the best day i've had this uear. Going to get Award Trout tonight, can't wait.

I would like prestige more if SDS could move it to offline as well (say make it a grind for IE hits/HR's/ Strikeouts), it's a good idea but personally I just don't play enough online to get the prestige cards done. I can definitely understand why people like it though.

Comes out on Friday October 1st at noon Pacific

Tino Martinez - 95
Eric Gagne - 97
Will Clark - 95
Charlie Blackmon 97
Matt Carpenter 96
Stephen Strasberg 98
Shane Victorino 95
Fernando Rodney 95
Brad Hand 98
Troy Percival - 95

Of course we all know what that means, Shark conquest map may be coming. I don't know about the rest of you but i love the idea of a loaded shark conquest map.