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Captain Log posted:Anyone enjoying TA:2 so far? I've only unlocked one card, but it's like Dominos. I'll have a bunch more unlocked soon. Grinding along. I did two of the extreme moments but honestly got annoyed at one and just quit and moved on to my relaxed playing. I haven't bought up collections yet, but I've got about 250k stubs left to buy in the AL and 180k on hand, and a lot more on the NL, so that's not happening soon.
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MJBuddy posted:Grinding along. I did two of the extreme moments but honestly got annoyed at one and just quit and moved on to my relaxed playing. I’ve just got the dodgers left in the NL thanks to pulling Acuna. But hoooo boy, are the Dodgers pricey. Despite Ohtani being my favorite player, I can’t hit or pitch with him worth a poo poo. But apparently they fixed his pitching motion this year? The problem is they give him as much control as a shotgun firing spaghetti. Sure, he isn’t Maddux. But he also isn’t Blake Snell.
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Big content drop solves a lot of things. New conquest, two programs, new mini season, double XP weekend and quadruple XP cap and the new programs and mini seasons have 40-60k XP per, rather than 4-25k. Seems like they've finally accepted that their pacing on the season track was way too tight.
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MJBuddy posted:Big content drop solves a lot of things. New conquest, two programs, new mini season, double XP weekend and quadruple XP cap and the new programs and mini seasons have 40-60k XP per, rather than 4-25k. Seems like they've finally accepted that their pacing on the season track was way too tight. They need to keep adding choice packs. I understand they might want to put a week or two between a pack being in the shop and a chance to earn one for free. But I'm not even done with Live Series yet, and still have a a gigantic amount of cards I've not seen sniffed. I'm at 188 Season One cards, and doubt I'll hit 280 by the start of Season Two at this rate. I started back into ranked seasons when they dropped the second batch of missions. It just makes more sense to play when you can earn the most points, because I've got no illusions about getting to World Series through ranked alone. I'm not at 11 - 1, and it's kinda a curse. I'm so loving worried about my stupid little record. I know I'm going to get pummeled into the earth pretty soon.
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I grabbed the two shop captains packs. Technically you could buy them for 40k and sell the cards for 48-50 for a quick flip if you'd like, because people want to stock them all up. The Ortiz card is insane for the new Mini Season, with 99 OVR and maxed out stats vs righties. I think I may hold on to him. Santana is really in meta conversations in Ranked I think, because getting a team of 10-13 switch hitters and getting a huge contact boost seems to be very very good in high ranked. Less important in my purely offline play so I'll probably flip him back out before the pack shows up in a program somewhere.
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I got the Kershaw card because Dribble works and whatever a bunch of lefties in the team isn't the worst thing in the world. I'll probably get the Santana one later when I get too frustrated with that.
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I have no idea why, but I rake with lefties far better than righties. Even lefty/lefty, I'm a menace. But if a person pitches me inside righty/righty, I'm hosed. I literally think it has something to do with how I hold the controller or look at the screen. I simply cannot hit inside pitches righty/righty. If I got the Kershaw and Santana captains, I might never lose again. I'm now 12-1. I matched with a person 100 points over my ranking with a God Squad including DeGrom. He hit me for three in the first inning, and I thought I was hosed. Then I shoved DeGrom so far up his own rear end the dude quit by the end of the third. 
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Captain Log posted:I have no idea why, but I rake with lefties far better than righties. Even lefty/lefty, I'm a menace. Righty/Righty I just used to sit up and in and wait for something straight and try to be early on it to launch it. Worked okay. Once you launch one people generally won't throw there again nonstop. Online I just try to throw sinkers down and in until the opp shows me they can hit it then I'll start mixing it up, but half the time I could just throw that one pitch constantly or sliders out of the zone and never need to do anything else.
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MJBuddy posted:Righty/Righty I just used to sit up and in and wait for something straight and try to be early on it to launch it. Worked okay. Once you launch one people generally won't throw there again nonstop. Online I just try to throw sinkers down and in until the opp shows me they can hit it then I'll start mixing it up, but half the time I could just throw that one pitch constantly or sliders out of the zone and never need to do anything else. Right now, my God Squad is an even split between lefties and switch hitters. I've reached the point where I'll sub out Griffey for a righty if they're pitching a lefty starter. But some of my lefties have better splits against lefty pitchers than righties. The one righty I'm a loving monster with in any situation has always been Jimmy Foxx. So of course he isn't in the game yet. This is how I'm immune to people spamming righty/righty sinkers. They just don't have the chance to try it for more than a batter. If they spam lefty/lefty inside pitches, I'll eat them. Also, Ohtani is a lot better of a pitcher this season. But his control is so bad, I find him unusable. Which is sad, being as he is one of my favorite players.
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I have to share with someone. I played a ranked game yesterday, and was getting stomped. Which is fine, it happens. But when the person doing the stomping starts bunt pumping, trying to pull off squeezes, and other poo poo, it stings. I was down 8 - 0 in the fifth, and barely avoided getting mercy'd. Then I proceeded to summon every ounce of skill I've ever had, and stormed back to beat the rear end in a top hat 10 - 8.  (Brady Storm was my opponent, not me.)
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May 1, 2024 13:24
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Trying the complaining on the internet trick but also is anyone else banging their head against Nick Lodolo specifically in the classics showdown? If he isn’t pinpointing every pitch to where I can do nothing with it, I’m hitting perfect perfects directly into Ellys glove
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the_american_dream posted:Trying the complaining on the internet trick but also is anyone else banging their head against Nick Lodolo specifically in the classics showdown? I got through the showdown on the first try, but Lodolo almost folded me for that exact reason. He is clearly throwing the most unintentional dots I've ever seen, then each of the Reds turned into Ozzie Smith. You are not alone. I finally lost my second ranked game last night, making me 14-2. But the infuriating thing? My diamond fielding second baseman dropped a double play ball, with bases loaded. Then Griffey dropped a bases loaded FLY BALL. I've been playing the Show for four years now, and never seen a fielder just drop a pop up. It felt like the game decided it was my times to lose.
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I was on a decent 7-0 BR run and lost to someone with like 5 wins and 27 losses. He put up 9 runs in the first inning and threw a perfect game. Some days just be like that.
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I had a weird one the other night. Tie game in the bottom of the 10th, bases loaded against me, one out and the CPU hist a fly ball foul deep down the right field line. I have defense set to "assisted" and by the time I realized that, if I caught the ball, I'd be giving up a sac fly, I couldn't get the right fielder to disengage and he caught it anyway. Runner tags, I lose. I guess I should have tried diving or jumping because moving the stick away from the catch area wasn't doing anything. Maybe the AI thought I had a play at the plate but the ball was hit pretty deep.
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Grem posted:I was on a decent 7-0 BR run and lost to someone with like 5 wins and 27 losses. He put up 9 runs in the first inning and threw a perfect game. Some days just be like that. I know this is just coping, but sometimes poo poo just gets weird. I took my third loss yesterday, taking me to 14-3. Except this guy had no clue how to pitch, and was swinging out of his shoes at everything. I hit home runs with my first three batters, and was threatening constantly. I was striking them out of three straight sliders, batter after batter. Then the fourth inning came around. They became ridiculous at the plate, working almost every count full and hitting deep flies most of the time. They also started pitching me like a psychic. They tied it up, and kept me from scoring until extras. (Of course I scored my ghost runner in extras, so they somehow hit a bloop + perfect gap shot to win. But that's fine, it happens.) Tldr - I swear to God, sometimes you are playing two people in the same game.
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It's a bit cope but I absolutely believe in "hand the controller to my brother" is a real thing
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I'm curious for my competitive buddies in this thread - which relievers do you trust? In every game, Billy Wagner is my most reliable arm. I've got the Team Affinity Billy Wagner as one of my only P5 cards. Yet he seems to be a choke artist, and I'm dumbfounded as to why. I've always been dominant with him, but even last night he blew a save. I walked it off in the night inning, but I'm not used to him being such junk. Relivers I trust - - Gold Evan Phillips - Diamond Joe Kelly - Diamond Rollie Fingers - Diamond Kendall Gravemann - Diamond Rasial Inglesias Relievers who might be trustworthy - - Diamond Joe Franco - That soft tossing weekly rewards lefty Met guy Relievers who get shelled when I use them - - Diamond Wagner - Diamond Kenly Jansen - Diamond Aaron Bummer
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I use my starters as relievers like a true rear end in a top hat
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Not trying to bring the thread down but I threw in on the towel on this game the other week. The progression for a casual player was just too slow. That and sets just made things seem not worth playing more and I'd always be behind the curve online. Also I like competitive games but I kinda feel like this one requires a monitor or using game mode + stick accessories etc even to be ok at a crap level and I realized that I'm not gonna do that. Hey at least it was free with gamepass.
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Seltzer posted:Not trying to bring the thread down but I threw in on the towel on this game the other week. The progression for a casual player was just too slow. That and sets just made things seem not worth playing more and I'd always be behind the curve online. Also I like competitive games but I kinda feel like this one requires a monitor or using game mode + stick accessories etc even to be ok at a crap level and I realized that I'm not gonna do that. Hey at least it was free with gamepass. I totally hear you on that. But TA3 comes out on Friday, and might be a pretty fun content dump. Grem posted:I use my starters as relievers like a true rear end in a top hat You heathen. The soft throwing lefty I was talking about is Weekly Awards Tyler Jay. He has 41 stamina, and can make it a couple of innings. I've not had anyone in ranked figure him out, unless I leave him in for three innings or more.
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I "finished" Season Two of ranked, largely by waiting for the second mission drop before going hard at it, with a record of 17-4. I am absolutely playing over my skis at the moment, and would get smacked into oblivion if I staggered my way into Hall of Fame. Where is everyone else landing in their ranked journeys?
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Ended up in Wild Card before I got DeGrom from the program rewards. I am not doing as well this season, but I'm also focusing more in events and BR plus ever so slowly working on the mini seasons.
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Anyone looking forward to TA3 dropping today? The thing I'm a little baffled about is this - We are about to get some really fun cards, but it will take some time to unlock them. They are all Season One. Does that means we are going to unlock some awesome cards, then lose them all in a couple weeks to, "Season Two?" If the wildcard process is implemented differently, maybe not. But we won't know until Season Two gets here.
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Yeah there's going to be more wild cards but they'll probably be used on the maxed out season bosses and collection bosses and not the 30 team cards. I don't know how I feel yet about it all. I do feel like I built a fun themed team this year but I never really get to use it in programs.
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TA 3 is out, but they've also pulled the silver/gold BR cards out of the collections so I'm down like 20 cards it's like they're trying to find new and unique ways to piss the community off EDIT: https://twitter.com/MLBTheShow/status/1789032431280156850 So it's 2 different bugs that just so happen to hide non-diamonds and not add non-diamonds to the total...for sure. Definitely not a "poo poo they're more mad then we thought" backtrack here TheFlyingLlama fucked around with this message at 21:43 on May 10, 2024 |
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Hanlan's Razor, just a silly bug.
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Alright, looking at the new TA format, I'm not thrilled. There is less mission experience and it's game mode dependent. Which means it will take longer to get to the juicy cards. I normally wouldn't care about that, if not for the season ending in 27 days or whatever. It feels like I'll have a couple weeks to use the good cards in this program, then season two comes along. It's frustrating, because this year has been the best for gameplay while also being the worst for content. Half the drat cards are gated behind packs, and stubs are the hardest to get by a long shot. I've not finished Live series, for gently caress's sake, largely because I'm never getting a good spread of packs to put towards it.
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Couple friends of mine are telling me that you can spot at "tell" for certain pitches from certain pitchers based on arm angles at release but I'll be hosed if I can figure it out. Also, how the gently caress do I turn OFF "PCI LOCK" if I accidentally click R3?
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Click it again without pushing in any direction. Also in my Season pack I pulled a no sell Senzel, despite already buying that Senzel (and collecting him!) last week, so gently caress me I guess thanks. Like I already lost 20-40k in card depreciation because of the new packs (which I was okay with) and now I lost another 35k on getting nothing but a quick sell card.
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5k for two or three saves in mini seasons or conquest is nice, but usually I can get TA done in a weekend, I'm only 1/6 of the way done.
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One of the little things I appreciate in this game is that hitters with high walk numbers tend to replicate that tendency in games if you're patient with them. It's something that's hard to get right in a video game but, on my team, Harper and Schwarber really will get a lot more pitches outside the zone than someone like Jimmy Rollins or Castellanos. Anyone have that ONE player that rates out good but, for some reason, the motehrfucker just can't hit? I can't find Chase Utley's sweet spot for the life of me and even when he catches one it's usually a line drive right to an outfielder. Cliff Lee is giving up and ungodly amount of home runs for me. COnversely, I have a few players that seem to overperform their abilities too. Didi Gregorius is one that stands out. I like to sit on that high outside fastball red zone and tend to hit a lot of homers with him. Speaking of zones, do the hot zones really do anything? It FEELS like they do but that could just be me setting my PCI into hot areas and trying to avoid them when pitching. I'm early on my third 162 game season and the game still continues to surprise and challenge me. Still can't baserun and steal consistently though and, my god, the CPU's pick off move is overpowered.
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Grem posted:5k for two or three saves in mini seasons or conquest is nice, but usually I can get TA done in a weekend, I'm only 1/6 of the way done. I've spent the last day doing all the new conquests. Needing to intentionally walk a few batters every game to get the Save is okay. Would have liked to notice it was saved and not Ks maybe 10 games sooner. It definitely feels like a spike of a grind. I'm just running a best in slot ta boss team but I'm only 20% of the way in one division (one of the ones I felt comfortable doing the Extreme Moment) and 18% on the others. Though I have 5 or so tickets. I dunno which way feels the best for grinding atm. Definitely feels much much stiffer than just sending out a pitcher to get 5 Ks two games in a row for 10k, and the lack of repeatable missions for bosses makes it seem like it won't get any faster at all as they become available.
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The thing that's killing me is all of these cards will go away in a couple weeks with Season Two. Yeah, I really dislike having mode specific poo poo. It should either be online or offline. But I can deal with that. But a long grind for cards which will be gated soon? I haven't reached a single one yet, for gently caress's sake.
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Yeah, the seasonal stuff this year and last year absolutely kills the game for me. Not to mention all the pack buying they force, we've really gone down hill in just two years.
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Why on earth do they not release The Show on PC?? I’m trying to play baseball on my steam deck while I ignore baseball on my TV
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The Kingfish posted:Why on earth do they not release The Show on PC?? I’m trying to play baseball on my steam deck while I ignore baseball on my TV People would cheat like crazy!
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This is baseball. Cheating is part of the game!
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I feel like the CPU’s pickoff move is more just randomly deciding you’re out.
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