re: **tOfficial MLB 16 The Show Thread**

Well no clue if anyone else was on tonight, but if you had all the 25-man collection missions done, it glitched out for like 20 minutes where you could claim all the division and league collection rewards.

So essentially I got Ripken, Kemp, Kaline, Bagwell, Stocker, A-Rod, Robinson etc.

Not sure what they're gonna do, but Ramone says they're gonna try and take the cards away.

Honestly don't care if they take the cards, I wanted the exp to finish up lvl 50 on Donaldson

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Is there stuff offered on the captains things past level 30? I have level 30 in 3 different players but just switched to start a different player as soon as I got to 30 as opposed to building it more

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The max level you can get for a captain is 50.

There are rumors that people think they'll eventually add something for being lvl 42. Not sure why that number, maybe Jackie Robinson? But that's the rumors on Reddit at least.

I got all my captains to lvl 30 first. Now I'm working on getting them all higher now.

IMO you have to be careful with the difficulty if you run RTTS with a pitcher. It's way too easy to bulldoze your way through AA and get called up to the Bigs (sometimes even bypassing AAA) as an 18 year old, where of course you get your shite pushed in with homers galore.

I bump up the difficulty substantially when I do a pitcher. JMO.

I did and that's all I play. Started on dynamic and cruised through the minors. Now in my 5th season, I play on Legend. I enjoy the challenge.

THIS GAME IS RIGGED FOR EXCITEMENT

I was pitching lights out.

I was up 3-1 going into the bottom of the 9th

First pitch HR

New pitcher

First pitch HR

Next batter First pitch HR

Done 4-3

All pitches were low and outside, FWIW.

All I'm saying is this game is rigged for moments like that.

That's not the first time I've come across crazy 9th inning shenanigans.

I do so well when I pitch with Matt Garza. Not sure why but I do.

Momentum is a HUGE proponent in this years game. Go play BR, and leave your starter in after giving up two base hits with zero outs and tell me you don't give up at least two runs. Even if it means making things super unrealistic like watching Kenny Lofton or Jarrod Dyson hit no doubt HRs off a left handed pitcher (it's been done to me on several occasions) The game is built to punish people for leaving pitchers in too long.

My biggest issue with online play is All-Star difficulty. Since I am a streamer, I am always looking for more people to join my channel so I have my twitch info as my Main logo so my opponent can see and join my channel while we play if they so choose. I played a guy last night and he beat me 12-9. Between the two of us, we had 15 HRs in a 9 inning game. He admitted that every time he swung the bat he was power swinging. Simply because it was on all-star difficulty and the PCI is absolutely gigantic. Now I am rated roughly 1700 in H2H and I know that once I get to 1750 I will be able to play games on HoF (which should be the default setting IMO). However, I don't have the best team and most of the people I play against have Reggie Stocker, and Mike Trout, etc. So it's hard for me to win back to back games.

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But just because you're winning doesn't mean that the other team is absolutely guaranteed to come back and win.

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Maybe not come back and WIN but there is definitely some form of coming back built in to the game. The game I mentioned the guy had me down 7-2 in the second inning and I came back the next inning and hit 3 HRs to bring it back to 7-6. Eventually I tied it up, but lost in the end

Anyone stick to a fastball and occasional curve? Works for me.

In H2H I literally don't rely on any pitch. I do my best to trick my opponent.

You have no idea how many times that I've struck people out looking with a waist high curveball. It fools the shite out of people.

I just do my best to not build up any tendencies. That's key to being succesful.