As you’ve been waiting, the classic baseball video simulation game MLB The Show 25 finally came to you on March 14! If you’re a big fan of the entire game series, you should have known a lot about the game’s developments long before the game was released, especially the new additions, but I don’t know if you’ve noticed that there’s a small single-player mode added to the main mode Diamond Dynasty, which is Diamond Quest.
Although Diamond Dynasty is just one of the modes in MLB 25, it contains many components and is the core content of the game. It can be said that it determines whether the new MLB The Show game can ensure the continued expansion of the player base, so it gets some updates or adjustments almost every year.
In MLB 25, Diamond Quest, as one of the new additions to the mode, can provide you with a lot of MLB The Show 25 Stubs as rewards, but its peculiarity may make you not know how to play it at the beginning. But don’t worry, we will bring you a detailed guide.
Diamond Quest Overview
This new gameplay is a roguelike mode, and if you’ve been playing MLB series, you may feel that it is a bit like an upgraded and modified version of the previous Conquest mode. Generally speaking, in Diamond Quest, you can earn an in-game currency called Peanuts by participating in various small events and stadium challenges, and redeem additional perks to increase your chances of getting rewards at the end.
How To Play Diamond Quest?
Considering the complexity of this mode, we have broken down the entire experience into several steps and will introduce them to you one by one.
Choose Your Quest Based On The Reward
While the different quests in Diamond Quest unfold in roughly the same way, the rewards they can offer are different in content and level, so if you want to maximize the use of this mode to get more stubs or higher-level player cards, it is recommended that you check the available quests in advance and choose a quest that can provide rare and epic rewards.
Next, to get these rewards, you need to win a stadium challenge at the end of Diamond Quest - the more difficult the challenges, the higher your chances of getting rewards. The See Reward Breakdown input at the bottom of the screen when selecting a quest can help you see the percentage of rewards that drop for each difficulty, with the easiest Rookie offering only a 2% chance of an epic reward, and the highest G.O.A.T. offering a 70% chance.
Moving Cards On The Game Board
Once you have confirmed your quest and the team you are challenging, you will be taken to a random game board, which will provide you with the stadium board for the challenge, depending on which quest you have selected. Then you have to work hard to move your player cards to the stadium tiles that offer the best rewards. This step is honestly a bit like playing Monopoly Go: roll the dice at the bottom of the screen and then choose adjacent tiles to move your players forward.
It is worth noting that you must be careful not to touch Zone Sweeper when moving the card, which will trigger a difficult to win Legendary Challenge, causing you to “die” quickly in Diamond Quest without receiving any rewards. Fortunately, Zone Sweeper’s movements are predictable and it is not difficult to avoid it unless you are very confident in the strength of your account and are willing to take on these challenges. After all, the rewards it brings are very good.
Possible Contingencies
When your card crosses the green, blank tiles between your starting position and the stadium, you can initiate opponent challenges and mini-boss duels, which require you to perform different actions, generally collecting statistics or getting ahead.
If you complete these contingencies, your chances of getting rare and epic rewards will increase by 3% or even 6% at the end of the entire experience. In addition, completing them will give you perks, which will make your final stadium challenge easier to win, but losing the event will also bring penalties. Fortunately, the penalties will expire after the subsequent events are completed, while the perk effects can be maintained throughout the quest.
On the other hand, these contingencies are not required to complete, but it’s never a bad thing to try them out, as this will hopefully increase your chances of getting rare and epic rewards. In addition, when you land on blank tiles, you may get Peanuts, a special MLB 25 currency that can be exchanged for perks you need in the coach’s cart (the hidden store in Diamond Quest), or some blank tiles will directly provide perks.
Final Stadium Challenge
Once you have crossed all the empty tiles and reached the target stadium, you can choose the difficulty of the challenge based on your team’s strength. Although the higher the difficulty, the greater the reward, you must win the game to complete Diamond Quest and claim the reward, so it is best to choose according to your strength.
The above are all the steps to play Diamond Quest mode and their detailed explanations. I hope it will be helpful for your MLB 25 gaming experience. I wish you a happy game!
