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Completed career mode on pro difficulty yesterday. It's ok but feels kind of lacking really. There's really not much content there at all. Gets very repetitive. The AI isn't good enough to make it fun or challenging either.

One thing that annoyed me is the opponents it kept giving me. Like seriously I was heavyweight champion, around 30 wins and 2 losses, 15+ fight win streak, 15+ knockouts in a row, and it's making me fight these randomly generated fighters constantly. I was expecting to be fighting Dos Santos, Overeem, Velasquez...etc. But no. It even made me fight the same 2 people something like 6 times in my last 10 fights. Didn't fight one actual big name in my last 10-15 something fights, just random boring create-a-fighters.

That's another thing. It automatically retires you after 40 fights. So what's the point in the career damage/longevity system?
 
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Had a very satisfying win yesterday. Fought this guy a few days ago who's rank 14 on the leaderboards. He was playing Werdum and I was Cormier. He just spammed thai clinch, takedowns, submission attempts and front kicks in the stand up. I couldn't do much even if I parried his shots I didn't have the range to counter properly. I managed to survive and lose by decision. Afterwards he sent me this cocky message saying stuff like I should have just given him the submission, and that he doesn't like fighting people who don't deserve to be in the cage with him.

Came up against him again yesterday and knocked out his Velasquez with Browne in 2 mins :D No cocky message this time :D
 
Had a good night on UFC last night, won a fair few fights, some really good tactical fights, seems going unranked games gives a lot less takedown abusers, had a few really good standup tatctical battles, the ground fight challenges did help a fair bit.
 
So I completed this on Pro tonight, found it pretty easy I only lost two fights.

Unlocked Bruce Lee and Royce Gracie now though :D.

Might start playing online a bit more now, if anyone wants to start up a PS4 tourney I'd be up for it.
 
playing career with my own character it is on easy and it is very easy won all my fights so far nearly all in first round I am the welterweight champion won 17 fights thus far
 
Is anyone still playing this? This thread died pretty fast lol. I still play online a fair amount.

Big patch came out yesterday. Plays very differently now.


Full patch notes:

Addition of 3 new fighters. 2 in Bantamweight: TJ Dillashaw, Takeya Mizugaki and 1 at Welterweight: Tyron Woodley.
Updates to fighter records
Update TJ Dillashaw to be Bantamweight Champion in Career and default fighter in Fight Now
Updated Alexander Gustafsson’s tattoo
Gameplay – Added Finish the Fight. Allowing users to land extra shots as a fighter gets knocked out
Gameplay – Added sprawls when defending power takedowns
Gameplay – Added the ability to touch gloves at the start of every round

Gameplay

Added animation to submissive fighter when attempting full guard sweep to a postured opponent in full guard.
Added the ability to break out of cage clinch by pressing L3 button.
Fixed an exploit where dominant fighter in full mount could sneak in punches from posturing up.
Fix for arm alignment issue for certain fighters in full mount.
Removed power takedowns and side control sweeps from fighters that should not have them.
Stamina and damage changes are now relative to accelerated clock.
Stamina no longer regenerates if user holds block.
User takes a larger stamina penalty when hit while weak blocking.
Dominant fighter in full guard has larger window to reverse the full guard sweep to mount. Animation sweep takes longer.
Fixed rare submission issue where gates could be skipped.
Fixed issues with framerate during gameplay.
Fixed rare issue with loss of takedown functionality after denying cage clinch.
Fixed issues with referee standup during TKOs and submissions.
Fixed various physics issues.
Fixed various animation issues.

Audio

Update to Renan Barao Bruce Buffer commentary.

Online

Opened Red Belt division in Championships.
Opened Grand Prix Invitational tournament in Championships.
Fix to online leaderboard stats displaying incorrectly in comparison to FighterNet profile.
Fix to online disconnects in tournaments resetting user’s fighter.
Fix to online disconnects not reporting the game and no DNF given.
Fixed issue with uploading highlight reels when game is suspended.

Miscellaneous

Added a EULA tile in the Extras menu.
Update to filtering of tutorial videos based on Language settings.
Fix to Origin flow in unsupported language displaying unsupported text.
Decreased difficulty of initial fighter after tutorials. User is unable to get knocked down during standup.
Fixed Create-a-Fighter icons for hats and tattoos.
Fixed rare issue with incorrect Post fight NIS playing.
Fixed rare crash that occurred during replays.
Fixed issue with Game Face fighters having a seam around neck.
 
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There was another big patch a few days ago. I have to say EA have done a great job with this patch. It really plays so much better now. Feels like a more complete, rounded game. Although, the fact that it has taken 2 big patches to get to this point kind of shows the game was completely unfinished at release. I'm sure this game would have gotten more favorable reviews if it was like this at release.

Patch notes:

New and Updated Content

- Addition of 3 new fighters. 2 in Welterweight: Matt Brown, Mike Pyle and 1 at Heavyweight: Stipe Miocic
- Updates to fighter records
- Gameplay – Added Referee TKO stoppage if dominant fighter throws too many blocked strikes without the submissive fighter trying to improve his position
- Gameplay – Added the ability to catch kicks on parries if the attacking fighter has low stamina or high leg damage when throwing a kick. If Parry button is held, a takedown will be initiated.
- Gameplay – Added new defensive standup transitions from Full Guard. Moved Sweep to Advanced Transition
- Gameplay – Added Back Mount escape for submissive fighter
- Gameplay – Added manual taunts. Press Left or Right Directional buttons to taunt
- Gameplay – Successful Basic Single Leg Takedowns will now end in Half Guard
- Online – Added Coins to Championships. Watch partner videos from the Home Panel and earn Coins to trade in for Season Points.


Gameplay

- Fixed issue where dominant fighter could stall transitions
- Fixed an exploit where fighters could sneak in a free hammer fist during Posture up and down animations
- Fixed exploit in Side Control where users could land a free shot after transitioning to Side Control.
- Fixed an issue with Cage Clinch Break denial inputs.
- Tuning – Increased base punch speed of all weight classes
- Tuning – AI tuned to be less aggressive. AI is more aware of stamina and fight pacing.
- Tuning – Duration and probability of Health Events has been tuned
- Tuning – Stamina loss on strikes landed has been adjusted
- Tuning – Tuned denial windows for various ground transitions, getups and submission attempts
- Tuning – Animation speeds adjusted for strikes that were being abused Online
- Added delay on submission attempts after a failed submission.
- Submissions cannot be attempted when attacker has minimal Stamina
- Fighters can change stances while blocking
- Adjusted Antônio Rogério Nogueira’s and Robbie Lawler’s Hand Power and Speed attributes


Career

- Fixed issue where Crucifix was unavailable in career. Will now be available on new Career save files after purchasing transition.


Online

- Allow users to view Fighter Stats and Abilities in Online Championships Fighter Select Screen
- Disabled Online Pause in all Online modes. User can still access the Pause menu, however it does not pause gameplay.
- Tuned White Belt promotion and division belt thresholds.


Miscellaneous

Fixed an issue with incorrect video for ‘GSP Switch Kick’ move.
- Fixed a crash when adjusting Walk out music
- Fixed an issue with Mat damage
- Changed Antônio Rogério Nogueira’s stance to southpaw
- Various replay fixes
 
Slowly improving but it's certainly too hard to remember the controls lol. I've figured out the movement and that's helped me a hell of lot.
 
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