EA Sports UFC Demo Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here (Xbox One, PS4)

[ManiacMatt1782]

Quote: Originally Posted by Phobia

See this is what I'm experiencing and it drives me crazy. Just watch Gus, it is literally nonstop attacking. Sure UFC 3 the AI was to aggressive Aholbert, but even it was not this hyper aggressive. This in the current demo is flat out redonkulous! Another major issue I have is the controls. The striking has no rhyme or reason to it. So if I hit square or triangle with no left stick it throws jab or cross, that seems logical. If I hold back on the LS and hit square or triangle it throws uppercut, again that makes sense. Now the kicking controls is where it gets stupid. So if I hit X or O with no LS it will throw inside or outside leg kicks, that is good. If I add LS forward with X or O then I get teep or front kicks. If I hold back on the LS stick with X and O then I get head or ax kicks. Ok so now lets throw these controls in while moving around the ring. I'm out of range, I want to lunge in with a leg kick. HOW???? If I hold forward then I with throw a front kick, if I flick LS then X or O I get a body kick. Same issue stands with the sway on the LT and block on the RT. Why do I have to hold LT and flick LS to sway????? Why couldn't this just have been mapped to the RT??????? Then you could block while moving, plus if you want to sway you flick the LS like normal, LT is redundant! Instead I have to play circus dexterity on the controller to do things I want to do. Ohhhh and speaking of redundancy, why in the hell do you have a L1 and R1 power? Why couldn't just R1 been power strikes?? I'm sorry guys it might sound like I'm bitching, but damn I was so hyped for this game and when I played the demo it smashed my dreams of what I had for the game. Brain Hayes and crew I just don't get their mindset on certain things. So many minor things could be changed to make this title out of this world great but instead its plagued with stupid design decisions. It will take the retail version being drastically different for me to buy it. I'm still holding hope the higher difficulty levels will fix the hyper aggressive AI, because I feel online this game will be a mess. It is so easy to throw special moves with lack of a stamina hit, I see EA MMA all over again online. Super CAFS and just a **** ton of people spamming the advance moves looking for lucky KOs. So because of that the offline will have to be my saving grace and the only way that will happen is if the AI aggression and strategy is fixed.

Actually the forward to throw hooks, irks the hell out of me. I want to sidestep and close distance as I jab. The thing about the striking that irks me the most, is it is much harder to pull off say Jab, Cross, Leg kick, a fairly basic combination, than it is to pull off left hook, right hook, Front face kick, Which comes off much easier in the controls, but would be a much more difficult combo to throw in real life.

[Phobia]

Couple guys playing against one another.
http://www.twitch.tv/maxlvl

Goes to show how horrible the stamina is, one guy spamming highlight moves and wins by KO in second round after 30+ round house kicks and such lol

Online will be this if stamina is like demo

Round house......ax kick....ax kick.....teep.....teep......teep.....cart wheel wild kick.....off the cage super man....round house....head kick....head kick...ax kick....................................regular punch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Gotmadskillzson]

For all of you stuck at work, I'll play for a little bit:

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[vpizzle28]

Does anyone know if you can watch the top fighters online like in EA MMA?

[Gotmadskillzson]

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That duck walk though......He was gone

[gatortown]

Pretty good fight I just had against Jones

[Gotmadskillzson]

Alexander Gustaffson was channeling his inner Anderson Silva with this kick.

[kingsofthevalley]

After a couple hours of play time, the one issue thats bothering me at the moment, is that the punches and kicks don't seem to have much of an impact. How can I say….? The game isn't visceral? I think thats a good phrase for what I'm trying to say here. I'm not FEELING the impact of the strikes or the heaviness of the fighters. There's no force behind the strikes.

Out of the selection of EA sports games I've played, the devs always seem to have a problem transitioning the weight and impact of the real world into their games. This problem is especially noticeable in the Madden series where the players just have this odd "floaty" feel (which they seem to be improving on in Madden). That "floaty, feathery" feel is the way the punches/kicks feel, to me, in this game.

As far as the comments referencing a game being sim or not, I've never really had a problem with that as I MAKE the game play sim. That takes the implementation of house rules, but I'm used to house rules, so I usually make games as sim as I want them to be.