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[The_Waterboy92]

Played an event mode on simulation hard difficulty, accelerated clock. Here’s 10 thoughts:

1) Dominick Cruz was referred to as former featherweight champion…
2) you cannot choose refs in event mode, it’s herb dean for them all
3) new controls are a welcome change and much better
4) seeing judges scorecards is a great addition
5) AI feels smarter, can’t really explain it other then that
6) when fighters are introduced it’s clunky it only says their name no other information. Just sounds rushed
7) classic camera angle is glitchy
8) the third fight of my event was a 3 rounder and Bruce buffer announced it as the 5 round main event of the evening
9) the co main event was also announced as the main event and made 5 rounds when it was 3
10) new damage system is awesome, unique and really impacts fights


Edit: seems to be fighter combo specific commentary that was neat. They way they talked about Cruz vs Dillashaw 1 when I did my rematch and they way they talked about the diaz vs mcgregor rivalry during my trilogy fight was quite awesome

[gbmbjj]

Sounds like a mixed bag of positive and negative points. Nice.

I am following threads like this closely, as I am contemplating buying a PS5 JUST for this game.

That's like a $600 dollar videogame basically ...so I'm reading carefully.

I should note, I was not a big fan of UFC 4.
:/

[The_Waterboy92]

Yeah some of the negatives are presentation stuff which I’m assuming will be fixed (dom cruz, calling my last 3 events the main event). The lack of customization for event mode is frustrating.. we at least had 3 refs in ufc 4.

I’m strictly offline event and tournament guy so that’s where I’ll be giving my feedback

[gbmbjj]

Quote: Originally Posted by The_Waterboy92

Yeah some of the negatives are presentation stuff which I’m assuming will be fixed (dom cruz, calling my last 3 events the main event). The lack of customization for event mode is frustrating.. we at least had 3 refs in ufc 4. I’m strictly offline event and tournament guy so that’s where I’ll be giving my feedback

Even better, as I would probably spend 99% of my time playing OFFLINE too!

[The_Waterboy92]

Quote: Originally Posted by gbmbjj

Even better, as I would probably spend 99% of my time playing OFFLINE too!

Yeah I mean for offline it’s definitely an improvement from 4 gameplay wise. But it’s the same roster which is highly unacceptable but it is what it is. Lots of great guys of YouTube show you how to make different fighters so I don’t mind that extra work

[Player2793]

Not sure if they'll use here or the discord for character modifications, just as Machida has similar issues in that he is still a 'kickboxer', they've don't list him as from Belem and his lead kicks are all slow/boxer/wrestler style instead of snappy.

[ClassActFan]

Thanks for posting. I hated UFC 4. Thought it was abysmal. Played it via game pass when I got back into gaming last year. Thought about buying 5 until it became clear that it is not a significant leap, especially after the team had three years to develop it. I’ll pick it up on a deep sale or whenever it arrives on EA Play/game pass in a year.

[classaction]

I am so excited for this game. It looks great. After all the changes, we should have a really great title on our hands.