Fighter updates

[UOCgorilla]

If this has been addressed disregard.
Is there any way we can get weekly or even monthly fighter updates? Madden and most other EA sports titles do this but the UFC never has. The fighters dont actually fight too often compared to maddens weekly updates so it shouldnt be to hard to update stats of the fighters in the game.
This would be a very cool addition if it isnt being done already.

[Serengeti1]

I never really understood why they didn't do this anyway. I feel like it wouldn't take that much work. At least updates more regularly.

[Nugget7211]

If they even did every 3 weeks to a month (roughly the gap between PPVs) that'd be perfect, even if it was literally just fighter record updates, rather than stats, since apparently the UFC controls those.

[aholbert32]

Quote: Originally Posted by Serengeti95

I never really understood why they didn't do this anyway. I feel like it wouldn't take that much work. At least updates more regularly.

The roster structure of the game made it difficult. Unlike games like Madden and NBA 2k, the game didnt have a roster file that was downloadable and replaceable. So they could only update rosters through patches. What sucked was patches end after 6 mos.

[aholbert32]

Quote: Originally Posted by UOCgorilla

If this has been addressed disregard. Is there any way we can get weekly or even monthly fighter updates? Madden and most other EA sports titles do this but the UFC never has. The fighters dont actually fight too often compared to maddens weekly updates so it shouldnt be to hard to update stats of the fighters in the game. This would be a very cool addition if it isnt being done already.

The good news is that the team may be able to make updates more regularly with UFC 3.

I dont know how I feel about weekly or monthly stat updates though. I dont think we should be overreacting to one fight. With Madden, you have weeks of games to judge before making a change. Thats not the case with the UFC.

For example, lets say Cyborg gets KO'd next week. Should the devs drop her heart/toughness ratings simply because she was KO'd once when she hasnt been KO'd before? I'm more for making a quarterly stat update based on more than just 1 fight. Gives you a better picture of what should be changed.

[Serengeti1]

Quote: Originally Posted by aholbert32

The good news is that the team may be able to make updates more regularly with UFC 3. I dont know how I feel about weekly or monthly stat updates though. I dont think we should be overreacting to one fight. With Madden, you have weeks of games to judge before making a change. Thats not the case with the UFC. For example, lets say Cyborg gets KO'd next week. Should the devs drop her heart/toughness ratings simply because she was KO'd once when she hasnt been KO'd before? I'm more for making a quarterly stat update based on more than just 1 fight. Gives you a better picture of what should be changed.

I think it should be case by case ideally. For instance, Bisping KO's Rockhold. He needs a buff right away imo. On UFC 2 Rockhold's stats blew Bisping's out of the water before he became champ. In that instance I wouldn't make Bisping better than Rockhold. But the stats def need to be buffed quite a bit.

There's a few other examples like that but yeah.

[aholbert32]

Quote: Originally Posted by Serengeti95

I think it should be case by case ideally. For instance, Bisping KO's Rockhold. He needs a buff right away imo. On UFC 2 Rockhold's stats blew Bisping's out of the water before he became champ. In that instance I wouldn't make Bisping better than Rockhold. But the stats def need to be buffed quite a bit. There's a few other examples like that but yeah.

Lets talk that through. Before that KO, Bisping had 1 KO in 5 yrs and even that one (the Le fight) was more of an accumulation of punches than a one punch KO.

So what should be buffed? Power? Just because he KO'd Luke (who's been KO'd before)? Hand speed?

This is what I would like to avoid. Updates are great for fighters like Robert Whittaker who is underrated when the game was released and over time greatly improved. But I dont want to buff or nerf someone just because of one fight. Especially when we have plenty of previous fights to determine his stats.

[fballturkey]

Yeah, the updates are way more important for emergent fighters who you might barely know about now but turn out to be great than for established fighters where we kind of already know the book on them.