12:05 AM - September 11, 2010 by 23bluesmanEA Sports MMA News Post
12:05 AM - September 11, 2010 by 23bluesmanEA Sports MMA Videos
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Mossfan8480 @ 09/11/10 12:19 AM
Looking good. Really like the way the submissions are being handled. Thanks for posting the video.
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russwg1970 @ 09/12/10 06:18 PM
Looks like a button mashing fest. Though, it's an interesting take on submissions and the toll they can take. I'll be interested in playing the demo when it's released.
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VUUAASSHHH! @ 09/12/10 06:31 PM
Ordem e Progresso, which translating to English is Order and Progress.
That`s the slogan printed in Brazilian flag.
That`s the slogan printed in Brazilian flag.
This is like when EA asked Drew Brees to say Madden was simulation. Money talks.
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When you don't push the button your stamina comes back, but your opponents presses are moving him towards victory. When you DO hit the button depending on where your stamina currently is, you move the submission more in your direction and deplete some of your stamina. (as the battle continues over time these button presses become worth more for both fighters). So the entire meta-game (which takes serious time to master) is about managing your stamina and has NOTHING to do with being able to mash fast (turbo controllers will instantly make you lose), and deciding when to burst through and try to escape based on how much each button press is worth. Losing all your stamina results in a short penalty where your presses are worthless (if you are being submitted) or failure (if you are submitting).
There are several different ways to play and even our most advanced members of the dev team still haven't decided what the best method is.. but the way I play it is hang on and conserve my stamina and watch my opponents stamina and mine, when he gets tired, I'll try to quickly escape or finish (the gamble here is trying to make sure I can survive long enough for him to get tired, then get swing the battle all the way back and not completely deplete my stamina doing it).
Your opponents MAX stamina (which is depleted during the fight by having his grappling attempts and escapes countered or denied) can also affect the outcome because it maxes out what his potential button press is worth, so in the end the real way to submit someone is to wear them out with some ground and pound, and go for the submission when they are exhausted, you have a much easier time in the battle... There is a lot of strategy to it. Ground fighters get quite good at setting it up and then very good at the submission battles themselves...
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Mossfan8480 @ 09/14/10 06:10 PM
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23bluesman @ 09/18/10 02:14 AM
Nice post Anim8or, I'm really excited to try it out for myself.
Quick question though, where does the grappling skill of your fighter come into equation during these submission battles? Seems to me it's all about stamina..
Quick question though, where does the grappling skill of your fighter come into equation during these submission battles? Seems to me it's all about stamina..
Anim8or,
fighters slide frequently to get in position to connect with a punch, which leads me to believe that a fighters reach isn't that important in this game.
So is reach important?
Was EA MMA designed to be more of an arcade or sim game?
fighters slide frequently to get in position to connect with a punch, which leads me to believe that a fighters reach isn't that important in this game.
So is reach important?
Was EA MMA designed to be more of an arcade or sim game?
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23bluesman @ 09/18/10 11:43 AM
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We are attempting to make the closest simulation of the sport that we possibly can. Visually in a lot of these videos we don't see the game at 60fps and it looks faster and more twitchy at the reduced frame rates of the compressed for the web videos. Responsiveness is important to feeling like you are in complete control of the fighter though, so while we focus on responsiveness so we don't rob you of executing what you want to execute we have no "arcade" gimmicks, no rock paper scissor mini-game, not one dice roll in the entire game. It's about doing the right thing at the right time (the right strike, right angle of movement, right counter, right defense, momentum, ring position, seeing openings and taking advantage of them.. it's the closest thing to the chess game of real fighting I have experienced since actually fighting, and it's less painful
..). Even our submission battles aren't "mini-games" they are an attempt to actually represent the stamina management and energy bursts in joint locks, or the twisting and trying to fight for leverage in chokes. We really tried to take what we know from fighting (our creative director, gameplay manager, gameplay designer, animation director, lead animator, physics programmer and technical director for gameplay all have trained and/or fought, and to us it's very important to translate the sport into gameplay than to come up with gimmicks and metagames).
I was too vague, I didn't mean arcade in the sense of mini-games or anything.
I love that a physics engine is being used to simulate the sport. It's what I was hoping for since the original Rampage/Liddell Undisputed trailer. The game certainly looks better than Undisputed does now.
What I meant by arcade vs sim was in the twitch control typical of Tibouron games. I'm just not a fan of hyper-realism. The step/slide in to punch is automatic correct? I prefer Undisputed's handling of the step-in where it's a specific button press and not automatic, so you can choose whether or not you want to close the distance.
The question I have is, does the game sacrifice realism for responsiveness/control?
EDIT: Actually on second thought doesn't automatically stepping-in to strike take away from control and realism? i.e. if my fighter is a tall rangy fighter with little KO power, my gameplan would amount to working from the outside with quick strikes just finding my range and scoring points. If my fighter auto-steps then he's put himself into his opponents range. I thought Fight Night did a good job with punching and they didn't use an auto step-in. Control is being removed from the player's hands if you automatically make moves for them, similar to what madden did in terms of user-catching with player's no longer needing to press a button to catch. Thoughts?
Also,
I love that a physics engine is being used to simulate the sport. It's what I was hoping for since the original Rampage/Liddell Undisputed trailer. The game certainly looks better than Undisputed does now.
What I meant by arcade vs sim was in the twitch control typical of Tibouron games. I'm just not a fan of hyper-realism. The step/slide in to punch is automatic correct? I prefer Undisputed's handling of the step-in where it's a specific button press and not automatic, so you can choose whether or not you want to close the distance.
The question I have is, does the game sacrifice realism for responsiveness/control?
EDIT: Actually on second thought doesn't automatically stepping-in to strike take away from control and realism? i.e. if my fighter is a tall rangy fighter with little KO power, my gameplan would amount to working from the outside with quick strikes just finding my range and scoring points. If my fighter auto-steps then he's put himself into his opponents range. I thought Fight Night did a good job with punching and they didn't use an auto step-in. Control is being removed from the player's hands if you automatically make moves for them, similar to what madden did in terms of user-catching with player's no longer needing to press a button to catch. Thoughts?
Also,
- Have you played the competitions game and what do you think of it?
- How comparable are stats to that of a real MMA bout?(strike connect% etc.)
- Why don't refs stop the bout after a KO or submission, limited resources?
- If the CPU fighter is beat on points for the first 2 rounds, does the A.I. come out more aggressive looking for the KO or submission in the final round?
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My goal is responsiveness first, visuals a close second. The games I have directed animation on have this signature (like NBA Street Homecourt), I feel the way the game plays is paramount. However, I have written entire articles about how this doesn't have to be a balancing act if you make the right tools for the animators, and designing those tools have been a huge part of what my entire career at EA has been about. We have some incredible advances on MMA for keeping the game looking smooth and more realistic but Jason Barnes and I have always wanted it to feel like a fighting game but look like a Sim.
we have all played the competitor quite a bit (we would be nuts to ignore or discount it). I kept TRYING to love it. Some of the guys on our team like it though. I was just playing ours for more than a year when their first one came out, and to me we already had something more fun, especially on the ground, but even in stand-up ours just felt way more responsive and consistent and to me feels more like actually fighting.
Real MMA fights last from 10 seconds to 20 minutes, so I would say stats are very hard to "average" out. What I love about our game, is people who haven't played much end up knocking each-other out and veterans end up having really long fights when they know their fighters strengths. The orignial Bushido Blade was like this. If you stand there and don't defend yourself, or are overly aggressive and don't respect your opponent you are gonna get wrecked fast. I think I said this before, but Victor and I have these long but exciting fights with me as Cung Le and Him as Jacare.
Spot on with the ref, this was our first outing, having a ref at all was a must, but we didn't want to overly invest in the ref when we had gameplay features. With that though, he does actually step in and stop fights, we just didn't want him in the way of the camera in replays and such.
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Mossfan8480 @ 09/19/10 06:36 PM
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The step-in just looks awkward and as I said previously I haven't seen this done in any other game including Fight Night. Perhaps when I play the game I'll think differently about it, it's not like the game can be changed that drastically at this point.
I disagree somewhat on stats being hard to average out, for example Anderson Silva has connected on average, on 71 percent of his strikes over his UFC career.
Though let me phrase the question a bit differently:
Would you say that the rate of KO's, submissions, and fights that go the distance are portrayed realistically for a sim player v. CPU? b/c Undisputed was terrible at this, most fights ended with a knockout in the first round even though they had an accelerated clock on.
More questions:
- Are there sliders in the game, if not why? and can they be introduced into the game via patch the same way fight night did?
- What difficulty gives you a fair challenge?
- Do you think playing online will be "cheesy"? I hope lessons were learned from Undisputed on this front.
- How long has the game been in development?
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ManiacMatt1782 @ 09/21/10 03:58 PM
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Another example this time from fighters in the game, in Jacare's last fight he landed 34% of his strikes and Kennedy landed 36%.
And I think it's fair to ask that the statistics in EA MMA be close to sim, as people pursue realistic stats in other sports games as well.
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ManiacMatt1782 @ 09/21/10 08:42 PM
i was stating the reason for so many 1st round ko's in undisputed, feints were hard to pull off in the game and required more work than actually punching. i really think that a gamers natuaral style to go for the finish is gonna lead to more finishes. strikers are looking to block the takedown and get their hits in, in a video game, they arent concerned with faking to set up a strike which leads to them throwing bombs and getting counter and either KO' or be KO'd. even when you play a sim style, odds are the guy you are playing or the cpu will be hyper aggressive once you decide to be passive, and you either get overwhelmed and lose, or they play into your trap and you counter the hell out of them. again you may think you play a sim style, but you probably throw more than the average fighter in a round, and naturally there will be more opening than in a real fight, when you arent actually the one getting hit, thats what happens. some of it may be the game, but alot of it is gamers nature
I think the reason for Undisputed being a knockout fest is much simpler than that. They AI was hyper-aggressive much more so than undisputed 09. It didn't matter if you were playing Machida or Rampage they all came out swinging.
Although I do understand your point that no game is going to be identical to reality, too many nuances. But I thought that with slider adjustments Fight Night was a decent sim, in stats and gameplay.
Although I do understand your point that no game is going to be identical to reality, too many nuances. But I thought that with slider adjustments Fight Night was a decent sim, in stats and gameplay.
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