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[ExtremeGamer]

Quote: Originally Posted by DaveDQ

What I'm learning with online is DO NOT try and trade punches. If they come out swinging, go for the takedown. Sometimes I can weave out of an attack and then counter punch, but trading shots just increases the chance of getting stunned and I have no idea how to get out of being stunned. Once I go down, it's over. Does anyone know if you are supposed to rapidly hit B to defend the onslaught or slowly?

Yeah, I lost 2 straight fights to Fedor in opening seconds like that. First one I pressed B like mad, second one I did it normally like a submission. Lost both times. LOL

[Dogslax41]

Quote: Originally Posted by cujomatty

I just had an **** battle in career mode. I created a brawler and trained fairly extensively on my striking. At the beginning of my career I was knocking dudes out really quick and thinking, man I hope this game gets harder and ya it has. Once I moved up to my second company United something or other the game got real fun. The CPU was real good at ducking and parrying my punches. Last fight I had couldn't hit the dude with anything and ended up on my back the first 2 rounds. Figured I'd have to change my strategy for round 3. I shot for the takedown got slapped in the guillotine and had to tap. At no point did I feel like I was losing cause of controls or cheap AI I just didn't have a good strategy and probably should have used the scout feature that's incorporated in the game. I guess it's time to train for some groundwork. Cheers

I had a very similar experience. I went 6-0 out of the gate and was thinking career mode was going to be a huge letdown because it was too easy. Well my 7th fight cured me of that thinking.

I built up a dominant ground guy with solid striking and won 5 by KO (4 ground and 1 flash) and 1 with a rear naked. Then I got to my first fight with my second league and dominated a heavy striker for two rounds by staying away from his power and taking him to the ground. I had him gassed starting the third and despite knowing I was ahead on the card I got greedy because I was able to pick some standup shots from the outside becuase he was tired and I wanted to finish the fight with a highlight KO.

I telegraphed one too many combos and got caught with a shot that put me down and he moved in and finished me off. Very realistic and didn't feel cheap at all. Very difficult to do given that I lost a fight I was winning for 95% of it. Coolest thing about it was that the play by play was appropriate talking about how the only way he could have won was with a late knockout.

[n8ccwa]

I played the demo and enjoyed it but it felt somewhat easy so I was on the fence on this one. Good to hear that the retail is tougher then the demo. I'll be picking this one up tomorrow it sounds like.

Anybody had any success using Benji "the Razor" Radach? He's a local guy that I used to hang out with, excited to see him in a game.

[DaveDQ]

Here's a fancied up video of me (Miller) vs an online opponent (Henderson). As you can see, he comes out very aggressive and almost does enough damage to my head that I go down, but I managed to evade him enough. The key here to me is that he never let's his stamina recover. It's almost always at 50% of the stamina bar. Fortunately, I make him pay for it.

[Pappy Knuckles]

Quote: Originally Posted by DaveDQ

What is helping me is the career mode tutorial. I had no idea I was defending choke holds wrong until the tutorial showed me I was rotating to the top too much. Now I'm pretty good at defending them. The biggest challenge for me is to settle down and be patient. It's really enjoyable though. Kind of a big learning curve for me. yes, it seems to get mixed up there. You should try running through the career mode so you can play that tutorial. They should have put that in place of the stand alone tutorial. It's more in depth and even lets you spar for practice. I'm struggling in online but put in a few matches this morning and am making progress, but that career tutorial helped me out a lot.

Thanks, I'm going to give career mode a shot today and work on some things. Yesterday I spent all my time getting beat up by a buddy online. My biggest issue so far is anticipating when to press buttons on the ground and in the clinch. I'd get the best of the standup, but eventually he'd get me to the ground and work me over. I still had a blast even though I lost every single fight. The closest one was a split decision loss when I had Nick Diaz vs. Shinya Aoki.

I think the online fight card feature is awesome. Instead of going back to the lobby after every match you can queue up several fights in a row and play them out. EA did a good job with online, the fights have been silky smooth for me.

[econoodle]

Quote: Originally Posted by Gotmadskillzson

In the way that the announcers kind of a have a mono tone voice. I mean they do say good stuff, it is just their voices sound blah, like no excitement in it. And the crowd interaction is lacking.

thanks skillz

[Phobia]

Quote: Originally Posted by DaveDQ

What I'm learning with online is DO NOT try and trade punches. If they come out swinging, go for the takedown. Sometimes I can weave out of an attack and then counter punch, but trading shots just increases the chance of getting stunned and I have no idea how to get out of being stunned. Once I go down, it's over. Does anyone know if you are supposed to rapidly hit B to defend the onslaught or slowly?

You must press it as fast as possible when you are rocked and they are beating u up for the TKO. You must regain the full bar for them to wrap up and "survive". So it is a speed game of how fast you can build the bar back up vs them landing each punch to drain it.

At first I was doing it the speed of the submissions and quickly learned that is not the correct route.

[mgoblue]

Quote: Originally Posted by ExtremeGamer

Oh, I'm not getting rid of it, if anything, offline will keep me busy for a long time, especially with fighter share. I'd love to fight some guys I know to get real fights, just avoiding the randoms in it for now. Maybe after they are weeded out it'll be better.

I'm getting this eventually, waiting for the Amazon B2G1 I think (right now playing Fallout, so kinda sucked in there).

Thanks for the single player impressions though, I do a lot of my playing there and glad it's fun. This is now a must buy, just a matter of when i break down and buy it lol