Fight Night Champion Tuner Set Available Today, For 360 Demo Only

[DaveDQ]

Available today for Xbox 360 owners, a tuner set for the Fight Night Champion demo. Read on, to see all the details.

"As mentioned previously, the team has added the capability to tweak and modify some game play aspects based on consumer feedback in the full title for both PS3 and XBOX 360 to make the game more authentic. We plan on pushing out these Tuner Sets over the course of the launch period (if necessary) and will communicate out what changes will be made. Please note that these will be very minor changes and may not be noticeable at first.

We are also able to push out a Tuner Set for the demo in the XBOX 360 environment to help test the functionality and after listening to feedback based on your early experiences with the Fight Night Champion Demo, we are putting out a Tuner Set tomorrow (Feb 8th) that will subtly impact the following:

1. Slightly reduce current stamina regeneration rate
2. Slightly increase stamina loss for missed and blocked punches
3. Increase overall punch power: Health loss from each punch"

[acts238shaun]

Re: Tuner Set for Demo to Hit Today (360 Only)

Ok, its a step. just waiting on PS3. The above changes aid block spammers though.

[DaveDQ]

Re: Tuner Set for Demo to Hit Today (360 Only)

It would have been nice to see blocking addressed but that may be something that has to be in a patch or take longer to deal with. I'm not crazy about seeing nothing done to punches that hit, but there's a possibility that could be effected by the regeneration tweak.

I didn't think missed punches needed to be adjusted.

Overall though, I think this is great that they included it for the demo. It is a let down for the PS3, but for them to tweak a demo says a lot to me.

[jtdribbles25]

Re: Tuner Set for Demo to Hit Today (360 Only)

It would have been nice to see blocking addressed but that may be something that has to be in a patch or take longer to deal with. I'm not crazy about seeing nothing done to punches that hit, but there's a possibility that could be effected by the regeneration tweak.

I didn't think missed punches needed to be adjusted.

Overall though, I think this is great that they included it for the demo. It is a let down for the PS3, but for them to tweak a demo says a lot to me.

what did you want done to blocking?

[Hova57]

Re: Tuner Set for Demo to Hit Today (360 Only)

If you hold on to the block it will still start to reduce your stamina. so for those who block constantly reduce the rate the stamina regenerates also hurts those block spammers.

[sva91]

Re: Tuner Set for Demo to Hit Today (360 Only)

If you hold on to the block it will still start to reduce your stamina. so for those who block constantly reduce the rate the stamina regenerates also hurts those block spammers.

I hope its not significant. I always hold block, as do most boxers.

[DaveDQ]

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A little mixed feeling with the tuner set. Stamina is the biggest thing I noticed with it dropping significantly in the fight. I love it. It is the best I have seen it since playing both FN4 and Champion. However, I still don't understand why they don't touch punches that hit. That should drain stamina at a more efficient rate.

I actually feel like damage is down now. I don't see it growing like it did earlier. What most will see is that 3 rounds do not give you an opportunity to really see what this will look like in a longer fight. I'm still fighting guys that are unloading punches, and if you don't block a good amount of them, you are done in 3 rounds.

So I'm mixed about it.

[Chef Matt]

Re: Tuner Set for Demo to Hit Today (360 Only)

A little mixed feeling with the tuner set. Stamina is the biggest thing I noticed with it dropping significantly in the fight. I love it. It is the best I have seen it since playing both FN4 and Champion. However, I still don't understand why they don't touch punches that hit. That should drain stamina at a more efficient rate.

I actually feel like damage is down now. I don't see it growing like it did earlier. What most will see is that 3 rounds do not give you an opportunity to really see what this will look like in a longer fight. I'm still fighting guys that are unloading punches, and if you don't block a good amount of them, you are done in 3 rounds.

So I'm mixed about it.

I think there alot of people who don't realize that.

[bill2451]

Re: Tuner Set for Demo to Hit Today (360 Only)

I think reducing accuracy would have made more sense consider clean shots dont really effect stamina that much and punch %'s are too high. You need to get accuracy right before you can correctly tune stamina (and punch power for that matter). It seems their going about this in the wrong order.

[grunt]

Re: Tuner Set for Demo to Hit Today (360 Only)

I have played 5 matches and 3 out of 5 was ended by one punch KO. A tad too much power but the stamina issue is vastly improve. Just too many one punch KOs.

[grunt]

Re: Tuner Set for Demo to Hit Today (360 Only)

If you hold on to the block it will still start to reduce your stamina. so for those who block constantly reduce the rate the stamina regenerates also hurts those block spammers.

Oooooooooooh, maybe that why I am getting KO.

[Hova57]

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Oooooooooooh, maybe that why I am getting KO.

i only figured it out cause I was playing with Ali and I was trying to rope a dope and my stamina was getting drained especially if you hold block and bob n weave alot . the side step mechanic works better, but it takes away from your body stamina one they don't show. you just see slower footwork from you boxer check it out. some cool little stuff in there no one talking about.

[DaveDQ]

Re: Tuner Set for Demo to Hit Today (360 Only)

I have played 5 matches and 3 out of 5 was ended by one punch KO. A tad too much power but the stamina issue is vastly improve. Just too many one punch KOs.

I don't know yet but I actually like it. Over a longer fight, yes I'd say the connection perct. should go down, but I think power should remain. it's nice seeing guys swinging away and then getting countered with a devastating blow to the head/body.

[bcruise]

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Was just browsing on Real Time and came across this, even though FNC isn't really on my radar at the moment....

Tuner sets on a demo? That's pretty dedicated. Even if the 360 side is the only guinea pig in this experiment, this seems like a great way to not only get feedback before release, but also tweak based on that feedback before release. Hopefully this practice is adopted for other games - I don't see how it could possibly be a bad thing.

[Vast]

Re: Tuner Set for Demo to Hit Today (360 Only)

I think reducing accuracy would have made more sense consider clean shots dont really effect stamina that much and punch %'s are too high. You need to get accuracy right before you can correctly tune stamina (and punch power for that matter). It seems their going about this in the wrong order.

This x100

For me the biggest issue with the demo is accuracy. Reduce the accuracy slightly and you will see more stamina loss.

Stamina was an issue, but i think the long term stamina is what i'm most worried about. If you throw 150 punches a round you should be gassed by the 5th or 6th round. I'm not sure if that would happen the way its set up now.