EA Sports UFC 3 Impressions

[Bigg Cee]

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Thank goodness. I hope others feel the same. Literally tuned this on the last possible day.

Takedowns against a very aggressive player always coming forward are pretty much impossible.

Every single time u get hit you freeze up and can’t move. So frustrating trying to time strikes when one hit locks up my input and i can’t shoot.

Takedowns need a huge buff. GPD it’s really bad.

[Malaach]

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I like the differences between weightclasses. The pace, speed, and power definitely stood out for me. I was surprised I had a few fights go the distance where neither of us were rocked, or dropped to the ground.

I will say though I believe their is a bug with fighters. I noticed that sometimes before the ref says are you ready that both fighters would be facing the wrong direction, but the game would auto correct that.

I still haven't done too much with the game I'm trying to conserve my trial time.

I noticed the game has new Taunts even a moving taunt like we suggested, but what happened to some of the other unique taunts that fighters had in EA UFC 2?

Silva looks like he has some new taunts plus some taunts that are missing. And some fighters EA UFC 2 posture is not in the game such as Bobby Green's Philly Shell posture he previously had.

Diaz Brothers have some new taunts but what happened to the other taunts that were in EA UFC 2 such as putting the head towards your opponent taunt.

I'm only making noise about this because it's part of fighter's uniqueness, as well it's part of CAF's list of acessible animations.

[EJ_Manuel]

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Takedowns against a very aggressive player always coming forward are pretty much impossible.

Every single time u get hit you freeze up and can’t move. So frustrating trying to time strikes when one hit locks up my input and i can’t shoot.

Takedowns need a huge buff. GPD it’s really bad.

If takedowns aren't actually made possible I'm cancelling my pre order. This is stupid.

[Bigg Cee]

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UFC 3 feels like a kickboxing game.

Takedowns are broken and the clinch entry could even use a buff.

It’s pretty much impossible to grab anyone or take them down.

It’s sooooo easy to deny.

[Nugget7211]

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UFC 3 feels like a kickboxing game.

Takedowns are broken and the clinch entry could even use a buff.

It’s pretty much impossible to grab anyone or take them down.

It’s sooooo easy to deny.

Yeah, it really sounds like they over-corrected from 2, where it was way too easy and anyone decent would be landing upwards of 80% of their takedowns, which is better than GSPs actual percentage (73.8) and a lot better than most wrestlers/grapplers (Khabib is 45%, DJ is 56%, Frankie Edgar is 35% and Maia lands 26%), they probably need to chain faster out of sways.

I don't really want people to be able to shoot effectively through punches that are landing, other than a jab, but clinching and shooting off sways and blocks should be way, way easier than it is.

[Yaari]

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Cruz looked interesting in the game, but when actually using him. Wow. So much fun. Those sidesteps are awesome.

And I'm happy I am not the only one that noticed the weird sound at HW. I thought it was just me.

[emmdeekay]

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Initial impressions is i love it.

Submissions seems to be really strong though. I've been tapped from 5 gates a couple times with full stamina while trying to do the push out the 4 gates and go for 2 on the last one. 2 gates seem borderline impossible.

[MaccaC]

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Takedowns against a very aggressive player always coming forward are pretty much impossible.

Every single time u get hit you freeze up and can’t move. So frustrating trying to time strikes when one hit locks up my input and i can’t shoot.

Takedowns need a huge buff. GPD it’s really bad.

you're literally moaning about this because all you do is run at people trying to grab them lmao, if you set your stuff up and stop being so straight forward with what youre trying to achieve you wouldnt find it so hard.

Also I have no idea why you're pure sweating for subs which are completely out of tune and almost certainly going to be toned down.

[KevitoBMG]

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Submissions seems to be really strong though. I've been tapped from 5 gates a couple times with full stamina while trying to do the push out the 4 gates and go for 2 on the last one. 2 gates seem borderline impossible.

They said they nerfed the submissions in post-beta changes but I don't know if those perhaps come with the day-one patch. I would wait till the patch drops and then let's see if it's still that way.

[Nugget7211]

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Can I suggest that people don't cry for nerfs or buffs on a very small amount of play time? Like, give it a week or two and if you're still having problems doing something or preventing something, then ask for nerfs or buffs.

Expecting things to work as they did in 2 will probably be an issue for a while, try not to demand the devs undo a bunch of changes before we fully understand them.

[Blackman316]

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Overall I have a positive impression. Some thoughts:


CAREER
+: Career mode presentation, the training clothes and gyms look authentic, rival system
- : No data about your record or type of finishes (only the number of KO's & subs are tracked); you can't keep track of other UFC events or who's next for the title, it's all just tunnel vision and focused on you.

I put it on "pro" and got submitted twice to become 1-2. I was hoping to get in TUF eventually but after going 3-2 I was immediately invited to the UFC? All you need is back to back wins. They told me I "dominated" the local scene yet I had to scramble to win these... I hardly believe that record is going to get you anywhere near the UFC unless you're a WWE guy. So how bad do you have to suck to take the TUF road? It was not optional and imo it should be.

To recap the structure: career is divided into chapters. At the end of each chapter you will fight a rival. You can't pick your rival and whatever you reply on social media doesn't make much different (maybe in amount of fans gained?), so the announced "player choice" is really just limited to gym and moves you gain or train. The further you get, the more top tier fighters will want to teach you the best moves. This happens through minigames that are more specific and fun than the grind ones in 2.

New mode: Submission showdown is awesome! They just disabled all the striking and it's a 3-minute round where you try to submit your opponent. If it goes the distance there's a tie-breaker where you take turns (winner of the round goes first) trying to finish a submission. It's very fun. Too bad there's no second or third round before the tiebreaker. But great that they put this in. Can we dream about a 30-minute "submission ironman" style fight like in the WWE games?

CaF
Like I said before, nothing has changed apart from being able to assign a fighter-specific stance, but that's another feature.

UT
If you didn't do the open beta for LW's: there's some SP challenges, instead of collecting worthless fight cards per you now have to collect real usable 'gold' fighters. You assign moves based on affinity with the card stats. It's no longer exclusively for HW, for instance, and you can use everything you pull. It's often fighters though. Don't sell all your cards: you have to trade them in for coins. Not sure where it's going, but I'm not going to play this much anyway.

Stability
There are still some bugs:
- In the Submission Showdown minigame it's announced you won "20 seconds into R1" if you finished the sub but R1 has passed already and you're in tiebreaker.
- Takedowns are sometimes awkward. I never had trouble initiating them in 2 and the controls haven't changed. Could be me though.
- There's an alternative button mash submission game that seems a LOT easier against AI (in my short experience) than the other one. I tried different escape strategies and just got denied by AI no matter what I did. Impossible to escape (wasn't even close) and that with equal stamina and better sub skills.
- There were some other minor things that I forgot. Sorry.

It's definitely in a playable state. I had a lot of fun already. But be prepared to "get gut" at submission denial because as soon as the AI grabs you, you're done.

[KevitoBMG]

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- There's an alternative button mash submission game that seems a LOT easier against AI (in my short experience) than the other one. I tried different escape strategies and just got denied by AI no matter what I did. Impossible to escape (wasn't even close) and that with equal stamina and better sub skills.

Nice to hear. I tried that system during the beta (because I really hate the gate submission system) and it seemed impossible to submit the AI even on normal diff. and a very hurt opponent.

[LarsP]

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Overall I have a positive impression. Some thoughts:


CAREER
+: Career mode presentation, the training clothes and gyms look authentic, rival system
- : No data about your record or type of finishes (only the number of KO's & subs are tracked); you can't keep track of other UFC events or who's next for the title, it's all just tunnel vision and focused on you.

I put it on "pro" and got submitted twice to become 1-2. I was hoping to get in TUF eventually but after going 3-2 I was immediately invited to the UFC? All you need is back to back wins. They told me I "dominated" the local scene yet I had to scramble to win these... I hardly believe that record is going to get you anywhere near the UFC unless you're a WWE guy. So how bad do you have to suck to take the TUF road? It was not optional and imo it should be.

To recap the structure: career is divided into chapters. At the end of each chapter you will fight a rival. You can't pick your rival and whatever you reply on social media doesn't make much different (maybe in amount of fans gained?), so the announced "player choice" is really just limited to gym and moves you gain or train. The further you get, the more top tier fighters will want to teach you the best moves. This happens through minigames that are more specific and fun than the grind ones in 2.

Was really excited about career mode this year, but this is lowering my excitement a bit. The way you put it, it seems you don't have much control over what happens.

No data about your record is a real bummer, is there a way you can see scheduled events that you are not a part of?

[polyduster]

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you can't keep track of other UFC events or who's next for the title, it's all just tunnel vision and focused on you.

This is what I was afraid of.

At least in UFC 2, you could see what was happening in other UFC events. I was really hoping the career mode would hold me over without having to break out Excel and start my own Universe Mode.

Still excited to play the game next Tuesday, but I'm definitely a little less pumped up.


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[Dzarek]

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You can't pick your rival and whatever you reply on social media doesn't make much different (maybe in amount of fans gained?)

Omg.I think that this will be a lot of fun but this is scirpted crap.