Official UFC 09 Undisputed Career progression thread

[Wet Bandit]

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I created a welterweight last night and started a new career. I had high hopes of being able to submit the computer. I put it on experienced, so they'll do enough transtition attempts to tire themselves out but overall it's not difficult, and shouldn't be difficult to submit guys. I pumped my submission offense up to a 60 as soon as I could. Each of my first three fights, I'd easily take the guy down, ride him out, do a little damage, block a dozen transition attempts or so, go for either the arm bar or rear naked choke, and nothing. They'd get out.

I'm guessing if I sat around until near the end of the second or into the third, my odds would go up. In my entry fight, I finally submitted the guy with about 10 seconds to go in the second. But if I'm in the mount midway through the first and the guy is exhausted, I don't feel like waiting around until the next round to submit the guy when I can just KO him now, even with inferior striking stats.

And that's probably what I'll end up doing at some point, playing this jiu-jitsu ace as a ground-and-pounder but skilling him up in submissions for use against human opponents when my career's up. But that's dumb, and I just finished up a ground-and-pounder, so that's on the back burner for now.

Instead I think I'm going to create a Dutch kickboxer at middleweight. A Chuck Liddell type, but with better kicks. Probably will take wrestling for my grappling for the slams out of the submissions since I'll be brute forcing them anyway. I was thinking judo, but I don't really plan on throwing anyone, especially with how easy it'd be to reverse one into a rear naked choke with how bad my clinch grappling offense will be.

[areg01]

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If you want to start off going for knockouts Kickboxing is the best with head kicks. I started off in 155 at 6ft tall and I get kicks rolling and kill anyone from sean shrek to Bj Penn. I trained my kickboxing with the liddel camp and its pretty high and I get to do alot of burst damage with combos. Currently I hold the title in the class and the submitions are a thing that you have to get use to. What I do is play very passive and try to avoid take downs and when I do get taken down I try to get on top and punish the guy for getting into that position. Ground and pound do work very well in this game. Since I am set up as a power puncher I get out of submitions but beating the guy until he lets go.

If you are hoping to get in there and submit the real fighters right off the bat, i think that is going to be hard as hell. But if you start with the BJJ you should really go to the camps and train that all the way. You unlock new moves you can do and it gets your submitions alot stronger. I got to my title by just beating the hell out of the guy in front of me. I think this is the softer way of playing the game but I try to put my points in submition defence and offence. All this put together and you should win most fights. My advise is you should play with what ever you like. If you prefer punches go with the boxxing/kickboxxing. But if you want to be a Gracie go with the crazy bjj or judo(very strong).

[Bornindamecca]

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I'm 20-4 and just grabbed the title. Currently on a 6 fight win streak. Started out with a 5 fight streak, then alternated a few wins and losses before getting on another streak. I lost one decision to Hendo, but the others were TKOs. Had to toughen up that chin . Freakin' Bisping caught me with a lucky punch after I was KILLING him. That's why I gave him the opportunity to prove it wasn't luck in my first title defense.

Early on I was beating everyone with Muay Thai clinch, but out of nowhere I started knocking dudes out with high kicks. I'm on Muay Thai level 3 and Wrestling level 2. Soon I'm going to start working my stats towards more ground and pound for balance.

[mikenoob]

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I'm a lightweight fighter using Boxing/Judo named Brian Peppers. I'm 10-4 currently and playing on expert. All of my losses were from submissions, I gotta raise my submission defense. It's around 22 right now, haha.

[CBMerling]

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I think that I am going to start a new career on advanced, so I have to be more strategic.

[steez3]

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got a question and didnt wanna start a new thread for a simple question like mine.....So when your in career mode and the thing pops up where it asks you to pick a different gym to learn new moves, I pick the one I want and hit "accept"....so is that it? or is there something im missing? do I have to do anything else to learn some new things?? im kinda lost there! Im a kickboxer and would love to be able to do some special punches along with my high kicks....And also do you guys spar asmuch as you can before the fight or do you focus on the training or a mixture of both?? thanks in advance

[DTX3]

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got a question and didnt wanna start a new thread for a simple question like mine.....So when your in career mode and the thing pops up where it asks you to pick a different gym to learn new moves, I pick the one I want and hit "accept"....so is that it? or is there something im missing? do I have to do anything else to learn some new things?? im kinda lost there! Im a kickboxer and would love to be able to do some special punches along with my high kicks....And also do you guys spar asmuch as you can before the fight or do you focus on the training or a mixture of both?? thanks in advance

I'm pretty sure that's it. I also do a mixture of both, but might just do sparring a lot more since that's the only way you improve your skill ratings it seems.

[steez3]

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I'm pretty sure that's it. I also do a mixture of both, but might just do sparring a lot more since that's the only way you improve your skill ratings it seems.

thanks alot...I figured that was it but I wanted to make sure that I wasnt missing something......im currently only 4-1 so far but is there no way to learn new moves? Like the superman punch or the spinning backhand? or are those only for specific classes in career mode?

[Jukeman]

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thanks alot...I figured that was it but I wanted to make sure that I wasnt missing something......im currently only 4-1 so far but is there no way to learn new moves? Like the superman punch or the spinning backhand? or are those only for specific classes in career mode?

I believe after you select a camp it will appear later in your calendar, thats when you have a session to gain points by completing tasks to get to level 2 kickboxing(for example) untill then you wont learn new moves...

[Bornindamecca]

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Just wrapped up my career. 33-5-0 29 T(KO)'s, 4 decisions. No subs. Longest win streak was 16 and I won the last six fights of my career. Good times

I was so hooked I basically played it, slept, and then played it again until I was finished. Tsk tsk.

I gotta catch up on work now.


Anyone know how you get to the HoF?

[goh]

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So after 9 fights (9-0)...

Training,nothing works anymore. They auto counter any attempt at my 1 Judo throw. Muay Thai clinch is automatically escaped. Transistion blocks don't work at all. So now I can't get anymore points because I can't actually do anything anymore for some reason. Judo camp is also useless because I need the AI to co-operate but of course they don't.

Then in the 10th fight all this BS carries over + them being able to get out of subs with ZERO energy and after being so sure I won the first round and 90% sure I won the second I play defense in the 3rd. It's a draw. 28-28,29-28 and 28-29. Wich isn't even possible of course. At wich point the game is turned off and thrown out a near by window.

Upon retrevial I re-do the fight,simply back up and hit him with head kicks untill he's done.
Now I'm back to not being able to get any points and going to have to start that mess all over because the only thing that ever is actually able to connect is a head kick.

I started it on beginner to avoid exactly this so I could actually build up my fighter then move up when I had decent stats but apprently it doesn't have an effect because it's clearly not on beginner anymore even though it still is on the main menu and career menu as well.

I don't know why it's like this,I don't know what happend but this is just terrible. Apprently no one else has had this problem here so maybe I'm missing something.

Not that this whole set up isn't messed anyway,I'm sure Evans and Machida spent this whole week sitting on their *** playing this game instead of last minute extra hard training.

20 head kicks and 6 should've been KO's later head kick #21 finally causes a KO and now I'm the 11-0 WW champ.

Turns out I can just Machida and head kick non-wrestlers as I found out against Alves so I'll just stick to that untill this horribleness is over. Next 3 picks were GPS,Hughes and Davis. Davis probably won't try any takedowns though.

[Inhocmark]

Re: Official UFC 09 Undisputed Career progression thread

got a question and didnt wanna start a new thread for a simple question like mine.....So when your in career mode and the thing pops up where it asks you to pick a different gym to learn new moves, I pick the one I want and hit "accept"....so is that it? or is there something im missing? do I have to do anything else to learn some new things?? im kinda lost there! Im a kickboxer and would love to be able to do some special punches along with my high kicks....And also do you guys spar asmuch as you can before the fight or do you focus on the training or a mixture of both?? thanks in advance

Not sure if you question was completely answered so here goes:

Training improves your 3 overall stats.
Sparring improves your move categories
The Camps (which will show up green on the weeks they come up so plan your stamina accordingly) will unlock new moves and give you % bonuses to move categories used frequently by your chosen discipline.

The other thing to keep in mind is that when sparring, the more stamina you have the higher the multiplier is when tallying up your points to spend after the spar is done.

[Azamien]

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My guy has become a LHW gatekeeper. Won the title from Thiago Silva, then lost it to Shogun in my first defense. He destroyed me. He kept me on the ground, and even when I was able to work back to my feet I wasn't able to do a thing before he got me back down. Finally he mounted me and pounded me out.

Worked back up to a rematch, and he got me even quicker this time with a triangle. I can do nothing at all against that guy. So I'm just going to keep fighting other top 10 guys until someone takes the title from Shogun and I have a realistic chance at getting it back.

[goh]

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I'm down to holding block,backing away and circling around till they miss something and head kicking them. That doesn't do much in training though so still no points. Boo career mode. But now that I know to dump it all into kicks and defense I have some stuff to try. I think they made it without the stamina at first then threw it in at the last second because fighters were all coming out rated 100+ and that's why it sucks now.

On a side note each fighter takes up 9 MB on the hard drive so if you actually make 100 the UFC file would be 900 MB.

[Captain Cold Crush]

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Career Progression:
Fighter: Royce Gracie
Class: Welterweight
Record: 5-0 (3 submissions & 2 unanimous decisions)

Personally, this game is VERY addicting. It's a very nice 1st effort from the folks at THQ.