Official Career Mode Thread

[mikenoob]

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I liked this game till I played the career mode. I've been trying to build enough stats in career mode to make my Fedor CAF good, but it's 2 steps forward and 1 step back with this decaying system. Just not worth the trouble.

Just make a basic career guy and max his stats up. You don't have to worry about getting his stats right. Just try to aim for max attributes and save your points until the end of your career if you want to make a fedor caf.

[MC Fatigue]

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Yeah - just go through a few years on Advanced and you'll have tons of points. Just make a ground and pound guy with good takdowns, takedown your partner and just demolish him. I was getting in the mid to high 100's eventually.

Then you just save the points and don't spend them until you're ready to make the Main Menu CAF. Spend all the points and build up the 3 attributes to around what you'd need and copy him in the CAF menu and you can rearrange everything about the fighter (it's like creating a whole new fighter, really).

[delspf]

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I would absolutely love to have a one on one with someone from the development team and find out why this game came out the way it did. Just to know what they were thinking & had no choice to do.

[jeremym480]

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Just make a basic career guy and max his stats up. You don't have to worry about getting his stats right. Just try to aim for max attributes and save your points until the end of your career if you want to make a fedor caf.

I finished my LWH career last night. My advice only advice is to not start a LHW career. Shogun is just too tough. Even on experienced :o

I ended up getting all my attributes to 70 with a year left in my career. From there I sat on all my sparring points I earned until the last fight because I didn't want any of my stats decaying. I ended up with a CAF rated 76. Fail, for me. Looks like I'll have to go through another career to create a Fedor (I wanted him to be around 78-79).

Anyways, I made to fighter's last night.
George Sotiropoulos-Overall I gave him a 73 and Matt Brown- 70 overall.
Do you guys think that's fair?

[MC Fatigue]

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I don't think overalls matter - I think each individual stat is what matters; and they should be relative to the other fighters in the league based on their fights.

[fhhs63]

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I liked this game till I played the career mode. I've been trying to build enough stats in career mode to make my Fedor CAF good, but it's 2 steps forward and 1 step back with this decaying system. Just not worth the trouble.

Just gotta know how to use it.

[fhhs63]

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Yeah - just go through a few years on Advanced and you'll have tons of points. Just make a ground and pound guy with good takdowns, takedown your partner and just demolish him. I was getting in the mid to high 100's eventually.

Then you just save the points and don't spend them until you're ready to make the Main Menu CAF. Spend all the points and build up the 3 attributes to around what you'd need and copy him in the CAF menu and you can rearrange everything about the fighter (it's like creating a whole new fighter, really).

Exactly, that's what I'm gonna do. And don't even bother with takedown and GnP in sparring sessions. Even on the highest level, your sparring partner is VERY easy to takedown. And while it's not a bad method, slams are MUCH better for points. Just clinch, slam, get up, repeat.

Also, I have a CAF question: Can you use CAFs in online RANKED matches?

[NYG_Meth]

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I won the LW title, declined to move up to WW, but was eventually forced after several successful defenses. Went on to win the WW strap, only to defend it once and be forced to move back down. :[ WTF?

A similar thing happened to me. Won the MW belt and defended a few times. Moved to LHW, won a fight, then got moved right back down to MW, where apparently I'd vacated my belt. Had a couple MW fights, won the belt back, but immediately after I won it back, I was ranked #8 in the MW rankings and my belt was gone...

[MC Fatigue]

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Well I finally finished my career and continuity isn't THQ's strong point apparently. I thought it was cool how they talked about me retiring, as I was hoping they'd do that.

So I win the fight and go on to the post fight interview and it's just the regular generic one - where my guy even says "I'll fight whoever they put in front of me next" then Rogan announces that he looks forward to my next fight... You know, since I'm retiring and won't be fighting anymore... Obviously the thing you look forward to next in a retiring fighter's career is their next fight. You think someone could have thought of this, no?

Would have been nice to have a different interview.

[BlueNGold]

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I think it's impossible to beat Mike Swick. Dude sways almost every one of my strikes, dominates me in the clinch, keeps me in guard and is able to get back to his feet and can knock me out in about 5-10 decent shots.

I'm now 0-3 against him, two of those losses came after I called him out in my post-fight interview. Not a good look.

[sb24]

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The career mode is 12 years right? I want to make sure I plan right so that I get the moves I want and still spar and bank points.

[jeremym480]

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The career mode is 12 years right? I want to make sure I plan right so that I get the moves I want and still spar and bank points.

Yes it's 12 years and you will be told before your retirement match. One thing I didn't realize was that you still have 2 or 3 weeks left between your retirement match and when you actually retire so keep that in mind when your on your last fight.

[BlueNGold]

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About the stat decay, does anyone have any specific methods for it? It's pretty damn annoying IMO. I'm not really losing much points but it's just frustrating when you try to focus on one or two specific areas of your game to build up and then a week later you have something decaying and you have to shift focus to that.

I could see if I was an older fighter or deeper in my career but I'm not, which is the worst part of this all. Hopefully they patch it.

[sb24]

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About the stat decay, does anyone have any specific methods for it? It's pretty damn annoying IMO. I'm not really losing much points but it's just frustrating when you try to focus on one or two specific areas of your game to build up and then a week later you have something decaying and you have to shift focus to that.

I could see if I was an older fighter or deeper in my career but I'm not, which is the worst part of this all. Hopefully they patch it.

Keep it simple. Dont do camp invites and give one point each until you get to 30. After 30 dont use your points until you have enough to get to 50. If your max is still 40 wait til you cred gets high enough to get the upgrade. IMO you should never have a stat at 34, 41, ect... Get all stats to 30 then raise them (to 50)one at a time. One you get all stats to 50, start moving up to 70. Once all stats are at 70 keep training but dont actually use the points until you are close to retiring.

I didnt start doing camp invites until I reached 70 with all my stats.

[[Icy]]

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Keep it simple. Dont do camp invites and give one point each until you get to 30. After 30 dont use your points until you have enough to get to 50. If your max is still 40 wait til you cred gets high enough to get the upgrade. IMO you should never have a stat at 34, 41, ect... Get all stats to 30 then raise them (to 50)one at a time. One you get all stats to 50, start moving up to 70. Once all stats are at 70 keep training but dont actually use the points until you are close to retiring.

I didnt start doing camp invites until I reached 70 with all my stats.

But without camp invites, your guy only knows a couple of punches and kicks (i'm exaggerating) and your fighting strategy is too limited, isn't it?