WWE 12 Retail Early Impressions

[fpac]

Not sure if this has been asked yet but can you do title for title matches? Like if I want the main event of Wrestlemania to be the WWE champ vs the World Champ are both titles on the line or do you have to choose just 1?

[jrider99]

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So a quick comment/question about Unified Titles. So it sounds like if you have someone unify the Heavyweight or Tag Titles it essentially ends the Brand split. So I'm wondering if we can use this to create one big brand that has more than one minor title?

So for example if you start a Universe and you have a Unified World Champion, Unified Tag Champion and Unified Womens champion. Could you then have say the US Champion and European Champions left seperate as the minor titles. Since you said wrestlers from both brands will show up on both shows does that mean that wrestlers from both shows will then be included in the rankings for BOTH minor titles? I hope I'm explaining this well enough.

OK, I did just what you described and it looks like this causes some problems. First, to answer your question yes, it is possible. There are combined rankings for the unified titles, but seperate rankings for the minor belts that are brand-specific. That's the good news.

Creating a unified singles title does, in fact, end the brand split for all intents and purposes. You will see Raw guys fighting other Raw guys on Smackdown and vice versa. You will also see some upper mid-card guys get bumped to Superstars because there simply aren't enough matches to go around on the two main shows.

The biggest issue I saw involved the draft. Because the game no longer recognizes brands, you had draft pick matches after Wrestlemania that pitted Raw vs. Raw and Smackdown vs. Smackdown. They weren't all like that, but it did happen.

Just some things to consider if you want to make a unified champion...

[jrider99]

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Not sure if this has been asked yet but can you do title for title matches? Like if I want the main event of Wrestlemania to be the WWE champ vs the World Champ are both titles on the line or do you have to choose just 1?

I tried to make an inter-promotional title-for-title match like you said, but it only considered the first title on the line. However, you can put title-for-title within the same brand, say have the U.S. champion take on the WWE champion with both titles on the line, with the winning claiming both belts. This does work.

EDIT: Upon further review, this can work with inter-promotional matches. At first, I tried to do it on Raw and it wouldn't work, but I just put the WWE title and World Championship on the line at a PPV and the winner now has both belts. So there ya go!

[ronyell]

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hey JR i know u are doing SO much to answer all of our questions BUT i have one request.

i havent played a WWE game in years & i like the "sim" aspect of starting my game with "reality"

if i make a thred (or can you)

with some guidelines/instructions to set so that we can keep things in order?

kind of like a MUST DO list, before starting your universe so that it will be "sim".
like what & how to rid titles, wrestlers etc. etc.

EDIT*

as u get an idea of things that need to be done... here is the link to that thread

[Qb]

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Having watched several match videos, I think move-set edits could really help the match experience. I used to always spend hours tinkering with moves in the N64 days and past SVR games... getting rid of the generic moves everyone seems to have, removing as many "lifting" moves as possible from the little guys, etc.

I assume guys do the same (along with ratings edits it seems); is there any way to share these? Ie, download a move-set or even share an entire roster file? Forgive me for being out of the loop. I think the last SVR I had was 2009.

[jrider99]

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Having watched several match videos, I think move-set edits could really help the match experience. I used to always spend hours tinkering with moves in the N64 days and past SVR games... getting rid of the generic moves everyone seems to have, removing as many "lifting" moves as possible from the little guys, etc.

I assume guys do the same (along with ratings edits it seems); is there any way to share these? Ie, download a move-set or even share an entire roster file? Forgive me for being out of the loop. I think the last SVR I had was 2009.

You can share move sets and created wrestlers, but not the entire roster in one file. That would be awesome, though.

[wwefan666]

I lowered it all the way to zero

so you lowered Momentum rate attacks,Momentum rate taunts to zero? what about the Adrenaline rate?

[jrider99]

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so you lowered Momentum rate attacks,Momentum rate taunts to zero? what about the Adrenaline rate?

Didn't mess with adrenaline rate. It seems like that's only there to keep people from spamming running attacks. I'm not sure exactly what it does, but that's what I've noticed.

[DJ]

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Trade in NHL 12 for it

I would, but I know me and I'd wind up buying back NHL 12 a month or two later.

[ps3veron]

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I just got this and if anyone in Tanzania (err.yah East Africa) wants to know, just give me a shout! No seriously!

Ok, first wrestling game since WWE Vs SVR 2007 (not counting All Stars) and I love it! Great controls, graphics have that little "matte" look to it, kinda glossy IMO.

Now, I am on the PS3 and I cant get online! I never got a game this early before and I got the online pass, tried even doing a 7 day pass but it says "Servers Not Available"

Is this normal or is it also because PSN down? When do the servers actually come up? Thanks y'all!

[Hootiefish]

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Is this normal or is it also because PSN down? When do the servers actually come up? Thanks y'all!

This is because PSN is down due to maintenance. It should be back up by midnight Pacific time.

Not sure what time that is in East Africa, however.

[FlyRice]

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You can share move sets and created wrestlers, but not the entire roster in one file. That would be awesome, though.

Sharing save files on the PS3 is pretty easy so it might be possible, unless it is locked.

[Mercury112491]

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OK, I did just what you described and it looks like this causes some problems. First, to answer your question yes, it is possible. There are combined rankings for the unified titles, but seperate rankings for the minor belts that are brand-specific. That's the good news.

Creating a unified singles title does, in fact, end the brand split for all intents and purposes. You will see Raw guys fighting other Raw guys on Smackdown and vice versa. You will also see some upper mid-card guys get bumped to Superstars because there simply aren't enough matches to go around on the two main shows.

The biggest issue I saw involved the draft. Because the game no longer recognizes brands, you had draft pick matches after Wrestlemania that pitted Raw vs. Raw and Smackdown vs. Smackdown. They weren't all like that, but it did happen.

Just some things to consider if you want to make a unified champion...

Cool thanks man. I'm not too worried about the Draft because if I merge the brands I'll just pretend the draft isn't happening.

So just to clarify. IF you end the brand split with Unified titles. Do the Smackdown guys get matched up against the Raw guys on each show? Or do they still only face each other, it just happens on both shows? Also if they do wrestle each other, will Raw guys all of a sudden show up on the contenders list for the Smackdown minor title and vice versa.

Again like others have said, thank you very much for taking the time to answer our questions.

[jrider99]

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Cool thanks man. I'm not too worried about the Draft because if I merge the brands I'll just pretend the draft isn't happening.

So just to clarify. IF you end the brand split with Unified titles. Do the Smackdown guys get matched up against the Raw guys on each show? Or do they still only face each other, it just happens on both shows? Also if they do wrestle each other, will Raw guys all of a sudden show up on the contenders list for the Smackdown minor title and vice versa.

Again like others have said, thank you very much for taking the time to answer our questions.

You will have Raw guys vs. Smackdown guys on both shows, as well as Raw vs. Raw and Smackdown vs. Smackdown. The cross-promotional matches don't seem to affect the minor titles though. I never saw a Raw guy show up in the rankings for the IC title.

[Fiddy]

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You can share move sets and created wrestlers, but not the entire roster in one file. That would be awesome, though.

you could share the file for the 360 as well. would be great if someone would share a file, all edited, at the start of the universe mode etc.