EA Sports UFC 2 Beta Available, Post Your Impressions Here

[aholbert32]

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Phobia,

I read your post and have a response but I'm stuck in an all day seminar. We can get some fights in tonight but I won't be home until late because I'm going to the Wizards/warriors game. Send me a friend invite if we aren't already friends.

[Pappy Knuckles]

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Don't hate, man lol. I'm all about the spinning body kicks when guys don't feel the need to low block. As soon as they forget to high block from the body kicks, knock em down with the spinning back kick.

I respect the spinning ****, but I'm pretty confident that you don't spaz out on it either. Guys don't even try to set anything up, they just throw them over and over. I just sit there laughing most of the time .

[fballturkey]

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Usually after a couple parries you're close enough to just throw elbows and they're too close to do any spinning.

The stamina drain on those moves should probably be higher though, especially consecutively.

[TheShizNo1]

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I do have to remind myself to throw pinches with him outside of jabs. So much fun watching a guy not know what to do when I'm throwing leg, body, and then a head kick here and there.

So, I've whooped dudes that use Lawler while they just spammed power punches. So I see the guy I'm going against last night grab Lawler. This dude whooped. My. ***! Parried the **** outta my kicks and just smashed me. He KO'd me in the first reminiscent of Deebo tiger uppercutting Red.

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[GeneralsHockey]

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I do have to remind myself to throw pinches with him outside of jabs. So much fun watching a guy not know what to do when I'm throwing leg, body, and then a head kick here and there.

So, I've whooped dudes that use Lawler while they just spammed power punches. So I see the guy I'm going against last night grab Lawler. This dude whooped. My. ***! Parried the **** outta my kicks and just smashed me. He KO'd me in the first reminiscent of Deebo tiger uppercutting Red.

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Love the Friday reference

[Pappy Knuckles]

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It feels way more satisfying to get a ground and pound finish in this one than it did in the first game.

[Pappy Knuckles]

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I need to make a digital scrapbook of all these UFC messages when the game drops. It will make for a good read.

Just lost to a guy via split decision. His whole gameplan was to clinch and hit me with a bunch of little baby shots whenever he took me down. He never tried to land anything significant. I almost finished him in the last round, but time expired. As expected, I got the typical "you're trash message" after the game. He's lucky that didn't go five. I needed that fight, though. I see that I'll have to work on my clinch defense. I usually try to punish it with strikes when I know it's coming, but it's a very quick move this year. It can be difficult to deny it at times.

[fballturkey]

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I feel left out. I've only gotten two messages and they were both just 'good fight.'

[Pappy Knuckles]

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I feel left out. I've only gotten two messages and they were both just 'good fight.'

I get those too, but it's mostly hate mail lmao.

[PrynceKee]

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I feel like it's too easy to avoid your opponent when you're in a rocked or stunned state. Whenever I get rocked it's just backpedal and block your head for a few secs and it's over. There needs to be more knockdowns so when you rock someone, as it is now I get more knockdowns so from leg kicks. I've recently learned when I rock someone that instead of trying to pressure and attack I now get the clinch then Thai plum and try to get the KO that way using knees. Also I'm dominating on the ground mostly because no one tries to learn the ground game yet, but I don't like the transition system. I hope there's a classic UFC 1 transition where you use the quarter circle minor and major transitions. Also I think the ground and pound punches need more power and impact. I've gotten a lot of GNP finishes but I feel like your character winds up for a hard punch and then when it connects it doesn't look like it has any impact even if you KO your opponent. Also has anyone figured out how to throw elbows on the ground? On the last game you held L1 on PS4 or LB on X1. Overall as a hardcore MMA fan I'm loving this game and can't wait for it to come out...

[rafaelpaolo84]

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Gotta say, I'm quite enjoying the no time limit "fight to the finish" practice mode against the AI haha! Wish they could add that as an option in fight now matches.

[HartmanTeets6]

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5 days later and it finally happened! I FINALLY HELD SOMEONE DOWN AND PUNISHED THEM ON THE GROUND!! Although I was landing some good body shots, I was getting thoroughly beaten in the stand up game. I got a good clinch with about 2 minutes to go in the 1st round and landed some great knees. After he broke free he begun throwing wild shots, but connecting. I timed a double leg PERFECTLY, and took him down. Realized I had the better ground game right away, and landed some decent shots. 2nd and 3rd rounds consisted of me jabbing and body kicking on the outside, and then landing a perfect takedown and dominating down there. Finished him with about 20 seconds to go in the final round. MOST SATISFYING WIN, YET!!!

[Phobia]

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I had a pretty good night last night, I went somewhere around 20-3 or 4. I was absolutely destroying people standing up.

Now the ground game is still a sheer mystery to me. Two of my losses came from when I took on purpose ground guys to test it out, Gracie & Hughes. I was getting the takedown at will with Gracie, then there is some is some positions I can defend pretty much every time. For example, when I'm DOM and in half guard, the pass they do when they go towards the leg(going back to full guard) I have trapped in an easy defend, yet the opposite direction where they use a major pass to roll to take your back is damn near impossible to defend. I got so frustrated being able to defend it I went re-read GPD article and from the write up it would seem this would be an easier defend with a longer denial window........not the case.

I then attempted two different versions of "denials", one where I hit R2+ RS direction at the same time right after they attempted to pass. the other I'd hold R2, then flick the RS after they would attempt to pass. Neither seemed more effective than the other.

I love the smoothness of the ground game, my issue stands with how easy it is for anyone to pass back and forth. It makes the ground game look as if both guys are the highest level BJJ guys out there. I pass, you pass, I pass, you pass, oh wait one defend, you pass, I pass, you sweep, oh you want to play that, I sweep........over and over. Something is not clicking in the ground game which makes a dominant GnP guy unable to maintain a position without the Un-Dom moving it back to standing. I have yet to face anyone who can keep my on my back and I have yet to keep anyone there.

This is by far my biggest complaint.

Edit: Side note, I was doing things GPD mentioned in his article to try and maintain top control. I would strike to break a transition or I'd strike to give me the "pass advantage". I could pass to full mount or side control pretty much at will with good ground guys just because their meter completes quicker. I'd even get some denials but denials were extremely far from consistent enough to maintain a position. Hell one time I had Matt Hughes on top Stephen Thompson, Thompson had a COMPLETELY empty stamina bar early in the fight, mine was maxed out full. I was thinking, here we go easy control and land some shots.........LOL yeaaa right he passed on through as if I was the one gassed.

I sure wish someone could explain the issue here because it seems I'm not the only one with this issue.

[kisstopher5]

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So, is today the final day to play? Wonder if we can still play offline in the practice mode?

[rafaelpaolo84]

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More advanced techniques like the question mark kick should not be mapped to basic strike controls. I'm using Rory, and in his natural stance, his basic head kick with the rear leg (left stick away from opponent + O) is replaced with the question mark kick. I can't even do a simple head kick with the rear leg, how silly is that? The q. mark kick is a move that's not often done irl, but here it's so common to see because it's mapped to the basic strike (which is especially irritating to see when fighting the AI).

And the worst part is, it's also mapped to the modified strike (holding L1)! They should've just kept this only to the modified strike, and used the simple head kick with the basic strike. I don't understand why it's the same move with both.