Official UFC 2 Career Discussion

[YogiYahooeys]

So, I'm 13 fights into my career and here are a few things that I've seen in the mode that have me shaking my head.

First of all, apparently the UFC will decide that PPVs aren't profitable at all. I've fought 13 times and yet my next fight offer is for either UFC 205 or 206

Speaking of my next fight offer, I have a choice of fighting at UFC 205 on regular notice or UFC 206 on short notice. No, I didn't type that incorrectly. The later event is my short notice offer with only 1 training option instead of 3. Although, maybe the explanation for both this and the above is that in the future the UFC will hold events out of order. Maybe in a desperate attempt for sales, they decided to hold UFC 300 shortly after 200 and now they're just filling in the events in between out of order...

Talk about fighters going downhill. EAS UFC 2 predicts quite the fall for Jon Jones, going 7-10 over his next 17 fights. I can only imagine they believe that instead of conquering his drug problems that he is instead only going to get very good at hiding them.

Meanwhile, apparently Daniel Cormier will stay champion even while suffering from severe injury issues. While Jon Jones struggles with his drug problems going 7-10 over 17 fights, Daniel Cormier will only fight 2 times (both wins).

I think I've seen this complaint a few times other places, but I'll go ahead and mention it. I'm 13-0 to start my career, ranked number 4, just beat Frankie Edgar. My next fight offer? Either the #11 guy Hacran Dias on short notice or the #13 guy, Yair Rodriguez, who I just beat via KO in the fight before my last...

I have 13 straight KO's to start my career. How many fight awards have I received? That's right, none...

I'd tell you how old my character is, if I could find it. Apparently the only place to find out how old you are is to look at the tale of the tape just before one of your fights (unless I'm really missing something). I can, however, look in the "News" section to discover what the current date is during my career. Apparently, it's only 2019. So, I've fought 13 times in 3 years (none of them short notice fights), including a stint on TUF where I fought exhibition fights that didn't count toward my record. No wonder I've taken so much damage at the young age of 21...

Wait, it's 2019, so Jon Jones has fought 17 times and lost 10 times in 3 years? Somebody stop this guy...

Apparently, in 3 years both Nogueira's will continue to be fighting, while Chris Weidman will disappear off the face of the earth. Yup, can't find him anywhere in any of the rankings, not in MW, WW, or LHW...

[Don Jon]

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Yes it is quite obvious to me that EA did not spend a majority of its resources on this mode.

Ill use this thread as a place to vent my frustration with this mode, so bear with me. For me, Ronda Rousey is 19-8-0 now. So she went 7-7 since the start of career mode, thats horrendous. Jose Aldo is now 27-7. So he went 2-5 over his last 7 fights, thats terrible. TJ Dillashaw is now 16-10, so he has gone 4-7 over his last 11. You find a word to describe this.

A big problem also, is that 12 fights in, Dan Henderson is still fighting (rank 5).... Anderson Silva is still fighting(rank 1)......, but Jon Jones, Meisha Tate, nor Holly Holm are still in the top 50. I don't even know if they are still fighting at all. But guess it doesn't matter since you can't view cards outside the one your in.

And thats the main problem with this mode, and why I prefer my own fake universe mode. You don't feel like a part of a big picture, you don't have any teammates, coaches are not a part of your life, neither are rivalries. You don't even get a chance to watch other fights. Its just fight, train, fight, train, fight, train. So repetitive it hurts.

How about sitting in the front row to watch the number 1 contenders match when you're champion, how about calling out other fighters, or giving us the chance to talk trash or be respectful. I mean there's nothing extra in this mode, just barebones career mode.

[JoeMimic]

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They really didn't touch much under the hood in career mode. Some people fight way too much and some people never fight this was a problem in the first game. It seems that performance bonuses are broken I've never won one and I've seen a few posts where people are saying they're 22-1 or something with 21 finishes and have won zero bonuses.

The news tells you who won fights but it doesn't tell you if anyone won a title or anything so you have to goto your rankings screens but my problem is it's 2018 and all my champions are the same outside of the division I'm in and pretty much none of the champions have fought.

[CyberOps]

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I agree with you guys they really need to do something about career mode it gets boring really fast with hardly any excitement going on, i also prefer my own fantasy universe mode over that it makes it more interesting.

[JoeMimic]

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I agree with you guys they really need to do something about career mode it gets boring really fast with hardly any excitement going on, i also prefer my own fantasy universe mode over that it makes it more interesting.

Yeah they somehow made it more boring and I think they realized that and they try and get you through the mode as quickly as possible. It feels like that's why if you knock a guy out in 30 seconds and only take a punch or two your career damage meter will still go up even though you really didn't take any damage.

[YogiYahooeys]

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I've been playing some more, so I'll add some more odd things. As I was watching the intro to a fight, I read the "highlights" for my fighter. It stated that I had 12 KO's in a row. In fact, I have 18 KO's in a row. I have no idea why the game couldn't recognize that...

Two camps in a row now I've had the same exact debuff on my clinch training. I don't mind the odd occurrence here and there, but getting the same debuff two times in a row or getting hit by multiple debuffs in the same camp is getting a bit much.

The balance between good and bad debuffs seems off as well. I've definitely been hit by many, many more bad buffs than good buffs. Honestly, I can only remember maybe 2 good camp buffs in total so far.

Something else strange that I forgot to mention about the post fight award bonuses. EA UFC 2 is still treating it like the old system where there has to be a Fight of the Night, KO, and Sub bonus. While the Performance of the Night awards are now no longer specifically required to be 1 KO and 1 Sub. More often than not, IRL the POTN bonuses are both KOs. In EA UFC 2, it seems when there is no sub on a card, there are only 2 bonuses (KO and FOTN). So that could definitely use some tweaking...

[Don Jon]

Re: Official UFC 2 Career Discussion

Thanks for stickying this thread, I hope EA reads the displeasure with their lack of career mode focus. I'd honestly rather them scrap it and focus more on event mode/universe, if this is what they envision as a finished career mode.

[TheShizNo1]

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I'm curious to how much interest a career mode draws from the general population of fans that play these games. I haven't really touched career mode since THQ's career mode because I just have no interest. Quick fights (online and off), tournament modes, PRIDE mode, and Event Mode have kept me fulfilled and interested. I'd much prefer a universe mode over a career mode. I wonder if the developers sensed the same thing as far as career mode not being in huge demand.

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[YogiYahooeys]

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Career mode was personally a big focus for me. I'm not an online gamer, so Career is the big thing for me. It does seem pretty obvious that EA did not put much work into career mode. Makes me think of the old sports games from the 90's where you'd play a baseball season and end up with players on other teams that would sim that they hit 80+ HRs and 200+ RBIs. Disappointing...

[JoeMimic]

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Career mode was personally a big focus for me. I'm not an online gamer, so Career is the big thing for me. It does seem pretty obvious that EA did not put much work into career mode. Makes me think of the old sports games from the 90's where you'd play a baseball season and end up with players on other teams that would sim that they hit 80+ HRs and 200+ RBIs. Disappointing...

This I'm mostly an offline player as well so when you combine a barebones career mode and little to no customization options (sliders, attribute/perk editing) you get a sour taste in your mouth. Sure I can run my own universe but without customization you just end up playing against the same uber parrying cpu guys on the higher diffculties. I mean look at this Pearson/Laprise fight I just watched on fight pass some very good technical striking in that 3 round fight and there wasn't a parry to be seen. It just isn't as used as much in real life as they have it in the game in my opinion.

[YogiYahooeys]

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Final update for my first career.

It's 2027. Most of the original, licensed UFC fighters are now gone. The exceptions? Yeah, some of them are strange.

Daniel Cormier is the 11 year reigning UFC LHW champion. Granted, he's only fought 8 times in those 11 years, but I guess that's something to celebrate, especially considering he's now 48 years old.

Then again, who can complain about Cormier when there's 50 year old Fabricio Werdum. He's also still the UFC HW chamption, and he's only fought 11 times, all wins.

Holly Holm? Yeah, she's still champion and still undefeated. She's fought 4 times in those 11 years, still a young 46 years.

Me? My created fighter is a 29 year old champion. He just completed his 30th win in those 11 years, is undefeated, all KO's (on the adaptive AI), but is being forced into retirement after his latest win, an 8 second KO victory.

Had difficulty upgrading the secondary characteristics of the fighter. Maxed out stand-up and almost every attribute of the clinch and ground. Athleticism on the other hand... Body (64/75), Chin (62/75), Leg (58/75), Stamina (74/95)
Toughness (67/90).

Also, it seemed like there were never enough Evolution points to really fill out my characters move list. I had to spend everything I had just to upgrade a few of moves he already had to level 3 or 4 and fill all 5 perk spots to level 4 or 5. It's really frustrating to have such a limited move list as a trade-off to making the moves I have worthwhile.

[JoeMimic]

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^ Wow that's uhh ridiculous...Did you ever win any performance bonuses?

[YogiYahooeys]

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^ Wow that's uhh ridiculous...Did you ever win any performance bonuses?

Actually, yes, I finally did. I got the POTN - KO bonus for the aforementioned 8 second KO, but that was the only one.

[fballturkey]

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Career mode would be a big deal to me if there were a good career mode.

This years' is an improvement, completely because you can sim the training games after finishing them. All the random "+1000 fans" type events do nothing for me because the number of fans never seems to matter that much.

Besides just in general being boring though, what kills the game mode for me is the "boss fights" approach they took to going against certain guys. I knew it would be a problem when they talked about it and it's just as bad as I imagined. Guys I would dust in a fair fight are suddenly almost unbeatably good. That's not fun.

[JoeMimic]

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Career mode would be a big deal to me if there were a good career mode.

This years' is an improvement, completely because you can sim the training games after finishing them. All the random "+1000 fans" type events do nothing for me because the number of fans never seems to matter that much.

Besides just in general being boring though, what kills the game mode for me is the "boss fights" approach they took to going against certain guys. I knew it would be a problem when they talked about it and it's just as bad as I imagined. Guys I would dust in a fair fight are suddenly almost unbeatably good. That's not fun.

They only added the simming so they can hurry you through the mode because it's so barebones.