Too late to start UT?

[Haz____]

So I put a decent amount of time into UT. I made it to lvl 35, with a pretty solid W/L. I stopped playing for a month or so though, and just came back to it the other night. I made a new fighter, a BJJ guy. With all the moves, and attribute cards I own in his weight class, he ended up 68 OVR.

I have 2 other fighters, with most of my universals on my Woman's BW, she comes to 72 OVR. I have a wrestler at 67.

So this new fighter I made. I start playing and...

-My 1st fight is a good one. Similar stats, no cheese. Good fight.
-Fight 2 my opponent is a body jab/straight cheeser, but we have equal stats so no problems.
-3rd fight in and this guy has 74 OVR. I get the job done.
-4th fight. For the belt. Guy is 78 OVR. Div 3. Awesome matchmaking.
-5th fight. First title defense. Guy has 80 OVR, and is DIV 3....

I win that fight after getting lucky with a parry-counter that flashed him. Annnd then I stop playing.

At this point I'm literally still in div 1, fighting div 3 guys with 22 point stat advantages.

22 points......

22..........

[chackfalco]

Re: Too late to start UT?

You could play SP a bit to earn some coins to up your stats, or you could absorb the losses til you get better stats. It's not too late but yea you'll have a rough start if you can't beat people that have a stat advantage on you

[SisterRay]

Re: Too late to start UT?

Yeah, at this point it's not even worth going to div 4 and beyond cause every match you are going to get paired with are the people who are 90+ that maxed out on stand up, clinch and ground defense stats. They also exploit the hit stuns, flying subs, rubber guard and combo multipliers. I just play in lower divisions for fun these days and to earn coins so I can potentially get my fighters higher OVRS eventually.

[Fearhead24]

Re: Too late to start UT?

Funny enough that I didn't have a single division 1 fight yesterday even though I was division 1. So yeah, to all the people saying farming noobs.. Matchmaking is so bad it doesn't even let you do that. And it's way too easy, not any fun at all. But if you are low you could stay in lower divisions haz. You don't need a ultra high caf. 75 is enough to beat even most of the 82-85 rated fighters. You should focus on ground game since a lot of people in ultimate team neglect training this and they are a easy beat on the ground.

[ConsoleBaddie]

Re: Too late to start UT?

Dudes, how do you know what division people you fight are in?

Haz, I have similar issues. I'm level 39 or something and I'm constantly fighting people with ridiculously higher stats than me. The other day I fought a guy with 97 Standup, followed by a guy with 98 standup.

If I remove all my universals from all fighters and stuff them all onto one fighter, the best I can get is about 87 standup. Hate to think how much money people are spending on this game. And I've actually bought packs with real money too, lol.

[frankenjoebeans]

Re: Too late to start UT?

I started playing this game way late too. I mainly played SP and spent enough time in regular online play to get my daily coin rewards. Racked up lots of losses doing that, but I was able to slowly get my CAFs up to being somewhat competitive. I took lots of beatings to get those 23 takedowns in, lol.

I've been running into rage quitters lately, which is frustrating. I finally got to where I can win consistently, only to have the rage quitting begin.

[ConsoleBaddie]

Re: Too late to start UT?

I started playing this game way late too. I mainly played SP and spent enough time in regular online play to get my daily coin rewards. Racked up lots of losses doing that, but I was able to slowly get my CAFs up to being somewhat competitive. I took lots of beatings to get those 23 takedowns in, lol.

I've been running into rage quitters lately, which is frustrating. I finally got to where I can win consistently, only to have the rage quitting begin.

Rage quitters are the best though.

It's the in-game equivalent of tapping to strikes

[Fearhead24]

Re: Too late to start UT?

Dudes, how do you know what division people you fight are in?

Haz, I have similar issues. I'm level 39 or something and I'm constantly fighting people with ridiculously higher stats than me. The other day I fought a guy with 97 Standup, followed by a guy with 98 standup.

If I remove all my universals from all fighters and stuff them all onto one fighter, the best I can get is about 87 standup. Hate to think how much money people are spending on this game. And I've actually bought packs with real money too, lol.

If a guy has like 29-5 record it's very unlikely that he's div 1, so you could guess he's between div 2 and 3. It's more a thing of common sense. Don't know if there is a way to look up what div someone is. Maybe on their fight card but ain't nobody gut time for dat. My division 1 fighter has 97 stand up, that's nothing special. You'll find them easy to defeat on the ground.

[zzzeric]

Re: Too late to start UT?

2 weeks after release was too late if you dont spend a ton of money

[BeachillLAD]

Re: Too late to start UT?

2 weeks after release was too late if you dont spend a ton of money

I didn't get the game until a month after release and im doing alright. I just do my daily challenges and once i hit 5k i buy a pack. that is all i do, ive put no "real money" into the game as i think its a waste. My MW MT guy has 91 stand up, 92 clinch and 70 ground with a 81 overall

[chapmandachamp]

Re: Too late to start UT?

the difference from 1-3 is nothing... in like 50 fights ull b in d3 even if u lose half of them and once u get to d4 ull b matched with top ppl. so no its not to late. u get to collect cards! and just think only mma game for another 2 years

[Haz____]

Re: Too late to start UT?

So the tale continues.

I wanna enjoy UT so I came back about an hour ago to play a few fights.

-6th fight. 2nd Title defense. I take this guy down early, and beat his face in for an easy KO. This promotes me to div 2. Afterwards I look and hes 79 ovr, with near maxed stand-up, but ~53 ground..

-7th fight. I take this guy down repeatedly, but he has literally every submission and transition in the game. He constantly spams subs over and over. He eventually wins a decision somehow even though he did basically nothing but spam subs. He's 80 ovr, with literally all 4 and 5 star moves, every move slot filled. I look at his UT card, and his fighter is Div 4...

So literally MY FIRST fight at Div 2 with 68 OVR, was against a div 4 with 80 OVR.

AWESOME. D:<

[Fearhead24]

Re: Too late to start UT?

So the tale continues.

I wanna enjoy UT so I came back about an hour ago to play a few fights.

-6th fight. 2nd Title defense. I take this guy down early, and beat his face in for an easy KO. This promotes me to div 2. Afterwards I look and hes 79 ovr, with near maxed stand-up, but ~53 ground..

-7th fight. I take this guy down repeatedly, but he has literally every submission and transition in the game. He constantly spams subs over and over. He eventually wins a decision somehow even though he did basically nothing but spam subs. He's 80 ovr, with literally all 4 and 5 star moves, every move slot filled. I look at his UT card, and his fighter is Div 4...

So literally MY FIRST fight at Div 2 with 68 OVR, was against a div 4 with 80 OVR.

AWESOME. D:<

Well, I wanted to see if ground game can really be as useful as I said.
So I made myself a new character and pushed her to 69 ovr. I kept it low to see if I'd stand a chance. I chose judo for her with decent clinch and ground skills. My first 3 fights were against 72 rated guys that probably were division 2 or 3 or something, easy win. My fourth and fifth fight against 79 guys, it was a bit tougher but I dominated and controlled them easily. My 7th and last fight was a 84 ovr div 4 fighter with everything over 80. What can I say? I fought her with 49 stamina and - 15 ovr disadvantage, she tapped in round number 2 lol. Even though my transitioning was slow as hell against her stats, I took my chance to submit her after I denied her transition (it was wb fight). So obviously you can beat a 84 ovr with a 69 ovr if you know what you're doing. She had 55-7 record so not even that bad. To anyone who says I'm restarting my fighters to bash noobs. Yeah, 69 against 84 is so noob bashing 😂

[Haz____]

Re: Too late to start UT?

This is broken *** match making though.

It's bumming me out.

[Fearhead24]

Re: Too late to start UT?

Yeah, playing a 84 ovr who is easily in div 4 in div 1 is just ridiculous lol. By the way, I messaged you in psn. Wanna have a match anytime?
Aand just tapped out another 85 rated player. Small reminder: my fighter has 69, I fought with 29 stamina, and she's in division 2. My opponent 85 and over 120 matches with his fighter. Matchmaking is the best.. Not